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Chaim
If it was proven to you beyond a doubt that Jews never worshipped anything like a Trinity before Jesus' time, therefore proving the Trinity is a god Jews' fathers never knew, would that end your belief in Jesus - or would it shift your christian beliefs so that you'd believe more like a Unitarian?


Imo it is not at all "proven beyond a doubt that Jews never worshipped anything like a Trinity before Jesus' time"; I can imagine it is not perceivable for you a Jew would worship 'a Trinity'. My christian explanation for this is that the revelation of the nature of God (Gods self-revelation) got a boost at the beginning of the messianic age:
-because of the presence of the Christ, who made himself known as the Son in his unique relationship with God the Father, and
-because the Spirit of God was poured out: I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2.28-32).

BTW, any NT professor will be able to answer your questions in a much better way than we do. You don't have to be a 'believer'; there are Jewish NT scholars who can explain everything, without believing themself one word of it, (P. Lapide, D. Flusser).

So, my own explanation does'nt make me a good christian believer, nor an evangelist. :)

Aad