2007-07-05 07:35:36 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our King Christ Jesus, the apostles, all the true 1st century Christians and Jehovah's Witnesses.
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2007-07-09 04:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by Micah 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Interesting question. In one sense the question kind of answers itself. If you don't believe in the Trinity, how can you even be called a Christian?
Mormons do not believe in the Trinity as defined by the major religious bodies such as the Roman Catholic Church and other ecclesial communions. The Trinity is defined in Ecumenical Councils as "One nature and 3 persons - Fathers, Son and Holy Spirit." Mormons make three Gods that work together in what looks like a trinity but in reality is not.
Jehovah witnesses also have this problem. Jesus was not God while he was on earth. So how did the 2nd person of the Trinity become God? Another false religion in this regard.
There are many good Mormons and many good Jehovah's Witnesses, but the basic tenets of their faith are not Christian at all. I guess you can call any who professes to follow Christ a Christian. But it wouldn't hold up when you get down to details.
John 1: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
John says elsewhere, "There are three in Heaven, the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit and the Three are one.
The word Trinity is used to describe a biblical concept in reality even though the word Trinity is not in the bible.
Of course God does love us all.
2007-07-13 04:12:23 · answer #2 · answered by hossteacher 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the trinity.
Believe or not, there is evidence for it in the Bible.
I still have questions about it, but my doubts only come from people going against it and not from the Bible. While the word trinity is not in the Bible, the pattern of trinity keeps appearing. There are passages that are simply not so easy to explain away because they give evidence for a trinity.
The problem with JW's is that they are not satisfied with the mystery. They have to REASON the very nature or being of God that, is beyond our capacity of totally understanding it. And so they use human illustration and relationship and pick out a few hard texts in the Bible to prove their point. Another obstacle for them is that they are so immerse in their own bias Bible translation, that it is easy for them to reject the trinity. Their translation change many texts that would otherwise convince them of the trinity doctrine.
2007-07-05 08:15:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Unitarians began as a Christian Church and many still consider themselves Christian. They grew out of a movement that thought the Trinity was an unjustifiable creed.
Others include some versions of Pentecostals.
2007-07-05 07:59:17 · answer #4 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Trinitarians believe in God the father, Jesus, God the Son, the Holy Spirit the 3rd part of the GodHead.
United Pentecostals believe there is not a seperation. They are all one same thing making no difference in their characteristics. But how could Jesus pray to the Father is they were the same? The how could he tell them the Holy Spirit would come after He left if they were the same?
2007-07-12 17:42:23 · answer #5 · answered by bsharpbflatbnatural 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I am aware the following do not believe in the Trinitarian doctrine: Scientology, Christadelphianism; Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses; Mormonism/Restorationism, Arian Catholicism, and Unitarianism.
2007-07-12 23:03:01 · answer #6 · answered by cheir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints aka Mormons. Don't believe in the Trinity. We believe that God, the father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are three separate beings, united in purpose. They are members of the Godhead.
www.Mormon.org
2007-07-10 07:33:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ones that don't believe in baptizing in the Name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
That is how Jesus was baptized. The Father said a Good Word about the Son. The Son was baptized in the Holy Ghost.
2007-07-05 07:38:29 · answer #8 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apostolic Pentecostals don't believe in Trinity.
2007-07-05 07:37:30 · answer #9 · answered by Caleb's Mom 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oneness Pentacostal
2007-07-05 07:37:20 · answer #10 · answered by Jeff- <3 God <3 people 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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The doctrine of the Trinity -- that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are each equally and eternally the one true God -- is admittedly difficult to comprehend, and yet is the very foundation of Christian truth. Although skeptics may ridicule it as a mathematical impossibility, it is nevertheless a basic doctrine of Scripture as well as profoundly realistic in both universal experience and in the scientific understanding of the cosmos.
Both Old and New Testaments teach the Unity and the Trinity of the Godhead. The idea that there is only one God, who created all things, is repeatedly emphasized in such Scriptures as Isaiah 45:18:
"For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; …I am the Lord; and there is none else."
A New Testament example is James 2:19:
"Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe, and tremble."
The three persons of the Godhead are, at the same time, noted in such Scriptures as Isaiah 48:16:
"I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me."
The speaker in this verse is obviously God, and yet He says He has been sent both by The Lord God (that is, the Father) and by His Spirit (that is, the Holy Spirit).
The New Testament doctrine of the Trinity is evident in such a verse as John 15:26, where the Lord Jesus said:
"But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, He shall testify of me."
Then there is the baptismal formula:
"baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:19).
One name (God) -- yet three names!
JESUS -- That Jesus, as the only-begotten Son of God, actually claimed to be God, equal with the Father, is clear from numerous Scriptures. For example, He said:
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8).
HOLY SPIRIT -- Some cults falsely teach that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal divine influence of some kind, but the Bible teaches that He is a real person, just as are the Father and the Son. Jesus said:
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come" (John 16:13).
TRI-UNITY -- The teaching of the Bible concerning the Trinity might be summarized thus. God is a Tri-unity, with each Person of the Godhead equally and fully and eternally God. Each is necessary, and each is distinct, and yet all are one. The three Persons appear in a logical, causal order. The Father is the unseen, omnipresent Source of all being, revealed in and by the Son, experienced in and by the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father, and the Spirit from the Son. With reference to God's creation, the Father is the Thought behind it, the Son is the Word calling it forth, and the Spirit is the Deed making it a reality.
We "see" God and His great salvation in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, then "experience" their reality by faith, through the indwelling presence of His Holy Spirit.
Though these relationships seem paradoxical, and to some completely impossible, they are profoundly realistic, and their truth is ingrained deep in man's nature. Thus, men have always sensed first the truth that God must be "out there," everywhere present and the First Cause of all things, but they have corrupted this intuitive knowledge of the Father into pantheism and ultimately into naturalism.
Similarly, men have always felt the need to "see" God in terms of their own experience and understanding, but this knowledge that God must reveal Himself has been distorted into polytheism and idolatry. Men have thus continually erected "models" of God, sometimes in the form of graven images, sometimes even in the form of philosophical systems purporting to represent ultimate reality.
Finally, men have always known that they should be able to have communion with their Creator and to experience His presence "within." But this deep intuition of the Holy Spirit has been corrupted into various forms of false mysticism and fanaticism, and even into spiritism and demonism. Thus, the truth of God's tri-unity is ingrained in man's very nature, but he has often distorted it and substituted a false god in its place.
2007-07-13 05:06:03 · answer #11 · answered by eePe 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋