I would like proofs from an early edition, please, not from anything that was printed within the last 100-200years.
2006-09-13 20:15:51 · 10 answers · asked by jpk265 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are right. As far as I know there is no mention of the trinity. Christians have assumed this and try to justify it by giving their own explanations for it.
Good question.
2006-09-13 21:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by white_falcon21 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea of the "Trinity" has to do with the pagan beliefs of the Roman Empire that transformed into the Catholic Church and nothing to do with the Bible.
2006-09-13 20:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by anthony c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it comes from what Jesus said as recorded in the Gospels such as:
"And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee,..." Luke 1:35 (King James version)
"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me"
John 15:25-27 (King James Version)
"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."
John 17:20-22 (King James Version)
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: ..." (Matthew 28:19)
It's statements of Jesus like these that lead to the belief in the trinity, since Jesus mentions both the Father and the Spirit.
(If you go to BibleGateway.com you can look up words or books of the Bible.)
The actual doctrine of the Trinity dates from about 325 AD and the Council of Nicea:
"The Trinitarian view has been affirmed as an article of faith by the Nicene (325/381) and Athanasian creeds (circa 500), which attempted to standardize belief in the face of disagreements on the subject. These creeds were formulated and ratified by the Church of the third and fourth centuries in reaction to heterodox theologies concerning the Trinity and/or Christ. The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, revised in 381 by the second of these councils, is professed by Orthodox Christianity and, with one addition (Filioque clause), the Roman Catholic Church, and has been retained in some form by most Protestant denominations." (Wikipedia)
2006-09-13 21:08:44 · answer #3 · answered by Roswellfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bishop's Bible 1568...no "trinity"
Geneva Bible 1587 ... no "trinity"
King Jame's Bible 1611 version no "trinity"
What does the Bible say???? ONE GOD
From Bishop's
1Jo 5:7 For there are three which beare recorde in heauen, the father, the worde, and the holy ghost, and these three are one.
Mar 12:32 And the scribe sayde vnto hym: well maister, thou hast sayde the trueth, for there is one God, & there is none but he.
Rom 3:30 For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth, and vncircumcision through fayth.
1Co 8:6 Yet vnto vs is there but one God, [which is] the father, of whom are all thinges, and we in him, and one Lorde Iesus Christe, by whom are al thinges, and we by him.
Eph 4:6 One God, and father of all, whiche is aboue all, and through all, and in you all.
1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediatour of God and men, the man Christe Iesus:
Jam 2:19 Beleuest thou that there is one God? Thou doest well. The deuyls also beleue, and tremble.
2006-09-13 20:58:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trinity is something the catholic church has made up, just like purgatory they made it up. Catholicism is a man made religion! Although most christians believe in the Holy trio.
2006-09-13 20:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by Speak freely 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That is a modernish idea. from the Catholic church to sound more impressive and also more confusing. And probably borrowed from another religions beliefs to draw them into the church. The Celtic people were big on triple gods and goddess.
2006-09-13 20:28:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing in the bible...
As far as other responders citing it as an "invention" of the Catholic church...it's not quite that simplisitic...
Read "A History of God" by Armstrong
and Pagels works...
good, informative readings
2006-09-13 20:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And IF someone finds you that 'proof' - then what? You'll fall to your knees and beg for God's forgiveness?! Craig
2006-09-13 23:56:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
then you will never find it...
Trinity does not exist..Artificially created doctrina
2006-09-13 23:55:26 · answer #9 · answered by Suomi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHY?
2006-09-13 20:18:28 · answer #10 · answered by jas3tm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋