Is Christianity monotheism or polytheism

Answer 1

Christianity from one point is henotheistic religion according to the belief in the Trnity. From another point Christianity is polytheistic according to the belief that Jesus is God or son of God.

Answer 2

Christians are monotheistic. Though they believe Jesus is the Son of God, they consider him God. Christians deny that there is more than one God.

Another answer God has 3 bodies: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. All three are one and the same, but are around at the same time. If this doesn't make sense, imagine this. Three people are standing next to each other, but they all share one brain.

Another view They call themselves monotheistic but in fact they have God Satan and Jesus who is the son of god which by there own definition would make him a God as well. I guess the founders of Christianity were not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Another answer: Christians worship one God (references in Romans 3:30, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Ephesians 4:6, 1 Timothy 2:5 and James 2:19, among others) in three persons; the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. More than 60 Bible passages mention the three together. One example:

Ephesians 2:18 - For through Him [Jesus] we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

This is a poor forum in which to address such a profound doctrine (and I am a poor mouthpiece), but rather than dismissing the Trinity as ridiculous or in conflict with the idea of one God, consider this: man is also triune in nature - physical, mental and spiritual - three aspects of one being. To take the analogy even further...within the mind alone there is the rational, the instinctual and the emotional. The fact that these can come into conflict with one another shows them to be separate (whose emotions haven't overruled their rational mind?), yet they are all aspects of one individual.

1 Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

It's interesting that one would feel compelled to ridicule the founders of Christianity, and by extension all Christians, as "not the sharpest tools in the shed," but by all means, feel free.

Luke 6:22, 23 - Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man's sake. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, For in like manner their fathers did to the prophets.

Another answer God and Jesus Christ are technically the same person. God made Jesus Christ, a man form of himself, and sent him to the earth in order to teach us the way. Christians have one God in three persons ; The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. They are monotheistic.

Christians don't worship Satan, but he's a major player in the Christian faith: if you don't worship our God, Satan will get you. None of the deities worshiped in other religions are acknowledged; if you worship Buddha, Shiva, Allah, anyone but the Christian God, you by default belong to the Christian Satan. Also, half the church signs in America have Satan's name on them. He's not worshiped, he's feared and he's uppermost in any good Christian's mind.

Another answer Deities don't necessarily need to be to be considered deities. The simple fact of the matter is that Christianity fits most every criterion for a polytheistic religion, except that Christians themselves don't call it such.

Not only Satan, but all of the angels (and the holy trinity) could be considered to be individual deities. When compared to other polytheistic religions, we see that angels are as any lower gods of a religion, just not viewed as such. They are spiritual entities which influence the physical world, and are therefore gods.

Most of those religions that we call monotheistic today seem to be less emphasized polytheistic religions.

Another answer Yes, Christianity is a polytheistic religion - a polytheistic religion very much in denial about its fundamental nature.

Christianity is what you get when you take a personality cult that sprung up around a very enlightened and charismatic Jewish teacher, and transplant his progressive version of monotheistic Judaism to the colder climes of Europe, where polytheism was the norm, and where the cycle of the seasons gave rise to a fearful need for propitiatory sacrificial festivals in the winter, along with fertility festivals in the spring.

The defense put forward, via talk of shamrocks and eggs and water, comes down to saying that Christianity is a monotheism because God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit (and, arguably, Mary, and the angels (including Lucifer) and the saints (including Saint Nicholas)) are all facets of the one "unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality that is the Divine Ground of all Being. This Supreme Cosmic Spirit is regarded to be eternal, genderless, omnipotent, and omniscient. It can be described as infinite Truth, infinite Consciousness and infinite Bliss."

Well, that makes it a polytheistic faith, just like Hinduism. Hindus pray to a whole host of different figures who are all aspects of this One Cosmic Spirit. They refer to it as Brahman, and it has a lot more in common with current Christian concepts of the One God than anything you'll find in the Old Testament. In fact the quotation above is taken a description of Brahman.

Christianity is polytheism with an identity crisis and a serious case of denial.

Another answer In true Christianity, there is only one God, therefore, is monotheistic. While the Scripture shows us that there are three persons in that Godhead, a Trinity, it also shows us conclusively that they are one. This concept is difficult for many to comprehend, but you also are a trinity. You have a body, which most people familiar with you will recognize quickly as you. You have a voice, with inflections and characteristics, which in short order your close acquaintances will identify as you. You have a mindset and personality, that individuals who know you discover very soon as being you. Yet you are one.

But in corrupted or false Christianity, there exists idolatry or "the worship of idols" or false gods. "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them." Colossians 3:5-7 (emphasis added). We are instructed in Scripture: "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Timothy 6:10 (emphasis added). So, Christians, who are not wise, nor careful, can be idolatrous, or have false gods in their lives.

Then, there are those, who call themselves "Christian," but place there own "theology," philosophy or reasoning above what God says. Some are represented on this forum. This likewise is idolatry, or worship of one's own thoughts and ways above God's thoughts and ways. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8,9. This is true of the pseudo-science of today.

Too many who call themselves "Christian," have been caught up in worshiping the false science of today, which rejects anything spiritual, especially The Bible, saying that no scientist of worth believes in God or the Bible's position on "scientific" matters (an inaccurate statement). Yet, as warned in 1 Timothy 6:20,21, "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babbling, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith." (Added emphasis). Scientific procedure has been set aside and ignored, in favor of supporting popular ideas, which are contrary to Scripture. Yet, some of these would identify themselves as "Christian," but actually are idolatrous.

But true Christianity has only one God, the true Elohim, who created the heavens and the earth, whom they worship. That fits the definition of monotheism.

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Yes, but God is "Triune" (manifesting as three coequal persons in one god).
I have two children, they call me dad. I have a father and a mother, they called me son. I have a wife, she calls me husband (and perhaps a few other things on occasion) My relationship with each of them is unique, but there is only one of me (unless you believe the cell phone company that perpetually sends me bills for accounts I never opened at addresses where I have never lived). Christianity is a monotheistic religion.

Answer 3

Christians regard Christianity as definitely monotheistic. A pedant could challenge this because of belief in the divinity of Jesus, but the Christian response is that the doctrine of the Holy Trinity means that God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one.

The Catholic Church has been criticised in the past for its veneration of saints, which some felt was akin to the worship of idols. The Catholic Church has maintained its position, but clarified its dogma regarding the veneration of saints, and of prayer for intercession.

In the end, words mean what we wish them to mean, and the word 'monotheistic' is used to describe Christianity.

Answer 4

Monotheistic. Christians believe in 1 God.

Answer 5

Mono mean single, poly means many. Christianity believes in one god.

Answer 6

Christianity is monotheistic and not polytheistic. Christians believe in one supreme God who takes three forms of identity which are father son and holy spirit.

Answer 7

Christianity was and will always be monotheistic. The trinity represents God in three parts as One: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Answer 8

As Christians believe in one god, Christianity is a monotheistic religion.