Willravel

Generally there are considered to be 3 major monotheistic religions, and they all happen to have the same Abrahamic roots: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. While each of them is different, one common string is that they are monotheistic; they only believe in one god or deity. That one single deity for Christians? The father, the son, and the holy spirit.

Over the years I've discussed this using terms like "duplicate", "separate", and "definition" but I always seem to get the same answer at the end: we're not supposed to understand. Boy is that ever a cop-out!

I've read that while god is one entity, it is a mutual dwelling of three persons or entities, but all that tells me is that god is either like the Borg of Star Trek—one mind in separate bodies—, or that god is capable of separating himself and then bring himself back together. With each of those, however, one still must admit that while Jesus was on Earth in the bible, god was at least 2 separate beings, which would mean that for thirty some-odd years Christianity was polytheistic.

This is something unique to Christianity in the Judaism and Islam do not have demigods or separate incarnations of god. Judaism has Moses, but he was a prophet, not god. Likewise Islam had Muhammed but he also was a prophet, not god.

Is there a rationalization in this that I'm missing? I'd love to hear different perspectives on this.