2007-09-24 03:21:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because it is. According to the Catholic Athanasian Creed, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the holy spirit is God. How many Gods is that? THREE.
Instead of saying that God is composed of THREE persons, Jesus said only ONE person made God. It says at John 17:3: "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."
What do Catholic and Protestant research sources say about the validity of the trinity?
The Illustrated Bible Dictionary records: "The word Trinity is not found in the Bible. . . It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century."
The New Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the Trinity "is not. . . directly and immediately the word of God."
The Encyclopedia of Religion And Ethics records: At first the Christian Faith was not Trinitarian. . . It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected in the New Testament and other early Christian writings."
L. L. Paine, professor of Ecclesiastical History acknowledged: "The Old Testament is strictly monotheistic. God is a single personal being. The idea that a trinity is to be found there . . . is utterly without foundation."
The Encyclopedia of Religion admits: "Theologians today are in agreement that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity."
The New Catholic Encyclopedia also admits: "The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the Old Testament."
Jesuit Edmund Fortman wrote in his book, The Triune God: ". . . There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a Trinity within the Godhead. . . Even to see in the Old Testament suggestions or foreshadowings or 'veiled signs' of the trinity of persons, is to go beyond the words and intent of the sacred writers."
The Encyclopedia of Religion says: "Theologians agree that the New Testament also does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity."
The New Encyclopedia Britannica reports: "Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament."
The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology confirms: "The New Testament does not contain the developed doctrine of the Trinity."
Jesuit Fortman similarly states: "The New Testament writers. . . give us no formal or formulated doctrine of the Trinity, no explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons. . . Nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead."
Yale University professor E. Washburn Hopkins affirms in the Origin and Evolution of Religion: "To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . .they say nothing about it."
Historian Arthur Weigall records in The Paganism in Our Christianity: "Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word 'Trinity' appear. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord."
2007-09-24 03:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We Mormons do not believe there are gods all over the universe. Each God has their own universe, people who think small are small. While we do believe there are many gods, but for us we only Worship God the Eternal Father thru his Son Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit testifies of the Truths that God and Our Redeemer teach. Each Member of the Godhead is seperate in form, but one in purpose. The word Trinity itself speaks of Polytheism. 3 Gods occupying 1 body. Sounds Polythiestic to me.
2016-04-05 22:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jewish idea of God is that God is One and Indivisible. We cannot divide God up into separate parts, where each part of God is UnEqual to each of the other parts, but somehow they are one and the same. The Hebrew Scriptures describes God as an absolute One, but the Christian's New Testament describes the Christian idea of God as divisible into three parts called a trinity. In the Christian's New Testament, Jesus at one point claims to have different knowledge than other parts of the Christian Trinity. For example, Matthew 24:36 or Mark 13:32. In another verse, Jesus does not have the same power as other parts of the Christian Trinity, for example, Luke 23:34. And in Matthew 26:42, Jesus's will is not the same as the will of the Father. Indeed, Jesus often contrasted himself with the Father, for example, in John 14:28, or Luke 18:19. Furthermore, Jesus supposedly said that the punishment for blaspheming against one part of the Trinity is not the same punishment for blaspheming against another part of the Trinity. In the Hebrew Scriptures, however, God is One, as we read in Deuteronomy 6:4, as well as in Isaiah 44:6, where God tells us, "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the first," it means that God has no father. When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the last," it means that God has no literal son. And when Isaiah tells us that God said, "Besides me there is no God," it means that God does not share being God with any other god, or demi-god, or semi-god, or persons, and there is no trinity.
2007-09-24 03:37:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ancient Jews were God's chosen people and they worshiped One God, not a triune God, like the nations around them.
True Christians worship the God of the Abraham, the God of Issac, the God of Jacob, the God of Moses, the God of Jesus.
His name is Jehovah.
Psalms 83:18 "That nations may know that you whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the most high over all the earth."
2007-09-24 03:32:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because 3 gods equal 3, not 1
The whole, I am a mother, daughter, neice, but still one person rationale doesn't make since to me. If i am a mother and a daughter, i don't call out to myself "mother mother!!". that just seems odd.
Seems more like i am the daughter, i have a mother... that is 2 of us, not one... then it would make more since for me to be in pain and call out to her, "mother mother!"...
2007-09-24 03:27:39 · answer #5 · answered by Katrina 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
And the Jehovah Witness, and the Armenian Catholic Church...
There are probably more.
2007-09-24 03:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by Don't Try This At Home 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't really want any real dialogue on this do you? You just want some affirmation from people who agree with you.
I prefer real questions and real answers gained from real exploration.
2007-09-24 03:29:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because it is.
2007-09-24 03:57:11 · answer #8 · answered by ST 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because their silly
2007-09-24 03:30:56 · answer #9 · answered by Marty 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
because they do not believe the bible
2007-09-24 03:30:31 · answer #10 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋