Did you know the Jews didn't worship three Gods, they worshiped one?

Here's the deal:

Back in the first few centuries of Christianity, there was a lot of discussion and violence over who Jesus was, given the declared monotheism of Christianity. The Emperor of Rome, who was Christian by that time, was fed up with it and convened a council to decide just what Christians were supposed to believe. This was a major sticking point among the factions who felt that:

1) Jesus was God

2) Jesus was man.

3) Jesus was a spirit that only appeared to be a man.

A compromise was reached incorporating all of these. The fact that it makes A) no sense and B) a mockery of monotheism was waved away by declaring it a 'mystery'.

In any case, the Roman-controlled church was not averse to multiplying gods, although careful to always retain the language of monotheism, and so incorporated the old Roman tradition of voting people into gods, which became voting people into sainthood. Mary was essentially deified to appease the Roman Diana cultists, who were politically powerful.

In short, the trinity is the product of a Roman political compromise, in which the illogic is covered by handwaving, and which has successfully stood for 1700 years or so as a tribute to the gullibility of humanity and the practical skill of the Roman Empire.

Actually, it is well documented that Judaism was polytheistic up until the Babylonian exile.

The set of scrolls known today as the Bible were not put together until sometime during the Babylian exile -- and they contain entire sections that refer to a god known as El (and his court, known as the Elohim); and entire sections that refer to a god named Yahweh. When Judaism decided to embrace monotheism, they combined the two gods into one. But the original references still exist, and you can research this by looking up "the J writers of the Bible" "the E writers of the Bible" and also the Ugarit documents.

Per the Ugarit documents, Yahweh was the son of El; one of 70 sons. Presumably these are the very same referred to in the OT where it talks about the sons of El impregnating the daughters of men.

Dig deeper. The truth will set you free.

Note to Steve: nicely answered, nicely researched. One tiny addition is that the Emperor himself claimed god-hood; and that ancient Romans were perfectly comfortable with the notion of multiple gods, and half-god/half-men.

And did you know that Trinitarians do not worship three gods, but only worship ONE God? Did you know that it is impossible to formulate the Trinity dogma/doctrine unless it is based upon the concept of only one God who is Jehovah/Yahweh? Did you know that we do not use scripture to objectively prove the Trinity, but to PROVE that Jesus is God? Did you know that if we prove that Jesus is God, you will need an explanation such as the Trinity? Did you know that the role of Jesus was salvation and not to teach dogmas? Did you know that man was not qualified to enter heaven or learn about the Trinity until he was saved by Jesus first? Did you know that Jesus only then sent the Holy Spirit to teach us all truths such as the Trinity? Did you know that Matthew 16: 18-19 and Matthew 18: 18 gave the authority to the Church to formulate the Trinity as an infallible article of faith which cannot ever be changed now? Did you know we can formulate the dogma of the Trinity word for word today without ever having heard of any pagan influences? Did you know that Trinitarians accept all of scripture and are not allowed to ignore or reject any verses in it? Did you know that it is impossible to use scripture to prove that the Trinity is false?

Christianity is the complete opposite of the original religion of the OT. How can you believe it? Christianity changed the religion so much (adding hell and easy converting) so more and more people join it.

Even Judaism is a joke but if you're going to believe a religion at least follow the true form of it.

Islam is the biggest joke and does not deserve my attention atm.

Did you know that the trinity doesn't teach that three gods exist, but rather one that can appear in three ways?

John 10:30

"I and the Father are One." (NIV) (NASB) (ESV)

Yes--of course I knew that. If only they just went ONE more down they would have the right number.

They had not read Plato

Honestly all I can say is no sh*t...