No not at all , it is a false man made doctrine started in the Catholic church by Constantine the great in apx 325AD
2007-09-23 00:16:25
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answered by pestie58 the spider hunter 6
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It is a given that the word "trinity" is not Biblical. But what of the concept? No. How can that be when the Catholic Church did not make the trinity official until over 300 years AFTER the Bible had been completed. As A Catholic Dictionary notes: “The third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362 . . . and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381.” Before that there was no trinity!
Can you find ONE scripture that says that God is made up of three distinct persons, Father, Son, and holy spirit, but that the three are only one God? Can you find ONE scripture that says that the Father, Son, and holy spirit are equal in all ways, such as in eternity, power, position, and wisdom? NO!
There is NO Biblical evidence of the trinity. Consider what Catholic and Protestant reference sources say:
The Illustrated Bible Dictionary records: "The word Trinity is not found in the Bible. . . It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century."
The New Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the Trinity "is not. . . directly and immediately the word of God."
The Encyclopedia of Religion And Ethics records: At first the Christian Faith was not Trinitarian. . . It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected in the New Testament and other early Christian writings."
The Encyclopedia of Religion admits: "Theologians today are in agreement that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity."
The New Catholic Encyclopedia also admits: "The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the Old Testament."
Jesuit Edmund Fortman wrote in his book, The Triune God: ". . . There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a Trinity within the Godhead. . . Even to see in the Old Testament suggestions or foreshadowings or 'veiled signs' of the trinity of persons, is to go beyond the words and intent of the sacred writers."
The Encyclopedia of Religion says: "Theologians agree that the New Testament also does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity."
The New Encyclopedia Britannica reports: "Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament."
The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology confirms: "The New Testament does not contain the developed doctrine of the Trinity."
The trinity is a falsehood.
2007-09-23 01:15:17
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answered by LineDancer 7
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Although the word does not exist in the Bible, the doctrine is surely there. Jesus did in fact claim to be God when He said "Before Abraham was born, I am." (John 8:58) "I AM" was the covenantal name for God. That is why some of the men listening at the time picked up rocks to stone Him (verse 59).
No where is the evidence for the separation of the three persons more evident than at Jesus' baptism. Jesus was being baptized by John, God the Father spoke from heaven, and the Holy Spirit desceded corporeally, like a dove, onto Jesus.
However all three are God. Throughout scripture, the eternal and moral attributes of God are used for all three persons. All three are omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. All three were present at Creation (read John chapter 1). And yet the Bible also clearly states that there is only one God, not three.
This confusing, seemingly paradoxical situation is not something Christians completely understand. But God is both familiar and a mystery. If you ever think you've got God all figured out, you've probably got a heresy on your hands.
This "trinity" is reflected imperfectly in nature: water exists as water, ice, and vapor. A single box has length, width, and height. We have nothing on this earth that illustrates the triune nature of God completely.
2007-09-23 00:16:12
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answered by Yonny 2
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Doctrine ,Yes( Matt 28:19) but the word,No
The Trinity's revelation pervades the Bible if you read it in light of Apostolic Tradition and the authoritative Church founded by Christ.
If God is Eternal Love,God has to be more than one Person in one totally united Being
2007-09-23 00:06:54
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answered by James O 7
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The doctrine is there, but it's not given a name. "In the beginning was the Word (Jesus) and the Word was with God (the Father).....". That takes care of two. Later, Jesus tells the apostles that he will send the Holy Spirit, who is the third part of the Trinity.
2007-09-23 00:06:01
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answered by Anonymous
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The doctrine of the Trinity is encapsulated in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the apostles to "go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
The parallelism of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is not unique to Matthew’s Gospel; it appears elsewhere in the New Testament (e.g., 2 Cor. 13:14; Heb. 9:14), as well as in the writings of the earliest Christians, who clearly understood them in the sense that we do today—that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three divine Persons who are one divine being (God).
2007-09-23 00:08:39
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answered by Sentinel 7
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Father, Son, Holy Spirit and the other Seven Spirits of God that are mentioned in Revelation......... no, the concept of the trinity is not biblical.
2007-09-23 00:07:53
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answered by Shawn B 7
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Nah! ... just another invention of the gradual apostate church post the first 100 years post Christ.
People killed all the apostles of His Son, so God just fulfilled His own earlier prophecy through Amos, and set a famine in the land - "A famine of hearing the word of God" ...
Fortunately, He has now returned prophets to the earth, in order to prepare those who would listen for the Son's 2nd Coming!
Are you listening?
2007-09-23 00:02:50
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answered by dr c 4
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The bible, which is inspired by the Holy Spirit, tells us of the work of God, who sent his own son Jesus, into the world to redeem mankind.
What do you think?
2007-09-23 01:32:59
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answered by Anonymous
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No. It's an extrapolation. The trinity was a concept debated heavily in the early church.
2007-09-23 00:01:16
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answered by Anonymous
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