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The Way Sect History 

When Trinitarians Use Traditions Or History To Bring Down Unitarian As If It Did Not Exist Past the 1600's.
 

We know that there are many sects and denominations of Trinitarians so to say because there is no "Biblical Unitarians" which is just another title to say people who believe in one person/self which is God who only listened to the bible, or there was no "Messianic Unitarians" you may as well also say there was no Trinitarians until 380AD which is around 350 years or so after Yeshua died and resurrected.  So Trinitarians can not use the titles such as "Unitarianism" as a word or movement did not exist because the people who believed in what Unitarians believed pre-exists Trinitarians by at least 30 years and possibly longer since they were known around Paul's time likely these Ebionites and other sects of what today we call Unitarians may likely have existed around the time of Yeshua's walking on earth as a man or John the Baptist,  just because they do not believe 100% every thing maybe a modern day Biblical Unitarian believes or a different group of Unitarian does not mean they themselves were not a sect of Unitarian believing only the Father is God just like how Catholic's and Protestants are different sects of Trinitarians, would Catholics or Protestants say either group is not Trinitarian?  Also you will see the sect which is what Paul was apart of was Messianic in nature meaning Torah observing which is actually what I believed as Unitarian Messianic you would call today, back then was called "The Way sect".
 

Talking about history which many Trinitarians try to use against Unitarians, the Trinitarian history has evolved over time for example at one point they tortured people to death, at one point they didn't accept LGBT but now some do, you have varied denominations, so taking this in mind Unitarians have many different denominations which see scripture differently, for example Ebionites were Unitarians but some people say they never believed in John's writing, now let us look at the history of some trinitarian views not all believe in the deuteronomical canon such as Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, first and second Maccabees and some other books editions to Esther and Daniel, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books these are some which seem to accept the Deuterocanonical books or Apocrypha it says - Anabaptist Churches - "Anabaptists use the Luther Bible, which contains the Apocrypha as intertestamental books, which has much overlap with the Catholic deuterocanonical books;" So not only do they accept the Apocrypha but Catholic deuterocanonical books.  However we see the further "In the Ethiopic Bible used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (an Oriental Orthodox Church), those books of the Old Testament that are still counted as canonical, but which are not agreed upon by all other Churches, are often set in a separate section titled "Deeyutrokanoneekal" (ዲዩትሮካኖኒካል), which is cognate with "Deuterocanonical"." So we see different Trinitarian sects except different books, even "The deuterocanonical texts held as canonical for the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church are" on - https://www.google.com/search?q=what+books+do+the+catholics+accept+as+canon&oq=what+books+do+the+catholics+accept+as+canon&aqs=chrome..69i57.10737j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 and they accept Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Sirach, 1st and 2nd Maccabees and Wisdom, as well as others.  Yet not all Trinitarians accept these books.   So to say oh the Ebionites didn't believe in the book of John "supposedly" or didn't accept "Paul" does not mean that they are not Unitarians?  or Arians while are Unitarians maybe are not the same sect as Biblical unitarians which I personally call the way sect, all we see is a range of different sects that spread out over history,  Just the Trinitarians murdered and tortured anyone who disagreed with them, so Unitarian history dates to the JEWS which Jesus himself states the Jews call the Father their God, but if we just stick to the Christian based faiths Ebionites were Unitarians and are actually spoke of in the Bible as the ones who only ate vegetables or herbs which were a bit judgemental of people who ate meat, so Ebionites date to at least Pauls time and seem to have known John the Baptist as they say he ate sweet cakes and honey not locusts but according to sites we have online it says they date to 70ad so say 1st century and existed til around 4th century sometime in 301AD to 400AD, - according to - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ebionites we see Ebionites were a Sect of Unitarian believers not believing Yeshua was God however they also didn't believe in the virgin birth, this while maybe wrong doesn't mean they aren't Unitarian just maybe slightly mislead as we have many sects and denominations now as the site says - "The Ebionite movement may have arisen about the time of the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (AD 70). Its members evidently left Palestine to avoid persecution and settled in Transjordan (notably at Pella) and Syria and were later known to be in Asia Minor and Egypt. The sect seems to have existed into the 4th century.  Most of the features of Ebionite doctrine were anticipated in the teachings of the earlier Qumrān sect, as revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls. They believed in one God and taught that Jesus was the Messiah and was the true “prophet” mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:15."  The way sect which Paul was apart of in the Bible Acts 24:14 - 14 But I confess this to you, that in accordance with [a]the Way, which they call a sect, I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and is written in the Prophets; / On a forum or Blog site it states on https://biblethingsinbibleways.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/sect-of-the-way-the-nazarenes-christians-names-given-to-the-early-church/ "The Nazarene sect is recognized as late as the fourth or fifth centuries as a group who believed in Jesus as the Son of God but maintained adherence to the Torah. I have written several studies in connection with the beliefs of the early Christians in line with the idea that they were a Jewish sect that rejected the heresies of other Jewish sects as well as standing against beliefs that would go on to be embraced by Gentile Christians." There are other notes worth reading on there, but this is proof my belief pre-dates trinitarian church fathers by actually being IN THE BIBLE itself which Paul himself and the Apostles seem to have been apart of since they congregated.  Since Arianism is a form of Unitarian or a sect you could say or denomination of Unitarianism it shows Unitarianism was quite strong from the Bible through to the 6th and 7th century according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism#From_the_5th_to_the_7th_century "Much of south-eastern Europe and central Europe, including many of the Goths and Vandals respectively, had embraced Arianism (the Visigoths converted to Arian Christianity in 376 through their bishop Wulfila), which led to Arianism being a religious factor in various wars in the Roman Empire.[f] In the west, organized Arianism survived in North Africa, in Hispania, and parts of Italy until it was finally suppressed in the 6th and 7th centuries." It seems to me that Unitarians went into hiding in the middle east as Ebionites, and as Arians throughout the North Africa, Hispania (Spain) parts of Italy but it seems people may have still believed but just hid once it was supressed in 7th century.  Further more according to - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_1st_century#:~:text=They%20believed%20Yahweh%20to%20be,version%20of%20the%20Noachide%20laws. - "They believed Yahweh to be the only true God,[92] the god of Israel, and considered Jesus to be the messiah (Christ), as prophesied in the Jewish scriptures, which they held to be authoritative and sacred. They held faithfully to the Torah,[note 9] including acceptance of Gentile converts based on a version of the Noachide laws." the notes associated to this statement is Acts 15 and Acts 20, I would go further to say Acts 13 which correlates to Acts 15 how Gentiles will learn the law as they hear it in the synagogues.  If you want to be technical according to - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trinity-Christianity - "In defense of that oneness, he was obliged to dispute the sameness of essence of the Son and the Holy Spirit with God the Father. It was not until later in the 4th century that the distinctness of the three and their unity were brought together in a single orthodox doctrine of one essence and three persons. The Council of Nicaea in 325 stated the crucial formula for that doctrine in its confession that the Son is “of the same substance [homoousios] as the Father,” even though it said very little about the Holy Spirit. Over the next half century, St. Athanasius defended and refined the Nicene formula, and, by the end of the 4th century, under the leadership of St. Basil of Caesarea, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Gregory of Nazianzus (the Cappadocian Fathers), the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since."  So the Trinity was not fully aired out until the 4th century so if you want to be technical what the Trinity is today, did not fully exist as a statement of belief until after Nicea around 380ad which is 310 years after Ebionites, The Way sect and the other sects.


History Of Unitarian Sects.
- The Way (Biblical Member or Statement: Paul Acts 24:14, Jesus said Paul was persecuting him but the people that Paul was persecuting were of the sect called the Way in Acts 9:1-5 by persecuting the body of believers you persecute Jesus, this by the way is agency 101 just as feeding the homeless you do this to Jesus, Jesus himself by this statement is saying he is the Way or the Way sect is him or his body that Paul persecuted, in the same passage we see the Way being talked of as the group which is biblical being persecuted for true belief of Christianity by Paul.  Acts 22:3-4 We see again Paul say he persecuted the Way to death and being prisoners which Yeshua said when you visit prisoners in the prison you visit him which again shows agency that he is the way and the Way which is the congregation of the Body is his body which Paul persecuted, there for my Messianic Torah observer brothers and sisters of the way were the true Christians not today's lawless Christians.  According to Acts 19:1-9  Paul was speaking to some disciples not THE DISCIPLES but some others and this one was Apollos and since Paul was of the Way sect and he baptised Apollos and talked in synagogues which in verse 9 some evil men spoke evil against the way as Paul withdraw from them the disciples so this indicates Paul took the Way disciples from the evil men so they were members of The Way,  We also see Peter called Christianity the Way of Truth 2 Peter 2:2 so since they were all brothers and Peter himself called Paul a brother in 2 Peter 3:16 it indicates that Peter would have likely been of the Way sect also since the disciples had been persecuted but there were many different sects but it is indicated that Peter considered Paul a Brother there for would also consider The Way sect his brothers.)


So as I write this you see the Way sect which were Torah observers and Unitarian in faith they never mentioned any trinity perspective as they were Jewish and had learned in synagogues with Jews who are Unitarians no Trinitarian can show their belief of Trinitarianism in the Bible or a sect of Trinitarians.  Be proud beloved Brothers and Sisters!
 

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