How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

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I have explained this so many times....you are wearing me out!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes there is a real Hell of eternal fiery punishment!
Yes in the 1st century there was not a word for a eternal fiery punishment so they used descriptions and examples and used the Greek word Hades and changed its definition;
I never said you said there was no hell.
What I said is that NO MATTER WHAT IT'S CALLED...it still exists.
Which you agree with.
 
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And they ignore the resurrection, which in NT biblical times was exalted as the Christians' great hope. Now it's the rapture or immediate trip to heaven or hell at death, none of which makes any sense whatsoever.
Right. Follow Christ the firstborn from the dead to be resurrected to life.
 

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I never said you said there was no hell.
What I said is that NO MATTER WHAT IT'S CALLED...it still exists.
Which you agree with.
Excellent point. Hell Fire, the EVERLASTING Fire, the furnace of Fire, the Lake of Fire, .... All NT warnings to everyone.
 
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Including you.
Yep, that's why I defend the Christian Bible and the CYB Statement of Faith, just the opposite of YOUR constant attacks on the Bible.

You believe in Hell now? Make up your mind! You don't seem to have a clue what you believe.
 
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Which English Bibles don't confirm the Trinity?
New World Translation
Kingdom of God Version: A non-Trinitarian translation by Raymond Faircloth, published in 2018.
The One God, the Father, One Man Messiah Translation: Another non-Trinitarian version by Anthony Buzzard, published in 2020.
The Revised English Version: An ongoing translation project by Spirit and Truth.
Christadelphians have produced the New European Version
Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson (1864) New European Version by Duncan Heaster (2013) New World Translation by Jehovah’s Witnesses (2013) Kingdom of God Version by Raymond Faircloth (2018) The One God, the Father, One Man Messiah Translation by Anthony Buzzard (2020) The Revised English Version by Spirit and Truth (ongoing)
1808: "and the Word was a god" – Thomas Belsham The New Testament, in an Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome’s New Translation: With a Corrected Text, London.
1822: "and the Word was a god" – The New Testament in Greek and English (A. Kneeland, 1822).
1829: "and the Word was a god" – The Monotessaron; or, The Gospel History According to the Four Evangelists (J. S. Thompson, 1829)
1863: "and the Word was a god" – A Literal Translation of the New Testament (Herman Heinfetter [Pseudonym of Frederick Parker], 1863)
1864: "and a god was the Word" – The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin W
Satanic Bible and the Kolbrin Bible
 
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I just think that the doctrine of the Trinity doesn't provide a clear explanation.
How many gods do we have? Could it be that god can also suffer from schizophrenia and split into different personalities? So is it that this world has schizophrenia?
We are all ultimately one and the same God.
Or it was the god who created more gods.
Or the term "Trinity" is not very precise.

But I still think that the doctrine of the Trinity has deviated,the word was God.
Trinity became the Jesus is God.
I don't think it is the same meaning If we say word was God and Jesus is God.
1.The flesh was man, and the flesh became God.....
2.The flesh was man, and the flesh became word of God.
3.The flesh was man, and the flesh became son of God.
 
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I just think that the doctrine of the Trinity doesn't provide a clear explanation.
How many gods do we have? Could it be that god can also suffer from schizophrenia and split into different personalities? So is it that this world has schizophrenia?
We are all ultimately one and the same God.
Or it was the god who created more gods.
Or the term "Trinity" is not very precise.

But I still think that the doctrine of the Trinity has deviated,the word was God.
Trinity became the Jesus is God.
I don't think it is the same meaning If we say word was God and Jesus is God.
1.The flesh was man, and the flesh became God.....
2.The flesh was man, and the flesh became word of God.
Christian Godhead as one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 43:10

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10 The Lord says, “You people are my witnesses and the servant I chose. I chose you so that you would help people believe me. I chose you so that you would understand that ‘I Am He’—I am the true God. There was no God before me, and there will be no God after me.
 
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Christian Godhead as one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 43:10​

Easy-to-Read Version​

10 The Lord says, “You people are my witnesses and the servant I chose. I chose you so that you would help people believe me. I chose you so that you would understand that ‘I Am He’—I am the true God. There was no God before me, and there will be no God after me.
Then what if someone else became word of God? Is he God or something else? If we say that the word was God.
 
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How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?​


The Trinity is Biblical FACT. That's what matters to Christians!
 
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But I still think that the doctrine of the Trinity has deviated,the word was God.
Trinity became the Jesus is God.
I don't think it is the same meaning If we say word was God and Jesus is God.
1.The flesh was man, and the flesh became God.....
2.The flesh was man, and the flesh became word of God.
3.The flesh was man, and the flesh became son of God.
I maintain that there was no Trinity BEFORE the Incarnation.
 

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God and angles...perhaps, in the OT they are also son of God.
ONLY God is the Creator in the Bible. Are you saying Satan may have created you?

Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image,

Col 1 By Him all things were created!

Jesus is God the Creator.
 
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