Conclusiones
sobre la doctrina de la trinidad
Las escrituras nos
proporcionan una fiel y acertada guía en una gran diversidad de aspectos, por
lo tanto sigamos el siguiente consejo:
1 Tim 1:3 Cuando fui a Macedonia, te rogué que te
quedaras en Éfeso para que mandaras a algunos que no enseñaran una doctrina
diferente, 4 ni prestaran atención a
fábulas y genealogías interminables, que acarrean disputas más que la
edificación de Dios que es por la fe. Y ahora te encargo lo mismo. (RVC)
2
Tim 4:4 Porque llegará
el tiempo en que no van a tolerar la sana doctrina, sino que, llevados de sus
propios deseos, se rodearán de maestros que les digan las novelerías que
quieren oír.4 Dejarán de escuchar la verdad y se volverán a los
mitos.
5 Tú, por el contrario, sé prudente en
todas las circunstancias, soporta los sufrimientos, dedícate a la
evangelización; cumple con los deberes de tu ministerio. (NVI)
Gal 1:8 Si alguien —ya sea nosotros o incluso un ángel del cielo—
les predica otra Buena Noticia diferente de la que nosotros les hemos
predicado, que le caiga la maldición de Dios.
9 Repito lo que ya hemos dicho: si alguien
predica otra Buena Noticia distinta de la que ustedes han recibido, que esa
persona sea maldita. (NTV)
Rev 22:18 “Estoy dando testimonio a todo el que oye las
palabras de la profecía de este rollo: Si alguien hace una añadidura a estas
cosas, Dios le añadirá a él las plagas que están escritas en este rollo; 19
y si alguien quita algo de las palabras del rollo de esta profecía, Dios
le quitará su porción de los árboles de la vida y de la santa ciudad, cosas de
las cuales se ha escrito en este rollo. (TNM)
Claramente se nos advierte en la Biblia a no ir más allá de
lo que está escrito, y sin duda la doctrina de la trinidad está mucho más allá de las enseñanzas que encontramos en la Biblia.
"the doctrine of the Trinity is not clearly
stated in the New Testament." (Getting to Know the New Testament, Escrito
por Stephen H. Travis, pg 108)
"is quite difficult to build a complete doctrine
of the Trinity... on the Old Testament" (Old Testament theology, Escrito
por Paul R. House, pg 547)
"The concept of Trinity, as most Biblical
scholars consent, was not fully developed in the Old Testament; it emerged only
in the early Christian church" (Principles of Christian Faith, pg 140)
"The mystery of the Trinity is not revealed in
the Old Testament" (B.B. Warfield, Biblical Scholar, pg. 13)
"tenemos
que en la Sagrada Escritura no se encuentra una doctrina sobre la Trinidad, en
el sentido de una especulación (reflexión racional) o de un dogmatismo
(fórmulas fijas) sobre la misma. El dogma trinitario quedará formulado doctrinalmente
en los concilios de Nicea (a 325) y Constantinopla (a. 380)” (Misterio
trinitario: Dios desde el silencio y la cercanía, Escrito por Sebastián Fuster
Perelló, pg. 112)
"The Bible does not teach the doctrine of the
Trinity." (Christian doctrine, Escrito por Shirley C. Guthrie, Professor
Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, pg. 76)
"The doctrine is not found explicitly in the
Bible"(Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology: Trinity, incarnation,
and atonement, Escrito por Michael Cannon, pg. 2)
"la
doctrina de la Trinidad no se encuentra expresamente en ningún autor antiguo,
excepto en este filósofo griego... Jesús, que no ha escrito nada, que vino al
mundo mucho tiempo después de muerto Platón ... no puede ser fundador de una
doctrina más antigua que él, y que seguramente ni siquiera conocía." (Dios
y los hombres: teología, pero razonable, Escrito por Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
(baron d'), pg. 170)
"Como
la doctrina de la Trinidad no se encuentra explícitamente en el Nuevo
Testamento, el antitrinitarismo la rechaza, señalando que repugna, de cualquier
forma, a la razón" (Las religiones constituidas en Occidente y sus
contracorrientes, Volumen 2, pg. 271)
"Sin
embargo, ha de admitirse también que tal término no se encuentra en la
Escritura y, toda vía más, que la doctrina relativa a ella no se enseña
directamente en el texto sagrado." (El Espíritu santo, Escrito por Samuel
Pérez Millos, pg. 16)
"the doctrine of the triune existence is not
based upon direct biblical assertion, or any use of the word trinity, wich word
is not found in the Sacred Text." (Systematic
Theology, Escrito por Lewis Sperry Chafer, pg. 298)
"... then, we admit that the doctrine of the
Trinity does not stand on exactly the same ground as the doctrines formally
enunciated in Scripture" (System of biblical Theology, Dr. Lindsay
Alexander, I, 94, 95)
"Como
la palabra Trinidad no se halla en la Biblia, y es una voz humana inventada por
la ciencia, hay una razón excelente para no servirse mas de ella, y sobre todo
para evitarla en los sermones, en los libros populares, en la obras de instrucción
moral y en la educación de la juventud. La idea pasará insensiblemente con la
palabra." (Coquerel, L'Orthodoxie moderne, pg. 57)
"The doctrine so stated does not appear in
Scripture, ... The orthodox doctrine of the Trinity was hammered out gradually
over a period of three centuries or more" (Dictionary of Biblical
Tradition in English Literature, pg 785, David Lyle Jeffrey)
"Shocking perhaps to many Christians but true
nonetheless is the fact that the doctrine of the Trinity is not strictly
biblical" (Encountering God: Christian faith in turbulent times, Escrito
por Andrew Purves,Charles Partee, pg. 53)
"The Bible does not explicitly teach the
trinitarian view of God" (Introducing Christian Doctrine, Escrito por
Millard J. Erickson,L. Arnold Hustad, pg. 106)
"the doctrine of the Trinity is no fully
explained in the Bible" (House, Traits, pg. 12)
"the development of the doctrine of the Trinity
is a wholly post-biblical development" (The Bible: the basics, Escrito por
John Barton, pg. 88)
"in the Western church the doctrine was not
complete until the fifth century" (A Commentary on the Holy Bible, pg
cxiii)
"Judaism, Islam and Christianity claim to be
monotheistic but the title of Christianity is disputed by the other two on the
grounds that the doctrine of the trinity is tritheism" (Offenders for a
Word, pg. 69)
"Sin
embargo, teniendo en cuenta que el término <<Trinidad>> se adopta
en el siglo III y su formulación clásica en el siglo IV, es evidente que se
trata de pura especulación helenística, ajena a la Biblia" (LA AFONIA DE
EZEQUIEL, Escrito por Cástor Olcoz Iracheta, Doctor en Teología y licenciado en
Derecho Canónico, Profesor de Teología en el Seminario de Pamplona pg. 42)
"The New Testament did not have a doctrine of the
Trinity" (The Christian faith: an introduction to Christian doctrine
Escrito por Colin E. Gunton, Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College,
pg 183)
"The doctrine of the Trinity is not a biblical
doctrine in the sense that it is directly taught in the New Testament" (Taking
the Long View: Christian Theology in Historical Perspective, Escrito por David
Curtis Steinmetz, pg 29)
"It is certainly true that the earliest
Christians were not trinitarians in the modern sense." (The only true God:
early Christian monotheism in its Jewish context, Escrito por James Frank
McGrath, pg 100)
"the Bible was not trinitarian"
(Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years Escrito por Geoffrey Edwards,David
L. Edwards, pg 360)
""It is certainly true that the earliest
Christians were not trinitarians" (The only true God: early Christian
monotheism in its Jewish context, Escrito por James Frank McGrath, pg 100)
"The doctrine of the Trinity as such is not found
in the New Testament." (The faith of the Church: a Reformed perspective on
its historical development, Escrito por Maurice Eugene Osterhaven Proffessor of
Systematic Theology at Western Theological Seminary, pg. 37)
"many of the early Christians were not
Trinitarians" (The Monthly repository of theology and general literature,
Volumen 14, pg 307)
"the early Christians would have insisted that
Jesus is not "God" in the sense in wich the Father is God."
(Reading the New Testament: an introduction Escrito por Pheme Perkins, proffesor
of theology at Boston College pg. 109)
"The Gosplels give no hint of a Trinity" (Scholar
Walter Hyde, pg. 111-112)
"If you read through the New Testament carefully,
you will notice that Jesus is rarely spoken of as "God". (Reading the
New Testament: an introduction, Escrito por Pheme Perkins, pg. 109)
"Jesus is not God, but a Son of God" (The
Perfect Son of God Escrito por Joseph Babinsky, pg 58)
"In Jesus, we meet God fully but have not grasped
the fullness of God, for Jesus is not God." (Christian faith: a brief
introduction, Escrito por Peter Crafts Hodgson, Professor of Theology, Divinity
School, Vanderbilt University, pg 128)
"Therefore it would seem to me that drom my
analysis of the Bible, the concept of the trinity may not actually be biblical.
Jesus never claimed to be God, but He is the Son of God and receives glory and
honor... So, if the concept of the trinity is not Biblical, then why do
Christians accept it?" (Jewish Answers to Jewish Questions Concerning the
Messiahship of Jesus, Escrito por Joseph David Office, pg. 75)
"In the NT there is no explicit statement of the
doctrine ... we have no dogmatic statement" (Evangelical Dictionary of
Theology, Baker, pg. 1112)
"Because the Trinity is such an important part of
later Christian doctrine... Likewise, the developed concept of three coequal
partners in the Godgead found in later creedal formulas cannot be clearly
detected within the confines of the canon" While the New Testament writers
say a great deal about God, Jesus, and the Spirit of each, no NT writer
expounds on the relationship among the three in the detail that later Christian
writers do" (The Oxford Companion to the Bible, pg. 782)
"In the NT there is no explicit trinitarian
statement" (Mercer dictionary of the Bible, Escrito por Watson E.
Mills,Roger Aubrey Bullard, pg, 935)
"If Jesus could tell his followers to eat his
flesh and drink his blood, he certainly could have said, 'I am one of three
divine Persons in one Divine Being'. (Sunday School Sins, Escrito por Barry
Ferst,Barry Ph D Ferst, pg. 21)
"The doctrine is not found in its fully developed
form in the Scripture. Modern theology does not seek to find it in the OT. At
the time of the Reformation the Protestant Church took over the doctrine of the Trinity without serious
examination" (New International Encyclopedia, Vol 223, pg 47,477)
"The doctrine of the trinity did not form part of
the Apostle's preaching, as this is reported in the NT" (Encyclopedia
International, University of Glasgow, Vol. 18, pg. 226)
“The New Testament witness to the individual three
persons is ambiguous, and the doctrine of each of the three existing equal to
the one supreme being and the one supreme divine being existing equal to each
of the three is not found in the New
Testament al all."(Thinking about Christ with Schleiermacher, Escrito por
Catherine L. Kelsey, pg 98)
"Neighter the word nor the doctrine of trinity
appears anywhere in the New Testament" (Cantelon pg. 75)
"There is no formal doctrine of the Trinity in
the New Testament writers... The biblical witness to God, as we have seen did
not contain any formal or formulated doctrine of the trinity" (Jesuit
scholar, Edmund J. Fortman, as quoted in Robinson, S, pg. 74)
The Bible does not explicity teach the trinitarian
view of God while we may never fully comprehend this difficult doctrine (Introducing
Christian Doctrine, Escrito por Millard J. Erickson,L. Arnold Hustad, pg. 106)
"What is important here is that later doctrines
of an immanent trinity not be allowed to be read into New Testament
teaching" (Identity and mystery in themes of Christian faith, Escrito por
Garth Hallett, pg. 66)
"There is no explicit doctrine of the trinity in
the NT" (Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, pg. 1336)
“La
doctrina de la Trinidad no ha sido rebelada... en el AT. En el AT no hay
declaraciones especificas sobre la Trinidad (Abriendo la Biblia: Doctrinas
Básicas Cristianas, Escrito por Samuel Soto, sociedades biblicas unidas, cap. 9)
En la
biblia no se encuentra una doctrina trinitaria (Misterio trinitario: Dios desde
el silencio y la cercanía, Escrito por Sebastián Fuster Perelló, pg. 64)
“Scriptual authority for the development of
trinitarian doctrine has become a much-debated Topic” (A new dictionary of
Christian theology, Escrito por Alan Richardson,John Bowden, pg. 581)
“The bible itself does not have a complete doctrine of
the Trinity” (Saint Mary's Press essential Bible dictionary, Sheila
O'Connell-Roussell, Brian Singer-Towns – 2005, pg. 172)
"the OT does not contain suggestions or
foreshadowing of the trinity of persons" (Dictionary of the Bible, J.L.
McKenzie, pg. 900)
"The NT does not present a systematic
presentation of the Trinity" (Hollman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, pg.
1626)
"Trinity does not appear in the
Bible"(Marty, pg. 80)
"The old Testament does not plainly and directly
teach the Trinity" (Knowing the doctrines of the Bible, Myer Pearlman, pg.
73)
"Not only does the word trinity never occur in
any biblical text, but the thought behind it is not inmediately evident even to
many who are familiar with Scripture" (God, creation, and revelation: a
neo-evangelical theology, Escrito por Paul King Jewett, Marguerite Shuster, pg.
268)
"The word Trinity is not found in the Bible and
did not find a place formally in the theology of the church until the fourth
century." (The Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible, Abingdon
Press, pg. 1067, 1068)
"It is
concession of candid Trinitarians that Tripersonality is not found
expressly in the NT, but was developed afterwards by the Christian Church"
(The new discussion of the Trinity, Escrito por Thomas Starr King,Orville Dewey,
pg. 148)
"The fully developed Christian Doctrine that God
is three persons in one Godgead is nowhere explicitly stated in the New
Testament" (God in The New Testament, New Testament scholar A.W. Argyle, pg.
173")
"The doctrine of the Trinity is not a biblical
doctrine in the sence of being specifically found in the New Testament
writings. It is a creation of the fourth century church" (Richardson, pg.
100)
"Nowhere in the Bible do we find the doctrine of
the Trinity clearly formulated... There is no formal statement of trinitarian
doctrine in the Bible" (Keeley, pg. 164)
"The Trinity is not really a biblical
doctrine" (Erickson pg. 97)
"The doctrine so stated does not apperar in
Scripture… doctrine of the Trinity was hammered out gradually over a period of
three centuries or more" (A Dictionary of biblical tradition in English
literature, Escrito por David L. Jeffrey, pg. 785, 786)
“The technical language of the DOCTRINE of the Trinity is not biblical… the question of how God can be both three and one was
not for the NT authors a locus of overt theological struggle or extended
reflection… it is not directly ‘in’ the NT” (the cambridge dictionary of Christian Theology, pg. 518)
"The way the churches now express this belief...
are three 'persons' in one God, is not found in Scripture" (The trinity:
rediscovering the central christian mystery, Escrito por John Farrelly, pg. 69)
A través de todo
lo analizado hasta el momento podemos concluir sin lugar a dudas que la
doctrina de la trinidad no formaba parte de las enseñanzas de los Israelitas de
tiempos bíblicos (los del AT), ni de las enseñanzas de Jesús y los apóstoles (en
el NT) ni de los cristianos de primeros siglos. Por lo tanto no tiene lugar en
la adoración de quienes toman a la Biblia como la palabra de Dios.
