Do you think the trinity is a pagan doctrine?

Question

Well, my final question of the day.

If you don't believe it then you don't have enough faith?

Isn't faith simply believing in God?

This is but one site I've found on the subject:
http://www.biblicalunitarian.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=63

What are your thoughts?

So because they are unitarian that makes this all of a sudden false?

How about these sources then?
http://www.heaven.net.nz/writings/trinity.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/greywlf/trinity.html

http://assemblyoftrueisrael.com/Documents/TheGodheadmystery.html

http://www.voiceofjesus.org/index34.html

http://www.thunderministries.com/history/notrinity.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/sbrandt/nicea.htm

Answer 1

yes, Babylonian in origin if i am remembering correctly

the only number to describe God in the Bible is 1 and it is a commandment not faith

Deu 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:


God said out right over and over "there is none beside me"

Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

Isa 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

Isa 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.

Isa 47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Zep 2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me:

Answer 2

Totally Pagan

Answer 3

"Pagans don't believe in God, they believe in "things" and "self". "

I think JOE BEAM has been drinking too much JIM BEAM. You should never go around saying what other people believe, if you have absolutely no clue. This is where persecution stems from- ignorance.

Of course the Trinity is Pagan- along with everything else that is christian.

Answer 4

WHOA!!!!!!! You're using a UNI-tarian website to explain about the TRI-unity (Trinity)?

First -- Constantine did NOT make Christianity the religion of the empire....Constantine made Christianity LEGAL. It did not become the religion of the empire until a few emporers later -- under Theodosius I in 380. Here are the order of emporers:

311-37: Constantine I
337-40: Constantine II
337-61: Constantius II
337-50: Constans
361-63: Julian
363-64: Jovian
364-75: Valentinian I
364-78: (East) Valens
375-83: (West) Gratian
375-92: (West) Valentinian II
379-95: (West) Theodosius

And their works:

312: Constantine becomes emperor
313: Constantine ends the persecution of the Christians (edict of Milano)
313: the Basilica of Maxentius is completed
313: Constantine recognizes the Christian church
330: Constantine I builds a new city, Constantinople (Byzantium)
337: after Constantine's death, his sons split the empire: Constantine II (Spain, Britain, Gaul), Constans I (Italy, Africa, Illyricum, Macedon, Achaea) and Constantius II (the East)
356: Roma has 28 libraries, 10 basilicas, 11 public baths, two amphitheaters, three theaters, two circuses, 19 aqueducts, 11 squares, 1,352 fountains, 46,602 insulae (city blocks)
359: Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman empire
360: pagan (Mithraist) general Julian (the "apostate") defeats an invasion of Barbarians and is declared emperor by his German troops
363: Julian dies attempting to invade the Sassanid kingdom of Persia, which recaptures Nisibis and Armenia, and general Valentinian becomes emperor
363: an earthquake destroys Petra
364: Valentinian delegates Valens as emperor of the East
376: Valens allows Visigoths to settle within the empire
378: the Visigoths defeat the Roman army at Hadrianopolis
380: Theodosius I proclaims Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire

Shame on the Unitarians who run that web site for not doing their research better!

The word Trinity never appears in all of Scripture....yet it is there in veiled language:

"...then God said, 'let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness'...." (GEN 1:24)

Then in Gen. 18, the Lord appeared to Abram as three men....but Abram bowed down to THEM and addressed THEM as "sir"....not sirs.

Jesus told his apostles to baptize in the NAME of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit....not in the names.

For the record, the term "incarnation" is not in Scripture, either...yet that is what Jesus did....he took on our flesh....

Answer 5

The Unitarian church or religion or false doctrine limits the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Bible states that God is spirit and a consuming fire. Without Jesus Christ how can man see God? Without the Holy Spirit how can God be in man? Genesis states that I am created in the image of God. His image is Jesus. Jesus was with God the Father at creation and so was the Holy Spirit.

Answer 6

Of course it is. Christianity has been re written so many times and people will still say it has never once changed. I think religious history should be required study.

Answer 7

Of course,all of the three Abraham desert religions of north Africa are base on and a out growth of paganism.

Answer 8

Yes I think it is pagan.

Answer 9

If you look deep enough you will discover the triennial nature in everything.

Answer 10

Pagans don't believe in God, they believe in "things" and "self".