“Buku The Paganism in Our Christianity (Kekafiran Dalam Kekristenan Kita) berkata, ”Yesus Kristus tidak pernah menyebutkan fakta demikian [suatu Tritunggal yang setara,] dan dalam Perjanjian Baru kata Tritunggal tidak muncul. Gagasan ini baru diadopsi oleh Gereja tiga ratus tahun setelah wafatnya Tuhan kita; dan asal-usul konsep ini sepenuhnya kafir.” Saksi-Saksi Yehuwa menerima pengajaran Alkitab mengenai Kristus. Mereka adalah orang-orang Kristen, bukan penganut Tritunggal.” (*** w93 1/7 hlm. 16 par. 16 Umat Kristen dan Masyarakat Manusia Dewasa Ini ***)
Saksi Yehuwa sepaham dengan buku “The Paganism in Our Christianity” (anehnya, sebenarnya buku tersebut menyerang seluruh kekristenan dan mengatakan bahwa Kekristenan adalah agama kafir, tetapi saya masih tidak paham mengapa Menara Pengawal masih saja menggunakan buku tersebut, padahal buku tersebut juga menyerang ajaran Menara Pengawal, lengkapnya dapat dibaca di sini dan sini). Saksi Yehuwa setuju bahwa gagasan Tritunggal baru diadopsi pada tahun 325.
Pengutipan di bawah ini tak bermaksud untuk membuktikan bahwa ajaran Tritunggal adalah benar, karena diajarkan oleh para Bapak-bapak Gereja, tetapi hanya untuk sekedar membuktikan bahwa ajaran Tritunggal tidak dimunculkan pertama kali pada tahun 325.
| Ignatius of Antioch (30-107 A.D.).
| Ia hidup sebelum kematian Yesus dan secara konsisten berbicara mengenai Keilahian Yesus, dan ia tidak dicap sesat oleh gereja Kristen mula-mula “Jesus Christ our God”; “who is God and man”; “received knowledge of God, that is, Jesus Christ”; “for our God, Jesus the Christ”; “for God was manifest as man”; “Christ, who was from eternity with the Father”; “from God, from Jesus Christ”; “from Jesus Christ, our God”; “Our God, Jesus Christ”; “suffer me to follow the example of the passion of my God”; “Jesus Christ the God” and “Our God Jesus Christ.” |
| Polycarp (69-155 A.D.). | Kemungkinan ia berkata “Our Lord and God Jesus Christ.” |
| Justin Martyr (100-165 A.D.). | “who... being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God.” “God was born from a virgin” and that Jesus was “worthy of worship” and of being “called Lord and God.” |
| Tatian (110-172 A.D.). | “We do not act as fools, O Greeks, nor utter idle tales when we announce that God was born in the form of man.” |
| Theophlius (116-181 A.D.). | Pertama kali menggunakan istilah “Tritunggal” dalam “Epistle to Antolycux II, xv”
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| Tertullian of Carthage (145-220 A.D.). | “Christ is also God” because “that which has come forth from God [in the virgin birth] is at once God and the Son of God, and the two are one...in His birth, God and man united.” Jesus is “both Man and God, the Son of Man and the Son of God.”1 |
| Irenaeus of Lyons and Rome (120-202 A.D.). | Yesus adalah “perfect God and perfect man”; “not a mere man...but was very God”; and that “He is in Himself in His own right...God, and Lord, and King Eternal” and spoke of “Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Saviour and King.” |
| Caius (180-217 A.D.). | Gigih menentang ajaran Artemon yang mengajarkan bahwa Kristus hanyalah manusia. “Justin and Miltiades, and Tatian and Clement, and many others—who is ignorant of the books of Irenaeus and Melito, and the rest, which declare Christ to be God and man? All the psalms, too, and hymns of brethren, which have been written from the beginning by the faithful, celebrate Christ the Word of God, ascribing divinity to Him.... [This] doctrine of the Church, then, has been proclaimed so many years ago,...” |
| Gregory Thaumaturgus of Neo-Caesarea (205-270 A.D.). | “All [the persons] are one nature, one essence, one will, and are called the Holy Trinity; and these also are names subsistent, one nature in three persons, and one genus [kind].” Yesus adalah “God of God” and “God the Son.” |
| Hippolytus (170-235 A.D.). | “[it is] the Father who is above all, the Son who is through all, and the Holy Spirit who is in all. And we cannot otherwise think of one God, but by believing in truth in Father and Son and Holy Spirit.... For it is through this Trinity that the Father is glorified.... The whole Scriptures, then, proclaim this truth.” And, “the Logos is God, being the substance of God.” |
| Novatian of Rome (210-280 A.D.). | “He was also God according to the Scriptures.... Scripture has as much described Jesus Christ to be man, as moreover it has also described Christ the Lord to be God.... this same Jesus is called also God and the Son of God.” “Christ Jesus [is] our Lord God.” |
| Origen of Alexandria (wrote ca 230 A.D.). | Kristus adalah “God and man.” “Jesus Christ...while he was God, and though made man, remained God as he was before.” (254 A.D.)
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| Athanasius (293-373 A.D.). | Gigih melawan ajaran Arius yang mirip dengan ajaran Saksi Yehuwa masa kini “He always was and is God and Son,” and “He who is eternally God,... also became man for our sake.” |
| Lucian of Antioch (300 A.D.). | “We believe in... one Lord Jesus Christ, his Son, the onlybegotten God...God of God.…”
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| Alexander of Alexandria. | “his highest and essential divinity” and that he was “an exact and identical image of the Father.” |
| Eusebius of Caesarea. | “the Son of God bears no resemblance to originated creatures but...is alike in every way only to the Father who has begotten [Him] and that he is not from any other hypostasis and substance but from the Father.” And (325 A.D.), “We believe in... one Lord Jesus Christ, the word of God, God of God.…” |
| Cyril of Jerusalem (ca 350 A.D.). | “We believe in... One Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God...very God, by whom all things were made.”
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| Epiphanius of Constantia (374 A.D.). | “We believe...in one Lord Jesus Christ...of the substance of the Father, Light of Light, very God of very God.”24 |
| Augustine. | “...believe that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one God, maker and ruler of the whole creation: that Father is not Son, nor Holy Spirit Father or Son; but a Trinity of mutually related Persons, and a unity of equal essence,” and that therefore, “the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit God; and all together are one God.” |
| Tertullian. | Wrote of Jesus that “He is God and man.... We have here a dual condition— not fused but united—in one person, Jesus as God and man.” |
| Proclus. | “He was born of woman, God but not solely God, and man but not merely man.....Christ did not by progress become God—heaven forbid!—but in mercy he became man, as we believe. We do not preach a deified man; we confess an incarnate God...him alone who was born of a virgin, God and man.” |
| Cyril of Alexandria | “For he remained what he was; that is, by nature God. But...he took it on himself to be man as well,” and, “There is nothing to prevent us from thinking of Christ as being the one and only Son at once both God and man, perfect in deity and perfect in humanity...he is conceived of as God and is God,...” |
| Sumber: http://ankerbergminute.com/Articles/ATRI-Bible-School/Summer-Bible-School/The%20Deity%20of%20Jesus%20Christ.pdf | |
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