Wednesday, November 21, 2007

I Don't Have Enough Faith to Believe in the Trinity




I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH TO BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY"

They say...we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity...for there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one...they are not three gods, but one God...the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal...he therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity..." (excerpts from the Athanasian Creed)

The term “Trinity” not located anywhere in the Bible and first came on the Christian scene in 150 AD and was finally canonized (made church dogma) in 325 AD by a pagan Constantine.

“…while men slept, his enemy came in and sowed tares…”

Abraham taught his 2 sons correctly that God was One and there was only one God. From Abraham we have Islam’s Allah, and Israel’s Jehovah. All other religions in the world without exception are polytheistic, believing in many gods, or plural gods.

Simply by changing the Jewish faith and authors of the Bible from One God (as they taught) to a Trinity they (polytheist) were able to have their cake and eat it too. Constantine was a pagan believing in plural gods. When he embraced the Christian faith he wanted a plural God. The Trinity doctrine is a blending of polytheism and monotheism. A hybrid god.

A new and unique hybrid faith was born: The Trinity!

“Tertullian, a lawyer and presbyter of the third-century Church in Carthage, was the first to use the word "Trinity" when he put forth the theory that the Son and the Spirit participate in the being of God, but all are of one being of substance with the Father.

A Formal Doctrine Is Drawn Up:

When controversy over the matter of the Trinity blew up in 318 between two church men from Alexandria--Arius, the deacon, and Alexander, his bishop-- Emperor Constantine stepped into the fray.Although Christian dogma was a complete mystery to him, he did realize that a unified church was necessary for a strong kingdom. When negotiation failed to settle the dispute, Constantine called for the first ecumenical council in Church history in order to settle the matter once and for all. Six weeks after the 300 bishops first gathered at Nicea in 325, the doctrine of the Trinity was hammered out. The God of the Christians was now seen as having three essences, or natures, in the form of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The Church Puts Its Foot Down:

The matter was far from settled, however, despite high hopes for such on the part of Constantine. Arius and the new bishop of Alexandria, a man named Athanasius, began arguing over the matter even as the Nicene Creed was being signed; "Arianism" became a catch-word from that time onward for anyone who didn't hold to the doctrine of the Trinity. It wasn't until 451, at the Council of Chalcedon that, with the approval of the Pope, the Nicene/ Constantinople Creed was set as authoritative. Debate on the matter was no longer tolerated; to speak out against the Trinity was now considered blasphemy, and such earned stiff sentences that ranged from mutilation to death. (Speaking against the Trinity was blasphemy!) Christians now turned on Christians, maiming and slaughtering thousands because of a difference of opinion.”

The Equal Lateral Triangle to represent the Trinity:

The Trinity Doctrine is represented by an equal lateral triangle with each of the points on the triangle a different person in the “godhead”. The catch is that along the lines connecting each of the persons of the godhead triangle is the word “not”. In other words, the Father at the top of the triangle is not the Holy Spirit of the lower part of the triangle which is not the Son of the other lower corner of the triangle and the Son is not the Father. One God in 3 persons is the Trinity Doctrine.

Trinity doctrine It is a Great Mystery:

The authors of this doctrine say it is a great mystery and the Trinity cannot be figured out, one God in 3 persons. They say if you try to figure out the Trinity you will go crazy and if you fail to believe in the Trinity you will be lost. The authors of the Trinity say it is a Great Mystery that can’t be understood and must be accepted by faith and is essential to your salvation.

The Bible says the Godhead is clearly seen and understood:

The Bible says that the “godhead is clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, so that they are without excuse”. Clearly seen by the things that are made, man made in the image of God, a spirit being housed in an earthly vessel. Now who is right the Bible or man?

The Trinity Doctrine says there are 3 persons, co-equal, and distinct persons in the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost is not the Father. Co-equal, co-eternal but distinct persons. Not 3 gods but one God in 3 persons. Confused yet? The Father is not the Son the Son is not the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost is not the Father, but not 3 gods, just 3 persons in one godhead. A great mystery which can’t be understood, but must be believed or you will be lost. In other words, unless you believe in the Trinity doctrine you will be lost. Confused yet?

Want to buy a forgiveness of sins?

The same people who canonized the Trinity doctrine also sold forgiveness of sins for money and killed 80 million people in the inquisitions, worship Mary as the Mother of God, bow to idols and kiss the Popes ring. The same authors of the Trinity doctrine have built palaces of gold in Rome off the backs of the poor around the world. They teach that the Eucharist is the literal body and blood of Jesus changed by a miracle in every mass, and unless I believe in the Eucharist (as the literal body and blood of Jesus) I will be lost. They pray to dead saints, pray using vain repetitions and teach about a place called purgatory. These are the authors of the Trinity Doctrine.

Where is Trinity in the Bible?

If we are to believe in the Trinity we must first ask ourselves, why is the term not a Bible term? When was the Trinity doctrine first founded, and by who? These are important questions if we are to believe in the Trinity. Who invented it and when and why?

The authors of the doctrine must also define it:

It is understood commonly by many scholars that the doctrine of the Trinity developed over a period of time. It was not until the end of the fourth century that most of the loose ends were tied up. But John of Damascus put the last touches in refining the doctrine as late as the eighth century! So, modern Trinitarianism was not fully developed until the eighth century! Louis Berkhof wrote: "The early Church Fathers...had no clear conception of the Trinity." (History of Christian Doctrines, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1937, p. 40)• Tertullian was the first man who can be said to be Trinitarian since he invented the word "Trinity".

Let’s compare the Trinity Doctrine with the Bible:

The 1st person in the Trinity is God the Father. Who is the Father of Jesus? "God the Father", they say, yet the Bible says the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary and she conceived. So the Bible says the Holy Ghost is the Father. But the Trinity doctrine says that the Father is not the Holy Ghost. Confused?

Who is the Father?

What is the Name of the Father? The Trinity doctrine says God the Father. But what is His name? Solomon built a Temple for Jehovah (YHVH), but said it could only be a place for His name. So the Temple was a place for His name, because Solomon knew God was too big to live in that house Solomon built. God wanted to fix his tent of flesh among men. In other words God wanted to live or tabernacle among men. So He created a Temple for His name. Jesus said, “I came in my Father’s name”. “Father, I have shown the world (manifested) your name”. The Body of Christ was the Temple for the name of God.

Angels carried His name from heaven. Angels said His name was to be called Jesus. Matthew said he was Emmanuel, God with us. Isaiah said the Son would be the mighty God, the everlasting father. Isa.9:6

God is a Spirit. God is invisible, because a spirit is invisible. But God made himself an image of his invisible self, called a Body. That Body was someone’s son, because the body was born. So when we say the Body or the Son, or Christ or Messiah we are saying the same thing. God is a Spirit, but the Body was flesh. A spirit has not flesh and bone. God did not desire the blood of bulls and goats, but a Body to do His will. The Spirit had no blood to offer, so God created a Body with blood to sacrifice. To wit, God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself. The Spirit was in the flesh. The Body was not a 2nd person in the godhead. The God of the universe was inside the flesh, the Son, the Body, reconciling the world to himself.

Is Jesus in the Godhead or the Godhead in Jesus?

The Trinity doctrine says Jesus was in the godhead, but the Bible says the fullness of the Godhead was in Christ. The fullness of the Spirit was in flesh. The Trinity doctrine says that the name of the second person in the godhead is, "God the Son". The bible makes no such statement, "God the Son". There is no mention of “God the Son” in the entire Bible. There is the mention of the "Son of God", but not “God the Son”.

The Trinity doctrine says the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one. But that would be impossible, because the Son is flesh. So let’s see how the Bible says it correctly. The Father, “Word” and Spirit are one. The Father is Spirit, the Word is Spirit and of course the Spirit is Spirit. So you see how accurate the Bible says, Spirit and Spirit and Spirit are one Spirit.

The Trinity Doctrine says the Father is not the Son but separate and distinct persons. But Jesus said, “I and my Father are one”. If you have seen me you have seem my Father. Isaiah said the Son shall be called the Everlasting Father, and the Mighty God. Isa 9:6

No man has at anytime seen God, but we have seen the only image of the invisible Spirit in the flesh face of Jesus. It would be like you driving down the road in a car with dark tinted windows that no one could see through. One might say there goes So and So. But the car is not So and So, but he is actually inside the car. But all we can see is the image of the person. Christ was the image of the invisible Spirit. Christ brought the Spirit out of the realm of the invisible and allowed us to see His image. The Spirit was in the flesh reconciling the world to himself.

No greater love has a man than to lay down his life for another. What shows greater love, to send someone else or to go yourself and lay down your life? God said I sought for a man, but could not find one, so my own arm brought salvation. We sing of the everlasting arm of God. We lean on that everlasting arm of God. Is it a second Person, or the arm of God revealed? The flesh of God, the arm of God could bleed and die. Can God die? No! God is a Spirit. But in order for there to be a blood sacrifice, He had to prepare Himself a body.

The fullness of God dwelt in Christ bodily, in flesh. The flesh could bleed and die, but God (Spirit) cannot bleed and die. He prepared a Body (flesh) to do His will. We beheld the only image of the invisible God. When you have seen me you have seen the Father. The Father and I are one. Before Abraham was, I am. The great I Am of Abraham, spoke to them from the lips of clay, the Body, Christ, the Son.

There can only be one Almighty. There is only one all knowing all seeing, eternal Spirit. The Trinity doctrine says that Jesus is as much God as the Father is God. All knowing all seeing, yet distinct person of God the Son. So how can the all knowing Almighty Son pray to another all knowing Almighty Father, and ask the other all knowing Almighty Father what the first all knowing a Almighty Son does not know? Confused yet?

How can the Almighty pray to ask Himself what He already knows? How can God pray to God? How can God ask God something God does not already know? Impossible!

The Bible says the flesh (son) prayed to the Spirit (Father). The Spirit is greater than the flesh. The flesh could bleed and die, but how could Spirit bleed and die? The flesh could not know while at the same time the Spirit could know. i.e. No man knows the time of the end, not the Son (flesh) but only the Father (Spirit). How could the all knowing God the Son, not know what the all knowing God the Father knows? The Trinity must be confused. One knows what another does not know. It is quite simple when you know that flesh was not God, but God who is Spirit was resident in the flesh of the Christ. The flesh did not know the time of the end, and could pray to the Spirit. Christ, flesh, could pray to the Father, Spirit. But how could God of the Trinity pray to God of the Trinity? How can the Almighty pray to the Almighty?

The Sonship of God is a dispensation. A dispensation has a beginning and an end.

The Trinity Doctrine says there was a "God the Son", from all eternity, even before he had a mother. Who was God the Son’s mother before Bethlehem? But the Bible says that God in his foreknowledge created the Son, for the sacrifice, He knew in time He would need. Ps 2:77 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.(KJV) There is a definite beginning of the Son of God. Not an eternal "God the Son" of the Trinity. And there will also be an end of Sonship (son of God). Because a dispensation has both a beginning and ending:

1 Cor 15:24-28 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.27 For he "has put everything under his feet." Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.(NIV)

When the last intercession of the Advocate has been made, when the Lamb has atoned for the last sin, when the last enemy has been subdued, then the Sonship will end. All will be delivered to the Spirit and the distinction will cease. Sonship is a dispensation with a beginning and an definite ending. No such thing as the eternal "God the Son". But there is the dispensation of the Flesh of God, to take away the sins of the World.

How could the Eternal God the Son die? How could anyone kill God the Son? Very hard to explain, if you believe God the Son was killed on the Cross. Quite easy to understand, if you see that God is Spirit and Spirit cannot die, but the Son was flesh and flesh can die. To wit God was in Christ. To wit, Spirit was in Flesh. So the Flesh could die and the Spirit could depart from that flesh:

Matt 27:46 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?(KJV)

If the Spirit had not departed from the flesh, then Christ could not have died. God did not die, but the Arm of God, the Temple of His name, the Body to do His will, was offered upon the Cross for the sins of the whole world. No man took His life, He laid it down and He picked it up again. The Spirit, Father, inside of the Son, the flesh, simply withdrew to allow the flesh to die. Then the Spirit came again to the dead body and He was raised from the dead. Not another person, but God was in Christ. The Spirit was in the Flesh, reconciling the world to Himself.

Luke 10:22 22 "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."(NIV)

Flesh and blood did not reveal this:

Trinity is a doctrine taught by men, but the God in Christ is revealed by God. The Trinity doctrine says it cannot be understood and is a great mystery, but the Bible contradicts the Trinity Doctrine. Rom 1:20 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:(KJV)

Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am? Some say you are John the Baptist, some say you are Elijah, some say you are one of the Prophets. But who do you say that I am? You are the Christ of God, (the anointed flesh of God). Flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but the Spirit. And upon this “rock” (the revelation of who I am) will I build my church. The true church is built upon the revelation of who Jesus is. Is He the second person in the Godhead? NO! Is he God the Son? NO! Or is he the Almighty God robed in flesh. YES! Thou art they Christ of God, (the flesh of God)!

Trinity doctrine is taught, but who Jesus really is, is revealed, a revelation of the Spirit.. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, is the unveiling of Jesus. Rev 1:88 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.(KJV)

Answer these questions if you can:

How can the Son be the Almighty? (Isa 9:6)
How can the Son be the Father?
How can Jesus claim to be Jehovah? (before Abraham was, I Am).
How can the Son pray to the Father?
How can God die?
How can God have a mother?
All questions the Trinity doctrine cannot answer. But when you understand the Sonship dispensation, how God was robed in flesh, in Christ, then by revelation you can easily know the answers!

Prov 30:44 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?(KJV)

What is His name?

Angels brought his name from heaven, Jesus/Yeshua. Paul said it was the family name of everything in heaven and earth. Jesus said He came in his Father’s name, (Jesus/Yeshua). Jesus said the Holy Ghost would come in His name (Jesus). Jesus said I have manifested the Father’s name (Jesus/Yeshua). He was named with the highest name that could be named, Jesus/Yeshua. Jesus / Yeshua means YHVH-salvation (Jehovah-saves).

Jews can never bow to another god!

If Jesus is not the Jehovah God, then the Jews can never bow to Him, for you shall have no other Gods before me and shall not bow down to them. (Jehovah speaking). But every knee will bow and tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.

Paul, a Jew, on the road to Damascus didn’t suddenly start believing in 2nd person in the Godhead when he looked up to heaven and ask his Jehovah God, who are you, and He said I am Jesus/Yeshua whom you persecute.

Thomas a one God Jew did not suddenly start believing in a 2nd person in the godhead when he put his hands in the nail holes and fell to his knees and declared to Jesus “my Lord and my God”.

The reproach of the 1st century believers was not a second person in the Godhead, but that they declared the Great I am had a name and His name was Jesus/Yeshua. It was blasphemy to say the God of the Jews was Jesus/Yeshua!

The Trinity doctrine says that God the Father and God the Son are equal. But Jesus said, "The Father is greater than I". How can that be if they are co-equal? But if you understand that Jesus was simply saying that the Spirit is greater than the Flesh, (the Father/Spirit is greater than I/Flesh) then it is plain to see.

So you can see that the Mighty God in Christ is clearly revealed in scriptures, unlike the Trinity Doctrine taught by men, confusing and not understandable!

Now, who will believe our report?

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