Never has any other doctrine in all of Christendom reduced rather astute and competent men into babbling fools,
BF, please tell me that you're not that daft? Please re-read my contention, and try, try, try to understand it. Don't reply unless you have a competent response.
Ask yourself, are you insults on this forum examples of the fruit of the Spirit, such as love, kindness, gentleness, patience, self control?
You are calling all of us babbling fools. Doesn't scripture warn against this:
"... whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of hell fire!" Matthew 5:22
I despise the doctrine of the trinity, I am convinced that it is straight from the devil,
No, only satan and his cohorts devised the doctrine of the trinity, and only the feeble-minded embrace and adhere to it.
It's complete diabolical nonsense from start to finish.
You know, the Pharisees accused Jesus of performing miracles by Satan's power, and in essence accused Jesus of being demon possessed, or an agent of Satan, come to deliver lies and deceive. More so, this implication would suggest that they thought everything from Jesus was a lie, evil and from the power of Satan. This power was from God, His truth was from God, His miracles were from God and so he condemned them and said that blaspheming against the Holy Spirit was the unpardonable sin.
You are claiming that this doctrine is from Satan. However, if we are correct, if this doctrine is from God,
then you are blaspheming the Holy Spirit in saying that it is from Satan. And that is the unpardonable sin. You better be sure you are correct, because 95% of all Christianity believes in the Triune God. Judgment is certainly coming.
Three all powerful persons, in one being, is the epitome of redundancy, when it only requires one to create and maintain the universe, and answer all the prayers of mankind.
What is love if it is without a relationship? If you live on an island by yourself, other than loving and caring for yourself, how could you demonstrate love outside yourself? Doesn't love require expression outside of oneself? Without a relationship, love loses it's meaning, doesn't it? So prior to God's creation, and the creation of angels, was God, love? You are implying that He was alone, by Himself. How could He be love? How could He have a relationship and express His love in that relationship, if He was alone? Doesn't it make more sense that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit existed as ONE God. Communing with each other, communicating with each other in a perfect union, a loving relationship. This is all conjecture of course, but don't we see that the expression of love always requires a relationship in life? In marriage, two become one and then their union adds another, a child. Family of 3 = 1 family. God created light, but isn't light composed of three primary colors? Water is composed of H20. If we examine an parts of an apple under a microscope, like the skin, the flesh and the seed, we see the cells of an apple in each part, all looking the same, yet somewhat different 3 parts = 1 apple. Of course these physical things are not exactly the same but they are examples of this tri-unity in life.
Beyond scripture, I think that we see this tri-unity in many aspects of life, bur the best argument is in love. I think that because God is Love, to me it would seem difficult to imagine that He would be alone before creation, just loving himself and talking to Himself. Just a thought.
Be careful with your words and know that it is apparent you will not convince any of us Trinitarians with your reasoning, so why not just keep it to yourself? Remember, "by their fruit you will know them". So examine the fruit of the Spirit, do these godly attributes reflect your life? Is God growing this fruit in you?