The Trinity. Is It Real And Is It Biblical?
Contents—Click on Number to Open
1. What Jesus Taught about God- 2. Where did the godhead/trinity ancient idea come
from?
3. What the "Church Fathers" taught 4."Proof" texts (
including the John 1:1 controversy )
5. Emperor Constantine 6.Secular Power and the early church's losing its way-
6-7-8.Developement of un-Christian traditions 7. Conclusion.-
summary 8. References
Contents
1. What Jesus Taught about God-open-
Subheadings
- scriptures required showing separate persons
- is the holy spirit a person?
- showing the lack
of scriptural evidence for trinity.
2. Where did
the godhead/trinity ancient idea come from?
- triads of gods
- pagan dieties
- godhead is a pagan term
- laying foundation
for later thought from church fathers.
3. What the
"Church Fathers" taught
- influenced by
pagan thought
- Neoplatonisms
influence ( but not actual model of trinity but an
influence )
- Influence of
humanist greek philosophy ( its function as a humanist
religion aka buddhism )
- going beyond
what is written.
4. "Proof" texts ( including the John
1:1 controversy )
- Coptic texts
- how Greek is handled and misunderstood
-
proof texts quoted by trinitarians
- Use of logic to
show trinity doesn’t exist
5. Emperor
Constantine
- Who was he?
- His role in
trinity
- Was he truly christian?
- Did
Christainity become Christendom and thus the new Imperial Cult?
6-7-8. Secular Power and the early
church's losing its way
- Developement of
un-Christian traditions
7. Conclusion.
- summary
8.
References
A
quick word from the author:
Years
ago I was exposed to christianity for the first time.
And the more I tried to understand about
God,
the muddier the waters seem to get, with doctrines and ideas about God that
seemed to get more
confusing
all the time. So I asked Yahweh, God of the Bible, revealer of secrets, to
guide my
research
to help me understand Him. After all with Yahweh God being a God of order, it
seemed
logical
all things should be easily and well understood about Him.
After
hours of prayerful and solid research, this document is the result of Gods
guidance.
I
was constantly amazed to see things appearing, to help me understand His Word.
The
trinity doctrine is everywhere, so its essential to
determine if it is indeed from God and
in
harmony with Gods word. Because if its not in harmony
with Gods word, then it isn’t from God.
Logically,
a God of order would not have messy bits and pieces hanging off His holy Word.
And
we are instructed to always test and see that things are from God, as Satan
will use
any
opportunity to sneakily direct proper worship due to God, to Satan’s false
time-waster religions,
which
would then stop people really getting to know God and His ways and what He
approves of.
This
is a LONG document, but it requires detail to get our understanding correct.
Thank
you for reading - this is a very important topic to understand.
0.
Background
The majority of
"christian" churches teach the doctrine of the trinity.
The critical question
is this - is the trinity actually Biblical?
And if the the
trinity is Biblical, can it be easily proven from the ultimate decision maker -
Gods Holy Word, the Bible?
Belief in the
Trinity is said to be essential to being christian.
See examples below:
Within the
doctrine of the trinity, God is taught as "God in three
persons/forms/substances" i.e. ( homousian ).
These are :
1 - God is God
Himself
2 - God is God
the Son ( God in the form of Jesus, as God on earth )
3 - God is the
Holy Spirit ( God in the form of the Holy Spirit, i.e.
a spiritual force with a "personality" )
God is taught as
having the 3 persons in the Godhead. But what is the Godhead?
Interestingly,
the "mystery religions" of
the
concept of a pagan godhead.
Surely with such
a supposedly critical doctrine central to being christian,
then this doctrine would be
heavily
supported and underlined in the Bible, with what the perfector of our faith,
Jesus Christ, taught
us
about God while he was on earth. That would be the most logical time to do it
so it was preserved forever
in
the Holy Scriptures ( the Bible ) for all time, for all men to know.
After all, the Son , who was first born of all creation and through whom
all things came to be, would
understand
his Father better than anyone else, correct?
Holding that
thought in our heads, let us move on.