N S B Notes: TRINITY
In the Beginning Man Created God!
And one was not enough.
So he created three,
And called them Holy Trinity.
RELIGIOUS TRIADS EXISTED FOR CENTURIES IN BABYLON: Many centuries before the time of Christ, back at the very beginning of civilization, there were trinities of gods in ancient Babylonia and Assyria. It was common in the ancient world to group pagan gods in threes or triads. Egypt, Greece, and Rome were noted for following trinitarian practices in the centuries before, during, and after Christ. After the death of the apostles, these pagan beliefs slowly became a part of Christianity. According to the Encylopedia Americana, “Fourth century Trinitarianism was a deviation from early Christian teaching.”
A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge calls our attention to an important fact about the Trinity Doctrine. It says that the Trinity “is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and ingrafted on the Christian faith.” The more you research the history of mankind the more apparent it becomes that the Christian teaching of the Trinity is entirely pagan.
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES: Look at the teachings of the prophets found in the Hebrew Scriptures. Do they even once speak of a Trinity as the “central doctrine” of faith? No! They always speak about one God, who demands exclusive devotion. Search the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apostles in the Christian Greek Scriptures and see for yourself that they emphatically preached One God, and father of us all! It is obvious, man created the Trinity!
MONOTHEISTIC: Belief that there is only one true God. The Holy Scriptures present Jehovah God as the one and only God. (John 4:23) (1 Corinthians 8:5-6) He requires exclusive devotion. (Nahum 1:2) (Exodus 20:2-5) (John 14:28) (Matthew 22:36-38) The Bible specifically states that the true God was and is the Father of Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 8:4-6) The theory of “three gods in one” does not respect Jehovah God’s requirement for exclusive devotion stated at Deuteronomy 4:24, and it is not found in the Bible. There is only one true God, not three! The word monotheistic is also not found in the Holy Scriptures, but the concept is present throughout the context of the Bible.
Read Deuteronomy 4:35, “To you it is shown that you might know that the LORD, He is God; there is no other besides Him.” NASB. Also read Deuteronomy 4:39, “Know therefore this day, and consider in thine heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath; [there is] none else.” KJV. How much clearer must that be stated? The LORD is God and there is no other besides Him!
TRINITY DOCTRINE, A ROMAN CATHOLIC CREATION: The Trinity Doctrine was officially adopted by the Roman Catholic Church nearly 300 years after Christ! The apostles had completed the writing of the Christian Greek Scriptures 250 years before the Catholic Church approved of the Trinity Doctrine. The Catholic Encylopedia will verify that fact.
It was a gradual process that took many years and much debate but in the year 325 C.E. the Creed of the Council of Nicaea was approved and the teaching of the Trinity became formalized in the church. Arius, a priest in Alexandria denied the dogma from the church that Jesus was God incarnate. He claimed it to be false doctrine and contrary to Holy Scriptures. The Emperor Constantine (Constine) convoked a church council at Nicaea in 325 to organize the Catholic Church against the teaching of Arius.
Hilarius (300-367 C.E.) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Pictavium. He was referred to as the “malleus Arianorum,” the “hammer against Arianism.” This is because he expended great amounts of energy fighting the Christians who believed that God was totally one God and not Trinitarian. Hilarius was unanimously elected bishop about 353 C.E. At that time Arianism was threatening to overrun the Western Church. One of his first duties as bishop was to secure the excommunication of the Arian bishop of Arles and of Ursacius and Valens, two of his prominent supporters. This was one of the major battles fought in the great Trinitarian war.
The Council of Constantinople also approved the teaching of the Trinity in 381 C.E. Previous to this in the year 200 C.E. Tertullian quoted the old Roman Creed which was completely devoid of any reference to the Trinity. The New Simplified Bible features the true monotheistic God, one God, not three in one!
TRADITIONS OF MEN, False Doctrine: The Jewish leaders were following the commands of men as doctrines. (Matthew 15:9) Jesus said that by their tradition they made God’s Word invalid, overstepping the commands of God. (Matthew 15:3-6) Neither Jesus nor the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures ever spoke anything that was not absolutely found in the Holy Scriptures. (2 Timothy 3:16, 17)
Jesus Christ and the first century Christian leaders never gave permission to add new doctrine and traditions to the teachings of the Holy Scriptures. Christian leaders of the third, fourth and fifth centuries added a large number of new doctrine and traditions to the church. (1 Timothy 1:3; 6:3-5) This is especially true of the Roman Catholic Church. However, most of the church organizations that broke away from the Catholic Church retained these questionable doctrines and added their own. This apostate practice has been going on since the first century.
CHURCH LEADERS CLAIM DIVINE AUTHORITY TO TEACH TRINITY: Church leaders proclaim that God has given them divine authority to write new teachings and traditions. It is not uncommon for a religious leader to claim that God speaks to him directly. In spite of the fact that interpretation belongs to God, church leaders continue to make up their own doctrines. (2 Peter 1:20) (Genesis 40:8) (Revelation 22:9)
TRINITARIAN CONSPIRACY: A conspiracy is a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act. The act of teaching millions of church members that Jesus Christ is one and the same spirit person as Jehovah God is an organized conspiracy. It is a deliberate attempt to persuade people that God’s Word does not state that “the LORD, He is God; there is no other besides Him.” (Deuteronomy 4:35 NASB) It is a deliberate and highly organized conspiracy to overthrow the Truth from the Bible!
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727): The law of gravity became Sir Isaac Newton's best-known discovery. Newton warned against using it to view the universe as a mere machine, like a great clock. He said, "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done."
Though he is better known for his scientific achievements, the Bible was Sir Isaac Newton's greatest passion. He devoted more time to the study of Scripture than to science, and said, "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily." Newton did not accept the churches teaching on the Trinity.
TRINITY NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE: The word Trinity was used for the first time by Theophilus of Antioch a long time after the Bible was written. (181 A.D, "Ad Autolycum" Chapter 15 of Book 2) This word is not found in the Holy Scriptures. In fact the entire context of the Bible does not support a mysterious three-persons-in-one spirit being. Jesus instructions at Matthew 28:18-20 identify three spirit entities, but do not say they are three in one. Paul’s salutation at 2 Corinthians 13:14 identify the three separate spirit entities, but do not say they belong to a trinity. God does not share his name or glory with anyone. (Isaiah 42:8, 44:6; 48:11) The unity emphasized at Ephesians 4:3-6 proves He is a monotheistic God, one God and Father of all. (SEE N S B Notes: HOLY SPIRIT, “WHO” OR “WHAT?”)
NEW SIMPLIFIED BIBLE, THE OTHER NON-TRINITARIAN BIBLE: Of the nearly 450 complete “New Testaments” and 112 complete translations of the entire “Old and New Testaments” translated into English since 1450 Common Era, more than 95 percent have been “Trinitarian Biased.” Trinitarian translators and Trinitarian publishers provide Bibles to Trinitarian-minded people. The end result is Bible translations filled with Trinitarian views! The New Simplified Bible is Not Trinitarian Biased! John 1:1, 18; 8:58; 10:34-36; 14:10, 17; 16:13-15; Exodus 3:14, 15 and many other references give evidence of this.
JESUS CHRIST: Hebrew: Jehoshua, meaning Jehovah Is Salvation. Jesus Christ is the name and title of the Son of God. He is the only begotten Son. Jesus paid the ransom sacrifice for mankind. (Matthew 20:28) (1 Timothy 2:6) (1 John 2:1, 2) He is referred to as the Word of God. He is now at the right hand of God. (Acts 7:55) (Hebrews 10:12) Jesus Christ and his anointed will rule as kings over the earth. (Revelation 5:8-14) Jesus is the expression of God’s love for mankind. (John 3:16, 36)
John 1:1 is translated using the same words in nearly every translation. This translation is different! If you believe Jesus is God the wording here should not disturb your beliefs, for he was and is like his Father. If you accept God’s own statement that Jesus is the Son of God the rendering in The New Simplified Bible will fit your theology. The following is the way you will find it in this translation along with related notes: (John 1:1) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and Word was like God.”
(Strong’s Bible Dictionary: Theos: God, a god, magistrate, deity, godly or God-like) (Family relationship, son with father) (Logos en pros Theos; Jesus Christ the Word was with {pros} God) Transliteration: In the beginning was Jesus Christ the Son of God, and Jesus Christ the Son of God was with God, and Jesus Christ the Son of God was like his Father, God. Another way to state this: “The Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God, and the Word was like God. This is a family relationship, son with father. “Logos en pros Theos.” Jesus Christ the Word (Logos) was with (pros) God. And Jesus Christ was like, his Father, God (Theo's). (1 Corinthians 11:3; 15:27, 28) (John 1:18) (Philippians 2:6) (Acts 7:55) (Hebrews 10:12) GREEK: “kai theos en ho logos.” ENGLISH: and God-like was the Word.
If God was a Trinity, Jesus would also be “like God.” Since God is not a Trinity, it is even more important to convey the fact that he is still like his Father and his God. (John 20:17) (Revelation 3:12) After all, being second only to God in the universe is very close to being a deity. At this very moment Jesus is at the right hand of the Almighty God, Jehovah. (Acts 7:55) (Hebrews 1:3; 10:12)
QUOTES ABOUT THE TRINITY:
The Church of the First Three Centuries (1865 Alvan Lamson)
" . . . The modern doctrine of the Trinity is not found in any document or relic belonging to the Church of the first three centuries. . . so far as any remains or any record of them are preserved, coming down from early times, are, as regards this doctrine an absolute blank. They testify, so far as they testify at all, to the supremacy of the father, the only true God; and to the inferior and derived nature of the Son. There is nowhere among these remains a coequal trinity. . . but no un-divided three, -- coequal, infinite, self-existent, and eternal. This was a conception to which the age had not arrived. It was of later origin."
The Encyclopedia Americana (1956)
"Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian (believing in one God). The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching."
The New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967)
"The formulation 'one God in three persons' was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century."
Dictionary of The Bible (1995 John L. Mckenzie)
"The trinity of God is defined by the church as the belief that in God are three persons who subsist in one nature. The belief as so defined was reached only in the 4th and 5th centuries AD and hence is not explicitly and formally a biblical belief."
The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism (1995)
". . . scholars generally agree that there is no doctrine of the trinity as such in either the Old Testament or the New Testament."
The Rise of Christianity (W.H.C. Frend 1985)
"we find Christianity tending to absorb Greek philosophical values, until by the end of the third century the line between the beliefs of educated Christian and educated pagan in the east would often be hard to draw."
Forgers of the Word (1983 Victor Paul Wierwille)
"The truth of Jesus Christ the Son of God was deliberately forged into the doctrine of God the Son. Seeds of Jesus Christ as God were planted and sprouted during the lifetime of Paul, continued growing during Timothy's lifetime and flourished shortly thereafter, reaching full bloom for all future creeds by 325 AD"
"The doctrine that Jesus Christ the Son of God was God the son was decreed by worldly and ecclesiastical powers. Men were forced to accept it at the point of the sword or else, Thus, the error of the trinity was propounded to the end that ultimately people believed it to be the truth. Thus Christianity became in essence like Babylonian heathenism, with only a veneer of Christian names."
The Doctrine of the Trinity Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound (1994 Anthony F. Buzzard Charles F. Hunting)
"It was Constantine who by official edict brought Christianity to believe in the formal division of the Godhead into two – God the Father and God the Son. It remained the task of a later generation to bring Christianity to believe in the Triune God."
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