Rebecca,

Clement's writings no more prove the Trinity than they prove Philo's belief about the created Logos. The point being, there is nothing definitive from the earliest church fathers that shows the earliest christians believed in and worshipped a Trinity.

If you read what I quoted from Josephus, I think you'd realize that Jews of the 1st century all believed in the very same, absolute Unity that Jews believe in today. This is why the Trinity is a god Jews never knew. There's simply no way whatsoever that James, Peter, etc.., could have survived for so long within the Temple confines of Jerusalem preaching about a Trinity. They would have been executed immediately as false prophets. Josephus records that Jews generally were outraged about the death of James the "Just". Why? Because he was still acceptable to the Jews of that time period. Gamaliel apparently had no great issue with James or Peter because they were all "unitarian" Jews. There would have been nothing "Just" about an apostate Jew preaching about and worshipping a Trinity. There's simply no way James would have been allowed to flaunt that kind of idolatry for so long within and around the Temple area. It wouldn't have been tolerated. This is yet another argument for the Ebionites, who claimed to have descended from James' church. They were "unitarian", observant Jews like James. Not necessarily as kosher as Jews who followed Bar Kochba as Messiah ~135 ACE (like Akiva), but certainly not as blatantly unkosher as Trinitarian, non-observant apostates.

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