How is there a tri-part God in catholicism, when God says in the old testament that there is only One God?

Answer 1

One God, three parts: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

One apple, three parts: skin, core, and flesh.

One triangle, three sides.

Answer 2

Even in the OT God has many names...YHWH, JHVH, Adonai, Elohim, El Shaddai, El Elyon, El Olam etc. All describe a characteristic of God's being.

In Christianity it is no different : Jesus - God in flesh, Holy Spirit - God indwelling in man.

Also in Paganism some believe that each of the Gods and Goddesses are divisions of a larger whole.

...All beliefs are really far more the same than most would like to reason.

Answer 3

First of all, the idea of the trinity is not a Catholic but a Biblical teaching.

In the Old testament the same is taught. There is One God, but He has a plurality:


Gen 1:26
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...
(KJV)

Answer 4

Excellent question: Read Matthew 3:13-17; God, Spirit, Jesus all three are present at the same time.

Answer 5

I won't explain the weird views of the religion of rome, but I can show you from Genesis that God is and has been One God eternally existant in Three Persons.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God ( and the Hebrew word used is in the plural)

Gen 1:26 Let us create man in our own image.

When God visited Abraham, how many men where there?

Answer is found in Genesis chapter 18.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

There is only one God and His name is Jesus Christ

Catholic

Answer 7

One god, three forms of him
(father, son, holy spirit)

Answer 8

You just answered your own question!!! There is only one God. Jesus WAS God manifested in the flesh. Stop believing what your taught and read the Bible!!!! It says"Study to show thyself approved".

Answer 9

The same way it exists in protestantism... read the "gotquestions.org" article below for the full story.


Have a blessed day.

Answer 10

catholicism is monotheistic. it believes that god is one, eternal, all-powerful (omnipotent), all-knowing (omniscient), all-good (omnibenevolent), and omnipresent. god exists as distinct from and prior to his creation (that is, everything which is not god, and which depends directly on him for existence) and yet is still present intimately in his creation. in the 1st vatican council the church taught that, while by the natural light of human reason god can be known in his works as origin and end of all created things, god has also chosen to reveal himself and his will supernaturally in the ways indicated in the letter to the hebrews 1:1-2.

catholicism is also trinitarian. it believes that, while god is one in nature, essence, and being, this one god exists in three divine persons, each identical with the one essence, whose only distinctions are in their relations to one another: the father's relationship to the son, the son's relationship to the father, and the relations of both to the holy spirit, constitute the one god as a trinity.

catholics are baptized in the name (singular) of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit — not three gods, but one god subsisting in three persons. while sharing in the one divine essence, the father, son, and holy spirit are distinct, not simply three "masks" or manifestations of one person. the faith of the church and of the individual christian is based on a relationship with these three persons of the one god.

the catholic church believes that god has revealed himself to humanity as father to his only-begotten son, who is in an eternal relationship with the father: "no one knows the son except the father, just as no one knows the father except the son and those to whom the son chooses to reveal him."

catholics believe that god the son, the divine logos, the 2nd of the 3 persons of god, became incarnate as jesus christ, a human being, born of the virgin mary. he remained truly divine and was at the same time truly human. in what he said, and by how he lived, he taught all people how to live, and revealed god as love, the giver of unmerited favours or graces.

after jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, his followers, foremost among them the apostles, spread more and more extensively their faith with a vigour that they attributed to the presence of the holy spirit, the third of the 3 persons of god, sent upon them by jesus.