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Hinduism cannot be said to be purely polytheistic. Hindu religious leaders have repeatedly stressed that while God's forms are many and the ways to communicate with him are many, God is one. The puja of the murti is a way to communicate with the abstract one god which creates, sustains and dissolves creation. [66] Rig Veda 1.164.46,
'triad', from Latin: trinus 'threefold') [1] is the Christian doctrine concerning the nature of God, which defines one God existing in three, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: [2] [3] God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons sharing one essence/substance/nature .
The Muslim religion and all these religions have been around for thousands and thousands of years. So who am I to say, 'Hey, don't do this, don't do that.' You believe what they believe, respect what they respect, and respect that person as a man or woman, and you'll make it far in life.
The Trinity is the belief that God is one God in three persons: the Father, the Son , and the Holy Spirit. [159] Trinity refers to the teaching that the one God [160] comprises three distinct, eternally co-existing persons: the Father, the Son (incarnate in Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit.
The first usage of the term "God-man" as a theological concept appears in the writing of the 3rd-century Church Father Origen: [2]. This substance of a soul, then, being intermediate between God and the flesh – it being impossible for the nature of God to intermingle with a body without an intermediate instrument – the God-man is born.
"The One God exists in Three Persons and One Substance." Strictly speaking, the doctrine is a mystery that can "neither be known by unaided human reason", nor "cogently demonstrated by reason after it has been revealed"; even so "it is not contrary to reason" being "not incompatible with the principles of rational thought". [125]
While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations ...
In Christian theology, the incarnation is the belief that the pre-existent divine person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, and the Logos (Koine Greek for 'word') was "made flesh," [1] "conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary," [2] also known as the Theotokos (Greek for "God-bearer" or "Mother of God").