I have noticed that the Trinity is most confusing primarily when people try to make it sound like Monotheism.
However, when it is explained as polytheism then it makes perfect sense.
Is the Trinity concept so confusing for most people because many people are trying to explain a polytheistic concept as monotheism ?
The Jews and Muslims totally agree that the Trinity is not Monotheism and the Trinity is foreign to the Abrahmic message.
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2007-09-18 02:58:15 · 13 answers · asked by kloneme 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I had to smile wryly at your Q. You have fallen right into the trap that antitrinitarians have laid for the unwary. This is largely due to ignorance about God's gradual revelation of himself in the Bible; first to the nation of Israel as the One True God who alone is to be worshipped (monotheism), then through Jesus and the Holy Spirit's revelation of him to his disciples as the Savior (the OT said there is only one Savior - God - and he recognises no other). Constantly the one-ness of Christ with God is taught - not another God, but the same one - because polytheism is condemned by God and Christ.
The Abrahamic message included a theophany, by the way! See Genesis chapter 18. Only by debunking the deity of Christ in the NT (mistranslations and sticking to human logic) can the Trinity be argued against. But if God is God, would you expect human logic to grasp the measure of him? What kind of God is it that he can be reduced to the understanding of sinful, mortal humaniity? If you offer to me a God that can be understood, I will doubt that you have any idea of the magnitude of God! The Trinity concept is so confusing for most people because they want to limit God to something they can understand. Of course the Jews and the Muslims totally agree that the Trinity is not monotheism - they are equally united in rejecting Christ as the Savior of the world. How could they possibly grasp the magnitude of God when they reject God manifest in the flesh?
2007-09-18 03:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by Annsan_In_Him 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It certainly might be less confusing..
funny how only a few people here actually answered the question
JR poses an interesting question, and Calmness before the Storm makes an interesting point, while Coralsnayk made no sense whatsoever...
I don't get how One versus Trinity is a logical paradox...... ?
Try giving Polytheism and Monotheism very clear and distinct definitions, then ask a wide variety of christians on their knowledge of Trinity and what Exactly they believe (and worship), and see if what they say falls into either of your two definitions...
If it's Still confusing, well.....
why argue over the religion's classification? polytheism, monotheism.. whatever you call it the concept of Trinity will still remain confusing even to many christians
2007-09-18 07:27:15 · answer #2 · answered by druid_gtfx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God No.1 ? Father or Son? Cant be both can it?
God No.2? Father or Son or Holy spirit? Cant be all of them can it?
God No.3? Holy Spirit or Son?
I thinkNo.1 The Father
No.2 The Spirit
No.3 The Son.
All 3 are Gods , delute to one only, what does it call?
I think Trinity is Polytheism; What's wrong with that?
If they dont want to be called as polytheism, maybe we have to choose only one of them, whichever.
Whoever come first I suppose.
To accept 3 = 1 , its too hard for any body who use logic.
Am I wrong?
2007-09-18 03:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is a specious question. First of all, it implies that because one can't understand a logical paradox, that the paradox must be false.
Also, Christianity and their trinity are not and will never be subject to the adherents of Judaism nor Islam.
Third, since it's all a crock anyway, it's rather like asking whether or not the Wizard of Oz knew how to masturbate. Pointless and a total waste of time.
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2007-09-18 03:03:25 · answer #4 · answered by coralsnayk 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it would be less confusing indeed.
The only difference between Monotheism and Polytheism is that God is One in Monotheism.
He neither changes, dies, or manifests Himself in different form.
God is One. And Oneness, is stable.
2007-09-18 03:11:01 · answer #5 · answered by Antares 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Father is Adam A.s.
The Holy spirit was given to a man named Saul and to all those around him also, why don't they call him god too?
The son of Adam Art in heaven as he is on earth.
How simple is that they change the truth everytime?
2007-09-18 06:52:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask a Trinitarian if he worships the Father, Son or Holy Spirit and see what happens.
2007-09-18 03:06:49 · answer #7 · answered by VMO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is because you or whomever believes in what you are saying are listening to the evil within rather than reading, accepting, and submitting to the Holy Bible. You know, the one with Jesus Christ in it? If you don't know what I am talking about then maybe you should visit this site:
2007-09-18 03:06:13 · answer #8 · answered by justme 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All revelation of God is less confusing when you receive it from God.
Edit The Jews reject Christ. The Jews and Muslims do not define the Abrahamic faith, Muslims reject the teachings of Abraham who said I will name this place Jehovah-jireh, which means the lord will provide, because this is where he said the lord would provide himself a lamb.
Did Abraham not know Jesus?
Then why are you defineiing the Abrhamic faith by those who reject what Abraham taught?
2007-09-18 03:04:25 · answer #9 · answered by djmantx 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Who cares what Jews and Muslims say.
The Trinity is not polytheism. There is only one God. It is confusing because we cannot understand the nature of God.
Why do Muslims and Jews think they can hold the concept of God in their heads? Talk about hubris, pride...
2007-09-18 03:02:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 6⤋