Trinity:
What is the Christian Trinity, and what does it mean?
That God can be related to people by a threefold figure in the persons of:
1. Father, (Creator, Lord, and Judge), as revealed in the Old Testament;
2. Jesus Christ, (in the figure of Lord; God man; Savior), as revealed in the New Testament;
3. The Holy Spirit.
The Christian Trinity doctrine is three persons in one God. (One God, but is manifested in three ways).
Note: An argument could be presented that a man can be:
1. An individual;
2. A husband;
3. A father.
In this sense he is one man, but has three different roles.
But this rational cannot be applied to God by the Bible.
To imply or state that God the Father is a person belies God and is not Biblical. God is not a person, but is a Spirit.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Where did the Christian Trinity originate?
The Christian Trinity (not a trinity itself) was devised by the early church fathers.
After many debates, the Council of Nicea around 325 AD voted to change Jesus Christ from a human, to a supernatural being; a God/man. This doctrine was accepted by the Roman Catholic Church and became part of their religious faith and statements of belief.
Note: The Gnostic religion; [pagan religions] and Gnostic teachings had trinities well before the Christian religion.
Therefore, the doctrine of the Christian Trinity is in dialogue with pagan religions.
The trinity was discussed and debated by the theologians (early church fathers) from the first century A.D.
Note: Any exact date is speculative, but it was defined and accepted into the Roman Catholic Church in the A.D. 300’s.
The doctrine for the ‘Christian Trinity’ can be traced by an early church father (Tertullian) who coined the word ‘trinitas’ to express the intradivine triune relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Example: Council of Constantinople, 382 A.D. “According to this faith there is one Godhead, Power and Substance of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost; the dignity being equal, and the majesty being equal in three perfect hypostases, i.e. three perfect persons.”
Note: This doctrine of the Trinity is what the Roman Catholic Church theologians devised, believed, and approved of, (but it is not in the Bible).
Therefore, this ‘Christian Trinity’ is according to their faith, their doctrine, and their religion. It is not even close to what the Bible says or teaches.
There is also a total lack (of even one) scripture verse for the doctrine of a triune God mentioned by any of the early church fathers.
To devise such an idea, then to take scripture verses out of context to fit that idea and then to make their own interpretation of the verse is not allowing the Bible to explain or interpret itself.
Is the doctrine of a Trinity implied in the Holy Bible?
It is a religious doctrine devised by men. Scripture verses can be taken out of context to represent the idea for a Trinity, but that cannot hold up to even a possibility when compared with what the Bible says and means.
Example: ‘ The Capitula of the Council , II Constantinople, A.D. 553.” If anyone shall not confess that the nature or essence of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is one, as also the force and power; if anyone does not confess a consubstantial Trinity, one Godhead to be worshipped in three subsistences or Persons; let him be anathema…
Note: There are 10 more statements from this Capitula, and not even one hints to any verse from the Bible.
(The Capitula can be read from the “Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers; Second Series; The Seven Ecumenical Councils”.)
The assumption that there is one God manifested in three persons is polytheism and pagan.
The idea for three persons or manifestations of God that is taught by men displaces the fact that there is only one God as taught in the Bible.
Why was there a need for a Trinity in the Roman Church?
The Roman Church had accepted many converts from pagan backgrounds. Pagan religions have trinities.
The Pagan converts held on to many of their previous religious beliefs and demanded a trinity for their new Christian religion (the Roman Catholic Church).
The Church caved in to their demands and devised the doctrine of a Christian Trinity, which was then written into their statements of beliefs.
Note: It is redundant to sift through all of the 38 volumes from the early church fathers to prove that the Christian Trinity is a teaching and doctrine from men.
It is the doctrine and faith of the Roman Catholic Church, and most protestant churches.
Does the Bible state, say or imply that Jesus Christ is God?
Nowhere does the Bible say that Jesus was anything else but the physical human son of Mariam [Mary].
Nowhere does the Bible say, state, or imply that Jesus was the manifestation of the spiritual God.
Nowhere does the Bible state or record that Jesus Christ came in anything other than human flesh.
Nowhere does the Bible state or say that Jesus the son of the Mariam [Mary] pre-existed his own birth in any form, shape, or substance.
Note: This teaching and doctrine originated from Gnosticism.
Nowhere does the Bible refer or imply that Jesus, the human son of Mariam [Mary] as ‘God the Son’.
Nowhere does the Bible state, say or imply that Mariam [Mary] gave birth to God the son; or making Mariam [Mary] the mother of God.
Nowhere does the Bible require the followers of Jesus Christ to pray to him instead of God the Father.
Note: For one to assume that Jesus is God, does not make it Biblical or true.
How did Jesus describe God and himself?
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Luke 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that I am he? Feel me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Note: This statement was made after the resurrection. Christ was not a spirit like God, even after his resurrection.
Who is Jesus Christ to God?
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Note: Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and is not a second God in a Trinity.
Does the Bible state that the Holy Spirit is God?
No. The Holy Spirit is not God. The Holy Spirit is of God and from God, and is not a third God or entity in a Trinity.
Does the Bible state that there is only one God?
John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, God. :42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Note: Jesus said he came from God, and does not say or equate himself as God.
The Bible says and teaches that there is only one God, and He is the Father.
God is indivisible. God the Father cannot be divided up into divinities and/or persons.
How is ‘the three’ in 1st John 5:7-8 (KJV) explained with the Bible?
KJV 1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. :8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Note: 1 John 5:7-8 reads from the interlinear as follows: ‘for there are three that bear record. The spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one’.
The following words were inserted by the translators, and cannot be found in any Greek manuscripts.
Verse :7, ‘in heaven, the father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one’.
Verse :8, ‘and there are three that bear witness in earth’.
These insertions were a deliberate and un-Godly attempt to insert a Trinity in the Holy Bible.
These unbiblical insertions are why one could be lead to misunderstand John 1:1, and :14.
KJV John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
KJV John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Note: Verse :1 states that the Word was God.
This does not say, mean, or imply that the Word is Christ.
The Bible clearly says in verse :14, that the Word was made flesh.
This also does not imply, say, or mean that Christ is God.
Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. That does not make Jesus Christ God and a person in a Trinity.
In the beginning is God.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God is the Word.
Read Gen. Chapter 1 and note the phrases where it states ‘God said’. It is at least 10 times (depending on the translation used).
Note: Under the influence of subsequent ‘New Platonic philosophy’, the tradition of the concept that Jesus Christ is the Word became central in speculative theology.
(Theology is a religious theory, a speculation, a belief and an opinion of men.)
Christian theology took the Neoplatonic metaphysics of substance as well as its doctrine of hypostases as the departure point for interpreting the relationship of the “Father to the Son’ in terms of this ‘New Platonic’ doctrine.
Another example from an early church father comes from Hippolytus (A.D. 170-236). He, as well as other early church fathers helped in adopting the Gnostic belief of a Trinity into the Roman Church.
The opinion for the “Word” to be interpreted as being Christ was their extra-Biblical and un-Biblical teaching, which is Gnostic, pagan, and certainly not taught by the Holy Bible.
Some Bible translations, (with their footnotes and commentaries) will espouse this pagan teaching.
One example can be found in the NIV footnote.
[Footnote for NIV John 1:15.] “John the Baptist explains that this is only apparent, since Jesus as the Word, existed before he was born on earth”.
This theological, ungodly teaching of pagan nonsense is a total and complete violation to God’s Word.
John did not explain, and it is not apparent that Christ is the Word, or that he existed before he was born.
If this were true, then John was lying and was a false prophet according to the Scriptures, because God is the Word.
How does the Bible describe Jesus Christ?
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Note: The mediator, Jesus Christ is a man. Not God or God as a man.
1 Corinthians 3:23 and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.
Note: How can Christ belong to God, if Christ is God?
Romans 16:27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him {be} glory to the ages. Amen.
Note: There is only one wise God.
SUMMARY
1. The teaching and doctrine of a Trinity is theology of men. It comes from Gnostic and Pagan religions and not from the Bible.
2. The Bible does not say that Jesus is God.
3. There is only one God, the Father, as taught by the Bible.
4. Christ Jesus is Lord, not God.
5. There is only one savior, God through Jesus Christ.
6. The Scriptures state that Jesus Christ is a man, not God or a god.
7. Jesus Christ died. God cannot die.
8. God raised Christ from the dead. Jesus did not raise himself.
9. Jesus Christ was not in existence (in spirit or anything else) before he was born.
10. God is Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ is not God. Christ has a God, the Father.
11. This Roman Catholic doctrine was devised from pagan and Gnostic doctrines. These religious teachings were introduced into the Church by the early church fathers.
What did Jesus Christ say about religious leaders like these?
Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. :7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
The Christian Trinity is a pagan fable
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