Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
So, we have to start off from the premise that everything in the bible is 100% accurate, and everything else is utterly irrelevant? All the other gospels, epistles, letters and what not. Almost arguing about what words are in a dictionary after 80% of the pages have been torn out.
Well, no. On the other hand, what's actually in the Bible, excusing Revelations, is the earliest stuff with a reasonable authorial attribution. The only book that might be earlier is Thomas, but that doesn't contain anything massively controversial from what we have seen of the surviving fragments.

Jesus Christ is merely bringing together two threads of Christianity, one lot who viewed Iesus as a modern day prophet and the other lot who viewed Christ as divine. A compromise / fudge that would make modern day politicians proud.

Now this is just nonsensicle, "Jesus Christ" simply denotes the recognition of the man Jesus being annointed by God, which is merely a recognition of his status as a prophet in the line of Moses, Samuel and David. It does not denote divinity. The argument you refer to is the one over whether Jesus should be worshipped as seperate from God, or as the same as God. In this way the Trinitarian formulation is a compromise which, ultimately expresses the relationship as beyond human comprehension, rejecting either absolute option.