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The Trinity: Bible Teaching or Church Tradition?

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For many hundreds of years been a serious misunderstanding about the relationship between God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. It is a fact of history that between 300 and 500 years after the death of Jesus Christ, the Christian Church developed ideas about God which centred around a ‘Trinity’. These traditions were eventually written down in what the Church called its ‘creeds’ (credo in Latin means ‘I believe’). We must leave the detailed history of the creeds until later, but the following extract from the Athanasian Creed (around AD 500) will set the scene:
“Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith … That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity … For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son: and another of the Holy Ghost [Spirit]. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal … So the Father is God, the Son is God: and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods: but one God … Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost … Amen.”
For more than 1,500 years, the Trinity has formed an essential part of the beliefs of mainstream Christian churches. In formal church services ministers regularly recite the words of this ‘doxology’, addressed to the ‘Triune God’: “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.” Walking around a British city, you may well notice ‘Trinity Church’, ‘Trinity Street’, or ‘Trinity College’. Church members are not always aware of the origins of the Trinity, but they are taught to accept it as an essential part of their faith. And as far as most churches are concerned, if you do not believe in the Trinity, you are not a Christian.

We humbly submit another view, based wholly on the Bible. We ask our readers patiently to consider the evidence we now put forward.

Before we start, we ought to make two things very clear: first, Christadelphians believe absolutely in the God of the Bible; and, second, they have total faith in the Bible itself, that collection of sixty-six books which we sometimes call ‘The Holy Scriptures’. Read More  
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