Core tenet of Christianityheld by most
God is one being in three persons.
Father, Son, and Spirit — the Trinity is the grammar of Christian speech about God.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Trinity was not asserted casually; it was forced, argued clause by clause at Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381) against readings that made the Son a creature. The formula — one being, three persons — is the church's claim that God is, in God's own life, already relationship: lover, beloved, and the love between.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19The triadic formula the councils would later define.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
God is one, you are not God, and the difference is permanent.
Hinduism
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God is one, indivisible, and engaged with history.
Judaism
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There is no god but God.
Islam
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God is one, beyond form.
Sikhism
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Tian — Heaven.
Confucianism · figure
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Ahura Mazda — the Wise Lord.
Zoroastrianism · figure
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