I often hear people tell me, “This is what the Holy Spirit showed me and confirmed to me about the trinity while studying the scriptures.” I do not apologize for saying that it is simply not true. If one were to be brutally honest, they would admit that they have been taught this doctrine.

   The average person who is just a pew sitter will let teachings like this fly over their head. For instance, I had a conversation with my Italian friend who is Catholic about what the Catholic Church teaches concerning the trinity. I first started by asking her, “Do you believe Jesus is the Son of God?” She said, “Yes.” I then asked her, “Do you believe Jesus is God?” She said, “Of course not.” “Why?” I asked. She said, “Because he is the Son of God.” She did not believe what I was telling her about what the Catholic Church teaches. I said to her, “Is not the traditional hymn “Holy Holy, Holy” not familiar to you?” (Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!  Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity!)

   There could be many reading this who have no idea this is what their church teaches. However, there are those who claim to dedicate themselves to study of the scriptures that have fallen into deception by certain teachings approved by their church with their brand of theology. I liken it to Jehovah’s Witnesses who say they study the scriptures but really study from Watchtower material. Likewise, people in mainstream Christianity do not go back and check the bible for themselves to see if what they are learning is true or not. They just accept what they are taught as fact, and grow deeper into deception, not realizing how steeped they are growing intellectually and emotionally to that doctrine. When it gets to this point, it is very hard to pull them out of deception. Of course, they do not question what they are taught because they assume, as I did, they are being taught the truths of the bible.

   Unless one is an actual truth seeker, when approached by someone who offers an opposite view that can be proven to be more in line with scripture, he will consider what is presented rather than cling to what is claimed as orthodoxy or accepted belief.

   I have now learned to pay attention to the “caution signs” that flash through my mind when I read or hear how one must use extra-biblical terminology to explain a doctrine that forms contradictions in scripture and intellect. There may be times when extra-biblical terminology or other reading material may be useful, but if it is conflicting with scriptures and in logic, I am compelled to dismiss it.

   In this book, I hope I have established enough verses to at least get your mind geared away from the mindset of the trinity thinking and the Oneness view as well. I hope it gives you the incentive to study further other verses that are applied to this doctrine. At the end of this book, I will suggest some reading material for you.

   As you have learned and hoped you have understood, is that the trinity teaching does not hold a candle to biblical truth. There are many passages in scripture that prove Jesus is not God.³⁹ The concept of the trinity teaching is called a mystery, which is incomprehensible, and must be accepted by faith! Actually, it is a mass of confusion that needs philosophy and analogies to explain what is incomprehensible! Why try to explain something we cannot comprehend? The trinity teaching defies the power of reason that God gave us. I believe it was Galileo who said:

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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