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Why Is the Trinity Taught? (‎12 occurrences)
- ACCORDING to the Trinity doctrine adhered to by the majority of Christendom’s churches, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost (or Spirit) are ‘one God as to substance but three persons as to individuality.’
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  The doctrine is considered to be a mystery that can never be fully understood.
- g73 2/22 pp. 27-28 - Awake!—1973

Is God a Mystery? (‎11 occurrences)
- “What is a mystery?
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  Generally speaking, a mystery is a truth that is naturally impossible to understand or prove. . . .
- g92 3/8 pp. 26-27 - Awake!—1992

Does Christianity Require Belief in a Trinity? (‎11 occurrences)
- “The mystery of the Trinity, as God has told it to us, is the mystery of three divine persons, really distinct, in one and the same divine nature: coequal, coeternal, consubstantial, one God.
- w74 2/1 pp. 75-76 - The Watchtower—1974

The Scriptures, Reason and the Trinity (‎9 occurrences)
- In discussing the trinity at a solemn mass performed at St. Patrick’s cathedral, the Msgr.
  ...
  Greene held that Jesus taught the trinity by his words as recorded at Matthew 28:18-20 (Cath.
- w53 1/1 pp. 21-24 - The Watchtower—1953

How Is the Trinity Explained? (‎8 occurrences)
- Many who accept the Trinity view it that same way.
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  Cardinal John O’Connor states: “We know that it is a very profound mystery, which we don’t begin to understand.”
- ti pp. 3-5 - Trinity (ti)

The “Blessed Trinity”—Is It in the Bible? (‎6 occurrences)
- The Trinity is a fundamental doctrine of the vast majority of churches.
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  But what exactly is the Trinity?
- w87 6/15 pp. 4-7 - The Watchtower—1987

Announcements (‎6 occurrences)
- If so, we invite you to send for the two-color, pocket-size tract entitled “The Trinity—Divine Mystery or Pagan Myth?”
- w53 2/15 p. 128 - The Watchtower—1953

The Supreme Being Is Unique (‎5 occurrences)
- You may have heard of this as the Holy Trinity, a dogma that is mysterious and hard to understand.
  ...
  For example, the booklet The Blessed Trinity says: “The dogma of the Blessed Trinity . . . is a mystery . . .
- w87 6/15 p. 3 - The Watchtower—1987

Do You Know the God You Worship? (‎5 occurrences)
- Actually, the doctrine that most confuses not only Catholics but also members of the Eastern Orthodox Church and most Protestant churches is the Trinity.
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  When we speak of them as one God, we mean not only that each is God, but that each is one and the same God, and herein is the mystery, incomprehensible to any created intelligence.”
- w84 8/1 pp. 19-20 - The Watchtower—1984

Christendom Has Failed God! After Her End, What? (‎5 occurrences)
- 35. How has Christendom copied the pagans and thus misrepresented the personality of God to the heathen?
  
  ³⁵ Christendom has copied the heathen, pagan nations of Asia in teaching that God is a trinity, three Gods in one Person.
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  But who can explain this so-called Trinity and harmonize it with the book of Christianity, the Bible?
- w62 4/15 pp. 228-242 - The Watchtower—1962

Never Compromising on Christian Principles (‎5 occurrences)
- The clergy refuse to reason on these Scriptural principles, but insist that the trinity doctrine is a mystery.
- w57 9/1 pp. 524-530 - The Watchtower—1957

A Poor Start—A Rich Ending (‎4 occurrences)
- When I was 12, I first heard about the Trinity.
  ...
  I remember her answer: “Son, it’s a mystery.
- w18 May pp. 3-8 - The Watchtower (Study)—2018

Is Jesus God? (‎4 occurrences)
- MANY people view the Trinity as “the central doctrine of the Christian religion.”
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  Cardinal John O’Connor stated about the Trinity: “We know that it is a very profound mystery, which we don’t begin to understand.”
- w09 4/1 pp. 18-19 - The Watchtower—2009

Personal Study That Equips Us as Teachers (‎4 occurrences)
- 11. (a) What makes Jehovah’s Witnesses different in their belief about Jesus? (b) What are some Bible texts that clearly refute the Trinity doctrine, and what publication is helpful in this regard?
  
  ¹¹ In Christendom the controversy regarding Jesus centers on whether he is “the Son of God” as well as “God the Son”—in other words, the dispute over what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls “the central mystery of Christian faith,” the Trinity.
- w02 12/1 pp. 18-23 - The Watchtower—2002

Have You Ever Wondered? (‎4 occurrences)
- It is the teaching of the “Most Holy Trinity.”
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  The Trinity was defined in the Athanasian Creed as the worship of “one God in Trinity . . .
- g94 9/8 pp. 11-13 - Awake!—1994

‘It Unravels the Mystery’ (‎4 occurrences)
- The Trinity has been called a mystery, but a reader from Australia says the brochure Should You Believe in the Trinity?
- g92 6/22 p. 32 - Awake!—1992

Apostasy—The Way to God Blocked (‎4 occurrences)
- As Wolfson states: “The [church] Fathers began to look in the stockpile of philosophic terminology for two good technical terms, of which one would be used as a designation of the reality of the distinctness of each member of the Trinity as an individual and the other would be used as a designation of their underlying common unity.”
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  Yet, they had to admit that “the conception of a triune God is a mystery which cannot be solved by human reason.”
- sh chap. 11 pp. 261-283 - Mankind’s Search for God (sh)

God—Who Is He? (‎4 occurrences)
- Others say he is a Trinity, although the word “trinity” does not appear in the Bible.
- pe chap. 4 pp. 34-46 - Live Forever (pe)

“We Worship What We Know” (‎4 occurrences)
- Because they do not believe in the Trinity dogma, it has been said of Jehovah’s Witnesses that they practice “a form of Arianism.”a
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  In line with this, historian H. M. Gwatkin states in his book The Arian Controversy: “The God of Arius is an unknown God, whose being is hidden in eternal mystery.
- w84 9/1 pp. 25-30 - The Watchtower—1984

Who Is God? (‎4 occurrences)
- 12. (a) What do church creeds, such as the Athanasian Creed, teach about God? (b) What questions should we ask about this teaching?
  
  ¹² Many religions of Christendom teach that God is a “Trinity,” although the word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible.
- tr chap. 3 pp. 17-26 - Truth (tr)

How Christendom Became Trinitarian (‎4 occurrences)
- However, it is generally admitted that the Trinity teaching was a gradual development.
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  “They make mention indeed of a Three; but that there is any mystery in the doctrine, that the Three are One, that They are coequal, coeternal, all increate, all omnipotent, all incomprehensible, is not stated, and never could be gathered from them.”—The Development of Christian Doctrine, page 15.
- g73 1/8 pp. 16-19 - Awake!—1973

Who Is God? (‎4 occurrences)
- Many religions of Christendom teach that God is a “Trinity,” although the word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible.
- w68 10/1 pp. 579-583 - The Watchtower—1968

A Poor Start—A Rich Ending (‎3 occurrences)
- When I was 12, I first heard about the Trinity doctrine.
  ...
  I remember her answer: “Son, it’s a mystery.
- ws18 May pp. 27-32 - The Watchtower (Simplified)—2018

Who Is the Antichrist? (‎3 occurrences)
- For centuries, the churches propagated the doctrine of the Trinity, claiming that the Father and the Son are part of the same entity.
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  The antichrist thus shrouds in mystery the identity of Jehovah God and Jesus Christ.
- w15 6/1 pp. 14-15 - The Watchtower—2015

The Antichrist Exposed (‎3 occurrences)
- The engrafting of the Trinity was a masterstroke of the antichrist, for this doctrine shrouded God in mystery and blurred his relationship with the Son. (John 14:28; 15:10; Colossians 1:15)
- w06 12/1 pp. 4-7 - The Watchtower—2006

The Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Solar System (‎3 occurrences)
- He was also a firm believer in Christendom’s Trinity.
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  “One of the ideas to which he was most strongly attached—the image of the Christian Trinity as symbolized by a geometric sphere and, hence, the visible, created world—was literally a reflection of this divine mystery (God the Father::centre; Christ the Son:: circumference; Holy Spirit:: intervening space).”—Encyclopædia Britannica.
- g05 3/8 pp. 24-27 - Awake!—2005

Could Jesus Have Had Faith in God? (‎3 occurrences)
- The question of Jesus’ faith really is an enigma for Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox theologians who believe in the Trinity as “the central mystery of Christian faith and life.”a
- w94 10/15 pp. 12-15 - The Watchtower—1994

“Objects of Hatred by All the Nations” (‎3 occurrences)
- It was in July 1917, after Russell’s death, that the Watch Tower Society released the book The Finished Mystery, a commentary on Revelation and Ezekiel as well as The Song of Solomon.
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  In support of what was said, it reproduced from The Finished Mystery commentary on prophecies expressing divine judgment against “Mystic Babylon.”
- jv chap. 29 pp. 642-677 - Proclaimers (jv)

Will a New Catechism Turn the Tide? (‎3 occurrences)
- Naturally, it perpetuates Christendom’s mystery “of the Most Holy Trinity . . . , the central mystery of the faith.”
- g93 9/8 p. 8 - Awake!—1993

Ecuador (‎3 occurrences)
- The “mystery” of the Trinity was cleared up almost immediately.
- yb89 pp. 198-252 - Yearbook—1989

Jesus Christ—God’s Beloved Son (‎3 occurrences)
- 3. How is confusion about the Trinity doctrine shown?
  
  ³ That teaching has caused great confusion among the people of Christendom’s religions, which is one reason why the New Catholic Encyclopedia calls the Trinity a mystery.
- w88 6/1 pp. 10-15 - The Watchtower—1988

One God in Three? (‎3 occurrences)
- The 15-volume Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique declares: “It seems unquestionable that the revelation of the mystery of the Trinity was not made to the Jews.”
- w84 8/15 pp. 27-31 - The Watchtower—1984

What Kind of God Do You Worship? (‎3 occurrences)
- Even as the New Catholic Encyclopedia admits: “The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the O[ld] T[estament]. . . .
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  The mystery of the Holy Trinity was not revealed to the Chosen People of the OT.”
- w73 3/1 pp. 131-133 - The Watchtower—1973

Cardinals (Catholic) (‎2 occurrences)
- ‘Trinity a profound mystery’: ti 4
- dx86-24 - Index 1986-2024

Watch Tower Publications (‎2 occurrences)
- No. 6—The Trinity, Divine Mystery or Pagan Myth?:
- dx86-24 - Index 1986-2024

Now I Know the God I Worship (‎2 occurrences)
- They talked about the Trinity and said that it is a mystery.
- w12 9/1 pp. 12-15 - The Watchtower—2012

‘The Son Is Willing to Reveal the Father’ (‎2 occurrences)
- He did not hide his Father in a cloud of mystery by teaching that He was part of an incomprehensible Trinity.
- w12 4/15 pp. 3-7 - The Watchtower—2012

Venezuela (‎2 occurrences)
- Defend the mystery of the holy Trinity!”
- yb96 pp. 186-252 - Yearbook—1996

Why True Worship Receives God’s Blessing (‎2 occurrences)
- It frees us from the Babylonish mystery of Christendom’s “Most Holy Trinity.” (Deuteronomy 4:35; 6:4; 1 Corinthians 15:27, 28)
- w96 4/15 pp. 16-21 - The Watchtower—1996

Is Mary the “Mother of God”? (‎2 occurrences)
- Pope John Paul II explains one factor: “True devotion to the Mother of God . . . is very profoundly rooted in the Mystery of the Blessed Trinity.”—Crossing the Threshold of Hope.
- g96 1/8 pp. 26-27 - Awake!—1996

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