The Holy Trinity

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The Holy Trinity

fschmidt
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Re: The Holy Trinity

alandibat
There is no trinity in the Tora.

There is no trinity in the Gospel.

There is no trinity in the Quran.

God is One.

It's the Catholics who need guidance here. I do not know why they want to believe that there is a trinity.
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Re: The Holy Trinity

qwerty
I think the idea of the Holy Trinity originated to settle the dispute over whether Jesus was really God or was merely the Son of God. In the 4th century AD, Catholic priests decided that he could be both, although I'm not sure where the Holy Spirit came from. Interestingly enough, in the New Testament, Jesus usually referred to himself as the Son of Man and only a few times as the Son of God, and the phrase "Son of God" was occasionally used to refer to other people in the Bible. So even in Christian scripture, the evidence for Jesus literally being God or the Son of God is weak.