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The Trinity

It is interesting that the word trinity is not a Biblical word and yet is a central ‘Christian’ doctrine. Similarly it is interesting that this Doctrine was not finally formulated until the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. What the first followers of Jesus would have made of the form of creed we now recite is anybody’s guess. Indeed what most of us who recite it make of it is anybody’s guess. For the language and forms of thought that constructed it were neither those of the first church not ours. I went to an induction of a local vicar last night and was struck by a phrase in the service. “To make the Gospel known and relevant in this generation”. Which I took to mean in words and thought forms that resonated with particular people in time and place. Therefore what form the Gospel might take in Great Britain in this third millennium is unlikely to be the very words either of scripture Or the council of Nicea. All that said what is the purpose of the Doctrine of the trinity apart