Can you show me another view please, I think it's very interesting! =]
2007-10-01 21:30:27 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I can show you another view. It is the correct view that Jesus gave to us in The Apocryphon of John. Accordin to Jesus, God created the Holy Spirit and they co-created Jesus. That is ALL the creating that GOD did. Everything visible was created by satan.
2007-10-01 21:39:03 · answer #1 · answered by single eye 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
TRUE Christians don't believe the trinity.
The trinity includes the following definite ideas:
1. There are said to be three divine persons—the Father, the Son, and the holy spirit—in the Godhead.
2. Each of these separate persons is said to be eternal, none coming before or after the other in time.
3. Each is said to be almighty, with none greater or lesser than the other.
4. Each is said to be omniscient, knowing all things.
5. Each is said to be true God.
6. However, it is said that there are not three Gods but only one God.
I invite you to search the Bible, especially the 27 books of the Christian Greek Scriptures, to see for yourself if Jesus and his disciples taught a Trinity. As you search, ask yourself:
1. Can I find any scripture that mentions “Trinity”?
2. Can I find any scripture that says that God is made up of three distinct persons, Father, Son, and holy spirit, but that the three are only one God?
3. Can I find any scripture that says that the Father, Son, and holy spirit are equal in all ways, such as in eternity, power, position, and wisdom?
Search as you may, you will not find one scripture that uses the word Trinity, nor will you find any that says that Father, Son, and holy spirit are equal in all ways, such as in eternity, power, position, and wisdom. Not even a single scripture says that the Son is equal to the Father in those ways—and if there were such a scripture, it would establish not a Trinity but at most a “duality.” Nowhere does the Bible equate the holy spirit with the Father.
2007-10-02 04:39:27 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they got the belief in one God from the Old Testament, but then Jesus came along and they believed he was God in the flesh. Then the Holy Spirit came along at Pentecost, and so they believed that the Holy Spirit was also God. So it just makes sense that they believe that God is all 3.
Another view would be like the Jehovah's Witnesses, because I don't think they believe in the Trinity. Also some earlier Christians didn't believe in the Trinity.
2007-10-02 04:36:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians believe in one God, which includes the father son and holy spirit, 3 aspects of God. It doesn't seem to make much sense but means Jesus is God rather than just his son which means they can keep the comandment of only worshiping one God.
Other religions have different Gods, and some have a God for each individual person, or Gods of luck and health and happiness.
2007-10-02 05:02:32 · answer #4 · answered by ribenacreep1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit indwell one another, thereby constituting a perfect unity.
The one God is the perfect unity of Father and Son and Holy Spirit.
None of these three persons is ever less than the perfect unity of all three persons.
Therefore, each of the three persons - Father and Son and Holy Spirit - IS the one God
2007-10-02 04:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by loquita.bella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been bought up as a christian. I dint know whether God was really there but believed because of the reality of my existence suddenly and to go on for a period and seeing the world around me. I wanted to stay happy, so sometimes I crossed boundaries even when I knew I was doing a wrong thing. I fell into sin.
Here I have written how God changed my life,
http://www.protectinghands.com/ladder_to_heaven.htm
Even I wanted to know more about Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. Jesus tells about this in John 14.
2007-10-02 06:41:38 · answer #6 · answered by Brinda 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
TRUE Christians know this claim is wrong.
(John 5:19) Therefore, in answer, Jesus went on to say to them: “Most truly I say to YOU, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
(Matthew 23:9) Moreover, do not call anyone YOUR father on earth, for one is YOUR Father, the heavenly One.
(Matthew 17:5) While he was yet speaking, look! a bright cloud overshadowed them, and, look! a voice out of the cloud, saying: “This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved; listen to him.”
(Matthew 24:36) “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.
and the Holy Spirit is not a 'person' but God's power, something he grants and dispenses. And in the Bible is UN-NAMED.
ALL Bible personalities HAVE names, some even more than one name. Like Jesus IS Michael [ Rev. 12;7]
2007-10-02 05:51:33 · answer #7 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The concept of the trinity in Christianity derives from Greek neo-Platonic monotheism, which is what many of the Gentiles practiced before their conversion to Christianity.
The neo-Platonists believed in a trinity whose three elements were God (or "The Good," the ultimate perfection from which all good things derive), "the Word" (a frequent Christian expression for Jesus, "the Word made flesh," it was the chief method which God used to interact with the universe), and a "Holy Spirit" (an aspect of divinity which was present in all of creation).
Very little of the neo-Platonic trinity has changed since its incorporation into Christianity.
2007-10-02 04:39:12 · answer #8 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians believe that the divine (God) birthed a son (Jesus).
As for the Holy Spirit, I think it means the 2 combined? I can't remember anymore. :o)
2007-10-02 04:33:39 · answer #9 · answered by iColorz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible is teaching us this reality.
God has three Persons: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit
2007-10-02 04:34:04 · answer #10 · answered by lit-the-light 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋