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Quote:At the inception of Chrstianity, however, neither the concept of the Trinity nor the terms necessary to describe the idea existed. . . the process took hundreds of years. . .(page 1 . . ."Triadic arrangements of gods were surprisingly common in the ancient Near East. . .gods had bodies and were normally conceived in human form. . .Egypt had come closest to a doctrine of the Trinity in the pre-Xian era. . ."Xian Trinitarianism arosed instead out of the heated controversies over the nature of G-d among the various Xian groups. . ."Xians had not yet developed their central doctrine of G-d, the Trinity itself. It is fair to say that no one in the first century was a Trinitarian as the doctrine was later defined in the creeds of the 4th century. Trinitarianism was stimulated by the worship of the one G-d, the worship of Jsus as the Son of G-d, and the sense of the presence of G-d in the experience of the Spirit. . ."First Corinthians 8:6 has been termed a "binitarian" forumalation and it clearly embarassed scribes who copied the text in later times. In manuscripts stemming from after the era of the creeds of the 4th century, we find that scribes added a 3rd article to the binitarian formula: "and one Holy Spirit, in whom all things and we exist in it." In the time of the GT, however, not only had the relationship between the Father and Son not been clarified, but the very nature of the Holy Spirit had not been defined or even understood." (Pages 51-55).
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