Do Protestants believe in the trinity?

Answer 1

They know there is a pope, believe in him no. There is only one Holy Father and he is Jesus. Do you think The pope would die for our sins. When jesus walked among the people he did not use a pope mobile. And the protestant's bible have pictures of God not the pope!

Answer 2

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him, shall not parish, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16

That verse pretty much sums up the Protestant belief. But there's still a bit more to it. They believe that Jesus (the Son of God) was perfect and died on the cross to save them from their sins. The believe that if you admit that you've sinned and you believe this, then you will become a Christian.

They also reject the notion that divine authority is channeled through one particular human institution or person such as the Roman Catholic pope. Protestants look elsewhere for the authority of their faith. Most of them stress The Bible - the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament - as the source and the norm of their teaching

Answer 3

Not all. According to the New Bible Dictionary: "The term 'Trinity' is not itself found in the Bible. It was first used by Tertullian at the close of the 2nd century, but received wide currency [common use in intellectual discussion] and formal elucidation [clarification] only in the 4th and 5 centuries" (1996, "Trinity").

It further explains that "the formal doctrine of the Trinity was the result of several inadequate attempts to explain who and what the Christian God is...To deal with these problems the Church Fathers met in [A.D.] 325 at the Council of Nicaea to set out an orthodox biblical definition concerning the divine identity." However, it would not be until 381 A.D. at the Council of Constantinople that the divinity of the Spirit was affirmed (ibid.).

This is a manmade concept and not found anywhere in the Bible. So many have made surprising admissions about the Trinity - "an absolute mystery," "mysterious in its origin and its content," "impossible for Christians actually to understand," " unintelligible," "misunderstood," "presents strange paradoxes" and "widely disputed." One would have to question then why/how a doctrine on which billions of people base their faith and salvation is accepted. The Apostle Paul was inspired to tell us in 1 Corinthians 14:33 that "God is not the author of confusion" yet this doctrine of men is total confusion.

Answer 4

Believe it or not, Protestants believe in the same God as Catholics! In fact, the beliefs of both branches of the Christian church are remarkable similar. Both Protestants and Catholics believe in the Trinitarian God of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They both accept Jesus as Lord, who died and rose again for us, opening the way to a relationship with God through the Holy Spirit, in this world and the next. They both accept the Biblle as the inspired Word of God, although Protestants tend to include some of the books of the Catholic Bible (eg Tobit, bel and the dragon and several others) as of secondary importance and inluded in a special section between the two testaments. However, the Protestant New Testament is identical to the Catholic New Testament - in that the Gospel stories of Christ are acccepted by both branches of the Church. The main differences between Roman Catholics and most of the Protestant Churches is that Protestants tend to rely on Biblical scripture more rather than on Church dogma as their source of belief. This means that Protestant Churches, on the whole, will not accept doctrines uch as purgatory, papal infallibility, transubstantiation, praying to saints and so on as the protestant Churches regard these as inventions of man as they are not scriptural and played no part in the early Christian Church. However, most Protestants (and Catholics) would regard the differences between their churches as unimportant, as the shared beliefs as outlined in the second paragraph above are far more fundamental and vital to the Christian religion. So never confuse Protestant churches with sects such as Jehovah's Witnesses (who do not accept Jesus as Lord and part of a Trinitarian God) or Mormons (whose beliefs are even more removed from orthodox churches - such as ther belief that humans can one day themselves become 'God'). Also do not comfuse Protestants wiith moslems who believe in 'Allah' as God, or Hindus, who have several gods. Protestant Churches such as Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, Anglicans and so on all believe in the same God as Roman Catholics - in the same Trinitarian God, but may vary in less important aspects of belief.

Answer 5

Of course they do. As Christians, they believe in God andJesus. Although there are serious differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics, the main points of difference are not about religious beliefs. It's almost all about the organisation of the church and the rules relating to the church rather than religious doctrine.

Answer 6

Yes, Protestans believe in God who is Father Creator, Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit; exactly the same as Catholics do. However, they differ theologically from Catholics in other matters.

Answer 7

Yes: all Christians believe in the Trinity of: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.