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Chaim ben Yaakov
Trinitarian christians simply did not exist back then.


God , His Word and His Spirit are revealed in the GT as divine. The early christians were all believers in the personal divinity of the Christ and of the Spirit of God: this is the newness of the coming of Christ. They may not have had the philosophical terms for it, but they did worship the One God in His Christ and through His Spirit.

In time, during the first, second and third century, it became necessary to formulate the doctrine of the Trinity (with the help of pagan philosophy!), because there grew more and more false teachings about God, His Christ and the Spirit. That was done in the first councels.

Quote:
Sophie
You seem to be confusing descriptions with BEINGS.


Trinity is not about 'beings'; Christianity does not 'have three gods'; this would be blasphemy of course. "One in nature/essence/being with the Father" as the creed says. The Word, Spirit and the Father are One Being with One 'Name', but also three hypostases/persons, in complete oneness united.

Quote:
David
In Hebrew bible G-d is revealed as one
maybe Hebrew poetry is not known to you


2Sam.23:2. The spirit of the Lord spoke in me, And His word was upon my tongue.

Is this also poetry? I think not.

The HT does not explicitly reveal a trinity, but there are a lot of 'notions' of trinitarity.
When Christ came he revealed God to the full. Christ opened up the fullness of God to all mankind: He made God known to all the nations; the barrier/wall between gentile and Jew was taken away; Christ became the rightful owner of everything: the heathen world became His to sanctify everything. That is why, imo, there seems to be so much paganism in Christianity. He opened up the heathen world to bring in everything that is good, holy and righteous; this was not possible before Christ, under the Law of Moses.
God worked with His blessings and judgements among the gentile nations too; the pagan peoples searched for Him, that they may find Him and He allowed it to be that way. Not everything of pagan life/religions is to be rejected; and now "in Christ", freed from the boundaries of the Law, it can be sanctified and brought into the Kingdom.
Is this not what the Christ is supposed to do?

Aad