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For the past 1700 years, Christians have inherited a belief
concerning the trinity dogma. You might have often seen the
“Shield of the Trinity” diagram. It goes something like this:
The scriptures clearly tell us that God is one person or being
(Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29; Gal. 3:20). However, the trinity doctrine
teaches us that God exists in the distinct and co-equal persons of
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, commonly
referred to as the “Godhead” and they share a fully divine essence
or being. Each is distinct from the others but never act
independently; they are one in nature and purpose. Thus, in God,
the attributes of his essence are fully shared by three persons,
making each person fully God.
Now you may ask, “How can this be?” Well, didn’t you know it is
all a mystery! Now let us apply some logic to this equation as
author Raymond C. Faircloth points out. This doctrine teaches that:
- The Father is God
- The Son is God
- The Holy Spirit is God
- The Father is not the Son--the Son is not the Holy Spirit--the
Holy Spirit is not the Father
- There is only one God
If 1, 2, 3 and 5 are true, then yes; the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Spirit are one essence, entity, or being. Then the question
we might ask is, “How can 4 be true since they are separate
entities?
If we are to carry out this flawed logic, this is what we must
conclude:
Now that really is a mystery! It is a mystery in the trinitarian
world because it defies the common sense God gave us. We are
supposed to accept this mystery simply because that is what we are
supposed to believe and not question. We must put our faith in a
false doctrine or else we are lost and condemned for all eternity.
Once you grasp the underlying dynamics,
you're on the path to understanding that the Trinitarian doctrine is
essentially a verbal manipulation designed to persuade unsuspecting
individuals to embrace the utterly irrational absurdity it represents.
Someone sent me the following concerning a response we might
hear from the apostle Peter from a trinitarian perspective when
Jesus asked the disciples, “But who do you say that I am?” The
conversation would look something like this:
Peter answered, “Thou art the Logos, existing in the Father
as His
rationality and then, by an act of His will, being
generated, in consideration
of the various functions by
which God is related to his creation, but only on the fact
that scripture speaks of a Father, and a Son, and a Holy
Spirit, each member of the
trinity being coequal with every
other member, and each acting inseparably with and
interpenetrating every other member, with only an
economic subordination within God,
but causing no division which would make the substance no longer
simple.”
And Jesus answering, said, “What?”
Not even Jesus would be able to make sense of the trinity
doctrine. Peter’s simple answer was:
| Thou art Christ, THE SON of the living God. (Matt. 16:16) |
And how did Jesus respond to Peter?
| How blessed you are, Simon son of Jonah, since flesh and
blood has not revealed this to you, though my Father in
heaven has. (Matt 16:17) |
A person wrote this response to me when I wrote an article
about the fact that Jesus is not God:
It is with love I want express caution by saying “Be
careful.” Honestly, at first
glance, this post makes me
shudder. While the Holy Spirit has given me much new
revelation (new to me) that is completely contrary to what
is preached and believed as
truth in much of the church
today, in my opinion, it is a bold statement to say that
Jesus
is not God. No, He is not the Father, and no, He is
not the Spirit but John 1:1-3 does say
“In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God.
He was with God in the beginning. All things
were created through Him, and apart from
Him, ot one
thing was created that has been created.
Asserting that Jesus is not
God is a significant and courageous declaration, given that the belief
in Jesus as God has been deeply entrenched in people's minds for
centuries, originating around 300 years after Christ and continuing to
be taught and embraced in nearly all mainstream Christian traditions
today.
It is not bible truth, and one would be surprised to find out how
many trinitarian scholars and commentators would admit that this
teaching is not found in the bible, even admitted by scholars in the
Catholic Church! Yet many are deceived to think the trinity teaching
is the absolute truth! Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbel,
once said, “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”
After being deceived for an extended period, individuals
often reject the undeniable truth when it is presented clearly,
dismissing it as falsehood! However, those with an honest heart and who
have a thirst for
what is true would not be quick to condemn but will search the
scriptures for themselves.
Mainstream Christianity has
adhered to untruths for a considerable duration, making it a daunting
task to release them from their hold. For instance, even though a person may admit that Jesus is not the Father and not the holy spirit, yet
proceeds to quote John 1:1-3 as a proof text to try and prove Jesus
is God! If Jesus is God and the Father is God, that makes two Gods!
They uphold a portion of the truth and subsequently abandon it to support the trinity doctrine. That is the result of this
teaching. They abandon the truth and talk in a confusing manner
and use unintelligible logic. They ramble and do not make sense
because they take some passage and read into it what it does not
say. They just repeat what they are taught and do not realize how
unreasonable they sound. One person writes:
"Believers ought to be concerned with one thing first and
foremost: to
be in relationship, intimate relationship, with
the One true God."
How is this possible when mainline Christianity is denying
the very words of Jesus himself who tells us who is the only true
God? The night before Jesus’ crucifixion, he was praying to his
Father and said:
| And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true
God,and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (John 17:3) |
They keep repeating the lie that Jesus is that one true God when
neither Jesus nor his disciples ever taught this. They do not believe
in the one true God of the bible, but rather in the trinity god made
up by man. For that matter, how can one be in an intimate
relationship whey they do not even know who the person is?
Jesus is not God. Does this mean that we degrade Jesus? Not at
all! I believe we elevate the Father and the Son in their rightful
place by simply having an accurate understanding of who each one
is.
Jesus never taught the trinity doctrine. He never taught that
there are three separate persons in one God, making them one
being. He never taught that he and God were of the same
substance or essence. He never taught that he is equal with God in
the sense of being God the Almighty. He never taught that he was
100% man and 100% God. He never taught that he was “God the
Son,” or the “God-man,” (terms never used in scripture) and never taught that he was the only true
God.
Countless individuals have accepted the
falsehood that God embodies a trinity, consisting of three distinct
persons within a single essence or being. How will those who
insist on believing the
trinity doctrine explain on Judgment day their rejection of God
being one when there are at least twenty-eight biblical passages
that unequivocally teach there is only One God? See for example:
To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is
God; there is no other besides him. …that the LORD is God
in heaven…there is no other. (Deut. 4:35,39)
Hear, O Israel: The LORD thy God is one LORD. (Deut. 6:4)
Don't you understand? I am the only God; there are no
others. I am the one who takes life and gives it again.
(Deut. 32:39)1
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Scriptures
declare that God is one and there is no other. He is also the
Father of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
…with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ. (Rom. 15.6)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (2
Cor. 1:3)
Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ… (Eph.
1:3)
Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Peter
1:3)
He lets us rule as kings and serve God his Father (Rev. 1:5) |
If you have looked up the scripture passages in the footnote that
shows how it unequivocally teaches there is only One God, then
there really should be no misunderstanding of how many Gods
there are. He is not three persons or two persons; it clearly teaches
that God is the Father of Jesus and that God is one. As Jesus said,
“You are the only true God” (John 17:3).
I know there are some of you who can probably give me some
verses to try to prove Jesus is God, and I will go over these in the
following chapters. We will go through some of the scriptures,
dismissing the philosophical interpretations that have been handed
down to us under the influence of Plato, the Church Fathers, and
the creeds.
As one bible student has well stated:
Jesus would be highly upset that his quotation of Deut. 6:4
in Mark 12:29 is not
passionately quoted and adhered to
by his followers. Some Christians have the
wrong “P” by
studying under Plato, they should instead study under the
Holy
Prophets…Some Christians have the wrong “A” by
studying under Athanasius,
they should instead study under the Apostles. Some Christians have the
wrong “C”
by obeying Constantine’s Creed, they should instead obey
Christ’s
Creed, the Father is greater than all (including
himself in John 14:28).
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See also: 2 Sam. 7:22; 1 Kings 8:60; 2 Kings 5:15, 19:15; 1 Chron.17:20; Neh. 9:6;
Ps.18:31, 86:10; Isa.37:16,20, 43:10,11, 44:6,8, 45:21, 46:9; Hosea 13:4; Joel 2:27;
Zech. 14:9; Mark 12:29-32; John 17:3; Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 8:4-6; Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:6;
1 Tim. 1:17, 2:5; James 2:19
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