Who Invented The Trinity
Who Invented The Trinity
Who Invented The Trinity
(part 1 of 2)
Description: How the concept of the Trinity was introduced into the Christian doctrine.
By Aisha Brown (iiie.net)
Published on 30 Jul 2007 - Last modified on 09 Dec 2012
Category: Articles >Comparative Religion > Christianity
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." (Deuteronomy 6:4)
It was repeated word-for-word approximately 1500 years later by Jesus, when he said:
"...The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord." (Mark
12:29)
Muhammad came along approximately 600 years later, bringing the same message
again:
"And your God is One God: there is no God but He..." (Quran 2:163)
Christianity has digressed from the concept of the Oneness of God, however, into a
vague and mysterious doctrine that was formulated during the fourth century. This
doctrine, which continues to be a source of controversy both within and outside the
Christian religion, is known as the Doctrine of the Trinity. Simply put, the Christian
doctrine of the Trinity states that God is the union of three divine persons - the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit - in one divine being.
If that concept, put in basic terms, sounds confusing, the flowery language in the
actual text of the doctrine lends even more mystery to the matter:
"...we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity... for there is one Person of
the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one... they are not
1) baptism in the early Church, as discussed by Paul in his letters, was done only in the name of
Jesus; and
2) the "Great Commission" was found in the first gospel written, that of Mark, bears no mention
of Father, Son and/or Holy Ghost - see Mark 16:15.
The only other reference in the Bible to a Trinity can be found in the Epistle of 1 John
5:7. Biblical scholars of today, however, have admitted that the phrase:
"...there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one"
...is definitely a "later addition" to Biblical text, and it is not found in any of today's
versions of the Bible.
It can, therefore, be seen that the concept of a Trinity of divine beings was not an idea
put forth by Jesus or any other prophet of God. This doctrine, now subscribed to by
Christians all over the world, is entirely man-made in origin.
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