l and social systems. It can be also argues that the doctrine of the Trinity violates the unity of God, calling on Christians to worship three gods instead of one. The first source to which Christian theology looks for it’s teaching is the New Testament. It is the New Testament, which unfolds the divine plan introduced in the Old, and it is by the New Testament revelation that the Old Testament revelation is interpreted. For this reason all Christians theologians have made the New Testament their primary source for data in constructing views of God and His relation to the world. We must place all theology in context. As the Old Testament affirms, God is incomparable. Isaiah writes that we dare not make our God out of gold, or carry the divine around in a neat package to sit here or stand there. God reminds Israel, and all peoples, that “I am God and there is no other, I am God and there is none like me.” The doctrine of the Trinity lies in the New Testament rather in the form of allusion than in express teaching. The early Christians agree that it was essential to explain the relationship between Jesus and God. Yet their assertions about Christ raised questions about the unity of God. Trinitarian theology provided an important solution; it kept Christians from backsliding into superstitious polytheism, but it also prevented Jewish monotheism from undermining the significance of Christ Christianity has not been content simply to speak of the one God of Jewish monotheism, whether imaged predominately as a male or occasionally given “feminine” characteristics as well. Building on ancient concepts of the divine as a community of person, the doctrine of the Trinity had been developed. The distinctive contribution of Christianity was not monotheism, but a Trinitarian understanding of God which recognized difference in the work of God in history, and also maintained the unity of God But some would argue th...
