Chapter 1 The real background of the trinitarian doctrine

Chapter 1

The real background of the trinitarian doctrine

 

Here is the ancient Gnostic-Patripassian doctrine about God in a few

words, directly from a primary source:

“The moment I thought about them, behold, the heavens opened, all the

creature beneath the sky lit up, and the world shook. I was scared, and

here I saw someone sitting next to me in the light. Looking, he seemed

to be someone old. Then he changed his appearance to a young man.

Not that there were more faces in front of me, but inside the light, there

was a face with more faces. These faces were visible to each other, and

the face had three faces.”

 

{Apocryphon of John The Secret Book of John, also called the Apocryphon of John, is a second-century forgery, made by the Gnostic-Patripassian proto-Trinitarians}.

 

How is the doctrine of the trinity interpreted today?

Wikipedia: Trinity "Within Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is a single "Being" who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a communion of three persons (personae, prosopa): Father (the Source, the Eternal Majesty); the Son (the eternal Logos or Word, incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth); and the Holy Spirit. Traditionally, in both Eastern and Western Christianity, this doctrine has been stated as "One God in Three Persons", all three of whom, as distinct and co-eternal "persons" or "hypostases", "share a single Divine essence, being, or nature."

 

Is this position really biblical or just a copy taken from apocryphal sources, which they made sound biblical? This theme is debated at large in this book.

 

We wrote this book in order to raise public awareness about the importance of a general revision of the Bible, coming out of the stereotypes that have been worked on for so long.

 

As we see, the doctrine of the trinity was not invented at the Council of Nicaea in 325, but earlier. We must also mention that the doctrine of the trinity has a shorter form, namely, the binitarian doctrine. This binitarian doctrine excludes the idea that the Holy Spirit is part of the Godhead. They claim that only the Father and the Son are part of the Godhead. Therefore they cannot speak of Trinitarianism, but only of Binitarianism.