Why I'm Not a Trinitarian pt 3.

Comment from Youtube: We are acutely aware that the Trinity doctrine did NOT exist before 200 A.D. It was about 225 years “after” the death of the Apostles that the Nicene Council [325 AD] under the pressure of Emperor Constantine ruled in favor of Athanasius who taught a 3 in-1 god.

Here is the punchline: --- "The third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362...and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381" - A Catholic Dictionary, p. 812.

”If we turn to the fathers with the hope that now at last we shall enter the region of unimpeachable methods and certain applications, we shall be disappointed. I would earnestly ask not to be misunderstood ... There are but few of them whose pages are not rife with errors - errors of method, errors of fact, errors of history, of grammer, and even of doctrine ...The earliest fathers and apologists add little or nothing to our understanding of scripture ... We turn to them in vain for the justification of any claim to the possession of an infallible tradition." - (Farrar, History of Interpretation, p.162-165)

"A phenomenon singular in its kind, is the striking difference between the writings of the apostles and the writings of the apostolic fathers ... The writings of the so-called apostolic fathers have unhappily, for the most part, come down to us in a condition very little worthy of confidence ... which aimed to crush the free spirit of the gospel." - (Neander, General History of the Christian Religion and Church, Vol.1, p.657)

Let us read what the RCC says to Protestants: - “Our opponents sometimes claim that no belief should be held dogmatically which is not explicitly stated in Scripture but the Protestant churches have themselves accepted such dogmas as the Trinity for which there is no such precise authority in the Gospels....” - (The Catholic Church's New Dogma: The Assumption of Mary By Graham Green, LIFE, Oct.30, 1951

Karl Rahner, S.J., was indisputably one of 20th-century Catholicism’s preeminent and most influential theologians. His long theological ministry spanned some 50 years, from the early 1930s until his death in 1984. In his book on the Trinity, Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, himself being Catholic recognizes that theologians in the past have been - "...embarrassed by the simple fact that in reality the Scriptures do not explicitly present a doctrine of the 'imminent' Trinity (even John's prologue is no such doctrine)" (The Trinity, p. 22).

Even the SDA acknowledged that the Trinity Doctrine is unscriptural. - “Where though in Scripture can be found such an idea? The answer is, it cannot be found. This is because it is not there. It is purely supposition (philosophical speculation). This is why the trinity doctrine is only an assumed doctrine.

This is even duly recognized in our own denominational handbook of theology: “The concept of the Trinity, namely the IDEA THAT THE THREE ARE ONE, IS NOT EXPLICITLY STATED BUT ONLY ASSUMED.” — (Fernando L. Canale, The Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology, Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopaedia, Volume 12, page 138, ‘Doctrine of God’)

AND ONE WOULD FIND CHURCH MEMBERS OF BOTH CHURCHES TRYING TO DEFEND THIS HERESY.

Justinian's Code is a collection of laws that were established during the reign of emperor Justinian I in the 6th century, and there are very interesting points concerning Justinian and his code of law. Let us read what is contained in that code of law, it reads: THE CODE OF OUR LORD THE MOST SACRED EMPEROR JUSTINIAN: Second Edition. Book 1 Title 1 - "CONCERNING THE MOST EXALTED TRINITY AND THE CATHOLIC FAITH, AND PROVIDING THAT NO ONE SHALL DARE TO PUBLICLY OPPOSE THEM ... “We order all those who follow this law to assume the name of Catholic Christians, and considering others as demented and insane, We order that they shall bear the infamy of heresy; and when the Divine vengeance which they merit has been appeased, they shall afterwards be punished in accordance with Our resentment, which we have acquired from the judgment of Heaven”* ... Let those who do not accept these doctrines cease to apply the name of true religion to their fraudulent belief; and let them be branded with their open crimes, and, having been removed from the threshhold of all churches ... No one, whether he belongs to the clergy, the army, or to any other condition of men, shall, with a view to causing a tumult and giving occasion to treachery, attempt to discuss the Christian religion publicly in the presence of an assembled and listening crowd ... the violators of this law shall not go unpunished ... and shall be subjected to the punishment prescribed by law according to the power of the court." (THE CIVIL LAW - The Enactments of Justinian, S.P.Scott -

Do you see what the code of Justinian enforces? Submission to the Trinity god and Roman Catholic Church and a ban on any teaching that opposes the Trinity or Catholic doctrines.