Daffy,

How is Christianity monotheistic when it teaches that there are three persons in one God?

//How is Christianity monotheistic when it teaches that there are three persons in one God?//

The clue is in the question: Christianity is monotheistic because it there is only one god in three persons; not three gods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity

Christian theology is a load of cobblers, but the Trinity has always struck me in particular as a bloody stupid notion invented by people who obviously had far too much time on their hands.

Toni,

"....because it there is only one god in three persons; not three gods."

Not quite right, the position is three persons in one God; with one God in three persons one or more of the persons might not be God but in the Trinity it is three persons in one God and all of them are God, from a non-Christian point of view that is three Gods.

This is the view taken by Islam and the Christian belief is heresy for Muslims, and no doubt, Jews as well.

Compton writes; "So, when Jihadists kill people and claim they did it at God's command, they commit the ultimate blasphemy. Throughout the history of humanity, God has never once called anyone to kill or punish in His name."

Although I'm not a biblical scholar, I strongly believe that the Canaanites, Amorites, Midianites and the Amalekites will disagree with him should they be given a voice to span the millennia. However, should my meagre scholarship be found wanting and truth be served better by one far more edudite than I then I thank him/her for their service.

Compton also writes;"In my view, the undeniable truth is that God has never been a creator of death, even when we die normally. God has never decided who lives or dies or when death shall occur. Nor does he decide who gets ill or suffers hard times. These unavoidable issues of life are determined by nature or by our own irresponsibility. God, quite simply, has one role only. He gives us the personal spiritual power to handle all that life throws up at us."

If nature determines life and death issues it would assist greatly in understanding what he means by the phenomenon he describes as "nature" by providing a definition of "nature" to the exclusion of everything else. A response of the type, "Nature is all that god is not." will demonstrate a thought process dependent upon meritless sophistry. Cont.....

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Whence came nature as a feature of existence? Is his god not a creator god who made the heavens and Earth and humankind in his image? Did he not bestow free will on his creation that they be as irresponsible as all get-out and be forgiven? Certainly "personal spiritual power" is not the same thing as "free will".

Compton, in closing, writes that some kind of planetary theocracy is a solution to humankind's problems. I must confess to some bewilderment when assailed by the notion that the formalisation and codification of superstition, allegory and fable into a book of instruction on life is humankind's only future. Not once does he contemplate a world without religion as another possible scenario leading to human intellectual and moral advancenent.

It is almost inevitable that Compton will insist at some stage in this discussion that our sense of morality emanates from no other source than his god. Yet he absolves his god of all responsibility in this when he writes....."God, quite simply, has one role only. He gives us the personal spiritual power to handle all that life throws up at us."

Now we need a definition of "spiritual power"! Perhaps there's a moral element within.

For pity's sake, where do they all come from?