Heidense invloeden op het trinitarisme

Op Redeneren vanuit de Geschriften (Reasoning from Scripture) is er een artikel geplaats dat de invloeden bespreekt van de heidense gebruiken bij de Egyptenaren, waar Drie-eenheid een van de belangrijkste bezigheden was van de godgeleerden uit de vroegere tijd. Er wordt gekeken hoe Osiris, Horus en Isis een drie-eenheid vormden: het drietal van Abydos.
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> Trinity and Pagan influence

Read furhter about: a trinity consisted of the god Serapis (= Osiris + Apis), the goddess Isis (= Hathor, the cow-moon goddess), and the child-god Horus.
+ Ancient Hindu trinity, existing "from about 300 B. C. = Vishnu, Brahma, and Siva

+ Babylonians their major trinity of Anu, Enlil, and Ea

+ * "If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians (who differed from their fellow Jews only in the belief that Jesus was the promised Messiah) was changed by the Church at Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief." - The History of Christianity, (Preface by Eckler).

* "Christianity did not destroy Paganism; it adopted it .... From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity, …. the adoration of the Mother and Child…." - p. 595, The Story of Civilization: vol. 3, Simon & Schuster Inc., by noted author and historian Will Durant.