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Do Latter Day Saints / Mormons consider themselves to be henotheists?
An article provided by FairMormon (a Latter-day Saint volunteer apologetics group not connected with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) provides what I think is a good answer. The full ...
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Is 'pure' monotheism of more primitiveness and innateness than the Trinity is?
It must first be stated that Trinitarianism is in fact monotheism. In Trinitarian belief there is only one God. However the nature of that one God is that he exists in three persons. But it is one of ...
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According to the triune concept, at what point does this logically structured statement become NOT True?
The logic fails at step 6 because the logician fails to understand the Trinitarian Christology defined at Chalcedon (AD 451) that the flesh and blood fully human Jesus is the same being as the Nicean ...
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Is 'pure' monotheism of more primitiveness and innateness than the Trinity is?
TL;DR: According to Christianity and the experience of saved people TODAY, what fallen (non-saved) people consider "primitive" and "common sense" is no longer the same as the people in the original ...
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What is the Biblical basis for the "one" in "the Trinitarian God is one being in three persons"?
My understanding is that the scriptures convey that three Divine Persons share one divine nature.
I and the Father are one. [John 10:30, Young's Literal Translation] . . .
. . . . expresses a shared ...
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According to Trinitarians, why didn't Jesus correct the scribe's use of 'Him' at Mark 12:32-33?
I and the Father are One, saith Jesus, John 10:30.
God is one - a matter of divine nature, a nature shared by three persons in a perfection of unity.
Therefore, without further revelation, as was the ...
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Do Latter Day Saints / Mormons consider themselves to be henotheists?
No, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not Henotheistic. This will be clear by comparing what members believe with what Henotheism means (see below). We don't choose a god to worship. ...
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Do Latter Day Saints / Mormons consider themselves to be henotheists?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' official website explains how their Church may have both monotheistic and henotheistic aspects. It states,
"For some observers, the doctrine that ...
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How do Latter-day Saints respond to the claim that Latter-day Saints are not monotheists?
Monotheism does not have a universally accepted meaning:
Many Jews & Muslims believe most Christians are not monotheists
Some Unitarians believe trinitarianism is not monotheistic
Some Christians ...
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Is it OK to demand God's grace?
The word translated "grace" in the New Testament comes from the Greek word charis, which means “favour, blessing, or kindness.”
We can all extend grace to others but when the word grace is ...
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Do Latter Day Saints / Mormons consider themselves to be henotheists?
Normally, you would expect that polytheism or henotheism implies not only the existence of other Gods, but that these Gods also influence things on earth, or can be prayed to. Something like that. ...
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Is there a denomination/sect of Christianity that believes that Jesus was the son of an angel?
Latter Day Saints refer to God the Eternal Father as Elohim, meaning God or gods, and to his Son Jesus Christ as Jehovah (YHWH of the Hebrew Bible): "Elohim is the literal Parent of our Lord and ...
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How would I juxtapose between the unity of God (Shema) in Deuteronomy 6.4 and the concept of Trinity in the Old Testament
The Jews of Old Testament times, and even to this day, had no concept of a Trinity--as the Shema indicates. It is well established that Jews have always been monotheists, including during the time of ...
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According to the triune concept, at what point does this logically structured statement become NOT True?
I have taken notice that when asked to back up various of the logical "steps" in the question OP has referred to the "Shema" from Deuteronomy 6 (and also quoted by Jesus). Below ...
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How do non-trinitarians reconcile Jesus' claims to be God, and the Father to be God, with the requirement for monotheism?
God was in Christ
When Jesus spoke as God, it was because God was in him, and the words were not his but God's. He tells us this himself. This is the point upon which multitudes stumble, because ...
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Does Exodus 15:11 hint at the possibility of existence of lesser gods?
There are several questions here. I'd like to address two of them.
Does Exodus 15:11 hint at the possibility of existence of lesser gods?
The answer here depends on whether the question "who is ...
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Is it OK to demand God's grace?
I would say it is ok to "expect" God's grace.
1 John 1:9 (ESV):
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."...
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How would I juxtapose between the unity of God (Shema) in Deuteronomy 6.4 and the concept of Trinity in the Old Testament
Assuming Unitarianism
Only when assuming Unitarianism, the Shema and the Trinity would be in conflict. The LORD is one, one what? one person? one being? You can indeed see fuzzy pictures of the ...
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How do we know the unmoved mover for any given change must be singular and lack potential?
DISTINCTION OF ACT AND POTENCY.
This distinction arose from the Parmenides objection. Let me summarise the argument why the change is not possible and then I will resolve the argument.
Proposition (...
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One Essence Three Persons of Trinity
The relationship of the Persons (Greek hypostases) of the Trinity to their Essense (ousia) is addressed by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazanski in his Orthodox Dogmatic Theology as follows (in abridged ...
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Is 'pure' monotheism of more primitiveness and innateness than the Trinity is?
The use of the phrases, ‘more primitive’ and ‘pure monotheism’ are interesting as they seem to be equated with ‘more simple’, and imply that more simple ideas are more likely to be true. DJClayworth ...
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What qualifies the 3 entities of the Trinity as one?
What qualifies the 3 entities of the Trinity as one?
There are not three entities or beings—three Gods. There are, within, or intrinsic to, the one God (or rather the one God is definitionally in ...
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Who or what does LDS worship that qualifies them as monotheist?
The difference is that henotheists believe that there are many gods active in the world, and they pick and choose to worship the one that they feel is the most beneficial to them, ("I acknowledge ...
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What makes Christian theism more likely to be true than polytheism?
As pointed out by Plato... if there are many gods and not one. How do you determine ethics? If the many different gods do not agree with each other (and in most polytheistic systems they have their ...
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Is 'pure' monotheism of more primitiveness and innateness than the Trinity is?
It is common sense to listen to what God has to reveal about himself rather than to concoct a theory out of one's own human knowledge and experience, or to follow what other human beings have dreamed ...
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What is the the difference between the monotheism of Trinitarian Christianity and Judaism?
Monotheism requires one God who, alone, is worshipped.
Judaism has but one God who, alone, is worshipped.
Christianity has but one God who, alone, is worshipped.
For ease of understanding, compare ...
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What is the Biblical basis for the "one" in "the Trinitarian God is one being in three persons"?
Trinitarian orthodoxy can be formulated on the basis of 3 sets of NT statements, each consisting of one primary and several supporting statements:
1. 'yet for us there is one God, the Father,' (1 Cor ...
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What is the Biblical basis for the "one" in "the Trinitarian God is one being in three persons"?
The difficulty with this article written by Jacob Allee for CARM (20 June 2011) is that not one single verse from the Bible is given. Instead, the author uses a philosophical approach to show how the ...
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Why does Christianity have Satan as well as God?
I'll keep my answer short and to the point.
So what I am trying to understand is, as Christianity is monotheistic, why Satan features in the bible at all. There must be a reason for it, and I've ...
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