did the people of the old testament know God exist as a trinity?

Answer 1

No.
They dealt with a singular Almighty God.
(Exodus 6:3) And I used to appear to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but as respects my name Jehovah I did not make myself known to them.

(Exodus 3:13-15) Nevertheless, Moses said to the [true] God: “Suppose I am now come to the sons of Israel and I do say to them, ‘The God of YOUR forefathers has sent me to YOU,’ and they do say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14 At this God said to Moses: “I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL PROVE TO BE.” And he added: “This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘I SHALL PROVE TO BE has sent me to YOU.’” 15 Then God said once more to Moses: “This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to YOU.’ This is my name to time indefinite, and this is the memorial of me to generation after generation.

Jesus WAS in existence alongside his Father, but the early Jews knew nothing of him. But they were aware that a Messiah was promised. Genesis 3;15
Proverbs 8; 22-31

Answer 2

Aurora Dawn, Atheist, makes a good point. God didn't mention that he was a part of a trinity for thousands of years because he isn't. The trinity is a pagan concept which the church pinched in the 4th century. Jesus never said he was part of a trinity either, instead, when he talked about his father he said "the Father is greater than I am," (John 14:28) not we are equal. The New Encyclopedia Britannica says "Neither the word trinity, not the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the NT, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the OT: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord' (Deut 6:4)." (1976, Micropedia, vol. X, p. 126) Interestingly The New Catholic Encyclopedia says "The formulation 'one God in three Persons' was not solidly established, certainly not fully ASSIMILATED (capitals mine) into Christian life and it's profession of faith prior to the end of the 4th century............. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotley approaching such a mentality or perspective" (1967, Vol XIV, p 299) Coincidently, the word assimiliated means' to liken, to take into the substance of' in other words to take from one idea and blend it into another. This from the very pens of those who developed the idea of the trinity in the first place.

Answer 3

Even the people in the New Testament did not have a knowledge of the Trinity.as its not mentioned in the Bible...it was only about 300 AD that the concept of the Holy Trinity was formalised.

Answer 4

No. They only dealt with God the Father. Jesus and the Holy Spirit weren't revealed until the days of the new testament. Peace and God bless.

Answer 5

Tara has cracked this one... in Genesis God talks in a way that suggest more than one ''let US'' and there are over bits as-well (sorry my text finding is rubbish).
I suspect old testament people believed in God as exsisting in more that one person even if they had not heard of jesus

Answer 6

YES,,,,,,king david often asked for the help of the holy spirit/ or that the holy spirit not be taken away from him,also he knew that there was going to be a messiah/ or son of god, that was going to be the key to his salvation, often praises the messiah all over the book of of psalm try reading "psalm 22 and think of jesus on the cross,remember this was written before jesus was born!!!!! maybe 1-2 thousand years before

Answer 7

After years of searching I finally found a trinity in the OT.

Harper’s Bible Dictionary

Baal / Bel ,

“ translates into English as Lord

offspring of El, (El is Hebrew for God)

worshiped as a triad / trinity.”


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Where did I hear this teaching recently?

Sounds like a teaching of Satan, What do you think?

Who is fulfilling this prophecy?

(Jeremiah 23:27) 27 They are thinking of making my people forget my name by means of their dreams that they keep relating each one to the other, just as their fathers forgot my name by means of Ba´al.


Even if ‘Sam’ is a Grandfather, Father, and Son, Sam still has only one will, unless he is mentally disturbed or Sam is three different individuals. Sam Sr., Sam Jr., & Sam III.

It is by God’s will we have salvation.

Jehovah is the only true God.

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Answer 8

Nope the trinity didn't exist until the new testament

Answer 9

I know in Genesis God says us like he is made of more than one thing, I'm sure he imparted this wisdom to those that would seek it back in the day, he says it in his word.
Let us make man in our image . . . Gen 1:26

Answer 10

W-a-r and T-o-r-t-u-r-e

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." -- Anne Coulter, Christian Peace Activist

Conquer,Convert or kill them.

"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism.

This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault.

The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.

The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God.

These “pagans” (Islam and Judaism) must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)



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