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Originally posted by Neo
The Trinity doctrine says that they are all the same being.
It was made up by the church during the 3rd century in an attempt to explain how Jesus and God his Father could both be divine at the same time, and yet there only be one God. They wanted to eliminate the idea of tritheism. Before this doctrine was created, there was no 'official' view of God.
The Trinity says that The 3 are 1, yet the 3 are also seperate. It defies our logic as created beings, yet that is what the Bible teaches.
It wasn't made up in the 3rd century either, here are some dates and scholars who taught it prior...you are listening to a myth:
(AD 96) Clement, the third Bishop of Rome
(AD 90-100) The Teachings of the Twelve Apostles, the Didache
(AD 90?) Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch
(AD 155) Justin Martyr, great Christian writer
(AD 168) Theophilus, the sixth Bishop of Antioch
(AD 177) Athenagoras, theologian
(AD 180) Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons
There are plenty more than these prior to the 3rd Century. You haven't even grasped it yet, the Trinity is not a tritheistic belief...it's monotheistic.
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