To the best of my knowledge it would have been Jesus. He tells His apostles about His Father in Heaven, and of course they knew that He was the Son of God. Then before Christ's death, He tells them about the Holy Spirit and that He would send Him to us.
2007-01-08 06:29:53
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answered by angel 7
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I've answered this before but here you go.
The Trinity is really God in three person (the bible never calls it the Trinity) but here is evidence of the Trinity for you:
Baptism reveals the threeMatt 28:19
Paul wrote there were 3 divine personsEph. 4:4-6
Paul Continued2 Corinth. 13:14, Heb 9:14
Revelations opens w/introducing the GodheadRev. 1:4-6
The Godhead is three distinct persons and each is GodEph 4:6 The three
Titus 2:13 God & His Son
Acts 5:3-4 God & Holy Spirit
God said let us make man in our image and our likenessGenesis 1:26
The Angels cry Holy Holy Holy 3x’s – once for eachIsaiah 6:3
We can never understand everything about GodRom 11:33
God is a tri-unity of two invisible (Father and Spirit) persons and one visible (Jesus the Son)
There are three stages of salvation: justification, sanctification and glorification
And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’sI Corinthians 3:23
know that…the head of Christ is GodI Corinthians 11:3
Christ receives all from the FatherJohn 3:35 and John 5:22
The Son live to glorify the Father and the Spirit lives to glorify the Father and SonJohn 17:1,5 16:14 13:31, 32
We pray to the Father in the name of the Son. Just because the Father is supreme it does not diminish from the divinity of Jesus & the Holy Spirit
2007-01-08 06:46:34
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answered by jackbarrowiii 2
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Well first of all know that the term trinity is not in the Bible. Nor is it DIRECTLY taught in the Bible.
Jesus did say that once you had seen him you had seen the Father. Jesus knew that he had a heavenly origin. Yet when you observe Jesus he is praying to the Father, and has a real recongintion that he is the Son. It is not until after his ressurection does he allow anyone to worship him. So I believe the teaching developed from some of Jesus' teachings but was taught primarily by his followers. Probably followers earlier than Paul.
2007-01-08 06:33:43
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answered by Anonymous
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From the various things Jesus said, I’m pretty sure he knew.
Concerning the trinity, I was telling my mother that a lot of people on here seem to have trouble with the concept.
Here is here explanation.
Look at time. You have the past, the present and the future or what was, what is and what will be. But they are all part of time.
Or look at a man. Over the course of his life the same person was boy, husband and father.
2007-01-08 06:37:02
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answered by Anonymous
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the first person to come up with a theme on the existence of God that i know of I found in the book by Usebius, on the history of the church, since I lost everyting I owned and got rid of my small library of books and study helps and references. There is one person who compiled the imagination of what and who god is.
I think many christian traditons on the trinity came from this same person.
But GOD is not an all spirit being, that is invisible and unseen forever by the Those that are his freinds and servants. God has been described as having eyes, body parts and passions. We are created after his image, likeness, and form.
So we look like him and he looks like us.
If he is Spirit Alone! In our natural forms we are spirit alone too. but jesus has a spiritual body that is resurrected and that body also has gender and is eternally created to give life forever.
There fore do not ask about the trinity, it is the imagination of a man, wherefore, ask about the Godhead, which the bible speaks of at least 2 or 3 times.
As for paul teaching the trinity. that assumption may be based on what others have taught you. For clearly it is written that there 3 in heaven that rule and reign for this Earth. They "agree" and are united in one purpose. But Jesus said there is only ONE that does Good, and he denied it was him. He also prayed that ALL OF US can become "ONE" with them, which implies that billions of people can make up the godhead, not just the three. This includes the power to become sons of God and the holy angels who are called sons of god.
I wish i can find all these these scripture verses but there may be enough key words to do a word search in CD lexicons. I hope you have one. Please get back to me, my email receives messages from yahoo answers.
2007-01-08 07:22:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Neither.
Jesus taught that we are to worship his Father.
Jesus 60 years after his resurrection continued to worship his God.
Matt 4:10 Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’”
Rev 3:12 “‘The one that conquers—I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will by no means go out [from it] anymore, and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God,
Paul taught:
1 Cor 11:3 But I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.
Rom 15:5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, 6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Even John did not beieve in a trinity.
Rev 1:6 and he made us to be a kingdom, priests to his God and Father—yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. Amen.
The trinity teaching is a fulfillment of the apostacy Paul warned about in
2 Thess. 2:3 Let no one seduce YOU in any manner, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction.
So the man of lawlessnes, the son of destruction is anyone who teaches Jesus is God, the Father.
As to who taught it first, I'm not sure, but it did not become an official teaching until the 4th century.
2007-01-08 06:43:41
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answered by TeeM 7
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jesus states clearly in the true bible that he is ONLY a human being a simple man like everyone else - he didn't tell us anything about the trinity it was men way after him that made it up and slowly more and more changes were made to the bible as misinterpretations were made and changes to suit the ppl made. therfore unfortunately truth cannot be distinguished with false ideas and facts in the bible nowadays that is why in the quraan god reaches out to christians and jews and asks them to follow islam as the quraan is the only holy book to not even have a letter changed.
2007-01-08 06:35:39
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answered by miz 2
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20 B.C-40.C.E.......Philo of Alexandria....Philo’s writings led to a religious revolution. His influence led nominal Christians to adopt the unscriptural doctrine of the immortality of the soul. And Philo’s teaching about the Logos (or, Word) contributed to the development of the Trinity, a non-Biblical dogma of apostate Christianity...
2007-01-08 06:53:48
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answered by papa G 6
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Since Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I AM," thus claiming the divine name YHWH for himself, I have a feeling he knew a little bit about the Trinity.
2007-01-08 06:28:15
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answered by Anonymous
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There is no trinity, there is only ONE God and his name is Jesus.
2007-01-08 06:28:26
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answered by Miss k 3
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