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Trinity
Definition
“The ‘trinity’ is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion—the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another.”—Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XV, pg. 47.
“In this one God there are three distinct Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, who are perfectly equal to each other. We believe that Jesus Christ … He is God of the substance of the Father.”—The Faith of Our Fathers, by Cardinal Gibbons, pg. 1.
A false, unbiblical doctrine.
Origin
Ancient Babylonish paganism c.2200 B.C. Brought into the deflected “Christian church” about the second century, being especially established in the Nicene Creed, A.D. 325. (See McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia, under “Trinity”; The Two Babylons, pg. 16, 17.)
Texts Misapplied
Hebrews 1:8; 2 John 14:9, 10; Romans 9:5; Titus 2:13; 1 John 5:7; John 1:1; Revelation 3:14; John 20:28; John 8:58; Revelation 1:8, 11; 21:6; 22:13; Colossians 2:9; John 10:30; Acts 20:28; John 10:18; 1 Timothy 3:16; John 2:19; Matthew 1:23; John 15:26; 16:13-15.
Jehovah is One God, Greatest Being
Deuteronomy 6:4 “Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”
John 14:28 “The Father is greater than I am.”
John 10:29 “My Father … is greater than all others.”
Psalm 83:18 “Jehovah… [is] the Most High over all the earth.”
1 Corinthians 15:28 “That God may be all things to everyone.”
Philippians 2:11 “Every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.”
Isaiah 42:8 “I am Jehovah, that is My Name; and My glory will I not give to another.”
Hebrews 1:8 “With reference to the Son: ‘God is Your throne forever.’ “
Jehovah and Jesus Are Different Beings
John 8:17, 18 ” ‘The witness of two men is true.’ I am one that bears witness about Myself and the Father who sent Me bears witness about Me.”
1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”—This text spurious (taken out of most current translations of the Bible).
Romans 9:5 “God who is over all be blest forever. Amen.”
Titus 2:13 “The … glorious manifestation of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus.”
The Son Was Created by God
John 1:1 “Originally the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.”
Revelation 3:14 “These are the things the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God.”
John 1:18 “No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom position with the Father is the one that has explained Him.”
Colossians 1:15, 16 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, because by Him all other things were created.”
Proverbs 8:22-24 “Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth.”
Jesus Is Inferior to Jehovah
Matthew 12:18 (Isaiah 42:1) “Look! My servant whom I chose.”
Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the fruit of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall My righteous servant instruct many in righteousness; and he shall bear their iniquities.
Acts 3:13, 26 “God… has glorified His Servant, Jesus… God, after raising His Servant, sent Him forth.”
Acts 4:27 “For, truly, in this town, against Your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by You as Christ.”
Philippians 2:7 “But emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.”
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
John 8:28 “I do nothing of My own initiative, but just as the Father taught Me I speak these things.”
John 5:19 “The Son cannot do a single thing of His own initiative, but only what He beholds the Father doing.”
Mark 13:32 “Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither … the Son, but the Father.”
Matthew 20:23 “This sitting down at My right hand and at My left is not Mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by My Father.”
Revelation 1:1 “The revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave Him.”
Hebrews 2:17 “He… [became] a… faithful high priest in things pertaining to God.”
Hebrews 5:6; 7:17 “You are a priest forever after the likeness of Melchizedek.”
In Heaven Jesus Is Subject to God
John 8:42 “From God I came forth and am here. Neither have I come of My own initiative at all, but that One sent Me forth.”
John 12:49 “The Father Himself that sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak.”
John 17:4, 8, 23, 25 “I have glorified You … having finished the work You have given Me to do…. You sent Me forth.”
1 Corinthians 15:28 “But when all things will have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also subject Himself to the One who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all.”
Psalm 110:1 “Jehovah said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand.’
Jehovah Is Christ’s God
John 20:17 “I am ascending to My Father and your Father and to My God and your God.”
1 Peter 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Ephesians 1: 3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.”
Ephesians 1:17 “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.”
Hebrews 1:8, 9 “But with reference to the Son: ‘… That is why God, Your God, anointed You with the oil of great joy.’ “
Revelation 1:6 “And He made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father.”
Revelation 3:12 “The one that conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of MY God … I will write upon him the Name of MY God and the name of the city of MY God.”
Luke 22:41, 42 “[Jesus] began to pray, saying: ‘Father, if you wish, turn this cup aside from Me. Nevertheless, let, not My will, but Yours, be done.'”
Mark 15:34 “Jesus called out with a loud voice,… ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?’ “
See also: Matthew 26:39; John 17:1.
Hebrews 5:7, 8 “In the days of His flesh Christ offered up supplications and also petitions to the One who was able to save Him out of death, with strong outcries and tears, and He was favorably heard for His godly fear. Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things He suffered.”
Jehovah, “I Am,” “Alpha and Omega”
Revelation 1:8 ” ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says Jehovah God, ‘the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.’ “
Revelation 4:8 “Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.”
Isaiah 44:6; 48:12 “Thus says Jehovah,… I am the first, and I am the last; and besides Me there is no God.”
Revelation 21:5,6 “And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And He said to me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.”
Revelation 22:13 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
Exodus 3:14 “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and He said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.”
God Is Head over Christ
1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn, the head of a woman is the man; in turn, the head of the Christ is God.”
Colossians 2:9 “Because it is in Him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells for the body.”
John 3:34 “For the One whom God sent forth speaks the words of God, for He does not give the spirit sparingly.”
Unity of Father, Son and Congregation
John 17:20-22 “I make request … concerning those putting faith in Me … in order that they may all be one, just as You, Father, are in union with Me and I am in union with You, that they also may be in union with Us,… in order that they may be one just as We are one.”
John 10:30 “I and the Father are one.”
John 17:11 “And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your own Name those whom You have given to Me, that they may be one, as We are.
Impossible for God to Die but Jesus in Grave for Three Days
1 Timothy 1:17 “Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
Psalm 90:2 “From everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
Jeremiah 10:10 “But Jehovah is the true God; He is the living God, and an everlasting King.”
Acts 10:39, 40 “But they also did away with Him by hanging Him on a stake. God raised this One up on the third day and granted Him to become visible.”
Christ’s Blood Shed as Ransom, Not God’s Blood
1 Corinthians 15:50 “Flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom.”
Acts 20:28 “Shepherd the congregation of God, which He purchased with the blood of His own [Son].”
Hebrews 9:14 “How much more will the blood of the Christ, who … offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences?”
1 Peter 1:18, 19 “You were released … with precious blood… even Christ’s.”
God Resurrected Christ to a Higher Position than Before
Acts 2:32, 33 “This Jesus, God resurrected, of which fact we are all witnesses. Therefore because He was exalted to the right hand of God and received the promised holy spirit from the Father, He has poured out this which you see and hear.”
Acts 13:30, 37 “But God raised Him up from the dead; He whom God raised up did not see corruption.”
Romans 10:9 “If you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
2 Corinthians 4:14 “Knowing that He who raised Jesus up will raise us up also together with Jesus.”
Galatians 1:1 “Paul, an apostle … through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him up from the dead.”
John 10:18 “No man has taken it away from Me, but I surrender it of My own initiative. I have authority to let go of it, and I have authority to receive it again. The commandment on this I received from My Father.”
Acts 17:31 “Because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom He has ordained; of which He has given assurance to all men, in that He has raised Him from the dead.”
Romans 8:11 “But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 6:14 “Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by His power.”
1 Corinthians 15:15 “And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God, that He raised the Christ, whom He has not raised, if indeed those that are dead are not raised.”
Ephesians 1:20 “Which He worked in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and made Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly places.”
1 Peter 1:21 “Who through Him are believers in God, that raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.”
God Began Raising of Temple Body (Congregation) on Third Day
John 2:19, 21, 22 ” ‘Break down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ But He was talking about the temple of His body. When, though, He was raised up from the dead, His disciples called to mind that He used to say this.”
(For expression, “I will,” see Ezekiel 43:3: “According to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city”; also Isaiah 6:10: “Make the heart of this people fat.”)
John 20:1, 17 “On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the memorial tomb early in the day,… Jesus said to her, “Don’t touch Me, for I haven’t yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
Christ’s Titles Show Inferior to God As to titles “Emmanuel” and “Jehovah our righteousness”
Jeremiah 33:16 “Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.”
Isaiah 63:9 “The angel of His presence saved them.”
Joshua’s name same as Jesus
Hebrews 4:8 “For if Joshua [“Jesus”] had led them into a place of rest, God would not afterward have spoken of another day.”
See also Matthew 1:23 and Jeremiah 23:6, as to titles “Emmanuel” and “Jehovah our righteousness”.
Holy Spirit Not a Person; Subject to God
John 15:26 “When the helper arrives that I will send you from the Father, the spirit of the truth which proceeds from the Father, that one will bear witness about Me.”
Matthew 3:16 “Jesus immediately came up from the water; … and he [John] saw descending like a dove God’s spirit coming upon Him.”
Acts 2:2-4, 17, 32, 33 “They all became filled with holy spirit… ‘And in the last days,’ God says, ‘I shall pour some of My spirit out upon every kind of flesh.’.. . ‘Therefore because He [Christ] was exalted to the right hand of God and received the promised holy spirit from the Father, He has poured out this which you see and hear.’ “
Holy Spirit Not Shown at God’s Throne as a Person
Revelation 7:10 “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb.”
Acts 7:55, 56 “But he [Stephen], 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.'”
Revelation 4:5 “And there are seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, and these mean the seven Spirits of God.”
Revelation 5:6 “And I saw standing in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the persons of advanced age a lamb as though it had been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which eyes mean the seven Spirits of God that have been sent forth into the whole earth.”
Identity of Jehovah and of Christ Is Not an “Unexplainable Mystery”
John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
Luke 10:22 “Who the Son is, no one knows but the Father, and who the Father is, no one knows but the Son, and he to whom the Son is willing to reveal Him.”
Matthew 13:11 “In reply He [Jesus] said: ‘To you it is granted to understand the sacred secrets of the Kingdom of the heavens.’ “
Jehovah God Not Contradictory
1 Corinthians 14:33 “For God is a God, not of disorder, but of peace.”
Hebrews 6:18 “It is impossible for God to lie.”
James 3:17 “But the wisdom from above is … reasonable.”
God the Superior Blesses Christ the Inferior
Hebrews 7:7 “Now without any dispute, the less is blessed by the greater.”
Psalm 21:3-6 “For You meet him with the blessings of goodness: You set a crown of fine gold on his head. He asked life of You, You gave it to him, even length of days for ever and ever. His glory is great in Your salvation: honor and majesty You do lay upon him. For You make him most blessed for ever: You make him glad with joy in Your presence.”
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