Timeline for Is Christianity Avodah Zara?
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| Apr 1 at 14:52 | comment | added | Brian | Generally speaking all modern forms of Xtians believe in the trinity. I am sure there are random sects that do not, but generally you can be 100% confident that the vast majority do. Also all of them do not believe in the immutability of the Torah, they don't even believe in the torah fully (ie only a translated version of the Torah Ksav). | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 8:33 | comment | added | Elchanan Campan | There is no such thing as a divine messiah, and neither was this a belief in the 1st century, what nonsense. | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 14:52 | comment | added | DataGirl | @Emetv'Shalom, I'm not sure. I think they can act in our world, but when I'm praying to them, I think of it as if they're going to ask G-d on my behalf. What do you think/believe? | |
| Jul 2, 2015 at 0:44 | comment | added | Emet v'Shalom | @Datagirl: Thanks. Do you believe that dead people can intervene in our world or that they ask God to help you? I've always wondered if deceased holy people can intervene in our world. | |
| Jul 1, 2015 at 16:46 | comment | added | DataGirl | @Emetv'Shalom, sorry, I haven't been on the site for awhile, but I mean praying to them. I direct my prayers to them and not G-d. Most of the time, I direct my prayers to G-d, in Jesus's name, but there have been occasions when I have asked for the Virgin Mary to intervene. Does that answer your question? | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 2:51 | comment | added | Emet v'Shalom | @Data Girl: What do you mean by praying to them? What do you expect to happen? | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 17:59 | comment | added | Judah Gabriel Himango | Christian here. To answer your last question, virtually all Christians believe in the divinity of the Messiah, which necessitates a theology like the trinity or something like it. This is because the gospels and Paul's letters in the New Testament affirm the elevated status of Messiah. Interestingly, the Orthodox Jewish scholar and talmudist, Daniel Boyarin, writes in his book, the Jewish Gospels, that the idea of a divine messiah was not foreign to 1st century Judaisms. thejc.com/judaism/judaism-features/106271/… | |
| Sep 23, 2013 at 9:07 | comment | added | user4951 | I also prayed to God. Not sure what Jesus is. Looks like Jesus is God's friend and a pretty nice and popular rabbi. He could be God himself, but I don't know. Maybe Jesus is like the being that talk face to face with Moses. That being can be either God, or a God's hologram so He can have some form for Moses to look at. The Exodus simply says that Moses talk face to face with God. It's like listening to a voice of your dad on the phone. It's not really your dad's voice technically. The phone just recreated the voice. But hei... | |
| Mar 27, 2013 at 16:38 | comment | added | DataGirl | I am a non-practicing Catholic and in general, Catholics believe in the Trinity. I have attended services in Methodist, Lutheran and Disciples of Christ and I, personally, haven't heard the Trinity mentioned. I cannot speak for my Christian brethen, but - personally - I don't believe it in. There is one G-d and that's it. I believe that Jesus is His son and the Holy Spirit works for Him, but neither of them are G-d. Now, I usually pray only to G-d, but in times I've trouble, I've been known to pray to Jesus, the Virgin Mary and a dead uncle. But, I don't worship them, like I worship G-d. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 18:38 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Unitarians are another Christian sect which does not believe in the trinity. Of course non-trinitarian does not necessarily imply not A"Z. Mormon beliefs are non-trinitarian from the point of view of Nicene Christianity, but in ways that appear to make it more clearly A"Z rather than less. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 11:11 | comment | added | Shemmy | I thought that the Meiri's ruling that Christians don't really take it seriously only applied to lay-people. Priests (ie, experts in their religion) do take it very seriously and would, therefore, come under the geder of avdei avodah zara. | |
| S Jun 24, 2012 at 2:36 | history | suggested | TRiG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 5, 2011 at 21:11 | comment | added | TRiG | Almost all branches of Christianity believe in the Trinity. (My religious background is one of the few branches that doesn't, and is often regarded as non-Christian by others.) Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Mormons, Arians, and some Gnostics reject the Trinity. The vast majority of Christians accept it (in theory, anyway: I've spoken to a few Catholics who don't really have any idea what the Trinity even is). | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 19:55 | history | edited | Isaac Moses♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 18, 2010 at 18:01 | history | answered | Jeremy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |