The Trinity

The word "trinity" is a term used to denote the so-called Christian

doctrine that God exists as a unity of three distinct persons or
personalities: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If this is the case, then
which of the three do we worship and which one do we pray to?

You will hear the answer: “Pray to the Father in the Name of the
Son.” But then most denominations pray “in the name of the
Father, Son, AND Holy Ghost?”

Where‟s the truth in all this?

A bit of history:

The “Holy Trinity” was introduced to Christianity by Constantine, a

Roman Emperor, in the year 325 AD. Constantine had the
appearance of being a Christian because he stopped the mass
slaughter of Christians, painted a cross on the shields of his army,
and erected a cross on top of St. Sophia‟s Church. In reality, he was
not a Christian, but a master politician.

Just before a battle with the rival Roman, Maxentius, Constantine

had a dream in which he was instructed to paint a cross on the
shields of his soldiers. He was against overwhelming odds, being
outnumbered two-to-one, but he followed the instructions and won
the battle. He saw that there was something special about
Christianity, and recognized the prayers of Christians as a powerful
ally as emperor.

Constantine, a practicing pagan, hosted the first ecumenical

council in Nicaea Rome, AD 325, where he brought Christian sects
and pagan idolatry together. The meeting, dubbed the “Nicene
Council,” worked out the differences between competing groups of
Christianity, joined church and state, and gave power to a universal
church. There were primarily two rival Christian factions that
Constantine was bringing together. One faction considered Jesus
divine. The other considered Jesus a created being, and therefore
less than God. After heated arguments and a lot of political
wrangling, the result was the agreement that the Son was the true
God, co-eternal with the Father, and begotten from the same
substance as the Father. This made Jesus “co-equal” with God. The
platform was set for the “Holy Trinity” to be accepted by most sects
of Christianity.

Here is the first “Nicene Creed” drafted and implemented by the

Nicene Council.

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things

visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the
Father [the only-begotten; that is, of the essence of the Father, God
of God,] Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made,
being of one substance with the Father;

By whom all things were made [both in heaven and on earth];

Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was
incarnate and was made man;

He suffered, and the third day he rose again, ascended into

heaven;

From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

And in the Holy Ghost.

[But those who say: „There was a time when he was not;‟ and „He
was not before he was made;‟ and „He was made out of nothing,‟ or
„He is of another substance‟ or „essence,‟ or „The Son of God is
created,‟ or „changeable,‟ or „alterable‟—they are condemned by the
holy catholic and apostolic Church.]
With the newly-given power, the creeds were enforced with the
penalty of banishment, torture, and death. Soon, the world plunged
into the Dark Ages, where more than 68 million people were killed
in the titles of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (The Glorious
Reformation, Schmucker, 1838).

They didn't believe in three Gods in the beginning of the church.

You can't find that sort of belief amongst the apostles. It was after
the apostolic age that this theory came in and really became an
issue and a cardinal doctrine at the Nicene Council. The doctrine of
Godhead caused a two way split at Nicaea. And from that split there
came two extremes. One actually went into polytheism, believing in
three Gods, and the others went into unitarianism. Of course that
was a little while in coming about, but it did, and we have it right
today. But the Revelation through John by the Spirit to the
churches was, "I am the Lord Jesus Christ, and I am ALL of it.
There isn't any other God". And He put His seal on this Revelation.

Consider this: Who was the Father of Jesus? Matthew 1:18 says,
"She was found with child of the Holy Ghost". But Jesus, Himself,
claimed that God was His Father. God the Father and God the Holy
Ghost, as we often express these terms, make the Father and the
Spirit ONE. Indeed they are, or else Jesus had two Fathers. But
notice that Jesus said that He and His Father were One--not two.
That makes ONE God.

Since this is historically and Scripturally true, people wonder where

the three came from. It became a foundational doctrine at the
Nicene Council in 325 A.D. This trinity (an absolutely unscriptural
word) was based upon the many gods of Rome. The Romans had
many gods to whom they prayed. They also prayed to ancestors as
mediators. It was just a step to give new names to old gods, so we
have saints to make it more Biblical. Thus, instead of Jupiter,
Venice, Mars, etc., we have Paul, Peter, Fatima, Christopher, etc.,
etc. They could not make their pagan religion work out with just
one God, so they split Him up into three, and they made
intercessors of the saints as they had made intercessors of their
ancestors.

Ever since then people have failed to realize that there is just one
God with three offices or manifestations. They know there is one
God according to Scripture, but they try to make it the fantastic
theory that God is like a bunch of grapes; three persons with the
same Divinity shared equally by all. But it plainly says here in
Revelation that Jesus is "That Which Is", "That Which Was", and
"That Which Is to Come". He is the "Alpha and Omega", which
means that He is the "A to Z" or THE ALL OF IT. He is everything--
the Almighty. He is the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the
Bright and Morning Star, the Righteous Branch, the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost. He is God, Almighty God. ONE GOD.

I Timothy 3:16 says, "And without controversy great is the mystery

of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,
seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
received up into Glory". This is what the Bible says. It doesn't say a
thing about a first or second or third person here. It says God was
manifest in flesh. One God. That ONE GOD was manifested in flesh.
That ought to settle it. God came in a human form. That didn't
make Him ANOTHER GOD. HE WAS GOD, THE SAME GOD. It was
a revelation then, and it is a revelation now. One God.

Although “The Holy Trinity” has endured through the ages by the
merciless hand of the Catholic Church, it is never mentioned in the
Bible and neither was this concept taught anywhere in Scripture. In
fact, separating God into three different persons would have gotten
you stoned in the Old Testament for breaking the first two
Commandments.

Note, Catholic Church renumbered the Ten Commandments, in

essence removing the Second Commandments to line up with the
doctrine of the Trinity and worshipping of saints (but that‟s another
study).

Scripture References

Exodus 20:3

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:4

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image , or any likeness
of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth:

Exodus 20:5

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the
LORD thy God am a jealous God , visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate me;

Deuteronomy 4:35

Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD
he is God; there is none else beside him .

Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

Deuteronomy 10:14

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy
God , the earth also, with all that therein is.

[Hebrews 1:2 says: Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his
Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he
made the worlds;]

II Samuel 7:22

Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee,
neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have
heard with our ears.

I Kings 8:60

That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God,
and that there is none else .

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel
[“Immanuel” means “God with us.”]

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : and the

government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father , The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 37:16

O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the

cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone , of all the kingdoms
of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth .

[Hebrews 1:2 says: Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his
Son , whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he
made the worlds ;]

Isaiah 43:10-11

10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I

have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall
there be after me.

11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour .

[Luke 2:11 says: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord . AND John 4:42 says: and know
that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world .]

Hosea 13:4

Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt
know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
Zechariah 14:9

And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one LORD, and his name one .

Matthew 28:19

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name

of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

[What is the Father‟s name? Son‟s Name? Holy Ghost‟s Name?]

John 1:1 and 1:14

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God...

14...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full
of grace and truth.

John 5:43

I am come in my Father's name , and ye receive me not: if another

shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

[If He comes in His Father‟s Name, then what is His Name?]

John 10:30

I and my Father are one.

John 12:45

And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.

John 14:8-9

8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth
us.

9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet
hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen
the Father ; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

John 20:28

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

[Thomas was speaking to Jesus]

Acts 20:28

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the
which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church
of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

[Were we saved by the blood of the Holy Ghost or the blood of

Jesus?]

Ephesians 4:5

One Lord , one faith, one baptism,

Colossians 1:12-20

12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be

partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath

translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

14 In whom we have redemption through his blood , even the

forgiveness of sins:

15 Who is the image of the invisible God , the firstborn of every

creature

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by
him, and for him :

17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

18 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.

19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ;

20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him
to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be
things in earth, or things in heaven.

Colossians 2:8-10

8 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.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily .

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality

and power:

I Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was

manifest in the flesh , justified in the Spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up
into glory.

Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his
person , and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high;

I John 5:7

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one .