Can 10 gods also be equal to one God in a way similar to trinity?

[Godistruth1]

Also was it OK if there were 4 personalities as one God?

 

[Sabertooth]

That isn't an apologetics question.

 

[Johnny4ChristJesus]

Also was it OK if there were 4 personalities as one God?

If God had described Himself that way, then yes. But, He didn't.

 

[Barney2.0]

No Christian believes there are four personalities as one God, if God revealed himself as so we would have believed, but obviously he did not.

 

[~Anastasia~]

If you are asking whether it was possible for God to be some other number of Persons (besides three) in One God (Being) ... then from the point of view of what was possible for Him, no one could restrict Him. But He Is as He Is, so the question really makes no sense. I'm sure there are exceptionally good and deep reasons beyond our understanding that three is the perfect number and relationship of Persons in the Holy Trinity.

 

[SolomonVII]

God became man so that man may become God.
As Christians our destiny is the Godhead.
May the reaping be great indeed.

 

[dzheremi]

The revelation of God to man, as man (the God-man Jesus Christ), is by God Himself. Had He wished to reveal Himself to us by some other way, He certainly could have and we can speculate would have. But that's all that is -- speculation -- because here in reality, what actually happened is otherwise.

When God does something, it is extremely unwise that we should respond along the lines of "Okay, but couldn't You have done it some other way?" I'm not saying the OP does this, only that there is a certain approach to 'theological philosophy', I guess you could call it, if it's not going to be apologetics, that is essentially nothing but this question over and over again, in a million different ways and scenarios, because literally anything can be pseudo-answered with "okay, but why not X instead of Y?" Ultimately the answer is because God is God, and we are not. Further details can be found in the fathers, as in HH St. Athanasius the Apostolic's On the Incarnation or De Decretis, but ultimately everything does boil down to that.

 

[eleos1954]

God became man so that man may become God.
As Christians our destiny is the Godhead.
May the reaping be great indeed.

"God became man so that man may become God." ?

God became man providing the way so man could one day live with God and be His people.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,

We will be His people.

 

[~Anastasia~]

I was going to say, without qualifying this and explaining it, it's will potentially lead to a lot of misunderstanding.

God became man so that man may become God.
As Christians our destiny is the Godhead.
May the reaping be great indeed.

For anyone wondering, we may become by grace what God is by nature. God alone is God - that is His Essence. We will NEVER be of the same Essence. We are and will forever remain creatures. But, by the grace of God, we can be restored to both the image and likeness of God in which we were created, and so become very much like Him, and in communion with Him, ever growing into that relationship.

But we never become God as God Himself is.

 

[SolomonVII]

I was going to say, without qualifying this and explaining it, it's will potentially lead to a lot of misunderstanding.




For anyone wondering, we may become by grace what God is by nature. God alone is God - that is His Essence. We will NEVER be of the same Essence. We are and will forever remain creatures. But, by the grace of God, we can be restored to both the image and likeness of God in which we were created, and so become very much like Him, and in communion with Him, ever growing into that relationship.

But we never become God as God Himself is.

Becoming atoned and at-one with God, not just as members of the Kingdom, but as Resurrected Heavenly Beings is a lot to contemplate for sure. The incarnation of God in the flesh opens up doors to rooms that OT Jews had never even knew existed before that point in time.
“Ten Gods ” or a million, is theologically incorrect as a description of the Athanasian principle, but the theological implications of being At One with God go beyond the ability of language to describe, and even beyond the ability of the human mind to imagine.
Suffice to say that Jesus did not worship himself, but gave all honor and praise to his Father. That is how it is done.

 

[Theo102]

"Can 10 gods also be equal to one God in a way similar to trinity?"

No, because the trinity has separate persons but Elohim has separate male and female beings.

 

[Theo102]

@Godistruth1

And Elohim said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26

The image of Elohim was both male and female (verse 27)

ויברא אלהים את־האדם בצלמו בצלם אלהים ברא אתו זכר ונקבה ברא אתם׃

create elohim them the mankind in image elohim create them male and female create them