Category: Christian Trinity
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What is the Trinity?
This is the first article in a series on the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. To see MRM’s website page on the Trinity to see other resources, please click here. By Eric Johnson Understanding the meaning of the Trinity is important to Christians who hold the Bible as the authoritative Word of God. The word “Trinity”…
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The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity Index
En Español The biblical doctrine of the Trinity has been unduly criticized for many years. The objections by Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Muslims might come in statements and questions like these: However, the Trinity is a vital doctrine in Christianity. (See The Athanasian Creed.) Without a proper understanding of this teaching, the biblical concept that there is one…
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Mormonism 201 (Trinity): Response to René Alexander Krywult
John Divito responds to René Alexander Krywult on the Trinity.
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Modalism in the Book of Mormon
Does the Book of Mormon teach a Trinitarian concept of God? Some have assumed so because certain verses taken separately do seem to use Trinitarian language. However, taken as a whole, the Book of Mormon lends itself more to a modalistic understanding of God rather than Trinitarian. Modalism is an old heresy that attempts to…
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Evangelicals’ Favorite Heresies
The November 2014 Christianity Today (CT) magazine described a poll of Evangelical Christians and their beliefs about essential teachings of Christianity. Topics include the nature of Jesus and the Holy Spirit as well as issues involving salvation. What do Evangelical Christians believe about these teachings? Could heresy be creeping into the church?
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Mormons Don’t Believe In the Trinity
In an October (2014) blog, Latter-day Saint Greg Trimble sought to explain “Why Mormons Don’t Believe In the Trinity.” As Mr. Trimble pointed out, it is imperative that we “know who and what God is,” for Jesus said, “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom…
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Matthew 3:15-17: Are there three gods?
The nature of God is often debated by other religions and cults. Thus, when the issue of the Trinity comes up, many point to this verse as evidence that this is not a biblical teaching. After all, it is argued, there are three gods referenced here: the Father, whose voice comes out of heaven; the…
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Trinity (Defined)
Trinity. In Mormonism the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost make up the Godhead. They are “one God” only in the sense that they are united in the attributes of perfection. ” LDS Apostle Bruce McConkie called the Christian view of the Trinity “the chief and greatest heresy of Christendom” (Sermons and Writings of Bruce R. McConkie…
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The Trinity: Mormonism’s Rejection of God’s Highest Revelation
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) proclaims that they are a church that embraces ongoing or continual revelation. This primarily means that they view the canon of Scripture as not being closed. Christianity affirms that the canon of Scripture is closed in that God has given His Word that encompasses all…
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Many Mormons Mistake the Trinity for Modalism
By Aaron Shafovaloff1. *Modalism* teaches that the Father and the Son are one God and one person. In this model, Jesus essentially prays to himself.2. *Tritheism* teaches that the Father and the Son (and Spirit) are three different Gods. In this model, Jesus prays to not only a different person, but a different God-being.3. *Trinitarianism*…
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What Happened to the Trinity in Mormonism?
I often wonder about certain teachings in the Mormon Church that sort of ‘fell by the wayside’ so to speak. One of those was the doctrine of the Trinity. Once, it seems, Mormons believed in the doctrine of the Trinity, which then changed to a Modalistic version of the Godhead until about the time that…
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The Nicene Creed and the Invention of the Trinity?
When it comes to the Godhead of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, there have been many theories about whether or not the Christian concept of the Trinity is true. Both Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons will attack the Trinity as being “incomprehensible” and therefore “illogical.” Too often these folks like to aim their…
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The Athanasian Creed
Listen We worship one God in trinity, and trinity in unity, neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance. For the person of the Father is one; of the Son, another; of the Holy Spirit, another. But the divinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one, the glory…