Page 148 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

Zeus or Mercury to Jupiter] for creation, revelation and redemption. The doctrine construes the Son as preexistent.”
The Masculine Cross by Professor Hargrave Jennings, 1891 London, page 33-34: “Many of the heathens are said to have had a notion of a Trinity,” wrote a contributor to an encyclopedia, some eighty years ago. Now that altogether fails to reach the truth, for heathen nations are known to scholars to have very definite ideas indeed about a sacred Triad; in fact, as another writer has said, there is nothing in all theology more deeply grounded, or more generally allowed by them, than the Mystery of the Trinity. The Chaldeans, [Babylonians] Phoenicians, [Canaanites] Greeks, and Romans, both in their writings and their oracles, acknowledged that the Supreme Being had begotten another Being from all eternity, whom they some times called the Son of God, sometimes the Word, [Logos] sometimes the Mind, and sometimes the Wisdom of God, and asserted to be the Creator of all things.
Among the sayings of the Magi, the descendants of Zoroaster, was one as follows:-“The Father finished all things, and delivered them to the Second Mind.”
We learn from Dr. Cudworth that besides the inferior gods generally received by all Pagans (viz.: animated stars, demons, and heroes), the more refined of them, who accounted not the world the Supreme Deity, acknowledged a Trinity of (3) divine hypostases superior to them all. This doctrine, according to Plotinus, is very ancient, and obscurely asserted even by Parmenids. Some have referred its origin to the Pythagoreans, and others to Orpheus, who adopted three principles, called Phanes, Uranus, and Cronus. Dr. Cudworth apprehends that Pythagoras and Orpheus derived this doctrine from the theology of the Egyptian Hermes...” [Or in Greek the Logos]
Plato, also, and his followers, speak of the Trinity in such terms, that the primitive [Catholic] fathers have actually been accused of borrowing the doctrine from the [Pagan] Platonic school.”
The early Catholic/Gnostic so-called “Fathers” clearly believed in Polytheism the “Gods” and rejected true Biblical Monotheism. Modern day Trinitarians and Arians use their warped pluralistic Platonic teachings to promote and defend their teachings! Many are brainwashed by the Roman Catholic interpolations, the Hypostatic Union, or Gnostic dualism and are more Arian than truly One God believers. We see that in reality many hold a Henotheism concept, one yet many, instead of true Monotheism. The Hypostatic Union was not fully established until the Catholic Council of Chalcedon AD 451. One must make a choice to either follow first century Bible Apostolic truths or the Gnostic Platonic theories. We must understand just because a majority are wrong or endorse error this does not make their theory right nor does it change truth and reality.
Roman Catholicism that gave us Arianism and Trinitarianism is the surviving Gnostic Mystery Religion that battled and competed against at least a dozen other Gnostic or Apostate groups in the Roman Empire. The Roman Catholic Church conquered the other Gnostic groups by merging with and embracing the political and military power of the
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