Which is true Christianity: Unitarianism or Trinitarianism?

Answer 1

There is only one God. This is the fundamental basis of all monotheistic religions, Christianity included. Any doctrine that tries to confound that unity is a man-made invention. Trinitarianism is a pagan, pre-Christian concept that is nevertheless accepted by both Protestantism and Catholicism. True Christianity is to worship one God and follow the Comforter, whose advent Jesus promised.

Answer 2

Trinitarianism

Answer 3

The doctrine of the Trinity was accepted into Christianity in 315AD at the Council of Nicea. The idea of 'three gods in one' comes from earlier religions, and from places as diverse as Greece and India. There was only one mention of a Trinity in the King James' Bible, and my modern-language translation, the New International Version, notes that these verses have been dropped because they're not in the original documents (although the notes also say that it's a true doctrine!).

Statements like 'The Lord thy God is one Lord' make it pretty obvious. God is God; Jesus is his son; and the holy spirit is the power used by God, and which was bestowed on Jesus at his baptism (was seen in the form of a dove). It was called the spirit of God in the OT. The word comes from the Greek for 'breath'. The spirit is personalised in some parts of the NT, but then in other places so is wisdom, water, blood etc. The spirit of God is not a person.

If you come across verses in the NIV or other versions which seem to be saying that God and Jesus are one person, have a look at the same verses in the KJV & you'll see that it's the translators' interpretation.

The verses usually used to support the premise that God & Jesus are the same person is in John 5, but as ever, it can't be taken out of context; if you read the whole chapter it becomes obvious that 'I and my Father are one' means, in this case, 'Listen to me because I'm saying what He would say', or 'We are at one on this'.

Some references to the spirit are only understandable if it is thought of as a power, rather than a person. Ghost/spirit/breath - not hard to see the connection, is it?

The Old Testament predicts the coming of Jesus, a descendant of Abraham and David, and then the New Testament describes his birth & ministry, death & resurrection. God says 'This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased'. On the cross, Jesus cries out to his father. It's blindingly obvious that they are what they appear to be - Father and Son. The Trinity thing defeats logic, is false, and unnecessary.

However, my personal opinion is that it's not the end of the world if people do believe this doctrine, if it brings them salvation through Jesus, and therefore closer to God, but it's not a Biblical teaching.

Answer 4

Neither. Trinitarianism is a heathen religion that has no place in true worship. When The Messiah was on earth, He heard a voice from Heaven (more than once) and He was not a ventriloquist. He said we should pray to our father in Heaven. Therefore there were two. In a sense they were "one". Unitarianism I am told tends to deny the divinity of the Messiah YAHOSHUA.

Answer 5

The logical fallacy of false choice is a correlative-based fallacy in which options are presented as being exclusive when they may not be. It is often used to obscure the likelihood of one option or to reframe an argument on the user's terms. For example:

"The CIA director has misled the nation using false intelligence; he must either be incompetent or lying."

There is nothing to prevent someone from being both incompetent and a liar, or from being neither (there might be a good, competent reason for the use of false intelligence, and the misleading of the nation might not involve actual lying). However, if one thinks that lying about a matter requires competence in that matter and that misleading is a form of lying, then one may return to the "false choice" or find additional choices. Another example is:

"Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hitman or a videogamer." [1]

This example of the fallacy presents the false choice between a hitman and a videogamer, ignoring both the fact that exclusion is not inherent (i.e. one could be both a hitman and a videogamer, a less-likely scenario) and the fact that there is no logical reason prohibiting non-hitmen non-videogamers from shooting people in the face.

Other famous examples of false choice include "America, love it or leave it," "the freedom or security argument", and the Tim McGraw song "Drugs or Jesus."

The false choice fallacy is also known as Morton's Fork, originating from an argument for taxing English nobles:

"Either the nobles of this country appear wealthy, in which case they can be taxed for good; or they appear poor, in which case they are living frugally and must have immense savings, which can be taxed for good."

In this case, the nobility may enjoy an average lifestyle and maintain moderately large savings; or, they may not have a high enough income to spend or save very much.

The fallacy of this type of argument is that it tries to eliminate the middle ground. A typical false choice is the assertion "You are either for us or you are against us." The chooser is forced to decide between absolute commitment or absolute non-commitment. Thus, the possibility of compromise is discounted. Such absolutism is applicable in science and mathematics, in which problems can have one and only one solution. In philosophy, however, there may be fewer absolutes than in other disciplines.

Answer 6

Actually, I prefer the Neotarianism version to the Trinitarianism one. But the Morpheustarianist variant is pretty good too.

Answer 7

trinitarianism if that means that God is a trinity- God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. It's like an egg- the yolk, the white and the shell, but they are all called the egg.

Answer 8

Neither. Doing what the apostles taught and did is true Christianity.

Answer 9

Islam

Answer 10

There is no single "true" Christianity. From the very beginning, there have been countless interpretations of Christianity.