"But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most
holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the
love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto
eternal life."
By now we begin to get the picture. Do these verses require
a Trinity?. Do they say "God, Jesus, and the
Holy Ghost are ONE God?" If a father told his sons who were
going off to war "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves
on your training, obeying your superior officers, Keep yourselves
in the love of your country while you look for the mercy of God
to return you home to us safely," can we honestly claim
that this statement requires a "merging of three into one"?.
Deuteronomy 4:39 requires the uniqueness of God. It is
very explicit. There are no two ways about it. It
is very clear, decisive, and to the point. The explicit (and not
the "hidden") meaning is quite clear and direct. Is
it impossible to find the Bible only a single verse that is similarly
decisive about the claimed Trinity?. All of these verses require
you to really strain the words and stretch their meaning to arrive
at any merging of three into one.
With regard to Mr. J.'s description of the Trinity
please read the analysis of the original sin and the redemption
coming up soon.
An interesting point is that when people tell us about the doctrine
of the "Trinity," even in the very best
case, they never try to claim that any Jew knew of this formula
before the coming of Jesus (pbuh) or worshipped a "Triune"
God. However, God Almighty was sending prophets to the Jews for
centuries before the time of Jesus, and Jesus is claimed to have
been in existence before all of creation. Why did none of these
previous prophets tell their people that God was three?. They
went out of their way to make it very explicitly clear that God
was ONE as seen in the above examples, however, there is not a
single Jew alive who worships a Trinity, believes that the Holy
Spirit mentioned in their Old Testament is God, or worships a
"Son of God." Even if the Jews do not believe that Jesus
is the "Son of God," would we not be justified in expecting
that they should at least believe that "there is" a
"Son of God" even if he was someone other than Jesus?
Would we not be justified in expecting the previous prophets to
have mentioned this fact? Why did God wait to favor us alone with
this knowledge and chose to deprive many countless thousands of
generations before Jesus the knowledge of this claimed fact? Did
the countless prophets of the Old Testament not know about the
"Trinity"? Did God not see fit to tell the Jews about
the Trinity? Was God not yet a "Trinity" when He sent
Abraham (pbuh) to his people? Was He
not yet a "Trinity" when He spoke to Moses (pbuh)? Did
He become a "Trinity" later on? How then do we explain
the Christian creed of Nicea, the official
Church definition of the "Trinity" which requires the
"co-eternity" and "co-substantiality" of Jesus
with God? But let us continue with our analysis. Let us begin
by updating our table:
| - | Explicit Statement | Implicit Statement |
| God is ONE | Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14 | - |
| God is THREE | - |
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When someone speaks to someone else about a specific matter, they
usually spend the majority of their time explaining the major
issues and much less time on side-issues. For instance, if I wanted
to give someone my favorite recipe for chicken parmesan I would
spend most of my time speaking about the ingredients, their amounts,
their order of combination, the amount of time needed to cook
each one and so on. I would spend very little time (comparatively)
talking about how to set the table or what color bowl to serve
it in. When comparing this observation to the Bible, I found that
for a matter of such profound and dire importance, the "Trinity"
is never mentioned in the Bible at all. Sound preposterous? Read
on.
Let us first begin by modifying our table and including all of
the verses of the Bible which are used today in defense of the
"Trinity." The reason for these modifications shall
be made clear in our analysis.
| - | Explicit Statement | Implicit Statement |
| God is ONE | Isaiah 43:10-11, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 45:22, Exodus 20:3, Exodus 34:14 | - |
| God is TWO | John 1:1, John 10:30 | John 20:28, John.14:6, John 14:8-9 |
| God is THREE | 1 John 5:7 |
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| God is MANY | Genesis 1:26 | - |