the supreme spirit?

[deggers316]

The idea of the Holy Trinity was conceived in the fourth century to circumvent the problem of polytheism. There was difficulty regarding the idea that a religion with one god that had Jesus, god and the holy spirit.
Emperor Constantine organised a meeting (At Nicea, if i remember rightly) and many of the great theologians and religious leaders of the time, basically got their collective heads together to solve the problem of polytheism within a church which supposedly had one God.
The conclusion was that all three are assumed to be different manifestations of the same entity, this got around the problem of polytheism put presents us with new philosophical problems regarding the idea of God.
For example Jesus as God incarnate raises the conceptual difficulty of God being both divine and transcendent and man at the same time, but how in ordinary terms can this be true?
It's interesting that a corollary of trinity actually has people believe in God in was that correspond to their notion of what they think trinity is. So poeple think of Jesus in personal terms a 'divine chum' who connects with their humanity, and they often see God in quite different ways.

[Theland]

Your question, "The Supreme Spirit?" is answered by me, bu agreeing with you that god is the Supreme Spirit.
Regardless of how the concept / doctrine of Holy trinity was actualised, the facts remain that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all referred to in the bible. It is this inference that gives rise to the doctrine. It is there, in revealed scripture, not simply formulated at a later date, although I concur that the formulating council simply clarified what was already there.

[naomi24]

Theland, the scriptures themselves were formulated at a later date, so in reality the formulating council, rather than clarifying what was already there, simply perpetuated the lie.

[Theland]

Throughout the bible, reference is made to one God, also to Father, son and Holy Spirit although the word 'Tinity' does not occur once. So the Trinity is implied, if not named, the later council simply clarified this point.

[Octavius]

The Nicene Creed was a reworking of the Apostles Creed which is thought to have been written a century earlier. So as Theland has said the First Council of Nicene were clarifying the meaning of the Trinity form the original creed.