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Welcome!
 

The primary purpose of this survey is to understand the beliefs of self-professed Christians about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

You are also welcome to take the survey if you are of another (or no) faith, to indicate what you believe Christians think about the Trinity.
 

Instructions (Please read the following carefully.)

  • So that we can accurately measure your opinions, please don't view the survey results before you taking the survey yourself. You'll automatically be taken to the results page after you submit your completed survey.
  • Supply all demographic information in Part 1.
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  • Complete every Agree / Disagree / Neutral question in Part 2.
    • Answer thoughtfully, but don't get permanantly stuck on any question you find difficult.
    • This is not a test, but is simply an opinion survey.
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Part 1: Demographic Information
Are you a member of the Clergy? Gender
Do you consider yourself an Evangelical Christian?
Do you consider yourself either a Progressive or (theologically) Liberal Christian?
Religious Affiliation Age
Citizenship Highest Completed Education Level
Field(s) of completed college degree (Select up to three, "highest" degree(s) first. e.g. PhD, MA, BA.) Please skip this question if you have not completed one or more college degrees.
If you have a class identification number, please select it. If you don't know what that is, please select "0A".

Part 2: The Survey Questions
1. God eternally has three personalities: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.


2. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three aspects of the one God.


3. Jesus is God.


4. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three persons in the one divine being, God.


5. The doctrine of the Trinity is contradictory but true.


6. The Son is eternally "begotten" by the Father, and the Spirit eternally "proceeds" from either the Father or from both the Father and the Son.


7. Jesus Christ is God incarnate.


8. God is a being which is composed of these three divine and personal parts: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.


9. Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine; that is, he possesses two natures, humanity (including both a human body and a human soul) and divinity.


10. God appears to us as Father, as Son, and as Holy Spirit. But what sort of being God really is, remains unknown.


11. If Jesus were not God, then he could not be our savior.


12. The doctrine of the Trinity tells us that there are three somethings in God, but we can't comprehend what sorts of things those three are.


13. Jesus is God incarnate, which means that he is not a human being, although he appears to be human.


14. If someone doesn't believe in the doctrine of the Trinity, then he or she is not a Christian.


15. The doctrine of the Trinity appears to be contradictory, but we must learn to live with that fact.


16. The doctrine of the Trinity is explicitly taught in the Bible.


17. "Father", "Son", and "Holy Spirit" are three names for the one God, much as "Bush Jr.", "Dubya", and "George Bush" are three names for the 43rd president of the USA.


18. In the New Testament, the word "God" usually refers to the entire Trinity.


19. God is not a divine personal being, but is rather a perfectly loving and necessarily cooperative community of three fully divine personal beings.


20. The holy spirit isn't a divine person; rather, the holy spirit is just God's (that is, the Father's) power, given to Christians.


21. The doctrine of the Trinity is incomprehensible to any human being.


22. Jesus, the Son of God, whom the Bible calls "the firstborn of creation", was created from nothing long ago, before the foundation of the world.


23. It is impossible for one being to be both human and divine.


24. Even though Jesus never existed before his conception (for example, in 4000 B.C.), he is nonetheless the unique Son of God, worthy of our worship.


25. Although the doctrine of the Trinity is not taught in the Bible, it is the best explanation we have of what is taught in the Bible.


26. Jesus was a truly righteous man, and was sent by God, but was not the unique Son of God. God has equally well used a number of other great religious leaders.


27. Before he became a human, the Son of God was known as the archangel Michael.


28. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit aren't three gods, but are rather the one God, because of their perfectly loving, "interpermeating", boundary-free relationships with one another.


29. The doctrine of the Trinity is a practical and useful policy for how Christians should think and talk about God, but it's a mistake to think that it provides us with any information about what sort of being God is.


30. Although the Son of God and the Holy Spirit were never created, their existence has always been caused by God in some way or ways which no one understands.


31. While two men, such as Al Gore and George Bush, each have their own distinct individual property (or nature) of humanity, the Father and Son share numerically the same individual property (or nature) of divinity.


32. Jesus is not God, but is rather the eternal, divine, uncreated Son of God (whom Jesus calls his Father).


33. Insofar as he's a man, there are some things the Son doesn't know, but insofar as he's God, he knows all.


34. Although some things are true of the Father that are not true of the Son, they are nonetheless numerically the same, that is, they are to be counted as one thing.


35. As Jesus and God are one and the same, whatever is true of Jesus is also true of God, and vice-versa.


36. The Son of God is like God the Father's mind, and the Holy Spirit is like the love shared by the Father and the Son.


37. The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal, but there are not three eternal beings, but only one eternal being.


38. The Father and Son are "homoousios" (or "consubstantial", that is, same essence or substance).


39. Although Jesus is a unique Son of God, as he's a human like ourselves, it would be inappropriate for us to worship Jesus.


40. Respecting his divinity, Christ is equal to God the Father, but respecting his humanity, Christ is subordinate to God the Father.


41. If a doctrine has been asserted by an early and widely recognized church council (e.g. Nicea (325 A.D.), Chalcedon (451 A.D.)), then I am committed to believing it.


42. The doctrine of the Trinity was wrongly adapted from earlier non-Christian sources.


43. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three subsistent relations.


44. God is a Trinity because God is a soul with three sets of rational cognitive faculties, which give God three centers of self-consciousness.


45. It's a mistake to ask if the Father and Son are "one and the same" or "the same being". Rather, the Father and Son are the same God, but they are different persons.