Introduction
The doctrine
of the Trinity is illogical and simply doesn’t make sense. Even many of the
most highly intelligent Trinitarian theologians admit, albeit reluctantly, that
they just can’t understand this doctrine. But the reason they can’t understand
it is because even God can’t understand it! But seriously, since truth is
logical but the doctrine of the Trinity is illogical, it’s not true. Just a few
of its main illogical claims: the one God consists of three Persons; Jesus is
both “God the Son” and “the Son of God”; Jesus is both a 100% divine being and
a 100% human being at the same time; Jesus was eternally begotten; although God
can’t be tempted, Jesus is God and was tempted in all points; although God can’t
die, Jesus is God and did die.
The correct
view of God, on the other hand, is quite simple and logical. One Person is God
and has always existed. At some point before the creation, God begat His Son
equal to Himself in substance and kind but under His direct submission and
authority. Therefore, the one true God became the Father by having begotten His
Son. He then directed His Son to create the heavens, the earth, and all living
creatures including all principalities and powers. After man sinned, God began
His plan of salvation to reconcile the world to Himself through His Son. The
Son of God willingly relinquished His divinity and was made flesh—He transitioned
from a 100% divine being to a 100% human being. As a human being, He worked
miracles, signs, and wonders by the anointing of His Father’s Breath upon Him.
He lived a perfect and sinless life then died on the cross for the sins of the
world, committing Himself to His Father to raise Him from the dead. After His
resurrection, He ascended back to heaven and sat down at the right hand of His
Father having been given all power in heaven and earth, ever living to make
intercession for the saints. And He will return one day to raise all of His own
to eternal life in His Kingdom.
Although the doctrine of the Trinity is the landslide
majority view of Christians today, history has been consistent in the majority
view being wrong while only a small remnant is following the one true God. In
Paul’s last words to the world he said, “This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away
from me” (2Ti 1:15). It’s quite unfathomable that everyone in Asia had
turned away from the apostle Paul himself. Surely the majority couldn’t have
been wrong! If this was true of the majority even in the days of the apostles themselves
then how much more it could very well be true today almost 2,000 years later.
We don’t
realize just how utterly pervasive and thorough the devil has corrupted the
truth over the last 2,000 years. There are thousands of Protestant Christian
denominations worldwide and within many of these denominations abound factions,
divisions, and disagreements about the truth. New denominations are formed
usually by splits within the existing ones.
Jesus Christ
taught the truth, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (Jhn 14:6), “Every
one that is of the truth heareth my voice” (Jhn 18:37), and His teaching is
quite simple and easy to understand. But Trinitarian theologians peddle a
complex and illogical mess that confuses people, leaving them frustrated and
sometimes even giving up on ever knowing the truth. Modern theologians are the
main perpetrators of the false doctrine of the Trinity. They’ve been taught by
the previous generation and continue the cycle by teaching and training the
next generation of theologians and pastors in seminaries. And once they’ve
immersed them into the system, they train them in apologetics to skillfully defend
any attacks against the system. But instead of submitting to Jesus Christ and
agreeing with the simple truth that He taught, Trinitarian theologians continue
to push their complex and illogical system. Therefore, in this writing, I don’t
refer to Trinitarians in general but Trinitarian theologians specifically. A
wise man once said, “Lucy… You’ve got some splainin’ to do!”
What is our
authority?
Paul taught
that Jesus Christ is the Head, the highest authority over the church, “And hath
put all things under his feet, and
gave him to be the head over all things
to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in
all” (Eph 1:22-23), “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church:
and he is the saviour of the body” (Eph 5:23), “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the
beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Col 1:18).
The church is
under the authority of the Head and should submit to the truth He taught: “grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ” (Jhn 1:17); “And ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free” (Jhn 8:32); “And if I say the truth, why do ye
not believe me?” (Jhn 8:46); “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (Jhn
14:6); “Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice” (Jhn 18:37); “the
truth is in Jesus” (Eph 4:21). What Jesus taught about God and about
Himself is the truth and the final authority that settles all disputes.
Trinitarian
theologians, on the other hand, appeal to church councils and creeds as their
authority for the doctrine of the Trinity. They claim that the “truth” of the
Trinity was established by the church hundreds, and some even say 2,000 years
ago. They also invoke the majority mainstream view of Protestant Christian
churches today for support. But these tactics just appeal to the church as
their authority rather than to its Head. Why not submit to the truth taught by
our Lord Jesus Christ? If we know the truth He taught yet won’t submit to it,
is He really our Lord? Is He really the Head, or is the church?
Jesus declared the
Father
“No man hath seen God at any time; the
only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him”
(Jhn 1:18), “And the Father himself,
which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice
at any time, nor seen his shape.”
(Jhn 5:37), “Not that any man hath seen
the Father, save he which is of God, he
hath seen the Father” (Jhn 6:46), “Who only hath immortality, dwelling in
the light which no man can approach unto; whom
no man hath seen, nor can see” (1Ti 6:16), “No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” (1Jo 4:12).
None of us has
seen God. Therefore, when it comes to the knowledge of God, none of us knows what
we’re talking about! Only the Son of God has seen God the Father because He was
with God before coming into this world, “and the Word was with God” (Jhn 1:1), “the
Word of life … which was with the Father” (1Jo 1:1, 2). Since He’s the only one
that was with God and has seen God then He is the only one that knows what He’s
talking about. We must listen to what He said about God and what He said about
Himself. Trinitarian theologians, although having never seen God, teach something
different than what the Son of God taught yet want us to listen to them!
“All things
are delivered unto me of my Father: and no
man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save
the Son, and he to whomsoever the
Son will reveal him” (Mat 11:27); “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.” (Jhn 8:19); “Yet
ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not,
I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying” (Jhn 8:55);
“As the Father knoweth me, even so know
I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep” (Jhn 10:15); “O
righteous Father, the world hath not
known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent
me” (Jhn 17:25).
No man knows
the Son, and no man knows the Father—only the Father knows the Son, and only
the Son knows the Father. What they said about each other is the final word. And
there is nothing here about a third Person knowing either of them or being
known by either of them. The pressure isn’t on those of us that agree with what
the Father and Son said about each other. The pressure is on Trinitarian
theologians that disagree with them and teach something else.
What the
Father and Son declared about each other is very clear and understandable. The
Son called Himself “the Son of God” and the Father called Him “My Beloved Son.”
The Son never called Himself “God” and the Father never called His Son “God.” Furthermore,
the Son did call His Father “God” and
even called Him “My God.” Finally, neither of them called the Holy Breath
“God.” Both God the Father and the Son of God agree with each other completely.
Why do Trinitarian theologians teach something different about them? Why won’t they
agree with them? Do they know more about the Father and the Son than even the
Father and the Son know about their own selves?
The proper
knowledge of God begins with the words of the Son of God. His words about God
and about Himself are the lens through which we are to understand and view everything
else about God in the Scriptures. He said, “For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of
him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory,
and in his Father’s, and of the holy
angels” (Luk 9:26). To know and understand His words about God and about
Himself yet teach something different is to be ashamed of Him and of His words.
And He said that if we’re ashamed of Him and of His words, He will be ashamed
of us—He will deny us before the Father and we will perish. Do any really
suppose we can knowingly and willingly disagree with Jesus Christ and still be
saved by Him?
The lens of Trinitarian
theologians
Rather than
starting with what Jesus Christ taught about God and about Himself, Trinitarian
theologians start with their own theological system and use it as the lens by
which they view what the Scriptures say about God. That they begin by assuming
the doctrine of the Trinity is true then impose it upon the Scriptures is most
glaringly obvious by them forcing the simple meaning of the plural from “more
than one” to exactly three! The statements, “Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness”
(Gen 1:26), “Go to, let us go
down, and there confound their language” (Gen 11:7), “Whom shall I send, and
who will go for us?” (Isa
6:8), supposedly prove a Triune God. Instead of following evidence to where it
leads, they’re leading it to where they want it to go. But staying faithful to Jesus’
teaching, “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even
the Son of man which is in heaven” (Jhn 3:13), “And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was” (Jhn 17:5), we conclude that the
plurality of divine beings in the Scriptures are two—the Father and the Son.
By using the
doctrine of the Trinity as their lens, the places Paul wrote of “God our Saviour”
(1Ti 1:1, 2:3; Tit 1:3, 2:10, 3:4) supposedly indicate that since Jesus is our
Savior then Jesus is God. However, if we’ll begin with Jesus Christ’s own words
and stay true to what He taught about God then we’ll understand that God the
Father is our Savior because He sent His Son to save us, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world
to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (Jhn 3:16-17). The Father and the Son can both be
spoken of as our Savior because they both are. In fact, Paul even distinguished
God our Savior from our Lord Jesus Christ, “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by
the commandment of God our Saviour, and
Lord Jesus Christ, which is our
hope” (1Ti 1:1).
Another example is the claim that the Holy Breath must be a
Person co-equal with God because Peter said that lying to the Holy Breath is
lying to God, “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost [Breath] … thou hast not lied
unto men, but unto God” (Act 5:3-4). But this is simply grasping at straws
to make the Scriptures affirm Trinitarian doctrine. By reminding ourselves what
Jesus taught about the Holy Breath, “If a man love me, he will keep my words:
and my Father will love him, and we will
come unto him, and make our abode with him” (Jhn 14:23), we understand that
God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ are present in the hearts of men by the
indwelling Breath. Therefore, lying to these men indwelt by the Breath was
tantamount to lying to God.
The last example is when Paul said “God was manifest [phaneroo 5319] in the flesh” (1Ti
3:16), this supposedly proves that Jesus is God in the flesh. However, he was
simply saying that God the Father was being made known, recognized, understood,
or actualized through the incarnation of His Son Jesus Christ. This agrees with
what His Son said, “And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me” (Jhn 12:45), “he
that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (Jhn 14:9), and with what John said, “the Word of life; (For the life was manifested [phaneroo 5319] … eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested [phaneroo 5319] unto us” (1Jo 1:2). Jesus Christ in the flesh manifested
God to us.
What God said about Jesus Christ
Twice God the Father spoke from heaven calling Jesus His beloved
Son—first at His baptism and second at the Mount of Transfiguration, “And lo a
voice from heaven, saying, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Mat 3:17), “While he yet spake,
behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud,
which said, This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.” (Mat 17:5).
The apostle John, present at both occasions and also at Christ’s
crucifixion when He shed His blood, wrote about these events, “Who is he that
overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even
Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by
water and blood” (1Jo 5:5-6). He went on to say, “If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater:
for this is the witness of God which he
hath testified of his Son” (1Jo 5:9). Since we accept the witness of two or
three men as the truth then how much greater is the witness of God Himself? Especially
since God testified twice from heaven about His Son? Saying something different
about the Son than what God testified is to make God a liar, “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself: he that believeth
not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son” (1Jo 5:10). For Trinitarian
theologians to say that Jesus is “God the Son” is tantamount to making God a
liar because He didn’t call Him “God” but His Son.
What Jesus Christ said about Himself
Jesus never called Himself “God the Son” but “the Son of God”:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son” (Jhn 3:16); “Dost thou believe on the Son of God? … Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee” (Jhn 9:35, 37); “Say ye of him,
whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest;
because I said, I am the Son of God?”
(Jhn 10:36); “that the Son of God
might be glorified thereby” (Jhn 11:4); “Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee” (Jhn 17:1).
Even many years after His death, burial, resurrection, and
ascension back to heaven and seating at the right hand of God, this is what He
continued to call Himself, “These things saith the Son of God” (Rev 2:18). Trinitarian theologians, however, call
Him “God the Son.” How do they know something different about Him that even He
didn’t know about Himself?
What John said about Jesus Christ
The apostle John
stated the reasons he wrote his Gospel and his first letter, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son
of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (Jhn
20:31), “These things have I written
unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God”
(1Jo 5:13). He wrote, not so that we would believe Jesus is “God the Son,” but
that He is “the Son of God.”
He taught throughout his first letter that Jesus Christ is
the Son: “and truly our fellowship is
with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ” (1Jo 1:3); “and
the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin” (1Jo 1:7); “He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever
denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father … ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.” (1Jo
2:22-24); “For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1Jo
3:8); “That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ” (1Jo 3:23); “because that God sent his only begotten Son into the
world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1Jo 4:9-10); “And we have
seen and do testify that the Father sent
the Son to be the Saviour of the
world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus
is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God” (1Jo 4:14-15); “Who
is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1Jo 5:5); “And
we know that the Son of God is come,
and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we
are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ” (1Jo 5:20).
If
we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the
witness of God which he hath testified of his
Son. He that believeth on the Son of
God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a
liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal
life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These
things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and
that ye may believe on the name of the
Son of God. (1 John 5:9-13)
In these five consecutive verses alone, John mentioned the
Son eight times! It seems he wanted to emphasize repeatedly to make it
absolutely clear that He is the Son of God. And his second letter began with, “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” (2Jo 1:3).
No other man in history knew Jesus Christ better than the apostle
John. He lived with Him for over three years and was personally taught by Him.
He heard with his own ears what God declared about Him at His baptism and also
at the Mount of Transfiguration. He ate with Him at His last supper, watched
Him hang on the cross, took His mother into his own home, was an eyewitness of
Him after His resurrection, and saw Him ascend back into heaven. He wrote five
books of the Bible including one of the four Gospels and the very last book of
the entire canon of Scripture. And John was the last man on this earth to ever
see Him when He was given the final revelation of Jesus Christ.
The apostle John knew Him better than anyone ever has, and
he never called Jesus “God the Son” but always “the Son of God,” “the only
begotten Son,” and “the Son.” How can anyone suppose they know better about
Jesus Christ than he did? Why should we listen to Trinitarian theologians
rather than to John?
Confessing the Son of God
The apostle Peter’s great confession was “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”
(Mat 16:16). And the apostle John also wrote, “But these are written, that ye
might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God” (Jhn 20:31). This is also what the apostle Paul and his
companions preached, “And straightway he
preached Christ in the synagogues, that
he is the Son of God” (Act 9:20), “For
the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him
was yea” (2Co 1:19). Trinitarian theologians, however, teach and preach that He
is “God the Son”—a term found nowhere in Scripture.
The confession of salvation is that Jesus is the Son of God,
“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God” (Mat 16:16), “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he
in God” (1Jo 4:15). But the Trinitarian confession that He is “God the Son”
actually denies He is “the Son of God” because He can’t be both. If He is God
then He can’t be God’s Son, but if He is God’s Son then He can’t be God because
they are two distinct Persons. There’s no way around this.
Although Trinitarian theologians teach both—that He is “God
the Son” and “the Son of God”—they can’t mean both because He can’t be both.
They can only mean one or the other because He can only be one or the other.
It’s how they define Him that actually counts. Though they might say He is “the
Son of God,” but because they define Him as “God the Son” they’re actually
denying that He is “the Son of God”—the very confession of salvation! It isn’t
just what we say but what we mean by what we say. It’s both the mouth and the
heart.
More is not always better
The typical false views of Jesus deflate Him and make Him
something less—that He is only a man or that He is an angelic being. But the
doctrine of the Trinity is even more subtle and sinister altogether because it
actually inflates Him and makes Him something more—that He is “God the Son,”
co-equal with God the Father. Therefore, according to Trinitarian theologians,
denying this view of Jesus is denying God. This is why it’s incredibly
difficult for Christians to ever repent of this false doctrine even after
they’re aware of the overwhelming evidence of Scripture against it. It’s even made
more difficult by the fact that it also entails going against the landslide
majority view of Christianity and thereby being labeled a heretic. Furthermore,
there’s always the looming fear of being wrong about this and therefore forever
doomed to eternal fire. It’s a horrible deception and bondage indeed.
As noble as it might seem, making Jesus to be “God the Son”
doesn’t glorify Him or the Father. Making someone or something else to be
God—either the Son of God or the Holy Breath of God—actually impinges upon the
glory of the one true God the Father, “I am
the LORD: that is my name: and my
glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images” (Isa
42:8). More Persons doesn’t improve upon God! As if too much oil in a car is
better than the right amount. What if, hypothetically, some Christians were to claim
that God is four Persons? Would that be better? Trinitarians would then be the
ones anathematized for denying one of the Persons.
Making the Son of God to be co-equal with God the Father
actually violates the First Commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before
me” (Exo 20:3). This commandment is not broken by obedience to gods, rulers, or
lords under the authority of the one true God, “Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people” (Exo 22:28).
Obedience to Jesus Christ as our Lord glorifies God because Jesus Himself is
under the authority of God the Father, “my Father is greater than I” (Jhn
14:28), “Christ is God’s” (1Co 3:23),
“the head of Christ is God” (1Co
11:3). Maintaining this hierarchy of authority is essential for a correct view
of God while making anyone or anything co-equal with God breaks the First
Commandment.
It’s because of this hierarchy of authority that Jesus said,
“I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God”
(Jhn 20:17), then Thomas subsequently called Jesus, “My Lord and my God” (Jhn
20:28). We call both the Son of God “my God” and also the Father “my God”
because the Son rules over us and the Father rules over the Son. The Son is our
God because He is our Lord, and the Father is our God because He is our Lord’s
God. Similarly, it’s because of the hierarchy in the workplace that both our
boss and our boss’s boss are our bosses. Both are our bosses not because
they’re equal but because they’re not equal!
Hierarchy is the reason that in the following statement the Son
is God over His own Kingdom, while God that anointed Him is His own God, “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above
thy fellows.” (Heb 1:8-9).
God the Father is glorified when His Son Jesus Christ is
given the proper glory, “Father, the
hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy
Son also may glorify thee ... that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
whom thou hast sent” (Jhn 17:1, 3). Paul said that God the Father is glorified,
not by confessing Christ is “God the Son,” but Lord, “And that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father” (Phl 2:11). Christ’s Lordship is the confession of
salvation, “That if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved” (Rom 10:9). Paul also declared that his one God is the
Father and his one Lord is Jesus Christ, “But
to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him” (1Co
8:6), “One Lord, one faith, one
baptism, One God and Father of all”
(Eph 4:5-6).
Another
argument Trinitarian theologians make is that Jesus must be “God the Son”
because He is worshipped as God. However, we’re told that He is worshipped
because He is the Son of God and because He is Lord, “Then they that were in
the ship came and worshipped him,
saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of
God” (Mat 14:33), “Then came she and worshipped
him, saying, Lord, help me” (Mat
15:25), “And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them,
saying, All hail. And they came and
held him by the feet, and worshipped him
... And when they saw him, they
worshipped him: but some doubted” (Mat 28:9, 17), “And they worshipped him, and returned to
Jerusalem with great joy” (Luk 24:52).
Claiming that
Jesus is more—that He is more than the only begotten Son of God but has always
existed from eternity past, and that He is more than a human kind of being but
continues to be a divine kind of being, and that He is more than “the Son of
God” but is “God the Son,” and that He is more than Lord but is also co-equal
with God—might seem virtuous but is dangerous. An embellished view of Jesus
Christ is still a false view of Jesus Christ. Making Him more is not better.
Why did Jesus speak figuratively?
The main argument Trinitarian theologians make for the Holy
Breath being a Person are the occurrences in John chapters 14, 15, and 16 where
Jesus spoke of the Breath using personal pronouns: “Even the Spirit [Breath] of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him
not, neither knoweth him: but
ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall
be in you” (Jhn 14:17), “the Spirit [Breath] of truth, which proceedeth
from the Father, he shall
testify of me” (Jhn 15:26), “Howbeit when he,
the Spirit [Breath] of truth, is
come, he will guide you into
all truth: for he shall not
speak of himself; but
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he
will shew you things to come” (Jhn 16:13).
However, Jesus Himself finished His discourse by stating
that He had been speaking figuratively, “These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs [figuratively]: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak
unto you in proverbs [figuratively], but I shall shew you
plainly of the Father” (Jhn 16:25). The apostle Paul later confirmed this to be
his understanding of what Christ taught because he used neuter pronouns for the
Breath (however some Bible versions incorrectly translate his statements with
personal pronouns), “The Spirit [Breath] itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom 8:16), “Likewise
the Spirit [Breath] also helpeth our
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit [Breath] itself maketh intercession for us with groanings
which cannot be uttered” (Rom 8:26).
This is also how the apostle John later understood Christ because
He called the Breath “the anointing” and used a neuter pronoun as well, “But the anointing which ye have received of
him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all
things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him” (1Jo 2:27). The
anointing teaches us just as Christ had said, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost [Breath],
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things” (Jhn 14:26).
Although before His death Jesus spoke to His disciples about
the Breath figuratively as if it’s a Person yet after His resurrection, He showed
them plainly that it is Breath, “he
breathed on them, and saith unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Ghost [Breath]”
(Jhn 20:21-22). The obvious question is why He didn’t just tell them plainly at
the start? Why lead them to understand one thing initially then clarify the
correct understanding later?
The first thing we should recognize is that throughout His
ministry, Jesus had only told them what they needed to hear up to any given
point, “And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was
with you” (Jhn 16:4). Too much information too soon is not always a good thing.
They didn’t need to hear this discourse about the Holy Breath three years
earlier because Jesus Himself was with them all the time. It was because it was
now time for Him to go away that they needed to hear it now.
And even now at this point, there were many more things He
wouldn’t tell them because they couldn’t handle them yet, “I have yet many
things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now” (Jhn 16:12). He would
later teach these things to them through the Breath, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost [Breath],
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall
teach you all things” (Jhn 14:26), “Howbeit when he, the Spirit [Breath] of truth,
is come, he will guide you into all
truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come” (Jhn
16:13).
Putting ourselves in the disciples’ shoes so to speak, they
had left everything to follow Jesus Christ and now after only about three years
He was breaking the news to them that He was leaving! Understandably they would
be troubled, afraid, and full of sorrow, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid” (Jhn 14:27), “But because I have said these things unto you,
sorrow hath filled your heart” (Jhn 16:6).
It certainly would have seemed they were now being abandoned
and left without hope had He not spoken of someone else—another Person—coming
to take His place. On the other hand, at this point He still couldn’t just tell
them plainly either. He couldn’t explain that He was going to die, rise the
third day, appear to them many times, ascend back to heaven, give them the Holy
Breath on the Day of Pentecost, and then they would go out and preach the
gospel to the world. They couldn’t handle all of that yet. It was because God’s
plan of salvation had to be kept hidden in a mystery beforehand that Jesus
communicated to them figuratively about the Holy Breath as if another Person.
They would understand later that it’s actually Himself, His own Person indwelling
them through the Breath.
Yet He needed to tell them enough “that my joy might remain
in you” (Jhn 15:11), “that ye should not be offended” (Jhn 16:1), “that in me
ye might have peace” (Jhn 16:33). Also, He wanted to give them evidence for
their trust in Him, “And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when
it is come to pass, ye might believe” (Jhn 14:29), “But these things have I
told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of
them” (Jhn 16:4). As the saying goes “Hindsight is always 20/20.” They wouldn’t
see clearly now but would later. By telling them beforehand, they would know
that He had not been a victim but had in fact laid down His own life as “the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (Jhn 1:29).
The Holy Breath according to Jesus
Our English
word “pneumonia”—a respiratory infection in the air sacs of the lungs that causes
difficulty in breathing and can be life-threatening—is derived from the Greek pneuma. The Hagios Pneuma typically
translated as “Holy Spirit” is literally “Holy Breath.” But because pneuma is consistently mistranslated as
“spirit” throughout the New Testament, Trinitarian theologians continue
reigning over mainstream Christianity with their teaching that the Hagios Pneuma is a Spirit being or a
Person, “a living, self-conscious, rational being; a moral agent.”
After His
resurrection, Jesus Himself defined the Hagios
Pneuma by literally breathing His own breath out of His own mouth onto His
disciples, “And when he had said this, he
breathed on them, and saith unto
them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost [Breath]” (Jhn 20:22). He didn’t just
say that Hagios Pneuma is breath, but that there would be no
misunderstanding or grounds for arguing whatsoever, He even demonstrated that it is breath!
Trinitarian theologians, however, define Hagios
Pneuma as a Person that is even co-equal with God. Where did they get this?
Why won’t they just agree with Jesus Christ’s definition? If He is truly their
Lord then why not submit to the teaching of the Lord?
Many years after His ascension and seating at the right hand
of God, Jesus gave seven personal messages to seven churches in Asia. He
declared “These things saith the Son of
God” (Rev 2:18), and concluded each message with “He that hath an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit [Breath] saith unto the churches”
(Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 29, 3:6, 13, 22). He called Himself the Breath, not just once
or twice but seven times! Trinitarian theologians, on the other hand, teach
that the Pneuma is an individual Person—a Peron distinct
from the Person of the Son of God. But this isn’t what Jesus Himself taught.
Before His death Jesus had said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit [Breath]
of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show
you things to come” (Jhn 16:13). This is consistent with Him later giving
John the final writing of the Scriptures, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave unto him, to show
unto his servants things which must
shortly come to pass” (Rev 1:1). His disciples were not ready to be given
the book of Revelation earlier, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now.” He told them beforehand “whatsoever he shall hear, that shall
he speak,” then later spoke, “The
Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him.” Christ is the Breath that heard these things from God then
spoke them to John. That “he will show you things to come” are the “things
which must shortly come to pass” recorded in the book of Revelation.
The Breath of the Father
That the Holy Breath is the Father’s Breath is supported by
what Mary and Joseph were both told, “The
Holy Ghost [Breath] shall come upon
thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also
that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God” (Luk 1:35), “Joseph,
thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of
the Holy Ghost [Breath]” (Mat
1:20). If God is a Trinity of Persons with the Holy Breath being the Third,
then the Third Person is the Son’s Father, not the First Person. But if the
Holy Breath is simply God’s Breath, then God the Father is indeed the Son’s
Father.
God the
Father’s Breath is also what anointed and empowered Jesus Christ: “And
John bare record, saying, I saw the
Spirit [Breath] descending from
heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that
sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit [Breath] descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.” (Jhn 1:32-33); “The Spirit [Breath] of the
Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Luk 4:18); “For he whom
God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit [Breath]
by measure unto him” (Jhn 3:34);
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with
the Holy Ghost [Breath] and with
power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of
the devil; for God was with him” (Act 10:38).
Christ performed miracles by the Breath of His Father God: “But
if I cast out devils by the Spirit [Breath] of God, then the kingdom of
God is come unto you” (Mat 12:28); “Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come
from God: for no man can do these
miracles that thou doest, except God be with him” (Jhn 3:2); “the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works” (Jhn 14:10); “Ye
men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among
you by miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know” (Act
2:22); “How God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost [Breath]
and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed
of the devil; for God was with him”
(Act 10:38).
Christ declared that His Father was in Him: “If I do not the
works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me,
believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in
him” (Jhn 10:37-38); “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak
unto you I speak not of myself: but the
Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am
in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’
sake.” (Jhn 14:10-11); “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and
I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that
thou hast sent me” (Jhn 17:21).
Prior to Christ sending the Holy Breath on the Day of
Pentecost, it was the Father’s Breath that was also in the disciples, “For it
is not ye that speak, but the Spirit [Breath] of your Father which
speaketh in you” (Mat 10:20), “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit [Breath] to them that
ask him?” (Luk 11:13).
In His incarnation, the Son of God forever relinquished His
divine power—the incredible power by which He created the entire universe and
all its fullness—and became a human being exactly like us. Therefore, His
breath now as a human being has no more power than ours. The Holy Breath is the
Father’s own Breath, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit [Breath] of truth, which proceedeth from the Father” (Jhn
15:26). But because the Father sent His Breath in Christ’s name, “But the
Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost [Breath], whom the Father will send in my name” (Jhn
14:26), it’s also called “the Spirit [Breath]
of Christ” (Rom 8:9), “the Spirit [Breath]
of the Lord” (2Co 3:17), “the Spirit [Breath]
of his Son” (Gal 4:6).
The Breath is God the Father’s because He will raise us from
the dead by His Breath as He raised Christ from the dead, “But if the Spirit [Breath] of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall
also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit [Breath] that dwelleth in you” (Rom 8:11), “And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power”
(1Co 6:14), “I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things” (1Ti 6:13).
The Breath of the Son
Christ said that He would be in us and with us: “He that
eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth
in me, and I in him” (Jhn 6:56); “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” (Jhn 14:18); “At
that day ye shall know that I am in
my Father, and ye in me, and I in you”
(Jhn 14:20); “Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more
can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth
in me, and I in him” (Jhn 15:4-5); “I
in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one … that the
love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them” (Jhn 17:23, 26); “I
am with you alway, even unto the
end of the world” (Mat 28:20).
Christ is now within us by the Breath as His Father was within
Him by the Breath: “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be
that the Spirit [Breath] of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit [Breath] of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be
in you” (Rom 8:9-10); “the Spirit [Breath] itself maketh intercession for
us with groanings which cannot be uttered ... It is Christ that died,
yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us”
(Rom 8:26, 34); “Now the Lord is that
Spirit [Breath]: and where the Spirit [Breath] of the Lord is,
there is liberty” (2Co 3:17); “I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal 2:20); “And because ye are sons, God hath
sent forth the Spirit [Breath] of his Son into your hearts,
crying, Abba, Father” (Gal 4:6); “to be strengthened with might by his Spirit [Breath] in the inner man; That
Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith” (Eph 3:17); “To whom God would
make known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27).
Trinitarian
theologians capitalize upon the few times when personal qualities are
attributed to the Breath to claim it as proof of personhood. But any personal
qualities are on account of the presence of Jesus Christ through the Breath—the
Breath is His presence and He is a Person. For example, it’s argued that the Holy
Breath must be a Person because it can be grieved, “And grieve not the holy Spirit [Breath]
of God, whereby ye
are sealed unto the day of redemption” (Eph 4:30). However, Paul had just stated
earlier that the Breath is Christ dwelling in our hearts, “strengthened with
might by his Spirit [Breath] in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts” (Eph
3:16-17). It’s Christ that can be grieved because He is a Person. It was Christ
that was the Messenger of the Lord grieved by His people in the days of Moses: “How
oft did they provoke him in the
wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!” (Psa 78:40); “Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my
ways” (Psa 95:10); “But they rebelled, and vexed
his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them” (Isa 63:10).
Likewise
the Spirit [Breath] also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we
should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit
[Breath] itself maketh intercession
for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit [pneuma phronema], because he
maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. ... Who is
he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is
even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us. (Romans 8:26-27, 34)
Another example of using Scripture to proof-text personhood
to the Breath is the statement in this passage “the mind of the Spirit [pneuma phronema],” that it must be a
Person because it has a mind of its own. But Paul used the same Greek phrase pneuma phronema just a little earlier in
this same chapter, “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded [pneuma phronema] is life and peace” (Rom 8:6). He was
referring back to what he had just taught about those that are spiritually-minded
as opposed to those that are carnally-minded. The spiritually-minded are “not
in the flesh, but in the Spirit [Breath]”
because they have “the Spirit [Breath]
of God” or “the Spirit [Breath] of
Christ” dwelling in them (Rom 8:9).
This has nothing to do with the Breath as a Person with a
mind. It’s because Christ is “he that searcheth the hearts” that He knows the pneuma phronema–He knows who is
spiritually-minded and who is not. By the Holy Breath, He knows not only what
we do but the very motives of our hearts for what we do, “a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:12). The spiritually-minded are those
with the indwelling Holy Breath that do what’s right and with the right
motives.
When Jesus said, “and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and
hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works” (Rev 2:23), He was quoting from Jeremiah,
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every
man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings” (Jer 17:10). Although He relinquished His divine powers and is now a
human being like us in every regard, He is able to see our hearts by the Breath
of God in us. He said to the church at Thyatira, “These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire ... I am
he which searcheth the reins and hearts
… let him hear what the Spirit [Breath] saith unto the churches”
(Rev 2:18, 23, 29). He is the Breath because the indwelling Breath is a limited
manifestation of His presence within us.
Man is alive by God’s Breath
That Hagios Pneuma
is God’s own Breath and not a separate individual Spirit being or Person is substantiated
by comparing man’s initial creation to life with his subsequent resurrection
back to life. In fact, Paul even appealed to the creation of man when teaching
about the resurrection, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit [breath]” (1Co 15:45), “And the LORD God
formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a
living soul” (Gen 2:7). Man was created as a physical being and brought to
life by God breathing into his nostrils. Since man was initially brought to life
by God breathing into his lifeless body, it follows that man is brought to life
in resurrection by God once again breathing into his lifeless body.
Many times we’re told that the Breath quickens or gives
life: “It is the spirit [breath] that
quickeneth” (Jhn 6:63); “the Spirit [Breath]
of life” (Rom 8:2); “the Spirit [Breath]
is life” (Rom 8:10); “quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit [Breath]”
(Rom 8:11); “a quickening breath [breath]”
(1Co 15:45); “the spirit [breath]
giveth life” (2Co 3:6); “If we live in the Spirit [Breath]” (Gal 5:25); “of the Spirit [Breath] reap life everlasting” (Gal 6:8); “quickened by the Spirit
[Breath]” (1Pe 3:18); “the Spirit [Breath] of life from God” (Rev 11:11).
Also, we’re told many times that it was God that raised
Jesus from the dead: “whom God hath raised up” (Act 2:24); “This Jesus hath God
raised up” (Act 2:32); “whom God hath raised from the dead” (Act 3:15); “God,
having raised up his Son Jesus” (Act 3:26); “Him God raised up the third day”
(Act 10:40); “But God raised him from the dead” (Act 13:30); “him that raised up
Jesus our Lord from the dead” (Rom 4:24); “Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father” (Rom 6:4); “And God hath both raised up the Lord”
(1Co 6:14); “he which raised up the Lord Jesus” (2Co 4:14); “God the Father,
who raised him from the dead” (Gal 1:1); “Which he wrought in Christ, when he
raised him from the dead” (Eph 1:20); “God, who hath raised him from the dead”
(Col 2:12); “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead”
(1Th 1:10); “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus” (Heb 13:20); “God, that raised him up from the dead” (1Pe 1:21).
The reasonable and logical conclusion is that since the
Breath quickens or gives life, and since it was God that raised Jesus from death
to life, then the Hagios Pneuma is God’s
Breath and not a Person. This reasoning is corroborated by Paul, “the Spirit [Breath] of him that raised up Jesus from the dead” (Rom 8:11).
Jesus was raised from the dead by “the Breath of him”—God’s Breath.
The Son of God became a human being just like we are—a physical
being alive by God’s breath in His nostrils. When He died, He committed His breath to the Father and
breathed His last, “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit
[breath]: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost [exhaled]” (Luk 23:46). He then “received of the
Father the promise of the Holy Spirit [Breath]”
(Act 2:33), and was “quickened
by the Spirit [Breath]” (1Pe 3:18). Since
His resurrection is the exemplar of ours, we also will be raised this same way,
“But if the Spirit [Breath] of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit [Breath] that dwelleth in you” (Rom 8:11).
Trinitarian theologians claim that Jesus is “God the Son” and
that He actually raised Himself from the dead. They use this verse as a proof-text,
“Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (Jhn 2:19). But
since His resurrection is the exemplar of ours, if He really did raise Himself from
the dead then there’s no hope for us because we can’t raise ourselves from the
dead! There are two main reasons Jesus made that statement. First, it was to
set up the corrupt religious leaders so that they would have a false accusation
to put Him to death, “At the last came two
false witnesses, And said, This fellow
said, I am able to destroy the temple of
God, and to build it in three days” (Mat 26:60-61). Second, it was a
prophecy intended to strengthen the faith of His disciples after its
fulfillment, “When therefore he was
risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto
them; and they believed the scripture,
and the word which Jesus had said” (Jhn 2:22).
Rather than all of the Trinitarian claims about spirit
persons—that the Holy Spirit [Breath]
is a Person, and that man is a spirit person living inside a body, and that Christ
covered His Spirit Person with flesh in the incarnation—what makes more sense
is that man is a physical being alive by God’s Breath in his nostrils. Christ
became a human being and breathed His last when He died, but was brought back
to life by God breathing into His nostrils. Our only hope of eternal life,
therefore, is having God’s indwelling Breath as an earnest or pledge that after
we breathe our last, God will breathe life into us again as He did with His Son
Jesus Christ.
Blasphemy against the Breath
The Holy Breath is “the Spirit [Breath] of truth” (Jhn 14:17, 15:26, 16:13). Once we’ve come to the
knowledge of the truth and are no longer ignorant, God requires it of us.
Blasphemy against the Breath is blasphemy against the truth for which God will
never forgive, “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall
be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost [Breath] shall
not be forgiven unto men” (Mat 12:31).
But
when the Jews saw the multitudes,
they were filled with envy, and spake
against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas
waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye
put it from you, and judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. (Acts 13:45-46)
God kept His own people ignorant of the truth in order to
fulfill His plan of salvation through His Son Jesus Christ. Here in Antioch of
Pisidia, once the Jews heard the truth about Jesus Christ from Paul and
Barnabas, they were no longer ignorant. For them to now contradict and speak maliciously
against the truth they had heard was blasphemy against the Breath—the presence
of Jesus Christ Himself in Paul and Barnabas—for which they would never be
forgiven. They judged themselves and forever forfeited eternal life. Once we’ve
been given a clear line of demarcation between truth and error, God requires a judgment
or decision from us.
Trinitarian theologians, on the other hand, claim that
blasphemy against the Breath is denying that the Breath is a Person.
Essentially, it’s denying what they teach! In that case, although blasphemy
against the Breath cannot be
forgiven, blasphemy against Trinitarian theologians can be forgiven! But seriously, the sobering reality is that once
we come to the knowledge of the truth that Jesus taught yet willingly contradict
and speak against it, we’re in danger of blasphemy against Him. Therefore, and
sadly, it’s the Trinitarian theologians that are in danger of committing this
unpardonable sin once they’re no longer sincerely ignorant of the truth taught
by Jesus Christ. Willful sin against the truth will never be forgiven, “For if
we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sins” (Heb 10:26).
Those against the King
The Greek christos
transliterated into English as “Christ” is the equivalent of the Hebrew mashiyach transliterated as “Messiah.” It
means “anointed” and is the title of the king. Saul was called mashiyach by both Samuel and David, “The
LORD is witness against you, and his anointed [mashiyach]” (1Sa 12:5), “the LORD’S anointed [mashiyach] … he is the anointed [mashiyach] of the LORD” (1Sa 24:6). David was also called mashiyach, “the anointed [mashiyach] of the God of Jacob” (2Sa
23:1). And it was prophesied by both David and Daniel that Jesus would be mashiyach, “The kings of the earth set
themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against
his anointed [mashiyach]” (Psa 2:2),
“unto the Messiah [mashiyach] the
Prince shall be seven weeks … And
after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah [mashiyach] be cut off” (Dan 9:25, 26).
The verb “anoint” simply means “to rub,” “to smear,” or “to
pour upon.” Samuel anointed both Saul and David to be king by pouring oil upon
their head, “Then Samuel took a vial of
oil, and poured it upon his head,
and kissed him, and said, Is it not
because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? … And when they came thither to the hill,
behold, a company of prophets met him; and the
Spirit [Breath] of God came upon him,
and he prophesied among them.” (1Sa 10:1, 10), “Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in
the midst of his brethren: and the
Spirit [Breath] of the LORD came upon
David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah” (1Sa
16:13). But the oil was only symbolic. It was the Breath of God that came upon
them at that time which set them apart as the king.
Jesus of
Nazareth was anointed by God at His baptism, “the Spirit [Breath]
descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode
upon him” (Jhn 1:32). But the water was only symbolic. It was God’s Breath
that came upon Him that sanctified or set Him apart as the Christ, the
Anointed, the King, “The Spirit [Breath] of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me” (Luk 4:18), “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost [Breath] and
with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him”
(Act 10:38).
Trinitarian theologians teach that Christ cast out devils by
His own divine power as “God the Son,” but Jesus Himself said that He cast them
out by the Breath of God, “But if I cast
out devils by the Spirit [Breath] of
God, then the kingdom of God is
come unto you” (Mat 12:28). Who should we believe, Christ or the theologians? The
power of God’s Breath to heal, work miracles, and cast out devils were signs that
the King and the Kingdom of God had come. Denying that His supernatural power
was by the anointing of the Breath of God is by implication denying Him as the
King.
Furthermore, teaching that we are nonphysical beings that go
to heaven after death, disallows our true destiny of resurrection to eternal life
and inheritance in Christ’s Kingdom on this earth. Christ and His apostles
never taught that we go to heaven but that we enter into, or inherit the
Kingdom: “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 7:21); “Except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 18:3); “Verily I say unto
you, That a rich man shall hardly enter
into the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 19:23); “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world” (Mat 25:34); “Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God?”
(1Co 6:9), “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (1Co
15:50); “that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (Gal 5:21); “For this ye know, that no
whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and
of God” (Eph 5:5); “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and
hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son” (Col 1:13); “That ye would
walk worthy of God, who hath called you
unto his kingdom and glory” (2Th 2:12); “Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath
not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?”
(Jas 2:5); “For so an entrance shall be ministered unto
you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2Pe 1:11); “I John, who also
am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ” (Rev 1:9).
Jesus blessed Peter’s confession that He is the Christ or
King, the Son of God, “Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona” (Mat
16:16-17). In harmony with this confession, the apostle John wrote, “Who is a
liar but he that denieth that Jesus is
the Christ? He is antichrist [antichristos], that denieth the Father
and the Son. Whosoever denieth the
Son, the same hath not the Father” (1Jo 2:22-23). An antichristos is literally an adversary or opponent of the king!
Antichrists deny that Jesus is the King and that He is the Son.
Although Trinitarian theologians affirm both, taken to its logical conclusion,
the doctrine of the Trinity actually infringes upon both. Teaching that His
miracles were by His own divine power, and teaching that we go to heaven after
death by implication deny His Kingdom and Him as King. And teaching that God is
three co-equal Persons, “God the Father,” “God the Son,” and “God the Holy
Spirit,” denies the Father as the one true God and Jesus as the Son of God.
Trinitarian teaching, by logical deduction, denies what Peter affirmed that Jesus
is the King, the Son of God.
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ;
and shall deceive many” (Mat 24:4-5). Jesus wasn’t talking about those who falsely
claim to be the Christ themselves. He was saying that many will rightly affirm
that Jesus is the Christ, but will deceive many with false teachings about Him.
They will affirm Him as Christ or King, but teach things that are against Him
as King—the very thing that Trinitarian theologians are doing. “Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after
the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Col 2:8).
Jesus told
the parable of the nobleman who went away to receive a kingdom, “He said
therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called his
ten servants, and delivered them ten
pounds, and said unto them, Occupy
till I come.” (Luk 19:12-13). As servants of the King, we are to be using
the “pounds” He delivered to us for His purposes in furthering His kingdom
until He returns, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness”
(Mat 6:33). Trinitarian theologians teach that Christ worked miracles, not by
the anointing of God’s Breath as the King but by His own power as “God the
Son.” They teach, not that we’re raised from the dead at Christ’s return to inherit
His kingdom but that we all go to heaven after we die. By not submitting to
what He taught in furthering His kingdom, they’re essentially saying “We will
not have this man to reign over us”
(Luk 19:14).
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule
and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies
under his feet. The last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his
feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things
under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him
that put all things under him, that God
may be all in all. (1 Corinthians 15:24-28)
Here Paul
taught that God is the Father, and that His Son will forever be subject to Him.
This is not the “co-equal” doctrine that Trinitarian theologians teach. Who is
right, the apostle Paul or the theologians?
That God has
“put all things under his feet” is a quote from David about Adam, “Thou madest
him to have dominion over the works
of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and
oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of
the sea, and whatsoever passeth
through the paths of the seas” (Psa 8:6-8). Adam was given dominion over every
creature he named, “And Adam gave names
to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but
for Adam there was not found an help meet for him” (Gen 2:20). This was
figurative and prophetic of Christ’s Kingdom—His authority over every name that
is named and all things being put under His feet, “Far above all principality,
and power, and might, and dominion, and every
name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to
come: And hath put all things under his feet” (Eph
1:21-22). Now we understand what He meant by “Then shall the King say unto them on his right
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Mat 25:34).
Christ’s Kingdom was prepared from the very beginning as seen in a mystery in the
dominion given to Adam. Therefore, God’s plan of salvation and the true gospel
message from the very beginning has always been Christ’s Kingdom, “In the
beginning was the Word” (Jhn 1:1).
The saving gospel message is the preaching of the Kingdom of
God. This is what Christ preached throughout His ministry: “And Jesus went
about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease among the people” (Mat 4:23); “And Jesus
went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing every sickness and every disease among the people” (Mat 9:35); “And
as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand” (Mat 10:7); “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a
witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Mat 24:14); “And he
said unto them, I must preach the
kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent” (Luk 4:43); “And
it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of
the kingdom of God: and the twelve were
with him” (Luk 8:1); “And he sent them to preach
the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick” (Luk 9:2); “And heal the sick
that are therein, and say unto them, The
kingdom of God is come nigh unto you” (Luk 10:9).
This is also what was preached from the first chapter of the
book of Acts through the last: “To whom also he shewed himself alive after his
passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom
of God” (Act 1:3); “But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of
Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women” (Act 8:12); “And he went
into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning
the kingdom of God” (Act 19:8); “And now, behold, I know that ye all, among
whom I have gone preaching the kingdom
of God, shall see my face no more” (Act 20:25); “And when they had
appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he
expounded and testified the kingdom of God” (Act 28:23); “And Paul dwelt
two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
Preaching the kingdom of God” (Act
28:30-31).
Antichrists
are adversaries or opponents of the king. Trinitarian
theologians don’t teach the kingdom of God in which the Father is God and the
Son is forever subject to Him, “when
he shall have delivered up the kingdom
to God, even the Father … then shall the
Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all” (1Co 15:24,
28). Instead, they teach co-equality. And they don’t teach that Jesus was
anointed by God’s Breath as King to cast out devils and heal the sick, “But
if I cast out devils by the Spirit [Breath] of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you”
(Mat 12:28), “How God anointed Jesus
of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost [Breath] and with power: who went
about doing good, and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Act 10:38), but that He
did these things by His own divine power as a 100% divine being in the flesh. Whether
or not they truly are antichrists is Christ’s decision but their teaching
essentially implicates them as such.
The Roman Catholic
Church
So
he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit
upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads
and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness
of her fornication: And upon her forehead was
a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the
woman drunken with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I
wondered with great admiration. (Revelation 17:3-6)
It has been astutely noted that this woman is likely the Roman
Catholic Church (RCC). Her attire is the pomp and pageantry of her popes and
cardinals decked in purple and scarlet, gold and precious stones. She
established the doctrine of the Trinity by anathematizing and putting to death
any that disagreed with her. She is drunk with the blood of the saints and
martyrs that stood for the truth taught by Jesus Christ. And she is “THE MOTHER
OF HARLOTS” by virtue of having given birth to multitudes of Protestant
Trinitarian churches all over the world, committing fornication with the
Trinity rather than worshipping “the only true God” (Jhn 17:3) the Father, and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
The reason
the Trinity is the majority mainstream Protestant Christian view of God is that
her mother established it by force hundreds of years ago. And the reason it
remains the majority mainstream view is because of overwhelming pressure to
stay conformed to it. Anyone denying the Trinity will be removed,
publicly shamed as a blasphemer and heretic, categorized with Jehovah’s
Witnesses, and given over to the fear of burning in fire forever. The bottom
line is that nobody should dare question this doctrine. They claim it as part
of “the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jde 1:3), though it
was delivered by the RCC.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in
hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and
commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received
with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. (1 Timothy 4:1-3)
Paul
described the RCC
here quite descriptively. They forbid their priests from marrying and require abstaining
from meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all Fridays during Lent. And this
is what the Breath spoke expressly or specifically would happen in the latter
times.
Jesus Christ
was sent by God and never taught the doctrine of the Trinity. He taught that He
is the Son of God and that His Father is God and even His God. The doctrine of a
Triune God didn’t come from Him! Then from whom did it come? What’s its source?
The Breath said that “doctrines of devils” come from those forbidding marriage
and requiring abstinence from meat, and the doctrine of the Trinity came from
the very organization that fits this description.
We’re told,
however, that in the end times God’s people will come out from this woman, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be
not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Rev 18:4).
Within the RCC and Protestant churches are many of God’s people in spite of
holding to the doctrine of the Trinity. It’s because they embrace this doctrine
in sincere ignorance that God is gracious and merciful to them. But the day
will come when they’ll no longer be ignorant of the truth and will be required
to either come out or stay and receive of her plagues.
Conclusion
The dilemma faced by Trinitarian theologians is that the
more educated, scholarly, and intelligent they are, the less excuse they have
for being wrong about this most important doctrine of all—the doctrine of God.
Especially since this doctrine is quite simple, logical, and easy to
understand:
At
that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so,
Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of
my Father: and no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. (Matthew 11:25-27)
It’s easy enough to understand what God the Father and the
Son of God said about each other that even a child can understand it! Since
theologians are so brilliant, why can’t they? Why reject the simple and logical
for the complex and illogical? Why teach a view of God that’s illogical and
requires complex and lengthy arguments to attempt to explain? In fact, many of
them even surrender and claim that it’s some kind of mystery that nobody can
understand. Could it be that “the wise and prudent” just have too much to lose?
By the time
Christ came, the Jewish people had developed a religious system with which they
had grown comfortable, and it became very difficult to turn away from and
forsake. They were in bondage to the doctrines of men and didn’t want
to repent and submit to the doctrines of Jesus Christ. They loved the praise of
men and didn’t want to be removed from the synagogue, scorned by their own
family, and persecuted for following the truth. Unlike most Gentiles, they had
too much to lose. The Pharisees in particular, with Saul of Tarsus as the prime
example, had the most to lose:
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of
the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal,
persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law,
blameless. But what things were gain to
me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss
of all things, and do count them but
dung, that I may win Christ. (Philippians 3:5-8)
In a similar way as the Pharisees (and not implying that
Trinitarian theologians are
Pharisees), Trinitarian theologians and ministers have grown comfortable with
the theological and denominational systems to which they belong and have much
to lose if they were to admit that the doctrine of the Trinity is false. The
far-reaching implications are that if they agree with what the Father and Son
said about each other, not only will their theological system topple to rubble
but possibly their own ministry and reputation. They earned seminary degrees,
wrote books, taught multitudes of messages, established a reputation and name
for themselves, and raised untold amounts of money in the process. It’s
extremely difficult for them to now tell everyone, “I’m sorry, I was wrong
about God.”
What are they going to do? Are they willing to forsake it
all in order to continue following Christ, or will they speak against Christ
and continue defending their system? “For
what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mat 16:26). Many
ministers are sincerely innocent in their ignorance. They truly believe what
they had been taught in the seminaries and have already built their lives and ministries
upon it. Once they come to learn that the doctrine of the Trinity and much of
the accompanying theological system is false, it’s extremely difficult for them
to forsake it all.
I recognize this dilemma personally because it was very
difficult for me to repent of this false doctrine and I’m not even in the
ministry. I didn’t have nearly as much to lose as ministers yet it was still a
long and difficult process. Therefore, I’m striving to be patient,
understanding, and merciful toward those struggling with a similar predicament.
I hope to see them free as well.
The names of the 12 apostles will be written on the
foundation stones of the wall around the city of Jerusalem that will come down
from heaven, “And the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and in them the names
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb” (Rev 21:14). Jesus said that if we
overcome then our names will be written on one of the stones in the wall, “He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to
eat of the hidden manna, and will give
him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man
knoweth saving he that receiveth it”
(Rev 2:17).
Where do we want to see our names written? Do we want our
names on a church membership roll, on a book, on a building, on the big screen,
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, or on the wall surrounding the New Jerusalem?
Until we’re willing to let our own name and reputation become trash, “I have
suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ” (Phl 3:5-8), we’re not worthy of
being called by His glorious name. For Him to one day give us a stone in the
wall with a new name written, we must forsake our own name and live for the
glory of His.
Trinitarian
theologians declare that the fight against the doctrine of the Trinity is
unrelenting which supposedly indicates that what they teach must be true
otherwise people wouldn’t be fighting against it so persistently. But the real
reason the fight is unrelenting is because the doctrine of the Trinity is false
and they won’t stop teaching it! They claim that history proves Trinitarians
have always come out the winners. But of course they’ve always won—they’ve
simply cast out any that opposed them. The true winners, however, are not the
self-declared but the Christ-declared.
Trinitarian
theologians tell us to not only read the Bible but also the books they
recommend. This is how they keep everyone on an even-keel with their
theological system, ensuring that the Bible continues to be read through the
lens of their doctrines. But following the Lord is not about
following a theological system or a denomination. It’s about sincerely seeking the truth and
submitting ourselves to it once we find it. Their books are not intended to
help us with doing that.
“He that is of God heareth God’s words:
ye therefore hear them not, because
ye are not of God” (Jhn 8:47), “We are
of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not
us. Hereby know we the spirit [breath] of truth, and the spirit
of error.” (1Jo 4:6). If we are “of God” and “know God” then we will hear the
teaching of His Son Jesus Christ and His apostles. We will hear the truth and love
the truth that glorifies the Lord and blesses people. This is how we know “the
Spirit [Breath] of truth” (Jhn 14:17,
15:26, 16:13; 1Jo 4:6). But if we stubbornly cling to what we know is false, we
demonstrate that we really don’t love the Lord or people. We’re more concerned
about self-preservation—our own name and reputation, praise from people, comfort,
and support.
Paul said that
the first piece of “the whole armour of God” (Eph 6:11, 13) is the truth, “Stand
therefore, having your loins girt about
with truth” (Eph 6:14). And he had written earlier that the truth is what
Jesus Christ taught, “But ye have not so learned
Christ; If so be that ye have heard
him, and have been taught by him, as
the truth is in Jesus” (Eph 4:20-21). The truth that Jesus taught and what
Paul wrote in this same letter is “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ” (Eph 1:3), “One God and Father of all” (Eph 4:6). If we’re not
submitted to the truth about God that Jesus taught, then we’re not protected
with the whole armor but vulnerable to the devil.