Hello Notch, thanks for responding.
You said:
"Our earliest manuscripts of Matthew with intact title pages unanimously contain "The Gospel According to Matthew" or "According to Matthew."
"That is not the case."
It absolutely is, my friend.
If you disagree, simply find any manuscript that has a title page but lacks the attribution to Matthew.
If what you say is true, such a thing shouldn't be hard to find.
Yet the opposite is the case.
Every single manuscript with an intact title page attributes it directly to Matthew.
You said:
"The Trinity is one God."
The Trinity is composed by God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Three Gods.
That's not the Trinity.
God is one God. Jesus is the same God the Father is.
They aren't two Gods. They are the same, single God.
Trinitarian teaching has always taught this, from the beginning.
Your claim for it to be three gods is something no Trinitarian would ever affirm.
You said:
"There is no use in a Trinity. There is one God. There is one Son of God (two beings so far) and the Holy Spirit that they share (their shared understanding.)"
The Son of God is God. He is God in flesh, or as Matthew says, "God with us."
Matthew does not say that Jesus is "a second God with us."
Matthew (and Isaiah!) call Jesus "GOD With Us," the same God that Israel has always worshiped.
You said:
Were you raised in the Catholic church?
No.
But your question indicates you haven't studied how widespread belief in the Trinity is.
Catholics believe it, as do all Protestants and Orthodox believers.
The vast majority of all Christians in the world today and throughout all time are Trinitarians.
You said:
"The Trinity is taught every time Jesus is proclaimed as God, the same God who created the universe."
The word "Trinity" is not in the Bible.
So?
The Bible wasn't written in English. It's no surprise that an English word like "Trinity" isn't in its pages.
But the Bible does consistently teach that Jesus is God, the same God that Israel always worshiped throughout the Old Testament.
You said:
"Jesus never taught the "Trinity."
Have you ever studied refutations of of the Trinity? For example from Biblical Unitarian?"
Indeed, my friend.
I've studied attempted refutations from Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, Jews, and just about every other group you can imagine.
They all fail.
Typically, they fail to understand history -- that the belief in the Trinity long predated the invention of the word "Trinity."
Typically, they ignore a vast amount of verses in the Bible, and camp on only a few that seem to make their point, but only if you don't consult the verses they ignore.
