What is the origin of the Trinity doctrine? Catholics, please answer?
To believe in the Trinity goes against all of the teachings of Jesus, as well as the Bible. This is because the Trinity is a man-made doctrine that was drawn up several hundred years after Jesus. In this time period different interpretations of the Bible were causing serious debates among Christians. The various interpretations were, undoubtedly, due to human perversion of the original scriptures, poor preservation, and/or shoddy translations. One of the main things being questioned was the nature of God and Jesus. Was Jesus actually God, the son of God, or just a messenger? The Council of Nicea was formed in an attempt to settle this dispute, and the Nicea Creed (the Trinitarian doctrine) was subsequently hammered out. The council of nicea pursued and persecuted the Arius followers who believed as per there forefathers that Jesus was the Messiah and a messenger of God Almighty. However this version of a monotheistic God was hardly compatible with the pagan Romans of that time who beli
