Belief in one God (monotheism ) is central to the Jewish faith. Judaism teaches that God is the only being who should be offered worship and praise. The Shema is taken from the books of Deuteronomy and Numbers, which can be found in the Torah .
Apostolic Pentecostals then split from the rest of the movement in 1916 over a disagreement about the nature of the Trinity. Without getting too complicated, Apostolic Pentecostals believe “Father,” ''Son” and “Holy Spirit” aren't three distinct persons, but three different titles for one person: Jesus.
Like other forms of evangelical Protestantism, Pentecostalism adheres to the inerrancy of the Bible and the necessity of 'accepting Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior'. It is distinguished by belief in the "baptism in the Holy Spirit" that enables a Christian to "live a Spirit-filled and empowered life".
the quality of being one; singleness. uniqueness. sameness; identity. unity of thought, feeling, belief, aim, etc.; agreement; concord. a strong feeling of closeness or affinity; union: He feels a oneness with God.
The New Testament contains no explicit trinitarian doctrine. However, many Christian theologians, apologists, and philosophers hold that the doctrine can be inferred from what the New Testament does teach about God.
The Holy Spirit enables Christian life by dwelling in the individual believers and enables them to live a righteous and faithful life. The Holy Spirit also acts as comforter or Paraclete, one who intercedes, or supports or acts as an advocate, particularly in times of trial.
The doctrine of the Trinity identifies Jesus as the incarnation of God, united in essence (consubstantial) but distinct in person with regard to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit (the first and third persons of the Trinity).
Therefore, the Assemblies of God disapproves of the doctrines of double predestination and the unconditional security of the believer, which holds that once saved it is impossible for a person to be lost.
God the Father is a title given to God in various religions, most prominently in Christianity. In mainstream trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the first person of the Trinity, followed by the second person, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and the third person, God the Holy Spirit.
Adherents in 2020
| Religion | Adherents | Percentage |
|---|
| Christianity | 2.382 billion | 31.1% |
| Islam | 1.907 billion | 24.9% |
| Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist | 1.193 billion | 15.6% |
| Hinduism | 1.161 billion | 15.2% |
The Trinity refers to the idea that God is one, but exists in three different Persons. God the Father - the creator and sustainer of all things. God the Son - the incarnation of God as a human being, Jesus Christ, on Earth. God theHoly Spirit - the power of God which is active in the world, drawing people towards God.
The traditional Christian doctrine of the Trinity is commonly expressed as the statement that the one God exists as or in three equally divine “persons”, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Every significant concept in this statement (God, exists, as or in, equally divine, person) has been variously understood.
The earliest Christians maintained that Jesus was a human being who was made God - a god - a divine being. Later they ended up saying that Jesus was born to the union of God and a mortal because the Holy Spirit came upon Mary and that's how she conceived Jesus, so Jesus literally had God as his father.
Trinity, in Christian doctrine, the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. The doctrine of the Trinity is considered to be one of the central Christian affirmations about God.
Triquetra interlaced with circle as Christian Trinitarian symbol (a "Trinity knot").
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. While some Christans accept these as a definitive list of specific attributes, others understand them merely as examples of the Holy Spirit's work through the faithful.
According to Witness beliefs, Jehovah is God's personal name, which appears 7,000 times in the Old Testament. Witnesses reject the Trinity doctrine of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost as an unscriptural idea.
These Church of God Christians adhere to basic Christian beliefs, but their Pentecostal interpretations make their denomination distinctive from mainstream Christianity.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catholic ecclesiology professes the Catholic Church to be the "sole Church of Christ" - i.e., the one true church defined as "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" in the Four Marks of the Church in the Nicene Creed.
Pentecostalism is a form of Christianity that emphasises the work of the Holy Spirit and the direct experience of the presence of God by the believer. Pentecostals believe that faith must be powerfully experiential, and not something found merely through ritual or thinking. Pentecostalism is energetic and dynamic.
Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Agnosticism is the doctrine or tenet of agnostics with regard to the existence of anything beyond and behind material phenomena or to knowledge of a First Cause or God, and is not a religion.
Jesus is declared to be the Son of God on two separate occasions by a voice speaking from Heaven. Jesus is explicitly and implicitly described as the Son of God by himself and by various individuals who appear in the New Testament. Jesus is called "son of God," while followers of Jesus are called, "sons of God".
The concept of ethical monotheism, which holds that morality stems from God alone and that its laws are unchanging, first occurred in Judaism, but is now a core tenet of most modern monotheistic religions, including Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and Baháʼí Faith.
The Spirit's arrival on Pentecost "marks the origin of the Christian church," said Spittler. Speaking in tongues is the "initial physical evidence" that a person has been baptized in the Holy Spirit, according to Pentecostal tradition.
