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It seems to me that focusing worship on Jesus undermines assertions of "3 Gods in 1." or am I missing something?
Voted : Other/ Comment
Ask me if I give a tinker's dam, one way or the other.
For Evangelical Christians, it's Bitheistic: they worship Jesus and money.
Tsk ... let's not have any Christian bashing ... I'm hoping to stay on topic.
Voted : Other/ Comment
Some Christians don't believe in a Holy Trinity, and worship only God, seeing Jesus as His son and the Holy Spirit as His servant.
Others believe in this Holy Trinity, worshiping God and Jesus primarily, but viewing all three as necessary parts of a whole.
In the end though, whether or not their religion is called monotheistic or polytheistic doesn't really matter to them (at least the Christians I know O.o); they believe what they believe, and will keep believing it no matter what their religion is classified as.
But if you wanted to go into technicalities, you probably could, in a way, call some forms of Christianity polytheistic.
Voted : Yes
Christians see God by way of the Trinity, true, but I am a Christian and don't only worship Jesus. All three Persons of the Trinity hold equal value to me as one 'Godhead'. Your's is a tough question, Cathexis, and not easily answered, but I think you are misinformed if you think Christians worship only Jesus.
Most Christians believe that the father, son and holy spirit are all the same "being", yet some aspects are distinct. The Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. It isn't easy to understand, but it probably shouldn't be.
xhiker: It may well be that I have a misperception on that, based only on non- representative sects.
^ Like I said, "Your's is a tough question, not easily answered."
Cathexis, You might find my latest ballot in 'Religion' interesting.
^Do you have to attend church to be religious?
The Holy Trinity has always been more of a Catholic concept than that of a Christian concept.
Christians view the holy spirit to be more of the presence of God, and Jesus as the Son of God was of Himself, in that way. I think in terms of being monotheistic, it is because this view is the 3 as one.
I find that religions that have multiple gods do not view them in this manner, each god is its own seperate entity many times with its own value or influence.
This is an interesting question though.
Voted : Other/ Comment
Saying that Christians only worship Jesus is WAY off the mark.
They worship God through Jesus.
Voted : No
Of course not... The concept of the holy trinity is a tale of three parts merging into one and separating again at will... But even if you forget about the Holy Trinity, take into consideration the number of saints that are worshipped by Christians (namely Catholic and Orthodox) and the god-like powers that are given to them... Christianism is definitely a polytheistic religion...
Voted : Yes
I belive that chistianty is really monotheistic because God Christ and holy spirit are three diffrent spirits but they form one spirt which is the Holy Trinity and that is the one God that the christians workship and if we continue looking at religons as not really montheistic we would find that no one religion is truly monothiestic
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it ism hard to tell unless you study the holy bibble for years and get a good understanding of it.
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