I recently came across an online article by The Interactive Bible. It was taken by permission from two articles written by Steve Rudd captioned “Anti-Trinitarian Proof Texts Refuted” and “Refutal Of the Watchtower’s Should You Believe in the Trinity?”
Steve Rudd made a brilliant and ingenious defense of the Trinitarian doctrine. He was particularly strong in his scolding of the Jehovah’s Witnesses for their anti-Trinitarian stance. The author’s effort at rebutting the anti-Trinitarian conviction must have cost him much time and effort before he came out with the brilliant write-up.
However, despite his scholarly work, brother Steve Rudd must have known that, as far as the Trinitarian doctrine is concerned, the Jehovah’s Witnesses are not alone in the conviction that the doctrine does not have its origin in the Bible and it contains many notions that are repugnant to biblical truth. That is why a remnant of Christians – be they Roman Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, name it, have come to the strong conviction that the Trinitarian doctrine is false – a complete fraud in which satanic wisdom has been employed to deceive God’s people.
Debates about the Trinity started right from the First Council of Constantinople (today’s Istanbul,
Turkey) in AD 381 when the doctrine was finally developed. In the early days of that Ecumenical Council, 36 delegates from the province of Armenia Minor walked out of the Council proceedings in protest over the deification of the Holy Spirit. The other 150 delegates who supported the Trinity doctrine badmouthed them by labelling them the pneumatomachi (combaters against the Spirit). It was the custom at that time to name anyone who did not agree with any orthodox belief, rightly or wrongly, a heretic.
About sixty years before Eustathius, the bishop of Sebaste led the other 35 bishops to the Council of
Constantinople, forty of their kinsmen had been martyred by Emperor Licinius for their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Emperor Licinius put forty soldiers in his army, who were Christians, to death by freezing in a lake that had frozen to ice. The men, barely clothed, were made to stand on the ice in a very cold night, where they froze to death. Anyone who is interested may read about “The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.”
It is on record that as the faithful soldiers of the truth were dropping dead one by one on the ice, angels were coming down from heaven to convey their souls to the heavenly abode. When one of them decided to deny the faith in those last moments, one of the guards who were stationed to see them dead, and who had been witnessing the glorious bright light that came upon each dead saint, immediately gave his clothes to the last-minute compromiser and took his place. He became one of those whom Jesus Christ described as last that became first (Matt. 19:30; Mark 10:31; Luke 13:30).
The martyrdom of their kinsmen remains a phenomenal testimony to the faithfulness and truthfulness of the people in that region as at then. The 36 of them who came to Constantinople demonstrated the same uncompromising stand against falsehood by walking out of a Council where a “God” unknown to the Bible was created by human beings. To us who have known and accepted the truth, the Holy Spirit is the invisible breath of God the Almighty which He uses as His hand to do His divine work in our lives. In both the Old and the New Testaments, the Holy Spirit was never depicted either as a distinct person or as God. The Godhood of the Holy Spirit is a creation of the 150 bishops in Constantinople and the decree of Emperor Theodosius I.
Debates on this doctrine have been raging throughout Christendom since AD 381. I am one of the Christians who now believe that God is using this controversial doctrine to test the faithfulness and truthfulness of Christians. That is why, in His infinite wisdom and foresight, He decided to allow truth and falsehood to remain until the end (Matt. 13:24-30).
Should the unending nature of the Trinitarian debates not make every sincere and wise Christian push aside every denominational sentiments and biases and critically examine every points raised, including the ones I will make in the succeeding paragraphs? I sincerely think it is necessary for all of us who profess Christianity to do so. We should not continue to act like the Jews in the days of Jesus Christ and His apostles who refused to accept the truth preached to them (Matt. 13:58; Acts 14:2; 19:9; 28:24).
Neither should we continue to be willingly ignorant of the truth as is characteristic of many people (2 Pet. 3:3-5). God desires that we know the truth. He has revealed it through the prophets and finally through our Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 13:11; Luke 8:10). Total freedom is gained when we know the truth (John 8:32). All the people who choose to fool themselves by believing doctrines that have no biblical origin will grow from bad to worse in their delusion (2 Tim. 3:13; 2 Thes. 2:8-12). This is the truth Trinitarians must be told no matter how bitter or harsh it may seem.
It behooves me to let my readers know in advance that I am not a Jehovah’s Witness. I am a member of one of the Evangelical/Pentecostal churches in Nigeria. Right from my infant days I have been made to believe in “God in three persons, blessed Trinity”. But only a few years ago, in the course of my private study of the Bible, God, by His sheer mercy and love, enabled me to see the glaring differences between the Bible and the Trinitarian dogma. The fact that convinced me of the falseness of the Trinitarian theology include the ones mentioned by other non-Trinitarians as well as the following:
1. WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST
Many words that came out of the mouth of Jesus Christ give the strong indication that the Holy Spirit is not a person, separate and distinct from God or from Christ:
He anthropomorphically called the Holy Spirit the finger of God (Luke 11:20; compare Matt. 12:28). We all know that the part of the hand with which we grasp at things are the fingers. The Old Testament had referred to the Holy Spirit as the hand of God (1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 3:15; Ezek. 1:3; 3:14,22; 8:1; Ezra 7:6,28; Ps. 139:7,10). Jesus Christ depicted the Holy Spirit as the invisible hand of the invisible God, a part of His invisible body (1 Cor. 15:44). It is with this holy hand of God that God does all His work. It is the divine hand of the Almighty God. Its being an integral part of God explains why there is no single instance in the entire Bible where the Holy Spirit is either thanked or worshipped. No one thanks a man’s hand no matter what good a man does with his hand; the thanks go to the one having the hand.
- In Mark 13:32 Jesus said, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father” (NKJV). See also Matt. 24:36.
- Then in Luke 9:26 (NKJV) He said, “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory and in His Father’s [glory] and of the holy angels”. (Words in square brackets are mine throughout.)
In these scriptures, Jesus Christ did not make any mention of the Holy Spirit. Did He forget to mention the Holy Spirit? That would be quite unlikely. The truth is that there is no “third Person” or “third God” in heaven known as the Holy Spirit. If there were indeed a third Person, Jesus could not have mentioned created angels and fail to mention the third Person. Compare these verses with Luke 1:35 where an angel used Hebrew parallelism and called the Holy Spirit “the power of the Highest.” See also Luke 24:49 where the Holy Spirit is called “the power from on high”. In John 20:22, Jesus called the breath which He breathed into His disciples the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is primarily that invisible breath of God which He uses as His divine hand to do all His work in all of His creation. It carries the awesome power of God in it.
Throughout His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ’s teachings made it so clear that there are only two persons in the Godhead. He taught that people should believe in God and believe also in Him (John 14:1); that salvation is gained by knowing the Father and Himself (John 17:3); we must honour the Father and Himself (John 5:23); that two of them are the givers of life (John 5:26). He never spoke of a third person in the Godhead.
In Revelation 3:12, Jesus Christ, already glorified, said, “I will make those who are victorious pillars in the temple of my God, and they will never leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem which will come down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on them my new name” (GNB, bold emphases added throughout).
If the Holy Spirit were God, why will “His” name not be written on those who will be the citizens of the kingdom of God? Why will they bear only the names of God and His Christ and marked as citizens of the New Jerusalem? For those who will accept the truth, it is because there is no third divine Person called the Holy Spirit. These scriptures have unimpeachably debunked the Trinitarian dogma.
2. GOD AND JESUS CHRIST COMPARED
The Father is said to be the God and Father of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, is said to be the Son and Servant of God who is the Father of all. Is there anywhere the positional relationship of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son seen in the Bible? Has anyone seen anywhere the Holy Spirit is said to be, say, the servant or brother of the Father or the brother or sister of the Son? I have not seen any. It will not be seen because the Holy Spirit is a part and power of God. When it is seen as performing any activity in our lives, it is God Himself or His Son that are doing it exteriorly through the one spirit or divine breath or power which they exhale or puff out to carry out specific divine actions. God had put His Spirit in His Son. Two of them work in our lives through the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:9-11). But the Holy Spirit is one in the sense that it comes from only the Father. Anyone who has the holy Spirit can impart it on another person whose heart is cleansed and who believes in the Lord.
3. VISIONS SEEN BY HOLY MEN
In all the visions that God gave men to see of His throne room in heaven, those seen are God, the Son of God and angels. See, for example, Isaiah 6; Dan. 7:9-14; Acts 7:55-56; Rev. 4-7. The Holy Spirit has not been seen in any of these visions. But Trinitarians will say the Holy Spirit is not seen because “he” is a Spirit who is not visible. But are God, Christ and angels not spirits? Is God not the invisible one (Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16)? If God can put Himself, His Son now in His glorified state, and the other spirits in heaven, in a form that they become visible to some men, there is no reason the Holy Spirit should not be once seen if indeed it were a literal spirit being.
The apostle John gave an account of God and His Son towards the close of the visions he saw. It reads, “I did not see a temple in the city [the New Jerusalem] because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb [Jesus Christ] are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp (Rev. 21:22-23, NIV).
We read also in Hebrews 12:22-24 about those who will be seen in the beloved, holy city, the New Jerusalem. They are mentioned as (1) thousands upon thousands of angels; (2) the church of the firstborn [Christians] whose names are written in heaven; (3) God; (4) the spirits of the righteous made perfect [perhaps Old Testament saints]; (5) Jesus Christ, the mediator of the new covenant whose blood speaks better things [mercy and forgiveness] than the blood of Abel [which calls for vengeance]. The Holy Spirit is once again not mentioned.
To those of us who accept the teachings of the Bible as the truth, the Ruakh haKodesh [Holy Spirit] is the divine and holy breath or spirit or power of God which He divinely transmits into the lives of His creation in order to divinely empower, guide, remind, instruct, heal, move, and do other things in them according to His purpose. That is why the Holy Spirit is also called the spirit of God. We believe in God. We also believe in His Son whom He sent to reconcile us to Himself through His death and resurrection. We also believe that the Holy Spirit, in both the Old and the New Testaments, is the power of God which He puts in those who obey Him. The numerous scriptures cited in this article have proved beyond doubt that the ascription of distinct personality to the Holy Spirit is unbiblical and is, therefore, false.
4. THE APOSTLES’ SALUTATIONS
In all the epistles the apostles Paul, Peter, James, John and Jude, as well as Silas and Timothy wrote to Christians, they consistently mentioned God and Jesus Christ in their opening salutations. They never made mention of the Holy Spirit. Please read the opening verses of the following epistles: Rom. 1:1,7; 1 Cor. 1:1,3; 2 Cor. 1:1,2; Gal. 1:1,3; Eph. 1:1-3; Phil. 1:1,2; Col. 1:1-3; 1 Thes. 1:1,2; 2 Thes. 1:1,2; 1 Tim. 1:1,2; 2 Tim. 1:1,2; Tit. 1:1,4; Phil. 1:1,3; James. 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1; 1 John 1:3; 2 John 1:3; Jude 1:1.
Evidently, the apostles neither viewed the Holy Spirit as a distinct “third person” nor as a “third God.”
5. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
The ‘kingdom of God” is also known as the “kingdom of heaven”. While only Matthew used the phrase
“kingdom of heaven” 33 times, “kingdom of God” is the phrase used 65 times in the other Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and in the epistles, as well as five times by Matthew. The phrases mean the same thing. They simply mean a kingdom owned and ruled by God. God will take over the kingdoms from men and begin to rule over the kingdom which will last forever in righteousness and perfect peace (Rev. 11:15). The 33 times Matthew used “kingdom of heaven”, the word “heaven” is a metonymy for God. We also read of the kingdom of the Son of God (Isa. 9:7; Luke 1:32-35; Col. 1:13) and the kingdom of Christ and of God (Eph. 5:5). All of these terms are used for one and the same kingdom of God.
If anyone ponders on Eph. 5:5, 1 Cor. 8:6, Rev. 3:12, and Rev. 11:15 alone, the question should be asked why the Holy Spirit is not one of the rulers of God’s kingdom? Is “he” being marginalized or discriminated against? Did the Trinitarians not say the Holy Spirit is one of the three coequal and coeternal Gods who make up the one God? We can confidently say that the Holy Spirit is not discriminated against. The Holy Spirit is simply not what the deluded Trinitarians say the holy spirit of God is. It is neither a literal, distinct spirit-person on its own nor is it another God. A man’s spirit is not another person from the man. So also is the spirit of God; it is not another person or God. Job said his spirit is within him (Job 32:18; 39:3; 42:6). Apostle Paul later said that a man’s spirit which is within him is similar to the spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:11). In this sense, the spirit is the sentient part of man or God. The spirit of man can strike him (1 Sam. 24:5; 2 Sam. 24:10), accuse or excuse him (Rom. 2:15), convict him (Gen.38:26; John 8:9), bear witness for or against him (Rom. 9:1). A man’s spirit has been said to pray but his mind is lacking understanding (1 Cor. 14:14). All these activities do not confer separate personality on a man’s spirit. It remains the sentient or spiritual part of the man. God’s spirit has been clearly portrayed as the same. The sentient part of God is sometimes called the spirit of God (Isa. 63:10; 1 Cor. 2:11; Eph. 4:30). But the Trinitarian dogma has made men believe that God’s spirit is another person, a third God.
SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY?
The Trinitarian doctrine is contained in the Nicaean and Athanasian Creeds. Many of my fellow Christians may not even be aware that the Athanasian Creed is a pseudepigraphon – it was falsely ascribed to Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria (c. 283 – 373 AD). The document, originally written in Latin, became known around the fifth or sixth century AD, long after the death of Athanasius. To this very day, no one knows the author of that writing. No one knows whether it was written by a pope, a bishop, an emperor, a Caesar, student of a pope or bishop or by a pagan. What is certain is that it was not authored by Athanasius.
It is also on record that the Athanasian Creed was not discussed or adopted at any of the Ecumenical Councils held in those centuries when the Trinitarian dogma was progressively invented and developed. Yet, it is the main document of the Trinitarian teaching. Sadly, this pseudonymous document, with all its unbiblical content, is what many apologists are defending as if it is were sermon delivered on the Mount of Olives by Jesus Christ.
A cursory look at the Athanasian Creed will leave any true Christian with no doubt that it is a clever mixture of some basic biblical facts with human conjectures and some terrible contradictions. A few verses known as lines are extracted here for my readers:
Line 15 – So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God;
Line 16 – And yet they are not three Gods but one God.
Line 17 – So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit is Lord;
Line 18 – And yet they are not three Lords but one Lord.
Line 25 – And in this Trinity none is afore [before] or after another; none is greater or less than another;
Line 26 – But the whole three persons are coeternal and coequal.
Line 27 – So that in all things as aforesaid, the unity in Trinity and the Trinity in unity is to be worshipped…
The Athanasian Creed says that each of the three persons that make up the one God is God, Lord, incomprehensible, Almighty, eternal. Then line 25 says that “none is before or after another; none is greater or less than another”. This means that each of them is an absolute God. In the same Creed, there is a repetitive use of the phrase “yet they are not three … but one …”.
In the Creed, we see the crudest way of saying one thing and immediately repudiating it. It has become one of the biggest contradictions of all ages. This is why some informed Bible scholars have described the Creed as containing “meaningless incantations”. The double-tongued Creed cannot escape the criticism of the fact that it teaches Tritheism in order to conform to the Trinitarian pagan beliefs of ancient Egypt and other nations. The use of “yet they are not three … but one …” has not reconciled the Creed with the monotheistic doctrine of the Bible.
God is not a liar, neither is He a deceiver. Nowhere in the entire Bible has the true God given any hint that He is made up of three Gods or persons. The Bible clearly and explicitly says there is one God and the one God is the Father. If the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three Gods, such that none is before or after another and none is greater or less than another, it simply means that the three of them are self-existed, coequal, coeternal. There is no part of the Bible that supports this idea. The Bible clearly identifies the one God as the Father (John 17:3; 1Cor. 8:6). He is called “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ as well as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is also called the Father of all (Eph. 4:6) because all beings, including our Lord Jesus Christ, derived their existence from Him. Only Him is self-existed. No other person is self-existed. There is no logic or magic that can make three self-existed, coequal and coeternal Gods one God. The Bible nowhere teaches this confusion about God. The Trinitarians created a God that is unknown in the Bible. And we are deeply surprised that our Trinitarian apologists still defend this unbiblical teaching.
To defend the illogical concoction of the Trinitarians, they are always quick to say that man cannot understand the nature of God by research and by human reasoning. So, when many gullible Christians read this kind of devious warning, they lay down every intellectual and spiritual defense and become deceived. But the truth is that God has never told His creation not to use their reasoning skills to discern and defend the truth. We have been commanded to love God with all the faculties He has created in us (Mark 12:30; Matt. 22:37; Luke 10:27). Our Lord used logic in his interactions with the Jews. See Matt. 22:17-22, 41-46. Paul also used logic in his ministry. An example is seen in Acts 17:28-29. When Trinitarians say you should not try to reason about the Trinity, they are simply trying to prevent you from detecting their errors and falsehoods.
The Bible has not taught us not to make use of our God-given brains when they ought to be used. Moreover, God’s word has been given to us and we are instructed to use it to judge whatever anyone teaches (1 Cor. 14:29; 1 Thes. 5:21; 1 John 4:1). Those of us who believe that the Bible contains God’s true and reliable revelation to mankind will not be deceived into pushing the truth aside and accepting these meaningless incantations by fourth century religious speculators who were greatly influenced by Platonic philosophies of that time. These human philosophies of the Greeks made them corrupt God’s revealed truth without their knowing it.
Line 15 also says that the Holy Spirit is God. Deification of the Ruakh haKodesh (Holy Spirit) is one major area of contention in the Trinitarian debate. The word Ruakh haKodesh is used 77 times in the Textus Receptus. The translators of the KJV translated it as “Holy Ghost” in 70 places and as “holy Spirit” in the other seven places (Ps. 51:11; Isa. 63:10,11; Luke 11:13; Eph. 1:13; 4:30; 1 Thes. 4:8). In six places, except Luke 11:13, the translators wrote it as “holy Spirit” implying that the “holy” is an adjective describing the type of Spirit God has. God is holy because He has a holy Spirit in Him. We can therefore say that “Holy Spirit” is not a name.
The Trinitarian debate has enabled us to know how poorly many Christians view the Limitless, Supreme and Inscrutable God. We have also been made to see that many of us are not better than those unbelievers who say that inasmuch as God has no wife, it is impossible for Him to beget a Son. Let me explain myself. Through technology, it is now possible for billions of people in many parts of the world to watch and listen to an event taking place at any part of the world. It is now possible for people living in places that are thousands of miles apart to hear and see, say, the US President, making a speech if they are tuned to the channel transmitting that speech. As I sit in Lagos, Nigeria, watching and listening to him, someone somewhere else who is tuned to that same channel may be watching him as well. I will not be naive enough to say that the one I am watching on my device is another person different from the US President. The same way, I will be foolish if I push the clear revelation of the Bible aside and pitch camp with the deceived ones in thinking that there is a “third” Person or God called the Holy Spirit. What the Bible has shown is that the holy Spirit is the holy breath or wind, or air which the Almighty transmits from within Himself and which serves as His hand (Psalms 139:7,10) and by which means He empowers, reminds, instructs, enlightens, sanctifies, heals, speaks to people with the tongues of His prophets, and guides us divinely. The fact that God uses His invisible and divine breath as His hand to do His numerous work in His creation cannot be overemphasized.
In our days God has given His true children a much greater privilege by allowing His holy Spirit to dwell in them on a permanent basis as long as they keep themselves fully submitted to Him. Many there are today who, though are very sincere in their hearts, are in the same category of Christians that Apostle Paul called foolish Galatians (Gal. 3:1). They are too gullible and naïve. They have relinquished their minds and manhood to some fellow humans with the false belief that it is “Christian” to do so. They accept whatever their leaders tell them without making any effort to verify their conformity with the Scriptures. Nothing empowers false teachers more than this type of mindset. Trinitarians, for example, say God is incomprehensible, that is, incapable of being understood. But they have made out creeds about God whom they say cannot be understood. We need to ask them why they teach things about God whom they did not know or understand? Is that not why they’ve “gifted” the Christian world with the biggest article of confusion, deception and delusion?
Line 25 of the Athanasian Creed says that in this Trinity, none is before or after another; none is greater or less than another. There is nothing that could be further from the truth than this line. If we agree with the truth that the Holy Spirit is the invisible hand of the invisible God through which the Almighty does His divine work in our lives, we may need to ask how God’s hand can be coequal with God Himself? If the Holy Spirit is coequal with God, as claimed by the Creed, why is it that there is no single instance in which the Holy Spirit was worshipped or thanked by anyone in the Bible?
I believe the Trinitarians know the simple definition of God. It means a Supreme Being who is the object of worship. If anyone says ABC is his God, he has, by that statement, said that ABC is supreme over him and that he worships ABC. What did Jesus Christ say about God? He called Him His God (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34; John 20:17). He also said that God is greater than Himself (John 14:28). Only those who have been fooled will read these scriptures and still align themselves with the lie in the Athanasian Creed.
Some religious people have said God was His God because He was still in the flesh (as a human being). But did Jesus Christ remain a human being after His resurrection, ascension and glorification? The answer is No! See 1 Cor. 15:44; Acts 2:33; 3:13; 1 Pet. 3:22. After His exaltation by being made to sit on a throne at the right hand side of God as God’s next in command (Rev. 3:21), He still referred to God as His God (Rev. 3:12). This has proved that the Son is never coequal with the Father.
Others without a moment of thought, jump to Phil. 2:6, John 5:18 and John 10:33 and eisegetically use these scriptures to argue that Jesus Christ is coequal with God. These scriptures do not support the Trinitarian theory of coequality. Christ is the Son of God because, as the monogenes, He derived His life or existence from God. The usage of the Greek verb harpazo from which the noun harpagmos, used only in Phil. 2:6, is derived, does not support the interpretation in many English Bibles that Christ claimed equality with His God and Father. That interpretation is influenced by the Trinitarian dogma. Any cursory review of the 13 places where harpazo is used clearly and convincingly shows that Paul did not say in Phil. 2:6 that Christ considered Himself as being God’s equal.
There is nowhere in the Bible Jesus Christ is said to be coequal with God. By calling God His God He has admitted that God is supreme over Him. Even after His glorification, God remains His God (Rev. 3:12). That is why His true apostles say nothing different from what came out of His mouth. They repeatedly say that God is His Father as well as His God (2 Cor. 11:31; Eph. 1:3,17; 1 Pet. 1:3; Rev. 1:6) and that God is supreme over Him (1 Cor. 11:3; 15:27-28). The Good News Bible (GNB) renders 1 Corinthians 11:3 as, “But I want you to understand that Christ is supreme over every man, the husband is supreme over his wife, and God is supreme over Christ”. (Emphases added throughout.)
Let us note that Apostle Paul could not have told the Corinthians and the Ephesians that God is Supreme over Christ and then tell the Philippians the very opposite – that Jesus Christ is coequal with God. That would amount to a contradiction of Christ’s words and his own teachings to the Corinthians and Ephesians. The Good News Bible using Today’s English Version (1976 edition), correctly renders Phil. 2:6 as, “He always had the nature of God, but he did not think that by force he should try to become equal with God.”
It should be noted that trying to become equal with God is not the same thing as being equal with God or not wanting to remain equal with God. All who understand the Bible don’t introduce flip flops into the inspired teachings of the Bible which the Trinitarians are guilty of doing. Their fictitious doctrines not only make them self-contradictory but also make Paul out as having superior and contradictory teaching to that of Christ.
With regard to John 5:18 and 10:33, what did Jesus tell His enemies who were always plotting to kill Him? His answer is in John 10:36. When a “Christian” ignores the words of the Lord and begins to search for scriptures that he or she can use to support manmade doctrines, what light can such a person get from the word? None. Such actions, however benign they may seem, have led many people into strong delusions. Of a truth, with the avalanche of biblical evidence against the Trinitarian teaching, it cannot be too harsh to say that all Trinitarians have been strongly deluded.
Lines 30 to 34 of the Athanasian Creed reads, “For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man [human]. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of the substance of His mother, born in the world. Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead [or Godhood], and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood. Who, although He is God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ.”
This is where Trinitarians got the teaching that while Christ was on the earth, He was God and human being dwelling in the same body at the same time. The creed says that with respect to His Godhead [or Godhood], He is coequal with His Father but inferior [or less than the Father] as a human being. If, as taught by Trinitarians, He was indeed God as well as human being in the same body, it would mean that He was coequal with God as well as less than Him at the same time. This is impossible. Secondly, it would also mean that while Christ was on the earth, He possessed immortality and mortality in Him at the same time. One of the attributes of Godhood is immortality (1 Tim. 6:16). Two questions readily come to mind: (i) can mortality and immortality cohabit in the same body simultaneously? This is another impossibility (1 Cor. 15:52-55). (ii) if Christ was perfect God and perfect man while on earth, how did it become possible for Him to die? That would have been another impossibility. God cannot die. While on the earth Jesus Christ was 100 percent human, zero percent God. Please read Heb. 2:14-17. That was why God had to anoint Him with His holy Spirit like every other human servants of God. That was why He always hid Himself from the Jews whenever they wanted to stone Him. He always hid from them when it was not yet time for Him to die and pay the ransom for our sins with His blood. But when the time came for Him to die for our sins, He willingly yielded Himself to be killed. He had the full assurance that God would raise Him from death after three days and nights in the grave. It was at His resurrection that His body was made immortal, never to die again (1 Cor. 15:22-23, 42-44, 52-55).
No one with a good and honest heart will read the scriptures cited in this article and remain an apologist of the Trinitarian hoax. Apologists of the Trinitarian dogma may be disappointed to note the following comments extracted from the New Catholic Encyclopedia and its predecessor, the Catholic
Encyclopedia, both being reference work of the Catholic Church and edited by the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. Surprisingly, in spite of this knowledge the Catholic Church still holds on to the Trinitarian dogma. Strong delusion has taken hold of many people in religion:
“The OT [Old Testament] clearly does not envisage God’s spirit as a person … God’s spirit is simply God’s power. It is sometimes represented as being distinct from God, it is because the breath of Yahweh acts exteriorly … The majority of the NT [New Testament] texts reveal God’s spirit as something, not someone; this is especially seen in the parallelism between the spirit and the power of God” – New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 13, pp. 574, 575. (Words in square brackets and emphases are mine.)
“Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person” – The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XV, p. 49.
In his book titled “Origin of Triads and Trinities” John Newton makes it known that some phrases used in the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds such as “Light of Light”, “Very God of Very God”, “Begotten not Made”, “Being of One substance with the Father” were taken word for word from the papyri and inscriptions of ancient Egypt which had been written about their Sun Trinities”.
Edward Gibbon writes in the preface to his book, History of Christianity, “If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians … was changed by the church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the Trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief”.
There are numerous writings, besides these two, which have traced the Trinity doctrine to paganism. It is therefore not a doctrine that any true Christian should be cheerful about.
DISHONOURING GOD AND DISPLEASING CHRIST
According to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, “Beyond any doubt, the Trinity doctrine has confused and diluted people’s understanding of God’s true position. It prevents people from accurately knowing the Universal, Sovereign Jehovah God, and from worshipping Him on His terms”.
That is very true. But the Trinitarian dogma has done more harm than that, for it has turned many “Christians” to unbelievers. God spoke from heaven and said, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him” (Matt. 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35). God, the Father, has by that utterance commanded all His people to believe and obey whatever His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ says. This is exactly what the apostles of Jesus Christ did. They did not contradict any word that came out of the mouth of Jesus Christ. The Trinitarian creeds have done the opposite. Jesus Christ has said the Father is the one God. All His apostles affirmed it. But the Creeds changed it and said the one God is made up of three self- existed, coequal and coeternal Gods. What excuse does anyone have when he or she rejects the clear teachings of Christ and His apostles only to become an apologist of a doctrine that is clearly opposed to that taught by Christ?
So, we see that the Trinitarian dogma has turned many supposed servants of Jesus Christ into those who oppose His words while they still falsely believe themselves to be His servants. God and His only begotten Son have perfect love for each other. Therefore, no one should fool himself or herself by equating Christ with God. Jesus Christ is not a seeker of vain glory. Making Him coequal with His God and Father cannot please Him. It will rather displease Him.
THEY TAUGHT TRITHEISM IN THE NAME OF TRINITY
Trinitarians say the Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God. They say that in this Trinity, “none of the three Persons or Gods is greater or less than another; none is before or after another”. This means that the three of them are self-existed, coequal and coeternal. In clear terns, they have created three absolute Gods. Do we have anything like this in the Bible? Absolutely not! Can three selfexisted, coequal and coeternal Gods ever be one God? Do we have anything like this in the Bible? The answer is a loud NO! Does their repeated use of the phrase, “yet they are not three…but one…” in any way hide, obliterate, erase or annul the TRITHEISM they have promulgated in the Athanasian Creed? They don’t! The confusion they created by the phrase is like that of a man who tries to use one finger to hide his face from being seen.
A lot have gone down in history on the persecutions that took place in the fourth to recent centuries to make them accept this flawed doctrine. Many were killed by the religious fathers. The battle raged up to the sixteenth century when Michael Servetus was burnt at the stake in Geneva on 27 October, 1553 for his refusal to recant his refutation of the doctrine which he rightly called a teaching of Tritheism
