Tuesday 28 August 2012

Matthew 28:19 Trinity in the bible?


 
 
Matthew 29:19 does not in any way introduce the Trinity of the Godhead. The commandment “Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the baptismal formula prescribed by the Lord.
Before Christ ascended to heaven, He had instructed the apostles to go to all people everywhere and make them His disciples by baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Thus, the expression is simply a baptismal formula.
The Bible makes it clear that the Father knows no other God besides himself (cf. Is. 46:9).
The Lord Jesus Christ Himself taught that there is only one God, the Father, while He (Christ) was sent by God (cf. Jn 17:3,1). The Father who sent Christ is distinct from Christ who was sent by the Father. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, is sent both by the Father and by Christ (cf. Jn. 14:26; 15:26) and is not God.
The teaching that the Holy Spirit is God was only created by the Catholic Church at the Council of Constantinople in 381 A.D. after formulating the Christ is God doctrine at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. (cf. Discourses on the Apostles’ Creed, p. 206).
The doctrine of Trinity is unscriptural. In fact, the complete formulation of the teaching was declared only at the 11th Synod of Toledo in 675 A.D. (cf. Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, p. 53).
The very term “Trinity,” as Bible scholar Augustus Hopkins Strong affirms, was merely an invention:
The term ‘Trinity’ is not found in Scripture, …The invention of the term is ascribed to Tertullian.” (Systematic Theology, p. 30).
Letters:PASUGO/October, 1998

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