Trinitarians should be interested to know the following: "There is a tendency in pagan religious history for the gods to be grouped in threes .... Even in Christianity, the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost reflects the underlying tendency. In India, the great Triad included Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Shiva, the Destroyer. These represent the cycle of existence, just as the Babylonian triad of Anu, Enlil and Ea represent the materials of existence: air, water, earth." - An Encyclopedia of Religion, Ferm, p.
794, 1945. "... the doctrine of the Trinity was of gradual and comparatively late formation; that it had its origin in a source *entirely foreign* from that of the Jewish and Christian scriptures; that it grew up, and was *ingrafted* on Christianity, through the hands of the Platonizing Fathers."– p. 34, The Church of the First Three Centuries, Alvan Lamson, D.D. (see WT 15 Oct. 1978, p.
32.) Weigall relates many instances of the trinity concept in pre-Christian pagan religions and then states: "The early Christians, however, did not at first think of applying the idea to their own faith." And, "Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word `trinity' appear. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord; and the origin of the conception is entirely pagan." - The Paganism in our Christianity, pp.
197,198, Arthur Weigall. The Trinity "is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and ingrafted on the Christian faith." - A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge.
Good question. The claim is sometimes made that the Christian Trinity came from a pagan Trinity practice. I'm not sure that is true, but came about more by accident as those who met at Nicaea in 325 were attempting to formulate (qualify) the religious beliefs.
Out of those efforts came the Nicene Creed and from the creed came the Christian Trinity teaching. I'll be interested to see if anyone knows and has any evidence that the Christian Trinity is a ripoff of one of the pagan beliefs.
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