Why does Watchtower and Jehovahs Witnesses say the Trinity is pagan and is this true or false?
The doctrine of the trinity is one Christian teaching for which one can find no real pagan analogue. Such resemblances as appear are found, upon analysis, to be analogues rather of heretical versions of the doctrine, especially modalism. Practitioners of comparative religion whose first principles require all Christian doctrine to be derivative of paganism forge onward nonetheless, offering as analogue for the Trinity three pagan gods with a working or familial relationship. This is not so much a case where the differences outweigh the similarities, as a case of no similarity at all, because the Trinity is not three gods who enjoy a working or familial relationship! The Bible teaches that Jesus was born of a virgin. But wait, Justin Martyr says, so was Perseus: “And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.” (Justin Martyr, First Apology, Chapter 22.) …or does he? He tells Trypho the tale about Perseus was a demonic counter
