Is Monotheism the Greatest threat to Christianity ?

Question

This would explain why Christians love to hate Islam.

Monotheism is the true belief in the God of Abraham which is why Jews and Muslims do not believe in the Trinity.

"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism.

By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.

The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God. These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)

Polytheism is the concept that God can be three separate entities at the same time.
1) Jesus
2) Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove
3) God Above

Answer 1

*Reality* is their greatest threat.

Answer 2

NO not sothe trinity as the cerator god is unity that verry few can under stand! It relaits to the buddhest idear ofthe uion of oppsits as being the way to nervina/heavin, an inderfriance twords them as oppsets. then we have the hermatick texts of the egyptans & stolen by the greeks although the kabblah & the hermatick text are sister doctriens, the misunderstanding of them is extrieam, & if & when the indvidual understands them a hole new light & meanning comes fourth. In plaitiotheaiemthere is still only one creator god & all the rest of the other gods are states of conchineus of that dayite
The jews moast sertanly do belive in the trinity although it is vewed a littel diiffrantly thought of , the problem is littrail inturptation of the symbolb used to convay ti=he same idear
Mabby you should investaget more religons 7 try to see how thay go to geather?

Answer 3

You don't have to read any further than your second sentence to debunk the whole statement. The God of Abraham was the God of of Issac...Ishmael who you trying to place in that spot is the bastard son of Abraham and Hagar...he was born out of fear and disobedience. If you cant get it right that early in the statement why bother to read what I'm sure is more hogwash

wrong polytheism is the worship of more than one god (ie hinduism) being that the trinity describes one god in three forms there is no polytheistic thought here

Answer 4

Put the roach-clip down and exhale while I explain this to you. Christianity IS a monotheism. One God=monotheism. Understand? The trinity isn't three gods, it's three aspects of God. Think of it like this. I am a son, and I'm a husband, and I am a soldier, and a friend, and a lot of things. To refer to God only as the father is to only focus on the reward/punishment aspect of God. To focus on the son is to focus only on the relationship without the rewards/punishment. To place too much importance on the spirit is to forget the reason for the spirit in the first place.

Answer 5

the polytheistic trinity concept of Christianity was one of the reasons i decided to convert from Christian to Islam.

Answer 6

if christianity is really true, then how can there be a threat to it? (i'm not christian though) this stuff that you wrote kind of makes it seem like people were running this christianity stuff, like it was being edited over time, and it also sounds kind of brutal, aggressive, and selfish (pillaging and taking other's lands in the name of God?). sorry, i'm more into the loving theorem type.

Answer 7

Ouch... cant argue with you, but I personally think the greatest threat to Christianity (at least fundamentalist Christianity) is common sense.

Answer 8

How is three-in-one polytheistic?

I like History, Photography and Writing. That doesn't mean I am three separate people.