In what way has belief in the Trinity decreased?
score:3
A poll conducted in 2014 by LifeWay Research for Ligonier Ministries might help answer this question. You can read the article here, but according to them...
Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.
...nearly a quarter (22%) said God the Father is more divine than Jesus, and 9 percent weren’t sure. Further, 16 percent say Jesus was the first creature created by God, while 11 percent were unsure.
More than half (51%) said the Holy Spirit is a force, not a personal being. Seven percent weren’t sure, while only 42 percent affirmed that the Spirit is a person.
These poll results are specifically for evangelicals and American Christians, and it seems to be the only poll of its kind. I've personally heard several heretical analogies used to explain the trinity, such as comparing it to H2O (modalism) or an egg (tritheism). This article does a good job of explaining all the bad analogies that get passed around, by possibly much more than 50% of trinitarians. The article concludes with...
One more thing. I often tell my students that if they say, “I get it!” or “Now I understand!” that they are more than likely celebrating the fact that they are a heretic! When you understand the biblical principles and let the tensions remain without rebuttal, then you are orthodox. When you solve the tension, you have most certainly entered into one of the errors that we seek to avoid.
So 98% of Christains belong to a trinitarian denomination, and if any of them think they understand the trinity, they're a heretic.
Upvote:1
I don't have figures for how many Christians personally subscribe to the Trinity, but far more than half the Christians in the world adhere to denominations that do subscribe to the Trinity. More than half the Christians in the world are Catholic, but the vast majority of non-Catholics are also Trinitarian.
The fraction of Christians who belong to non-Trinitarian groups is around 2%.
More post
- 📝 Where are the LDS revelations published?
- 📝 In the following Scriptures joy fills Heaven when a sinner repents, conversely is there great sorrow when an unsaved rejects salvation?
- 📝 Where did the idea of being "called to preach" come from?
- 📝 God won't give us more than we can handle?
- 📝 How does 1 John 2:19 fit with the teaching that Christians can lose their salvation
- 📝 At what age should my daughters start wearing a head covering when they pray?
- 📝 Have the dietary prohibitions of Acts 15:20 been applied to Christians today?
- 📝 Where did substance language enter the Trinity debate?
- 📝 Do Protestants believe Jesus and Satan are brothers?
- 📝 What liturgical languages were used in the worldwide church/broad christiandom around 500 AD?
- 📝 When was the New Testament divided into sentences and paragraphs?
- 📝 How can I best communicate I'm a lutheran evangelic as per the German definition?
- 📝 What is the Scriptural basis for Catholics praying to Mary and the various saints?
- 📝 What is Holy Water in Catholicism?
- 📝 Where did the translators of the New World translation study the Biblical languages?
- 📝 How is "binding and loosing" extrapolated to all clergy?
- 📝 Under divine simplicity, how can God do anything?
- 📝 What answer did Arius and Eusebius have to Melchisedec being a representative likeness having ‘no beginning of days’ (Hebrews 7:3)?
- 📝 Do Evangelicals see Catholics as pagans?
- 📝 Why did God hide away the fact that He had the Son in the Old Testament times?
- 📝 Why do OEC discount the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis?
- 📝 Why wasn't the Logos included in the Nicene Creed?
- 📝 Was God living in darkness before the creation of light?
- 📝 Does the Bible support slavery and (white) superiority in the context of American slavery?
- 📝 Why Does Passover "Skip" Over Easter?
- 📝 Do Calvinists Disbelieve the Doctrine of Eternal Generation as a 'Begetting'?
- 📝 Do any Christianity denominations really offer something for addiction problems specifically?
- 📝 Why are the Trappist monks vegetarians?
- 📝 Can a Catholic married to an Orthodox in an Orthodox church re-celebrate her wedding in a Catholic church?
- 📝 How does Catholic Church explain John 1:31?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 In what way has belief in the Trinity decreased?
- 📝 What has the LDS Church (Mormons) historically taught about the Curse of Cain and dark skin?
- 📝 What is the Protestant belief known as "faith alone"?
- 📝 What is the Biblical basis for the doctrine of the Trinity consisting of different persons?
- 📝 What is the basis of the LDS (Mormon) belief that the Apostle John never died?
- 📝 What is the Biblical basis for the belief that Jesus is Michael?
- 📝 What is the source of the belief that the deceased become angels?
- 📝 What is the basis for the belief that the wise men did not arrive in Bethlehem until several months after the birth of Jesus?
- 📝 What is the basis for the belief by some groups that a Christian can live a sinless life?
- 📝 What is the origin of the belief that Satan tortures the unsaved in Hell?
- 📝 What person(s) of the Trinity were the people of the Old Testament interacting with?
- 📝 What is the Biblical basis for the belief that a living person may visit heaven or hell?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for the belief that Satan was the serpent in the Garden of Eden?
- 📝 What are the differences in belief regarding Hesychasm between the Chalcedonian (Eastern) and Non-Chalcedonian (Oriental) Orthodox Churches?
- 📝 What is the theological background to the belief that taxation is theft?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for the belief that Jesus' death made satisfaction for individual sins?
- 📝 Does the Catholic Church teach that it has the authority to change what is morally right and wrong?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for the belief that God likes or feels affection toward us?
- 📝 What is the source of the quote attributed to Origen, that "the soul has neither beginning nor end"?
- 📝 Has T. D. Jakes clarified what he believes about the Trinity?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for the belief held by Jehovah's Witnesses that Jehovah and Jesus Christ are separate entities?
- 📝 What is the basis for the LDS belief that religious truth is confirmed by what you feel?
- 📝 What is the basis for the belief that Christianity and Islam worship different gods?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for the Athanasian Creed's statement that believing in the Trinity is necessary for salvation?
- 📝 What has the Bible said about appropriate Sabbath-day worship?
- 📝 What is the basis for the belief among some LDS/Mormons that children in their pre-mortal existence choose who their parents will be?
- 📝 What is the difference between belief and faith, from a Protestant perspective?
- 📝 What is the Catholic explanation as to why God has revealed himself in "male" terms?
- 📝 What is the basis for the Swedenborgian view that the most common concept of God in Christianity (the Trinity) is a belief in three gods?
- 📝 What is the name of the belief that each of us is guilty for the sins of our neighbors?