Protestantism

» Migisi - Doubt it

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The Trinity is NOT a great "PR" doctrine, because it IS so hard for people to grasp.
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Actually, primitive people grasped the concept, as I posted before in 'God and Children'...
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A triad or Trinity is not an original or unique concept to Christianity. I'm sure you've heard of these triads people believed in at one time:
--- Trimurti - the Hindu triad (some ~still~ believe today)
--- Nimrod, Tammuz, Simerimas (or Shamash, Sin, and Ishtar) - the Babylonian triads
--- Mitra, Varuna, Indra - the Hittite triad
--- EL/Yah, Tammuz/Baal, Ashtoreth/Shekhina - the triad of backslidden Israel
--- Jupiter, Mars, Venus - the Roman triad
--- Oriris, Horus, Isis - the Egyptian triad
--- Zeus, Apollo, Athena - the Greek triad
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So much is borrowed and shared ... holidays and festivals, rituals, animal sacrifice, miracles, crucifixion, resurrection, virgin birth. I think the triad or trinity concept was also borrowed. There really was no other way to deify Jesus except to make him ~part~ of the Judeo God. But others in the early church believed Jesus was a 'creation' of God - like you and me - and therefore to declare Jesus-IS-God was blasphemy.

-- posted by Migisi