Additional support for Trinity (early text)

[skepticbeliever]

I borrowed this from a site on the internet (I will leave the link)

"Hear, O Israel, Adonai Eloheinu Adonai is one. These three are one. How can the three Names be one? Only through the perception of faith; in the vision of the Holy Spirit, in the beholding of the hidden eye alone.…So it is with the mystery of the threefold Divine manifestations designated by Adonai Eloheinu Adonai—three modes which yet form one unity."(1)

This text mentions the three parts of God and yet it is not from the New Testament and is definitely not by a Christian author but from a Jewish perspective. It is from the Zohar

(1) Zohar II:43b (vol. 3, p. 134 in the Soncino Press edition).

Here is the link: http://www.jfjonline.org/pub/issues/10-08/trinity.htm
It certainly makes some interesting points and goes on to discuss other Rabbi's viewpoints on what the "let us make" means in the creation account.

[skepticbeliever]

As this was my first post, I did not realize that Athanasius previous thread was of similiar nature, and contains similiar information.

[guacamole]

Okay, we will forgive you this time, but from now on you have to send me doughnuts, okay?

[Athanasius]

As this was my first post, I did not realize that Athanasius previous thread was of similiar nature, and contains similiar information.

Thanks for posting this! I greatly enjoyed reading it, and think others will benefit from it as well. I agree with the writer that the Trinitarian explanation seems to be the only satisfactory one.