Page 94 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

“Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord [God] of glory”-1 Corinthians 2:8. Yes the body or flesh died. The Spirit lived on so there is no contradiction and we don’t have to turn to triune Catholic, God-Man theology, Gnostic like Philosophy or warped-logos apologetics!
Many will bad mouth Sabellius then turn around and use his very own 1800-year-old explanation of the Godhead for their doctrinal statements.
UPCI Manual 1997, page 20, under The One True God: “...This one true God has revealed Himself as Father; through His Son, in redemption: and as the Holy Spirit, by emanation...” Also under The Son of God: “The one true God, the Jehovah [Jehovah should be the I AM] of the Old Testament, took upon Himself the form of man, and as the Son of Man, was born of the virgin Mary. As Paul says, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into Glory” (1 Timothy 3:16).
The Catholic Church started out emphasizing Two Persons Arianism or Bitheism and later pushed Tritheism or the Trinity. The real Church in Jerusalem that spread to other parts of the Roman Empire kept the One-God Jesus Name teachings.
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 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;”
The original First Century Church that started in Jerusalem around AD 33-34 found in the Book of Acts believed in only One-God that came or incarnated Himself in a human male body. They were neither Arian nor Trinitarian.
The Encyclopedia Britannica 1976, Under Trinity tells us this: “Biblical Basis: Neither the word “Trinity” nor the explicit doctrine as such appears at any one place in the Bible;..The Shema of Deut. 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” Neither Jesus nor his early followers intended anything they said about their new revelation to contradict that [Monotheist] credo...The early Christians spoke to Jesus and about him in titles that put him above the merely human; they ascribed to him powers and works that transcended the natural realm; they sang to him “as to a God,” as their Roman enemies reported (see Jesus Christ). It was not until the 4th century that the distinctness of the three taught by subordination and their unity taught by modalism were brought together in a single orthodox doctrine of one essence and three persons. The Council of Nicaea in 325 stated the crucial formal...”
It is clear that the early original First Century New Testament Christians understood or believed that Jesus was God on the Earth in a visible form. The very Name of Jesus
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