Catholicism
The Holy Trinity The Holy Trinity is on God in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Trinity is the central mystery of the Catholic faith. This belief in the Holy Trinity is what distinguishes Christians from all other monotheistic religions. Other monotheistic religions might think that Catholicism is a polytheistic religion because Catholics worship three beings. However, this is not the case. Those three beings come together to form one God. The Catholic belief in one God comes from its Jewish ancestry. The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are inseparable and they all share in the same work. The central teaching that the Holy Trinity teaches us is that God is not solitary and that God exists as a communion of persons who perfectly communicate with one another and perfectly support one another. God the Father God is the father almighty. Jesus is God the Father's divine son, who existed with the Father for all of eternity. When Catholics call God the "Father", they are addressing him as a loving parent who transcends human distinctions. God is the most powerful thing in the universe. No creature, no power, and no force is more powerful than God. God is an awesome, powerful force worthy of worship and praise. Christians acknowledge God as the creator - the father of everything that is. God created all of us and everything out of nothing. God created everything because he wished to share his love and goodness with every creature that will ever walk this earth. God created humans with the freedom to choose what they want to do. Catholics can choose to be loving and show goodness, or they can choose to hate and preform evil works. Catholics know that they were created because of God's love for them and to share in God's truth, beauty, and goodness. God is truth and love. God said, "I am who I am." This means that God alone is, the perfection of all that is and needs nothing else to be. God keeps the entire universe in existence at every moment. God loves people more than anyone could possiblly imagine. There are five proofs for the existance of God written by St. Thomas Aquinas. The first proof is that life is in motion. Something or someone had to have "got the ball rolling." This "someone" is God. The second proof of existance is a phrase: An egg cannot cause itself to become and egg. This means that someone had to create the egg. That someone is God. The third proof of existance is for the possibility of everthing else to exist, there had to be something in existance first. The something that was in existance first is God. The fourth proof is that there is something Catholics call true and best against which they measure everything else that is true and good. God is what everyone should base their life off. And, finally, the fifth proof of existance is that nature is not just a happy accident. When God created us, he meant it. He wanted us to live in this kingdom. |