The dogma of the Trinity, in my much considered opinion, is an attempt by post-Temple Christians to provide an answer to post-Temple Rabbinical Jews who were saying Christianity was breaking the commandment to “have no other gods before Me”. They tried to create a way of saying Jesus is God and the Father is God but still only have one God. So they invented a kind of Godness that Jesus and the Father could both be, then made this Godness the One God. It was a false doctrine and philosophical trap because Jesus and Paul had both taught that it is the Father who is the “One God”, “the one true God”. But now Christianity is stuck with it and trapped by the cleverness of the philosophical arguments they invented for this ruse. Paul has warned them against getting trapped by pagan philosophies such as Platonism but they did it anyway. They were being clever. Not wise, but clever.
