Since the "trinity" predates Jesus (as in birth life death, or spring renewal, summer life, winter death)

Question

Does that mean christians actually worship Pagan deities and know it not?

Answer 1

The teaching of the trinity is a false teaching. There's actually four.
But as to the answer to your question, that would be a yes.
Not only Christians, but the people have been brought up believing in false teachings, that includes the atheist.
One of the prophecies in the bible is that it says the people, not some or certain people, but the people, are going to be convinced to believe the false teachings as being true.
There'll be only one man on the earth who'll know better than to believe the false teachings.
Only on man on the earth in the last days will know which teachings will be true or false.
That is so very true.
That is one of the prophecies that's to happen in the last days.
That's one of the prophecies, that even the scholars and priest have overlooked, or misinterpreted.
The only true priest will not walk the earth until in the last days. That one and only true priest will not be God.
Jesus Christ was God himself.
The only true priest isn't Jesus Christ as all of the false priests have been preaching. That's why so many people are confused about who Jesus Christ actually is.
Jesus Christ is the father. The father is God.
The father manifest in the flesh to appear in the image of his son. An image is a likeness, not the actual.
Jesus Christ was a likeness of his son, not the actual.
People has been seriously brainwashed to believe false teachings about who Jesus Christ actually is.
The bible clearly warns that no man or angel will know who the father is or who the son is, even when he's born and living on the earth, they they still will not know.
Had any of you heard a preacher say that God will delusion sinners to believe a lie. Had not the preachers at the same time say all people are sinners?
Had not any of the preachers say that the bible warns that all people on the earth will have been brought up being convinced to believe the false teachings as being true?
Trinity? There's actually 4.
Don't believe me? Read revelations, it mentions about the 4 moving straightward, none bending.

Answer 2

Actually the concept of the Trinity as taught by the Apostles (not as taught by today's church) was around in Judaism long before Yeshua (Jesus). it can be found in Kabbalistic writing that are supposedly handed down form the times of Moses. The Gospel of John in full of Kabbalistic term, such as the Word of God which corresponds to the second of the 10 sefirot on the tree. (There are ten. the First three correspond to the Father, the Word, and the Spirit. The rest describe specific aspects of the Almighty's being)

In the Shema (an ancient Jewish prayer based on the text of Deut 6:4) The almighty is refered to as Echod (one). This concept is one of unity, not simple singleness. Echod is what two people are to become when they become "one flesh" through marraige. They become a complex unity, not a single body. Thus in the nature of the Almighty. A complex Unity

Answer 3

The Trinity has nothing to do with life and death. The Trinity explains the one God n his 3 forms: the father, the son(Jesus) and the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Augustine wrote an elegantly constructed treatise on the Christian understanding of the Trinity entitled De Trinitate. In this text, he cleary differentiates the Christian conception of the Trinity from an understanding of three gods. Highly recommended reading.

Answer 5

Beliefs and Attitudes of Christendom:
1.)God is a Trinity: "The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God" (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912 edition)

2.)Images, icons, and crosses are used in worship: "The images...of Christ. of the Virgin Mother of God, and of the other saints, are to be...kept in churches and due reverenceand honor to be paid to them." (Declaration of the Council of Trent [1545-63])
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What the Bible Really says:
1.)The Bible says that Jehovah is greater than Jesus and is the God and head of Christ. The holy spirit is God's active force.
---Acts 2:21 And everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.
---Revelation 4:11 You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things and because of your will they existed and were created.

2.)Christians must flee from every sort of idolatry, including so-called relative worship. They worship God not by sight but with spirit and truth.
---Exodus 20:1, 5 And God proceeded to speak all these words, saying; "I am Jehovah your God, who have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves. You must not have have any other gods against my face. You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth. You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them, because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion, bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons, upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation, in the case of those that hate me."
---1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry.
---1 John 5:21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.
---2 Corinthians 5:7 For we are walking by faith, not by sight.
---John 4:23, 24 Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.

Answer 6

Nothing predates Jesus. He is the I AM, the one God with the Father and the Holy Spirit. They are one and have been, are and will always be.

Jesus became human at His conception. He became, is now, and will always be both God and human. He always has been at one with the rest of the Godhead. At His conception He came into the world from Heaven. He was not created at His conception. He existed before that. He just wasn't human yet.

Jesus cannot have been created. He is the creator.

Yours in Christ Jesus, Grace

Answer 7

"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." --- Thomas Jefferson

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ is the greatest fiction of human history.” (Lord Bishop of Canterbury Commission, the Spiritual Head of England, 1910.)

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, the blood sacrifice of the lamb of God, atonement are not the teachings of Jesus. These are all inventions of Saint Paul who never really met Jesus.” (Hastings Rashdall, The Theory of Good and Evil)

"Initially there were 34 gospels that were compiled by word of mouth. Four were chosen for unclear reasons and 30 were left behind [burned]. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

“There is strong reason to believe that St. Paul fabricated the belief system of Christianity from Zoroastrian mythology. In order to hide Paul’s plaigerism… Christians burned the library of Alexandria in 390 A.D. Books in that library kept Mithra’s original story of what Pauline Doctrine is an almost exact copy. (George Sarton , Introduction to History of Sciences) ,

Although Nontrinitarian beliefs continued to multiply, and among some people (such as the Lombards in the West) it was dominant for hundreds of years afterward, the Trinitarians gained the immense power of the Roman Empire. Nontrinitarians typically argue that the primitive beliefs of the Christianity were systematically suppressed (often to the point of death), and that the historical record, perhaps also including the Scriptures of the New Testament, was altered as a consequence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism

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Answer 8

The Christian concept of the trinity actually post-dates Jesus by almost 400 years.

But your point is well taken - many Christian concepts evolved from earlier mythologies (walking on water, virgin birth, demigods, etc).

Answer 9

we are no longer our physique. we don't stop at our pores and skin. we are an power (as is all issues) pronounced as our soul and it homes our physique. while the project pronounced as our physique "dies", the flexibility that we are remains there. power can't die - EVER. So sure, we are "alive" until now we are born and "alive" while we "die". that is impossible to no longer be. LOVE. peace and mild-weight. peacefromken.

Answer 10

It can't predate as it is Him,His Father, the Holy Ghost. Nothing was titled "trinity" before Jesus.