My problem with this is, if they had the opportunity to make those insertions about Christ, why didn't they go further and do the same about Mary and the saints? Ok, we are told its hyperdulia and dulia about the latter. But even then, why not go all out?
I don't know. Maybe they didn't want to push it more than they thought they could get away with? But given enough time who knows... They just might try...
From what I read today, the main reason was that people were basically arguing about it, and there were people on both ends of the spectrum and this was causing the church to divide, somewhere around the 4th century time period. A lot of those who were pagans before, were brought into the church and they came with ideas they had of trinities from before. So, the church (or Constantine) wanted to unify the church (for political reasons) and so, they must have felt they had enough reason to go to the trouble and then came up with the concept of the trinity for that purpose. And since then, it hasn't changed.
The RCC took the liberty (setting themselves up as the Soveriegn of the universe) to edit the Eternal Law by removing the 2nd commandment
http://vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/command.htm
to accomodate their graven-images doctrine and split the 10th into two. If their intent was to push the trinity and make Christ, a God, they had and still have the opportunity to get rid of the 1st commandment.
Agreed. Just like they did with the Sabbath, too.
Is this from the 'lying pen of the scribes'?
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matt 18:20
No, of course not.
How do we know?
Because, we know this to be true from personal experience which has confirmed it. And so we know it to be true.
But see, here is the thing (at least, this is in my opinion). What we don't need here, is for men in costumes to now come forward and produce an obligatory church sanctioned "trinity doctrine" that they wrote down for everyone, and that everyone now MUST believe in exactly as they wrote it (and if not, then they shall be damned to burn in hell fire forever. And that is exactly what the situation with the trinity doctrine is, according to the RCC!)
Which means, tht according to them, if you don't believe THEIR doctrine (not Christs' but theirs) and
exactly as they (the RCC) have said people MUST believe it in order to be saved, then you will go to hell (according to them).
That is plainly evil and wrong!
Not all Christians believe the trintiy doctrine. True, the ones that don't are a small minority, but still there are Christians who don't believe it, as that is not what they find when studying the Bible and from what it says to them.
So, for the RCC (the "mother" church) it is not enough, or even advisable (!) even today, for anyone to read The Bible for themselves (without their priests guiding them) and follow Christ's Teachings on their own, and let Christ teach them
personally what it means and how He wants us to be.
The Pope even recently proposed that having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is
dangerous.
It is because they (the RCC) are a bunch of control freaks who still want to be the dispensers of the "universal" ("catholic" - one world) religion for everyone and plus, they believe they have MORE authority than both God and Christ, which is totally absurd and ridiculous.