Points to Ponder

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>Never mind the World Book, take a look at "Trinity" in the old
>1890-1899 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britianica.  You will probably
>have to go to a good university library to find a copy of this, but I
>have personally seen it, and the treatise is several pages long.  It
>traces the history of one-God vs trinity beliefs and clearly
>demonstrates that the council of Nicea was the seminal turning point
>in the perpetration of this doctrine.  It further states that the
>apostles always baptized in the name of Jesus.  Folks, this was before
>the oneness split in 1916, before Azusa Street, and even before Topeka
>Kansas!  These scholars understood what we believe before 1900!
>
A statement was made that I needed support from secular sources, i.e., the
"Oneness was changed in favor of the Trinity doctrine." Again, this
reasoning doesn't line up with Phillip Schaff's "History Of The Christian
Church", an excellent resource on Church History, recognized by theologians
and historians as authoritative.

Dave <>< ± † ±