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ganism in regions such as Alexandria in Egypt, Greece, Italy and Ana-
tolia began to build a Christianity under the influence of their former
beliefs that they called the Trinity.

How did paganism prepare the ground
for belief in the Trinity?

Throughout the course of history, pagans have always regarded
three idols as superior to all the others. They regarded the greatest of
these as the Father, the second as the Mother and the third as the Son.
Some examples are as follows:
● The concept of a trinity appears in Indian paganism in the form
of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
● The Koran also refers to the idea of a trinity in Arab paganism:
"Have you really considered al-Lat and al-'Uzza and Manat, the
third, the other one?" (Koran, 53:19-20)
● Belief in a tripartite god was widespread in pre-Christian Syria
and the surrounding area.

● Osiris (Father), Isis (Mother) and Horus (Son) also represented
a tripartite deity in ancient Egyptian paganism.
● Mithraism was also a superstition involving three deities in
Persian paganism. This was widespread in ancient Anatolia and Eu-
rope, including the Roman Empire.
● Trinitarian belief was also present in Roman and Greek pagan-
ism. Zeus, Hera and Apollo were the three predominant gods of an-
cient Greece. The idea of the trinity is known to have entered Chris-
tianity from Greek and Roman paganism.
● There are many father and son gods in Greek mythology. Pla-
to even formulated this trinity and suggested that the gods have a son
called "logos" (the word) and a daughter called "sophos" (knowl-
edge). One of the words used to refer to Jesus in Christianity is "lo-
gos."

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