The Orginator of the Trinity?

Question

Church History

Answer 1

You mean the revelation of the Trinity. The Trinity was always there, it just took a while before this truth was fully revealed and even then it is not properly understood.

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Answer 2

The origin of the Christian trinity lies in the British Isles with the druids and pagans. When the Romans, and with them the Roman Catholic church, came to Brittania there were people that worshiped a goddess as their main deity. A GODDESS, a woman of all things, can you believe it? The goddess had three main cycles, Maiden, Mother and Crone, represented at times by a knot a lot like the knot represented on the Book of Shadows on the TV show Charmed. In order combat this obvious demon worship, the church came up with the idea of a Christian trinity. The Maiden, the Mother and the Crone were replaced by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost/Spirit. Slowly this spread from just being used in Britain to the main office in Rome, and took hold from there.

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Answer 3

In 325 C.E., a council of bishops in Nicea in Asia Minor formulated a creed that declared the Son of God to be “true God” just as the Father was “true God.” Part of that creed stated:

“But as for those who say, There was [a time] when [the Son] was not, and, Before being born He was not, and that He came into existence out of nothing, or who assert that the Son of God is of a different hypostasis or substance, or is created, or is subject to alteration or change—these the Catholic Church anathematizes.”3

Thus, anyone who believed that the Son of God was not coeternal with the Father or that the Son was created was consigned to everlasting damnation. One can imagine the pressure to conform that this put on the mass of ordinary believers.

In the year 381 C.E., another council met in Constantinople and declared that the holy spirit should be worshiped and glorified just as the Father and Son were. One year later, in 382 C.E., another synod met in Constantinople and affirmed the full divinity of the holy spirit.4 That same year, before a council in Rome, Pope Damasus presented a collection of teachings to be condemned by the church. The document, called the Tome of Damasus, included the following statements:

“If anyone denies that the Father is eternal, that the Son is eternal, and that the Holy Spirit is eternal: he is a heretic.”

“If anyone denies that the Son of God is true God, just as the Father is true God, having all power, knowing all things, and equal to the Father: he is a heretic.”

“If anyone denies that the Holy Spirit . . . is true God . . . has all power and knows all things, . . .  he is a heretic.”

“If anyone denies that the three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are true persons, equal, eternal, containing all things visible and invisible, that they are omnipotent, . . .  he is a heretic.”

“If anyone says that [the Son who was] made flesh was not in heaven with the Father while he was on earth: he is a heretic.”

Trinitarians may say that the Bible “implies” a Trinity. But this claim is made long after the Bible was written. It is an attempt to read into the Bible what clergymen of later times arbitrarily decided should be doctrine.

Ask yourself: Why would the Bible only “imply” its most important teaching—who God is? The Bible is clear on other basic teachings; why not on this, the most important one? Would not the Creator of the universe author a book that was clear on his being a Trinity if that were the case?

The reason the Bible does not clearly teach the Trinity doctrine is simple: It is not a Bible teaching. Had God been a Trinity, he would surely have made it clear so that Jesus and his disciples could have taught it to others. And that vital information would have been included in God’s inspired Word. It would not have been left to imperfect men to struggle with centuries later.

Answer 4

Seed of Trinity was seeded by Paul.
He tried to present Jesus in divine form, and started a permanent distortion in human mind about pure divinity of The God Almighty.

Then a total confusion induced in Holy Bible as " Punter " already tried to explain.

http://www.irf.net
http://www.beconvinced.com

Answer 5

Is there any limit of biblical/Christian absurdity.
‘Christ according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded form the Father and Son, but was an equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.’

Answer 6

Triads have been used to justify huge building works since ancient times. These buildings have not put worker's health and safety first. The payoff is pride.

Genesis 11:3, 4
They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

Answer 7

LineDancer and angafeabeta, thanks for your elegant explanations. Together they are dynamite. Careful critical reading of Matt 28 does not say or imply that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one and the same essence, although the scriptures imply they have a close working relationship and work as one in thought, purpose, and deed. Oneness isn't equal to sameness in essense. Christ was God's creation. He says so himself.

Answer 8

It comes from the teachings of Christ. He makes explicit reference to the Trinity in Matthew chapter 28:

Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Answer 9

Check out the Council of Nicea, thats when the trinity was invented

Answer 10

Here is a good site for church history:
http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/getting_started_pocm.html