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To: Choose Ye This Day

Sure is!


12 posted on 07/13/2007 10:55:30 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: LiteKeeper
Some would disagree:

In one of the major Christian treatments of the doctrine of the Trinity, Jesuit scholar Edmund J. Fortman, having examined the various parts of the New Testament individually, notes that "there is no trinitarian doctrine in the Synoptics or Acts." He also observes that in the New Testament "nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead," and that "in John there is no trinitarian formula." Concerning the letters of Paul, Fortman states:

These passages give no doctrine of the Trinity, but they show that Paul linked together Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They give no trinitarian formula... but they offer material for the later development of trinitarian doctrine· [Paul] has no formal trinitarian doctrine and no clear-cut realization of a trinitarian problem, but he furnishes much material for the later development of a trinitarian doctrine.

After examining all parts of the New Testament, Fortman concludes that the classical doctrine of the Trinity is not biblical:

There is no formal doctrine of the Trinity in the New Testament writers, if this means an explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons. But the three are there, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and a triadic ground plan is there, and triadic formulas are there .... The Biblical witness to God, as we have seen, did not contain any formal or formulated doctrine of the Trinity, any explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons.

Stephen E. Robinson, Are Mormons Christians?, p.74

Edmund J. Fortman, The Triune God: A Historical Study of the Doctrine of the Trinity (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1972), pp. 14, 16, 29.

25 posted on 07/14/2007 12:23:54 AM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills...)
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To: LiteKeeper
Harper's Bible Dictionary: "The formal doctrine of the Trinity as it was defined by the great church councils of the fourth and fifth centuries is not to be found in the New Testament.'"
26 posted on 07/14/2007 12:26:32 AM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills...)
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To: LiteKeeper

The word “trinity” is not in the Bible.

The concept is from ancient occult paganism.

The trinity is today’s version of baal worship.


67 posted on 07/14/2007 4:07:16 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (What part of "shall not be infringed" do you freakin' have a problem with?)
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