Is Monotheism the Greatest threat to Christianity and the Trinity concept ?

Question

This would explain why Christians love to bash Islam with current events while ignoring all the violence they themselves are orchestrating around the world.

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 one and the same time.
1) Jesus
2) Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove
3) God Above

Answer 1

I will never figure out the Trinity concept

Answer 2

Not even close Matt 28:19 is the biblical source for the Holy Trinity. Monotheism means one God. The Holy Trinity is one God not three gods Pagans who argued against Judaism and later Christianity used the following: if God is of the light, which God is of the darkness. Meaning two gods not one existed. Christians would argue that the Holy Trinity is both. Please note the Holy Trinity begins with God the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, not gods etc. Once again the question of the Holy Trinity is polytheistic is simply not correct: We see God the father, God the creator, etc. throughout the bible. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or the God of Moses. Finally, your augment should read: I do not believe that Matthew 28:19 leads to the Holy Trinity. The rest of your logic is straw hat.

Answer 3

Polytheism means the belief in more than one God or multiple Gods. Christianity is not polytheistic. There is only one God in Christianity, he just has different forms, e.g. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They all make up God. True polytheism means believing that The Gods are all separate and individual beings and are not myths, as some would say regarding The Gods of the ancients.

Answer 4

Good you made mentioned of the christian catholics who believe on the trinity. Im a true christian and I do not believe on the name called The trinity. I believe in God, the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit of God but not the trinity.

But please do not generalize the whole christian just say catholic christians, Protestants and Pagans. OK? Peace to you.
jtm

Answer 5

If you look at history Christians didn't think of Jesus as God for a long time. This happened slowly dozens of decades after He was crucified. It's human nature to lift an adored person to God like stature and although the kind of devotion that causes that stems from adoration, it doesn't do truth any justice.
Jesus looked up from the cross and asked God: "Father why hast thou forsaken me?". Would he have said that if He was our God the Creator? There are dozens of instances where Jesus defers to his creator and His God, but somehow a few phrases have been interpreted as Him claiming to be equal to God and in fact God the creator himself. If Jesus was God, I would think that would have been obvious from the beginning and "God" would not have suffered helplessly on earth unless He was a chosen son of God and not God the almighty Creator. There are many Chritians who don't believe in the trinity for this reason.

Answer 6

Christianity is monotheism----Jesus Christ is God in human flesh. The physical manifestation of God. You also believe in his miracles, not even Muhammad performed miracles. You muslims understand so little about Christianity, and make us out to be polytheistic. And yet you pbuh Muhammad, Jesus, and several other figures. I hear much talk about Muhammad, and not too much about Allah. Which is of greater importance to you?

Answer 7

I follow the faith in the ONE. As everything comes from GOD. All the rest is an EGO trip!

Answer 8

Christianity and Islam are monotheistic religions.

Thats why the ignorance and illiteracy.

Answer 9

Everything about Our Lady points straight back to the Father, Whose faithful daughter she is; to the Son, Whose mother she is; and to the Holy Ghost Who overshadowed her. There is no one in all of History whose relationship with God is as complex, fulfilled, and achingly beautiful as Mary's. She is not only the greatest of Saints, she is our Mother, as Jesus is our Brother and Savior. In honoring her, we honor Him -- and imitate Him, as we are admonished to both honor our parents and imitate Christ, Who loved His Mother. Our relationship with Mary is that of a child to a blessed Mother who was given to us as Jesus gave her to John at the Cross. She is our spiritual Mother (Revelation 12:17 -- And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ), and she wants to pray for us.



Hail, Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.

Answer 10

Christianity is a monotheism just as Hinduism is a monotheism, just as Islam and Judaism are monotheisms.