Page 145 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference
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We have seen that the foundations of Trinity baptism and triune godhead teachings are based upon the spurious Texts of Matthew 28:19, 1 John 5:7 and the contradictory non- inspired Didache. We know that other non-inspired apocryphal writings have had an effect. The Gospels of Thomas, Judas, and Mary are also Gnostic fakes.
The Question of the Trinity and Matthew 28:19, The Fraternal Visitor, 1924, pages 147-151: “The striking contrast and the illogical internal incoherence of the passage (Matthew 28:19) lead to a presumption of an intentional corruption in the interests of the Trinity. In ancient Christian times a tendency of certain parties to corrupt the text of the New Testament was certainly often imputed. This increases our doubt almost to a decisive certainty concerning the genuineness of the passage.”
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary: "The only Greek MSS. [manuscripts], in any form which support the words, 'in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth . . .' are the Montfortianus of Dublin, copied evidently from the modern Latin Vulgate; the Rauianus copied from the Complutensian Polyglot; a MS. [manuscript] at Naples, with the words added in the margin by a recent hand; Ottobonianus, 298, of the fifteenth century, the Greek of which is a mere translation of the accompanying Latin. All old versions omit the words."
Peake's Commentary on the Bible page 1038, states: "The famous interpolation after 'three witnesses' is not printed even in RSV, and rightly. It cites the heavenly testimony of the Father, the logos, and the Holy Spirit, but is never used in the early Trinitarian controversies. No respectable Greek MS contains it. Appearing first in a late 4th century Latin text, it entered the Vulgate and finally the NT [New Testament] of Erasmus."
Historical evidence clearly shows us that the Pagan Roman Emperor Constantine helped to promote the tritheism of the three Divine Persons or “hypostasis” teaching. In 314 AD and 325 AD, Constantine presided over two different Roman Catholic Church Councils that ruled in favor of the Trinity Doctrine as the official teaching of the Empire. Corrupt Pagan politicians and murders enforced a doctrine that was alien to the Apostles but very favored by the Pagans of the Empire. The imperial Church and State made Christians that refused to worship a triune Godhead and refused Trinitarian Baptism criminals. Forced conversions and murder took place in the name of the Trinity.
The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor General Editor 1999 pages 133-134, Under Constantine the Great: “In 325 (AD) Constantine tried to use imperial power to bring unity to the (Catholic) Church at the Council of Nicaea. The Council condemned the Arian Heresy and adopted the (Trinitarian) Nicene Creed.”
World History International 2005, by Professor Gary Edward Forsythe: “By 323 Constantine had brought the entire Roman world under his own rule. At that time a quarrel threatened to split the [Catholic] Christian church into two camps. Arius, a priest of Alexandria, Egypt, maintained that Christ was not the equal of the Father but was created by Him. Athanasius, leader of the bishops in the West, claimed that the Father
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