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TRINITY ARGUMENT?!?

Where can i find sources from the first century involving Trinitatianism in the church Gods?

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    1 John 5:7

  • 7 years ago

    Start reading the work of St Augustine on God the Holy Trinity. The article is massive but learn it from a holy ancient man!

    http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/130101.htm

  • 7 years ago

    Jesus wasn't around until the 4th Century. There is no trinity. God the Creator is ONE. Only God Almighty can forgive sin. No man person or being can die for another person's sin.

  • Waldo
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Hog Snot.

    The Trinity did not exist in Christianity before the year 318 when Constantine decided to push the issue to settle the debate over whether jesus was the SAME as god or SIMILAR to god.

    The only reason Constantine was interested in this issue was he was trying to make it easier to administrate public affairs by having ONE SINGLE RELIGION for the roman empire.

    You can read his own words in a letter to bishop Alexander of Egypt and Arius in this book.

    page 559, CAESAR and CHRIST, (1946) by Will Durant

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Available writings from the first century give no indication that the doctrine had been conceived in that century.

    The **earliest** known description of the "basic" doctrine of trinity is from the early third century.

    Note that the deity of Christ is described in a few Biblical books, all (all that include such statements) firmly dated to the first century.

    However: there is no known evidence of the basic concept of the trinity doctrine (three persons, one God) dating to before the early third century.

    I would like to add that, as far as I know, Christianity (excepting Mormonism) has never claimed or taught that more than one deity exists. There have never been "church gods" in Christianity. (Mormonism, the exception, teaches that there is only one god over our planet Earth and that there are other gods ruling over other planets.)

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Don't go to this source !!!

    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140...

    THIS IS BETTER

    http://www.jw.org/en/

    JUST SEARCH TRINITY

  • 7 years ago

    Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Polycarp, Tertulian....

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    U won't find it because the Trinity along with various other things was added to the religion of Christianity centuries after Christ departure.

  • Jim V
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    You might look at Cold Case Christianity for information regarding how the first generation after the Apostles looked at Christ.

    http://coldcasechristianity.com/?s=church+fathers

    http://coldcasechristianity.com/?s=trinity

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Catholic Church

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