Are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit three separate gods?
No! Many non-Christians have falsely assumed that the doctrine of the Trinity teaches tritheism (the belief in and worship of three gods). Christians do indeed pray in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; and this may appear to non-Christians as though three separate gods are being venerated. But, Presbyterians, like other Christians, believe that there is but one God and that the doctrine of the Trinity reaffirms this belief. Accordingly, while the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinguishable expressions of the one God, they are not three separate expressions of deity.