Do catholics think Jesus was God in human form?

Question

ahh crap that is one of the few reasons I do not want to convert

Answer 1

Yes. We believe in the Holy Trinity...God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Answer 2

Yes, this is what Christmas is all about.

Catholics are Trinitarian Christians.

We believe that God is a Holy Trinity.

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity states there is one true God who is made up of three separate but equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The Bible does not contain the word Trinity. However, the Holy Trinity is hinted at repeatedly in both the Old and New Testaments. For many biblical references, see: http://www.cwo.com/~pentrack/catholic/Trinity.txt

Under the influence of the Holy Spirit, the early Christians prayed and struggled over these hints for a couple of centuries. The concept of the Holy Trinity (three equal persons in one God) was mainstream Christianity in 325 C.E. at the Council of Nicaea and our belief is expressed in the Nicene Creed.

How this works is not fully known and is one the Christian mysteries.

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is shared by most Christian denominations including Roman and Orthodox Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, Episcopalians, and the Salvation Army.

There is a story told about St Augustine:

Augustine was walking along the seashore trying to figure out the mystery of the Holy Trinity and came up to a little boy. The boy was trying to pour the ocean into a hole in the sand with a seashell. Augustine told the boy what he was doing was impossible. Then the little boy told Augustine that it is also impossible for the mind of man to try to understand the mystery of the Holy Trinity. The little boy turned into an angel and disappeared.

For more information, see Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 232 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt1art1p2.htm#232

The major non-Trinitarian churches are Christadelphianism, Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Arian Catholicism, Unitarianism , Nontrinitarianism, and Oneness Pentecostals.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

God the Son also known as The Word became Man , took a human body and soul so that The Person of the Word is God and at the same thas a human nature. Well, this is What God has taught us about Himself. You are free to belive it or not, no one is forcing you just as no one force you to write the obscenity you wrote, everyone is free and will answer to God baout how tha freedom was administered.

Answer 4

Yes, Catholic believe Jesus is God Incarnate (God in human form).

Answer 5

Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exist, 18 and he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he might become the one who is first in all things; 19 because [God] saw good for all fullness to dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile again to himself all [other] things by making peace through the blood [he shed] on the torture stake, no matter whether they are the things upon the earth or the things in the heavens.

Revelation 3:14 “And to the angel of the congregation in La·o·di·ce´a write: These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God,

Answer 6

yes.

Catholics believe that there is one God in three forms:God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

similar to the three leaves of a clover


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why is that a reason?

Answer 7

Fully Human, Fully Divine. Hypostatic Union is the official name for this state of Jesus the Christ.

With God all things are possible.

Answer 8

The mystery of the Incarnation is that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary and was fully God and fully human. This is part of the Apostles Creed which many faiths besides Catholic believe: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01629a.htm

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

yes, Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity...just like other christians too. Catholics are christians too, btw...it seems like people can't get that fact right.