Why Does a Christian Believe in the Ecclesiastical Trinity and Reject the Indian Trinity If the Thre
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Why Does a Christian Believe in the Ecclesiastical Trinity and Reject the Indian Trinity?
ContextThis article addresses the objection: Why does a Christian believe in the ecclesiastical Trinity and reject the Indian Trinity if the three are one in both doctrines?
Table of Contents
- The Question
- The Indian Trinity
- Three in One and One in Three
- Christianity and the Most Holy Trinity
- Where Did the Doctrine of the Trinity Come From?
- The Trinity and the Old Testament
- The Trinity and Christ
- The Doctrine of the Trinity in Paganisms
- Thomas Doane on Pagan Trinities
- Important Clarification
- Attached Scan
The Question
The ObjectionWhy does a Christian believe in the ecclesiastical Trinity and reject the Indian Trinity if the three are one in the two doctrines?
The Indian Trinity
The Worshipper Athenaeus AsksThe worshipper Athenaeus asks the Indian Trinity:
Brahma, Vishnu, Siva
Which of you is the true God so that I may worship Him?
Three in One and One in Three
Their AnswerThey answered him:
We are three in one.. and one in three.
Christianity and the Most Holy Trinity
ComparisonAfter hundreds of years, Christianity appeared, to say:
Father, Son, Holy Spirit
the Most Holy Trinity.. and they are one..
Where Did the Doctrine of the Trinity Come From?
ArgumentAnd thus we know where the doctrine of the Trinity came from?
The Trinity and the Old Testament
Old Testament ArgumentIt does not exist in the Old Testament.. Moses and David did not know it.
The Trinity and Christ
Christological ArgumentThe Trinity is the most important doctrine of Christians, and Christ did not know it..
The Doctrine of the Trinity in Paganisms
Pagan Parallels.. in most paganisms.. and many of them see that their Trinity is unified.
Thomas Doane on Pagan Trinities
Thomas DoaneThe historian Thomas Doane — d. 1885 AD — conveys in his book:
Myths / Fables of the Torah and the Gospel and the Similar in Other Nations
pictures of the pagan Trinity that we will find in Christianity with only the names changed.
Important Clarification
ClarificationCertainly Christianity did not take the Trinity directly from the Indians, as there are other trinities that are geographically and historically closer to the Indian Trinity, which is considered one of the oldest trinities in the world.
Attached Scan
For English ReadersThe scan is being used to support the claim that pagan traditions contained triadic divine structures before later Christian ecclesiastical formulations of the Trinity.