(January 19, 2021 at 12:59 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Christianity had been plugging along for three centuries before the first trinitarian christians existed. Jesus wasn't even a god for the first two.
False. The Gospel According to John already had Jesus be some sort of divine figure, and even Paul saw Jesus as divine in some sense.
And I think it's misleading to imply the Trinity came about just like that a few centuries after Christianity first emerged. There was a gradual process occurring during first few centuries of Christianity in which Jesus was sort of vaguely divine and then became more prominently divine to the point of being God ultimately. Similar thing with the Holy Spirit: Spirit of God (so sort of the same thing as God) then becoming God in its own right.
