Trinity...False Belief ?
The Strange Math of Trinitarian Fundamentalists
There is no other greater argument between Christians today than that of the trinity. It should not cause so much disturbance, since it is a myth propagated by the Catholic church. Protestants, always wanting to be Catholic but not desiring to bend a knee to Mary, decided the heresy of the Trinity was true and now swear by it in all areas of their worship. The Trinity is false doctrine taught because of tradition and fanciful interpretations of scripture. This is the single teaching that identifies Christians who believe in Christianity and not Christ. They have closed their ears to truth and wisdom, having decided ahead of time to live and teach as fools believing the tradition instead of the truth.
What is the Trinity doctrine? Trinity doctrine concludes that there are three distinct and individual persons making up one god-head. Such believers will tell you that the three persons are God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. They are equal in power and authority. God is God, Christ is God and the Holy Spirit is God. They operate like a company presidency, each sharing the same glory, responsibility and worship. Trinity believers state that God came to earth as Christ as no man can do what Christ did nor can a man save us from our sins. They also believe that the Holy Spirit is a separate being as well and gives all of us powers beyond our normal abilities.
Not only is this teaching heresy, but blasphemy against God as well. What does New Testament writings tell us of Christ, God and the Holy Spirit? The most cited scripture alleging Christ is God, comes from the book of John. The church diverted itself from the gospel of the kingdom of God to the gospel of Christ. The doctrine of Paul and his gospel and lying works and wonders have caused more confusion than any other writer of the New Testament. It has been known for centuries that Paul did not write everything that has been attributed to him. It has also been known for centuries that not all of the stories contained in his literature are true. Evidence suggests whoever wrote Paul’s documents also wrote the book of John and other works including Philippians. The writer knew Greek philosophy pertaining to the ’logos’ in depth. This is demonstrated in the book of John and Philippians where the writer compares Christ to the Greek philosophy of the ‘logos’ or the word.
The philosophy of the logos was written by Hereclitus, a Greek philosopher who lived 400 to 500 years before Christ. The comparison of Christ to the logos of Greek philosophy is not an accurate assumption of who Christ is but who the writer thought he was based on Greek philosophy, pagan beliefs and not based upon who Christ said he was. The writer was a Greek. The wording of the book of John is beautiful in its descriptiveness but wrong in its assumptions. The writer blends Christ into the logos of Greek philosophy which binds Christ into a paganistic deity. According to Greek philosophy, "logos" (a creative intelligence, or "mind") created the order of the world. The writers of Paul’s gospel, the book of John and the book of Philippians, all take the same stance in portraying Christ as a pagan deity. Christ is not a god. Christ is not God. He is the son of God, a man, also known as the ‘son of man’. This was told to us more than seventy-five times in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and the other writings of the New Testament. Even Paul calls Christ a man in some of his works. Christ and his apostles had several years in which to declare Christ was God and yet they did not simply because Emmanuel is not God. The book of John, Philippians, and other works attributed to Paul, are a pagan description of Christ based on pagan philosophy. Pagan beliefs are being taught in these books.
Christ is a man.
but the free gift shall not be also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. (Rom 5:15 MKJV)
For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.) (Rom 5:17 MKJV)
For God is one, and there is one Mediator of God and of men, the Man Christ Jesus, (1Ti 2:5 MKJV)
1 Timothy, a book attributed to Paul, indicates Christ did not become God, or a god, after death and resurrection but became a mediator for us before the throne of God; as Moses was between the Israelites and God, so is Christ between all of man, who believe, and God. In all of Christ’s teachings, he always separated identifying himself with God. He prayed to God, he gave credit to God, he spoke the words God gave him to speak. He never took credit as being God. Some claim that Christ is God because he never said he was not God. This is foolishness. Christ never said he was not a tree either. Does that make him a tree? No. It does not.
Trinitarians often rely on 1 John 5:7-8 as proof concerning the Trinity. Most scholars have been able to discern the fact that this scripture was added to New Testament manuscripts around the eighth century CE. The forged script is a lie concerning Christ, God, and his holy spirit added to support theological and doctrinal teachings of a false religion.
For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on the earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are into the one.
(1Jo 5:7-8 MKJV)
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown wrote in their commentary over 100 years ago:
"The only Greek MSS. [manuscripts], in any form which support the words, 'in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth . . .' are the Montfortianus of Dublin, copied evidently from the modern Latin Vulgate; the Rauianus copied from the Complutensian Polyglot; a MS. [manuscript] at Naples, with the words added in the margin by a recent hand; Ottobonianus, 298, of the fifteenth century, the Greek of which is a mere translation of the accompanying Latin. All old versions omit the words."
Peake's Commentary states that 1 John 5:7 is not part of the original text.
"The famous interpolation after 'three witnesses' is not printed even in RSV, and rightly. It cites the heavenly testimony of the Father, the logos, and the Holy Spirit, but is never used in the early Trinitarian controversies. No respectable Greek MS contains it. Appearing first in a late 4th century Latin text, it entered the Vulgate and finally the NT [New Testament] of Erasmus" (p. 1038).
Trinitarians do not and will not consider any logical point of view that criticizes their theology. Trinity theory has no basis in sound doctrine nor fact of record. It is a lie and a false doctrine of Christianity based on traditional teaching.
The following scriptures show that Jesus Christ (Emmanuel) is not God but a man, his son:
Matthew 3:16-17; 8:29; 11:27; 12:18; 14:33; 16:16-17; 17:5; 27:54
Mark 5:7; 15:39
Luke 1:32; 1:35; 8:28; 9:35; 10:22
John 1:13; 1:18; 1:34; 1:49; 3:16; 5:19-23; 5:37; 6:40; 6:69; 8:18; 8:42; 10:15; 10:36; 11:4; 12:49-50; 14:13; 14:23; 14:28; 16:17; 17:1-16; 20:17; 20:31
Acts 2:22-24; 3:13; 3:26; 9:20
Romans 1:4; 5:10; 8:29
1 Corinthians 11:3; 15:28
2 Corinthians 1:19
Galatians 4:4
Philippians 2:9
Colossians 1:13
1 Thessalonians 1:10
1 Timothy 2:5
Hebrews 1:2; 2:9; 4:14; 5:7-8
1 Peter 1:3
2 Peter 1:17
1 John 1:3; 2:22; 3:23; 4:10; 4:14-15; 5:11-12
2 John 1:9
Revelation 2:18
The verses of Philippians which indicate Christ is God or considered himself God, are false as these express the Greek philosophy found in the book of John, indicating this also may have been written by the same writer, and not in the gospel that Christ taught us and is thus a false book:
who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Phi 2:6-8 MKJV)
God did not come to earth as Christ. Christ never claimed he was God’s equal. Christ did not come speaking of himself but what God told him to say. God’s grace for us is that he sent Christ to us with his message of salvation for those who believe. The message spoken of by a man was one expressing that we should love our fellow man as we love ourselves and that we are to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul. Salvation is for those who do not grow weary doing good works for others. God’s grace is given to those who practice mercy and forgiveness and are baptized for the remission of sins. Read the book of Matthew and pay attention to the parables. Christ’s whole message is in this book.
Many Christians today believe that because Christ rose from the grave that he is God, because only God can raise anyone from the dead. Because they believe Jesus is God, they believe Jesus raised himself from the grave. This line of thinking is incorrect. Christ was raised from the dead because of his obedience to God. Christ was given this ability by God for bringing his message to us concerning the kingdom of God. Christ was not God before he died and he was not God after he died. Christ never claimed to be equal to God in rank. Christ always said he was the son of God. Whether or not Jesus actually rose from the grave does not determine our standing with God nor does it influence our own spiritual resurrection.
He who rejects Me and does not receive My Words has one who judges him; the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of Myself, but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His command is life everlasting. Therefore whatever I speak, even as the Father said to Me, so I speak. (Joh 12:48-50 MKJV)
You have heard how I said to you, I go away and I am coming to you again. If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father, for My Father is greater than I. (Joh 14:28 MKJV)
Christians who believe in the Trinity theory also believe the holy spirit is a distinct individual also of the godhead. This is not true and again their assumption is based on pagan teachings. The holy spirit is God’s spirit that gives us comfort. It is not separate from God. This is why the unforgivable sin is against the holy spirit. The unforgivable sin is to declare that the spirit of God is demonic, which is what it means to blaspheme the holy spirit. The holy spirit is what Christ said would come to us. It came as a baptism upon those meeting together on the day of Pentecost and several other times to other individuals, according to Acts . We normally receive the holy spirit at baptism, according to Christ and his disciples. The baptism of the holy spirit is God pouring out his spirit upon us as evidenced by the dancing tongues of fire to use the speaking of tongues as a sign for those who do not believe. This is not the same thing as receiving the holy spirit as a separate individual of a godhead.
Therefore I say to you, All kinds of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this world or in the world to come. (Mat 12:31-32 MKJV)
Christianity controls accusations against all manner of falsehoods by claiming anyone who questions those speaking in tongues or faith healers are blaspheming the holy spirit. This is a false teaching. When we have doubts as to the validity of the spirit speaking through someone else, we have the authority to question that spirit to discern if it is truly of God. This is not blasphemy against the holy spirit. Those who work iniquity against the spirit through lies and false wonders as Christians are already guilty. They already stand accused due to their lying works and wonders.
Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Act 2:38 MKJV)
This gift is not a supernatural ability of healing by faith or some other super wonder, it is the gift of the holy spirit, meaning we receive the holy spirit and its gift which is comfort, according to the book of Acts.
Then, indeed, the churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and having been built up. And having gone on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were increased. (Act 9:31 MKJV)
Emmanuel the Christ said,
But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (Joh 14:26-27 MKJV)
The gift of the holy spirit is comfort, not supernatural powers.
Now, we have discovered how pagan teachings were incorporated into New Testament writings concerning Christ. We will now look at how these teachings were incorporated into the heretical teaching of the Trinity.
In Alexandria, Egypt, Arius, a priest, ( after whom Arianism is named) taught that God the Father had "created" Jesus as the Son of God before the world was created, and that Jesus was subordinate to God the Father. A church council was convened in Nicaea,
under the direction of Roman Emperor Constantine, in 325 C.E., to settle the controversy about Jesus and his relationship to God the Father.
This view was condemned by the Council of Nicaea, and the Council produced the "Creed of Nicaea" which declared that Jesus was the "Son of God" who was "only-begotten, that is, of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten and not made, of one substance with the Father, through whom all things were made, things in heaven and on earth."
The Creed of Nicaea declared that the Son of God had always existed and was the creator of the world:
"But those who say, 'There was (a time) when he (the Son of God) was not (in existence)' and 'Before he (the Son of God) was begotten, he was not (in existence)' . . . . the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes (condemns)." They claimed that Christ was not subordinate to God but coexisted since the beginning with him. This is paganism and Greek philosophy being used to theorize what Christ is in relationship to God.
In 451 CE, the old boys got together again and added the ‘Nicene Creed’ which states briefly:
"Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God" was "begotten before all ages" and "for us men and for our salvation came down from the heavens, and was made flesh of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried, and rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended to the heavens, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father, and cometh again with glory to judge living and dead, of whose kingdom there shall be no end; . . . "
They also declared a belief in "the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Life-giver, who proceeded from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshipped together and glorified together . . . ." The doctrine of the "Trinity of God" (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) was affirmed as the "orthodox" Trinitarian view of God. It should be noted that the Holy Spirit "proceeded" from God the Father, and the Son of God was "begotten" from "one substance with the Father" indicating that the Holy Spirit and the Son of God were part of God, and were to be worshipped "together" with God the Father. This has led Trinitarian Christians to worship Jesus, and to equate Jesus with God the Father in Trinitarian Christian churches. The churches continue to commit blasphemy with these teachings today.
This is traditional teaching based on theory and not the gospel. It is a combination of pagan doctrine and Greek philosophy that says Christ is God. All of this handed to us on a platter with an axe over our heads to believe it or die as heretics. This is the history of the church and how it became a paganistic false religion teaching for doctrine the traditions of men.
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