The term “Unitarian” is not commonly mention in today’s society as an act of worship. Unconsciously, some Christian people may practice such worship unaware that God is not honor or glorified. Unitarian does not view God as the Trinity, therefore, the doctrine is rejected in their belief and practice of worship. Unitarian worship exemplifies a collective body of people singing hymns, praise, and worship before a god, but not the God. In other words, Christian people may sometime worship their Pastor, and not God working through their pastor. Therefore, the difference between the Unitarian and Trinitarian is the belief and practice of Christian people worship to God. Nevertheless, Trinitarian worship is an act of celebration and honor of Jesus Christ redeeming God’s people. The Bible records,
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
As a result, worship to God will ascend heavenward from the heart of humanity and not emotions. It will reverence God in his holiness and love for the world. Trinitarian worship represents God as being three in one, which is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Unitarian and Trinitarian worship both can unknowingly be part of a church service. It is imperative Christian people be taught the difference between the two worship ordinance, because it holds relevance to Jesus
where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor" (Jn
15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
Kilby (2000) says that for many years theologians have been writing about the trinity who talk about its neglect. The author says that the Trinity is at the forefront of Christianity and has not been given sufficient attention and has become obscure and complex as a theological tool. The author says that this is a piece of celestial mathematics which is impossible to understand and with litter relevance to the life of the ordinary christen. (p432). The author cites Karl Rahner to say he made comments about the modern Christian being almost mere “monotheists’” That is “Paying lip service to the Trinity but in practice ignoring
"Having kept covenant by meeting thee here, it is my purpose now to return whence I came. I have scruples touching the matter …”
In the article “The Forgotten Trinity”, a segment of Colin E. Gunton’s book Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, he targets a problem with the practice of the Trinity in the Church today. Gunton believes that the church has strayed from the essential tradition that it ought to follow- a culture solidified on not just one person of the trinity but all three. He makes this view clear with lines such as “Once upon a time we were a deeply Trinitarian culture”(4), and with questions such as “Is the worship of the Church truly informed by Trinitarian categories?”(5) Gunton’s aim is to clarify the God that Christians worship: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Gunton believes that a proper perspective on the Trinity is vital to the structure of the Church because the Trinity establishes God as a God of love and
2 And no be conformed to this world: but be ye transferred by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Notice he says that these words are from his Father. Jesus came to lead by example but not as a mighty and powerful warrior over his people, but as he is described in Philippians 2, “a servant”.
Christians believe in the Ten Commandments, which are a set of biblical principals that relate to ethics and worship. They instruct to worship only God, as well as prohibitions against
The type of religion this movie is conveying and the audience it relates to the most is a Christian one. Christianity believes in one God, as he is presented in the Bible. Christianity is a monotheistic religion, as defined in the text monotheism (Cultural Anthropology, page 295, paragraph 2) is the belief in a single God. Though this can be confusing, according to Every Student (http://www.everystudent.com/forum/hspirit.html, paragraph 6), Christians believe in the father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. These refer to God himself, Jesus (God’s son or mortal body), and the Holy Spirit which is, in simplest terms, faith. These may seem like three separate entities but Christians believe they are all embodied in the same celestial being, so one God.
“The practice of baptism in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the second century propelled the development of the trinitarian theology” (LaDue 48). According to Collins, the trinity can be defined by three statements “1. There is only one true God. 2. This one true God exists as three distinct persons. 3. Each person is fully divine” (Collins 29-31). The three people that make up the trinity are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. First there is the Father. There are many Bible passages where God is referred to as the Father, this can be concluded because He alone created all things and His first human creation, Adam, was called the son of God. Jesus is God’s son and he was sent by his father, the Father, to offer humanity salvation from their sins. The “God of the Israelites reveals himself as a distinct, unique, superior deity who is always there. God’s being there is what defines him” (LaDue 14). The Israelites sometimes see the God Yahweh as an imitation of the trinity in the old testament, but they do not have distinct leveled personalities. Although God is distinct and unique, the idea that He is superior can be a false assumption as all the persons of the trinity have equal power and divinity. Another person of the trinity is the Holy Spirit. Yes, the Holy Spirit is a person. This is a common misconception of the
The doctrine of the Trinity, as seen in the Christian bible, is primary to the Christian faith. The word “Trinity” does not actually appear in the bible; it is a theological label meant to summarize certain teachings of certain passages of scripture, and is crucial to properly understand what God is like, how He relates to us, and how we relate to Him. It may also raise many difficult questions including what does it mean that God is a Trinity? While it is difficult for us to fully understand everything about the trinity, it is quite possible to answer questions like this one and come to a solid grasp of what it means for God to be three in one.
is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”
In Christianity one of their primary beliefs is the idea of a Triune God, which means the belief of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as one entity not three separate beings. This would result in God being indivisible and could not be divided into three different parts for an ...
The greatest revealed mystery of the Christian faith is the Trinity; it is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life. God alone makes it known to us by revealing himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. As Roman Catholics, we “worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity, without either confusing the persons or dividing the substance; for the person of the Father is one, the Son's is another, the Holy Spirit's another; but the Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Spir...
"When the hypocrites come to thee, they say, 'We bear witness that thou art indeed the Apostle of God.