The early church waged many battles over whether there was one G-d, two gods (Marcion) or three gods.

Marcion lived around 100-160 CE and was a bishop. Dualism.

Then there were the early Xians who believe in the trinity. It isn't mentioned until the mid to late 2nd century. Even then some believed it and others didn't. It was a big battle in early Xianity -- between the Jerusalem church who didn't buy into it and the Roman church who did.

Council of Nicea, 325 CE codified the trinity as a Xian belief.

But look for it in the GT and you won't find it.

The concept of father, son and holy ghost three G-ds as one but separate is pagan.

The New Encyclopedia Britannica

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"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


The J-sus Mysteries: Was the "Original J-sus" a Pagan G-d?
by Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy:

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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.



Revelation : Doubleday Bible Commentary (Doubleday Bible Commentary) by MARCUS MAXWELL

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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. .


The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity
by Stephen T. Davis, et al

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It has been rightly said that the (GT) contains no doctrine of the Trinity. (pg 49).


The Shadow of the Almighty: Father, Son, and Spirit in Biblical Perspective by Ben Witherington, Laura M. Ice

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there is no developed doctrine of the Trinity enunciated in the New Testament, ..."(front of book).


The Illustrated Bible Dictionary

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"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."


The Catholic Encyclopedia:

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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 .


The Origin and Evolution of Religion by Albert Churchward:

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To J* and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . . they say nothing about it."


Many Xians claim that they are monotheistic and worship one god. Yet the concept of the trinity is THREE gods. They try and get around this by saying the three gods are one, but three are three. The concept is NOT Jewish. There is no supporting concept in the Tanach.

Neither is the trinity a belief followed by all Xians. Many, yes -- maybe even most. Not all.
And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Genesis, 21:12