do all the christians believe in Trinity?
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Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe the doctrine of the trinity of God is Biblical.  We believe that Jehovah God is the Supreme Being, that Jesus Christ is His only begotten son who had a heavenly existance before his human one, and that the Holy Spirit is the active force that Jehovah uses.
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I always like to look at the trinity like a very good pie.  You can imagine any kind of pie you want.  I particularly like blueberry myself.  Anyway, Imagine that pie is split evenly into three pieces.  The entire pie represents God.  The pieces are part of God.  The Father is one piece (The good parent.) The Son is one piece (The devoted child) and the holy ghost (the speaker)  \n\nNow, that said, there are not biblical reference for the trinity.  Really it is two in one. (Jesus and God)  The spirit is just a way for God to communicate.  \n\nWho do I believe is in control?  I give it to God right now.  If Jesus was here like he was at the beginning of the century I would give it to him but he is taking a break right now until he comes back.  At least that is what I believe.
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The Concept of Trinity is the teaching of Church and not the Teaching of Jesus...In fact there is not a singel word pronounced as Trinity in the Bible... The only verse which is somewhat nearest to the concepet of Trinity is the First Epistle of John 5:7 which says "For there are three who bear record in Heaven, The Father, The Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one"...\n\nSurprisingly this verse has now been removed by 32 Christian Scholars of the Highest Eminence backed by 50 Cooperating Denominations, they say that this verse is not found in the most ancient manuscripts and hence is a fabrication. You don't find this verse anymore in INV and RSV though other Bibles are still quoting this fabricated statement.\n\nTrinity was actually highlighted by Paul and he was directly inspired by the Roman Paganism...\n\nFor more Information...\n\nshiekhtm@yahoo.com
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No.  Nowhere in the entire Bible is there any mention of the "Trinity."  It is NOT a Bible teaching.  \n\nWhat is the origin of the Trinity doctrine?\n\nThe New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.\n\nThe New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma.  Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.\n\nIn The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.\n\nAccording to the Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel,  “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. . . . This Greek philosopher’s [Plato, fourth century B.C.E.] conception of the divine trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient pagan religions.”—(Paris, 1865-1870), edited by M. Lachâtre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.\n\nJohn L. McKenzie, S.J., in his Dictionary of the Bible, says: “The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are Greek philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians.”—(New York, 1965), p. 899.
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The idea of the trinity is very confusing even to those raised with Christians, so I can see where the confusion is.\n\nOne Christian scholar, James M. Arlandson, says "The co-equal and distinct persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not three Gods because they share the same essence in complete unity." He also goes on to explain the idea like three dimensions, you can describe length, width, and thickness or height separately but they work together.  Still confused?  Me too.  \n\nTo further complicate things, there are at least two ideas of the Trinity out there thanks to the Reformation.  In case you're not familiar, that's the term used to refer to the schism between the Catholic and Lutheran/Calvinist (Protestant) churches in the mid-sixteenth century.  This happy little event is the direct root of the number of Christian sects out there, since after Luther & Calvin broke with the "Church" which we now call Catholic, nearly everybody that had an issue basically broke off and made their own church - Anabaptists, Episcopalians, and so on, and so forth. \n\nOf course, this Eurocentric view leaves out the earlier split between the Roman (now generally called Catholic) & Byzantine (now generally called Orthodox) churches, and the Copts were never really accepted by either.\n\nModern Christianity is really diverse and sometimes random, and even within the Catholic church there are divisions in belief between American Catholics and other Catholics even though the Pope is supposed to be spiritual leader for all Catholics.  \n\nBe prepared, you're probably going to get a lot of angry answers to your question, because a lot of people will either decide you need conversion or that you're attacking their sect with this question.
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Clearly, an honest study of the bible convinces that the Christian God is NOT polytheistic in nature. The Trinity is a Satanic lie.\n\n(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah\n\n(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,” there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him
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I believe in the trinity b/c the Bible tells the 3 r one!\n\nIf you read in 1 John 5:6-8\n6 This is He who came by water abd blood-Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood.  And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. \n7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven; Father,the word, and the Holy Spirit;and these three are one.
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There aren't any.  The best you will find are a couple of verses that, when taken out of context, seem to be vaguely describing a trinitarianish relationship.\n\nThe fact is that the Trinity is not supported by the Bible and you would have much more success finding scriptures to disprove it.
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Friend, the trinity doctine will always dis-agreed with there is only One God, They try to make Jesus God, when they do that then they are saying God Died. I was once myself a trinity when I first got saved in 1970, The Godhead is the very first thing God revealed to me. If those Trinity believers, can prove that anyone in the bible were ever baptized in the TITLES of the father, son, & holy ghost, I would like to see it, Everyone that was baptized was Baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Yes, but not a trinity of God as 3 persons. He is manifested to man in 3 ways...or offices/ministries...but God is one and the same person.\n\nISAIAH 45:21\nTell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.\n\nTo say that He is more than one person, is paganism.\nThe Doctrine of the Trinity is a Roman Catholic doctrine from the Council of Nicea, 325 A.D.\n\nGod is a Spirit. As a Spirit He has no physical form to show Himself to us. The Bible says that Jesus was God, as a man...the express image of God.\nJesus said He and the Father are the same person.\n\nJOHN 14:7-9\n7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.\n8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. \n9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? \n\nMany Trinitarians say that when God said, "Let us make man in our own image", that it denotes God speaking to the two other persons in the Godhead. But there is no Scriptures that say He is 3 persons. He was speaking to us. We were in Him, before the foundation of the world.\n\nWE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE, WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE\n\nHe is FATHER, above us.\nHe is SON, with us.\nHe is HOLY SPIRIT, in us.\n\nOne God, 3 manifestations.\n\nI AM THE LORD I CHANGE NOT -MALACHI 3:6\nJESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, AND TODAY, AND FOREVER -HEBREWS 13:8\n\nCOLOSSIANS 2:9\nFor in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.\n\nI TIMOTHY 3:16\nAnd without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.\n\nHEBREWS 1:3\nWho being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; \n("RIGHT HAND" symbolizes POWER, this is throughout the Old Testament)\n\nAsk yourself this, can a Spirit bleed?...\nACTS 20:28\nTake heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.\n\nCompare ISAIAH 45:21,22,23 with ROMANS 14:11 and PHILIPPIANS 2:10,11...there is only ONE SAVIOUR!\n\nEPHESIANS 4:5,6\n5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, \n6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. \n\nLORD (Father) - JESUS (Son) - CHRIST (Holy Ghost)\n\nTo learn more go here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruth...\nThen click on DOCTRINES OF DEVILS\nThen click on THE TRINITY\n\nYou can also go here...\nThe Trinity - Christian Or Pagan?\nhttp://www.bridemessage.org/thustrin.htm...\n\nMay God bless you, as you seek His' Truth.
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Actually you hit the point right on. God never refers to Himself as a 'trinity', and neither does any of His prophets. Its something Christianity made up in order to make themselves different from Jews.
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jehovah's witnesses and mormons do not believe in the trinity, i.e. that jesus is god, but they do believe that he is the son of god. that's as close as they get.
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Scripture does not teach that God is a "trinity".  It is a doctrine of men, particularly Constantine and his band of merry bishops who concocted this idea by actually stealing it from other pagan religions.  \n\nDo you think for one moment that Abraham thought God was a "trinity"?  The Israelites knew that God the Father was one, and that He alone is God Almighty.\n\n"Let US make man in our image"...refers to the "Elohim" (sons of God/angelic beings)  who had already been created and were witnessing the Most High as He created this world and all that is in it and around it.  The "us" could have more specifically referred to the 24 Elders that surround His throne since the creation of the Elohim in heaven.\n\nI Corinthians 8:6 tells us there is one true God...the Father.  He is ONE (Deuteronomy 6:4). \n\nIt is very simple.  God is one...not two, or three, or three in one, or three substances.
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IF THE Trinity were true, it should be clearly and consistently presented in the Bible. Why? Because, as the apostles affirmed, the Bible is God's revelation of himself to mankind. And since we need to know God to worship him acceptably, the Bible should be clear in telling us just who he is. \n\nFirst-century believers accepted the Scriptures as the authentic revelation of God. It was the basis for their beliefs, the final authority. For example, when the apostle Paul preached to people in the city of Beroea, "they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so."—Acts 17:10, 11. \n\nA PROTESTANT publication states: "The word Trinity is not found in the Bible . . . It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century." (The Illustrated Bible Dictionary) And a Catholic authority says that the Trinity "is not . . . directly and immediately [the] word of God."—New Catholic Encyclopedia. \n\nThe Catholic Encyclopedia also comments: "In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word  [tri'as] (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A. D. 180. . . . Shortly afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian."
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OK if you are going to convert Pagans to Christians it is easier if you incorporate there beliefs. For actual info on the Trinity look up Triune in almost any Pagan religion from that time.
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It is all made up by the church.  Alot of Christianity was made up at the Nicea Council.........300 years after Jesus lived.  The idea of the trinity was not heard of till then, also.
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The trinity is not a biblical teaching, no matter what preachers say! Jesus said himself that the father is greater than he is!\nJohn 14:28 YOU heard that I said to YOU, I am going away and I am coming [back] to YOU. If YOU loved me, YOU would rejoice that I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.\nAnd he also said that he went his way to the father. Does that sound like they are the same?\n1 Cor. 11:3 “I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.” (Clearly, then, Christ is not God, and God is of superior rank to Christ. It should be noted that this was written about 55 C.E., some 22 years after Jesus returned to heaven. So the truth here stated applies to the relationship between God and Christ in heaven.)\n\n\nWhat is the origin of the Trinity doctrine?\n\nThe New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.\n\nThe New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.\n\nIn The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.\n\n\nloj