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1: Newman, John Henry: Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Click to View Click to View Decepto-Meter Deceptive Quote: Trinitarian It is deceptive to deliberately misrepresent Newman to say that trinity is pagan origin, when in the same breath Newman also says that incarnation, angles, demons, divine kingdom and new birth are also of pagan origin. In Fact Newman doesn't believe any of these things originated with Pagans! Newman, John Henry: Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine What Anti-Trinitarians quote: "Let us allow that the whole circle of doctrines, of which our Lord is the subject, was consistently and uniformly confessed by the Primitive Church . . . But it surely is otherwise ... They make mention indeed of a Three; but that there is any mystery in the doctrine, that the Three are One, that They are coequal, co-eternal, all increate, all omnipotent, all incomprehensible, is not stated, and never could be gathered from them." (Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman, a cardinal by Pope Leo III in 1879, ... ...
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2: Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ...
... doctrine of the Trinity ... First, the Creeds of that early day make no mention in their letter of the Catholic doctrine at all. They make mention indeed of a Three; but that there is any mystery in the doctrine, that the Three are One, that They are coequal, coeternal, all increate, all omnipotent, all incomprehensible, is not stated and never could be gathered from them. Of course we believe that they imply it, or rather intend it. (Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman, a cardinal by Pope Leo III ... of the Godhead." (J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, p 90.) First, it is important to note that the doctrine of the Trinity does not go back to non-Christian sources [pagan], as has sometimes been supposed in the past. ... Although Christians correctly says that the "Nicene concept of Trinity" is not in the Bible, they would say that early Christians and the scriptures clearly taught that Jesus was both pre-existent and fully divine! The deception is ... ...
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3: Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans!
... SEE: Christianity was not derived from pagan sources Supporting Texts: "The phenomenon, admitted on all hands, is this: That great portion of what is generally received as Christian truth is, in its rudiments or in its separate parts, to be found in heathen philosophies and religions. For instance, the ... We, on the contrary, prefer to say, 'these things are in Christianity, therefore they are not heathen! ... so the philosophies and religions of men have their life in certain true ideas, though they are not directly divine." (Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman, a cardinal by Pope Leo III in 1879, 1878, p358) Platonism, as well as Christianity, says, ... the cause of all good (New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, Platonism And Christianity, p 88) "While overlaid with idolatry, the recognition of a Trinity was universal in all the ancient nations of the world, proving how deep mated in the human race was the primeval doctrine on this subject, which ... ...
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4: Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD
... - Ellen Makes Billions for the Church With Her Un-Biblical Tithing Doctrine 286 Twelve - Church Corruption During The 1970's 294 Thirteen - ... date which differs from the AD 33 date accepted by most Christian scholars and which is supported better by historical and astronomical data. ... Rather, Saturday was named in honor of the pagan god, Saturn. In addition to these objections of Nehemia Gordon, other biblical scholars ... The lunar connection explains the development of the Heathen concept of a seven day week and a day of rest at the end of the week better than ... It is the opinion of [Professor Jastrow] that the idea of propitiation or appeasement of divine anger, and it is . . . the opinion of ... Cited in From Sabbath to Saturday by John D. Keyser.) The Encyclopedia Biblica also notes that the word translated "rest" in Genesis 2:1-2, ... was still required for the Jewish Christians. (See Bacchiocchi's essay, "How Did Sabbath Keeping Begin," in the section titled, 'Attachment ... ...
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5: TRINITY: Christology: Diety and Humanity of our Savour!
... Paul calls Him the image of God, Lord, Son of God, Christ. and Savior; he says that He subsists in the form of God and is equal to God; he assigns to Him the divine functions of creation, salvation, and judgment; and he probably also calls Him God explicitly. Paul makes Christ's eternal pre-existence more ... of our Lord's divinity itself partly implies and partly recommends the doctrine of the Trinity ... First, the Creeds of that early day make no mention in their letter of the Catholic doctrine at all. They make mention indeed of a Three; but that there is any mystery in the doctrine, that the Three are One, that They are coequal, coeternal, all increate, all omnipotent, all incomprehensible, is not stated and never could be gathered from them. Of course we believe that they imply it, or rather intend it. (Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, John Henry Newman, a cardinal by Pope Leo III in 1879, 1878, p40-42) 9. The unity of God was already immovably fixed by the ... ...
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6: George Salmon's Infallibiliy of the church
The Infallibility of the Church originated as a series of lectures delivered by Salmon (Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and sometime ... To this end, I have condensed the 500 page original-working from the Second Edition published by John Murray, London, 1890-into a ninety-six ... The Doctrine of Development Rests Upon Infallibility The Development of Infallibility General Councils The Development of Infallibility The ... [12] 2. Suppose we make what seems a convincing proof that some doctrine of the Roman Church is not contained in Scripture, what does that ... as the most effective book of Catholic apologetics), three maxims are laid down which, says the author, no rational Christian will dispute. ... Bossuet reiterated that the faith of the Church, being a Divine work, had its perfection from the first, and had never varied; and that the ... According to Cardinal Manning it is a matter of unimportance how the Church is to be reconciled with Scripture or antiquity, when once you ... ...
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7: Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ...
... That is certainly a wide liberty with a broad license. It would give to every man Jew, Catholic, Pagan and Protestant, the ... We do not want a pseudo-unity. Nothing short of John seventeen will do the work. Jesus Christ said, "I pray not for these ... The answer to that prayer-"Christian unity"-does not depend upon what digressive bodies or sectarian denominations are going ... It does not represent the cloistered virtues of hermits and ascetics, cherished and nursed by secret devotees. The divine ... but the development of ec-clesiastical organization destroyed the congregational char-acter of the church, and departure was first centered in human organization. (3) Theology, as the historian writes it, but doctrine in the terms ... He made that statement at the centenary celebration of the Catholic church. Cardinal Manning said, "The Catholic church is ... of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or for such a thing to be performed with or without the Godhead, in or out of the Trinity? ... ...
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8: Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd
... work of the apostle John." (NPNF-CE2.1, Philip Schaff, Henry Wase, Eus., Hist. eccl. 7.25.1, The Apocalypse of John, ... was written in the time of Domitian around AD 96, that Eusebius formally rejects that John the apostle even wrote Revelation. c. ... may have been easy for Roman's to accept, since they were already familiar with the idea that man can be regarded as divine. ... The concept of Ginn as spirit beings long predates Islam but they had a distinct Arabic pagan polytheistic theology at the time ... Jinn can be obedient to the Koran, but the Jinn must reject the Christian Trinity that God has a Son [Jesus] or a consort [Mary, mother of God]. Because of the false doctrine of Mariolatry, Muhammed misunderstood the trinity as ... The "Oath to the Genius of the Caesar" was not emperor worship but a cardinal doctrine of the Imperial cult from the time of ... doubt that this large Jewish population exercised a great influence on the development of the district and of the cities". ... ...
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9: "KJV Only" advocates refuted!
significantly alter the meaning of a passage, and NONE of them would contradict or alter any of the basic points of Christian doctrine. ... English, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN GUIDED BY DIVINE INSPIRATION THE CORRECT RENDERING, hence no need for any alternate readings in the margin. ... may receive a full reward" *Margin: "Some ancient mss. read you" 2 John 8, NASB Click to View The KJV reading is identical to the NASB ... disputed words from the Latin Vulgate? (we are not disputing the doctrine of the trinity, just the validity of the last half of this verse) How do you ... "Easter" Acts 12:4 "Passover"(Easter very poor choice as it confuses the pagan origin Roman Catholic "Easter" holy day with what the TR ... of the persecuted saints of verse five, as I demonstrated in my essay, "A Careful Investigation of Psalm 12: 6-7," The Biblical ... Oleastro, and their own Bishop Isidorus Clarius, and their own Cardinal Thomas a Vio Caietan, do either make new Translations themselves, ... ...
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10: The Decepto-Meter goes crazy when you bring it near the Watchtower ...
... Trinitarian anti-Trinitarians create a false dilemma by projecting the false impression in the mind of the reader that if the "Formulated trinity doctrine" (of the Athanasius creed) is not in the Bible that Jesus is a creature and the Holy Spirit is electricity! Muller, James Arthur Creeds and Loyalty Deceptive Quote Trinitarian It is deceptive to deliberately misrepresent Newman to say that trinity is pagan origin, when in the same breath Newman also says that incarnation, angles, demons, divine kingdom and new birth are also of pagan origin. In Fact Newman doesn't believe any of these things originated with Pagans! Newman, John Henry Development of Christian Doctrine Deceptive quote Trinitarian The Watchtower deliberately misleads the readers to the wrong conclusion that Philip Schaff, believes the origin of trinity is from the "pagan doctrines" of Plato! Schaff openly states in the that trinity has its origin in the scripture. Click to View Schaff, Philip History of the Christian ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-anti-trinity-booklet-decepto-meter.htm
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11: Part1: Pagan Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ...
Jehovah is not only called the Only true God (John 17:3), but the "Only Saviour" (Isa 43:11; 45:21; Hos 13:4; Jude 25) , "Only King" (Zech 14:9). If John 17:3 ... We reject all human creeds and abide ONLY in the concept of trinity in the Bible where Jesus is uncreated divine God (like the Father) and the Holy Spirit is a person. Critics of the doctrine say that it is not a Bible teaching, one history source even declaring: "The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan."-The Paganism in Our Christianity. This source ... The Roman Catholic Church states: "The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion . . . Thus, in the words of the ... Eliade and Trinitarians admit that the Old Testament did not reveal the trinity, but so what? There is a clear development of doctrines that all Bible students ... Yes it was wrong, but so is the current practice for JW's delaying their baptisms for a year! Yet notice what Henry Chadwick said in the same book as the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm
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12: Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ...
Jehovah is not only called the Only true God (John 17:3), but the "Only Saviour" (Isa 43:11; 45:21; Hos 13:4; Jude 25) , "Only King" (Zech 14:9). If John 17:3 ... We reject all human creeds and abide ONLY in the concept of trinity in the Bible where Jesus is uncreated divine God (like the Father) and the Holy Spirit is a person. Critics of the doctrine say that it is not a Bible teaching, one history source even declaring: "The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan."-The Paganism in Our Christianity. This source ... The Roman Catholic Church states: "The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion . . . Thus, in the words of the ... Eliade and Trinitarians admit that the Old Testament did not reveal the trinity, but so what? There is a clear development of doctrines that all Bible students ... Yes it was wrong, but so is the current practice for JW's delaying their baptisms for a year! Yet notice what Henry Chadwick said in the same book as the ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT.htm
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13: Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma
What is worse, is that Harnack it a Bible Hater who rejected the entire gospel of John as inspired, resurrection and baptism! Two other ... As, church doctrine became "firmly rooted in the soil of Hellenism [pagan Greek thought]. Thereby it became a mystery to the great majority of Christians." ... "In reality it legitimized in its midst the Hellenic speculation, the superstitious views and customs of pagan mystery-worship." (Outlines of the History of Dogma, Adolf Harnack, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) The Christian religion ... with his idea of revelation, already maintained that the Divine Original Essence is suprarational, that only ecstasy leads to Him, ... revelation, but man himself believing in the divine." (Carl F.H. Henry, God, Revelation and Authority, Word Publishers, Waco, TX, Vol. 2, ... Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, Oxford, 1987, pp. 5-6 "Harnack saw in this development a second wave of Hellenization. The ... ...
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14: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ...
... historian, Church History, Volume II, page 6, 1) Irenaeus refused the abuses and fakery of those who sought to exercise the gift with no divine right. ... But others were carried away and not a little elated, thinking themselves possessed of the Holy Spirit and of the gift of prophecy." (Cited in Henry BeKenson, ea., Documents of the Christian ... The theologian Origen preserved his testimony. (Origen, Against Celsus, 7.9, ANF IV, 614, quoting Celsus, The Discourse. Origen, Commentary on John, 2.6, ANF; X, 329.) A pagan ... He was eventually chosen as rival Bishop of Rome. His followers remained orthodox in doctrine, but their continued emphasis on severe discipline gave them ... and in all, perfected and completed." (Novatian, Treatise Concerning the Trinity, xxix, ANF, V, 641.) (The Charismatic Movement, 1975, Michael P. ... on the New Pentecostalism, Spitter, Stanley M. Burgess, 1976, pp. 14-26) Cardinal Ludovisius, testifying on behalf of the canonization of Francis Xavier, ... ...
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15: Trinity proof texts: Philippians 2:5-8
... of God's nature. · Christ, the second person in the trinity · there was no robbery when He claimed equality with God. ... his for the seizing. · Kenosis, and the shaky "Kenotic" doctrine of incarnation. · Here the sense is equivalent to the ... his Father before the world was, John xvii.5,; and on that as on other accounts he is the brightness of the Father's glory. ... He did not lay aside the divine attributes, but the "insignia of majesty" (quoting Lightfoot). · Mark Twain's "the Prince and the Pauper", describing a son of Henry 8 who temporarily changed positions with a poor boy in London, provides and ... Hoover's essay, which reflects thoroughness and a ear-headed method, must be regarded as having settled this particular ... Paul appeals to them on the basis of their Christian experience to have unity of mind and heart and to put others ahead of ... totally at the disposal of people. · Philippians with a pagan past, it seems best, on balance, to understand the ... ...
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16: Rylands, John: Bulletin of The John Rylands Library
... and ranks far above them." (Bulletin of The John Rylands Library, Vol 50, (1967-68) p 247-261, "Jesus As 'Theos' In The New Testament", by G. H. Boobyer, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) Boobyer's whole ... Boobyer believes the Bible writers were affected by pagan thought and denies the inspiration of Scripture. Look at the ... Christians would "become partakers of the (or 4 a) divine nature"" Deception Exposed: It is the height of satanic ... Section 1: Aloys Grillmeier's valuable book entitled Christ in Christian Tradition (1965) has an epilogue headed " ... And if it is asked why a reappraisal of Christological doctrine is urgent today, I would give at least four reasons. (1) ... Is it a legitimate and inevitable development of New Testament Christology, or a distortion of it? In the light of the ... to have denied explicitly that he was God; (In his essay " Toward a Christology for Today ", published in Soundings, ed. ... ...
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17: Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne
... day solely based on its association with pagan sun worship, for the purpose of lowering the bar for pagans to enter into the Christian faith. ... See Henry Chadwick, The Early Church (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967), pp. 9-13. See also William Barclay, The Ten Commandments for Today (New ... It does not appear that Justin, and those at Rome who held with him in the doctrine, paid the slightest regard to the ancient Sabbath. He ... of the holy food" (Apostolic Constitutions 2:7:60 [A.D. 400]). 17. John Chrysostom [A.D. 402] "The rite of circumcision was venerable in the ... like to be told what there is in these Ten Commandments, except the observance of the sabbath, which ought not to be kept by a Christian . . . ... The practice of Christians gathering together for worship on Sunday dates back to apostolic times, but details of the actual development of ... Carver publishes his book, Mrs. White's Claim to Divine Inspiration Examined, describing among other stumbling blocks to his faith, "two ... ...
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18: Why I left the Roman Catholic church! (personal testimony)
I will mention, though, that I came from a large, devout Catholic family of twelve children. I attended Trinity High School ... There is not a solitary good work that the Christian can do which is not provided in the Scriptures. The Scriptural proof ... The doctrine of an "infallible church" causes the Catholic Church to fail in this. The Catholic Church is a church which ... the place of God (Christ Himself is God, Matt. 1:23; John 1:1), yet there is only one passage in the entire Bible which speaks of a man doing such and it calls him "the man of sin." James Cardinal Gibbons, a Catholic Archbishop said, "Jesus our ... organization to illuminate it but it maintains that the apostles appointed a "divine, infallible apostolate" to direct us. ... Out Of Paganism Grew The Papacy The empire of pagan Rome, like unto a cruel beast, truly wore the name of blasphemy. It was ... course proposed for study, could not the slighted taxpayers say with Henry, "Taxation without representation is tyranny!" ... ...
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19: "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914
... The church is represented by a pure woman, II Cor. 11:2, and by lambs, John 21:15; false religious teachers are represented by bad ... The Adventists themselves have shown that the doctrine of a strict Sunday did not originate with the Catholics, but with the ... They brought with them very largely their pagan doctrines, customs, religious rites, images, gods, shrines, temples, and pomp of worship. This became the model after which the Papacy was gradually but finally formed. The Papacy in its full and final development was an image of this half heathen, half Christian, worldly kingdom. The Deadly Wound, ... Peter and his regular apostolic succession from him as proof of his authority. Says Dowling: "The Popes assert their divine right ... Statute of Henry IV of England. Critical History of Sunday Legislation, page 90. 14th century, A.D. 1359. "It is provided by ... So the Holy Spirit, the third person in the Trinity, is an intelligent, immortal spirit, without flesh or bones. He appeared at ... ...
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20: Hindu Gurus and Pentecostal preachers are identical!!!
... This is just one example of healing that Baba can do. Within a week John could turn his neck 45 degrees. I two weeks he was fully ... We do not make for ourselves any image, but we only receive whatever God may send us. So this Divine Power, which works in us during ... The experience varies, indeed it is different for each person. For some the development is gradual and changes are noticed in the ... It combines meditation, breath control and gymnastics (Porkert, Manfred with Christian Ullmann. 1982. Chinese Medicine. Mark Howson, trans. New York: Henry Holt). There are breathing exercises, muscular ... on the cross (as does the WOF movement) Shakes deny the Trinity of God and believe God is dual - father and mother Click here ... WOF teaches we are "little gods" and "little Christ's, little anointed ones." Latter Rain/Manifest Sons doctrine preaches (to this ... C. Peter Wagner and other prophetic ministries are 'redeeming' pagan cultural practices, dances, songs. Wagner has stated other ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-kundalini-shakers-charismastics.htm
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21: Nimrod and the Archaeology of the Tower of Babel by Steven Rudd ...
... Luke" (New Evidence for Kainan in New Testament and LXX Papyri, Henry Smith) 6. November 2017: the author published his book on the ... will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."" (John 4:10-14) 5. Nimrod saw himself in, and identified with Enki: a. ... A decision that the seed of mankind is to be destroyed has been made. The verdict, the word of the divine assembly, cannot be revoked. ... Christian "Easter" directly derives from Nimrod's pagan goddess Inanna. b. Eostre is the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring fertility and birth of new light at the vernal equinox. c. ... Ararat. 8. Events between the Flood and the Tower of Babel were "pre-military warfare times": 9. Development of city walls over time ... unorthodox theologies are driven to produce their own sectarian translation of the Bible to aid in teaching of their false doctrine. b. ... Domino #7: Rejecting Jesus as God and making him into a creature/angel, destroys the Bible doctrine of the Trinity. h. Domino #8: ... ...
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22: Kadesh-Barnea by Henry Clay Trumbull, 1884 AD
... M. Heilprin, on this side of the Atlantic. Moreover, I desire to recognize my special indebtedness to Mr. John T. Napier, of Philadelphia, ... Thomas Wilson, in his Christian Diet. (London, 167S) and Calmet, in his Dictionary (Paris, 1720) adopted the same explanation as Leusden. ... Afterwards he was inclined to abandon this idea. But it has been taken lap by the Rev. Henry George Tomkins, and pressed with a strong show of ... I., Essay VI., 2 5, note 1.) See also, on this, Lenormant and Chevallier s Anc. Hist, of East, II., 146. 1 "He [Kedor-la omer] is the ... by which everything is brought into immediate relation to the divine plan." (Kurtz s Hist, of Old Cov., I., 217.) 2 " The imperial power ... 2 and Grove 3 to be the Khulasah, 4 or Chalutza, or Elusa, which was a centre of pagan worship, 5 and lay south westerly from Bcersheba. ... The place of the encampment of the Israelites by the Red Sea is described by four cardinal points. It is in some way bounded, or indicated, by ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-kadesh-barnea-henry-clay-trumbull-1884ad.htm
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23: Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD
... In this, Dr. Bucke presented his theory of the development of consciousness in man. He also provided the basis for his view that a higher form ... appreciated this astounding fact and was concerned with the orderly transfer of authority and doctrine from dying master to living disciples. ... efforts, some of Whitman's older disciples, like John Burroughs, were gradually eased out of places of importance in the poet's inner circle. ... He claimed that 'He never, even as a child, accepted the doctrines of the Christian church; but, as soon as old enough to dwell at all on such ... it, far from the dim east and north once more westward to the most divine land of America, fairly wallowing in the glorious sunshine & rich ... Future volumes include William Henry Drummond (J.B. Lyons) and William Beaumont (Julian Smith). There is no shortage of meritorious subjects. ... This was many years before Whitman became famous, when he was generally regarded as a pagan, or an incomprehensible poet, or both. Bucke first ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm
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24: Master Index of Quotes of Quotes used to trash the Trinity in ...
Dictionary of Religious Knowledge Alpha Encyclopedia, French Alpha Encyclopedia, French Barclay, William Many Witnesses, One Lord Bettenson, Henry Documents of the Christian Church Boer, Harry R. A Short History of the Early Church Bowman, Robert M. Why You Should Believe In The Trinity Brown, Colin New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology Buzzard, Anthony Who is Jesus? Calvin, John Commentary on John Carpenter, Edward The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs Catholic Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Catholic Encyclopedias and ... Greber, Johannes New Testament Haenchen, Earnest Commentary on John Hanson, R. P. C. The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God Harnack, Adolf Outlines of the History of Dogma Harris, R. Laird Theological Workbook of the ... Oxford Companion to the Bible Morenz, Siegfried Egyptian Religion Muller, James Arthur Creeds and Loyalty Newman, John Henry Development of Christian Doctrine Norton, Andrews A Statement of Reasons for not believing the ... ...
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25: Trinity: The role of Constantine in the Nicene creed
... Constantine, (a pagan sun worshipper who knew nothing about Christian Doctrine) was the author of the Nicene creed. This is the impression anti-Trinitarians leave in the mind of readers. ... Constantine was introduced to the trinity debates which existed before he became emperor. Constantine had no role in shaping trinity doctrine. To suggest that Constantine introduced trinity doctrine from pagan ... What is far more remarkable is Constantine's subsequent development of his new religious allegiance to a quite extreme personal commitment. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Constantine the Great, ... in the image of divine beauty"; enjoining the observance of Sunday and saints' days; extending privileges to the clergy while suppressing at least some of the more offensive pagan practices. ... Constantine favoured Christianity among the many religions of his subjects, but did not make it the official or 'established' religion of the empire." (The Early Church, Chadwick, Henry. p ... ...
https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-constantine.htm
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26: Encyclopædia Britannica
... man; and third, that these two "natures" do not exist beside one another in an unconnected way but, rather, are joined in him in a personal unity. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Christianity, Vol. 4, p.480) GOD THE SON ... the Gospel According to John, which regards the figure of Jesus Christ as the divine Logos become flesh. ... The Christology of Jehovah's Witnesses, also, is a form of Arianism; they regard Arius as a forerunner of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of their movement. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Arianism, Vol. I, p.509) Arianism did not exist before the 4th century, but was a development of doctrine, just like Creedal Trinity Arianism, a Christian heresy first proposed early in the 4th century by the Alexandrian presbyter Arius. It affirmed that Christ is not truly divine but a created being. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Arianism, Vol. I, p.509) Constantine's Conversion and Genuineness of Faith It is significant, for instance, not that the pagan gods and ... ...
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27: Trinity proof texts: John 8:58
... There is evidence to show that in the Judaism of Jesus' day these words were sometimes used as substitutes for the divine name Yahweh itself, in particular at the Feast of Tabernacles, ... The above translations of John 8:58 are examples of this." (Letter from Herle to Walter R. Martin, April 2, 1978) A similar statement advoctating that John 8:58 was "PPA"later appeared in Herle's "The Trinity Doctrine", p44 in 1983. However, even ... The first is Crowell's Dictionary of English Grammar and of American Usage, by Maurice H. Weseen, published in 1928; the second, A New English Grammar Logical and Historical, by Henry ... Jehovah's Witnesses habitually quote faithless men like this to trash the trinity. ("The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, ... name "Yahweh" and the expression EHYEH ASHER EHYEH, it would seem that the Old Testament itself laid the foundation for the eventual obsolescence of the name "Yahweh" in Christian piety. ... ...
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28: Hick, John: The Myth of God Incarnate
Hick, John: The Myth of God Incarnate As quoted by Anti-trinitarians "There is actually nothing new about the central themes of this book ... That the historical Jesus did not present Himself as God incarnate is accepted by all [theologians] ... Christian laymen today are not fully aware of it. ... (Jesus) did not teach the doctrine of the trinity." (The Myth of God Incarnate, John Hick) Our Comment Hick is a flaming modernist who doesn't believe the Bible! The title of ... It is unbelievable that anti-trinitarians would use this book as proof that trinity is of pagan origin. The central theme of the book is to say that "incarnation of Christ" itself is a pagan doctrine and myth. Hick is not debunking "divine incarnation" but "any incarnation" (including the Jw view that Jesus was an incarnate ... Here a group of distinguished theologians and Biblical scholars ask whether the idea of the incarnation is essential to Christianity; and they question the whole development of the ... ...
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29: Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries
"A dogma so mysterious presupposes a Divine revelation." (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, Vol. 15, Trinity, p 47, As quoted in "Should you believe in the trinity?", Watchtower booklet) I. THE DOGMA of the Trinity-The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion-the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons the Father the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these ... Attempts have been made recently to apply the more extreme theories of comparative religion [pagan similarities] to the doctrine of the Trinity, and to account for it by an imaginary law of ... John, but by the Synoptists. (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, Vol. 15, p 47-49) St. John's testimony is yet more explicit than that of the Synoptists. He expressly asserts that the very ... On the other hand, the formula itself does not reflect the immediate consciousness of the period of origins; it was the product of 3 centuries of doctrinal development. But current ... ...
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30: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal ministries and preachers
Hagee, John: Cornerstone Church Hagin, Kenneth Hickey, Marilyn Hill, Steve Hinn, Benny Holy Trinity Brompton (UK) Howard-Browne, Rodeny International ... Paulk, Earl: Chapel Hill Harvester Church Pensacola Blessing Popoff, Peter Price, Fred Crenshaw Christian Center Promise Keepers Rex Humbard Roberts Oral ... Former Jim Bakker associate, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne Promise Keepers coming Hagee, John Cornerstone church A Statement of our Doctrine: The ... We believe that maximum spiritual growth and development come through membership in these groups. Prayer and Praise We believe in the worship of the Lord ... Montanus, Montanism Montanism was a second century heresy started by Montanus a former pagan priest. See detailed documents on Montanus He reintroduced ... 10/19/94) John Arnott and his wife gave approval to a woman's report of a divine message from Jesus that she should leave her husband because he was like a ... ...
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31: Morenz, Siegfried: Egyptian Religion
... Of course Morenz is wrong on both counts. Jesus no more borrowed from the pagans in Luke 16, (the rich man and Lazarus) any more than apostle John borrowed from the pagans in his view that Jesus was God. Deception Exposed: It is dishonest for JW's ... Morenz says: "In order to avoid any gross misunderstanding, we must at once emphasize that the substance of the Christian Trinity is of course Biblical". What Morenz is saying is that the Bible itself contains the doctrine of the trinity and that it is of pagan origin. Morenz is trashing the Whole Bible in saying this! It is absolutely unforgivable deception that JW's would quote Morenz ... On the contrary, the Syrian goddesses Kadesh, Astarte and Anath apparently only coalesce into a triune deity on Egyptian soil (see p. 143) One would not expect such a development to occur in Israel, with its consistent henotheism. Characteristically, the Yahvist tale of the three divine beings who called on Abraham at the sacred tree of Mamre does not lead ... ...
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32: Weigall, Arthur: The Paganism in Our Christianity
... origin, The "pre-existent angel" is a 4th century concept: p172,173-175 The Trinity is of pagan origin: p182 The "Lord's Day" (Sunday) is of Pagan Origin: ... to defend Weigall as a careful conservative scholar who attends church faithfully every Sunday, but warn that Christmas and Easter, for example, are pagan origin. ... After reading the book it becomes clear that whenever Weigall shows "parallels" with Christian doctrine and paganism, what he is really saying, is that the doctrine is false ... Peter., from A. D. 59 to 64; Revelation, from A.D. 69 to 93; the Gospel of St. Mark, from A.D. 70 to 110; the Acts, from A.D. 80 to 110; the Epistles of St. John, ... after the Crucifixion; and, in the second plate, because so many gods and semi-divine heroes have mothers whose names are variations of 'Mary' Adonis, son of ... John, however, written some time in the Second Century but not widely accepted at first, there is a development : Jesus is now called the 'only begotten Son of God, ... ...
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33: The ministry of Dr. Hugh Ross exposed
Hugh Ross. Dr. Ross is a fine Christian. However, his views on the Bible and science need to be evaluated and exposed. Dr. Davidheiser did just that. ... When writing or speaking in defense of the Bible, several things should be kept in mind. Honesty is imperative, and gives us the advantage, for as John ... However, the multiple billions of years involved are not in accord with Biblical chronology and the manner of development of galaxies, stars, planets, etc., is through natural forces instead of by divine fiat. YOUNG EARTH VERSUS OLD ... Dr. Ross told me the solution is that some scholars interpret Hebrew cardinal numbers differently than other scholars do. I asked what Hebrew scholar I ... heathen attacks on Christian doctrine (3rd century); Basil (4th century); Augustine (5th century); and, later, Aquinas (13th century), to name a few. ... This being the case, it is only natural that they would have to accept long periods of time for evolution to proceed. The famous evolutionist Henry ... ...
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34: Four positions on the day of Christian worship
... Adventists openly teach that early Christians borrowed Sunday as the day of worship from the pagan religion of Mithraism in about 140 AD. Gradually Sunday ... The Sunday as a day of the week set apart for the obligatory public worship of Almighty God is purely a creation of the Catholic Church," (John Gilmary Shea, ... In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church," (Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore replying for the Cardinal in a ... the same church," (Priest Henry Tuberville, An Abridgement of the Christian Doctrine, p. 58) "Question -- What Bible authority is there for changing the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week? Who gave the Pope the authority to change a command of God? Answer -- If the Bible is the only guide for the Christian, the Seventh-day ... Compromise is impossible," (Catholic Mirror, September 2 and December 23, 1893) "The Catholic Church . . . by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from ... ...
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35: Trinity proof texts: Mark 2:7
Trinity Proof Texts Mark 2:5-12 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven." But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak ... Therefore this silly rebuttal is invalid, because obedience does not determine what rights you have inherently. Jesus had many inherent divine rights before he became man, but chose to relinquish personal claim to these ... If one believes in Jesus, then a Christian has the right to announce his forgiveness. If a person rejects Jesus' sacrifice, then a Christian can announce that that person is not forgiven. (Bible knowledge commentary, John 20:21) Matthew Henry The apostles, in preaching remission, must begin at Jerusalem, though she had lately ... Two ways the apostles and ministers of Christ remit and retain sin, and both as having authority:-[1.] By sound doctrine. They are commissioned to tell the world that salvation is to be had upon gospel terms, and no other, ... ...
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36: What Early Christians believed about USING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Using instrumental music in worship??? See also: ... anitphons, prayers, responses, etc., were unmetrical; and while the pagan melodies were always sung to an instrumental accompaniment, the ... music." (John Kurtz, Lutheran Scholar, Church History, Vol 1, p. 376) LANG "All our sources deal amply with vocal music of the church, but they are chary with mention of any other manifestations of musical art . . . The development of Western music was decisively influenced by the exclusion of musical instruments from the early Christian Church." (Paul Henry Lang, Music in Western Civilization, p. 53-54) ... Only singing however, and no playing of instruments, was permitted in the early Christian Church. In this respect the Jewish tradition was not ... discredited in the meantime by the lascivious Greek and Roman virtuoso music of the later ages, and it appeared unfit for the divine service. ... ...
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37: Discussion: Eternal torment or annihilation?
Obviously, nobody likes to be told their doctrine has pagan >roots, but "facts is facts!" Those who have taken the time to truly dig >deeply ... The depiction of the first resurrection and the second death were not meant for expositions of the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead ... in the application to the pageantry of apocalyptic description of the fortunes of the early church and the divine judgments on its enemies." ... There is no clothing [8-)] for the conditionalist tradition in the Revelation of John, concerning the lake of fire and the second death. Even ... The Greek view of the soul was too different from the Jewish/ Christian concept to be taken seriously by the Greeks. When the Sadducees ... Henry Alford characterized the effort to repunctuate as "surely something worse than silly." Adam Clarke says it as "most feeble and worthless ... Again, the Annihilationist lifts a statement out of the essay and fails to fill us in on what the author really thinks. First, Boles is saying ... ...
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38: mormon church: Critical Essay written in 1832 AD
Click Your Choice Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA Critical Essay written in 1832 AD This essay is important because it was written only 2 years after Joseph ... An analysis of the book of Mormon with an examination of its internal and external evidences, and a refutation of its pretenses to divine authority by ... Lehi was a greater prophet than any of the Jewish prophets, and uttered all the events of the christian era, and developed the records of Matthew, Luke, and John, six hundred years before John the baptist was born. ... He decides all the great controversies - infant baptism, ordination, the trinity, regeneration, repentance, justification, the fall of man, the atonement, ... Nephi 2400 years ago hears the saying of a Pagan who lived 634 years after him - 'The God of nature suffers.' p.51. 'The righteous need not fear, for it is ... Ghost was preached in the days of Cyrus,' p.119. 'The only true doctrine of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost which is one God without end. ... ...
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39: Debate with Catholic on Sola Scriptura (Riggs Vs Lopez)
... then we have a fulfillment of Jesus' promises (Jn 14:26, John 16:13, Mt. 28:20) to preserve the truth and provide protection from error. ... The New Testament reliance on these oral traditions shows that divine revelation can be passed on and relied on to infallibly pass on ... According to the World Christian Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press', 1983), as of 1982 there were 20,800 Christian denominations with a ... If one is a Lutheran, one believes Luther's tradition started in the 16th century. If one follows the Church of Christ doctrine, one believes ... To show, however, that the Catholic argument can be easily answered, I copy the concluding remarks from my Essay entitled, "Did the Catholic ... In actuality, bibles were written on expensive parchment, a scribe would have to write for ten months to complete one bible (Rev. Henry ... The word bible is not in the bible does that mean we should not read it? Neither is incarnation, Trinity and other terms my opponent would ... ...
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40: Historical overview of Psychiatry: 1550 BC - 2010 AD
... Neither the queen or modern chemical psychiatrists would be amused! (Hypochondriac Melancholy, John Hawkins, 1633 AD) In 1636 AD, Richard ... Here we have it's beginning stages of development by the myth that human females, like animals, go insane if they do not get sex when they ... Apart from being stupid, it is a deliberate misrepresentation of what Descartes said. Further, since Christian know that the spirit uses the ... soul, Rene Descartes, 1650 AD) In 1656 AD, Henry More described those who hear voices as self deluded with their own conceited imaginations. ... He was wrong on both counts as is chemical psychiatry today who believes the mind obeys chemical "Newtonian like" laws of the body! (An essay ... by physical diseases like epilepsy or flu viruses. Farmer said, "the New Testament doth not countenance the doctrine of real possessions." ... The man who scorns this repeated summons and is content with and stays only in the non-Divine existence and life will become enslaved by the ... ...
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41: Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert ...
... preoccupation has been with the theological components of pre-Christian religions.8 In general, questions about the archaeological corpus ... texts and employed an evolutionary model in which societies progressed from savagery to a high plane of moral and religious development. ... This book described the evolutionary growth of man's idea of God. In it, paganism was part of the divine preparation for Christianity. While ... It is therefore not surprising that his analysis placed biblical theology at a great distance from its putative pagan or "prelogical" roots. ... (Kimbrough 1978) and de Vaux (1964). 6 For a rebuttal of the doctrine of "survivals," see Georgoudi 1989. She demonstrates that, ... sacrifice in biblical thought, see Fishbane 1998: 123-35. In this essay, he traces rabbinic substitutions for Temple sacrifice in the ... the Old Testament Period, Volume I: From the Beginnings to the End of the Monarchy. Trans. J. Bowden. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox. ... ...
...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-archaeology-and-the-religions-of-Canaan-and-israel-beth-alpert-nakhai.htm
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42: REFUTED: Full-Preterist, "Realized Eschatology", "AD 70 doctrine ...
... While command, example, inference and obeying the silence of scripture is true and valid hermeneutic in determining morals, doctrine and ... These two-time prophecies, along with many other messianic prophecies sparked great expectation at the time of John the Baptist, who baptized ... Paul twice applies the Mosaic law of not muzzling the ox while it is threshing in Deut 25:4 to Christian preachers drawing wages for their ... This standard Midrashic hermeneutic would be a surprising new development to the historic Jewish interpretation of the passage. While Jews ... The same year Pekah is killed: 2 Kings 16:5-18; 2 Chron 28:19-27. Ahaz made a model of the pagan altar in Damascus in the temple in Jerusalem ... Their cardinal error of Full-Preterists applies 21st century hermeneutics to ancient Jewish scripture in a way that ignores the Midrashic ... This body is conformed to the Divine body of Jesus Christ himself. d. From a Full-Preterist point of view, the living NEVER experience the ... ...
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43: THE PIRATES OF PRIVILEGE: Walter Rea Rocks the Seventh-day Adventist ...
... much less than in the Church's own special teachings about the Sabbath, the Investigative Judgment, or the divine inspiration of Ellen White. ... Davenport; and certainly, Harold, both you and I are concerned over the Loma Linda University development program as well as the Paradise Spa. ... Sandefur, Charles C. $24,255.00 Lauda, C. H. 30,554.57 Sauder, Harvey 5,884.41 Lew, John M. 23,830.00 Schleenbaker, S. E. 21.506.94 Libby, ... P.O. Box 2001 17671 Irvine, Blvd. Concord, CA 94529 Tustin, CA 92680 Christian Record Braille Foundation City National Bank 4444 S. 52nd St. ... Pierson's letter sounded like some ancient pagan love song. He had been taken from the sheep fold of Adventism and exalted to the crown, yet ... no church policy, have challenged no church doctrine or belief, and have applied myself with all diligence to my calling these many years. ... have known that knowingly or unknowingly he was violating the cardinal rule of Adventist scholarship, which was that one must have a ... ...
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44: Trinity proof texts: John 17:3
John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. (John 17:3 represents the primary proof text that Anti-trinitarians use to teach Jesus is a creature and trash the trinity. John 17:3 is to a Jehovah's Witness, what John 3:16 is to a Christian!) What John 17:3 is saying: While Jesus walked the earth, he took off the outward robes of deity and put on the robes of a servant. (Phil 2:6-8 + John 13:3-20) Jesus on earth was still "very God" or the "only true God" but ... It is obvious that Jesus and the Father are not the same person, but two distinct persons. Therefore Jesus is not God. The fact that the Father is the "only true God", excludes Jesus as being the "only true God". Our preliminary comments: No verse in the Bible ever outright states that Jesus is not divine or God. John 17:3 does not say that Jesus is not the only true God. Jehovah's Witnesses use faulty inductive logic to incorrectly conclude that Jesus is ... ...
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45: Trinity proof texts: John 1:1
Trinity Proof Texts Click to View John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The three "a,b,c" clauses referred to in this document: John 1:1a "In the beginning was the Word," John 1:1b "and the Word ... Jehovah's Witnesses don't even get a gold star! Arians (JW's) and some well meaning Trinitarians mistakenly translate it "and the word was divine". If John wanted to convey that Jesus had divine qualities, he would have used the adjective for "divine" ... of Scriptures in favor of the true Deity of Christ, that I can hardly imagine how, upon the admission of the Divine authority of Scripture, and with regard to fair rules of interpretation, this doctrine can by any man be called in doubt. ... There is no syntactical parallel to Acts 28:6 where there is a statement in indirect discourse; John 1:1 is direct....I am neither a Christian nor a Trinitarian." Kaufman: Dr. Paul L. Kaufman of Portland, Oregon: "The Jehovah's Witnesses people ... ...
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46: Textbook of Disturbances of Mental Life, Johann Christian August ...
... Nothing was done to cure him, for who would want to oppose Divine punishment? He became well again after he had lifted up his head and prayed ... For our purpose, he is only a compiler. Moreover, only a fragment of his essay on melancholia (Synops., I, VIII. c. 7) remains, for it begins ... As to the description of insania (after Archigenes and Posidonius), we notice a certain development and refinement in the concepts inherited ... times, with the result that already in the first centuries of the Christian Era, the occult sciences of magic - mixed with misunderstood ... This treatment involves a vague concept which was later more clearly named excitability by his pupil John Brown. Credit for the contrast ... created - in short, whatever the vain, proud, foolish heart desires; even if it is to be God Himself of a fourth person in the Holy Trinity. ... But a blind acceptance of the Christian doctrine is not enough; it is not sufficient to adopt the doctrine and remain otherwise unchanged. ... ...
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47: Trinity proof texts: John 10:30-33
Trinity Proof Texts Click to View John 10:25-39 If You are the Christ, tell us plainly." Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these bear ... Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp. The argument stated: This section is a clear and precise statement of Jesus Christ's divine nature and equality with God in both purpose and being. The text cannot support the Modalist view that Jesus and the Father are the same person because the oneness of the Trinity referenced in this passage is one of ... rejected it as valid scripture for the same reasons Martin Luther rejected the entire book of James as bad and corrupted scripture. ("a straw epistle"): Both felt the texts contradicted true doctrine. ... This all proves that the Jehovah's Witness doctrine of Henotheism is something not understood or comprehended by the Jews any more than trinity Doctrine was! Both must claim development from the Old to the ... ...
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48: Trinity: Arius and the Nicene Creed
Jehovah's Witnesses are modern Arians The Christology of Jehovah's Witnesses, also, is a form of Arianism; they regard Arius as a forerunner of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of their movement. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Arianism, Vol. I, p.509) "Arius, Waldo, John Wycliffe, and Martin Luther were part of God's organization." (Watchtower, May 15, 1925, p. 149) Arianism did not exist before the 4th century, but was a development of doctrine, just like Creedal Trinity Arianism, a Christian heresy first proposed early in the 4th century by the Alexandrian presbyter Arius. It affirmed that Christ is not truly divine but a created being. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Arianism, Vol. I, p.509) "Arianism: Up to this point the Trinitarian debate had taken place entirely in the West. We now move to the East, where the debate became a great controversy. It lasted sixty years, involved the entire eastern church, the western church in part, and occupied the attention of eleven ... ...
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49: Schaff, Philip: 1. History of the Christian Church. 2. New Schaff ...
Even were the resemblance between the Christian Trinity and the pagan triads far greater than it is, there could be no serious question of borrowing. The development, of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is historically clear, and its motives are equally well known, being almost exclusively due to Christological speculation." (New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, Trinity, Doctrine of the; p18) "The Biblical Doctrine: Early dogmaticians were of the opinion that so essential a doctrine as that of the Trinity could not have been unknown to the men of the Old Testament. However, no modem theologian who clearly distinguishes between the degrees of revelation in the Old and New Testaments can longer maintain such a view. Only an inaccurate exegesis which overlooks the more immediate grounds of interpretation can see references to the Trinity in the plural form of the divine name Elohim, the use of the plural in Gen. i. 26, or such liturgical phrases of three members as the Aaronic ... ...
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50: Fortman, Edmund: The Triune God
Nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead." (The Triune God, Edmund Fortman, quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) The doctrine of the Triune God has had an amazing history. Convinced that this doctrine is a Christian doctrine that did and could originate only from divine revelation. I start the study from the authentic record of divine revelation that is found in the sacred writings ... To study the gradual transition from an unformulated Biblical witness to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to a dogmatic formulation of a doctrine of the Triune God, we look first to the Eastern Church where most of this development took place. The ... John comes closer to a trinitarian position than any other New Testament writer. He presents the divinity of the Son and the personality of the Spirit more clearly than any other. He stresses the divinity of Jesus and His unity with the Father more ... ...
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