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Originally Posted by mfblume
It's basically tradition versus the bible alone. Anyone not primed with tradition of trinity, which came through centuries and centuries since the 4th, would never come up with a trinity of persons in reading the Bible. TRADITION ALONE has caused people to think trinity.
Leave a person on a desert island with a bible, with no former influence of the Bible, and no one to traditionalize their reading, and they would NEVER come up with the trinity. The bible says ONE GOD and GOD IS ONE. Period.
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You can not lump all the trinitarians together in that they are just following traditions. Some might but there are alot of them that really believe what they believe. I am oneness from top to bottom, but to discount all of them as just following a tradition is not correct. I have talked extensively with some trinitarians and they verses they use and quote are valid, but once you know Jesus is God then the verses really fit together nicely. So they get their ideals from the Bible, but it is just misunderstood or misinterperatation of scripture.