The Asininity of the Trinity
GotQuestions.org:
Why Ask Those Who Can’t
Explain?
1 GotQuestions.org promotes itself as the resource
for answers to questions about God and the Bible on the internet. They
describe
their mission
as follows:
2 “Just as in any other field, the internet
is a battlefield. This is equally true in the spiritual realm. The
cults, false religions, and
other semi-Christian groups have websites as well. Some of these sites
perform much the same function that we do. The answers these sites provide
are often very unbiblical and lead searching people down a false path
- potentially to their own spiritual destruction…. So, the GotQuestions
staff began to pray, how can we prevent people from visiting these unbiblical
sites?”
3 So how do we know they are not giving unbiblical
answers that lead people down a false path? Don’t other religious
organizations also believe they are using the Bible properly to answer
questions? Which
one doesn’t
think they are right, or admits they are wrong? Consider!
4 “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs
the hearts” (Proverbs 21:2 HNV).
5 The Bible can tell us whether one uses it correctly
or not, but only
if properly understood and applied by the grace of God. For
example, proposing to prevent people from visiting “unbiblical
sites” is an
unbiblical, false way. Here are two Scriptural witnesses that tell us
so:
6 “For there must also be heresies among you, that the approved
ones may be revealed among you” (1 Corinthians 11:19 MKJV).
7 “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thessalonians
2:11-12 KJV).
8 God has determined that false works are necessary to catch and filter
out the insincere and other abusers of the truth. They are also there
to try and purify the sincere. The Lord gave a parable describing how
the wheat He sows grows together with the tares sowed by the enemy, until
He sends reapers to bundle the tares for burning (Matthew 13). Whoever
tries to prevent these things fights against God Himself. As it is written, “The
deceived and the deceiver are His” (Job 12:16).
9 Without the works of darkness that lie and pervert the truth, the
pure and glorious work of the Lord Jesus Christ in His saints would not
stand
out in contrast for all to see. GotQuestions is part of the darkness,
erring in the foundational elements of true faith and salvation in Christ.
Their mission is self-serving, their eyes on themselves, and not on God.
They serve, not as a light, but as a black backdrop against which God
shines His Light to give understanding to the simple who put their trust
in Him.
10 According to the counsel of the Scriptures, we acknowledge that GotQuestions
has its purpose in Heaven’s economy, and we delight in the opportunity
to show them up for what they are – workers of iniquity, coming
as ministers of righteousness in the Name of Jesus Christ, Whom they
do not know, but Whom we know, and thus we speak.
11 GotQuestions prominently teaches and defends the trinity. The teaching
of the trinity, a diabolical and confounded misrepresentation of God,
is one of the prominent indicators that you are dealing with a cult.
While we have thoroughly refuted this error in several writings in Jesus
Christ Is God, we will now answer GotQuestions’ arguments and
the Scriptures they present on their site, demonstrating how unreasonable,
speculative, and unbiblical the trinity is, according to the very same
Scriptures in which they think to find the evidence that proves it.
12 Here is the question posed on their site:
13 Question: “What
does the Bible teach about the Trinity?”
14 They begin:
15 “The most difficult
thing about the Christian concept of the Trinity is that there is no
way to adequately
explain
it. The Trinity is a concept
that is impossible for any human being to fully understand, let alone
explain.”
16 If it is impossible to explain, why try? If impossible to understand,
how do they understand and know they are speaking the
truth? Are they not in confusion and condemned out of their own mouths
as liars from
the get-go for trying to convince you of something they say is incomprehensible?
17 If they don’t understand God, how can you believe what they
say about Him? They might answer that you need to take their knowledge “by
faith,” but faith is the evidence of things not
seen, not speculation or opinion about what is invisible to outward sight.
That is anything
but evidence.
18 The truth is, those who believe do know and see God,
the Lord Jesus Christ, and tell you the truth about Him. If we have known
our physical
fathers, who are external, why should we not know our spiritual Father,
Who dwells within? The Scriptures, written by those who know God, say
much about Him, but nothing about a “trinity”!
19 “You worship what you do not know, we know
what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22 MKJV).
20 Are not trinitarians worshiping what they do not know?
If someone is unable to explain something, his understanding of it is
what should be
questioned rather than the complexity of the subject matter or his powers
of expression. Plainly the authors of GotQuestions admit they don’t
understand (and deny you can understand), which makes
them self-confessed blind leaders of the blind, with everyone ending
up in the ditch.
21 Because the things of the Spirit of God are incomprehensible or unknowable
to the carnal man, does not mean they are unknowable
to those who receive understanding from God, Who enlightens the spirit
and mind. The children
of Light do know these things, by the revelation of
Jesus Christ that has been given to them. Are the Scriptures true or
are they not, when
they declare thus?:
22 “However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide
you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He
hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come” (John
16:13 MKJV).
23 Those who do not know the Lord argue that at some time in the by-and-by
the believer will be guided into all truth. But years after Jesus spoke
those words, John wrote other words, which confirmed that we would know
all things while yet on this earth as saints, having received the Spirit
of the Lord. He speaks in the present tense:
24 “But you have an anointing from the Holy One,
and you know all
things” (1 John 2:20 MKJV).
25 “But the anointing which you received from Him abides in you,
and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing
teaches you concerning all things, and is true and no lie, and
as He has taught you, abide in Him” (1 John 2:27 MKJV).
26 The problem with GotQuestions, and all those who deny these things
and rationalize around them, is that they have never received the Spirit
of God. The things of God are foreign and inexplicable to them.
27 As for the righteous, the children of the faith of Abraham, God declares:
28 “And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the
sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever
and ever” (Daniel 12:3 MKJV).
29 Psalms 149:4-9 MKJV
(4) For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek
with salvation.
(5) Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds.
(6) Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword
in their hand,
(7) to carry out vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
(8) to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron-bands,
(9) to carry out on them the judgment written; this is an honor for all
His saints. Praise the LORD!
30 And it is God’s good pleasure to show and give these things
to His children:
31 “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in Spirit and said, I thank You,
Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from
the sophisticated and cunning, and have revealed them to babes.
Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing before You” (Luke 10:21 MKJV).
32 Praise God! There is sound and unshakeable understanding for babes
in Christ, those who do not trust in their own sight or thinking. God
has
opened
their
eyes
to see, know, and receive Him, while this precious knowledge is hidden
from the spiritually sophisticated and cunning. Lacking revelation knowledge
of Him, the religious professors of faith who trust in themselves conceive
complicated explanations, from their own minds, for the false gods they
have formed in His Name, calling them, among other things, the trinity.
33 The trinity god is a mystery, which its worshippers confess no man
can comprehend. Yet you are called to bow down with them to this mystery,
worshiping what they “know not.”
34 The unknowing and ignorant are caught in the net, made subject to
the superstitious and false religion called “orthodox Christianity,” which
is full of error (see The True Marks
of a Cult and Diabolical Doctrines).
The keepers of the orthodox gate entangle their captives with an incomprehensible
god one can never know. And how can you trust what you don’t know
or understand?
35 To top it off, the fact that the trinity can’t be explained
is supposed to convince you of its validity. What a scam! This is Mystery
at work!
36 “Mystery,” if you are not familiar, is the short name
for “Babylon
the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth,” who
is drunk with the blood of the saints she has murdered (physically and
spiritually) from the very beginning. She wields her power through darkness
and lies couched in truths. She threatens with eternal torment in hell
if you don’t accept her inexplicable tri-part god.
37 But such a threat was never uttered from the lips of the true God
Who gave His only begotten Son to save (not to condemn or destroy) the
world
(read The Good News).
Mystery claims God made this threat, in order to get you to follow her
in His Name as she leads you into hell (or keeps
you there).
38 GotQuestions is a servant of Mystery, which explains why they have
not “Got
Answers.” They do not have the Spirit of Him Who enlightens the
mind and spirit of men, bringing them into the knowledge of Him:
39 “And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true
God, and Jesus Christ Whom You have sent” (John 17:3 MKJV).
40 Knowing Jesus Christ is knowing God, because they
are One and the Same. If the Father is the only true
God, then Jesus Christ cannot be a separate Being
Who is also God. Jesus Christ is either God, the Father come in the flesh,
or He is not God at all.
41 Is it a strange and amazing thing that God
took on human form and came in the flesh? Indeed it is!
42 “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels,
preached among nations, believed on in the world, and received up into
glory” (1 Timothy 3:16 MKJV).
43 Listen to the contemptible confusion GotQuestions peddles in the
Name of Christ, presuming to explain Him without knowing Him:
44 “The Bible teaches that the Father is
God, that Jesus is God, and that the Holy Spirit is God. The Bible
also
teaches that there is
only one God…The Trinity is one God existing in three Persons.
Understand that this is not in any way suggesting three Gods.”
45 What twaddle! How are “three Persons” not “three
Gods”?
Oh yes, we are told this is inexplicable. Well, we will explain how wickedly
stupid and wrong such thinking is, because it calls the Lord a liar when
He says He is the only One and Singular God,
with no God beside Him (Isaiah 45:5,21). Line up three “Persons” - “God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit” - and there are
Gods beside each other, are there not?
46 According to GotQuestions’ doctrine, there could actually be
a fourth God, “the Trinity,” which exists in these three
other “Persons.” When
any of these three “Persons” speaks, it is the fourth God,
the combined “Trinity Personality,” speaking through the
individual Person-God. Such confusion!
47 No, there is only one God, Who speaks with one Mind and one Voice.
There are not several gods conferring and/or speaking separately. There
are
not Three Persons thinking the same thoughts simultaneously, making each
other redundant.
48 Let me explain something that could help you understand, using the
same wording of GotQuestions - God exists in me, in
the way He has in many people from the time of Christ’s resurrection
and the giving of His Spirit:
49 “You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them,
because He [not “They”] Who
is in you is greater than he
who is in the world” (1 John 4:4 MKJV).
50 Yet, though God exists in me, I am not God. And though I am one with
God, as Jesus prayed I would be, I am still not God:
51 “Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe
in Me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father,
are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in us; that the world
may believe that You sent Me” (John 17:20-21 HNV).
52 (Where, by the way, is the Holy Spirit, Who is supposed to be one
with the Son and the Father? Why doesn’t the Son mention Him?)
53 According to the trinitarian doctrine and the rationale proposed
by GotQuestions (“God existing in three Persons”), these
words must be taken to mean that I am also God, since I am one with Him,
like
Jesus, and exist in Him. And, in a way I am God, but
only as a member of His Body, or more precisely, He exists partially through me,
as Paul the apostle writes of himself:
54 “I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer
I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live
in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, Who loved me and
gave Himself on my behalf” (Galatians
2:20 MKJV).
55 So we can see that existing or being in God does
not make one God Himself. God exists in me and I am one with Him by
the cross of Christ, yet
I am not God. Therefore, God existing in Jesus did not make Him one
Person of a Three-God-Person trinity. According to His Own words and
works, He was either God Himself in the flesh, or He was only a man.
56 Jesus described the difference here:
57 John 10:34-38 MKJV
(34) Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your
Law, "I said,
You are gods?"
(35) If He called those gods with whom the Word of
God was, and the Scripture cannot be broken,
(36) do you say of Him Whom
the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because
I said, I am the Son of God?
(37) If I do not do the works of My Father,
do not believe Me.
(38) But if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe
the works so
that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.
58 And what else do the Scriptures say?:
59 “For He [Christ] was counted worthy
of more glory than Moses, because He Who has built the house
has more honor than the house. For
every house is built by someone, but He Who built all things
is God” (Hebrews
3:3-4 MKJV).
60 Jesus Christ, as Builder of the house, is God. That
is also the testimony of the apostle John:
61 John 1:1-4, 9-10, 14 MKJV
(1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
(2) He was in the beginning with God.
(3) All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even
one thing came into being that has come into being.
(4) In Him was life, and the life was the light of men….
(9) He was the true Light; He enlightens every man coming into the world.
(10) He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him,
and the world did not know Him…
(14) And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld
His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and of truth.
62 God built the house (and all things) by coming in the flesh:
63 Philippians 2:5-10 ASV
(5) Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(6) Who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality
with God a thing to be grasped,
(7) but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in
the likeness of men;
(8) and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, becoming
obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
(9) Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, and gave unto Him the Name
which is above every name;
(10) that in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven
and things on earth and things under the earth,
(11) and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
64 There are not three different “Persons” mingled in an
incomprehensible, conglomerate godhead. There is only one God with different
manifestations,
which are the same Being. Hear His (not “Their”) emphatic
declaration on this point: “Hear O Israel, the LORD our God is
One LORD” (Deuteronomy 6:4).
65 Trying to deconstruct God and explain how He works, the writers of
GotQuestions admit they lack understanding, but allow for no error, as
they speculate:
66 “Though we can understand some facts
about the relationship of the different Persons of the Trinity to one
another,
ultimately, it is
incomprehensible to the human mind. However, this does not mean the Trinity
is not true or that it is not based on the teachings of the Bible.”
67 If God did not want us to know that He was the only One True God,
then He wouldn’t have bothered telling us. What an insult to Him
to say that we can’t understand that He is one instead of three,
while insisting He says He is three. It is not that trinitarian preachers
can’t
understand there is only one God. They refuse to understand because they
refuse the One True God Who speaks, having no use for Him.
68 Trinitarianism treats Jesus Christ like the Koran does. Islam presumes
to honor Christ by calling Him a prophet, yet denies He is the Son of
God. Trinitarians presume to honor Christ by calling Him “the second
Person of the Godhead” while denying He is the One True God and
Father.
69 John 14:8-9 EMTV
(8) Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient
for us.”
(9) Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time,
and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He that has seen Me has seen the
Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”
70 (By the way, how is the Son co-equal with the Father if He is the
second Person, commanded and given for the sins of mankind by the Father,
Who
is first? And how is it the Father knows things the Son does not if they
are co-equal?)
71 What shameless impudence to insist the Bible teaches what is never
mentioned in it – the trinity - and to condemn those who do not
accept this manmade concept, especially those who refute the polytheistic
jumble
by declaring Him, of Whom the Bible is all about, the One True God and
Lord Jesus Christ.
72 In order to promote the trinity, the writers of GotQuestions read
into, and pervert, what the Scriptures say, according to their natural
minds
and unspiritual reasoning. We will now look at some examples of common
verses they and others use to prop up this monstrous abomination.
73 What about this famous one? Surely it could sound like the Scriptures
are talking about more than one God:
74 Genesis 1:26-27 JPS
(26) And God said: ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’
(27) And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created
He him; male and female created He them.
75 But we see in verse 27 that God is singular, saying “He,” not “They.” Then
why “us” and “our” in verse 26? Because
God was not alone:
76 Job 38:4-7 MKJV
(4) Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell if
you have understanding!
(5) Who has set its measurements, for you know? Or who has stretched
the line on it?
(6) On what are its bases sunk, or who cast its cornerstone,
(7) when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted
for joy?
77 The same here:
78 Genesis 3:22-24 JPS
(22) And the LORD God said: ‘Behold, the man is become as one of
us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever.’
(23) Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken.
(24) So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden
of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way to the tree of life.
79 He was speaking to the cherubim, describing the situation and their
mission to them. So there are others with the LORD God. What about this
occasion, mentioned by GotQuestions?:
80 Genesis 11:5-7 KJV
(5) And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children
of men builded.
(6) And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do.
(7) Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one another’s speech.
81 God sent His angels in His Name to do His work with men. Has God
appeared in other similar circumstances, accompanied by His servants?
Indeed,
He has:
82 Genesis 18:1-3 HNV
(1) The LORD appeared to [Abraham] by
the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
(2) [Abraham] lifted up his eyes and looked, and
saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent
door, and bowed himself to the earth,
(3) and said, “My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight,
please don’t go away from Your servant.”
83 The Lord tells Abraham that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah has become
very great:
84 Genesis 18:21-22 BBE
(21) I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem
from the outcry which has come to Me; and if they are not, I will see.
(22) And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham
was still waiting before the Lord.
85 So the Lord said He was going down to see, yet the
two other men went without Him. Were those other two persons the Son
and the Holy Spirit?
No, don’t be silly. They were angels representing God’s will
and purpose. God was with them in Spirit, but they were not other members
of a trinity. God alone remained standing before Abraham, continuing
to speak with him.
86 Some opine that since God says, “I will go down,” instead
of, “We will go down,” He was not going this time as a threesome,
as they say He was when speaking at the Tower of Babel, where He said, “Let
us go down.” (Why or how this could be so, with God going as a
corporate Being one time, and a single Being the next, they don’t
say, but let’s answer this convoluted reasoning to show there is
a simple explanation that puts away such nonsense.) These theoreticians
go on to say that by speaking in the singular with Abraham, God shows
that angels, who accompanied Him on this occasion, are not included in
the “us” that appears in other plural references in the Bible.
Those plural references, they say, refer to other members of the trinity.
87 But all that was different in this one particular instance had
to do with whom He was addressing. Because He was speaking
to Abraham here, He spoke of what He intended to do.
But when He spoke to His companions, the angels, His messengers, He spoke
of what they were doing in His Name,
by His authority and power (“Where two or three are gathered in
My Name, there am I in the midst of them” - Matthew
18:20).
88 The following simple example illustrates, in a worldly situation,
the difference between the use of “I” or “us,” depending
on to whom one is speaking:
89 I to companions: Let us go down to the store to
check out computers.
I to clerk at store: I am here to buy a computer.
90 Since it is established here that only one of the three men was addressed
by Abraham as God, for those who argue a trinity, which member was He
- the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit? If you say that One Man was all three
of a trinity, why would there be no mention or indication of that?
If the trinity
is so important to know and believe, why was there no emphasis on it
in this event with Abraham? But Abraham believed according to the Scripture, “Hear,
O Israel: The LORD our God is One LORD.”
91 Here is another Scripture offered as proof of the trinity with the
same kind of oversight and mistaken reasoning:
92 Isaiah 6:1-8 MKJV
(1) In the year that King Uzziah died I then saw the Lord [singular] sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
(2) Above it stood the seraphs; each one had six wings; with two he covered
his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
(3) And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD
of Hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.
(4) And the doorposts moved at the voice of the one who cried, and the
house was filled with smoke.
(5) Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone; for I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes
have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.
(6) Then one of the seraphs flew to me, having a live coal in his hand,
snatched with tongs from the altar.
(7) And he laid it on my mouth and said, Lo, this has touched your lips;
and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.
(8) And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me!
93 Once again, there are others with the Lord, in this case the seraphs
who worshipped before Him and ministered to Isaiah. And what of the twenty-four
elders before His throne (Revelation 4:4)? Is God alone?
94 Here is a common objection to God being singular, as voiced by GotQuestions:
95 “The Hebrew word for God, Elohim, definitely
allows for the Trinity.”
96 “Definitely allows for the Trinity” is a far cry from
declaring the trinity. It definitely allows for a whole army of Gods,
too. But
aside from the fact this is sheer numerical speculation, what about the
plural nature of “Elohim” (the Hebrew ending - “im” -
used for plurals)?
97 Did you know, dear reader, that the Hebrew words for “water” and “Heaven,” both
singular nouns, also end in “im” – “mayim” and “shemayim”?
The plural form of a noun in Hebrew does not automatically mean there
is more than one.
98 This is the case with “Elohim,” which, when referring
to God, is not plural, but singular, denoting great distinction.
99 For example, when God spoke to Moses about his calling, He said: “See
I have made you a god [elohim] to Pharaoh,
and Aaron your brother will be your prophet” (Exodus 7:1 BBE).
100 Moses was given a position of great distinction,
but he was still one person. According to the trinitarian argument, because
Moses was
called “elohim,” he
must have been a combination of three (the number they have settled on)
persons! It is no less ridiculous and wrong to call God a “trinity” because
He is Elohim.
101 In other places in the Bible, the word “elohim” is plural,
meaning “gods.” For example, “You shall have no other
gods [elohim] before Me” (Exodus 20:3
MKJV).
102 So we find that “elohim” can mean “god” or “gods,” but
when referring to the Creator, it always denotes the One and
only Almighty God. The adjectives and verbs used with “elohim” when
addressing the Creator are always singular, referring to “Him,” not “They.” So
what does the trinitarian have left to stand on? That, too, must be removed.
103 GotQuestions says: “In
Isaiah 48:16 and 61:1, the Son is speaking while making reference to
the Father
and
the Holy Spirit.”
104 Here is the first reference (with the following
verse for continuity):
105 Isaiah 48:16-17 JPS
(16) Come ye near unto Me, hear ye this: From the beginning I have not
spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the
Lord GOD hath sent me, and His Spirit.
(17) Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am
the LORD thy God, Who teacheth thee for thy profit, Who leadeth thee
by the way that thou shouldest go.
106 There were no punctuation marks, verse numbers,
or quotation marks in the original Scripture scrolls. One can see from
the larger context
(preceding
verses) that the Lord is speaking in the beginning of verse 16. Then
the prophet says, “And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and His Spirit,” followed
by more prophetic words: “Thus saith the Lord….”
107 As for the Spirit of God, the prophet is not speaking of another
entity. God comes by His Spirit, as David said: “Cast me not away
from
Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from
me” (Psalms 51:11
MKJV). The two bolded portions are interchangeable and are given
for emphasis, as they are in Isaiah’s words, “And now the
Lord GOD has sent me, and His Spirit.”
108 And if the words of the prophet Isaiah, “And now the Lord
GOD has sent me, and His Spirit,” may be transferred to Christ
in the days of His flesh (and to us in Him), so what? God had sent Him:
109“Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love
Me, for I went forth and came from God; for I did not come of Myself,
but
He sent Me” (John 8:42 MKJV).
110 The second prophecy mentioned from Isaiah
was directly quoted by the Lord at the beginning of His ministry:
111 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me;
because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the humble; He
has sent Me to bind
up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to
those who are bound” (Isaiah 61:1 HNV).
112 This is speaking of the incarnation of God as the Son of Man, when
He came to bring us the Good News that would be fulfilled in our souls.
We do not deny that God came in the flesh; on the contrary, we affirm
and proclaim it! Jesus Christ lived fully as a man dependent entirely
on God, but He is not another “God.” He is the God,
YHWH, I AM, the eternal One, Who was never created but begotten for our
sakes,
bringing us life from the dead (where we were stuck without hope).
113 There are not three individual “Persons” Who make up
God. There is only Jesus Christ, God made manifest in the flesh to effect
our deliverance from sin and death.
114 “And lifting up their eyes, they saw
no one except Jesus only” (Matthew
17:8 EMTV).
115 Here is a famous Scripture used by GotQuestions,
and trinitarians everywhere, who cry, “See all three Gods together – proof
of the trinity!”
116“And Jesus, when He had been baptized, went up immediately
out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw
the
Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon Him. And lo, a
voice from Heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well
pleased” (Matthew 3:16-17 MKJV).
117 Trinity sightings are proof of man’s
lack of understanding, nothing more! When God took on human form, He
was still God in Heaven.
God is
capable of experiencing a dual existence and much more. If He fills all
things (Ephesians 1:23) and by Him all things consist (Colossians 1:17),
then what is the problem with Him becoming a man and appearing in the
flesh? Does He suddenly not fill all things because He takes on human
form? If a drop of rain falls on the desert, does the ocean cease to
exist? How foolish are the idolaters who place arbitrary limitations
on the Almighty Creator!
118 Regarding the idolaters’ explanation of the scenario just
described by Matthew, where the Spirit descends and the Father speaks,
as though
they are separate entities, have you not heard that the Holy Spirit fathered Christ?
119“And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy
Spirit shall
come on you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore
also that Holy One which will be born of you shall be called Son of God” (Luke
1:35 MKJV).
120 The Son of God is the Son of the Holy Spirit.
This proves the Holy Spirit
is God! So when God, Who is the Father, speaks, it is the
Holy Spirit speaking, even though God is described in the same place
as the Holy
Spirit descending as a dove. The different titles only indicate different
functions performed by the One and only God, our Lord and Creator.
121 God, Who is the Spirit, Who is the Son, always
speaks from Heaven:
122 “See that you do not refuse Him Who speaks. For if they did
not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall
not escape if we turn away from Him Who speaks from Heaven, Whose voice
then shook the earth…” (Hebrews 12:25-26 MKJV).
123 The incarnation of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, spoke from Heaven
while He walked the earth as a man, as testified by John the Immerser:
124 “He Who comes from above is above all;
he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks from the earth. He
Who comes from Heaven is above all, and what He has seen and heard, that
He testifies,
and no one receives His testimony” (John 3:31-32 MKJV).
125 The Lord Himself also testified: “And no one has ascended
up to Heaven except He Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Man Who is
in Heaven” (John 3:13 MKJV).
126 “Then what if you should see the Son of Man going
up where He was before? It is the Spirit that makes alive,
the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit
and
are life” (John 6:62-63
MKJV).
127 There were not three members of a trinity operating at the Lord’s
baptism. There was only the One True God making known His Person and
the awesome happenings at hand, for our sakes.
128 What about this objection GotQuestions makes,
one that is not only baseless, but blatantly in error?:
129 “In the Old Testament, ‘LORD’ is
distinguished from ‘Lord’ (Genesis
19:24; Hosea 1:4).”
130 In Genesis 19:24 there is no difference between “LORD” and “LORD”;
it is the exact same word:
131“Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone
and fire from the LORD out of heaven” (Genesis 19:24 KJV).
132 This Scripture, however, is proof that God can
be spoken of in the third person, though never as another person.
133 (As a side note, the King James Version’s
rendition of the Old Testament uses “LORD” to signify where
the original text had the Name of God, which was written in Hebrew as
YHWH, and uses “Lord” where
the title of Lord can be applied to God, or YHWH.)
134 As for Hosea 1:4, it has only one mention of the LORD. So what gives?
Is no one checking over these things, or of the million visitors a month
GotQuestions claims to have, not one has pointed out these oversights?
Isn’t this indicative of how readily people swallow poisonous false
doctrines without question? But the Lord quickens whom He will, and His
Word does not return to Him void!
135 Does the fact that God has a Son prove the
trinity?:
136 “The LORD has a Son (Psalm 2:7, 12;
Proverbs 30:2-4).”
137 Not at all! These Scriptures only prove that
the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was foretold for
our sakes. The LORD also
has an Angel, which is His manifestation and appearing, as reported in
the Old Testament (read Jesus
Christ, Almighty God). No one who knew
God ever believed the Angel of the LORD was another member of a trinity
or some unknown number of gods.
138 GotQuestions charges that God distinguishes
between Himself and the Holy Spirit, using the following Scripture as
supposed proof:
139 “Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence,
and take not Your Holy Spirit
from me” (Psalms 51:10-11 MKJV).
140 Is my spirit, which God renews, not me?
Is it another person? I am my spirit and my spirit is me. So God’s
Holy Spirit is Him, His Presence
and very Person. The Scripture is talking about God, not another individual
called “the Holy Spirit.”
141 Another artificial and carnal distinction:
142 “God the Son is
distinguished from God the Father (Psalm 45:6-7; Hebrews 1:8-9).”
143 Here are the Scriptures:
144 “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the staff of Your
Kingdom is a staff of righteousness. You love righteousness, and hate
wickedness;
therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above
Your fellows” (Psalms 45:6-7 MKJV).
145 “But to the Son He says, ‘Your
throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the
scepter of Your Kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, Your
God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows’” (Hebrews
1:8-9 MKJV).
146 These verses say nothing about a second member of the trinity known
as “God the Son.” They speak of God, Who, taking on human
flesh and living as a man, worshipped God perfectly, as all men are called
to do through Him.
147 You won’t find another person called “God the Son” in
the Scriptures because there is only one God, not two or three persons
called “God.” He became one of us, known in His incarnation
as “the Son of God,” serving in this capacity as the Mediator
Who reconciles us to God. We become one with God through the Son of God.
148 If God was a trinity, comprised of “God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit,” then the following
Scripture would be worded differently.
149 Here is the correct version, speaking of the one true God and Father
Who is manifest through His Son:
150 “Grace be with you, mercy, and peace,
from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son
of the Father,
in truth and love” (2
John 1:3 KJV).
151 Here is the incorrect trinitarian version, indicating
two “Persons,” each
of which is attributed with bestowing grace:
152 “Grace be with you, mercy, and peace,
from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, God the
Son, in truth
and love” (2
John 1:3 KJV).
153 What is the difference, you ask? “The
Son of the Father” is
the projection of God into humanity, whereas “God the Son” is
the introduction of another individual. That is why I say “God
the Son” could also bestow grace, but we find in the Scriptures
that grace always comes from God, singular: “Grace
to you and peace from Him [not ‘Them’] Who
is and Who was and Who is coming; and from the seven spirits which are
before His [not ‘Their’] throne” (Revelation
1:4 MKJV).
154 “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with all of you. Amen” (Revelation
22:21 MKJV).
155 There is only one source of the grace of God,
which comes to man through Jesus Christ.
156 How about this claim?:
157 “In the New Testament,
Jesus speaks to the Father about sending a Helper, the Holy Spirit
(Johne 14:16-17).
This
shows that Jesus did
not consider Himself to be the Father or the Holy Spirit.”
158 Here is the Scripture:
159 “And I will pray the Father, and He
shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever,
the Spirit of Truth, Whom
the world
cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know
Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you” (John
14:16-17 MKJV).
160 “But you know Him,” Jesus said
to His disciples. Whom did they know, if not Him (Jesus)? He also said
He would go and return:
161 “And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, so that where I am,
you may be also” (John
14:3 MKJV).
162 And He did come again, at Pentecost, 50 days
after His resurrection. And when Saul and the Jews persecuted the saints
in whom dwelt the Holy
Spirit, Jesus asked this question of Saul:
163 “And he fell to the earth and heard
a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? And he said,
Who are you, lord?
And the
Lord said, I am Jesus Whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick
against the goads” (Acts 9:4-5 MKJV).
164 Did He say Saul was persecuting the Holy Spirit
they had received at Pentecost? No, He said Saul was persecuting Him
in those saints, because
He is the Holy Spirit.
165 So, does the Scripture show that Jesus did not consider Himself
to be the Father or the Holy Spirit? No, it only shows that He spoke
from
the
perspective of a man, which is precisely how God became our Savior! This
was the point of His incarnation and of all that He said and did:
166 “But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found
in
fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:7-8 KJV).
167 What would be the point if God became a man
without being subject to the same restrictions we experience as physical
beings? When Jesus
said
to the Jews that He was from before Abraham, He spoke of His existence
as God, knowing from before the beginning what He would come and do in
the flesh. As it is written of Him: “…Who verily was foreordained
before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times
for you” (1 Peter 1:20 KJV).
168 When God took on human flesh, He did it fully,
not as a cheat! He didn’t
come saying, “Hey, listen up earth men, this is God here, the Creator
and Father of spirits, now appearing as a man like you, but really it
is an illusion because I am not a man, but God, filling all things, upholding
all things, observing and hearing all things, and able to dematerialize
at any moment, doing whatever I wish. I will show you right now by removing
that mountain and casting it into the sea.”
169 God forbid! He came in the flesh to do whatever God willed for Him
to do as our representative man. Our Savior came as a servant, for our
sakes.
Jesus said:
170 “For who is greater, one who sits at
the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table?
But I am in the midst of you as one who serves” (Luke 22:27 HNV).
171 God took on humanity in Christ to make the way for us as one of
us, which He did by laying down His life in obedience. He thereby became
Lord and Savior of all:
172 “Therefore God has highly exalted Him,
and has given Him a Name which is above every name, that at the Name
of Jesus every knee
should
bow…” (Philippians 2:9-10 MKJV).
173 The One Who took on human form to save us, and the only One Who
could save us, is God, not a second and lesser “Person” of
a trinity. It is the same God Who dwells in those who receive Christ’s
Spirit - the Holy Spirit - the Spirit of God. This is the one true God.
174 “For to them God would make known what
are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which
is Christ in you,
the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27 MKJV).
175“Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
dwells in him and he in God” (1 John 4:15 MKJV).
176 “No one has seen God at any time. If
we love one another, God
dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know
that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of
His Spirit” (1
John 4:12-13 MKJV).
177 “But if the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from the dead dwells
in you, He Who raised Christ from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit indwelling
in you” (Romans 8:11
EMTV)
178“But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the
Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the
Spirit of Christ, he
is none of His” (Romans 8:9 MKJV).
179 “The Spirit of God” is used interchangeably
with “the
Spirit of Christ” because He is the same God and Spirit.
180 Let’s examine more idolatrous Scripture-twisting
from GotQuestions:
181 “Each member of
the Trinity is God. The Father is God (John 6:27; Romans 1:7; 1 Peter
1:2). The Son is
God
(John 1:1, 14; Romans 9:5; Colossians
2:9; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20). The Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4; 1
Corinthians 3:16).”
182 Here is the first set of Scriptures, referring to the Father as
God:
183“Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which
abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:
for Him the Father, even God, hath sealed” (John
6:27 ASV).
184 “To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ” (Romans
1:7 ASV).
185 “…according to the foreknowledge of God the
Father,
in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ:
Grace to you and peace be multiplied” (1 Peter 1:2 ASV). [End of
Scriptures from GotQuestions]
186 “God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.” That
is the point here. God is our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. (Can He not be more than one thing?) He came to cleanse us with
His blood through
Jesus Christ. These are not separate components of a tri-part God, with
one portion being called “the Father.” That is baseless,
foolish, wicked surmising.
187 “If any man teach otherwise, and consent
not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
to the doctrine which
is
according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about
questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings,
evil surmisings” (1 Timothy 6:3-4 KJV).
188 Here are the Scriptures referring to the Son as God (the last two
mentioned have already been addressed):
189 “In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and
the Word was God” (John 1:1 ASV).
190 “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt
among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from
the Father), full of grace
and truth” (John 1:14 ASV).
191 “…whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ according
to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen” (Romans
9:5 MKJV).
192“For in Him all the wealth of God’s being has a living
form” (Colossians
2:9 BBE). [End of Scriptures]
193 Yes! Jesus Christ is God, amen! The point made
here is that God took on human form, manifesting His Character and fulfilling
the Law as a
man such as we are (which we could not do), because He was without sin.
He laid down His life as only God could and thereby overcame death for
us all. He is not another God, but God Himself.
194 The Scriptures referring to the Holy Spirit as God:
195“But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart
for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back
part of the price of the land? While it remained, was it not your own?
And
after it was sold,
was it not in your own authority? Why have you conceived this thing in
your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God” (Acts
5:3-4 MKJV).
196 “Do you not know that you are a temple of God,
and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16 MKJV) [End
of Scriptures]
197 The point being that the Spirit of God is
not another member of a trinity of Gods, but God Himself, Father and
Son:
198“But if the Spirit of Him [the
Father] Who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you, He Who raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit indwelling in you” (Romans
8:11 EMTV).
199 “And because you are sons, God has sent
forth the
Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father” (Galatians
4:6 MKJV).
200 “Therefore take heed to yourselves,
and to all the flock in which
the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the
church of God which
He [the Holy Spirit] has
purchased with His own blood” (Acts 20:28
MKJV).
201 The Holy Spirit is God -
Father and Son! The Spirit of God is not a subordinate Being, as GotQuestions
suggests, using their
doctrine to divide God, grabbing hold of any Scriptures they can misconstrue
to support their ungodly trinity.
202 Some other examples they provide:
203 “But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit Whom the Father will send
in My Name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatever I have said to you” (John 14:26 MKJV).
204 “And when the Comforter has come, Whom I will send to you
from the Father, the Spirit of Truth Who proceeds from the Father, He
shall
testify of Me” (John 15:26 MKJV).
205 “However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will
guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever
He
hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come. He
will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will announce it to
you” (John 16:13-14 MKJV). [End of Scriptures]
206 Surely these Scriptures could make it sound like there is more than
one God, but listen to what Jesus also said to His disciples:
207 “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come
to you” (John
14:18 KJV).
208 Jesus Christ is the Comforter!
209 The Spirit of Truth is the Spirit of God is
the Spirit of Christ. In the new and different thing God was doing by
giving men His Spirit
through
Christ, the language the Lord used to describe this extraordinary happening
makes it clear that He was returning to them in the Spirit, as God, and
no longer in human form. He was coming to give them eternal life, a quality
of life where man is empowered by God to live as Christ did, as a perfect
man, the fulfillment of God’s work of making us in His image.
210 The important point that cuts through the
confusion is this: Though God came in human form as Jesus Christ, making
the way for our reconciliation
and salvation, we are no longer to know Him as a man in the flesh, but
as God:
211 2 Corinthians 5:16-19 MKJV
(16) So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if
we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him
so.
(17) So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old
things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
(18) And all things are of God, Who has reconciled us to Himself through
Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
(19) whereas God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not
imputing their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation
in us.
212 To accomplish this reconciliation, the Lord submitted Himself perfectly
as a man to God, fulfilling the Law and making the way for us, as human
beings, to fulfill the Law as well:
213 Romans 3:20-24,31 EMTV
(20) Therefore by works of the Law no flesh shall be justified in His
sight, for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
(21) But now the righteousness of God apart from the Law has been revealed,
being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,
(22) even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to
all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;
(23) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
(24) being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that
is in Christ Jesus….
(31) Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! On
the contrary, we establish the law.
214 When we see Jesus, in the days of His flesh, submitting to the Father,
it is not because He is a subordinate “Person” in a trio
of Gods. It is God in the form of a servant, doing perfectly what we
are called and empowered to do through Him. He is the Way.
When Christ says, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup
from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done” (Luke 22:42 MKJV),
He makes the way for us to lay down our lives, too, by the same Spirit
He now gives
us. As He raised Himself from the dead (yes, Christ,
as God, raised Himself from the dead – John 2:19), so do we exercise
His resurrection power to overcome sin and death.
215 It was never by our own power that we could
be subservient to God, but only by the faith of the Son of God:
216 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless
I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
Who loved me, and gave Himself for me” (Galatians
2:20 KJV).
217 Don’t go for the lame excuse that the “subordination
within the trinity” “is simply an area
which our finite minds cannot understand concerning the infinite God.” If
understanding was not possible, then why would these religious teachers
bother with the illustrations
and arguments they so diligently conceive and propagate to convince you
of their position? It is not that you cannot understand, but their understanding
cannot comprehend in darkness or speak the truth:
218 “Many shall be purified, and made white,
and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall
understand, but
the wise
shall understand” (Daniel 12:10 MKJV).
219 Another false notion spun from their error:
220 “The individual
members of the Trinity have different tasks.”
221 There are no “individual members” but the same God over
all, doing whatever different things are necessary in the effectual manner
He chooses to do them, manifesting Himself as He sees fit. The functions
are diverse, but the Doer is the same. There is only one Lord God and
Spirit:
222 Ephesians 4:4-6 MKJV
(4) There is one body and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope
of your calling,
(5) one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
(6) one God and Father of all, Who is above all and through all and in
you all.
223 Are there three bodies? No. Are there three
faiths? No. Are there three baptisms? No; though there is water baptism,
this passage speaks
of the
baptism in the Holy Spirit, the new birth, of which there is only one.
Are there three Gods (Persons or whatever one wants to
call “Them”)? No!
224 Think about this: Without the Lord Jesus Christ, there is no such
thing as “God the Father,” because one can only be born again
through Christ. No Christ, no Father.
225 “For through Him we both have access
by one Spirit to the Father” (Ephesians
2:18 MKJV).
226 “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John
14:6 EMTV)
227 If God were composed of members, as trinitarians propose, you could
remove one, just like you could have your leg amputated. But that is
not the case with God.
228 The Lord our God is One, impossible to separate: “But there
is to us only one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in
Him;
and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we by Him” (1
Corinthians 8:6 MKJV).
229 How can there be anything without Christ, by Whom God dwells in
us and we in Him?
230 Trying to neatly divide God into individual
members with different tasks leads to confusion over which alleged member
of God is doing what,
such
as in this reference from GotQuestions:
231 “The Father is
the ultimate source or cause of the universe. Rev. 4:11”
232 But the Scripture reference in Revelation
refers to Jesus Christ, as is plain from the context:
233 “O Lord, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power,
because You created all things, and for Your will they are and were created” (Revelation
4:11 MKJV).
234 This Lord Who sits on the throne of God and is worshipped by the
twenty-four elders is also worshipped by four beasts, who say, “Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God, the Almighty, Who was and is and is to
come” (Revelation
4:8 MKJV).
235 These last peculiar words pertain to the Lord Jesus Christ: “I
am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord,
Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty” (Revelation
1:8 MKJV).
236 So yes, the Scripture does speak of God Almighty,
the Father, when speaking of the Son. Can there be any doubt remaining
that this is One
and the
Same God?
237 “And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet
as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying to me, Do not fear, I
am the First and the Last, and the Living One, and I
became dead, and behold, I am alive for ever and ever, Amen.
And I have the keys of hell and of death” (Revelation
1:17-18 MKJV).
238 Jesus Christ is Almighty God! God came in
the flesh, a human being like you or me, yet without sin, in order to
save us. Those who deny
Christ
as the God of Heaven and earth are confounded and are
denied His salvation:
239 “Therefore I said to you that you shall
die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die
in your sins” (John
8:24 MKJV).
240 “Do you not believe that I am in the
Father and the Father in Me? The Words that I speak to you I do not speak
of Myself, but the
Father
Who dwells in Me, He does the works” (John 14:10 MKJV).
241 Here is how God saw things, and what He did
for us through Jesus Christ:
242 “And He saw that there was no man, and wondered
that there was no intercessor. Therefore His own arm brought
salvation to Him; and His
righteousness sustained Him” (Isaiah 59:16 MKJV).
243 Here is what man saw when God brought salvation
by His own
arm (and
our intercessor, Jesus Christ): “Father, not My will, but Yours
be done.”
244 God did this for us, so we could do it, too, for Him and through
Him! All thanks and praise to the Lord Jesus for the power to lay down
our
lives, in order that He might take them up!
245 To sum it up, the very heart and core of trinitarianism, as expressed
by GotQuestions, is dead wrong:
246“The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are
not forms of God, each of them is God.”
247 “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” are
titles of God, just as a man can be a father, son, brother, or husband.
He is still one man,
not several. So God is one. Who would dare limit Him in time, dimension,
or appearance? And was not His appearing as the Son a form of
God? The Scriptures say so:
248“Although He was in the form of God and equal
with God, He did not take advantage of this equality” (Philippians
2:6 GW).
249 And again, speaking of Christ: “Who being the shining splendor
of His [God’s] glory, and the
express image of His essence, and
upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing
of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews
1:3 MKJV).
250 Is not the “express image” a
form of the One True God, manifesting and demonstrating His power and
glory?
The “Angel of
the Lord” Who
visited the Israelites is also a form of God, appearing and speaking
with all of God’s authority, because He is God.
251 Finally, groping for an explanation (while claiming we can’t
understand, so why try explaining?), GotQuestions tosses out a confounded
illustration
at the end of their article: “Below is the
best symbol for the Trinity we are aware of:”

252 What we have done in this article is remove the circle of
denial to end the cycle of confusion. Those who receive our words by
God’s
gift of faith will hear the truth and, should they heed His words,
will come to know Him. Bless His (not “Their”)
Holy Name forever!
253 “O LORD our God, other lords beside
You have had dominion over us: but by You only will we make mention of
Your Name” (Isaiah
26:13 KJV).
254 Amen!
Paul Cohen
Victor Hafichuk
GotQuestions presents itself as the one-stop shop for answers to all
your questions about God and the Bible, from a Christian perspective.
We show that this is not true - their perspective is their own, one born
of flesh, not the Spirit of God. His thoughts and ways are not men’s,
and men’s are not His, no matter if they claim to represent Him. |