Deity Christianity
God in Christianity
Christian conception of God
- Also called Christian God, God, Jehovah
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Connections
How God in Christianity connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
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Identification 9
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
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- identified with Allah Arabic word for God
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identified with God principal object of faith in monotheistic religions, a divine entity that created and typically supervises all existence -
identified with God in Islam Islamic conception of God -
identified with God in Judaism Jewish conception of God - identified with God in Mormonism god in Mormonism
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identified with Holy Trinity Christian conception of God as consisting of three persons (hypostases) — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — sharing the same substance (ousia) - identified with Shangdi The High God, the supreme or single God of ancient Shenism, some salvationist religions like Yiguandao, and Protestant Christianity in Chinese translation
- identified with Tianzhu The Abrahamic God YHWH in Chinese translation sanctioned by the Catholic Church
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identified with Yahweh national god of ancient Israel and Judah kingdoms, god of monotheistic Judaism and Abrahamic religions
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