1) Trinity

Any serious examination of Trinity doctrinal development will yield cause for great concern as to the theory’s authenticity, warranting a severe rebuke to those who blindly support it.

I have been recently asked repeatedly why, when faced with scriptural arguments from Trinitarians, do i respond with encyclopedia references.

Frankly, it would be absurd for me to continue to engage Trinitarians on the basis of scripture because, as you will herein be amply shown,…the trinity doctrine CANNOT be found in the scriptures.

I would be arguing against a straw man.

The trinity doctrine is Antinomian.
-Ref: Deut 6:4, Gal 3:20, Heb 1:3

The trinity is Turtullian’s adaptation of Plato’s Timaeus.

These philosophical thoughts originally were carried into Rome by Pythagoras in the 6th century BC, from the philosophy school of pagan Alexandria.

Turtullian, a student of Platonic Philosophy while in Rome, applied a philosophical rule to Christianity, which mandates that Logos (a greek philosophy term) must be seperate from the original Deity.

The trinity theory is similar to polytheism because it is a theocrasias from the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian mystery traditions, (Satan worship).

As with it’s predecessors from which it is influenced, the trinity doctrine is classified as a type of pluriform monotheism and not a true monotheistic religion.

Resources:

“The Christian Bible, including the New Testament, has NO Trinitarian statements or speculations concerning a Trinitarian Deity…It is evident that Trinitarian speculation greatly resembles the way of thinking of pluriform monotheism.”
-Encyclopedia Britannica

“The doctrine of the trinity, as a statement of what God is, in Himself, CANNOT be justified on the basis of scripture.”
-Dr. M. Burrows, professor Yale Divinity School

“…the trinity was a major preoccupation of Egyptian theologies… three gods are combined and treated as a single being addressed as singular. In this way the spiritual force of Egyptian religion shows a direct link with Christian theology.” (Morenz, S. Egyptian Religion. Cornell: University Press; 1973:254-257)

“It may be doubted whether Plato himself impersonated the Logos, the reason of the Deity; with him it was rather an attribute of the Godhead… Platonism had gradually absorbed all the more intellectual class… (Plato’s philosophy) was attempting to renew Paganism, and was the recognised and leading tenet in the higher Mysteries.” (D. Milman. History of Christianity, Vol.2 p355).

“This Platonic philosophy was adopted by such of the learned at Alexandria, who wished to be accounted Christians, and yet to retain the name, the garb, and the rank of philosophers. In particular, all those who in this second century presided in the schools of the Christians at Alexandria, Athenagoras, Pantaenus and Celmens Alexandria, are said to have approved of it. These men were persuaded that true philosophy, the great and most salutary gift of God, lay in scattered fragments among all the sects of philosophers: therefore it was the duty of every wise man, and especially of a Christian teacher, to collect those fragments from all quarters, and to use them in defense of religion.” (J. Mosheim. An ecclesiastical history. Charlestown; 1694-1755 :1:152)

“If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first century Christians … was changed by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the Trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief.” (E. Gibbon. History of Christianity. Republished by Arno Press; 1972)

“The Trinity is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and engrafted on the Christian faith.” (A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge. Lyman Abbott; 1875. section on ‘Trinity’ p944)

“The term trinity is not itself found in the Bible. It was first used by Tertullian at the close of the 2nd century, but received wide currency [common use in intellectual discussion] and formal elucidation [clarification] only in the 4th and 5th centuries.”
-New Bible Dictionary

“Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Hebrew Scriptures: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (Deuteronomy 6:4).”
-Ref: Encyclopedia Brittanica

“No theologian in the first three Christian centuries was a trinitarian in the sense of a believing that the one God is tripersonal, containing equally divine “persons”, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
-Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy

” That God is One, absoloutly One-One in Essence and in Person-is the corner-stone of true theology”….”we hope to be able to set forth sufficient evidence to warrant the conclusion, that the doctrine to which we refer (the Trinity) may fairly be classed among the CORRUPTIONS of Christianity, as one of the numerous DEPARTURES from “the simplicity that is in Christ.” ”
-Ref: “The Origin of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Christian Church”, 1883, Morning Light Journal, Oxford University

” To Jesus and Paul the Doctrine of the Trinity was apparently NEVER known.
They say NOTHING about it. ”
-E. Washburn Hopkins, Professor,
Yale University

“It is IMPOSSIBLE to document what we now call Orthodoxy (The Trinity) in the first TWO CENTURIES of Christianity”
-Dr. Harold Brown, Trinitarian Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary
Ref: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church

“The Modalists were the successors to the Apostles, NOT the Trinitarians. The Trinitarians expropriated the term “Catholic” (Universal) from the writings of Ignatius. When they increased in power and numbers they branded the Modalists, who preached one God, as Heretics and styled their group as Catholic.”
-Dr. Friedrich Loofs, Trinitarian Historian, Professor at the University of Halle
Ref: The History of the Primative Church

” It MUST also be conceded by Trinitarians that the Doctrine of the Trinity, as now believed in, DID NOT find general acknowledgment until the 4th Century….”
-Ref: Morning Light Journal, vol. 7, 3/10/1883,
Oxford University

“the Trinity, …is NOT demonstrable by Logic or by scriptural proofs…”
– Hastings Dictionary of the Bible, page 1015

“The Doctrine of the Trinity itself, however, is NOT a Biblical doctrine…”
-Emil Brunner, 1949, Westminister Press, “The Christian Doctrine of God”

“The Trinitarian Dogma is in the last analysis, a late 4th century invention.”
-New Catholic Encyclopedia

“The doctrine (trinity) developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies.”
-Encyclopedia Britannica
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2) Godhead

The One True and Living God

We believe in the God of Abraham Issac and Jacob, in the one eternal, ever-living God: infinite in power, holy in nature, attributes and purpose; and possessing absolute, indivisible deity. This one true God has revealed Himself as Father in creation; through His Son, in the incarnation and redemption; and as the Holy Spirit, by emanation (1st Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6; 2nd Corinthians 5:19; Joel 2:28). The Scripture goes further than simply attempting to prove the existence of God; it asserts, assumes and declares that the knowledge of God is universal (Romans 1:19, 21, 28, 32; 2:15). God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient as well as invisible, incorporeal, without parts, without body, and therefore free from all limitations. He is Spirit (John 4:24), and “a spirit hath not flesh and bones” (Luke 24:39).

“The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord” (Mark 12:29; Deuteronomy 6:4). “One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Ephesians 4:6). Before the incarnation, this one true God manifested Himself in divers ways. In the incarnation, He manifests Himself in the Son, who walked among men. As He works in the lives of believers, He manifests Himself as the Holy Spirit.

We acknowledge the existence of the doctrine of the trinity which came to be, in it’s original form, at or around 200 ad. However, because of its late dating and that the modern version of the doctrine of the trinity was not historically taught before its post-Apostolic origin, in around 381 ad. with later revisions, we cannot recognize it as being Apostolic and therefore, we admonish our people to not teach it.

The Son of God

The one true God, the YHWH of the Old Testament, took upon Himself the form of man, and as the Son of man, was born of the virgin Mary. “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory” (1st Timothy 3:16).

This one true God was manifest in the flesh, that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them” (2nd Corinthians 5:19). We believe that “in him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). “For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell” (Colossians 1:19). Therefore, Jesus or Yeshua in His humanity was man; in His deity was and is God. His flesh was the lamb, or the sacrifice of God.

He is the only mediator between God and man. “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1st Timothy 2:5). Jesus on His Father’s side was divine, on His mother’s side, human; thus, He was known as the Son of God and also the Son of man, or the God-man.“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” (Revelation 1:8).

– Who is The Holy Spirit? –
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According to
1st Century Christians
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“The Holy Spirit is Christ”
-Clement of Rome, Bishop of Rome,
1st Century
(Friend of the Apostles Peter, Paul)

“THAT SPIRIT IS THE SON OF GOD”
-Hermas of Rome, Parable 9:1,
1st Century
(Friend of the Apostle Paul)

“The Inseperable Spirit is Jesus Christ”
-Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop of Antioch,
1st Century
(Friend of the Apostle John)

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According to
The Bible
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“the Lord is the Spirit”
-2nd Cor 3:17
(The Apostle Paul, 1st Century)

“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”
-Romans 8:9
(The Apostle Paul, 1st Century)

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
-Colossians 1:27
(The Apostle Paul, 1st Century)

“I will not leave you comfortless;
I will come to you.”
-John 14:18
(Jesus Christ, 1st Century)

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John 14:9
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;

John 10:30
I and my Father are one.

John 14:7
If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

John 12:45
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.

John 8:19, 27
“Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also…
…They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.”