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                         God is One

"To you it was shown that you might know the LORD, He is God; there is no other besides Him." Deut.4:35

I recently heard a man who was trying to explain the trinity say, "I have to admit, I have a hard time getting my head around it." That's because there is no such thing. A group of "carnal" men got together at Nicea in 325 AD, and created one of the most twisted doctrines that has ever been introduced into Christianity. Don't you find it a little strange that none of the men of God, who laid the foundation for the church, ever mentioned anything about a trinity?

About 300 years after the death of Christ, some ungodly men came up with the idea that God is three Gods - God the Father; God the Son; and God the Holy Spirit. But because they knew that the Scriptures said, "The LORD is our God, the LORD is one," (Deut.6:1), they also twisted mathematics and to say; one, plus one, plus one, equals one. If they can do that, then so can all the pagan religions that hold to more than one god. They can also claim that their many gods are just many "persons" but equal only one god. Or, was Christianity granted a patent on their new rules of "twisted addition?" We cannot change the rules of addition to make them comply with man's concept of God.

Jesus was exactly who He said He was, the Son of God. Nowhere is He called "God the Son." A man once called Jesus "good teacher," and He said, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone." (Lu.18:19) Thus, by that, Jesus denied He was God. "Although He existed in the form of God, (for Jesus did things that you would expect a god to do) He did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped." (Phil.2:6) It is man who has made Him equal with God through the trinity, which says He is God the Son and equal with the God the Father. Jesus denied He was equal with the Father for He said, "...the Father is greater than I." (Jn.14:28) The trinity claims Jesus has always existed as the Son but God declares, "You are My Son, Today I have begotten you, And again, I will be a Father to Him And He shall be a Son to Me." (Heb.1:5) He became the Son the day He was begotten of the Father.

Many teach that Melchizedek, who it speaks about in Genesis, was Jesus. Not so, for Melchizedek was without father, without mother - whereas Jesus had both. (Heb.7:3)

The trinity says that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity - God the Holy Spirit. If that is the case, then Jesus was all mixed up; for He called the first person of the trinity His Father, but the word of God says He was "conceived" of the Holy Spirit. (Mat.1:20) That would mean the third person of the trinity was really His Father because no one can have two fathers.

Let's say a woman cannot have children by her husband and she has her egg fertilized by a sperm donor. Her husband may claim he is the father but in reality the person who donated the sperm is the biological father. Of course, I guess Christianity will find a way to create some kind of fable contrary to all the laws and rules of nature that God Almighty has made.

After Jesus rose from the grave He said, "I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God." (Jn.20:17 ) If Jesus calls the Father "His God" and Jesus is also a God, then He must be a "sub-god" or a lesser god than His Father.

Look at John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." A better translation of "the Word was God" would be: "The Word was the same as God, or, what God was, the Word was." It does not say "Jesus was in the beginning, and Jesus was with God." Nor does it say, "the second person of the trinity was in the beginning, and the second person was with God the first person of the trinity." It clearly states the "Word" was with God in the beginning and the Word that was with God was put into the child Christ Jesus, thus "...the word became flesh." (Jn.1:14)

In the Old Testament it always says the word of the LORD came unto the prophets and they would speak the word of God to the people. It never says the word of the LORD came unto Jesus because the "word" was IN Him, therefore, He could say, "...the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me." (Jn.14:24)

Trinitarians say that Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. Again they pull out their twisted math. One hundred percent speaks of the total of a thing. I reckon Jesus could have been half god and half man, and the half that was god could have been 100% god and the half that was man could have been 100% man. That would have made Him 50% god and 50% man to equal a total of 100%; but 100% god and 100% man equals someone who be 200%. That can only happen in fables and myths and children's fairy tales. It appears the trinity was created by those who did not even know the basics of arithmetic that is learned by children in first grade: (1+1=1 and 1+1+1=3).

In the same way 1/3, plus 1/3, plus 1/3, equals 3/3, which equals one. Therefore, if there is a trinity each member would only be 1/3 God. Otherwise, if each was fully God, there would be tree Gods. Math cannot be changed just to conform to the trinity myth. God our Father is not 1/3 God, rather He is 100% God and the only God. (Eph.4:6) Jesus is the only "begotten Son" of God. (Jn.3:16) Adam was the "created son" of God. (Lu.3:38) And we, who have been born again, are the "adopted sons" of God. (Gal.4:6,7)

Have you ever noticed that, in all Paul's letters, his greetings were from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. There was never a reference to the Holy Spirit as being a third person. So what is "Holy Spirit?" (The article "the" is not in the original Greek.) Holy spirit is a gift from God; (Ac.2:38) and the agent through which God works. It was the instrument (not some third person) that the Father used to cause Mary to conceive the Christ child. Because the translators of the Bible believed the gift of holy spirit to be a person, they add the pronoun "He" in reference to holy spirit.

Unlike English, many languages, including Spanish, French, German, Latin, Hebrew and the Greek language assign a gender to all nouns. When a language, such as Greek, which assigns genders to nouns, is spoken or written, proper grammar dictates that the gender of any pronoun relating to that noun must agree with the gender of the noun.

In Spanish, for example, a table is feminine, "la mesa." In translating from Spanish to English, however, we would never translate the table, "she." It would be improper English. The Spanish language does not think of a table being a "person," it is simply the way Spanish is spoken and used. Hence, someone translating from Spanish to English would use the English designation "it" for a table, in spite of the fact that in the original language, table has a feminine gender. The translators give the Greek words "holy spirit" a masculine gender but "holy spirit" should be translated "it" in English.

Jesus often used natural things to explain spiritual things (parables). Let me do the same. Let's say a man was going on a long trip to many countries and leaving his wife for a very long time. He knew she would be lonely and miss him very much, so he tells her I am going to give you a gift that will comfort you. The gift he gives her is a telephone, whereby she is able to talk to him wherever he is at and be comforted by hearing his voice. He is able also to give her instructions concerning things he would like her to do. Likewise God's "gift" of holy spirit comforts us as He uses it to lead and teach us through His "gift." The gifts of the Spirit work in the members of the body by His "gift." (1Cor.12:8-10) "To each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good." (vs.7)

Let's take Genesis 1:26, which says, "Then God said, 'Let Us made Man.'" Trinitarians claim the use of the word "Us" refers to the trinity. The fact is they do not know the Hebrew language or how it is used. In Hebrew many words are plural, and the word "Us" is not referring to plurality of persons, rather it is speaking of plurality of "Majesty." Other examples are, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground." (Gen.4:10) In Hebrew the word "blood" is plural(bloods), but is translated in the singular form in English. Again in Genesis 19:11, "They struck the men who were in the doorway of the house with blindness." In Hebrew blindness is plural (blindnesses). Psalm 45: 15, reads, "They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing." Gladness is plural in Hebrew (gladnesses).

In the Spanish language, if I spoke of my house, I would say, "Mi casa." If I had more than one house I would add "s" to the word "casa" to make it plural; but I must also add "s" to "mi" (my) and say, "Mis casas." Although house (casa) becomes plural (casas), my (mi) does not make me more than one person in the plural form (mis). So you can see how it is possible to translate from one language to another in accordance with the way we have been taught to believe, rather than the correct usage of the language.

When Thomas saw Jesus after He had risen from the grave, he declared, "My Lord and my God." (Jn.20:28) In the Greek there are no upper and lower case letters. Notice in John 10:34, Jesus said to the Jews, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I said you are gods.'" Here, the translators used the lower case for god because they knew the Jews were not equal to YAHWEH; whereas when Thomas called Jesus Lord and "God," they used the upper case, because they believed He is the second person (God) in the trinity. There is no distinction of the word "god" in the Scriptures, so the translators are injecting what they believe into the translation. Those to whom the word of God came were often called gods. "If He called them gods, to whom the word of god came (and the Scriptures cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming ,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'" (Jn.10:35,36)

There are many other Scriptures that may appear to support the trinity, but most are contaminated by the thoughts of the translators and their belief. I am sure if you study the word carefully with the gift of holy spirit, it "...will guide you into all the truth." (Jn.16:13) Then the church shall "...all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, (believing in myths and fables that are contrary to proven facts) tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming." (Eph.4:13,14)