Why was the "Trinity" doctrine invented?

Question

Jesus never mentioned a trinity. It isn't mentioned anywhere in the bible. So why are we so sure that God has a three-fold nature. Isn't it possible that there is a 4th manifestation of God that we don't know of/haven't been told of?

Answer 1

This was decided three hundred years after his birth in modern-day Turkey during various ecumenical councils in the eastern portion of the Roman Empire under the emperor Constantine. There were various theories floating about, most notably Arianism, and in an attempt to unify Christians within the Roman Empire, the trinity was made. Check out the Council of Nicea of 325 if you're really interested in the why.

Answer 2

there is but 1 God..

Jesus is the Father, Jesus is the Son, and Jesus is the Holy Ghost, there is only 1 God his name is Jesus...
people think there are 3 Jesus said he will give his glory to no man
another thing in genesis it says God created all things, okay in the new testament is says Jesus created all things.
God manifested himself or you can say revealed himself in the flesh so that he could die for man so we can be saved from Hell...there is no trinity...read the gospels which is matthew, mark , luke, and john then read acts which is the acts of the apostles doing what Jesus told them to do

Answer 3

Jesus DID mention His Father and the Holy Spirit. Just because he didn't use the word trinity doesn't mean anything.

Answer 4

It's a way of illustrating the essence of God is not divided when He is God the father, God the son(Jesus), God the Holy Spirit. If there is a fourth and we need to know about it, He'll let us know.

Answer 5

A Doctrine isn't unavoidably a tangible speech or string of words. occasion: Monroe Doctrine. it rather is basically the ideals of the guy in power. What they'll do, and what they have self assurance. Ir not often an rather speech or something tangible.

Answer 6

there are many passages in the bible that clearly support the word trinity although the word itself it is not in the bible. you are not the first to ask this question in history

Answer 7

It was revealed by Jesus Christ.

It was Jesus who revealed the Father to his apostles.

It was Jesus who the apostles came to know as the only begotten Son of God.

It was Jesus who gave the Holy Spirit to the apostles.

The "term" Trinity doesn't appear in the Bible as such, but that's the only thing that is missing.

Three persons in one God is absolutely clear from scripture.

This was always understood by the church, from the very beginning, and was later ratified at one of the first church councils in Rome, by near unanimous acclaim.

The dogma of the Holy Trinity


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The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity."83 The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e., by nature one God."84 In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215): "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature."85


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The divine persons are really distinct from one another. "God is one but not solitary."86 "Father," "Son," "Holy Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son."87 They are distinct from one another in their relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds."88 The divine Unity is Triune.


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The divine persons are relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another: "In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, we believe in one nature or substance."89 Indeed "everything (in them) is one where there is no opposition of relationship."90 "Because of that unity the Father is wholly in the Son and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Son is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Son."91


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St. Gregory of Nazianzus, also called "the Theologian," entrusts this summary of Trinitarian faith to the catechumens of Constantinople:


Above all guard for me this great deposit of faith for which I live and fight, which I want to take with me as a companion, and which makes me bear all evils and despise all pleasures: I mean the profession of faith in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. I entrust it to you today. By it I am soon going to plunge you into water and raise you up from it. I give it to you as the companion and patron of your whole life. I give you but one divinity and power, existing one in three, and containing the three in a distinct way. Divinity without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises up or inferior degree that casts down . . . the infinite co-naturality of three infinites. Each person considered in himself is entirely God . . . the three considered together. . . . I have not even begun to think of unity when the Trinity bathes me in its splendor. I have not even begun to think of the Trinity when unity grasps me. . . .92

Answer 8

father, son, holy-ghost