The Trinity

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Being one of the most prominent and world dominating religions, Christianity has succeeded in influencing the life of people, groups and parties in an extraordinary way with its main principal beliefs. Over many years, Christianity has organised its set of beliefs into a systematic theology, drawing from the scared writings and traditions and these are held by Christian variants. The major Christian beliefs have been set out in an easily understandable manor; The Divinity and Humanity of Jesus, The Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Chris, The Nature of God and the Trinity, Revelation and Salvation.

The Divinity and Humanity of Jesus or Christ’s divinity is shown over and over again in the New Testament. Questions arose over time asking …show more content…

The Trinity has been described to three key functions; Creating, Sanctifying and Redeeming. The New Testament never explicitly refers to the Trinity , but contains references to Economic Trinity “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19) In the earlier christian practise it indicates the liturgical and baptismal words ‘In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’ as a blessed sacred text continued throughout the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox and …show more content…

Salvation in Christianity can mean three different things; being resurrected to an afterlife, being healed through the power of the divine and untied with God or deliverance from sin. Christian understanding is that the ‘deliverance from sin’ is the first of these forms of salvation. This offers humans the chance to apologise and therefore be saved from the punishment of their sins. With the Christian confidence in resurrection ‘being resurrected to an afterlife’ is a central belief held by most adherents, with the idea of being forgiven only to be reborn and live again in the ‘Kingdom of God’. “They have now become a child of God” (John 3:3-7) Christian variants would have been influenced by general idea of all three salvation properties, making them prepare and change the way of life to suit the needs of their God so they could repent from their sins and resurrect to live and become a child of God in

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