Showing posts with label Paganism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paganism. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Wrestling With the Watch Tower: The Pagan and Platonic Trinity

Despite that the early Church Fathers taught a Trinitarian understanding of God (as demonstrated here), and despite that the vast majority of the bishops assembled at Nicaea had already believed in a Trinitarian understanding of God (as demonstrated here), and despite that New Testament prophesies indicated that the Church would experience apostasy in part but would nevertheless give glory to God throughout all ages (as demonstrated here), the Watch Tower continues in their brochure, "Should You Believe in the Trinity?", and attempts to demonstrate that the doctrine of the Trinity is the result of pagan influence on apostate Christendom.

As we've seen, the doctrine of the Trinity, albeit clarified over the first centuries, nevertheless was the consistent teaching of the Church Fathers from the time of Christ to the Council of Nicaea, and from a short time thereafter until today. Thus, we already know this claim to be false; this domino is already being tipped over by the previous ones we caused to fall. Still, it is an easy claim to refute, and lest we give the perception that we haven't honestly dealt with the issue, we should answer this argument as well.