Page 20 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

Encyclopedia International, Ian Henderson, University of Glasgow, 1969, page 226. "The doctrine of the Trinity did not form part of the apostles' preaching, as this is reported in the New Testament"
Man's Religion, John B. Noss, 1968, "The doctrine of the trinity he [Michael Servetus] felt to be a Catholic perversion and himself to be a good New Testament Christian in combating it. According to his conception, a trinity composed of three distinct persons in one God is a rational impossibility" [note: John Calvin, founder of the Presbyterian Church, had Servetus burned at the stake because of his anti-Trinitarian views].
New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Brown, Colin, 1932, God, Vol. 2, p84, J. Schneider. "The Trinity. The NT does not contain the developed doctrine of the Trinity. "The Bible lacks the express declaration that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are of equal essence and therefore in an equal sense God himself."
The Christian Doctrine of God by Emil Brunner, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1949, pp. 205 & 236."When we turn to the problem of the doctrine of the Trinity, we are confronted by a peculiarly contradictory situation. On the one hand, the history of Christian theology and of dogma teaches us to regard the dogma of the Trinity as the distinctive element in the Christian idea of God, that which distinguishes it from the idea of God in Judaism and in Islam, and indeed, in all forms of rational Theism. Judaism, Islam, and rational Theism are Unitarian. On the other hand, we must honestly admit that the doctrine of the Trinity did not form part of the early Christian-New Testament- message. Certainly, it cannot be denied that not only the word "Trinity", but even the explicit idea of the Trinity is absent from the apostolic witness of the faith.. The doctrine of the Trinity itself, however, is not a Biblical Doctrine."
Apostasy from the Divine Church by James L. Barker, Salt Lake City UT, 1960, p. 44. "All this underlines the point that primitive Christianity (ca of 33-100 AD) did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the (non-inspired) creeds of the early (Catholic ca 180-325 AD) church."
The overwhelming historical evidence shows that the Early Church believed in only one God. In time, we see that the vain hedonistic Pagan Roman Emperors persecuted the original Church and made up their own official Roman Catholic Trinitarian Church. For facts of this, see Dr. Marvin M. Arnold’s books Apostolic History Outline, Christian Church History, and Nicaea and the Nicene Council of AD 325. The Trinity became the dominant belief system only after years of heavy persecution. We see that the very founders of Roman Catholic Trinity Dogma were not rational tolerant Christians. The militant spirit of the Roman Empire spread to the Gnostic Apostate Imperial Trinitarian Church. Many have never been told these historical truths. Platonic Philosophy, Gnosticism, and long standing Pagan Theology influenced the very founders of the Trinity hypothesis. Some teach that Constantine embraced “Christianity”, he did no such thing. He advocated one of many Gnostic Mystery Religions that embraced a plural multi-godhead teaching. The original Early Church was truly monotheistic and Jesus name in doctrine and practices. The Apostles’ teachings and Scriptures were their only foundation.
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