The Isms that Have Attempted to Explain the Trinity

The Isms that Have Attempted to Explain the Trinity Once you posit a Triune unexplainable God you are begging for people to try to explain it. Here are some attempts by the early church.

By the Way all the writings of those who opposed Trinitarianism were destoyed so we oly know about these Isms by what the Trinitarians told us.

• Arianism -Jesus is inferior to the father, he is divine but a created subordinate god and not eternal or equal to the Father

• Anomoeanism -God and Christ could not be alike. Self-existence is a part of the nature of God and that therefore Christ could not be like God, because Christ lacked this necessary quality.

• Docetism (from the Greek, dokein, 'to seem') -claimed that 'Christ' did not have a real or natural body during his life on earth but only an apparent or phantom one

• Kenoticism -doctrine as an 'opposite' of Docetism. They imagine that the divinity was taken away from the Word in Christ.

• Apollinarianism -denied the existence in Christ of a rational human soul, that is he said 'Christ' was non-human.

• Nestorianism - the Son of God used manhood for his self-manifestation and manhood was, therefore, included in his prosopon; the result being that he was a single object of presentation. And the man Jesus used the nature of god as 'his' prosopon!

• Sabellianism - one God with three faces, one God who played the three 'roles' of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

• Modalism -The One God manifests as father Jesus and Holy Spirit but is only one the Father

• Monophysitism -"two natures before, one after the incarnation' Jesus was rather swallowed up in this version and the conglomerate became the 'divine' 'christ'. Hence, he concluded that Christ's humanity was distinct from that of other men. in the Person of Jesus Christ there was only one (divine) nature rather than two natures

• Adoptionism -Christ in his humanity as 'adopted son' in contradistinction to Christ in his divinity, who is the Son of God by nature, the Word', was not the Son of God by nature but only by adoption

• Macedonianism, also called the Pneumatomachians (spirit fighters!), a 4th-century Christian notion that denied the full personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit According to this idea, the Holy Spirit was created by the Son and was thus subordinate to the Father and the Son.

• Gnosticism -A doctrine of various sects combining Christian and pagan elements; revealed but secret knowledge of God and of his nature, enabling those who possess it to achieve salvation. Gnosticism takes from Pagan thought the concept of a subordinate god, who directly rules the world

• Montanism -Montanus believed the Holy Spirit and the Paraclete were different. He thought he was the Paraclete. Tertullian was one of his followers.

• Dynamic Monarchianism (Subordinationism) - Jesus was a man born of a virgin according to the counsel of the Father, that He lived like other men, and was most pious; that at His baptism in the Jordan the Christ came down upon Him

• Patripassianism -it was not the Son of God but the Father Who had been crucified.

• Trinitarianism -In Trinitarian theology, the "classic" formulation of doctrine is that God is one essence (ousia) existing as three persons (hypostases): Father, Son and Spirit. In Christology, the "classic" formulation of doctrine is that Christ is one person (hypostasis) who possesses two natures (physes): divine and human. hypostatic union: A term used to describe the nature of divine and human in Christ. Christ is one because there is in his person (hypostasis) a union of the divine and human natures. The natures remain distinct because the union is on the level of Christ's hypostasis, not his natures (physes). Communicatio idiomatum (exchange of properties): A term associated with Alexandrian Christology that describes how because of Christ's unity of person, the attributes of the divine and human natures can be predicated of each other. Thus we can speak of God being born of Mary or dying on the cross. http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~fbauerschmidt/TH246_terms.html

Hmmmmmmm...does this one sound the most convoluted? A woman can give birth to God? God can die? It would almost sound humorous if so many people hadn't have been exiled, persecuted and killed for laughing at it.

Now my Pure Monotheism may be just another ism to add to the list, but it's quite easy to understand. There is only one Elohah (God) his name is Yah. He is holy. He is a spirit. He is the Holy Spirit. He created a human sperm and by thought power placed it in Mary's womb so Yahshuah is 100% man and although uniquely conceived was still a mortal like all others. The Messiah had to be a mortal descended from Adam and Eve, through David. At his baptism Yah entered him completely as he would a temple and spoke and did miracles through Yahshuah.