THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY> History tells us that the Roman Emperor Constatine summoned all the bishops of the Churh for a general council at Nicea in the year 325 A.D. The principe work of this council was the settlement of a great dispute which ahd arisen over the nature of christ. Athanasius of Alexanderia brought forth the Trinitarian views, which the council accepted, and they formed what is known as the Niacean Creed Later, at the close of the fourth century, the Emporer Theodosius made Christianity the state religion, and that organization was given the name CATHOLIC The Catholic Church still embraces The Doctrine of the Trinity and has handed it down to us in the following form: 1. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary to hold the Catholic faith. 2. Which faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. 3. But this is the Catholic faith: That we worship one God in trinity, and trinity in unity;..4. Neither confounding the persons; nor dividing the substance. 5. For there is one person of the Father; another of the Son and another of the Holy Ghost. 6. But the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is all one: the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal. 7. Such as the Father is, such as the Son, such is the Holy Ghost. 8. The Father is uncreated; the Son is uncreated; the Holy Ghost is uncreated. 9. The Father is incomprehensible; the Son is incomprehensible; the Holy Ghost is incomprehensible. 10 The Father is eternal; the son is eternal and the holy ghost is eternal.11 And yet there are not three eternals; but one eternal. 12. And also there are not three uncreated; nor three incomprehensible; but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. 13. So likewise the Father is almighty; the son is almighty and the holy ghost is almighty. 14. And yet there are not three almighties, but one almighty.15. So the Father is God; the Son is God; and the Holy Ghost is God..16. and yet there are not three Gods , but one God. 17 So the Father is Lord; and the Son is Lord; and the Holy Ghost is Lord.18.And yet there are not three Lords but one Lord. 19. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every person by Himself to be God and Lord; 20 So are we forbidden by the Catholic religion to say: there are three Gods, or three Lords. 21. The Father is made of none; neither created nor begotten. 22. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created; but begotten. 23. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and the Son not made; neither created; nor begotten, but proceeding. 24. Thus there is one Father, not three fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Ghost not three Holy Ghosts. 25. And this trinity none is before or after another; none is grater nor less than another. 26. But the whole three persons are co-eternal together, and co-equal. 27.So that in all things, as aforesaid, the unity in trinity, and the trinity in unity is to be worshipped. 28. He, therefore, that will be saved, must think of the trinity. (Taken from the Creed of Athanasius. Vol 7, page 366, Anti-nicene Fathers.. Of course such teaching cannot actually be understood, and we are sure that the reason any honest person holds to it is either because he does not know what he is believing, or because he knows not how to get anything better from the Word of GOd. Notice how this creed contradicts the word of God, but is self-contradictory as well! Section 25 says, None is greater, or less than another. But Jesus plainly said, My Father is greater than I. Section 10 states, The Son is eternal; and Section22 contradicts this by stating that the Son is begotten. It would be impossible for there to be but one God as it states in Section 16 if the Son is God as in Section 15, and at the same time is a separate person from the Father (Section 5). Such reasoning is absurb, and every honest person ought to recognize that this teaching belongs only to the Catholic Church with the rest of her old superstitutions that aim only to keep her followers in darkness to the true teaching of the Word of God. There is only One true God, and if it were possible for the Son to be that God, then He would be His own Father, for God is the Father. I Cor 8:6; Eph. 4:6. But, thank Good, we can believe in the divinity of Christ and also in the Father and the Son, without having to accept this contradictions handed to from the MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND THE ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH. Rev 17:5. The Son was not eternal, but was begotten by the Holy Ghost and Mary was His Mother Matt 1;20. The Father and the Son are not separate persons, but the person of Christ is both GOd and Man, Father and Son. Jn 10:30; I and my Father are One The Father and Son are Not co-equal, for humanity cannot be equal with divinity.. Sear reader, let us return to the Word of God as believed and taught by the holy inspired writers of our blessed Bible before it was polluted by the teaching of the Dark Ages,,Let us leave off every false idea that has been handed down from that old system which God said ws an abomination of the earth. Rev. 14:4.
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