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Conclusion
Ample historical evidence has been presented in this study to show how a pagan Roman Emperor influenced orthodox teachings. Constantine made a choice to continue in his Pagan Faith and at the same time dictate over the Christian Faith. He and his many helpers united many elements of paganism together with some Christian teachings. This has caused much confusion and also gave birth to many false doctrines and erroneous religious practices. Groups that broke away from Catholicism kept these teachings.
The early original Church believed in only one God, repentance, baptism by complete submersion under water in the name of Jesus Christ and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking with tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. The early Church of the Book of Acts did not believe in a Trinity nor did they baptize into the Trinity titles. Constantine and his imperial Roman Catholic Church forced the false Trinity Doctrine and Trinity baptism upon humanity. The historical and biblical records more than prove this reality. Many conveniently ignore the facts. Even in my conclusion I give even more authentic historical documentation to support these factual statements:
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Vol. 12 page 456 edited by James Hastings “At first the Christian Faith was not Trinitarian. It was not so in the Apostolic and sub- Apostolic ages, as reflected in the New Testament and the early Christian writings.” [The early Church was not Trinitarian!]
The Oxford Companion to the Bible, page 561, comments on this: "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."
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, article "Trinity," p. 3012 “'The term 'Trinity' is not a Biblical term, and we are not using Biblical language when we define what is expressed by it as the doctrine.”
The Illustrated Bible Dictionary Volume 3 page 1597 “The word Trinity did not find a place formally in the theology of the Church till the fourth century.”
The Encyclopedia Britannica 1976, Vol. 22 page 241 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 ecclesiastical dogma is an effort to unite in one confession all the several strains of the biblical description of God. Fundamental to that description in both the Old Testament and the New is the monotheistic credo summarized in 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. At the same time, Christianity was compelled from its earliest beginnings to cope with the implications of the coming of Jesus Christ. 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
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