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Nazareth. As the fragment of a hymn of the early church put it, “He (God) appeared in a body” (1 Tim. 3:16; cf. Titus 2:11; the aorist tense in both texts points to the event of the Incarnation). Likewise, “in Christ all the fullness [pleroma] of the Deity [theotes] lives in bodily form (Col. 2:9; cf. 1:19).”
The Catholic Handbook, 1988 page 4 “The Catholic Church teaches that fathomless Mystery we call God has revealed himself to humankind as a trinity of (Divine) Persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three Persons, One God. The Mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of the Catholic faith. Upon it are based all other teachings of the (Catholic) Church. The (Catholic) Church studied this Mystery with great care and, after four centuries of clarifications, decided to state the doctrine in this way: In the unity of the Godhead there are three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, truly distinct one from another.”
The American Peoples Encyclopedia 1975 “Trinity: The doctrine of the Trinity was made official by the (Catholic) Council of Nicea (AD 325) and was given its definitive statement by the (Catholic) Council of Constantinople (AD 381).” (Note: made official by the Catholic Church Councils in 325 not 33 AD! The original Church did not teach it.)
McClintock and Strong Article “Trinity,” Vol. 10, page 553. “Toward the end of the 16th century, and during the 2nd, many learned men [Pagan Philosophers] came over both from Judaism and paganism to [Catholic] Christianity. These brought with them into the [Catholic] Christian schools of theology their *Platonic ideas and phraseology.”
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson, 1957, Vol. IX, page, 91. “The doctrines of the Logos and the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who ... were much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the (Pagan) Platonic philosophy ... That errors and corruptions crept into the Church from this (Pagan) source can not be denied.”
A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarians, by Professor L.L. Paine 1902 page 4. “The Old Testament is strictly monotheistic. God is a single personal being. The idea that a Trinity is to be found there or even in any way shadowed forth, is an assumption that has long held sway in theology, but is utterly without foundation. The Jews, as a people, under its teachings became stern opponents of all polytheistic tendencies, and they have remained unflinching monotheists to this day. On this point there is no break between the Old Testament Scriptures and the New. The monotheistic tradition is continued. Jesus was a Jew, trained by Jewish parents in the Old Testament Scriptures. His teaching was Jewish [monotheistic] to the core; a new [Acts 2:38] gospel indeed, but not a new [Trinity] theology.”
The Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol. 15, p. 54, 1987. “Development of Trinitarian Doctrine. Exegetes and theologians today are in agreement that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity, even though it was customary in past dogmatic tract on the Trinity to cite texts like Genesis 1:26, "Let us make humanity in our image, after our likeness" (see also Gn. 3:22, 11:7, Is 6:2-3) as proof of plurality in God.
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