The word
‘trinity’ is not found anywhere in scripture, but there is a whole doctrine and belief system that has been built upon this word. Did Jesus and the apostles teach the doctrine of the trinity? Did man make it up? We will find out the truth as we search the scriptures and learn what the Word of God tells us about His nature.
The foundational scripture used to support this doctrine is:
Matthew 28:19
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”
This scripture has nothing to do with the nature of God and has been used for centuries to support a doctrine of man. There are many scriptures that tell us exactly who God is, and what God is; but this scripture is not one of them.
In truth what this scripture tells us is that Jesus wanted His apostles to baptize all nations of disciples IN THE NAME OF, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. When you read the book of Acts you will find the apostles doing exactly what Jesus commanded them to do; baptize new converts in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which is
JESUS!
You will not find one scripture where the apostles baptized anybody using three names, why? Because they understood that the
NAME of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
IS JESUS.
Look at what Peter said in
Acts 4:10-12
“let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other,
for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
This scripture tells us plainly that there is NO other NAME under heaven GIVEN among men by which we MUST be saved!
Jesus Himself tells us in John before His death that He had manifested (to make evident) the name of the Father and given it to the men the Father gave Him out of the world.
John 17:6
“
I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world.”
And what NAME did the apostles use to drive out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead, and baptize in?
JESUS CHRIST! The Jewish name for God (Yahweh), was already given to them from the books of Moses and the prophets, but they received a new manifested name of God from the Father;
Jesus.
John 17:11-12
“Holy Father, keep through
Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in
Your name.”
We can understand from these scriptures that Jesus had NOT manifested the name Father, because the Father is a manifestation of the One God, not His name! Paul said in
Galatians 3:28 that we are one in who? Christ Jesus!
“For you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Jesus says in
John 17:26
“And I have declared to them
Your name (Jesus), and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Mark 16:15-18
“And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe:
In My name (Jesus) they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
The apostles and the 1st century believer’s did all these things in the manifested name of God;
Jesus
God is NOT One God in three persons. God is Spirit, God is One, and He is manifested in three ways; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
John 4:24
“
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Deuteronomy 6:4
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God,
the LORD is one!”
Galatians 3:20
"Now a mediator does not
mediate for one
only, but God is one."
1st John 5:7
“For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word (JESUS), and the Holy Spirit; and
these three are one.”
God is One, and the scriptures never use the words ‘three persons’ or ‘trinity’.
John 1:1,14
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God."
“And the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten (Son) of the Father, full of grace and truth.”
The Word never stopped being God, but the Word was manifested in the flesh and became the Son of God, who was given the name Jesus.
Isaiah 7:14
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (God-With-Us).
Luke 1:31,35
"And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call
His name JESUS"
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the
Son of God”
1st John 1:1-2
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning
the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life
which was with the Father and was manifested to us”
John again tells us that the Word was manifested to the world; He was an invisible Spirit that became flesh when He was born of the Virgin Mary. The Holy Spirit miraculously impregnated Mary, which allowed God Himself to enter this physical realm in the flesh of man.
Philippians 2:5-8
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who,
being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but
made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant,
and coming in the likeness of men. And being
found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross”
Jesus, who is the Word (God), was manifested in the flesh and made Himself of no reputation; He had all the powers of an omnipotent God but set aside His divinity so that He could save mankind, and He only lived by what the Father gave Him from heaven.
Colossians 2:9
“For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;”
Jesus could have done anything He wanted to do at anytime because the fullness of God lived inside His body, and the Holy Spirit worked through Jesus miraculously. But Jesus never went outside the Father’s will and He was obedient until His death, setting an example for His followers to depend solely on the Father for everything.
Colossians 1:15-17
“
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”
This scripture tells us that God is invisible (Spirit) NOT a person, and that Jesus is the image of God. All things in heaven and earth were created by Him, because He is the Word of God manifested in the flesh.
1st Timothy 3:16
"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
Look at
Genesis 1:1-3
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then God said, “
Let there be light”; and there was light.”
When God spoke, it was the power of His Word that brought the creation into existence; this same Word that created all things was manifested in the flesh and came into this world through the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit.
God is NOT three persons, God IS SPIRIT! and God IS ONE!
In All Sincerity And Truth,
Tyrone
