Question:  Dear Greg,

            You made a statement recently that pagans worshipped a triune god.  This is in error.  The Hindu worship a god that is one essence or unity but three in manifestation.  The Hindi believe that Brahma, Yishnu, and Shiva are one god manifested in the persons.  Many drawings and statues of this god show one body with three faces or heads, just as many drawings and statues of Catholic origin show the trinity as one body with three faces or heads.  So in summary, your statement on pagan origins of the trinity was incorrect.

            Thank you,

            Pastor Ray

Answer:  Dear Pastor Ray,

            You misunderstood what I said.  By definition, pagans do not worship the one true triune God.

            The Trinitarian view is one of God in three distinct, co-essential but separate persons--not manifestations, (which is modalism).  The gods of the east are represented as three gods—not one god who is three.  I do not know what you mean about drawings and statues with a Catholic origin.  Do you mean Christianity before the Reformation—or Christianity before the East and the West split (in 1000)?

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht