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In time Pagan academies were set up that were influenced by Pagan Hellenistic thought. Plato established a Pagan Academy in Athens that lasted almost nine centuries. The influence upon Western thought from this school is staggering. Aristotle also started another Pagan Academy in Athens called the Lyceum. Other academies were established in Tarsus, Carthage, Caesarea, Nicaea, Rome, and the most famous one in Alexandria. In Alexandria it is unfortunate that the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Catholic Greek and some interpolations took place. Also, in Hellenistic Alexandria, the Gnostic Allegorical Spiritualizing Method of interpreting the Scriptures came into existence. The Trinitarian/Arian Catholic or Orthodox Churches and Theologians have adopted the Pagan Philosophies of these Pagan Academies and un-repented idol worshipping men. These Pagan idolaters, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, were not “Christians before Christ”. They saw one-God Jews as lesser beings. Pride, arrogance, and hedonism dominated their lives. They worshipped many gods/demons, had orgies, and believed in raping children.
The teachings of the Monotheist-Jewish Old Testament, holy Prophets of God, and the New Testament One-God Apostles’ doctrine were rejected. The original Jesus’ Name baptism was also rejected along with receiving the Baptism of God’s Spirit. Acts 2:38 was supplanted by the Catholic interpolation of Matthew 28:19. The Roman Catholic Church and her Protestant Trinitarian Daughters have turned to the non-Biblical Pagan Philosophical teachings of Pantaenus, Clement, Origen, Athanasius all of Alexandria, as well as Augustine, Cyprian, Pagan Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and many others.
Three Gods: Trinitarianism
The belief in three distinct co-powerful co-eternal co-existing Divine Persons (or Gods) is Trinitarianism. Somehow, these three distinct Gods are mystically one God, yet at the same time three. This man-made contradiction was adopted and invented by the Roman Catholic Church first at the Council of Arles in 1 August 314 AD and at the Roman Catholic Council of Nicaea 325 AD. Both Councils were presided over by the Pagan Sun God worshipping Emperor Constantine. The Roman Catholic Church borrowed this theory from earlier Paganism, Platonic and Gnostic teachings. The majority of humanity believes this teaching because it is a popular Catholic dogma that was forced upon Europe by imperial edict. The first century original Church of the Bible did not believe in nor teach this Tritheistic Theory. At first, the Roman Catholic Church baptized in the name of Jesus and believed in two gods or Arian teachings. Then the Catholic system adopted a three god Trinity view and baptism.
A Dictionary of Christian Theology by: A. Richardson, 1969, pages 345-350. Under: The History of the Doctrine of the Trinity. “Pluralist thinkers, on the other hand maintained the full co-presence of two [later three] distinct entities [Gods] within the Godhead...Their concern was to reconcile [mix] Christianity and [Pagan Greek] Hellenism and their philosophical background owed much to Middle and Neoplatonism. Two false trails which they followed had precedents in [Pagan] Greek philosophy;”
Theology of the New Testament: By R. Bultmann, 1951, page 133 under Kerygma of the Hellenistic Church and the Sacraments. The historical fact that the verse Matthew
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