The Real Problem With The Trinitarian Dogma
The Trinitarian doctrine says there is one God who is made up of three distinct, uncreated, coequal, and coeternal persons or Gods. This is, perhaps, the most popular doctrine in Christendom. But the vast majority of Christians who believe in the Trinity do not have an accurate understanding of what the Trinity doctrine is all about. For the sake of the sincere Christians who have been fooled into believing that the Trinitarian doctrine is from God, I want to draw their attention to how the concept of three coequal and coeternal Gods differ from the Bible, which is the basis of our faith.
The three persons or Gods, according to the Trinitarian dogma, are the Father (YHWH or Yahweh or LORD), the Son ( Yeshua or Jesus), and the holy spirit. The Trinitarian dogma says each of them is uncreated, incomprehensible, eternal, almighty, God, Lord (Athanasian Creed, lines 6-18). The Creed also says:
24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits. 25. And in this Trinity none is afore [before] or after another; none is greater or less than another. 26. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal. 27. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. (Lines 24-27, word in square brackets and bold emphasis are mine throughout).
Let us examine what the Bible says about each of the persons or Gods.
What the Bible says about the Father
“Listen, Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD is one.” (Deut. 6:4 NET).
“You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other.” (Deut. 4:35 NIVUK).
“To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One”. (Isaiah 40:25 NIV).
“I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God.” (Isaiah 45:5a NIV).
“With whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?” (Isaiah 46:5 NIVUK).
“…You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.” (Isaiah 44:8 NIVUK).
“The most important one, answered Jesus, is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.’” (Mark 12:29 NIVUK).
“Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (John 17:3 NIVUK).
“For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), [6] yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.” (I Cor. 8:5-6 NKJV).
“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” (Eph. 1:17 NIVUK).
“The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.” (Rev. 3:12 NASB2020).
The Bible has clearly revealed that YHWH or Yahweh, which most English Bibles render as LORD, is the one God. For the avoidance of doubt, God has inspired Paul to write that the one God is the Father. In the Shema Yisrael (Deut. 6:4) it has been written that YHWH is our God and that He is a single being. God spoke in many other places that He is the only God and that there is no other true or real God apart from Him. This fact is what our Lord Jesus Christ affirmed in John 17:3 where he called the Father the only true God.
For us, who know the truth, there is one God, and the one God is the Father alone. In John 17:3 and 1 Tim. 2:5, our Lord Jesus Christ and Paul distinguished the Father as the one God. From these scriptures, among many others, it is evident that the Trinitarian theory of the one God being made up of three Gods is a conjecture that lacks biblical support. It is a naked lie.
It may interest you to know that, if the Father is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, he cannot be coequal with the one who is his God and Father. The Father is his God because he (Jesus), like all other beings, was brought into existence by the Father. The Father created him by bringing him forth out of His own being (Prov. 8:22; Col. 1:15; Rev. 3:14).
YHWH (or Yahweh) is called God the Father, not because there is another God called God the Son, and another called God the Holy Spirit. He is called “God, the Father” because He is the one who brought all beings into existence (Eph. 4:6).
More importantly, the Bible nowhere teaches that the one God is made up of three persons or Gods. The God of the Bible is a singular being, and His name is YHWH (or Yahweh).
What the Bible says about the Son
“Your throne, O God, is permanent. The sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of justice. [7] You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions.” (Psa. 45:6-7 NET).
The King here who is also called God has been identified as the Son of God, Jesus Christ (Heb. 1:8). The one who anointed him with the oil of joy (Acts 10:38; Phil. 2:9) is his God. Therefore, this God (Jesus Christ) has someone else who is his God. He is therefore a lesser God than his God. He cannot be coequal with his God. This is what Jesus Christ himself affirmed many times. See Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34; John 20:17; Rev. 3:2, 12). His apostles echoed the same thing (1Cor. 11:31; Eph. 1:3, 17;; 1 Pet. 1:3).
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 NKJV).
This is, perhaps, the most popular verse in the whole of the New Testament. But many Christians do not know that the Trinity doctrine has rejected the fact that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. They say that the Son has eternally been with the Father, and that none of them existed before or after the other. In a nutshell, they rejected this statement from the mouth of Jesus that he is the only begotten Son of God, the only one whom God brought forth out of Himself. This fact means that Jesus Christ had a beginning. The Trinitarian postulation that he is coeval with the Father is unbiblical and, therefore, false.
Trinitarians do not openly reject what has been written in the Bible about the Supremacy of God over all beings. What they do is to falsely interpret the scriptures such that God becomes less than the Supreme God that He really is. They reject any true interpretation of the Bible which accords God His Supreme position. Here, I give three examples of this:
Example 1: The Bible says our Lord Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. They pretended to believe in it. They wrote it in the Nicene Creed. But in the Athanasian Creed, they denied that God begot Jesus. They wrote that, in the Trinity, none of the three persons come before or after another; none is greater or less than another; the three persons are coequal and coeternal. In their theory of the eternal generation of the Son, they say that the begetting of the Son means that the Son has eternally been with the Father. They say there was never a time the Father was without the Son. In other words, each of the three persons self-existed at the same time. In the Athanasian Creed, they say the same thing – that each of the three persons is uncreated. By this, they subtly rejected the fact that the Father produced the Son.
Example 2: Jesus said, the Father is greater than I (John 14:28). They say the Father is only greater than him in his humanity, but in his divinity, he is equal with the Father. Unfortunately for them, they had postulated that Jesus was fully God and fully man during his Incarnation. If their theory were true, that would have made Jesus equal to, and less than, the Father at the same time. That would have also made Jesus to have mortality and immortality subsisting in him at the same time. And that would have made Mary to be the Theotokos (the mother of God or the God-bearer). This teaching that Christ possessed two natures at the same time elicits at least three impossibilities and absurdities.
Example 3: Prov. 8:22-31 teaches that God first brought forth His only begotten Son out of Himself before He created the universe, using the begotten Son as a creative agent. Trinitarians reject the fact that the Son was begotten by the Father because that would mean that the Father pre-existed and birthed the Son. That makes the Father greater than the Son. They, therefore, want people to see Prov. 8:22-31 as a mere personification of wisdom, which is one of God’s attributes. But the truth is that the passage gives us the clearest knowledge about the origin of our Lord Jesus Christ. It makes us know that Jesus was not uncreated. He was brought into existence by Yahweh, the Father. Verse 22 says, “The LORD created me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old.” (NASB2020). The NIV renders it this way: “The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old.” This verse and Col. 1:15, Rev. 3:14, and Sirach 24:7-9 have irrefutably proved that our Lord Jesus Christ was first created by God before God created all other things through him.
What the formulators of the Trinity have done is to oppose God by creating two equals for Him. To this day, all the efforts of Trinitarians are to oppose the statement that Yahweh is the only true God and that He has no equal.
What the Bible says about the Holy Spirit
“For who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the spirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:11 NASB2020).
Here Paul compared the Spirit of God, also known as the Holy Spirit, with the human spirit which is in the human. Just as my spirit, within me, is not a different person from me, so is God’s holy spirit not another person from God. It is a part of God. That is why it has been called the hand, eyes, finger, mind, etc, of God.
“But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.” (Matt. 12:28 NKJV).
“But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.” (Luke 11:20 NKJV).
What Matthew called the “spirit of God” is what Luke termed the “finger of God.” What this teaches us is that the invisible breath of God is what God uses as His hand or finger to do His works in His creation.
God is a spirit being. So also are angels and the pre-incarnate Jesus. They are literal spirit persons. But the Holy Spirit is not a literal spirit being. It is the invisible breath of God which God uses to do His numerous works in our lives.
If anyone will do a proper study of the Bible, he will discover that the Bible has not portrayed the Holy Spirit as a literal spirit being, let alone “Lord and giver of life.” The spirit beings in heaven are God, Jesus, and the angels.
I have done a three-part write-up on the Holy Spirit. They are parts 1 and 2 titled “Is the Holy Spirit a person?’ The third part is captioned “The Holy Spirit is not Lord and giver of life.” You may read them to get a better biblical understanding of who or what the Holy Spirit is. My web address is www.jude1v3.com.
The Real Problem With the Trinitarian Dogma
Besides the absurdities, confusion, and self-contradictions that are in the Trinitarian dogma, the worst thing about it is that it attacked the Supremacy of the Almighty God. It denied that God the Father is the only true God and that He has no equal. Trinity created two Gods and made them equal with the Most High God. To this day, the spirit behind the Trinity theory is still pushing spiritually blind Christians to belittle and insult YHWH or Yahweh, the Most High God. Trinitarians don’t want to accept that He is the only true God, the only self-existent being, the only one who has no beginning, the Creator of all things and all beings, including our Lord Jesus Christ. Every testimony in the Bible that places God above all beings must be, and has been, rejected by Trinitarians. Anything and everything has been done by Trinitarians to maintain the God-denigrating dogma. This include deliberate false interpretation of the Bible, and deliberate interpolations in some texts, e.g. in 1 John 5:7-8.
The trick that the Trinity is an incomprehensible mystery beyond any investigation of the human mind is what has kept Christendom caged by this manmade doctrine to this day. And the pity of it all is that Christians, who are supposed to see and oppose this false doctrine, are the ones defending it. This bizarre situation makes the Trinity the most dangerous false doctrine in Christendom.
