Page 154 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

We can clearly see that the early so-called Catholic Church Fathers adopted the Pagan Trinity thought and united it with Biblical terms. Emperor Constantine and the empowered Roman Catholic Church then forced it upon the Roman Empire.
Witchcraft Ancient and Modern By: Raymond Buckland, 1970. “There were other more definite adoptions from the old religions, [Witchcraft/Paganism] especially in the early formative years of [Catholic] Christianity. The ideal of the Trinity, for instance, was taken from the old Egyptian Triad. Osiris, Isis and Horus became God, Mary and Jesus.” (We know that the Egyptians barrowed this triad from the Babylonians.)
The History of Magic and The Occult by Kurt Sellgmann, 1997 Edition, page 61 under Gnosticism. “Many Babylonian ideas had long since influenced the west, [Egypt, Greece, and later the Roman Empire] particularly their astrology. It became known also that priests of Babylon knew the ‘one god,’ Ilu, primary and unique, from whom springs all other gods. Ilu formed the Holy Trinity: Anu, the time-god, Nuah, intelligence, [logos] and Bel, the coordinator. This first Triad represents the genesis of the material world which emanated from the divine being.”
The People that History forgot written by Professor and Archaeologist Ernest L. Martin, 1993, pages 159 and 161-162 states: “Indeed, there was nothing inferior about these eastern [Pagan Syro-Pheoenician, Hittite, Egyptian, Persian and Babylonian] religions and philosophical beliefs nor the people who brought them to the west. (Rome) They were the very teachings that Constantine and his followers adopted. True, they changed their names and the doctrines which they advocated into names that were derived from the New Testament. In effect, the later emperors retained Pagan idolatrous worship which had come from ancient Babylon and began to call it the religion of Christianity.”
Christian Doctrine revised Edition Shirley C. Guthrie, 1994, pages 91, 93 The Fellowship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
“If Western Christianity’s model of the Trinity has typically been a triangle, the typical model in Eastern Orthodoxy is a circle. In the religious art of Orthodox churches, Father Son, and Holy Spirit are often pictured as three figures sitting around a table together sharing a meal. John of Damascus, a Greek theologian who lived in the seventh century, developed this understanding of the Trinity with a concept called perichoresis (perry-ko- ray’-sis). This Greek word is worth learning because it gives us a lovely picture of God. Peri (as in perimeter) means “around.” Choresis means literally “dancing (as in the choreography of a ballet). Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are like three dancers holding hands, dancing around together in harmonious, joyful freedom. From the perspective of Western monotheism, this image of God seems to suggest not one but three personal gods. Even with such a strong emphasis on the unity of the three, this concept of a “social Trinity” may still sound suspiciously tritheistic to us Westerners who understand Christianity as a monotheistic religion. But perhaps it is worth running the risk of being called trithestic when we consider how our understanding of God and ourselves changes when we think of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit according to perichoresis doctrine.”
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