After doing research about the trinity & knowing the truth behind it,how can trinitarians still accept it?

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for example we can trace the history of this doctrine,&discover its source,not in the Christian revelation, but in the Platonic philosophy..the Trinity is not a doctrine of Christ & his apostles, but a fiction of the school of the later Platonists.(for more go to google on the article: The Lost Doctrine of Christianity:the doctrine of the Trinity.
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knowing it came from the Greeks, pagans how can you accept it when God told us not to accept anything not of him?

First of all I'm already a follower of Chirst, got baptized through a church of christ,etc.. but as I read the bible & also did research for my self learning the history of the trinity concept it did not originate with christ or the apostles.
to me it is simple, God,the creator of everything is my Father,my creator,
Jesus is his son,& since I too am a child of God he is my brother(with the rights to the everlasting throne~kingdom as king)
The website was one I had, I also have one I printed out the articles:
http://www.ynca.com/Mini%20Studies/truth_about_the_trinity.htm

Again I have the truth God gave me, but I once to believed in the trinity until I saw what is now exposed,but I'm not here ot change peoples minds,I'm here to ask why if you KNOW the truth about it, why do you still follow the falseness of it? Because the preachers hold on to it?I know some churches not mainstream that donot teach the trinity, but do teach SoundDoctrine bible teachings.

Answer 1

Why do they accept it? Because they want to. Why do they want to? That's a separate question.

Answer 2

There are two different forms of belief.

Modalism does not allow distinctiveness of the three persons in the Trinity.

There are various forms of Modalism. One is that the "Godhead" shows Himself in three different forms or modes. These are either consecutive and in some forms simultaneous.

This is one being, three forms, and one mind. These are not distinct persons just different "faces".

http://www.carm.org/heresy/modalism.htm...

The other one is the Trinity. This is the form of Three in one God that most Christians are supposed to be in agreement about.

The Trinity

God is a trinity of persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the same person as the Son; the Son is not the same person as the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit is not the same person as Father. They are not three gods and not three beings. They are three distinct persons; yet, they are all the one God. They are coeternal, coequal, and copowerful.

http://www.carm.org/doctrine/trinity.htm...

As you read this you may see that there is very little difference between Trinity and Modalism. But to believe one is heretical and to believe the other is truth by what is agreed on by most Christians.

To Islam this is polytheism and to non Trinitarians it is Pagan.

Each person that studies the bible has to pray and ask God for the truth to be manifested.

I hope you find what your looking for...

Peace -C

Answer 3

Bar_Enosh presented the applicable clarification. of path, if Trinitarians *definitely* seen the history of the form of the Trinity Doctrine, they might see it for what it somewhat is...an unscriptural, guy-made, pagan custom. I one element (out of many) that I often discover humorous (and totally demonstrates their lack of information of the definition of the very subject that they have faith in) is while people who have faith interior the trinity often describe the three matters of the Trinity as "GOD, the Son and the Holy Spirit". of path, the daddy is God, yet making use of the word "God" particularly of "Father" particularly identifies God as a separate and different man or woman FROM the Son and the Holy Spirit and thereby runs opposite to their very own theory!

Answer 4

God is referred to quite a few times in the gospels as either Father, Son or Holy Spirit. At one time Christ uses all of these names together, when he says "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" (Matthew 28:19). He evidently means we should baptize in the name of God, and He uses these three names to signify God. The only way someone could claim that the three persons of the trinity are not part of Christian revelation would be

(a) they have never read the gospels
(b) they have read them without noticing the references to Father, Son and Holy Spirt

The word "trinity" itself does not occur in the gospels, but God is described as three distinct persons and we now use the word trinity to describe this scriptural three-in-one nature of God. The word "eucharist" does not occur in the gospels either, but we know it refers to the body and blood of Christ which is in the gospels. The Trinity is not a teaching "made up" by anyone but an observation based directly upon the words of Christ Himself in scripture. It is a very difficult concept and this is why many people object to it. A human being is incapable of thinking of something as being one and three at the same time. It is impossible for us to conceive of this - we can think of one thing and we can think of three things, but not something that is one and three at the same time. We can use analogies, like water existing as ice, liquid, and steam and still being water, but we still imagine each type of water separately. This conceptual problem is similar to what happens when we try to imagine God's timelessness. We know that God exists outside of time, but it is not possible for us to conceive of a timeless being. We inevitably imagine any being we can think of as being part of time, because we are part of time and have never experienced anything else. Maybe some day we will exist outside of time and then we will know what this means, but until this happens we will never truly be able to understand what it means when we say God is timeless. In the same way we can describe the Trinity and produce trinitarian theology but we will never really understand the Trinity unless we can some day see God directly, which is what we hope and pray for.

Answer 5

I don't know what you think that you are talking about and I don't care because it is wrong. The Trinity is in the gospels by the Words of Jesus Christ. The Trinity is a doctrine of Christ and His apostles. Christ said, "I and the Father are One." "If you've seen Me, you 've seen the Father."

You need to learn the Bible.

Answer 6

The oneness of the Father, Son,and Spirit are plainly shown in scripture. Read the Bible for yourself instead of relying on the opinion of other people.

Answer 7

that website is confusing, it says we've been deceived in believing in a trinity(that God is of 3 parts), when instead we should believe God is a family(as in more than 3 parts)


lost*eu/21618
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Answer 8

2 Cor 4:4 comes to mind.

If we believe that Jesus is more than an image of God, then we are blinded.

If we believe that Jesus is more than an image of God, then we are unbelievers.

The glory of Christ is than of being the only begotten Son of God.

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Answer 9

Beats me! But maybe it's easier for some folks to accept and continue on with what they already know/believe than to study about and learn for themselves and then change their minds and opinions.

Answer 10

I agree, there is no trinity, It is a man made doctrine made mainly by the catholic church.