When did God split into the Trinity? He didn't always need to be that. I know why.?

Your question is based upon a false premise: That God split into the trinity at some time.

Since God never split into the trinity, your question as to WHEN He split is moot and invalid.

The Godhead has ALWAYS consisted of three co-eternal and distinct Persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit.

The Bible is abundantly clear on this.

EDIT:

>He needed the offices of Son and Holy Spirit?

The Son and the Holy Spirit are PERSONS of the Godhead; they are not "offices"!

God has never been a trinity.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “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.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.

God has always been just one person--the Father. At John 17:3, Jesus called his Father "the only true God."

For God to be a trinity, the following conditions MUST be stated in the Bible:

1. There are said to be three divine persons—the Father, the Son, and the holy spirit—in the Godhead.

2. Each of these separate persons is said to be eternal, none coming before or after the other in time.

3. Each is said to be almighty, with none greater or lesser than the other.

4. Each is said to be omniscient, knowing all things.

5. Each is said to be true God.

6. However, it is said that there are not three Gods but only one God.

Can ANY of the above conditions be found in the teachings of Christ that even suggest God is triune? NO!

To the person below me, I am not offended by personal attacks against me. You have more than proved by your lack of Biblical references that God is NOT a trinity.

The trinity is a false doctrine, invented by men, endorsed by Satan & his demons.

"Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end." JOHN 13:1

Jesus departed from this world and to whom did he go? Jesus tells you-----the Father. Where was his God & Father? In heaven and that is where Jesus is now--enthroned as King and stationed at his Father's right hand. How easy that is to understand. But that is only one Scripture that proves the trinity is a lie.

LOBT

God didn't "split" into anything..That's not what the trinity is..

Jesus is God's word made flesh...Same ONE God...Just manifested as a man for our understanding..

In fact, he has always been this "trinity" - and, by definition, "trinity" means that there can be no division, no "split".

The bible teaches us that Jesus was personally involved in all of creation - a pre-incarnate Jesus, that is. The trinity has existed since before creation itself.

Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

Gee line Dancer hwy would you leave out some of the other parts of the catholic encyclopedia and Only give that paragraph

gee your a good liar according to th Watchtower

Jehovahs Witnesses are purveyors of a wicked plot

the book Symbols of Catholicism is not a catholic book using the war doctrine arent we

"Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth: haughty eyes, A LYING TONGUE, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief, A DECEITFUL WITNESS THAT UTTERETH LIES, AND HIM THAT SOWETH DISCORD AMONG BRETHREN."

Prov 6:16-19

theocratic war strategy

that justifies “lying” in court and elsewhere. Only three religions could be located that openly teach this doctrine. One is the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist group that teaches it is appropriate to lie in order to further its interests (W. Caughey, personal interview, Feb. 3, 1991). Another is the Unification Church,

Watchtower’s interests (Reed, 1992; Reed, 1997, p. 129; see also Franz, 1971, pp. 1060-1061, and Raines, 1996c).

In the Watchtower’s words, Witnesses are required to “use Theocratic War Strategy” against any and all persons who have a “wolf-like disposition,” defined as anyone who does not accept the Watchtower as God’s organization and the head of God’s people. All other religions are defined as evil and of Satan

The Watchtower does not admit to reaching lying, but that lying to "God's enemies" is not really lying but "war strategy" and that,

God's Word commands: "Speak truth each of you wish his neighbor." (Eph. 4:25). This command, however, does not mean that we should tell everyone who asks us all he wants to know. We must tell the truth to one who is entitled to know, but if one is not so entitled we may be evasive (The Watchtower Je 1, 1960:351-352).

They then state "we may not tell a falsehood," but this refers to their definition of a falsehood. The May 1, 1957 Watchtower adds that,

Lies are untruths told for selfish reasons and which work injury to others. Satan told a lie to Eve that worked great harm to her and all the human race. Ananias and Sapphira told lies for selfish reasons. But hiding the truth, which he is not entitled to know, from an enemy does not harm him, especially when he would use such information to harm others who are innocent… So in time of spiritual warfare it is proper to misdirect the enemy by hiding the truth. It is done unselfishly; it does not harm anyone; on the contrary; it does much good (p. 284-285).

The dogma of the Trinity

The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion — the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another.

Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God." In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This, the Church teaches, is the revelation regarding God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.

In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word trias (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A.D. 180. He speaks of "the Trinity of God [the Father], His Word and His Wisdom (To Autolycus II.15). The term may, of course, have been in use before his time. Afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian (On Pudicity 21). In the next century the word is in general use. It is found in many passages of Origen ("In Ps. xvii", 15). The first creed in which it appears is that of Origen's pupil, Gregory Thaumaturgus. In his Ekthesis tes pisteos composed between 260 and 270, he writes:

There is therefore nothing created, nothing subject to another in the Trinity: nor is there anything that has been added as though it once had not existed, but had entered afterwards: therefore the Father has never been without the Son, nor the Son without the Spirit: and this same Trinity is immutable and unalterable forever (P.G., X, 986).

It is manifest that a dogma so mysterious presupposes a Divine revelation. When the fact of revelation, understood in its full sense as the speech of God to man, is no longer admitted, the rejection of the doctrine follows as a necessary consequence. For this reason it has no place in the Liberal Protestantism of today. The writers of this school contend that the doctrine of the Trinity, as professed by the Church, is not contained in the New Testament, but that it was first formulated in the second century and received final approbation in the fourth, as the result of the Arian and Macedonian controversies. In view of this assertion it is necessary to consider in some detail the evidence afforded by Holy Scripture. Attempts have been made recently to apply the more extreme theories of comparative religion to the doctrine of the Trinity, and to account for it by an imaginary law of nature compelling men to group the objects of their worship in threes. It seems needless to give more than a reference to these extravagant views, which serious thinkers of every school reject as destitute of foundation.

God never really 'split'. The trinity just represents three different aspects of god. And helps to emphasise gods multi-facets.

The different deities are just symbolic of particular facets since people liked to be poetic in those days and used metaphorical interpretations rather than rigidity and irrational found in the bible and other Abraham beliefs.

Edit: Goddamn christians! Stop giving me thumbs down!

He always had the triple aspect just before the New testament things were worded differently

when he decided to become god in the flesh ((his son jesus))

to be the ultimate sacrifice

God is not a trinity and never was, and never will be. God is One God.