How many Gods have Christians?

Answer 1

Most Christians have just one god, but they see the one god as having three divine personages: the father, the son, and the holy spirit. These three persons are distinct yet coexist in unity, and are co-equal. This is similar to the Hindus who have one creator god Vishnu and the other gods are simply aspects of Vishnu. Unitarians differ from other Christians, they believe in one deity who is one person. The United Church of Canada has indicated in the past that Jesus is not divine.

The role of the Christian saints and angels is problematic. Many religions with a pantheon of gods have a larger group of demigods with significant godlike powers. Whether these saints and angels fill this role is difficult to determine even though they seem to have various protective and supernatural powers.

Answer 2

A:Most Christian denominations believe in only one God, a belief known as monotheism. However, this is not "strict monotheism" because the Christian God consists of three persons in one God, or godhead: these are God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Father and the Son, Jesus, can be prayed to separately, but the Holy Spirit almost never receives prayers. The New Testament gospels even have Jesus, the Son of God, praying to God the Father.

Another Answer:

The Scripture has consistently told all who read it that there is but One God, who is the Head of the God Family:

Mark 12:29-32New International Version (NIV)

29 "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

32 "Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.

By the traditions of men, there was developed a 'trinity' or three-person Godhead. Though this cannot be proven Scripturally, many who call themselves Christians, faithfully adhere to this tradition. But not all.

Answer 3

Modern professing Christianity is in confusion in this area, compared to what Jesus and Paul say about it in The Bible.

Jesus says there are "TWO": "...I and MY FATHER are One." (John 10:30)

John was inspired to record that Jesus [the WORD, LOGOS; Spokesman for God] was in the beginning WITH God. And that He also WAS God [John 1:1]

TWO of them... the WORD of God, who SPOKE[uttered aloud] whatever God commanded Him to speak; and who DID THE WORK that God commanded Him to do. Like:

"...Let there be light..." (Gen.1:3).

"...I say only what I am told to by the One who sent Me; He is Truth... I have not been telling you My own ideas, but have spoken WHAT THE FATHER TAUGHT ME. And HE WHO SENT ME is with Me... for I always do those things that are pleasing to Him." (John 8:26-29 LVB Living Bible)

"And God SAID, Let US make man in OURimage, after OUR Likeness..." (Gen.1:26).

That was "Jesus Christ" [the WORD; LOGOS] of God speaking God's Words in the beginning. He spoke "dually" [US and OUR] because He always "said and did" what was pleasing to the One who would later become "the Father." Always in agreement with Him... always obedient to Him... always AS ONE WITH HIM!

That's "plural"... more than one... which the Bible reveals throughout to our limited understanding in the sense of "family" relationship [which God gave to the "man and woman" in the beginning]. The original inspired word "God" in the KJV is "Elohim" -- which is a uni-plural word like "family"; one family made up of more than one person. Or "group" or "association" or "club."

Paul understood this familial "duality" of God... and saluted the Gentile churches with it in his letters:

"...Grace to you and Peace from GOD OUR FATHER, and the LORD JESUS CHRIST." (Rom.1:7) Two persons.

"Grace be unto you, and Peace, from GOD OUR FATHER, and from the LORD JESUS CHRIST." (I Cor.1:3) Two persons.

"Grace be to you and Peace from GOD OUR FATHER, and from the LORD JESUS CHRIST." (II Cor.1:2) Two persons.

"Grace be to you and Peace from GOD THE FATHER, and from our LORD JESUS CHRIST..." (Gal.1:3) -- etc. Two persons.

But following Paul's death, the Gentile churches that he planted and spent so much time "watering"... instructing in the ways of God... and constantly struggled to keep ancient pagan, heathen religious rites, customs and traditions out of and from seeping in; adopted them and let them in.

One of which was the ancient religious belief in the "trinity"... to which God's name was now associated; which made God a "mysterious, unfathomable": three-gods-in-one.

The "family theme" [Father & Son; and Children - see Rom.8:16] that God sets forth in His Word, the Bible, suddenly after several centuries coming out of an era known in world history as "the Dark Ages," became a confusing, incomprehensible combination of "three SEPARATE persons, who were all somehow ONE single person... yet, not to be thought of, hypothetically, as "persons" at all." [???]

God's familial relationship with man suddenly became just "a relationship" far removed from God's Family. God was now "limited" to "three" gods in one... with man on the outside, looking in.

This is the God in which Paul, in light of his letter salutations didn't believe [no greeting of "Grace and Peace" from the Holy Spirit] and tried to keep out of the early churches... but that nonetheless emerged from the Dark Ages... and its the "one-in-three" god(s?) that most modern professing Christians have today.

Answer 4

Christians believe in one God, the one true God of the Holy Bible YAHWEH.

But we believe this one true God is represented in three Persons. God the Father, and God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit. These three persons are one God. A very difficult doctrine to grasp if you can at all.

Many people wonder why we believe Jesus Christ is God. The answer is found in this three person God.

Answer 5

I can only answer from a Christian perspective. Catholics only believe in one God - that is absolutely the basis of Christianity. What confuses many people who do not understand Christianity is that ONE God has Three Persons but all Three Persons are only One God. It is what we call a mystery (something that you could not have known if it weren't divinely revealed). Think of it this way, every one of us is one person, but we have a body and a soul. That soul is still going to be you, after your body dies, and the body is still you when it is alive, but there is only one you. Well, God is exactly the other way around. There is only one God (the soul) but there are three persons (the body in this analogy).

Answer 6

I can speak for Christians and say one God.

In Mark chapter 12: One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Answer 7

There is only one christian God. Christianity is a monotheistic religion meaning only one God.

Answer 8

One, and oddly enough one of his names is God.

Answer 9

there is one god in the christian religion.

Answer 10

One.