If god can be three then why cant be three hundred ?
The greatest confusion comes when people try to describe polytheism as being monotheism.
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2007-05-10 03:36:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, the Trinity didn't happen until 325 AD at the Council of Nicea.
2007-05-10 03:39:54 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is no Christian document of any kind which places Mary as the third part of the Trinity. So, no.
As for why three, the answer is simple. In Genesis 2:7, God created man by forming a 1)body from the elements of the earth, breathing into it his own 2)spirit and the results was a living 3)soul.
Man was made to operate in three different realms. The body touches the physical realm. The soul controls the mind, will and emotions. The spirit communicates with God and the heavenly realm. Each is a "person", and is just as much "you" as any of the others.
So God appears in all three realms. In the heavenly he is God the Father, in the physical he became God the son (Jesus), and in the hearts of men he dwells as God the Holy Spirit. Three different "persons" each acting in a different realm. As those are the only realms man touches, those are all the manifestations that God needs to redeem mankind.
Just as man is a "three fold being", so is God in whose image man is made.
2007-05-10 03:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity is not Jesus, Father and Mary. It is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Trinity is NOT polytheism,but monotheism.
Holy Trinity reveals one God
The three persons of the Holy Trinity are distinct and separate: yet, they are one (Eph. 4:4–6). This gives us the mystery of the Godhead—we wonder how this can be? The Christian Church holds the doctrine of the Holy Trinity as one of their oldest beliefs (1 Pet. 1:2). As we look at the traditional teachings of the Christian Church and study the Bible, we should grow in our understanding and accept the Holy Trinity by faith (Luke 3:21, 22).
Holy Trinity—One God
The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit,
three separate Persons, and yet One.
Divine mystery beyond perception.
We look at One—We look at All.
We pray to One—We pray to All.
We love One—We love All.
One love’s us—All love us.
Father–Son–Holy Spirit—One God.
2007-05-10 03:45:53 · answer #3 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians never believed that Mary was a member of the Holy Trinity.
It was always the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Sacred Scripture tells us that there is only one God (Dt 4:35; Isaiah 45:5; 46:9). Yet it also refers to three distinct persons as "God": God the Father (Gal 1:1), Jesus Christ His Son (Jn 1:1; 20:28) and the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3,4). Since God cannot lie or contradict Himself, His Word cannot contain discrepancies. This seeming contradiction is easily reconciled by the belief that the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are Three distinct representations in One God.
It is like God the Father is the Head, the Holy Spirit is the hand, and Jesus is the Heart. Each individual part is part of the whole, as the whole is, yet only God the Father is God. While God is Jesus and the Holy Spirit, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, individually, are not "all" of God.
Limiting God to the imaginations of men creates a false impression, a false God. We have been told, through Holy Scripture, which the Koran itself affirms, that these teachings are true.
John 1
The Word Made Flesh
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 15John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me; for he was before me. 16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Yes, God walked on earth as a man. He also appeared to Abraham. Who is there to deny that God, being all powerful, the creater of the Heavens and the Earth, cannot manifest Himself before us as a man? Anyone who does, presumes to know the power and mind of God himself, and is not worthy for us to listen too.
2007-05-10 04:05:44 · answer #4 · answered by pwrslm23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that's what the Quran teaches.
Early Christians and Christians of today believe in the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
It's not polytheism.
2007-05-10 03:44:56 · answer #5 · answered by Mark 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Mary was never in the godhead. It is always the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Mary is strictly a Catholic church tradition. No where in the Bible does it tell us to pray to Mary. No where in the Bible does it teach us that the queen of heaven is anything but evil.
Read the Book of Jeremiah where the queen of heaven is an idol and we all know what God says about idols.
2007-05-10 03:42:53 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, the council of Nicea had a huge fight over whether Jesus and God could be part of the same Godhead before; Emperor Constantine (who had not yet been baptized) excommunicated a bishop who felt they were to be separated.
2007-05-10 03:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
. If we assume that when Jesus pronounced "Father, father why has thou forsaken me?" even as he became on the bypass, is likewise a rhetorical question, then it would persist with that Jesus the son is calling a rhetorical question of his Father, who's particularly only himself, so Jesus is calling himself a rhetorical question. that would make him neurotic. i might pick to appreciate who's qualified to decide in spite of if a question asked over one thousand years in the past is rhetorical or no longer. In comparable style whilst there is something interior the Bible that disagrees with what they pick it to intend, they say it truly is rhetorical or symbolic. right this is why Christians have hassle with such motives--then each and every little thing might desire to be stated as into question and pronounced to be in basic terms symbolic or rhetorical. to illustrate, whilst Jesus says, "Me and the daddy are one", perchance it is likewise rhetorical. maximum persons of Christians interprets this to intend Jesus is God. although, it makes greater logical experience that Jesus is saying that his philosophy is the comparable as that of God. case in point if I say "Me and my grandmother are as one" It ability that me and my grandmother proportion comparable ideals as a effect of her teachings. Matthew 24:36 NIV 36 "no person knows of approximately that day or hour, no longer even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, yet purely the daddy. this suggests that Jesus did no longer understand what Yahweh is thinking, which ability he won't be in a position to be one and the comparable being, or maybe one god with 3 areas....which makes certainly no logical experience. Christians pick to quote examples which contain 2 palms are distinctive yet portion of the comparable physique, yet surely a individual's palms are actually not equivalent to that individual. That individual and his 2 palms do no longer equivalent one yet another, whilst interior the case of the trinity, Jesus is asserted to equivalent god. hence, in accordance to the trinity, they are one and the comparable. If a=b then "a" might have each and every of the comparable properties as "b". because of the fact of this the trinity is seen to be illogical for the reason that god is meant to be the daddy, and jesus his son.
2016-12-17 09:04:53 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋