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I only remarked on the timing. The doctrine of the Trinity was being explicitly used by 185, which is ~150 years after Jesus, not 300.
Can you source your definition of mystery that you give, because the one in the Catechism is a little different. "mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God" Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText
I only remarked on the timing. The doctrine of the Trinity was being explicitly used by 185, which is ~150 years after Jesus, not 300.
It wasn't about conferring, but understanding. The Gospel of John, if there were no other sources for the claim, boldly declares that the Word is God. And yes, there were multiple competing understandings, some of which like Arianism were simple polytheism, some were unitary, such as modalism, some didn't include the Holy Spirit.There were various models proposed in order to confer God status on Jesus
The Holy Spirit is included because our sacred Tradition includes elements such as statements made in the Bible that give a precedence to the Spirit, like the only sin that isn't forgiven is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and the inclusion of the Spirit in the Trinitarian formula of Baptism.and I guess three must be a lucky number, because I can't think of any other reason for including the Ghost
Not understood, or even understandable doesn't mean incoherent. The idea is coherent, three hypostases and one ousia. We just don't understand how it works. There are lots of areas of science where we only understand a phenomenon through its observed effects on other systems. 85% of the mass of our universe is undetectable, we say it exists because that's the only way the state of the universe and our knowledge of gravity fits. We only interchange observation and revelation.But since the only interpretation of the Trinity that is in fact coherent is that Christianity has three gods, I don't think they succeeded.
Can you source your definition of mystery that you give, because the one in the Catechism is a little different. "mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God" Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText
No, which is one of the reasons why we reject Modalism in favor of the Trinity.Did the Jesuses of Mark and Matthew really cry out on the cross, "Me, me, why have I forsaken me?"