What religion believes in God but not the Trinity?

Unitarianism rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity, or three Persons in one God, made up of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They typically believe that God is one being - God the Father, or Mother. Jesus was simply a man, not the incarnate deity.

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Which religions do not believe in Trinity?

After the denominations in the Oneness Pentecostal movement, the largest nontrinitarian Christian denominations are the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, La Luz del Mundo, and Iglesia ni Cristo.

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Why do Mormons not believe in Trinity?

[28] Because they believe that the church fell into apostasy after the death of the apostles, they believe that the trinity is a belief that is based on Christian tradition but not based on the Bible and the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.

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Why do Pentecostals not believe in the Trinity?

View of the Trinity

Oneness Pentecostals believe that the Trinitarian doctrine is a "tradition of men" and is neither scriptural nor a teaching of God, citing the absence of the word "Trinity" from the Bible as one evidence of this.

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Do Protestants not believe in the Trinity?

Most Protestants accept the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. This doctrine states that God is triune; one God manifest in three forms. The Holy Trinity consists of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit (the presence of God). These are three manifestations of God, not three distinct gods.

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GOD is NOT a TRINITY

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Do Anglicans believe in Trinity?

Trinitarian – Anglicans believe that there is One God who exists eternally in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Furthermore, we believe that Jesus Christ is completely God and is also completely human. If a religious group does not teach these two doctrines, we do not recognize them as Christian.

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Does Catholicism believe in the Trinity?

Catholics believe in one single God, who made himself known to the world (revelation) as three separate persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. This is known as the doctrine of the Trinity, and is a fundamental belief for all Catholics.

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Do Methodist's believe in the Trinity?

WHAT DO UNITED METHODISTS BELIEVE ABOUT THE TRINITY? The official United Methodist doctrine is that God is one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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What religion believes in God but not Jesus?

Christian deism is a standpoint in the philosophy of religion stemming from Christianity and Deism. It refers to Deists who believe in the moral teachings—but not the divinity—of Jesus.

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What is the religion of Jesus only?

Jesus Only, also called Oneness Pentecostalism or Apostolic movement, movement of believers within Pentecostalism who hold that true baptism can only be “in the name of Jesus” rather than in the name of all three persons of the Trinity.

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Do all Christians accept the Trinity?

The Trinity is a controversial doctrine; many Christians admit they don't understand it, while many more Christians don't understand it but think they do. In fact, although they'd be horrified to hear it, many Christians sometimes behave as if they believe in three Gods and at other times as if they believe in one.

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Do Seventh Day Adventists believe in the Trinity?

Seventh-day Adventists uphold the central doctrines of Protestant Christianity: the Trinity, the incarnation, the virgin birth, the substitutionary atonement, justification by faith, creation, the second coming, the resurrection of the dead, and last judgment.

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Who do Mormons say Jesus is?

The Book of Mormon establishes clearly that “Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself to all nations” (Book of Mormon title page; 2 Nephi 26:12). At the heart of the doctrine restored through Joseph Smith is the doctrine of the Christ.

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What is it called when you believe in God but not the Bible?

The term ietsism is becoming more widely used in Europe, as opposed to the phrase 'spiritual but not religious' which prevails in North America.

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Is Allah not a part of a Trinity?

Theologically, what is meant by the Trinity in the Qur'an is a belief in three Gods: God (Allah), Jesus (Isa), and Mary, as the three independent Gods, while the Christian belief confirms that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit (not Mary) are one God, not three independent gods.

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Is Trinity mentioned in the Bible?

Neither the word “Trinity” nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Hebrew Scriptures: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (Deuteronomy 6:4).

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Do Buddhists believe in Jesus?

Some high level Buddhists have drawn analogies between Jesus and Buddhism, e.g. in 2001 the Dalai Lama stated that "Jesus Christ also lived previous lives", and added that "So, you see, he reached a high state, either as a Bodhisattva, or an enlightened person, through Buddhist practice or something like that." Thich ...

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Which religion believes in only one God?

The three religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam readily fit the definition of monotheism, which is to worship one god while denying the existence of other gods.

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What is Jesus's real name?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua. So how did we get the name “Jesus”?

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Does the Church of the Brethren believe in the Trinity?

Other beliefs

The Exclusive Brethren share some of the same beliefs as other evangelical Christian groups: The Bible is the inspired and literal word of God. People are saved only by faith in Christ. God is a Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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What is the Presbyterian belief in Trinity?

We have seen that Presbyterians have in common with other Christians a number of theological beliefs: God has been re- vealed in Scripture; we worship God as Trinity, one God in three persons; God has created the world and is continually involved in it; God has created humans to live in rela- tionship with God, but we ...

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What do Anglicans believe?

Anglicans believe that there is only one God, but there are three elements to this one God: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit; that human beings' decision to reject this eternal God and live according to their own standards (sin) causes a relational breakdown between them; that God the Son, Jesus Christ, ...

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Do Protestants believe in Jesus?

Generally speaking, Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers in the 16th century espoused the belief that salvation is attained only through faith in Jesus and his atoning sacrifice on the cross (sola fide), while Catholicism taught that salvation comes through a combination of faith plus good works (e.g., living a ...

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Do Protestants believe in the Holy Spirit?

The majority of mainstream Protestantism hold similar views on the theology of the Holy Spirit as the Roman Catholic Church, but there are significant differences in belief between Pentecostalism and the rest of Protestantism.

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Do Protestants believe in the Virgin Mary?

Protestant theologians. Some early Protestant Reformers venerated and honored Mary. Martin Luther said of Mary: the honor given to the mother of God has been rooted so deeply into the hearts of men that no one wants to hear any opposition to this celebration...

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