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114 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction admit that they have none. The question as it presented itself to them was not, Why three persons? But rather Why not?’ He goes on to point out the complete failure of Christian the- ology to produce any logical justification for the Trinitarian doctrine and the Christian triad could be explained as essentially a binary concept to which a third disparate entity was laced in order to paint a more complete picture. * We believe that this entity gradually evolved under the influ- ence of earlier pagan philosophies and myths which abounded in the Roman Empire. The exchange of ideas must have drawn Christian theologians to determine the position of the Holy Ghost. As there is ample evidence of the existence of such faiths or cults that visualized God as being composed of three entities in one, it is not difficult to trace back the ultimate source of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. After all if two could be one, and one could be two, why could not three be one as well? It is for the research scholars to determine exactly when and how the third entity of the Christian godhead took its firm roots in Chris- tian mythology, but at present it is outside the domain of this discussion. Here, we only wish to examine the absurdity of such claims, which are rejected outright by human understanding. Human nature spurns self-contradictory and paradoxical ideas. * Essays on the Trinity and the Incarnation, p. 93, edited by A. E. J. Rawlinson, Longman, London 1929.