Page 24 - Pure Life 24
P. 24
A Comparative Approach to the “Trinity”… A-S. Fatemi Hasanabadi and M. Islami / 23
One of the reasons for Paul first disciples of Christ,
sanctification in the Christian believing that Christ was
world is that his thoughts and higher than man and that he
opinions made the Christians was an example of a new man
universal; because he created born of God. (Wajdi, 1967:
certain divine principles that Trinity Article)
established the spiritual works The following are examples
of Jesus' principles in the of Paul words that express his
consciences and souls of his views and have had a
followers. (Noss, 2013: 614) significant impact on the
Referring to Paul familiarity expansion of the “Trinity”:
with the Greek language and - Christ is a heavenly
his influence on Greek being who has a divine
philosophers, Hawkes writes: nature and essence; but
Referring to the epistle he has humbled himself,
of Paul which recounts accepted the human
the “Gospel of Paul”; it face and body, and
turns out that Paul descended from heaven.
views are close to the (Noss, 2013: 614)
Greek “Trinity” and the - Christ was born from
ideas of Philo, a generation of David,
philosopher born 20 and became known by
years before Christ. the power of the Holy
(Hawkes, 2015: 230) Spirit, the Son of God.
(Epistle to the Romans, 1: 3)
Some scholars believe that - Christ is a cursed God
the apostles of the first Christ to bring believers out
who knew him intimately were of the curse. (Epistle to
far from the “Trinity”; Saint the Galatians, 3:10)
Peter the Apostle, for example, - Christ had divinity from
saw Christ as the only man to the beginning; but he
whom revelation was given; deprived himself of all
but Paul disagreed with the its benefits and became
