Trinity DebateIs Jesus God?Just out of curiosity tuppence, did you know that Isaac Newton rejected the Trinity? Newton was a Unitarian, not to be confused with Unitarian Universalists although they claim him as one of their own, the same is also true of John Adams and John Quincy Adams and other famous Americans and Europeans. A Spanish Unitarian by the name of Michael Servetus was burned at the stake by the order of John Calvin only because he rejected infant baptism and the Trinity as unscirptural. Am I labeling Jesus a liar? No, since other than John 17:3 Jesus told Mary: How can God have a God? The usual response is that Jesus was speaking in his humanity since according to the 1st Council of Nicaea Jesus has two natures explained with the hypostatic union. However, when you study this council you will discover that the attending bishops were primarily Arian in their theology. You will also learn that the attending bishops could not find Biblical language to support Jesus' two natures so they coined the phrase "hypotatic union". The theological battle between Trinitarians and Arians lasted until the 8th century. Now, why did I bring Catholicism into this discussion? Because the Catholic/Orthodox church councils are the genesis for many traditions that are not based in Scripture, they are based in traditions and/or Greek philosophy. The foundation of Christ Church is the apostles and the prophets (Ephesians 2:20), not Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, and the other Greeks who used Neoplatonism and Aristotelean philosophical tenets to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures as well as the New Testament. Some scholars also list Philo of Alexandria (a 1st century Hellenistic Jew) as one who influenced early Greek Christians. One fascinating fact I uncovered during my research is that Philo was the first Jew to assign Genesis 19:5 as the reason for Sodom's destruction, which disagrees with the Talmud where Ezekiel 16:49-50 is God's own explanation. Now, I do not expect you to change your theology based on my research. However, you might be shocked at how much Christian dogma is in reality Greek philosophy imported into Christianity by the Ecumenical and General Church Councils and simply adopted by the Reformation. |
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