CHRISTIANS ONLY: Trinity Poll

[Rival]

Following my Trinity thread I've decided to make a poll.

I'm interested in the results.

Were you raised a Trinitarian? Were you raised Protestant or Catholic? What's made you believe in or question the dogma?

 

[Regiomontanus]

Following my Trinity thread I've decided to make a poll.

I'm interested in the results.

Were you raised a Trinitarian? Were you raised Protestant or Catholic? What's made you believe in or question the dogma?

The Trinitarian nature of God - the biggest obstacle to me becoming a Christian. I could not wrap my head around it; that is what I get for trying to reason my way through a mystery that our finite minds are incapable of understanding. But Holy Scripture and the Church Fathers have shown, IMHO, that God really is 3-in-1.

 

[Spice]

I've only found one way to accept the trinity: Oneness......God is OMNI - ALL
Father 1) Life - energy
Son 2) Universe - matter
Holy Ghost 3) Spirit - mystery
And each one of us is a mini-trinity, at least for now. We're a combination of matter, life, and soul. In His image.

 

[1213]

Were you raised a Trinitarian? Were you raised Protestant or Catholic? What's made you believe in or question the dogma?

I think this depends on what is meant with the word Trinity. Bible tells there is God the Father, Jesus the son, and Holy Spirit, three entities. If we call them a trinity, I think it is not totally wrong. The problem with the word Trinity is, Bible doesn't use it and it has meanings that don't come from the Bible. That is why I think it is not good and I don't think Christians should use it.

 

[Brian2]

Following my Trinity thread I've decided to make a poll.

I'm interested in the results.

Were you raised a Trinitarian? Were you raised Protestant or Catholic? What's made you believe in or question the dogma?

I was raised a Catholic Trinitarian and am now a Protestant.
I started doubting the Trinity when looking at Jehovah's Witness teachings.
I came back to the Trinity after finding that the Jehovah's Witness teachings did not agree with the Bible.

 

[Kathryn]

I was raised believing in the Trinity. I was raised Protestant but now I am Roman Catholic (converted about twenty years ago). I gave the Church the benefit of the doubt on that one, along with Marian questions, because they get so much right. Also, all my questions were adequately answered in RCIA.

 

[metis]

Not if it posits three Gods.

The early Church used the concept of "essence" to relate Father, Son, and Holy Spirit whereas the latter two are of the "essence" of God.

es·sence
noun
1.the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character:

 

[amazing grace]

Following my Trinity thread I've decided to make a poll.

I'm interested in the results.

Were you raised a Trinitarian? Were you raised Protestant or Catholic? What's made you believe in or question the dogma?

I was raised in the Baptist denomination, i.e. Protestant - so Trinitarian, yes.
I no longer believe in the Trinitarian doctrine but consider myself to be a Unitarian. Why did I question the dogma? The easiest explanation - I believe one means one as in the numeral one - not a triune or triunity of persons.

 

[Muffled]

Following my Trinity thread I've decided to make a poll.

I'm interested in the results.

Were you raised a Trinitarian? Were you raised Protestant or Catholic? What's made you believe in or question the dogma?

I was raised Baptist but early education was OT. Jesus was a stranger to me as a youth and I heard nothing about the Holy Spirit. I learned the Biblical background to the Trinity well after I was saved. In fact did not encounter information about the Holly Spirit until I watched the PTL Club.

 

[Muffled]

Not if it posits three Gods.

The early Church used the concept of "essence" to relate Father, Son, and Holy Spirit whereas the latter two are of the "essence" of God.

es·sence
noun
1.the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character:

I believe the essence does not change in each member of the Trinity.

 

[metis]

I believe the essence does not change in each member of the Trinity.

I have no clue what you are implying by this.