Do Christians believe in three gods?

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If you’re a Muslim, you may think Christians believe in three gods. That idea is as blasphemous to Christians as to you.  
  

**There is one God!**  

Christians believe in one God. In the Holy Bible, God commands, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3\).   
  

When asked for the greatest command, Jesus responded, “. . . The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” (Mark 12:29\-30\).   
  

**The one God exists as three Persons.**  

The Bible teaches that God is one in essence, three in Person: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16\-17; 28:19\). Each is fully God. God is not three gods but three in one. Although we cannot completely grasp the tri\-unity of God, we must trust His revelation is true.   
  

**Is Jesus God’s Son?**  

The same Jesus who affirmed God’s oneness also said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30\). Jesus’ perfect life, miracles, death, and resurrection proved He was God’s Son in the flesh. We cannot both praise Jesus’ teaching and refute His deity because He claimed to be from and of God (John 1:1\-2; 5:18\-24\). Jesus is either God’s Son or a blasphemer.   
  

The religious leaders of Jesus’ time refused to believe He was the Son of God and so desired to kill Him for blasphemy. “. . . Again the high priest asked him, ‘Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?’ And Jesus said, ‘I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.’ And the high priest tore his garments and said, ‘What further witnesses do we need? You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?’ And they all condemned him as deserving death” (Mark 14:61\-64\).   
  

**What is your decision?**  

Your beliefs cannot change the truth. Is Jesus the Son of God? If not, He did deserve death for blasphemy, and His bones would be resting in a tomb. But the resurrection proved Jesus divine.   
  

Being God’s Son, why did Jesus die? Death is the punishment for sinners (Romans 6:23\). Jesus kept every commandment—even the greatest command to love God.   
  

Have you? Unlike Jesus, not one of us loves God supremely. Even breaking a small command (such as lying, hating, or coveting) disqualifies us from heaven: “For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10\). We deserve death—eternal separation from God in hell.   
  

But take heart. The Lord Jesus took the punishment for sin when He died on the cross. “\[God] made \[Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21\). After dying on the cross, Jesus rose from the dead, showing God’s approval of His sacrifice for sin.   
  

The living Lord Jesus can pay for your sin, providing the way to paradise. When Jesus was promising to prepare a place in heaven for His followers, one asked Him for the way to heaven. “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me’” (John 14:6\).   
  

You cannot come to the Father on your own because you are a sinner, unable to fix yourself. Trust in Jesus as your Savior from the penalty and power of sin. Turn from your sin and your own way to follow Jesus as the Lord of your life. He is the way, truth, and life!  
  

