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Astrology and Religion Among the Greek and Romans Franz Cumont (reprint; New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960), pp. 89, 90. “It was customary to worship the rising Sun (Oriens) at drawn, at the moment when its first rays struck the demons who invaded the earth in the darkness. Tacitus describes to us how, at the battle of Bedriacum in 69A.D., the soldiers of Vespasian saluted the rising sun with loud shouts after the Syrian custom. In (Pagan) temples thrice a day—at dawn, at midday, and at dusk—a prayer was addressed to the heavenly source of light, the worshipper turning towards the East in the morning, towards the South at midday, and towards the West in the evening. Perhaps this custom survived in the three daily services of the early (Catholic) Church.” We can clearly see how solar worship evolved into Trinitarianism. We also now can understand Catholic prayers three times a day to three divine persons of a Trinity. Roman Catholic founders also often compared their Trinity dogma to the sun. Why not? After all this is the ancient pagan source for their trithestic Trinity theory. The contradictory three yet one solar hypothesis is perpetuated by the hybrid Roman Catholic Church’s teachings.
Manual of Universal Church History by Rev. Dr. John Alzog Professor of Theology 1874 pg. 355-356. We find a Catholic Bishop who still used the Sun as a symbol of the Trinity: “The Bishop [Dionysius] of Alexandria, [Egypt] having been requested by the Pope to state his precise meaning and belief on this subject, wrote four books, both in refutation of Sabellian [One God] heresy and of that which was ascribed to himself, in the course of which he said: “The Son has His being from the Father, but is consubstantial with Him, and is the splendor of the Eternal Light, and coeternal with the Father, as the brilliancy of the Sun is both inseparable from it, and simultaneous with it. Thus do we extend the Unity into the Trinity, yet confine the Trinity undiminished within the Unity.”
We find through careful research that the number three was and still is very sacred to the ancient pagans. Along with the triadic solar Trinity this had a profound effect on the thinking of early Trinity theologians. Ancient astrology of the sun led to numerology and triadic philosophies.
The Complete Works of Aristotle 1985 Oxford Press Vol. I p. 447 On the Heavens book I by Aristotle 350 BC: “A magnitude if divisible one way is a line, if two ways a surface, and if three a body. Beyond these there is no other magnitude, because the three dimensions are all that there are, and that which is divisible in three directions is divisible in all. For, as the Pythagoreans (Cultic mathematicians) say, the world and all that is in it is determined by the number three, since beginning and middle and end give the number of an 'all', and the number they give is the *triad. And so, having taken these three from nature as laws of it, we (Pagans) make further use of the number three in the worship of the Gods.” This superstitious pagan metaphysical thinking and solar worship gave way to triadic worship and trinity baptism.
Septimius Tertullian ca. 160-240 AD, (C. 198, W), 3.690. “We pray at a minimum not less than three times in the day. For we are debtors to Three: [Gods] Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia 1960 Under: Formula of Baptism page 392. Tertullian in his Adversus Praxean c. 26 said: “And it is not only once, but thrice, that we are immersed into the three persons, once at each several mention of their names.”
The Oxford Companion to the Bible, page 561, comments on this triadic concept: "Three is widely regarded as a divine number. Many religions have triads of gods. Biblical faith has no room for a *triad, and the number three is rarely connected with God. ... Neither is the doctrine of the Trinity expressed there in so many words."
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