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The holy trinity is a confusing belief at best, even for those
thatpractice it. This doctrine states that there are three divine
Persons,
the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, each said to be eternal, almighty,
none greater or lesser, each said to be God. Other statements of the
dogma unequivocally state that these three “Persons” are not separate,
distinct individuals; rather they are the three modes that encompass
the whole of the divine being. This belief causes many Trinitarians to
claim that Jesus is God or that Jesus and the Holy Ghost combine to
form Jehovah. The Gospel does not teach of such a thing.
The word Trinity and the explicit doctrine as such are absent from the
New Testament. Neither did Jesus and his apostles have intention of
contradicting the declaration of the Old Testament; Listen, O Israel:
Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, Deuteronomy 6:4.
Christianity is a derivative of Judaism and Judaism is strictly
Unitarian, believing God is one person. The Platonic trinity, itself a
mere rearrangement of older trinities, appears to be the underlying
principle that gave birth to the three hypostases, or divine persons,
taught by Trinitarian churches. The Greek philosophers conception of
the divine trinity can be found in all pagan religions.
The personal name of God, Jehovah, is revealed to us in the Gospel. The
Holy Scriptures also inform us that the Son is Jesus Christ. However,
nowhere in the Bible is a personal name applied to the holy spirit.
Acts 7:55, 56 But he, being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and
caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand,
and he said: Look! I behold the heavens opened up and the Son of man
standing at God’s right hand.
Matthew 26:39 And going a little way forward, he [Jesus] fell upon his
face, praying and saying: My Father, if it is possible, let this cup
pass away from me. Yet, not as I will, but as you will.
Such prayer would be meaningless providing that the Father and Son are
not distinct individuals. In an instance such as this, Jesus would have
been praying to himself, and therefore his will would be the Father’s
will. Jesus would be making a schemer of himself, and thusly the
Father, in perpetrating such a sham if the Trinitarian doctrine were
the Truth. The Bible teaches us that God cannot lie.
Hebrews 6:18 …in order that, through two unchangeable things in which
it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled the refuge may have
strong encouragement to lay hold on the hope he set before us.
Additional corroboration of the falsehood of Trinitarian doctrine is
provided at John 8:17,18 which reads: Also in your own Law it is
written, The witness of two men is true. I am one that bears witness of
myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.
John 17:1-3 Jesus spoke these things, and, raising his eyes to heaven,
he said: Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may
glorify you, according as you have given him authority over all flesh,
that, as regards the whole number whom you have given him, he may give
them everlasting life. This means everlasting life, their taking in
knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth
Jesus Christ.
Later at John 20:17, following the resurrection of Jesus, Jesus spoke
of the Father as my God. Also, in Revelation 3:12 Jesus again makes
this reference. Distinctly absent from the text of the New Testament is
any occurrence of the Father referring to the Son as my God, also
absent are occurrences of the Father or the Son referring to the Holy
Spirit as my God.
It appears that Trinitarian doctrine goes directly against the
teachings of Jesus. A few scriptural references have been made in this
article to support the idea that Jesus and Jehovah are two distinct
personages, however, in a mind of brevity, many that denounce
Trinitarian teaching have been occluded from this article. Jesus never
claimed to be equal to the Father In John 14:28 Jesus says, …because
the Father is greater than I am.
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