By the time they were invented I had grown up.
Nope. I think the concept of the Trinity owes a lot more to some ancient religion(s) that contributed rituals or concepts to early Christianity. Palestinia in the first century was a weird mixture of odd cults from Europe, Africa and Asia, and even the Jews were divided into multiple sects, like the Essenes and the Nazarenes. When the Church moved to Rome, Athens and Alexandria, big port cities with contacts all over the known world, they came in touch with all sorts of bizarre religious traditions. And I think the early church owes a lot more to Paul than it does to Jesus. By the third or fourth century, when this all started to gel, what emerged from the church councils had little resemblance to Jesus' original teachings.
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