How many Christians believe in the doctrine of the Trinity?

Answer 1

Yes; the Trinity is one of the key points in Christianity. All three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all fully and completely in their nature God, and together are One God. It seems confusing, but God shouldn't really be easy to understand if he's God.

God the Father, of course, is vital to Christianity. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) also state that it is important to serve God and God alone.

Jesus is the son of God and his sacrifice paid for the sins of the world. He says of Himself, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). To not accept Jesus as the son of God is to reject Christianity.

The Holy Spirit was sent into the world after Jesus returned into Heaven, and all Christians have the Holy Spirit living in them (the Holy Spirit is the counselor that Jesus speaks of in John 16:5-15). Jesus says in Matthew 12:31-32: "And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." This basically means that to live in denial and rejection of God is a sin that cannot be forgiven.

Another answer:

Not necessarily. Not all denominations believe in a so-called "trinity". Christians should believe in a triune godhead -- which says that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one. But the "trinity" says that they are persons. The word "trinity" is not in The Bible, and neither is the phrase "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit", which implies 3 gods. The word itself puts an emphasis on three (tri-) -- instead of one.

The concept of the Trinity was a relatively late development in Christianity. It arose in the third century and was formally adopted by the Council of Nicaea. However, Arianism, which opposed the idea of a Holy Trinity, continued to flourish through most of the fourth century until Emperor Theodosius declared the belief to be illegal.

Given that there is no firm scriptural support for the Holy Trinity, it is open to each Christian or Christian congregation to decide whether to believe in the Trinity or otherwise.

Answer 2

Christianity is divided on the existence and form of the Holy Trinity, with the overwhelming majority of modern Christians believing in the trinity. Those who believe in the Trinity say belief in the Trinity is an essential feature of Christianity. Those who do not believe in the Trinity are equally adamant in supporting their point of view.

While the word 'Trinity' is not actually used in the Bible, there are passages that some see as referring to the Trinity. One of the most famous of these is the "Johannine Comma" (1 John 5:7), which refers indirectly to the concept of the Trinity. This was never in the early Greek manuscripts, only appearing in the Latin translation of the fifth century, after the Trinity doctrine had been accepted by the Council of Nicaea.

Answer 3

No.

According to the New Bible Dictionary: "The term 'Trinity' is not itself found in the Bible. It was first used by Tertullian at the close of the 2nd century, but received wide currency [common use in intellectual discussion] and formal elucidation [clarification] only in the 4th and 5 centuries" (1996, "Trinity").

It further explains that "the formal doctrine of the Trinity was the result of several inadequate attempts to explain who and what the Christian God is...To deal with these problems the Church Fathers met in [A.D.] 325 at the Council of Nicaea to set out an orthodox biblical definition concerning the divine identity." However, it would not be until 381 A.D. at the Council of Constantinople that the divinity of the Spirit was affirmed (ibid.).

This is a manmade concept and not found anywhere in the Bible. So many have made surprising admissions about the Trinity - "an absolute mystery," "mysterious in its origin and its content," "impossible for Christians actually to understand," " unintelligible," "misunderstood," "presents strange paradoxes" and "widely disputed." One would have to question then why/how a doctrine on which billions of people base their faith and salvation is accepted. The Apostle Paul was inspired to tell us in 1 Corinthians 14:33 that "God is not the author of confusion" yet this doctrine of men is total confusion.

Answer 4

True Christians do not uphold the doctrine of the Trinity. There is no Bible verse that proves that the said doctrine is true. There is only one God, and that is the Father, the Creator (cf. 1 Corinthians 8:6; Malachi 2:10). Christ Jesus is not God; He is man in nature (cf. John 8:40); He is the Son of God (cf. Matthew 3:17) and the Mediator between God and mankind (cf. 1 Timothy 2:5). The Holy Spirit is the power of God (cf. Acts 1:8). How can Christ Jesus be God when He is the Son of God? Furthermore, the Holy Spirit is not God but one of the spirits being sent by God.

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