God and Christians?

Question

If you are a Christian, do you believe soley in God and only worship Him, or do you worship Jesus too. If you worship both then do you worship the Holy Spirit? If you do worship all three then does that make them all deities? If it makes all three deities are Christians really tri-theistic rather than monotheistic?

Answer 1

Tri-deistic is not a word. I think the word you're looking for is polytheistic. Christianity is monotheistic.

Answer 2

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity states there is one true God who is made up of three separate but equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

How this works is not fully known and is one the Christian mysteries.

There is a story told about St Augustine:

Augustine was walking along the seashore trying to figure out the mystery of the Holy Trinity and came up to a little boy. The boy was trying to pour the ocean into a hole in the sand with a seashell. Augustine told the boy what he was doing was impossible. Then the little boy told Augustine that it is also impossible for the mind of man to try to understand the mystery of the Holy Trinity. The little boy turned into an angel and disappeared.

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is shared by most Christian denominations including Roman and Orthodox Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Episcopalians.

All of these groups would state that they are monotheists.

Some non-trinitarian religions like Islam occasionally accuse Trinitarians of polytheism.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

The thing with the trinity is that they're all different yet they're all 1 god, just 3 parts (The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit), so to answer your questions, I worship 1 God that has 3 parts

Answer 4

Dear thecrazy...

Greetings

Orthodox doctrine holds that God's unity or oneness is also not merely the mathematical or philosophical concept of "one". The Church teaches God as the Trinity. One God, three persons, Father, Son, And Holy Spirit, each of whom ‘dwells' in the other two, by virtue of a perpetual movement of love. God is not only a unity but a union.
It is the Church's teaching and its deepest experience that there is only one God because there is only one Father. The Son is born from the Father, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father (John 15:26), both in the same timeless and eternal action of the Father's own being. What the Father is, the Son and the Spirit are also. They share the divine nature with God the Father, being "of one essence" with him.

Just as the Father is "ineffable, inconceivable, invisible, incomprehensible, ever-existing and eternally the same" (Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom), so the Son and the Spirit are exactly the same. Every attribute of divinity which belongs to God the Father: life, love, wisdom, truth, blessedness, holiness, power, purity, and joy, belong equally as well to the Son and the Holy Spirit.

In Christ

Hox

Answer 5

There is only one God, but there are three parts (Holy Trinity)
The easiest way I've heard it explained is it's like an egg. There is a shell, a white and a yolk, all can be seperate, but all are one egg. hence the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit. All are seperate beings but make up one God. Not a very "religious" answer but I think sometimes we try too hard to understand God. He's not complicated, Believe and be saved, we try to make it all about the details. It doesn't matter what "brand of egg you by, it's the fact you have the egg. Blessings.

Answer 6

The trinity is one of the most divisive issues in Christianity--that 1+1+1=1. That is why neither Jews nor Muslims will ever pray in a church--they both consider Christians Idol worshipers.

Answer 7

Slow down, they are one God. I do worship God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit...I believe I am answering someone who is body and spirit and has a soul but that You are one person.

Answer 8

no