Why do we use trinitarian..........

Originally Posted by mizpeh

Would you rather call it a 'misunderstanding' about WHO God is? I can't find the Trinity in scripture so that tells me, it doesn't exist and is a false teaching about WHO God is.

The word "oneness" isn't in scripture either. Neither, for that matter, is the word "Pentecostal." Oh, if you're going to quote from the Creeds, please quote from the Orthodox versions and not the Roman Catholic versions that actually changed the doctrine.

Trinitarians call each person of the Trinity, God. So The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God. Then they equivocate on the meaning of the word, God. When you read the definition of the Trinity above, how do you envision this God who is a Trinity? Can this God say 'I AM' truthfully?

Yes, trinitarians do say that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all "God" by nature, i.e. "God" is what they are, though some trinitarians say God is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yet others say that the three "persons" (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) are in God or that God is in the three persons ("God in three persons, blessed trinity").

Is your understanding of God the same as in the two references I quoted? Is your God and their God the same God by definition? Be truthful and honest with yourself.

Well, I don't agree with the Roman Catholic version of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed - because it has the oxymoron of a Son that is "eternally begotten" and because it says that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father "and the Son" (contrary to Jesus' saying the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father).