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Trinitarian Christianity

Denominations on this continent are listed at /denominations. Catholic is /catholic.

Christianity

  • The Trinity

    Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

  • Does the Trinity Depend on 1 John 5:7?

    The sentence about the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost in the King James Version of 1 John 5:7 was added later. The Trinity does not rest on it.

  • The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

    Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

  • Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

    Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received the words “My LORD and my God,” which is why the church confesses him as God the Son.

  • Was Jesus a Real Person?

    Yes. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified under Pontius Pilate. Paul, the Gospels, Tacitus, and Josephus all place him there, while people who had known his family were still alive.

  • My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

    Jesus was praying Psalm 22. The cry is the opening of a psalm in which God hears the sufferer, and it belongs to the Son bearing sin, not to a split inside God or to a crucifixion that never happened.

  • The resurrection of Jesus

    The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.

  • Can you lose your salvation? What each church teaches about "once saved, always saved"

    Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

  • What do Protestants believe?

    Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

  • Catholic vs Protestant: what's the difference?

    Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

  • What do Catholics believe?

    Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

  • What Bible do Catholics use?

    The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

  • How was the Bible canon decided, and what is the Apocrypha?

    Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

  • Who started the Catholic Church?

    The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

  • What do Christians believe about Mary?

    The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

  • Is purgatory biblical?

    The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

  • What does Messiah mean?

    Messiah means anointed one. The King James Version uses that word in Daniel and “anointed” for the same idea elsewhere. Christians confess that Jesus is this Messiah and that he is God the Son.

  • Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians keep it?

    The Sabbath in Exodus is the seventh day, Saturday. The apostles also met on the first day of the week, and Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow. Christians are not bound to keep Saturday.

  • Why don’t Jews believe Jesus is the Messiah?

    Maimonides says the Messiah is a Davidic king who keeps the Torah, rebuilds the Temple, and gathers Israel, and that a king who was killed is not that redeemer. Christians say Jesus is that son of David, cut off and raised, and that he is God the Son.

  • What is the difference between Judaism and Christianity?

    Jews and Christians share the God of Israel, the Shema, and the Hebrew Scriptures. Christians confess that Jesus is the Messiah and is God the Son, and that his death and resurrection are salvation.

Catholic

  • Can you lose your salvation? What each church teaches about "once saved, always saved"

    Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

  • What do Protestants believe?

    Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

  • Catholic vs Protestant: what's the difference?

    Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

  • What do Catholics believe?

    Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

  • What Bible do Catholics use?

    The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

  • How was the Bible canon decided, and what is the Apocrypha?

    Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

  • Who started the Catholic Church?

    The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

  • What do Christians believe about Mary?

    The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

  • Is purgatory biblical?

    The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

Eastern Orthodox

  • Can you lose your salvation? What each church teaches about "once saved, always saved"

    Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

  • How was the Bible canon decided, and what is the Apocrypha?

    Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

  • Who started the Catholic Church?

    The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

  • What do Christians believe about Mary?

    The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

  • Is purgatory biblical?

    The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

Oriental Orthodox

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Anglican

  • Can you lose your salvation? What each church teaches about "once saved, always saved"

    Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

  • What do Protestants believe?

    Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

  • Catholic vs Protestant: what's the difference?

    Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

  • What do Catholics believe?

    Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

  • What Bible do Catholics use?

    The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

  • How was the Bible canon decided, and what is the Apocrypha?

    Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

  • Who started the Catholic Church?

    The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

  • What do Christians believe about Mary?

    The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

  • Is purgatory biblical?

    The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

Lutheran

  • Can you lose your salvation? What each church teaches about "once saved, always saved"

    Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

  • What do Protestants believe?

    Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

  • Catholic vs Protestant: what's the difference?

    Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

  • What do Catholics believe?

    Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

  • What Bible do Catholics use?

    The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

  • Who started the Catholic Church?

    The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

  • What do Christians believe about Mary?

    The Catechism teaches the Mother of God, perpetual virginity, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, and says devotion to Mary is not adoration. Augsburg and Article XXII refuse calling on the saints. An Orthodox clergy answer seeks her intercession and calls the Immaculate Conception foreign.

Reformed

  • Can you lose your salvation? What each church teaches about "once saved, always saved"

    Can a Christian lose salvation? Official teaching from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other churches, with the King James verses each side cites.

  • What do Protestants believe?

    Protestant churches confess the Trinity and treat Scripture as the rule of faith. They are not one denomination, and they are not outside Christianity.

  • Catholic vs Protestant: what's the difference?

    Catholics are Christians. The difference is authority, justification, the sacraments, Mary and the saints, purgatory, and the pope, in each church’s own words.

  • What do Catholics believe?

    Catholics confess the Nicene Creed, and the Catechism’s teaching on Scripture and Tradition, seven sacraments, the pope, Mary, and life after death.

  • What Bible do Catholics use?

    The Catechism’s canon has 46 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the books of Maccabees are in that Old Testament.

  • How was the Bible canon decided, and what is the Apocrypha?

    Trent receives the longer Old Testament and anathematizes refusal. Westminster says the books called Apocrypha are no part of the canon. The Catechism says the Church discerned the list by Tradition.

  • Who started the Catholic Church?

    The Catechism says Jesus inaugurated the Church and made Peter its rock. Westminster says Christ is the only head and the pope cannot be head. The fetched texts do not say Constantine founded it.

  • Is purgatory biblical?

    The Catechism teaches a purification after death for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified. Westminster says Scripture acknowledges no third place for souls. Article XXII rejects the Romish doctrine of purgatory. An Orthodox clergy answer rejects purgatory and still prays for the dead.

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Methodist

Pentecostal

Other religions and beliefs

Non-Trinitarian religions are listed at /religions. Sunni Islam and Shia Islam are branches under Islam. Beliefs, including atheism, are at /beliefs.

Islam

  • Who was Muhammad?

    Muhammad is the man Muslims call the Messenger of God and the seal of the prophets. He was born in Mecca, moved to Medina in 622, and died there on 8 June 632.

  • How many wives did Muhammad have?

    The Qur’an permits Muhammad more wives than the four it allows other men. Muslim historians name Khadijah first, and Sunni hadith name Aisha among those who followed.

  • How Old Was Aisha When She Married Muhammad?

    In Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, Aisha says she was married at six and that the marriage was consummated at nine. Those reports also say she remained with him nine years, until his death at sixty-three.

  • What happened at the Battle of Badr?

    In 624 Muhammad’s people met a Meccan force at Badr. The Qur’an calls it a victory given while they were few, and it names the day the two armies met.

  • What happened to the Banu Qurayza?

    After the Battle of the Trench, Muhammad’s forces besieged the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. The Qur’an says a party was killed and a party taken captive. A Sunni hadith says Sa‘d judged that the warriors be killed and the women and children taken prisoner.

  • How did Muhammad die?

    Muslim sources say Muhammad died in Medina in 632, at sixty-three, and that in his last illness he still felt the poison from a sheep he had eaten at Khaybar.

  • What are hadith and sira?

    A hadith is a report of what Muhammad said or did. The sira is the biographical tradition of his life. Sunni and Shia Muslims do not treat the same hadith books as their canon.

  • Which Muslims accept which hadith?

    Muslims share the Qur’an. Sunni Muslims add the Six Books. Shia Muslims add the Four Books. A reader who accepts only the Qur’an does not treat hadith as scripture. The sira is history, not a canon.

  • What do Christians believe about Muhammad?

    Christians do not receive Muhammad as a prophet. They confess that Jesus is God, that he was crucified and raised, and that this gospel was already public before Muhammad was born.

  • What is the history of Islam?

    Islam’s first community runs from Muhammad’s preaching in Mecca to his death in Medina in 632. Sunni and Shia Muslims then divide on who should lead, and the Ottoman claim to the caliphate ends on 3 March 1924.

  • When was Islam founded?

    Muslims date Muhammad’s public mission from about 610 and date the community’s calendar from the Hijra to Medina in 622. He died in 632. The Qur’an also calls Abraham a Muslim, meaning one who submits.

  • What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?

    Sunni and Shia Muslims share the Qur’an and divide on who should have led after Muhammad. Sunnis count the first four caliphs. Shia Muslims hold that leadership belonged to Ali and his descendants.

  • What is a caliphate?

    A caliph is a successor in leadership of the Muslim community after Muhammad. Sunni Muslims count Abu Bakr first. Shia Muslims hold that leadership belonged to Ali. The Ottoman claim was abolished on 3 March 1924.

  • What do Sunni Muslims believe?

    Sunni Muslims are the majority of Muslims. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, count the first four caliphs, and treat Bukhari and Muslim as the most authoritative hadith.

  • What do Shia Muslims believe?

    Shia Muslims are the smaller branch of Islam. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, and they hold that leadership after him belonged to Ali and his descendants.

  • The Islamic Dilemma: Does the Qur'an Confirm the Bible It Contradicts?

    What is the Islamic dilemma? The Qur'an calls the Torah and Gospel God's word and tells Christians to judge by them, yet they contradict Islam. The verses, hadith and answers.

  • Jesus in the Qur'an and the Gospels

    The Qur’an calls Jesus the Messiah, born of Mary, and says he was not crucified; the Gospels tell that death, his burial, and his resurrection.

  • What Does the Qur'an Say About the Bible?

    The Qur'an calls the Torah and the Gospel guidance, tells the People of the Scripture to judge by them, and says it confirms what was already with them.

  • Has the Bible Been Changed? The Muslim Corruption Claim

    The Qur'an accuses some People of the Scripture of distorting words and of writing scripture with their own hands. It also speaks of the Torah and the Gospel as books still in their possession.

  • What Is the Injil?

    Muslims hear the Injil as a book God gave to Jesus. The New Testament uses 'gospel' for the news about Christ, and the Qur'an tells the People of the Gospel to judge by what they have.

  • Did Paul Invent Christianity?

    Muslims often say Paul turned the prophet Jesus into a divine saviour. The creed he says he received, and the apostles he names, are the test of that claim.

  • Did Jesus Die on the Cross?

    The Qur'an is widely read as saying Jesus was not crucified. The Gospels, Paul, and two Roman-era historians say he was.

  • Was Jesus a Muslim?

    No. Jesus was a Jew who worshipped Israel’s God, prayed to the Father, and was crucified. The Qur’an calls his disciples muslims in the sense of people who submit to God, which is not the religion of Muhammad.

  • Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

    Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received the words “My LORD and my God,” which is why the church confesses him as God the Son.

  • Was Jesus a Real Person?

    Yes. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified under Pontius Pilate. Paul, the Gospels, Tacitus, and Josephus all place him there, while people who had known his family were still alive.

  • My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

    Jesus was praying Psalm 22. The cry is the opening of a psalm in which God hears the sufferer, and it belongs to the Son bearing sin, not to a split inside God or to a crucifixion that never happened.

  • Is Muhammad the Prophet of Deuteronomy 18?

    Qur'an 7:157 says the unlettered prophet is written in the Torah and the Gospel. Deuteronomy 18 is the passage most often offered.

  • Is Muhammad the Paraclete or Ahmad?

    Some Muslims hear Muhammad in Jesus' promise of the Comforter, and in the name Ahmad in Qur'an 61:6. John 14–16 says who that person is.

  • Does Jesus Do What Only God Does?

    The Qur'an says God gives life to the dead, is the First and the Last, and comes with the angels. The Gospel says Jesus does those things.

  • If Jesus Is God, Why Did He Pray?

    Jesus prayed, said the Father is greater, and said he did not know the hour. The same Gospel says the Word was God and was made flesh.

  • Can God Have a Son?

    The Qur'an condemns the claim that God has taken a son, especially a son by a consort. Christians deny that picture and still confess the eternal Son.

  • Who Wrote the Qur'an? How It Was Compiled

    Muslims confess that God sent down the Qur'an and guards it. Sahih al-Bukhari also describes a collection after Muhammad's death and a standard copy under Uthman.

  • Tawhid and Christian monotheism

    Muslims and Christians both say God is one. The argument is whether Father, Son, and Spirit are partners beside God or the one God.

  • Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

    Is Allah the same God? Muslims and Christians both confess one Creator, the God of Abraham. They do not confess the same account of who that God is: Christians say Jesus is God, and the Qur'an denies it.

  • The Trinity

    Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

  • Does the Trinity Depend on 1 John 5:7?

    The sentence about the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost in the King James Version of 1 John 5:7 was added later. The Trinity does not rest on it.

  • The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

    Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

  • The resurrection of Jesus

    The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.

  • What does Messiah mean?

    Messiah means anointed one. The King James Version uses that word in Daniel and “anointed” for the same idea elsewhere. Christians confess that Jesus is this Messiah and that he is God the Son.

Jehovah's Witnesses

  • John 1 and the Word

    Why the New World Translation reads John 1:1 as “a god,” what the Study Edition’s note says about a qualitative theos, and why Nicene Christians still say the Word was God.

  • Is Jesus the Creator or a Creature?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses say a literal reading of Colossians 1:16 would make Jesus the Creator, so the New World Translation adds “other.” John 1:3 and Hebrews 1:10–12 do not leave him outside creation as a creature.

  • Is Jesus Michael the Archangel?

    Insight on the Scriptures identifies Michael the archangel with Jesus. Hebrews 1 sets the Son over every angel and has God command the angels to bow to him.

  • Should Jesus Be Worshipped, or Only Given Obeisance?

    The New World Translation uses “worship” for Jehovah and “do obeisance” for Jesus, though its own interlinear shows one Greek verb. Hebrews 1:6, Matthew 28, and Revelation 5 give the Son the honor angels refuse.

  • What Does “Firstborn of All Creation” Mean?

    The New World Translation’s study note says Colossians 1:15 means Jesus is the first creature Jehovah made. In Scripture “firstborn” is also the title of the heir who ranks first, and the next verse says all things were created in him.

  • Who Is the Alpha and the Omega?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses reserve “the Alpha and the Omega” for Jehovah. In the New World Translation the one who became dead says he is the First and the Last, and Revelation 22:13 joins that title to the Alpha and the Omega.

  • Is the Holy Spirit a Person or an Impersonal Force?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that the holy spirit is God’s active force, not a person. The New World Translation still has the Spirit speaking, being lied to, and being grieved, and it calls the lie a lie to God.

  • Was Jesus Raised Bodily?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that the risen Jesus is a spirit creature who materialized bodies of flesh. In the New World Translation he says a spirit does not have flesh and bones, and John says the body they would tear down is the body he would raise.

  • Does “Jehovah” Belong in the New Testament?

    The New World Translation uses the name Jehovah 237 times in the New Testament. The Study Edition’s note on Acts 7:60 says the Greek manuscripts read “Lord.”

  • How Reliable Is the New World Translation?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses present the New World Translation as a clear, faithful Bible. Its own study notes show where the English was chosen to fit the Society’s teaching.

  • Does the Trinity Depend on 1 John 5:7?

    The sentence about the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost in the King James Version of 1 John 5:7 was added later. The Trinity does not rest on it.

  • Who Is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses identify the faithful and discreet slave with the Governing Body. Matthew 24 and Luke 12 are the texts that have to carry that identification.

  • The Watch Tower and Scripture

    Jehovah’s Witnesses hold the Bible as God’s word and the Watch Tower publications as the channel that explains it.

  • Why Don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses Take Blood?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse whole-blood transfusions because they read Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17, and Acts 15:29 as forbidding blood. On 18 September 2026 their Governing Body said the four main components are now a personal decision.

  • Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Celebrate Birthdays and Christmas?

    No. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate birthdays or Christmas. They say birthday parties have pagan roots and that the only birthday feasts in the Bible end in death, and they keep the Memorial of Jesus’ death instead.

  • The Trinity

    Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

  • The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

    Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

  • Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

    Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received the words “My LORD and my God,” which is why the church confesses him as God the Son.

Latter-day Saints

  • Do Mormons Believe in the Trinity?

    No. Latter-day Saints teach that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three separate beings, one in purpose. That is not the Nicene confession of one God in three persons.

  • Are Mormons Christians?

    Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ and use his name. Their teaching of God, of Jesus, and of salvation is not the Nicene confession, so they are not a denomination inside Trinitarian Christianity.

  • Joseph Smith and revelation

    Latter-day Saints confess that God called Joseph Smith, that the apostolic church had been lost, and that scripture was restored through him.

  • The Book of Mormon

    The Book of Mormon presents itself as an ancient record, translated by Joseph Smith, written to show that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.

  • The Trinity

    Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.

  • The Deity of Christ: Is Jesus God?

    Yes. Christians confess that Jesus is truly God and truly human. The passages are in Is Jesus God?; this page maps how Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and atheists hear that confession.

  • Is Jesus God? Where Jesus Claimed to Be God

    Yes. Jesus is truly God and truly human. He forgave sins, applied God’s name and honor to himself, and received the words “My LORD and my God,” which is why the church confesses him as God the Son.

Judaism

  • What do Jews believe?

    Jews confess the God of Israel, one and not a body, the Torah from heaven, a Messiah from the house of David who is still to finish his work, and the revival of the dead. That is Maimonides’ confession, read beside the Shema.

  • Why don’t Jews believe Jesus is the Messiah?

    Maimonides says the Messiah is a Davidic king who keeps the Torah, rebuilds the Temple, and gathers Israel, and that a king who was killed is not that redeemer. Christians say Jesus is that son of David, cut off and raised, and that he is God the Son.

  • What does Messiah mean?

    Messiah means anointed one. The King James Version uses that word in Daniel and “anointed” for the same idea elsewhere. Christians confess that Jesus is this Messiah and that he is God the Son.

  • What is the difference between Judaism and Christianity?

    Jews and Christians share the God of Israel, the Shema, and the Hebrew Scriptures. Christians confess that Jesus is the Messiah and is God the Son, and that his death and resurrection are salvation.

  • Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians keep it?

    The Sabbath in Exodus is the seventh day, Saturday. The apostles also met on the first day of the week, and Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow. Christians are not bound to keep Saturday.

Christian Science

  • What is Christian Science? Is it Christian?

    Christian Science, founded in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, calls itself a Bible-based Christian religion. Its tenets and its own statement that it does not equate Jesus with God are not the Nicene confession.

Unitarian Universalism

  • What do Unitarians believe?

    The Unitarian Universalist Association’s bylaws center Love and six values, and they forbid a required creed. That covenant does not confess the Trinity or that Jesus is God.

Sunni Islam

  • What do Sunni Muslims believe?

    Sunni Muslims are the majority of Muslims. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, count the first four caliphs, and treat Bukhari and Muslim as the most authoritative hadith.

Shia Islam

  • What do Shia Muslims believe?

    Shia Muslims are the smaller branch of Islam. They confess one God and Muhammad as his messenger, and they hold that leadership after him belonged to Ali and his descendants.

Atheism

  • What do atheists believe?

    Atheist organizations say atheism is the lack of belief in gods. Some atheists also claim that no God exists. Those are different positions.

  • What do atheists argue against God?

    Atheist writers argue from a lack of good reasons to believe, and from suffering. This page is that case in their words, then the Christian claim.

Agnosticism

  • What is agnosticism?

    Agnosticism is about what a person claims to know. Huxley coined the word. It covers weak and strong forms, and both agnostic theists and agnostic atheists.

  • What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic?

    Atheism is about belief. Agnosticism is about knowledge. A person can be an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist. Christians say God has made himself known.

God

  • Does God exist?

    Christians say everything that exists depends on God, who is not one more object inside the world, and they point to what has been made and to Jesus.

  • The problem of evil

    Scripture records the protest against suffering. Christians answer from the cross and the resurrection, and they do not itemize a reason for each horror.

Other

  • How to use this wiki

    Each article states a claim, quotes the texts it uses, and lists its sources. A short page is not a finished library.

  • Charity in disagreement

    Peter says to give a reason for the Christian hope with gentleness and respect, without pretending a real disagreement is small.

  • What do Seventh-day Adventists believe?

    Seventh-day Adventists confess one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and Jesus as truly God and truly man. They also teach a binding Saturday Sabbath, an investigative judgment from 1844, unconscious death, and Ellen G. White’s prophetic gift.

  • Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians keep it?

    The Sabbath in Exodus is the seventh day, Saturday. The apostles also met on the first day of the week, and Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow. Christians are not bound to keep Saturday.