Christianity religion is the world’s largest religion,one of the largest religion ever existed with over 2.4 billion followers, or %33 of the global population known as Christians. All of the Christians believe in the Jesus as the Son of God and the Saviour who is coming as the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. Christianity itself also had a big role in creating the Western civilization, a term that used to refer to a property that was inherited of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe. Coming back to their beliefs, “This monotheistic religion is based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth who later became …show more content…
There are also other ways of referring to the Trinity being the Triune God and Three in One. This idea that the Christians believe in, is a very controversial doctrine many believers don’t understand it while many more Christians don’t understand it but think they do. In fact many of them behave as if they believe in three Gods and other times as if they believe in only one. As we go further talking about the History of the well known Holy idea, the Holy Trinity “The first defence of the doctrine of the Trinity was in the early 3rd century by the early church father Tertullian. He explicitly defined the Trinity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and defended the Trinitarian theology against the "Praxean" heresy.”(Wikipedia, 2017) The quote is saying that, the doctrine of Trinity’s first defence was in the early 3rd century by the early church father Tertullian defining it more explicitly the Trinity as the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit defended by the Trinitarian theology against the "Praxean" heresy, a Asiatic priest who we only know from the famous writings of Tertullian, a Roman writer. Praxeas on his known name as I said was a Asiatic priest who we only know from the famous writings of Tertullian, a Roman writer. Praxeas lived in the 2nd century at the beginning of the 3rd century, he …show more content…
The Trinity doesn’t develop, mature, improve, shift around, wax or wane, or alter with the latest trends and fashions. But the doctrine of the Trinity is something theologians talk about, and theologians do change, and the way they talk changes.”(Fred Sanders on April 20, 2010, 2017) Basically God does not change, and the trinity wouldn’t develop, mature, improve, shift, around, wax or wane or alter with the latest trends and fashions in the new years. But still the doctrine of the Trinity is something that the theologians talk, and theologians do change, and the way they talk changes, theologians being persons versed in theology, especially Christian theology. “So it’s possible to describe the way the doctrine of the Trinity has been handled differently during the modern period, or roughly the last two hundred years. The doctrine has even made something of a comeback in these two centuries, though the story we usually hear about “the return of the Trinity” tends to emphasize only the last few decades.”(Fred Sanders on April 20, 2010, 2017) In conclusion it’s actually possible to describe the way Trinity’s doctrine works. The doctrine has been differently during the modern period, or approximately the last two centuries. It even made
In the teaching on the Holy Trinity, St. Basil was a student of Alexandrian theology and its main representatives—Origen and Athanasius of Alexandria. The reason St. Basil wrote this teaching is that the Church was waging a war against heresies of Pneumatomachoi and Neo-Arians. St. Basil wrote the work On the Holy Spirit between 373 and 375 AD. It was written to “Your desire for information, my right well-beloved and most deeply respected brother Amphilochius, I highly commend, and not less your industrious energy.” The author commends his brother’s eagerness to find knowledge. When the Apostle Paul writes, “There is one God and Father of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things,” it does not mean that a writer is trying “to introduce the diversity of nature, but to exhibit the notion of Father and of Son as unconfounded.”
The Bible never makes of the specific reference of the trinity, the Bible does talk about the divine existence of each of the three members of the Trinity, God (The Father), The Son (Jesus Christ), and the Spirit (The Holy Spirit). It is still a complex idea for me to understand fully but scripture does indeed tell of the work and existence of the trinity.
The trinity is perhaps one of the more complicated, and possibly confusing, doctrines found in Scripture concerning Deity (the Godhead). It is a doctrine that is fully embraced by some who claim to be Christians, while others deny it whole heartedly. Islam, which claims to worship Yahweh (they do not), vehemently denies the idea of the trinity; they claim that to believe such is to embrace polytheism (the belief in multiple gods). With much confusion in the religious world regarding this matter, it is important to look to the Bible, which is the source of truth (John 17:17), to find what the truth is regarding the trinity.
Nowadays, majority of Christians believe in Trinity, (God’s three forms of Father, Son, Holy Ghost). Christianity adopted the idea of Trinity until the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. Even now Christian Unitarian churches are there who do not admit Trinity. Distinguished Rationalist Unitarians entail thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens in literature, scientists like Isaac Newton, Frank Lloyd Wright in architecture and famous figures like Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and
From the excerpt of Chapter IV "The Divine Triad" from the work Early Christian Doctrines, J.N.D. Kelley speaks of the early Church Fathers and their apologies to uphold the relation between Jesus Christ and God the Father, and this was before the doctrine was revised and discussed at the Council of Nicaea and onwards. He primarily notes that there are two points in Apologists' writings that are common within many of them: the referral to God as just one Godhead or hypostases, and the dating of the generation and expression of the Logos.
I believe in the Holy Trinity. I believe in God the Father, God the Son-Jesus Christ-, and God the Holy Spirit. Three entities completely mend into one- God the Father. The three have their own separate personalities and amazing abilities. Recently, I read a book called “The Shack” by William P. Young that was about a man who got to encounter the three in each form. Now I might ask how can I believe something can be three things at once? It's simple; in Matthew 8:18-19 it states, “ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”.
Around the time after Jesus’ resurrection, Christians were confused and they needed answers. Jesus was just arisen from the dead. The Church now had Jesus and God to look to, but who was the leader of it all? Who were they to worship? Where does the Spirit fit into all of this? After many questions, they looked to Scripture. Christians have had the belief of Monotheism and that there is One God. Yet, it wasn’t until the Church looked to Scripture that they pieced together what is now known as the Holy Trinity.
“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
Three equals one. Out of all of the statements made by the Christian faith, perhaps none is more confusing. The Doctrine of the Trinity has been questioned for decades and many Christians do not even understand it. Colin E. Gunton argues that this does not have to be so. Instead, he calls the Western Church to learn from Eastern Orthodoxy and allow Trinitarian thinking to permeate every aspect of the church. It is when the Western Church embarrasses “The Forgotten Trinity” (the name of the chapter) in thinking and in worship, that we not only learn the nature of God, but how we should live in light of it.
The unstable structure of early fourth century Christian orthodoxy left much room for spiritual interpretation and question, fostering the spread of doctrines such as Arius’ which attempted to provide answers to questions regarding the central oneness and uniqueness of God. The orthodoxy of Arius’s time had yet to define the relation between the Father and Christ or The Word in a specific manner that definitively refuted polytheistic elements. Arius was an intellectual presbyter in the Eastern realm of the Roman Empire, admired for his scholarly and strongly persuasive teachings (Wilken, 89) Arius’ sermons, articulated in the early fourth century, addressed and defined problems regarding the unshared divine status of God the Father, and it was through the implications of this wide-ranging question of Jesus’ “creation” by God that Arius based his doctrine. The oft-repeated phrases “only-begotten” and “Son of God” were frequently used by Arius to justify questioning the divinity of Christ in his sermons, always stressing the tenet that there is One God, through whom Christians profess their monotheistic faith. He expounded on this by declaring a theological method of preserving the “singularity” of God the Father, by referring to the trinity in a hierarchical context, minimizing the deity of
In John 10:30 Jesus says; “I and the Father are One.” By this, He meant that He and God were the same. For example, God and the Son of God both created everything (1 Corinthians 8:6) (Morgan, 211–212). The Holy Spirit is also God too, as one can read in 1 John 5:7–8: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” This Holy Divinity is called the Trinity- a group of three, as One. “In the name of the Trinity the living God is revealed” (Robinson, 187) This Trinity is God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit. “The Triune God is an all-sufficient God, all-sufficient for Himself and all-sufficient for His people” (Robinson,
The doctrine of the Trinity, as seen in the Holy Bible, means that there is one God who eternally subsists as three distinct persons: the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Although they are stated differently, God is one in essence and three in person. If examined closer, one can see three important principles. One being, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are each distinct persons, the second is each Person is fully God, and the last is there is only one God. In the Bible for example, it speaks of the Father as God, Jesus as God, and the Holy Spirit as God. If one were to simply read these passages, it could seem to be somewhat contradictory. One could believe that these are three different ways to look at God, or maybe three different roles that God plays. However, the Bible also indicates that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all distinct persons. For example, since God sent his son Jesus into the world, as seen in the book of John, He cannot be the same person as the Son. Furthermore, after Jesus returned to God, the Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit into...
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I am a Christian and I believe in the Holy trinity: God, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
The Trinity is made up of God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This concept is what many Catholics believe in, but other worldwide religions believe in other beliefs. Out of all the three Divine Persons, “Jesus is the most qualified to bring the renewal of creation because it was through him that creation came into being” (Pohle February 7th). We as humans will have to face the consequences for actions that we have done in the past, present and future. Jesus has come into the world as a human to show his dignity and save us from sin; he was the world and of all creation. As we come to read more about Jesus we get to know Jesus more, we learn about what he did, how he did it and why he had to do these saving actions.