Part 1 - Did Jesus and His Disciples Teach the Trinity Doctrine? - What the Trinity Doctrine Means

Some have concluded that simply ascribing deity or godship to Jesus is all that the Trinity teaching means. For others, belief in the Trinity simply means belief in Father, Son, and holy spirit.

However, a close examination of Christendom's creeds  exposes how woefully inadequate such ideas are in relation to the formal doctrine. Official definitions make it clear that the Trinity doctrine is not a simple idea. 

Instead, it is  a complex set of separate ideas that have been brought together over a long period of time and interlocked into one another.

From the picture of the Trinity doctrine that appeared after the Council of Constantinople in 381 C.E., from the Tome of Damascus in 382 C.E., from the Athanasian Creed that came some time later, and from other documents. we can clearly estimate what Christendom means by the Trinity doctrine. It includes the following definite ideas:

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