The faithful
Jewish people and prophets of the
Old Testament
never accepted a three-in-one God. It is true that the unfaithful among
the Israelites often borrowed pagan gods, pagan customs, and pagan
concepts (including Baal and
Astarte) and added
them
to their God-given religion. But there is no record (scriptural or secular) of a trinity concept even among them.
God His People had, like we should have only one God in heaven who was and is the
only one Who should be worshipped. The
Elohim Hashem is the
Creator of everything Who gave His Name to be honoured and showed His works on earth as in heaven.
He has been the Creator of everything and be willing to receive all of His creation as His beloved ones. Every human person should be His child, respecting Him as the
Only One God.
Adam and Eve very well knew Who their Creator was but doubted at a certain moment His position. They learned their lesson when it was to late. Their children where brought up with that knowledge and also their grandchildren got to know the reason why they only should believe in that One God.
In time human people grew away from the Creator of all things and later they even started to believe they could create things themselves.
The Hebrews got in their tribes people who were very close to the Creator and who showed them the way to God. God saw their honesty and their belief and promised many things which came in fulfilment except the few things still to happen.
Judaism is monotheistic and personal and from the tribe of king David, a very devote Jew was born, who became a master teacher and got several followers. Those followers, at the beginning mainly Jews believed the words of their rabbi Jeshua, who later became better known as Jesus from Nazareth, being the
Christos or
Christ Jesus.
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| English: Jesus Christ - detail from Deesis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Also gentiles or
non-Jews came to the faith in this young man, who died for the sins of many, and believed that the Father, Jehovah God had resurrected him. Many saw in this wonder and the actions he had done the proof that he was the Messiah. As son of God they respected him and saw him in the work God had done for the earth. This son of man, son of Adam, son of Abraham, son of David and son of Joseph and Miriam (Mary/Maria) attracted more people to come closer to God.
In the
Roman Empire there were many gods honoured by the gentiles and it looked very attractive to keep certain attitudes going. But the apostles soon saw false teachings spreading around and warned that people had to be very careful. From the very beginning, of course, Christians not only believed in God
in the sense in which the Jews did, but they also believed in
Jesus Christ. But they did not believe in him as a 'god son', that idea became only introduced many centuries later.
The first followers of Christ became a Jewish sect called The Way which professed
monotheism in the same terms as did the Jews. As the
Hellinistic teachings influenced certain Jewish teachings the followers of Christ did not escape of those influences either. In the fourth century the false teachings brought more confusion and with the upheld gentile traditions or pagan rituals looked more attractive to many Christians like the movement became more known.
"Speculative thought began to analyze the divine nature
until in the
4th century an elaborate
theory
of a threefoldness in God appears. In this Nicene or Athanasian form of
thought God is said to consist of three persons, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit, all equally eternal, powerful and glorious." -
Encyclopedia Americana, 1944, v. 6, p. 619, "Christianity".
During the fourth century Egypt was going to give to the church the
Arian heresy, the Athanasian orthodoxy, and the monastic piety of St.
Antony and
St. Pachomius, which spread with irresistible force over Christendom.
The worst figure for Christianity was
Constantine (C.,
Flavius Valerius Constantinus) who during the decline period of the
Roman Realm
was the Big Emperor (306–337 C. T.) and tried to merge Christianity with
particular pagan customs and doctrines. He undertook the first steps to
make this merger religion as the official state religion. Accordingly
Greece became a part of Christendom. He moved the capital of the realm
of Rome to Byzantium, which he named in honour of himself
Constantinople.
It was Constantine who decreed (March 7, 321) dies Solis—day of the sun, “Sunday”—as the Roman day of rest [CJ3.12.2] and that day would be later taken on by a great deal of the Christian community as the new day of rest instead of the Sabbath.
Read more about this in:
- First Century of Christianity
- Position and power
- Raising digression
- Hellenistic influences
- Politics and power first priority #1
- Politics and power first priority #2
- Politics and power first priority #3 Elevation of Mary and the Holy Spirit
- The History of the Development of the Trinity Doctrine
- How did the Trinity Doctrine Develop
- Altered to fit a Trinity
- Preexistence in the Divine purpose and Trinity
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Robin Hughes
