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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check Wikipedia for "Gospel of the Ebionites." The Ebionites document is a fragment of 7 passages and you can read it online.

OP, now I know why you have been so coy about telling us to call Dirks, when we can read all 7 passages online for ourselves. Why? The Ebionites deny Jesus is a man and they say instead he's an archangel. That's totally inconsistent with a Islam too! And perhaps that's why only 1 guy out of the 10,000s who read this felt a need to convert to Islam.

Best of all, the Ebionites, according to Epiphanius, believed the Holy Gost descended, in the form of a dove, during Jesus' baptism. Do I need to pint out that the Holy Ghost is part of the Trinity....

To be fair to the Ebionites, we only know about them from these 7 lines written by somebody who disliked them, Epiphanius, who may not be a reliable witness. No, we don't have original Ebionite manuscripts, whatever OP says.  [/quote]

OP, could you please comment? There are only 7 lines to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Ebionites. It seems pretty clear that the Ebionites weren't contesting Jesus' divinity. Rather, the point of contention was the Ebionites' view that Jesus became divine during his baptism, compared to the writer Epiphanius' view that Jesus was born divine.  The Holy Ghost does indeed make an appearance at the baptism. Epiphanius reports that the Ebionites consider Jesus an archangel. Also, Epiphanius and the Ebionites apparently agreed that Jesus abolished animal sacrifice, and that seems like another difference with Islam that makes converting to Islam on the basis of this document a little surprising.

Do you still think this "debunks" the Trinity?

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