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  • On the subject of the Trinity: Why did the first century christians... ?

    Now there is a lot of debating and confusion on the trinity. People say their translation of John 1:1 to Greek is proof that God is also the Son. There are also many other explanations, such as that God and Jesus are separate, and noted in the verses below.

    “The Father is greater than I am” - John 14:28

    “Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.” - Matt. 12:31, 32

    (Showing Holy Spirit separate, and in some ways greater than Jesus.)

    "But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." - Mark 13:32

    (Showing the Father as separate and knowing things separate from the Son.)

    But now, despite these verses my question is as follows:

    How do you explain the fact that the First Century Christians did not teach the trinisty, and that it was later developed and incorporated into the Church (similar to many modern day doctrines and teachings) ?

    This is not an opinion, it is historically documented.

    About the Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E the Encyclopædia Britannica relates: “Constantine himself presided, actively guiding the discussions, and personally proposed . . . the crucial formula expressing the relation of Christ to God in the creed issued by the council, ‘of one substance with the Father’ . . . Overawed by the emperor, the bishops, with two exceptions only, signed the creed, many of them much against their inclination.”

    But this was not because of his Biblical conviction.

    “Constantine had basically no understanding whatsoever of the questions that were being asked in Greek theology,” says A Short History of Christian Doctrine

    But the even more interesting thing is that this council never came to the conclusion of a Trinity. They created the oneness of 'God the Father' and 'the Son.'

    It was later on that Emperor Theodosius helped establish the creed of the Council of Nicaea as the standard for his realm.

    He started the Council of Constantinople in 381 C.E. to clarify things.

    That council agreed to place the holy spirit on the same level as God and Christ. For the first time the Trinity began to start forming.

    Later on the Athanasian Creed defined the trinity, "We worship one God in Trinity . . . The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three gods, but one God.”

    But The New Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “The creed was unknown to the Eastern Church until the 12th century. Since the 17th century, scholars have generally agreed that the Athanasian Creed was not written by Athanasius (died 373) but was probably composed in southern France during the 5th century. . . . The creed’s influence seems to have been primarily in southern France and Spain in the 6th and 7th centuries. It was used in the liturgy of the church in Germany in the 9th century and somewhat later in Rome.”

    The book Origin and Evolution of Religion, E. W. Hopkins says: “The final orthodox definition of the trinity was largely a matter of church politics.”

    Now why was the trinity doctrine not clarified like so in the Holy Scriptures?

    Why did Paul not spend numerous letters in explaining what it means when those former Jews believed that "Jehovah our God is one Jehovah" (Deut 6:4) ?

    Please I a reason as to why the 'true' teaching only entered into the christian faith AFTER all of the original apostles died?

    And also while you can notice these scriptures:

    Regarding God’s day of destruction of this system of things the apostle Paul said: “It will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3, 7)

    And...

    "I know that after my going away oppressive wolves will enter in among YOU and will not treat the flock with tenderness, and from among YOU yourselves men will rise and speak twisted things to draw away the disciples after themselves." Acts 20:29, 30

    8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago