How do you explain the Holy Trinity to someone?
Trinity means three, so when we discuss the Holy Trinity we mean the Father (God), Son (Jesus), and Holy Spirit (sometimes referred to as the Holy Ghost). Throughout the Bible, we are taught that God is one thing. Some refer to Him as the Godhead. However, there are ways that God has chosen to talk to us.
What religions dont believe in Trinity?
To summarize, of the fifty largest Christian denominations on Wikipedia’s “List of Christian denominations by number of members”, only three do not believe in the Trinity. They are The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and United Pentecostal Church International.
Do Protestants believe in Holy Trinity?
Protestants who adhere to the Nicene Creed believe in three persons (God the Father, God the Son, and the God the Holy Spirit) as one God. Movements emerging around the time of the Protestant Reformation, but not a part of Protestantism, e.g. Unitarianism also reject the Trinity.
What is the diff between Catholic and Protestant?
Catholics believe that the Catholic Church is the original and first Christian Church. Protestants follow the teachings of Jesus Christ as transmitted through the Old & New Testament. Protestants believe that the Catholic Church stemmed from the original Christian Church, but became corrupt.
What is the Holy Trinity?
Explaining the Holy Trinity of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit will be needed at some point when presenting the God of the Bible to children, Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons and other non-Christians. Yet most Christians have difficulty explaining the Trinity clearly and Biblically.
Can we understand the Trinity without knowing it?
Sure, we can learn about the Trinity through his work in creation and in Scripture, but ultimately, it is something that we cannot understand through human reason alone. It can only be revealed by God through faith. There are some things that we know are true because of our faith, even if we do not completely understand them.
Is there a trinity of persons in God?
So the divine substance is trebled. The original Reformers affirmed the Trinity without qualification. Thus Luther and Calvin, and the sixteenth century confessions of Protestant faith uniformly attested to the Trinity of Persons in God.
Do young children know the three persons of the Trinity?
Even young children know them. The prayer expresses the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, that God reveals himself in Three Persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is difficult for anyone to understand, especially young children. St. Patrick famously explained the Trinity by relating God in Three Persons to the shamrock.