Trinity

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THE THEOGOLOGICAL MEANING OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY

Name: Paul Manzo
Id number: 109228
Course: Comparative Religion: Christianity and |Islam (PHI 201) - 2  
Instructor: Prof. Brown

THE THEOGOLOGICAL MEANING OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
The doctrine of the Trinity is one of the most difficult aspects of Christian theology. Many who are new to the study of theology find the doctrine of the Trinity very perplexing. Some hold back from studying it seriously, believing that such study will persuade them that it is a piece of logical nonsense. Others are apprehensive about the Islamic critique of the doctrine of the Trinity, which treat it as tantamount to Trinthesim. For a monotheistic religion like Islam, Christian and Hindi, it is both blasphemous and nonsensical to believe in any idea of three gods.  
The doctrine of the Trinity confirms that while God is one, He exists as three persons: Jesus Christ the son revealed himself as the Father in some passage in the Bible, and the Holy Spirit, the bond of love between Jesus and the father. The concept of the holy Trinity for many centuries has suffered violently attacked and robustly defended from different religions and scholar.  Doctrine of Trinity focus on the facts that almighty God made known to human beings by revelation, facts about God in Himself, or about God in his relations with His creatures.
A person cannot be a Christian Without believing in the doctrine Trinity, and also a person may believe in God and in Jesus Christ, either as a great man or as a divine being of some sort. Some people may even believe in the wonders of the Holy Spirit. However, if one does not believe in the orthodox concept of the doctrine of Trinity, then that person cannot be regarded as a Christian. Nevertheless, the Trinitarian theology is not an easy one to neither understand nor grasp completely. It is one of those mysteries of faith. However, the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament are filled with... [continues]

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