I like the story of how the Unitarians were one the earliest Protestant sects, and they based their theology on the fact that the Trinity is not in Scripture. Of course several others have arisen since.
We know how an Arian Christian community would have developed, because there were Arian kingdoms during the “Dark Ages”: the Vandals, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths were all Arian and for a time ruled nearly all of the remains of the western Roman Empire. Historians should have some idea how those societies worked before Arianism was finally suppressed (the Vandals were utterly destroyed by the Greeks, the Visigoths converted to Trinitarianism, and the Ostrogoths were conquered by the Trinitarian Lombards, ending Arianism in the West.)
I like the story of how the Unitarians were one the earliest Protestant sects, and they based their theology on the fact that the Trinity is not in Scripture. Of course several others have arisen since.
Christ always called himself, "the son of man," not the son of god.
He prayed to the father, begged for release, and healed in the name of God.
"No man may come to father, but through me," to me, means his teachings, not his divinity.
I pray to God in Christ's name, not to Christ himself.
We know how an Arian Christian community would have developed, because there were Arian kingdoms during the “Dark Ages”: the Vandals, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths were all Arian and for a time ruled nearly all of the remains of the western Roman Empire. Historians should have some idea how those societies worked before Arianism was finally suppressed (the Vandals were utterly destroyed by the Greeks, the Visigoths converted to Trinitarianism, and the Ostrogoths were conquered by the Trinitarian Lombards, ending Arianism in the West.)
The Celts had 3 part gods. Perhaps that reflected an older pagan tradition.