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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Matthew 25:46 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition 46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting. If I remember those verses can also mean ruin, not a good situlation.
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    We believe in one God friend. When you make the false claim we have three gods, you discredit yourself... Yes, the Father is higher in rank. Fully agree on love of God and Jesus.
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Benjamin Wilson was a Christadelphian who is an Arian. John is misquoted on purpose: "Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated . . . 'the word was a divine being.'" "Dictionary of the Bible", by John L. McKenzie, 1965, p. 317, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower...
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    Nope, too much evidence in favor of him being God. https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/bowman_robert/trinity/trinity.cfm https://carm.org/early-trinitarian-quotes-the-doctrine-of-the-trinity https://www.christian-history.org/trinity-quotes.html
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    Only proves that the orthodox Christians beleved in the Trinity.
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    shows early church believed in the trintiy
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    The following verses have the words "ho Theos" in their Greek translations. There are a lot more. Mark 1:1 Matthew 3:9 Mark 13:19 Luke 2:19 Acts 2:11 John 8:42,47 Luke 1:26 Acts 26:6 John 8:40 John 9:16 Colossians 3:3 John 1:2 Acts 15:19...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Even my Second Graders knows that Rev 20:10 " they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. is Literal.
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    go to the site and print it out. Too long to copy and paste friend.
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    I saw I was not keeping up, so I read thru. Please pray my shoulders are in serious pain.
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Philip Schaff, 1893 The first six chapters [of the Didache] are evidently adapted for those who need elementary instruction, more particularly for Catechumens of Gentile descent, as distinct from Jewish candidates for Baptism. The remaining chapters of the Didache relate chiefly to the...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Anonymous, c. AD 255 Whence also the Lord Christ charges upon Peter, and moreover also upon the rest of His disciples, "Go and preach the Gospel to the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." That is, that that same Trinity which operated...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Hippolytus, c. A.D. 225 The Father’s Word, therefore, knowing the economy [the "order" or "plan"] and the will of the Father, to wit, that the Father seeks to be worshipped in none other way than this, gave this charge to the disciples after He rose from the dead: "Go, and teach all nations...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    The Didache, AD 80-160 And concerning baptism, thus baptize: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in flowing water. But if you do not have flowing water, baptize into other water; and if you cannot in cold, in warm. But if...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    [The Son] is the true Light which enlightens every man that comes into this world, but he has nothing in common with the light of the sun. Our Savior, therefore, is the image of the invisible God, inasmuch as compared with the Father himself he is the Truth, and as compared with us, to whom he...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Origen, c. AD 230 Since many saints participate in the Holy Spirit, he cannot therefore be understood to be a body, which being divided into corporeal parts, is partaken of by each one of the saints. Instead, he is manifestly a sanctifying power, in which all are said to have a share who have...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    He became the Son of God and was begotten when he proceeded forth from him. … But you [Praxeas, a heretic who held to modalism ("Jesus only")] will not allow him to be really a substantive being, by having a substance of his own in such a way that he may be regarded as an objective thing and a...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Clement of Alexandria, c. AD 190 Though despised as to appearance, [Jesus] was in reality adored, the expiator of sin, the Savior, the clement, the Divine Word; he that is truly most apparently Deity. He is made equal to the Lord of the universe because he was his Son, and the Word was in God...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Hermas, c. AD 170 I wish to explain to you what the Holy Spirit that spoke with you in the form of the Church showed you, for that Spirit is the Son of God. (Shepherd of Hermas. Similitude 9th. Ch. 1.) Athenagoras, c. AD 177 We acknowledge ... a Son of God. Don't let anyone think it ridiculous...
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    How did the Trinity doctrine develop in the early church?

    Tatian, c. AD 165 God was in the beginning, but the beginning, we have been taught, is the power of the Logos. For the Lord of the universe … since no creature was yet in existence, was alone. But, since he is all power, himself the necessary ground of things visible and invisible, with him were...