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The
Trinity Defined The Trinity Doctrine that began with the Catholic Church and spread to many other churches is the abolition of the number 2... The victim is asked to accept that 1 is 3 and 3 is 1. The Catholic Encyclopedia, the Trinity section of which can be found on the Internet, defines the trinity as follows: The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion--the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these three persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed:
“Basically the Trinity is defined as a number that is both less than
two and more than two. Obviously there is no such number.
The Trinity is like a hotel in North London which is situated South of
the Thames. Obviously there
is no such hotel. But when
the poor uneducated, logically uninitiated, spiritually naïve, churchgoer
complains, saying: How can this be?
He is told by his priest: Aha! that is the
mystery of God. God can put a hotel which is in North London in a South
London postal code. God can make a number that is larger than 2
actually be less than 2. at which point the poor naïve church-goer gives up
and says to himself, .Wow!
I will never understand God, I had better leave the understanding of
him to my priest.
I can never have a relationship with a God like that, whom I simply
cannot understand. I had better have a relationship with the
priest instead. This is of
course precisely the effect that the priest wants.
Now he can continue to play God to his congregation.
So the churchgoer becomes an idolater of his priest rather than a
worshiper of God. It is not
possible to have a relationship with a person who cannot be known..
So the churchgoer is prohibited by the trinity doctrine from having a
relationship with his God.”
“The Doctrine
of the Trinity
is useful to determine if someone is “brain-washed” to the extent that he or she will be of
great usefulness to the Church.
If the victim is prepared to believe that one
is three and that a
father is his own son and that a
son is uncreated, then he or she is prepared to believe
anything at all and so he or she is fully brainwashed.
Once he is in this condition, his logic is removed, his objectivity has
gone, he is mentally defenseless, so he and his family can be pumped for
money, sex, status, worship, whatever the priest wants.”
“So by making the trinity doctrine
the central doctrine of the Roman Catholic faith, that church was auto
selecting brainwashed people. The
control freak only wants brainwashed people.
He cannot permit free thinkers to enter the congregation, they might
see through his little game and liberate his brainwashed victims. It is a pleasure to be able to reveal the truth behind
this despicable mind game that the Roman Catholic Church has relied on for
1700 years.” (Quoted from
www.biblecodeintro.com) The largest non-trinitarian church with a reputation for good scholarship and good ethics is the Unitarian-Universalist Church. A lot of Jews attend this church if they can’t find a synagogue to their liking. Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons are also non-trinitarians, as are Freemasons and many smaller sects. Deists like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were also non-trinitarians For about 40 years the vast majority of those Millerites that later (1860s) became Seventh-day Adventists were non-Trinitarians. But starting in 1888 there was a gradual slide towards conformity with the majority of Christians, and by the mid-1950s the church leaders redefined the central doctrines of Seventh-day Adventism to conform with the language of the Nicene Creed. Many Seventh-day Adventists are still not completely Trinitarians, however, because they persist in reading the older literature written by the Church "Fathers" in the old non-Trinity days, and because the lack of logic in the Nicene Creed distresses them. For an example of a non-Trinitarian congregation that is otherwise quite typical Seventh-day Adventist in their teachings, click the link below: |
10 Anti-Trinity Texts of the New Testament Text
1
Matthew 12:32 “And
whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the
world to come.” So the Holy Spirit and
the Son are not co-equal and are different beings. Text
2
Matthew 16:15 “He
saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God. 17
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for
flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father
which is in heaven.” So God revealed it, not
Jesus, so they are two different spirits. Text
3
Matthew 20:23 “And he said unto them, Ye shall drink
indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with:
but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine
to give, but it shall be given to them (belongs to those—NIV) for whom it is
prepared of my Father.’ So God and Jesus have
separate possessions. Text
4
Mark 10:18 “And
Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God.” So God is good and
Jesus is not, so they are different people with different characters and
different levels of righteousness, Text
5
Matthew 24:36 “But
of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only.” So God knows things
that Jesus does not know. So they
have no ‘unity of Godhead’. Text
6
John 14:1 “Let
not your heart be troubled: ye believe (trust—NIV, exercise faith) in God,
believe (trust, exercise faith) also in me.” Text
7
John 14:28 “Ye
have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you.
If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father:
for my Father is greater than I.” So the two of them are
not co-equal then. Text
8
Luke 22:42 “Saying,
Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my
will, but thine,
be done.” So
God and Jesus have two different wills. So
there is no ‘unity of Godhead’. Text
9
John 11:41 “Then
they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus
lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. 42
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which
stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me (sent me
forth--?) Text
10
Matthew 6:9 “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” Jesus himself was
entirely on earth and God was entirely in heaven when he said this!
Text
11
Matthew 27:46 “And
about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama
sabach’thani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” As another argument, if
it is true that Jesus and God are the same person, then Jesus talked to
himself in public, and prayed to himself in private and so was in fact a
schizophrenic. This is
plainly a false insult both to God and to his Son. Text
12
1 Timothy 6:16 “Who
only (the one) hath immortality [aqanastan], dwelling in the light which no man can
approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power
everlasting. Amen.’ Text
13
Hebrews 5:5 “So
also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he (God) said
unto him (Jesus as a descendent of David eligible to be Christ), Thou art my
Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6 As
he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up
prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able
to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though
he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And
being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all who
obey him;
10 Called
of God an high priest
after the order of Melchisedec.” Text
14
1 Corinthians 15:23 “But
every man in his own order (rank): Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that
are Christ’s at his coming. 24
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up (hands over) the
kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down (brought to
nothing) all rule and all authority and power.” How do you hand over something to yourself? Return to UNOFFICIAL SDA Pages |