why does the church limit God to 3 persons when he is infinite in every way?
600103
It doesn't limit God, it uses the bible as a basis to believe that God appears as the three (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) but that doesn't mean that God is limited or that He isn't everywhere.
889161
None. God said I am the begining and the end. The alpha and Omega. In me all things are and have their being. Where would the limits come from??
1140842
The Triune God existing as God, the Father, God, the Son and God, the Holy spirit. They are three in one. This is called the Trinity of God. We humans have a hard time trying to understand this. We try to understand the Omnipotent, Infinite God using the tiny brain cells that He gave us. There are some things that we just need to accept and move on. Trying to understand God in all His glorious fullness with our pathetically finite minds is like trying to fly along with a fighter jet while riding on your little bicycle.
915082
Hi Mary, good question to ask, Before God had created the Angels and Humans He existed in complete joy and happiness as God needs nothing more to be happier, although we say there is one God and this is true we also know that are three divine persons,Father,Son and Holy spirit, this is far above our human understanding and we will not fully understand until we are in Heaven.\nThe second Person of the Trinity came down from Heaven to save us and He decided to become a human being to help us to relate better to Him, His mission was to save us from the power of the devil who had corrupted the world with sin and disobedience to God, so Jesus gave His life so that by His death on the cross we would be able to come back to God and have the power through Jesus to resist the devil and also be forgiven for our sin and disobedience to Gods holy will.\nJesus was so very humble and chose to grow up in a poor family and to do all that we have to do like work and suffer pain and sometimes hunger, He wanted us to understand that we are Gods children and that God loves us very much and in the Gospels we can read His messages of love,hope and compassion.    God bless.
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The reference of the numbers you are querying here are not much important except that the context in which they were used was to suggest an idea.  This same idea is that God is perfect and the man of sin is not whosoever he be. He may be very close in appearance but can never attain it.  To make the point God used the numbers here in question. Christian scriptures note that God's perfect number  is 7.  No matter how many times you repeat 6 it never really gets to seven. thats all.
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one cant, at least THIS one cant.  When something terrible happens and you question gods "wisdom" a religious person will most often come back with god has a plan we just don't know what it is.  Well my point is if there is a god and this god is omnipotent then this god allows all of this terrible stuff to happen.  Now if this god has a plan that lets these things happen FOR WHATEVER REASON then it is not something I would want in my life.  If a person stands idly by and lets pain and suffering befall his fellow man when it is in his/her ability to stop the suffering then they are as much at fault as whatever is causing the suffering.  If a "god" dose the same thing, well its just a perverse sort of thing to put your faith in.
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It is best to have someone from a church do it because of it being a Holy Trinity between man and women. What God has join together let no one putth under.
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There is only one God.\nAnd that God is Kind, Generous, Loving, Forgiving, etc.\nPeople may call Him by whatever name but they shouldn't bring in some other partner with Him.
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An extreme misinterpretation of the Bible leads some to believe that God is 1 but broken into 3 parts. The idea isn't supported by the Bible at all, and to teach that there's a trinity is to not only lie but to dishonor God and Jesus Christ.\n\nSimply put: THERE IS NO TRINITY. \n\nGod is ONE god, alone. He is not a combination of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God's name according to the Bible (as is most commonly translated) is Jehovah. Jehovah's Son is Jesus Christ (a created being by God according to Colossians 1:15 and Revelation 3:14) and Jesus is a separate being that is in lower position relative to God. The Holy Spirit isn't a being at all, but the most powerful force in the universe, a force that God uses in the accomplishing of his purposes. \n\nThe Bible makes it very clear. There is NO trinity.
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I'm not sure the classic explanation of the Trinity is the only way to reconcile the scriptures that have led to that doctrine, actually.  I think it is much simpler than we make it out to be.  I believe that the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are simply in complete agreement with each other.  Therefore when one speaks, He speaks for all three of them.  And when you talk to one, you essentially talk to all three.  There is no plurality of ideas or desires, no conflict.  In that sense, and I believe in that sense only, they are one.
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If you look in Genesis chapter one you will see that it was God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. \n\nGod said, "The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface."\nand"26 Then God said, "Let US make people F2 in our image, to be like ourselves." \n\nThen look at John 1\n\n1 In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn't make. 4 Life itself was in him, and this life gives light to everyone. \n\nGod is one person with three personalities. So yes the three personalities that you mentioned were there. Hope this helps!
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Who teaches that there are three gods? Do you mean the doctrine of the Trinity? The doctrine of the Trinity is formally defined as: One God in Three Persons. That therefore means that it teaches only one God, not three gods. Saying that the Trinity is three gods is just as wrong as saying the God of Islam is a pagan moon god. Both statements wrongly represent the beliefs of those who believe them.
1136818
The Church wanted to elevate Jesus from prophet status to 'Son of God' status, in order to do that, they had to put him on a pedestal and and make him beyond having earthy  needs and desires. Doing something so... ,so HUMAN as marrying and having children just isn't acceptable.
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The trinity is not easy to understand for humans.  God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy spirit are three persons in one.  For us limited three dimensional creatures this would not be possible.  For an unlimited, infinite, pan dimensional being such as God, this is very possible.  We cannot fully conceive it but we can imagine it.  You must simply suspend your dimensional logic and imagine beyond what is possible.
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There is one God who manifests himself in three persons/personas/manifestations (referred to as YHWH or Yahweh in the Bible).\n\nYHWH rules in heaven.\n\nFor an explanation (and defense) of the doctrine of the Trinity, see \nhttp://www.godsci.org/gs/sect/doc/trinity.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org\n[God and Science]
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God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit make up three sides of the same God.  They are different leaves of the same clover.  The best way I've had it explained is as a play. Several play actors are sitting around disgussing a script written by someone named Christian.  Many of them say the playwright doesn't exist, but then someone shows up named Christianson, claiming to be Christian writing himself into the play.  Someone comes up with the idea that Christian is active in three levels of the play.  He created it, he wrote himself in, and he is somehow within each of the actors.  Confusing yes, but I believe it is true.
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You have absolutely no understanding of the concept of the TRINETY. God is ALL THREE, FATHER/SON/HOLY SPIRIT\n\nSlavery is part of YOUR religion, not Christianity.\n\nYou should look BEYOND your teachings and your fellow Muslims if you want a TRUE understanding of Christianity. Otherwise you are only spreading ignorance to strengthen your own orthodoxy.