1.2.2.4
Jude 1:20-21
"But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of
God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal
life."
By now we begin to get the picture. Do these verses
require a Trinity?. Do they say "God, Jesus,
and the Holy Ghost are ONE God?" If a father told his sons who
were going off to war "But ye, beloved, building up
yourselves on your training, obeying your superior officers,
Keep yourselves in the love of your country while you look for
the mercy of God to return you home to us safely," can we
honestly claim that this statement requires a "merging of three
into one"?. Deuteronomy 4:39 requires the uniqueness of
God. It is very explicit. There are no two ways
about it. It is very clear, decisive, and to the point. The
explicit (and not the "hidden") meaning is quite clear and
direct. Is it impossible to find the Bible only a single verse
that is similarly decisive about the claimed Trinity?. All of
these verses require you to really strain the words and stretch
their meaning to arrive at any merging of three into one.
With regard to Mr. J.'s description of the Trinity
please read the analysis of the original sin and the redemption
coming up soon.
An interesting point is that when people tell us about the
doctrine of the "Trinity," even in the very best
case, they never try to claim that any Jew knew of this formula
before the coming of Jesus (pbuh) or worshipped a "Triune" God.
However, God Almighty was sending prophets to the Jews for
centuries before the time of Jesus, and Jesus is claimed to have
been in existence before all of creation. Why did none of these
previous prophets tell their people that God was three?. They
went out of their way to make it very explicitly clear that God
was ONE as seen in the above examples, however, there is not a
single Jew alive who worships a Trinity, believes that the Holy
Spirit mentioned in their Old Testament is God, or worships a
"Son of God." Even if the Jews do not believe that Jesus is the
"Son of God," would we not be justified in expecting that they
should at least believe that "there is" a "Son of God" even if
he was someone other than Jesus? Would we not be justified in
expecting the previous prophets to have mentioned this fact? Why
did God wait to favor us alone with this knowledge and chose to
deprive many countless thousands of generations before Jesus the
knowledge of this claimed fact? Did the countless prophets of
the Old Testament not know about the "Trinity"? Did God not see
fit to tell the Jews about the Trinity? Was God not yet a
"Trinity" when He sent Abraham (pbuh)
to his people? Was He not yet a "Trinity" when He spoke to Moses
(pbuh)? Did He become a "Trinity" later on? How then do we
explain the Christian creed of Nicea,
the official Church definition of the "Trinity" which requires
the "co-eternity" and "co-substantiality" of Jesus with God? But
let us continue with our analysis. Let us begin by updating our
table:
When someone speaks to someone else about a specific matter,
they usually spend the majority of their time explaining the
major issues and much less time on side-issues. For instance, if
I wanted to give someone my favorite recipe for chicken parmesan
I would spend most of my time speaking about the ingredients,
their amounts, their order of combination, the amount of time
needed to cook each one and so on. I would spend very little
time (comparatively) talking about how to set the table or what
color bowl to serve it in. When comparing this observation to
the Bible, I found that for a matter of such profound and dire
importance, the "Trinity" is never mentioned in
the Bible at all. Sound preposterous? Read on.
Let us first begin by modifying our table and including all
of the verses of the Bible which are used today in defense of
the "Trinity." The reason for these modifications shall be made
clear in our analysis.
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