Where Did The Trinity Come From ?

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Why did God’s prophets not teach it?

WHY, for thousands of years, did none of God’s prophets teach his people about the Trinity? At the latest, would Jesus not use his ability as the Great Teacher to make the trinity clear to his followers? Would God inspire hundreds of pages of Scripture and yet not use any of this instruction to teach the Trinity if it were the “central doctrine” of faith?

Are Christians to believe that centuries after Christ and after having inspired the writing of the Bible, God would back the formulation of a doctrine that was unknown to his servants for thousands of years, one that is an “inscrutable mystery” “beyond the grasp of human reason,” one that admittedly had a pagan background and was “largely a matter of church politics”?

The testimony of history is clear: The Trinity teaching is a deviation from the truth, an apostatizing from it.

The Blessed Trinity, like the other dogmas of the Catholic Church, is a belief that has been held since the teaching of Christ to the Apostles. The Trinity is not found clearly defined in any passage in Sacred Scripture, nor does the name "trinity" appear within its pages. However, in order to be considered "Christian," one must believe in the Trinitarian God. In the first centuries the Church sought to clarify what the Trinity was by deepening its own understanding and by defending it against errors. In order to do this, the Church had to develop its own terminology which is reflected the dogmatic statement:

"In God there are 3 Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each of the 3 persons possesses one Divine Substance."

The term "substance" designates the divine being in its unity (there is only one God); it doesn't mean that God has a size or shape. The term "person" designates the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (these persons are really distinct from each other).

Attempts to describe this relationship clearly always fall short. St. Patrick is credited with using the shamrock; one stem composed of three leaves. Others have used water; a material which exists as ice, liquid, and steam. No matter how it is described, the Trinity is three persons in one God.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia: "The formulation 'one God in three Persons' was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, THERE HAD BEEN NOTHING EVEN REMOTELY APPROACHING SUCH A MENTALITY OR PERSPECTIVE." - Vol. XIV, p. 299, (1967).

The New Encyclopedia Britannica: "Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord' -- Deut. 6:4

. . . The [trinity] doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since." -- Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126. (1976)

Encyclopedia Americana: "Speculative thought began to analyze the divine nature until in the 4th century an ELABORATE THEORY of a threefoldness in God appears. In this Nicene or Athanasian form of thought God is said to consist of three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all equally eternal, powerful and glorious." - , 1944, v. 6, p. 619, "Christianity".

Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Hastings: "At first the Christian faith was not Trinitarian .... It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected in the NT [New Testament] and other early Christian writings."

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Christianity has NOT digressed from the concept of the Oneness of God. That is why we have the first commandment. The Trinity is simply about three distinct persons in ONE God. It is about the intrinsic activity within God Himself of knowing and loving Himself. Oneness is established by His Intellect and will as one and the same; however, it also explains the existence of 3 persons in this ONE God. Any explanation of the very nature of God is incomprehensable and it has to be so. At least this one concludes that God is LOVE. Does anyone else have a better explanation?

The Trinity is confusion. The Father and the Holy Spirit don't seem to be separate "people," The Father is who God is; Holy Spirit is what God is God sends his possess substance, no longer one in every of 3 people. Jesus is each God and guy. As guy, he hungered, thirsted, slept, and died. As God, he feeds the hungry, offers residing water, has little need of sleep and can't die. The flesh died. In John two:19, Jesus stated, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will elevate it up." Verse 21 tells what he was once speaking approximately. Read John a million:a million-14, John 14:nine-10, Colossians two:nine-eleven, and I Timothy three:sixteen. The doctrine of the trinity arose when you consider that persons who had no non secular knowledge have been seeking to outline God.

I believe that it is doctrine that wasnt added to the religion until almost 400 years after it was invented. Jesus was "voted" as a God at the Council of Nicea in 325 CE, and the Holy Spirit wasnt added to the Trinity until 381CE at the First Council of Constantinople...

If the Trinity is real, why wasnt it expressely defined in the Bible and instead took 400 years to come about?!?!

The word "Trinity" was coined by theologians several hundred years after Jesus died for our sins, but the concept has been in the Bible, God's Word since the first chapter of Genesis.

Only a very naiive person would ask the question you did.

Pastor Art

The trinity became complete years after the Council of Nicea in 325 CE. As A Catholic Dictionary notes: “The third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362 . . . and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381.”

"Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'." Mathew 28:18-20

The Holy Trinity is the Father (God), The Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. If you believe in Jesus then you should understand the Holy Trinity. The Holy Spirit came after Jesus was resurrected. God came to this earth in human form (Jesus) and in spirit form (Holy Spirit).

Just as wolves will cut off their intended victims from the main flock before attacking and devouring, so it might be expected that human wolves would act. So the apostle Paul under inspiration declared: “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.” And Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, also spoke of this peril: “There will also be false teachers among you. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them . . . Also, with covetousness they will exploit you with counterfeit words.” Jesus’ brother and disciple Jude, in turn, wrote that “certain men have slipped in who have long ago been appointed by the Scriptures to this judgment, ungodly men, turning the undeserved kindness of our God into an excuse for loose conduct and proving false to our only Owner and Lord, Jesus Christ.” The apostle John adds his testimony: “Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now [about the year 98 C.E.] there have come to be many antichrists; from which fact we gain the knowledge that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of our sort.