The Baltimore Cathechism: The Unity and Trinity of God

Lesson 3 from the Baltimore Cathechism ^

[narses]

24. Is there only one God?

Yes, there is only one God.

I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me. (Isaiah 45:5)

25. How many Persons are there in God?

In God there are three Divine Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Going, therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28:19)

26. Is the Father God?

The Father is God and the first Person of the Blessed Trinity.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (I Corinthians 1:3)

27. Is the Son God?

The Son is God and the second Person of the Blessed Trinity.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)

28. Is the Holy Ghost God?

The Holy Ghost is God and the third Person of the Blessed Trinity.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? (I Corinthians 3:16)

29. What do we mean by the Blessed Trinity?

By the Blessed Trinity we mean, one and the same God in three Divine Persons.

Going, therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28:19)

30. Are the three Divine Persons really distinct from one another?

The three Divine Persons are really distinct from one another.

And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape, as a dove, upon him. And a voice came from heaven: "Thou art my beloved Son. In thee I am well pleased." (Luke 3:22)

31. Are the three Divine Persons perfectly equal to one another?

The three Divine Persons are perfectly equal to one another, because all are one and the same God.

I and the Father are one. (John 10:30)

32. How are the three Divine Persons, though really distinct from one another, one and the same God?

The three Divine Persons, though really distinct from one another, are one and the same God because all have one and the same Divine nature.

33. Can we fully understand how the three Divine Persons, though really distinct from one another, are one and the same God?

We cannot fully understand how the three Divine Persons, though really distinct from one another, are one and the same God because this is a supernatural mystery.

34. What is a supernatural mystery?

A supernatural mystery is a truth which we cannot fully understand, but which we firmly believe because we have God's word for it.

[narses]

You have your opinion, the Church has Hers. I side with the Church.

[Bobsvainbabblings]

Highpockets, you state; Catholics are not to blame for Islam.

A child raping illiterate scumbag who loved blood more than life is to blame for Islam.

Since Islam has absolutely nothing to do with g-ds love, but everything to with Satan; g-d does not control the day to day workings of Satan.

Allah is a pimp and Mohamed is his whore.

I blame Islam on the doctrine of the trinity and ask the question; "Is the doctrine from man or God"?

If you say it is from God, will you agree that He, being Omnipresent, can see the future so He would know how A child raping illiterate scum bag who loved blood more than life would use that doctrine to start Islam.

Since Islam has absolutely nothing to do with g-ds love, but everything to with Satan; g-d does not control the day to day workings of Satan.

I agree with all you have said and ask as I have in my previous posts; "Would your God foster a doctrine that He knew would produce all this evil?

Mine cannot and stay a Holy God. 

[Bobsvainbabblings]

“Can God see the future?”

Lets put that in context. I wrote;

"narsas, you didn't answer anything I asked.

 

Can God see the future?

 

If He can, would He tell someone 400 years after Jesus death and resurrection a doctrine He knew would turn more than a Billion souls today away from His Son and Him? "

 

This has been the main reason I feel this doctrine is not from God. I have stated numerous times that He can see the future, IE omniscient. He would see the evil that resulted from this doctrine.

 

A Holy God cannot do something that He knows would produce such evil and still claim to be Holy.

 

What religion do you believe in? One where God is not omnipresent?

 

I believe in Christianity. And yes, I do believe He is everywhere. IE Omnipresent. Why would you think I do not?

[ArrogantBustard]

I agree with dajjal that the use of "separate" to describe the Three Persons is (or at least borders upon) heresy. It would seem to me to imply that they are of different substance ... when in fact they are (and must be) consubstantial.

[Bobsvainbabblings]

If you say it is from God, will you agree that He, being Omnipresent, can see the future........

Omnipresent should be Omniscient