[Church_of_Christ] Re: The Trinity exposed?
Johnathan,
> > The doctrine of the trinity was well established in the church over 200 years before
>
> It was so well established that it took at least three church councils
> to get people to think that perhaps it was what Jesus taught. Even
> then, what is currently understood to be meant by "trinitarian" took
> another twelve centuries to develop.
This is historically inaccurate. Trinitarian doctrine was an essential of the faith from the beginning. The word TRINITY itself wasn't coined until long after, but the doctrine itself was a part of Christian thinking from the word go.
> > At BEST, Constantine had specific doctrines officially RECORDED, based on what the church BELIEVED, but it was in the church for 2 centuries.
>
> The church as a whole believed in modalism, not trinitarianism, until
> the fifth century.
Modalism was regarded as a heresy from the time it was conceived. It's never been adopted by any mainstream group. Trinitarianism has always been the standard.
Revisionist historians like us think otherwise, but trinitarian doctrine is the standard of 2000 years.
Ray
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