The Trinity and the Incarnation

[Peterlag]

So you will promote a doctrine that says your little clan has the only truths and that everyone else is wrong. That is narrow indeed.

I did not bring up the majority subject. You did.

 

[360watt]

Paul, writing to churches .. included the equality of Jesus with the Father and the Holy Spirit before catholicism was heard of.

You go around 300 years after Jesus before catholicism gets going.

 

[Peterlag]

Paul, writing to churches .. included the equality of Jesus with the Father and the Holy Spirit before catholicism was heard of.

You go around 300 years after Jesus before catholicism gets going.

A study of the history of the Christian Church shows a definite development in the doctrine of the Trinity over the centuries. For example, the early form of the Apostles Creed (believed to date back to shortly after the time of the apostles themselves) does not mention the Trinity or the dual nature of Christ. The Nicene Creed that was written in 325 AD and modified later added the material about Jesus Christ being “eternally begotten” and the "true God” and about the Holy Spirit being “Lord.” But it was the Athanasian Creed that was most likely composed in the latter part of the 4th century or possibly even as early as the 5th century that was the first creed to explicitly state the doctrine of the Trinity.

It seems it would have been clearly stated in the Bible and in the earliest Christian creeds if the doctrine of the Trinity was genuine and central to Christian belief and especially if belief in it was necessary for salvation as many Trinitarians teach. God gave the Scriptures to the Jewish people, and the Jewish religion and worship that comes from that revelation does not contain any reference to or teachings about a triune God. Surely the Jewish people were qualified to read and understand it, but they never saw the doctrine of the Trinity.