People struggle with faith because they follow their perceptions of what is true rather than what they know to be true by faith. Although theology does involve human constructs, one must not think of God in herself; instead, she must think from a center in God in order to know and understand Him because if God is based off one’s self-knowledge, the content of Christianity changes. Theologians Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance raise questions concerning the understanding of the doctrine of the immanent Trinity today. Despite Barth and Torrance’s belief that theology must allow the unique nature of its object to determine what is said about the triune of God, the beliefs of Arianism and Gnosticism are wrongly evident in the thinking of some theologians in their attempts to understand the doctrine of the Trinity. Even though the Church has rejected the beliefs Arianism and Gnosticism, they still continue to threaten Christian theology. Arianism states that Christ was not truly divine, but a created being. Fourth century priest Arius believed if God is ‘one and absolute’ then Jesus, the Son, could only be considered divine in a ‘subordinate sense.’ If Arius thought of Jesus as God Himself, then he believed he was compromising God’s oneness. The Council of Nicaea condemned Arius, and declared the Son to be ‘of one substance with the Father.’ St. Irenaeus rejected the heresy of Gnosticism in the second century. The heresy states humans save themselves through knowledge that they acquire through reflection. Eventually, they discover that in some sense, they are identical twins with Jesus and no longer rely on Him for salvation. According to theologian Gordon Kaufman, the human imagination uses the image/concept of God as the ‘ultimate point of reference.’ In his method, an individual’s concept of God is governed by the way she thinks, thus permitting her to