Frequently Asked Questions
The Mystery of the Trinity
- Please explain the Holy Trinity in plain English to me so I can explain to a friend of another faith. I have looked up the Trinity, and it is difficult to understand and explain.
- Was the Trinity ever contemplated, expected, imagined, prophesied, or talked about before the time of Christ?
- Can we understand the Trinity better since we have the writings of Aquinas to help us?
- Why didn't God reveal himself as a Trinity in the Old Testament?
- If Jesus was God, why did he pray?
- How can we use Scripture to show the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son?
- Is the Holy Spirit God?
- How are We to Understand the Word Persons?as Used in the Doctrine of the Trinity?
- Why do some Christians believe in a Trinity? I never read where Jesus or Paul spoke of such a doctrine.
- What are some Trinitarian Heresies and what does the Church actually teach?
- Why do Catholics believe that God is three Persons, called the Holy Trinity? How can God be three Persons and still be one God?
- Why do Catholics believe that Jesus Christ was God the Son--the Second Person of the Holy Trinity? Would it not be more reasonable to believe that He was a great and holy man... a religious leader of exceptional talent and dedication... a prophet?
- If the Son is "eternally begotten" of the Father, then how can he also be born of Mary?
- What does St. Thomas Aquinas teach about the Trinity? - Part 1: A Relationship of knowledge and love
- What does St. Thomas Aquinas teach about the Trinity? - Part 2: A Model for Relationships
- What does St. Thomas Aquinas teach about the Trinity? - Part 3: The Secret of Happiness
- What does St. Augustine teach about the Trinity?
- What does the Bible teach about the Trinity?
- Is there only one God?
- Is "God" plural?
- Is the Father God?
- Is Jesus God?
- Is the Holy Spirit God?
- Are the Father, Son and Holy Spirit three distinct persons?
- Is God's Name Jehovah?
- So God is three Divine Persons in One God. So what?
- How is the Trinity a union of love?
- Can you prove that God exists? - Introduction
- Can you prove that God exists? - Argument from Design
- Can you prove that God exists? - Argument from First Cause
- Can you prove that God exists? - Argument from Conscience
- Can you prove that God exists? - Argument from History
- Can you prove that God exists? - Argument from Pascal's Wager
- Can you prove that God exists? - Argument from Desire
- Why do we believe the Trinity when the Jews believed in only one God?
- Isn't it enough to just believe in one God?
- Do Christians worship three gods?
- What does the Theology of the Body have to do with the Trinity?
- I am a Muslim. I would like to know more about the Christian religion. I have heard about the concept of Trinity, but I don't really understand it.
- I am Muslim and I don't understand what the doctrine of the Trinity is all about, anyway? Why do Christians hold to it? Where does it come from? What does it teach? Why does not Islam teach it?
