Page 147 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

Christian Doctrine, written by Dr. S. C. Guthrie, Jr., page 499. “The Bible does not teach the doctrine of the Trinity. Neither the word Trinity itself, nor such language as one in three, three in one, one essence or substance or three persons, is Biblical language. The language of the [Trinity] doctrine is the language of the ancient [Catholic Gnostic] Church, taken not from the Bible but from classical [Pagan] Greek philosophy.” (Again, we know that the Greeks and Romans borrowed this concept from the Egyptians and the Babylonians)
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 1958, pages 1083-1084 “Platonism. The beginnings of an interweaving of Platonism with Christian thought go back to Clement of Alexandria and Origen. Of perhaps even greater moment for the history of Christian theology was the fact that the thought of St. Augustine was radically influenced, largely through Victorinus Afer, by Platonic doctrines. The authority accorded to his teaching throughout the Middle Ages did much to secure for many Platonic notions a permanent place in Latin Christianity. Henceforward the Platonic Forms were regularly reinterpreted as the creative thoughts of God. The relevance of Platonism for Christian Mysticism was appreciated by Dionysius the Areopagite and other spiritual writers, Eastern and Western.”
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 1958, page 944 “Neo-Platonism. On the other hand, Neo-Platonist influences gradually made themselves felt on Christian theology.”
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson, 1957, Vol. IX, page, 91. “The doctrines of the Logos and the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who ... were much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the (Pagan) Platonic philosophy ... That errors and corruptions crept into the Church from this (Pagan) source can not be denied.”
Hasting's Bible Dictionary, Vol. 12, p. 458 "Although the notion of a Triad or Trinity is characteristic of the (Catholic) Christian religion, it is by no means peculiar to it. In Indian religion, e.g., we meet with the Trinitarian group of Brahma, Siva, and Visnu; and the Egyptian religion with the Trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, constituting a divine family, like the Father, Mother and Son in medieval Christian pictures. Nor is it only in historical religions that we find God viewed as a Trinity. One recalls in particular the Neo-Platonic view of the Supreme or Ultimate Reality, which was suggested by Plato..."
Dr. William Robinson Evangelical Quarterly 1933: “The Apologists of the second century were more familiar with [Pagan Gnostic Greek] Platonic cosmology than they were with biblical soteriology, [In more simple terms they were more into Pagan Greek philosophy than Bible teachings] and hence stretched the Christian doctrine to fit a philosophical procrustean mold. They conceived God as beyond all essence, ineffable, incommunicable, impassible, exalted beyond any commerce with matter, time, or space. This Platonic God put forth the Word [or the pagan Greek Logos] by an act of His will to be His intermediary [or His go between and messenger boy much like Hermes was to
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