Ancient Gods: Origins Of The Trinity

You may be astonished to learn that the origin of the trinity of gods long predated the beginnings of Christianity. However, evidence has been abundantly documented illustrating that nearly nation of antiquity possessed a doctrine of triads or trinity. St. Jerome stated, ” All the ancient nations believed in the Trinity. “

Ancient gods of Egypt were referred to as “All gods are three: Amun, Re, and Ptah, and there is no second to them.” A statement of trinity is evident in that the god’s name is Amon, he is Re in face, and his body is Ptah.

In Sumeria “The universe was divided into three regions each of which became the domain of a god. Anu’s share was the sky. The earth was given to Enlil. Ea became the ruler of the waters. Together they constituted the triad of the Great Gods” ( The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, 1994, pp. 54-55)

The ancient Babylonians recognised the doctrine of the trinity, or three persons in one god – as appears from a composite god with three heads forming part of their mythology, and the use of the equilateral triangle , also, as an emblem of such trinity in unity” (Thomas Dennis Rock, The Mystical Woman and the Cities of the Nations, 1867, pp. 22-23 ).

In India, in the Puranas, one of the Hindu Bibles of more than 3000 years ago, a devotee expressing concern about the three Lords, is told, ” what to you appears such ( three gods ) is only the semblance. The single being appears under three forms by the acts of creation, preservation, and destruction, but he is one.”

All of the so-called pagan nations observed ancient gods demonstrating the triad principles which became the origins of the trinity. Christians can no longer deny the origins of this doctrine which which only came to be adopted by the church 300 years after the death of Christ at the Council of Nicaea.