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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Actually there were MANY early church history "heresies" that were called Trinitarian heresies because they all believed in FAther, Son and Holy Ghost and that they were distinct from one another. When did Trinitarians begin using the word Person...so you know Sola?
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Trinitarians didn't start using the word "person" of "persons" in the trinity until it came to exist in the English language (which did not exist at the time the Nicene fathers formulated the Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creeds). The Nicene and Ante-Nicene fathers used the Greek word prosopon or the Latin word persona to individually describe Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the fifth century, Cyril insisted that hypostasis should be used in the places of prosopon, contrary to the way hypostasis is used in
Hebrews 1:3 for God alone and not individually for Father, Son and Holy Spirit.