Did Christians believes in 3 Gods ??

the head and the two shoulders, is that means 3 Gods?
the spirit of the father, the son, and the holy spirit i guess

what does it mean?

 

Not according to the Church fathers who worked out the doctrine of the Trinity. God has three persons (personalities?) but He's still one God. And just exactly what it means is supposed to be one of those "mysteries" that nobody understands, because God is beyond full human comprehension. This is a doctrine that was unknown to the earliest Christians, but developed as Christians began to ponder the divinity of Jesus and His relationship to Yaweh, and began to personalize the Shekira and Sophia concepts that late Judaism associated with aspects of God. By the fourth century c.e., it became the official doctrine, and all kinds of hurt could happen to you if you didn't believe it. However, it's not far removed from the Triune concept of the Hindu God Brahmin consisting of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.

 

Yes

God is beyond all human comprehension, yet he is still understoood by you and very fue other people. Not much of a Democracy

 

Well okie has answered your question pretty well so yeah officially there is only one but if your like me and are your own sort of Christian there are a ton of conclusions you can come to on your own.

 

You know you should hang around and do a little reading before you make bullshit comments. Okie never said he fully comperhended God, he said no one could. You're just projecting your own image of what Christians act like on to him, thats pretty naive.

 

huh.. they believe in one god, yeah?

 

Xac

Don t talk to me about bullshit. You and people like you revel in it and live in it. Can you reasonably assume that something exists that we can have no reasonable comprehension of. Teapots floating around mars perhaps, no may be not I am not English enough for that.

Well yes I agree Okie's pretty heterodox in his Christianity, which is a credit to him but may get him into trouble with other Christians. Well we all know what can happen when they the faithful full out amounst themselves.

Yes I reread parts of the new testament,and there was allot of " weeping and gnashing of teeth" followed be threats of hell fire and the like. The place you are going to go to Xac because you did not turn the other check,, you little sinner.

 

You seem like an immensly troubled person pineapple.

wonder why that may be...

 

The games we play

 

games are supposed to be fun.

 

Don't know if this will put things back on track, but I once had the concept of the godhead described to me this way

Drop an ice cube into a hot frying pan. Three forms of water existing together.

Flawed, but one way to help conceptualize.

 

Thats cool man, if you wanna stereo-type and hate there aint much i can do to change your mind. But i have to let you know you're the preacher in this thread. Think about that.

 

Yes I have always had a serious problem with religion stemming from my school days. Yes I admit my posts become a become a bit venty or sulfurous sometimes stupid after a few bottles of wine. All though that is no excuse.

Thank you.

 

You're welcome, i understand why people don't like religion.

 

catholicism believes in 3 aspects of one god...most other christian denominations im pretty sure believe the father, son, and holy ghost/spirit are three entirely different entities though.

side note: i was thinking the other day that what if god was like a celebrity in the way he worked. like when jesus said, "i die for you," maybe it was like string cheese saying "this one's for you san francisco!" lol, i dunno. just a thought.

 

WRONG: Catholicism teaches that the Father Son and Holy Spirit are 3 persons in one God. So do other mainline churches.


JW's on the other hand (and I think OWB will or may have already touched on this) deny the supreme God-ness of Jesus

 

Jesus is not a God
he is a person, God creat him

 

That view could've gotten you burned at the stake in the Middle Ages. Actually, there were early Christian groups who believed exactly as you say, especially the Nazerenes and Ebionites, who were based in Jerusalem and possibly led by Jesus' brother, James. They believed that Jesus was the Messiah, but a man, possibly adopted by God as His son. But they lost out in the struggle to be the true Christian faith. By the 4th centruy C.E., there was a fierce debate between the followers of Arius, who taught that Jesus came after God the Father, and the Catholics, who taught that they always co-existed. Constantine called the Council of Nicea to settle the matter, and the Catholics won, although there was still a lot of blood shed on both sides over the matter. Not a very "Christian" way to settle such disputes, but it worked.

 

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