God in Christianity

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In Christianity, God (also referred to as Yahweh, Jehovah, or the Lord) is the eternal, supreme deity who created and preserves all things. Christians believe in a monotheistic conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). Most Christians believe in a singular God that exists in a Trinity, which consists of three Persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. Some Christian teachings on the transcendence, immanence, and involvement of God in the world and his love for humanity exclude the belief that God is of the same substance as the created universe (that is, rejection of pantheism) but accept that God the Son assumed hypostatically united human nature, thus becoming man in a unique event known as "the Incarnation". Early Christian views of God were expressed in the Pauline epistles and the early Christian creeds, which proclaimed one God and the...

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