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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Was there Trinity before the 3rd century? Ignatius did not sound like he was teaching trinity. Could have been arian...for that matter we have Oneness that teach the Logos was with God as God's visible form or something, but not a second person...I don't see the Trinity in doctrine spelled out in those writtings anymore than one would not see Oneness spelled out
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A.D. 180 Church apologist Theophilus, bishop of Antioch, first uses the term Trinity to describe God: In like manner also the three days which were before the luminaries, are types of the Trinity (triados) of God, and His Word, and His Wisdom. (Theophilius, To Autolycus 2.15)
Tertullian of Carthage A.D. 213 "As if in this way also one were no All, in that All are of One, by unity (that is) of substance; while the mystery of the dispensation is still guarded, which distributes the Unity into a Trinity, placing in their order the three Persons. (agaist Praxeas 2, in ANFm vol 3)
Both are before the 3rd century.
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