What the experts have said about the trinity is really remarkable.

I will now
invite you to simply read and evaluate the subject yourself. Here is the material.
"The Holy Trinity- the basis for the doctrine of the Trinity... The question as to
how to reconcile the encounter with God in this threefold figure (The Father,
Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit) with faith in THE ONENESS OF GOD, which WAS THE
JEWS' AND CHRISTIANS' CHARACTERISTIC MARK OF DISTINCTION over against paganism,
agitated the piety of ancient Christendom in the deepest way... Christ as the
Logos, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF NEOPLATONIC PHILOSOPHY, BECAME the subject of a
speculative theology... This question was answered through the Neoplatonic
metaphysics of being... In Neoplatonic philosophy both the nous and the idea of
the world are designated the hypostases (essences, or natures) of the transcendent
God. Christian theology took the Neoplatonic metaphysics of substance as well as
its doctrine of hypostases as THE DEPARTURE POINT FOR INTERPRETING THE
RELATIONSHIP of the 'Father' to the 'Son' in terms of the Neoplatonic hypostases
doctrine... The Neoplatonic concept of substance... was foreign to the New
Testament itself... The dispute on the basis of the metaphysics of substance...
LED TO CONCEPTS THAT HAVE NO FOUNDATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT." -Encyclopedia
Britannica, 15th edition, 1984, Vol. 4, page 485.
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"It is a well confirmed historical fact that beginning in about 130 A.D. many of
the Church Fathers- the Apologists- were converts from paganism and trained pagan
philosophers. These included Justin Martyr (ca. 100-165), Tatian (ca. 200) and
Theophilus of Antioch (ca. 160-200). Indeed their knowledge of the Old Testament
came through their readings of the PHILOSOPHER Philo. Tertullian EXPLICITLY
EMPLOYED written works of PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS in support of his Christian
philosophy (De Test. Animae I). Such fathers as Justin Martyr (Apol. I, 4, 5, 7,
20) and Athenagoras (ca. 177) (Supplic. 5, 6), in order to defend Christianity,
stated that THEY WERE FOLLOWING SOME OF THE PRACTICES ADVOCATED BY THE BEST OF THE
PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS. Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215) actually undertook to
create a new Christian philosophy he termed the 'true philosophy' (Strom. II,
11)." - Robert A. Hermann, "Oneness, The Trinity, And Logic", pg 18.
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William B. Chalfant, "Ancient Champions of Oneness", pg 116-117: 'Indeed, Numenius

of Apamea (fl. c. 175 A.D.), a Syrian pagan philosopher, and one of great
influence upon the Alexandrian Trinitarians, BOASTED THAT HE HAD GONE BACK 'TO the
fountainhead of PLATO, SOCRATES AND PYTHAGORAS, to the ancient traditions of the
Brahmins, Magi, Egyptians and Jews, AND HAD RESTORED to the schools the forgotten
doctrine of THREE GODS'. Bigg calls Numenius the founder (along with the Catholic
Clement of Alexandria) of Neo-Platonism. (Chalfant here quotes Charles Bigg, from
"The Christian Platonists of Alexandria" Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1913, page
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251-252.)

"...The rejection of Modalism (oneness) and the recognition of Christ as the Logos
forced upon the West the necessity of rising FROM FAITH TO A PHILOSOPHICAL AND, IN
FACT, A DISTINCTIVELY NEOPLATONIC DOGMATIC." -Adolph Harnack, "History of Dogma 3"
as quoted by William B. Chalfant, in "Ancient Champions of Oneness", pgs. 121-122.

"...AUGUSTINE found his ultimate demonstration of the TRINITY IN PAGAN

PHILOSOPHY... like Origen... based his reasoning on the metaphysics of PLATO, WHO
DECLARED THAT MAN IS A TRICHOTOMY consisting of body, mind, soul. Using this as A
POINT OF DEPARTURE, Augustine found it a reflection of the trinal unity of the
godhead." -William B. Chalfant, quoting Larson, in "Ancient Champions of Oneness",
pg 123.
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"It is not difficult to understand why his opponents asserted that Augustine had
never ceased to be a Manichee. HIS SYSTEM IS IN TRUTH THAT OF THE GNOSTICS, the
ancestors of the Manichees." William B. Chalfant, "Ancient Champions of Oneness",
pg 124 (Chalfant here quotes Charles Bigg, from "The Christian Platonists of
Alexandria" Oxford at Clarendon Press, 1913, page 289.)
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"Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)- 'The deity stands in lonely self-contemplation outside

the world... his intellect (nous) is the only thing through which He stands in
immediate contact with it...' Plato (428-328 B.C.)- (taught that gods, by
definition) 'are exalted above pleasure and pain, and are untouched of all
evils.'... THUS THE TRINITARIANS MADE A FATHER, WHO WAS IMPASSABLE (i.e. incapable
of suffering or feeling pain), the first person, and then a second person (whom
they styled the Logos, Mind, or nous), who was passable... WHAT THE TRINITARIANS
WERE SAYING WAS THAT... THEY DID NOT BELIEVE JESUS CHRIST TO BE THE ALMIGHTY GOD."
The above as quoted by William B. Chalfant, in "Ancient Champions of Oneness", pg.
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122.

"The thing that most people do not realize is that THE IDEA OF TRINITY WAS CENTRAL
TO MITHRA WORSHIP. It (Trinity) was taught in the oldest Chaldean, Egyptian, and
Mithraitic schools. The Chaldean Sun-god, Mithra, was called 'Triple,' and the
Trinitarian idea of the Chaldeans was a doctrine of the Akkadians, who themselves
belonged to a race which was the first to conceive a metaphysical trinity."
-Blavatsky, vol. 2 sec.1 page 46, as quoted from Three Persons- from the Bible? Or
Babylon, by Thomas Weisser, page 26.
B

"The Trinity doctrine... traces it's history to a rebellious extremist named

Tertullian... And it is not improbable that the development of the doctrine of THE
TRINITY, WHICH FORMED NO PART OF THE ORIGINAL JEWISH CHRISTIANITY, may be traced
to Egyptian influence; as the whole of the OLDER EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY WAS PERMEATED
WITH THE IDEA OF TRIPLE DIVINITY, as seen by both in the triads of gods which the
various cities worshipped, and in the threefold names, representing three
differing aspects of the same personality, under which each god might be
addressed." -Joseph Crafton Milne, "A History of Egypt, pg 155. Vol. 5. as quoted
in After The Way Called Heresy, by Thomas Weisser, pg 21.
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"The Cappodicians, theologians who reconciled the faith of Athanasius with the
current philosophy, and apprehended it abstractly, did not retain his teaching
pure and simple... They boldly characterized the PLURALITY OF HYPOSTASES, E.G., AS
A PHASE OF TRUTH PRESERVED IN GREEK POLYTHEISM" -Adolf von Harnack, "History of
Dogma", pg 142-143.
D

"It is a solution BY HARMONIZATION, an attempt to COMBINE, as Gregory of Nyssa

characterizes it, THE MONOTHEISM OF THE JEWS AND THE POLYTHEISM OF THE GREEKS. THE
METHOD OF HARMONIZATION USED BY THEM WAS TO THIN DOWN THE JEWISH MONOTHEISM AS A
CONCESSION TO GREEK POLYTHEISM." -Wolfson, Harry A. "The Philosophy of the Church
Fathers", pg 578-579, as quoted in After The Way Called Heresy, by Thomas Weisser,
page 32.
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"In the Trimurti, Brahma... The Lord God, though one without a second, assumes the
three forms respectively of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva... though three in form, are
one entity... It may, however be noted that, whereas THE TRINITY IS PRESENTED IN
SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY AS A MYSTERY, IT IS A FUNDAMENTAL DEFINITION OF HINDU
RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY!" -Edward Rice, Eastern Definitions, pg 387. as quoted in
After The Way Called Heresy, by Thomas Weisser, Page 34.
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"Trimurti... the Hindu Trinity of gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, conceived as an
inseparable unity..." Webster's Dictionary.
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"THE ANCIENT BABYLONIANS, just as the modern Romans, RECOGNIZED IN WORDS THE UNITY
of the Godhead; and, while worshipping innumerable minor deities... they
distinctly acknowledged that there was One infinite and Almighty Creator, supreme
over all... IN THE UNITY OF THAT ONE ONLY GOD OF THE BABYLONIANS, THERE WERE THREE
PERSONS, and to symbolize that doctrine of the Trinity, they employed... the
equilateral triangle... just as is well known the Romish Church does at this
day... THE RECOGNITION OF A TRINITY WAS UNIVERSAL IN ALL THE ANCIENT NATIONS OF
THE WORLD... The triune emblem of the supreme Assyrian divinity shows clearly...
though blasphemously, the unity of Father, Seed, or Son, and the Holy Ghost...
Will anyone after this say that the... church must still be called Christian,
because it holds the doctrine of the Trinity? So did the Pagan Babylonians, so did
the Egyptians, so do the Hindus at this hour..." -The Two Babylons, chapter 2, by
Rev. A. Hislop.

Again each person must decide and evaluate what is best for them. If any person
lack wisdom they should ask God in faith and wait upon him for the answer. He will
never leave nor forsake you and cannot lie. As he alone is the judge. And he will
judge us in that day by his word. That will be our final exam! Those who already
accepted Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, by placing their trust in him and
being baptized in his name, have only to endure unto the end to be saved. When the
Catholic Church turned from its original and true belief that the fullness of God
was in Christ Jesus and baptism in the same name; the Roman Empire stopped
fighting the church and instead embraced it. Around 200 A.D. Tertullian (Who was
credited with coining the word "trinity" in reference to God, from pagan Plato's
work of Timaeus.) and Hippolytus of Rome succeeded in fully changing the mode of
water baptism. Though Justin Martyr in 145 A.D. changed it to a trinity with Jesus
still at it's center. The name of Jesus was not totally removed until the time of
Tertullian. Yet every baptism recorded in the New Testament had been performed "in
the name of Jesus Christ," but Romans totally opposed that, and outlawed it. They
ordered to use the generic terms or the titles of the "father, son, and Holy
Ghost." In doing so, they forced all to abandon the "only name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved", (Acts 4:12) in baptism. And it became
forbidden for all to baptize by the very formula the Apostles and the entire early
church had used. And by and large, only the titles have been used since that time.
And water baptism (In the Catholic and Protestant Churches alike) has been
stripped of the saving name of Jesus until this very day!