If god can be three seperate entities at one and the same time then that is pure Polytheism ?

Question

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

You can blaspheme the son but not the Ghost
The Father knows the last hour but the son doesn’t.



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Answer 1

Triune God NOT tritheism. Get a dictionary and learn the difference.

The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is God (cf. John 8:58, 10:38, 14:10; Col. 2:9). It also clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit is God (cf. Acts 5:3–4, 28:25–28; 1 Cor. 2:10–13). Everyone agrees the Father is God. Yet there is only one God (Mark 12:29, 1 Cor. 8:4–6, Jas. 2:19).

Jesus tells his apostles to baptize "in the name [notice, singular, not plural] of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:19). This is a proof-text: three distinct Persons united in the one divine name. In 2 Corinthians 13:14, Paul writes, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." We see this same unity of divine Persons in 1 Corinthians 12:4–11, Ephesians 4:4–6, and 1 Peter 1:2–3.

Answer 2

Is man polytheism? Consider You asked that about God and man is created after His image. Man is a 3 part being: Mind, body, and spirit. He is all three at one time, but the mind, is not the body, the body, is not the spirit and so forth. Each part is completely different from the other but make up man. the same goes with God, God is the Father, God, is the Son, and God is The Spirit. They are all existant at the same time but make up God.They are one in that they agree 100% with each other.

Answer 3

*ahem*

That is not polytheism. Polytheism is belief in, or worship of multiple gods or deities. The word comes from the Greek words poly+theoi, literally "many gods." Ancient religion was polytheistic, holding to a pantheon of traditional deities.

A deity that has three different aspects would be more of a Panentheism or soft-monotheism.

Answer 4

Polytheism is the worship of more than one or many gods. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one. Thats monotheism, believing that there is only God/god. Those three are three in one. Its not polytheism, because youre believing in three different "forms" of God, not three completely different gods.

Answer 5

I would actually argue that the concept of the Trinity is pantheism. Polytheism, true polytheism, is the worship of many Gods, all individual and unique, with no connection between them and no belief that they are aspects of a greater being. That actually would be the definition of pantheism, seeing the multiple Gods as aspects of one.

Either way, of course, it's not true monotheism.

Answer 6

With God, all things are possible.

I'm not going to proclaim to fully understand how God's presence in all things is fulfilled. I'm not going to proclaim to understand how God can be Christ and the Spirit and still one (though I do have a belief that helps me to understand). The key is the realization that God is far greater than I can even imagine. I just thank Him for allowing me a glimpse of His greatness!

Yeah, I'm a simple man with a simple mission... glorify God by accepting Christ!

Be blessed!

Answer 7

Look at it this way:

God the Father is like the sun

Jesus is like the sun rays from the sun

The Holy Spirit is like the heat from the sun rays

All three are known by themselves but one can't exist without the other two so they are connected as one.

Answer 8

I am a Christian and do not believe in the trinity. The Father, Son and holy spirit are separate and distinct.

Answer 9

I'm a Christain and I do NOT believe in a Trinity.

To seperate God/Jesus/Holy Spirit, would be to seperate power.

Answer 10

"If god can be three seperate entities at one and the same time then that is pure Polytheism ?" - What it is is pure garbage.
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