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Trinitarian Christianity
Denominations on this continent are listed at /denominations. Catholic is /catholic.
Christianity
- The Trinity
The Christian confession that the one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, stated without pretending it is a puzzle to win.
- The deity of Christ
Why Christians confess Jesus as truly God and truly human, and how that confession is heard in different conversations.
- The resurrection of Jesus
The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.
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Other religions and beliefs
Non-Trinitarian religions are listed at /religions. Beliefs, including atheism, are at /beliefs.
Islam
- Jesus in the Qur'an and the Gospels
What the Qur’an honors in Jesus, and where the Gospels tell a different story about the cross and his identity.
- Does the Qur'an Confirm the Bible Christians Read Today?
The Qur'an speaks of the Torah and the Gospel as books already in people's hands. This page asks whether that is the Bible Christians still read.
- Was the Bible Corrupted? The Qur'an and Early Muslims on Tahrif
Muslims often say the Bible was corrupted. The Qur'an's own verses, and early reports, describe more than one kind of fault.
- 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 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.
- 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 was greater, and said he did not know the hour. Christians still confess that he is God. This page says why those sentences sit in one Gospel.
- 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.
- How Was the Qur'an Compiled and Preserved?
Muslims confess that God guards the Qur'an. The hadith also describe a collection after Muhammad's death, a standard copy under Uthman, and seven ways of reciting.
- Tawhid and Christian monotheism
Muslims and Christians both say God is one. This page is about what each side thinks the other has compromised.
- The Trinity
The Christian confession that the one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, stated without pretending it is a puzzle to win.
- The deity of Christ
Why Christians confess Jesus as truly God and truly human, and how that confession is heard in different conversations.
- The resurrection of Jesus
The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.
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.”
- The Watch Tower and Scripture
How to talk with Jehovah’s Witnesses about the Bible when a magazine is also in the conversation.
- The Trinity
The Christian confession that the one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, stated without pretending it is a puzzle to win.
- The deity of Christ
Why Christians confess Jesus as truly God and truly human, and how that confession is heard in different conversations.
Latter-day Saints
- The Godhead in Latter-day Saint teaching
Latter-day Saints affirm Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Nicene Christians do not mean the same thing by one God.
- Joseph Smith and revelation
Why Latter-day Saint faith treats Joseph Smith as a prophet, and what a Christian is asking when they ask about that.
- The Book of Mormon
What the Book of Mormon claims to be, and how to read it with a Latter-day Saint without a second-hand summary.
- The Trinity
The Christian confession that the one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, stated without pretending it is a puzzle to win.
- The deity of Christ
Why Christians confess Jesus as truly God and truly human, and how that confession is heard in different conversations.
Atheism
- Does God exist?
A short map of whether God exists, and why the next sentence should follow the objection you were actually given.
- The problem of evil
How to hear the argument from suffering without minimizing pain, and where Christians actually begin.
- The resurrection of Jesus
The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.
- The deity of Christ
Why Christians confess Jesus as truly God and truly human, and how that confession is heard in different conversations.
- The Trinity
The Christian confession that the one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, stated without pretending it is a puzzle to win.
Other
- How to use this wiki
How to use these pages in a conversation, and how not to treat a short article as a finished case.
- Charity in disagreement
Gentleness is not vagueness. This page is the posture for every other page on the wiki.