The Catholic Faith consists of 3 essentials as I have mentioned in my entry below.

These 3 essentials are also known as the 3 Perfect Mysteries of the Catholic Faith.

The 3 Perfect Mysteries of the Catholic Faith are these:

1) Perfect Mystery of the Trinity

2) Perfect Mystery of the Incarnation

and

3) Perfect Mystery of the Eucharist

By Perfect Mystery, the Church means something that cannot be explained by human reason. While these Mysteries do not contradict reason, they cannot be explained by human reasoning.

The Perfect Mystery of the Trinity is this: that there are 3 Persons in One God.

These 3 persons are God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

In the Old Testament, God the Father was called Elohim, God the Son was called Yahweh (or in English- Jehovah) and God the Holy Spirit was called the Shekinah (He was also sometimes referred to as Ruah or the Breath of God).

In the 19th Century, a pompous German theologian called Julius Wellhausen said that Moses did not write the Pentateuch- the first 5 books of the Old Testament (also known as the Torah).

Even though Christ taught that Moses wrote the Torah (many times Christ said, "Moses wrote" or "Moses said" and then proceeded to quote a verse from one of the 5 books of the Torah), Wellhausen and his followers had the attitude, "What did Jesus know? He was only God Incarnate. He did not have a prestigious Ph.D in Religious Studies from a prestigious University."

And Wellhausen taught that the Torah was a book thrown together from 4 different traditions which Wellhausen called the Jahwist tradition, the Elohist tradition, the Priestly tradition and the Deuteronomical tradition.

The Jahwist tradition was whereever the name Jahweh was used in Scripture, the Elohist tradition was whereever the name Elohim was used in Scripture, the Priestly tradition was whenever it talked about things relating to the Levitical priesthood and Deuteronomical referred to any passage that Wellhausen couldn't decide whether it was Jahwist or Elohist or Priestly.

Somebody that Wellhausen called the Redactor thew all of these 4 traditions together and came out with the 5 books of the Torah- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

But the Redactor wasn't Moses according to Wellhausen.

Whoever the Redactor was remained a mystery locked up in the mind of Wellhausen's foggy Germanic intellect.

Wellhausen decided on letters for the 4 different traditions- Jahwist was represented by the letter J, Elohist was represented by the letter E, Priestly was represented by the letter P and Deuteronomical was represented by the letter D.

So Wellhausen told his students, "J wrote this, E wrote this, P wrote this and D wrote this."

Wellhausen colour coded his Torah to show the 4 different traditions.

The end result was a whole bunch of run-on sentences and run-on passages if Wellhausen's hypothesis was correct.

Plus Wellhausen never could explain the passages where Jahweh-Elohim was used as a name for God in the same sentence.

If Wellhausen had believed in the Trinity, he wouldn't have had these problems.

Where Elohim was mentioned in the Torah, it was referring to God the Father.

Where Jahweh (the Germanic translation of the Hebrew Yahweh) was mentioned in the Torah, it was referring to God the Son.

Where both Elohim and Yahweh was mentioned in the same sentence in the Torah, it was referring to both God the Father and God the Son.

And since Moses was the brother of Aaron the High Priest of the Israelites, it was no surprise that Moses gave instructions in both the Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy on how the priests were supposed to perform their rituals and sacrifices.

But Wellhausen wasn't one to let his gaseous inflated balloon of a hypothesis be subjected to Occam's Razor (the medieval English philosopher William of Occam who said that usually the most logical explanation for something was also the simplest explanation for something).

And so what did most academics do when confronted with such an idiotic and ludicrous theory?

Naturally they accepted it.

And the Wellhausen hypothesis was taught as fact in most theological colleges and seminaries throughout the latter half of the 19th Century and all of the 20th Century.

Most theologians added to the number of authors (which must have caused a real headache for Wellhausen's fabled Redactor or Editor who put all these writer's writings together in one).

So soon one had a J1 writing this passage and a J2 writing that passage.

And a P1 writing this passage and a P2 writing that passage.

A D1 writing this passage and a D2 writing that passage.

Pretty soon you had a J3 and a D4 and a P5 writing other passages.

So between J2 and P3 and J2P2 and R2D2 and C3PO, you soon had the whole fricken' cast of Star Wars writing the first 5 books of the Old Testament by the end of the 20th Century according to most theological cracked eggheads.

I for one prefer to believe that Moses wrote the Torah (as Jesus of Nazareth believed) and that the Torah reflected the Trinitarian nature of God. That's why there were references to Elohim and Yahweh (Jahweh) and the Shekinah or Ruah throughout the Torah and Old Testament.

To be continued.