Then why did Jesus repeatedly say He WAS God? Why did Scripture teach the same if it wasn't the truth? Do you think some Christians somewhere just made up the whole doctrine because they had nothing better to do? We believe it because God's word teaches us to believe it. It was taught from the very start of Christianity and has always been believed. To deny it would be to deny one of the basic tenets of the faith.
>>> That's exactly what happened and rather late in the game.
"It was taught from the very start of Christianity and has always been believed."
>>> Not so. From my earlier post:
Bear in mind, there is no mystery as to the origins of the Trinity, nor is there any secret for how this aberrant doctrine emerged. The doctrine of the Trinity was forged out of the crucible of the Catholic Church long after the Christian century. It is, therefore, no wonder that this pagan doctrine was unknown to authors of the New Testament. Church history reveals that it was not until three hundred years after the birth of Christianity that the doctrine of the Bianity (325 C.E.) and Trinity (381 C.E.) received formal approval in the Christian community. These well documented events occurred under circumstances rife with contention, political agitation, and radical dissension in the early Church.
The trinity is entirely MAN made, and not from God.
You shall have no other gods before me - That's from God.