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Quote:"Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jsus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: 'Hear, O Israel: The L-rd our G-d is one (an only) L-rd' -- Deut. 6:4
Quote:The early Xian philosopher Origen used phrases such as two G-ds in discussing the creed. Justin Martyr speaks of a second G-d. And then of course, there is the decidedly polytheistic Xian doctrine of the Holy Trinity. The idea that G-d can manifest in three persons is identical with the Pagan concept of the many natures or faces of the one supreme ineffable G-d. The notion of the divine trinity is not found in Judaism, but is prefigured by Paganism. Aristotle writes of the Pythagorean doctrine that the whole and everything in it is comprehended the by the number three, for end, middle and beginning have the number of the whole that is the trinity. Hundreds of years earlier an ancient Egyptian text has G-d proclaim: Being one I became Three. Another reads:There are all the G-ds, Amon, Ra, Ptah, there are none like them. Hidden in his name as Amon, he is Ra, his body is Ptah. He is manifested in Amon, with Ra and Ptah, the three united.
Quote:We often hear that the doctrine of the holy Trinity is not found in the Bible. In the sense of the philosophical statements that later theologians loved, this is true. .
Quote:It has been rightly said that the (GT) contains no doctrine of the Trinity. (pg 49).
Quote:there is no developed doctrine of the Trinity enunciated in the New Testament, ..."(front of book).
Quote:"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."
Quote:In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. . .(it is) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A. D. 180 .
Quote:To J* and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . . they say nothing about it."
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