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Although the Hebrew Bible depicts God as the father of Israel and employs personifications of God such as Word (Davar), Spirit (ruah), Wisdom (hokhmah), and Presence (shekhinah), it would go beyond the intention and spirit of the Old Testament to correlated these notions with later Trinitarian doctrine.
Further, exegetes and theologians agree that the New Testament also does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity. God the Father is source of all that is (Pantkrator) and also the father of Jesus Christ; "Father" is not a title for the first person of the Trinity but a synonym for God." "The language of the Bible, of early Christian creeds, and of Greek and Latin theology prior to the fourth century is "economic" (oikonomia, divine management of earthly affairs). It is oriented to the concrete history of creation and redemption: God initiates a covenant with Israel, God speaks through the prophets, God takes on flesh in Christ, God dwells within as Spirit. In the New Testament there is no reflective consciousness of the metaphysical nature of God ("immanent trinity"), nor does the New Testament contain the technical language of later doctrine (hupostasis, ousia, substantia, subsistentia, prosopon, persona). Some theologians have concluded that all post-biblical Trinitarian doctrine is therefore arbitrary. While it is incontestable that the (Trinity) doctrine cannot be established on scriptural evidence alone...”
“Dogmatic development took place gradually, against the background of the emanationist philosophy of Stoicism and Neo-Platonism (including the mystical theology of the latter), By the close of the fourth century the ORTHODOX teaching was in place: God is one nature, three persons (mia ousia, treis hupostaseis). In the West, Tertullian (d. 225?) formulated an economic Trinitarian theology that presents the three persons as a plurality in God."
The People that History Forgot written by Professor and Archaeologist Ernest L. Martin 1993 pages 159 and 161-162 states: “Indeed, there was nothing inferior about these eastern [Pagan Syro-Pheoenician, Hittite, Egyptian, Persian and Babylonian] religions and philosophical beliefs nor the people who brought them to the west. [Rome] They were the very teachings that Constantine and his followers adopted. True, they changed their names and the doctrines which they advocated into names that were derived from the New Testament. In effect, the later emperors retained Pagan idolatrous worship which had come from ancient Babylon and began to call it the religion of Christianity.”
Faith of our fathers 1917 ed. Cardinal Gibbons, p. 106 “The penetration of the religion of Babylon became so general and well known that Rome was called the "New Babylon." [This is why the Bible calls Rome and its Religion “Mystery Babylon” in Revelation 17:5.]
Roman Catholicism by Dr. Rick Miesel Christian or Pagan? “The Roman Catholic Church, headquartered in Rome, Italy, has its own powerful City-State, the Vatican, and claims over 968 million members worldwide and 60 million in the U.S. and Canada (as of 1996). (Catholic membership figures are considerably misleading, though, in that they count as members every person who has been baptized Catholic, including millions of
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