Christianity doesn't necessarily mean you believe in the trinity.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just wondering, what branch of Christianity DOESN'T believe in the trinity?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Jehovah's witnesses.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh okay

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Jehovah's witness is not Christianity, it's a cult

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not a cult, but not exactly the same as Christianity.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It is categorized as Christianity. I'm not a Jehovah's witness but my aunt and her family are. I agree with some of their views.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For simplicity's sake, they are. But those that look more closely at the beliefs would probably choose to not classify them as such unless they're talking about multiple religions.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah! I know what you mean.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Christianity is a cult. A very large cult.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Catholics believe it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When I was in my confirmation classes and students had questions about it, the teacher explained the trinity as an apple: One apple made of 3 parts - skin, the 'meat' (I don't know what it's really called.) and the seeds. One God, three parts - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. When you compare to Hinduism like that, it makes me question it. Not my faith, just the whole monotheism/ polytheism thing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Brahman in Hinduism is like the universe, ever expanding and infinite. All the entities, a part of.the universe, are like matter - limited and finite. Although they are made of the Brahman, they can never combine to form the Brahman. In Hinduism, a dichotomy appears between Brahman and all the other enrires, holy or not. Such a dichotomy does not appear in the Christian concept of the holy Trinity, making Christianity a monotheistic religion. Additionally, ike large quantities of matter nay accumulate at one point in space and time to form black hole, which governs and rules the galaxy around it. Somewhat smaller quantites of matter may make the stars (governing solar systems), planets and so forth. Similarly, entities with "larger quantities" of the Brahman are gods in their own right, making.Hinduism a polytheistic religion.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thank you for explaining that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, the Trinity is supposedly one God in three different persons.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Christians- You know what's odd... the fact that we are eating Jesus. Hindu's- you know whats odd... well a lot of things, but that is not the point. Scientologists- you know whats odd... absolutely nothing

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What's odd about Hinduism?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nothing, if its your religion. And really there isn't anything more than most religions i guess. However, from an outsiders view the gods are very abstract and quite frankly bizarre. A multi-armed god is a bit different than a carpenter dying on a cross for all man kinds sins. Too many the whole idea of not eating cows is also odd, not wrong, just odd. Like i said both religions are weird, just in very different ways, and there is nothing wrong with the fact that they are so unusual, they just are.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes I am Hindu. We don't eat cows because we believe that they are holy creatures. If the mother of a child dies, the milk of a cow can keep the child alive. We don't worship cows, but value them. Of course it may seem odd, but in my opinion, believing in an almighty/ all powerful/all-knowing invisible man in the sky is also quite odd.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You just paraphrased exactly what Qeez has been saying. Both are odd.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fascinating...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

with Christianity it's a lot more abstract/confusing. They can be considered three separate entities, but at the same time they're all the same thing. Also it changes meaning depending on what branch of Christianity

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's different. I'm no expert on Hinduism, but from what I understand, it is more literal in Hinduism than in Christianity. I like to think of the trinity as one person playing three roles. Let's say there's someone named Lucy. Lucy is her mother's daughter, her sister's sister, and her friend's friend. But all three of those relationships are Lucy. So God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit all at the same time. From what I understand, Hindus believe their god is in the form of other gods but isn't 100% one god and 100% supreme god at the same time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not really true. I might be wrong but it doesn't seem like you've studied Hinduism in much depth. Only some Hindus believe that, millions don't acknowledge brahman at all and even those who do might believe in different ways like Saguna Brahman, or Nirguna Brahman, and maybe the concept of maya. Hinduism is so complex you can't really define it as polytheistic or monotheistic, it's also quite often kathenotheistic or monistic or stuff like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You would be surprised how much Christianity steals from earlier religions. Jesus and Hercules are very similar in Mythology for example.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh i remember the part of the bible where Jesus had super strength, and wore a lions pelt, and killed his wife and children because Athena possessed him. And i remember when Hercules healed the blind. I kind of get what your saying their origins were similar, kind of. a god impregnating a women and all that jazz, but there were other heroes in Greek mythology who were of this descent. i mean don't get me wrong i believe all religion copied from other religions at one point or another.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well shit I wouldn't expect Christianity to copy another religion 100%.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Christianity doesn't say that the Trinity is God taking three different forms. That's actually a heresy called Modalism. Christianity says that the Trinity is one God existing in three persons.

by Anonymous 12 years ago