How come Christians overwhelmingly believe monotheism is central to the Christian faith if they consider God..

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to be a triune entity, comprised of the three "Persons" God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit?

I'm not attacking or anything, I just want to understand....

Don't think I'm a Muslim or a Jew trying to attack Christianity. I don't have a religion.

Thanks for the stars :)

Answer 1

Great question. Here's a star for you:-)

Answer 2

You are never a Father and the son of the father and be considered the same person. It's two entities. Not the son being a father, and an uncle, and a brother, and then try to say he is 4 people in one. He is one person related to others in various ways. In the census bureau, we didn't count people's relationships, we only counted people that were born and still alive. Never will 1+1=1, except in the mind of someone who is hypnotized. And if that isn't bad enough, then you add another 1 to make it 1+1+1=1.

Have you ever looked (stared) at someone from a distance and then have them turn around to see who is looking at them. Well that is our spirit. You can't see it, but you can feel it. Don't you gage a person's truthfulness by whether he is looking you in the eye or not? Our spirit is not holy like God's is, and certainly not powerful as his is, but we do have a small active force coming from our eyes.

Satan is responsible for the trinity belief, it is a remnant from the pagan religions that infiltrated Catholicism when it became a state religion. Jesus said to be no part of the world. Why would his father YHWH approve of any religion that made a marriage with the worldly government? Jesus warned of the apostasy that would come after the death of the apostles. That apostasy has persisted till today and probably until YHWH takes action to wipe out false religion in his own due time.

To DavidF below me: Those three men were angels. Abraham showed extreme hospitality and was blessed, see verses 9 -15. Sarah was to have a son (Issac) the next year.

Answer 3

Because the Bible teaches that God is one.

I admit however that the Christian idea of one God is different from the Muslim and Jewish ideas where God is only one entity. In Christian thinking (although there are a few exceptions, some small Christian groups don't believe in the trinity), God consists of three persons. And yet, God is still one God. No Christian really understands this fully, we just accept it because it is taught in the Bible.

However, here are some ways in which people have conceptualised it (they are not necessarily right, they are just guesses):

God is like a body with different parts, the parts are different but they are all part of the same thing. God is like a portuguese man o war, a kind of colonial animal that looks like a jellyfish, that is actually made up of different animals that live and work together.

Or perhaps God is like a team or a family who work together very closely on everything they do. In eveything that God does, all three persons are involved in it, so they do not work independantly but always together. In that way they are one. They have the same aims and goals, the same desires and motives, they all take part in everything that God does.

This contrasts with the polytheistic idea of there being many gods who are independent of each other and have different agendas and sometimes even conflict with each other.

Answer 4

Well first this arguement in part assumes that God is a personality. Most who call themselves atheists view God in these terms. I'm going to discuss a few related issues here too that need a little clearing up. I think of Him as the following, and I do believe this is actually sanctioned by our Pope Benedict 16th as he is a very intellectual man and accomplished theologian. In truth, contrary to popular misconception, there aren't many beliefs one can hold that our against our faith. I believe for one thing that the Lord is the force of love and the ultimate truth. The trinity is, perhaps, a way of teaching the different manifestations of his love and His being the ultimate truth, i.e, acceptance of the ultimate reality. He is the unconditional love of a Father, a son, and the Holy Spirit. That which is unconditional presupposes that which is infinite. That which is infinite is the unmanifested nature of God, the ultimate reality. Something inside us all as love and a drive for truth. Recall that according to Roman Catholic theology we do posess the Holy Spirit, unlike animals which only have souls. As another note to dispell further seemingly unrelated misconceptions. When we as Catholics pray the Hail Mary, it is so we can get a glimpse of Christ through Mary's eyes. Many of us Roman Catholics don't view God as a personality although some us do. As for my education, I am a Dark Age historian of the Church who also studies the conversion of Native Americans in the New World as an archaeologists, the Celts, and the Germanic tribes. I read Eastern scriptures as well and have come to the conclusion that all faiths are really built on the same constellation of axioms and are all directed towards the search for truth. I would argue that all faith is grounded in the pure knowledge that there is an absolute truth out there and thus no man is an atheist. An absolute truth, that is subjective. Remeber how Keats said, "truth is beauty and beauty truth and that is all you need to know". Really, it is only the bewitchment of language and the accoutrements of culture that divide the religious community as a whole today. There is also zealotry out there, born out of individual fancies; distorted imaginings. That is the root of the violence attributed to religion, i.e., the fundamentalist fanaticism apparent at home and abroad.

Answer 5

Its not so hard to understand, think of yourself, you are a soul, you are also a spirit, and you are a body. But these are all you, any one of them is also you, any two of them is you, or all of them is you. The soul is the thought process in you, the thought process in the Trinity is God the Father. The spirit is the motivating part of you, the Holy Spirit is the motivating part of the Trinity. The body is the active part of you, the Son is the active part of the Trinity. And there you have the Holy Trinity, God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all one God.

God be with you,
Evangelist, William M. Butler
Grace Evangelistic Ministry

Answer 6

the main useful thank you to transform others on your faith is end questioning which you have the means to realize this. Prayer isn't something extra advantageous than a communication between me and God. Preaching isn't something extra advantageous than someone speaking the Gospel message. ethical habit is merely an outward sign of the midsection. Feeding the detrimental, clothing the bare, taking good care of the widow and the fatherless are issues we do with the aid of fact God advised us to to tutor them that we attempt to love as Jesus enjoyed. each thing we do could be an expression to others of what God supplies us. the main 'useful action' I even have ever taken to 'convert others' replaced into to hunt for Him first in all issues. Being affected person, sort, forgiving and non violent did not convey me closer to God. searching for Him MADE ME affected person, sort, forgiving and non violent. And in being those issues, others have been interested in ME to question me, how am i able to have what you have? easy. Meet Jesus. i will harm your emotions, provide help to down and disappoint you in a myriad of techniques, yet He won't. and then THEY MAKE the alternative. whilst did you ever have the 'means' to try this for somebody? i'm hoping I replied your question. I even have been long discouraged via the way the popular church teaches people who they're to blame for 'gettin' accessible and SAVIN' persons!!!

Answer 7

The reason we beleive this is because the Bible is extreming explicit about this. There is one God, and He alone is to be worshipped. There are hundreds of verses supporting montheism.

When Jesus came, He was everything the Jewish Messiah was hoped to be and expected (via prophecy) to be EXCEPT:
1) He didn't physically overthrow the Romans and immediately establish a new kingdom on earth ruled by Him and the Jews (as many had hoped for expected)
2) He claimed to be equal with God, which didn't fit in well with some of the Jews (as it doesn't today). In John 8:58, Jesus claims to be God - eternally existant, even using the name God gave Himself to Moses - "I AM". When He did this, it was absolutely clear that Jesus was claiming to be God incarnate. The Jews knew exactly what He meant, too...and picked up stones to stone Him for blasphemy. Later, the Jews handed Him over to the Romans to be crucified because of His blasphemous claims to be equal with God.
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Ice is H2O, Water is H2O, and Water Vapor is H2O.
There is only one compound here, H2O, yet (at the triple point), they coexist...

In like manner, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is only one God here, the LORD GOD (Yahweh) - the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Answer 8

True Christians Reject the Trinity Lie.
Trinity math 1+1+1=1.
It's illogical.
No 2 ppl that believe this can explain it the same way.
It's a LIE.
How could YHWH want us to come to Him,
have a close relationship w/ Him;
and yet, remain a mystery to us.
He wouldn't / didn't & doesn't.
The God, YHWH is a God of order; Not confusion.
If you start researching the Trinity doctrine
YOU can find this out.
The 411 is available @ ur local public library.

Answer 9

They see the Christian God as a truth rather than a religion. They don't try to be arrogant, most of the time.

Answer 10

The Trinity is not 3 people in one. The Trinity is that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the same Person.

Answer 11

Traditionally, these are three aspects of the One God, jst as you are a three-part being in some ways (body, mind, spirit/soul).

In reality, I think the trinity is misunderstood and mis-taught. I know it sounds like something one of the non-trinitarian groups would say, but I do not see a lot of Biblical evidence that the Holy Spirit is a separate entity- I think it is usually more like God's 'focus' or 'mindfulness' than a separate being. When the Bible speaks of the 'spirit of God moving' in various places, there is not generally a sense that it is a separate aspect of God, but rather a integral part of God.

There is one God. We may experience Him in different ways, but there is only One God.