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       Source Of Christian Concept On Trinity
       By: Captshittu Date: August 12, 2017, 1:30 pm
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       What is the source of the Christian concept of the Trinity?
       The three monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and
       Islam – all purport to share one fundamental concept: belief in
       God as the Supreme Being, the Creator and Sustainer of the
       Universe. Known as “tawhid” in Islam, this concept of the
       Oneness of God was stressed by Moses in a Biblical passage known
       as the “Shema”, or the Jewish creed of faith:
       “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” (Deuteronomy
       6:4)
       It was repeated word-for-word approximately 1500 years later by
       Jesus, when he said:
       “...The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the
       Lord our God is one Lord.” (Mark 12:29)
       Muhammad came along approximately 600 years later, bringing the
       same message again:
       “And your God is One God: there is no God but He...” (Quran
       2:163)
       Christianity has digressed from the concept of the Oneness of
       God, however, into a vague and mysterious doctrine that was
       formulated during the fourth century. This doctrine, which
       continues to be a source of controversy both within and outside
       the Christian religion, is known as the Doctrine of the Trinity.
       Simply put, the Christian doctrine of the Trinity states that
       God is the union of three divine persons – the Father, the Son
       and the Holy Spirit – in one divine being.
       If that concept, put in basic terms, sounds confusing, the
       flowery language in the actual text of the doctrine lends even
       more mystery to the matter:
       “...we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity... for
       there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another
       of the Holy Ghost is all one... they are not three gods, but one
       God... the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal... he
       therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity...”
       (excerpts from the Athanasian Creed)
       Let’s put this together in a different form: one person, God the
       Father, plus one person, God the Son, plus one person, God the
       Holy Ghost, equals one person, God the What? Is this English or
       is this gibberish?
       It is said that Athanasius, the bishop who formulated this
       doctrine, confessed that the more he wrote on the matter, the
       less capable he was of clearly expressing his thoughts regarding
       it.
       How did such a confusing doctrine get its start?
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