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...