Is The Trinity Doctrine Biblical?


 Does the Bible teach the Trinity ? - by David C Pack

About David C Pack
David C Pack of The Restored Church of God presents a lengthy bible based teaching over 7 videos, challenging the widespread belief of a triune God in Christianity. As Pastor General of The Restored Church of God, David C. Pack oversees the world’s most extensive biblically based websites. He attended Ambassador College, entered the Worldwide Church of God ministry in 1971 and was personally trained by Herbert W. Armstrong.

He has established over 50 congregations, authored over 80 books and booklets, a vast array of articles, and appeared on The History Channel. As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Real Truth magazine and voice of The World to Come program, he has reached many millions around the globe with the most powerful truths of the Bible. Apart from his videos on this subject, you can also read about his debunking the trinity doctrine here.





The current mainstream teaching in Christianity is that God is a coequal, coeternal, one-substance trinity, and that Yeshua too ( Jesus)  is God. This doctrine is considered by many as the cornerstone of Christianity, but where did this doctrine come from? The historical record is overwhelming that the church of the first three centuries did not worship God as a coequal, coeternal, consubstantial, one-substance three in one mysterious godhead.

The early church worshipped one God and believed in a subordinate Son. The trinity originated with Babylon and was passed on to most of the world's religions. This polytheistic (believing in more than one god) trinitarianism was intertwined with Greek religion and philosophy and slowly worked its way into Christian thought and creeds some 300 years after Yeshua ( Jesus ) .


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There are a number of books written on the subject of the trinity. Here are a few : 

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The Trinity's Weak Link Revealed
The hub of Christendom claims the trinity teaching to be the “central doctrine of the Christian religion.” On the other hand, many in Christendom readily admit the complete opposite. Jesuit Edmund Fortman says, “There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a [Trinity] within the Godhead … New Testament writers … give us no formal or formulated doctrine of the Trinity.”

Hence, there is obvious disagreement and disunity amongst Trinitarians themselves. The reasons for their confusion are revealed through the uncovering of ‘weak links’ located in the Trinity ______________________________________________________


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Trinity Doctrine Error

This book is about the problem of truth: what truth is,
and how we can tell whether what we have said is true. Bruce Marshall approaches this problem from the standpoint of Christian theology, and especially that of the doctrine of the Trinity. The book offers a full-scale theological account of what truth is and whether Christians have adequate grounds for regarding their beliefs as true. Unlike most theological discussions of these issues, the book is also extensively engaged with the modern philosophical debate about truth and belief.

The absolute uni-personality of God is the first principle of the Jewish Scriptures and the New Testament. Trinitarian Christians do not deny that there is one God, but differ as to the absolute unity of God. They speak of the Godhead as a Trinity composed of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Trinitarianism maintains that the term God includes not only the Father, but Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Yet, even the New Testament shows that Jesus was a person as distinct from God as the disciples were distinct from him.

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Biblical truth against trinity
God Is One & Christ Is All
This book thoroughly exposes, in understandable language, the un-biblical nature of the Trinity. The development of the Trinity is called to account for adopting pagan, philosophical and even anti-Christian (Gnostic) views of God and Christ.

The concepts underpinning the Trinity are openly listed and dealt with and compared with Biblical concepts. The ultimate goal for this book, of course, is to restore believers in Christ to the simple, pure, undiluted faith once delivered by Jesus Christ through his apostles.








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The Doctrine Of The Trinity
This book is a definitive presentation of a Christology rooted, as it originally was, in the Hebrew Bible. The authors present a sharply-argued appeal for an understanding of God and Jesus in the context of the original Christian documents. The authors challenge the notion that biblical monotheism is legitimately represented by a Trinitarian view of God and demonstrate that within the bounds of the canon of Scripture Jesus is confessed as Messiah, Son of God, but not God Himself. Later Christological developments beginning in the second century misrepresented the biblical doctrine of God and Christ by altering the terms of the biblical presentation of the Father and Son.







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Non Christians ridicule Christians for believing in the trinity 

Too bad Christian don’t actually read the Bible and think for themselves.  They need to believe, they are fearful little people that need to follow others and they will continue to be used and abused for it.
Read full article by True Logic
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Muslims & Ex Christians ridicule the concept of the trinity




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The Nicene Council

Both secular historians and Bible scholars readily admit that the doctrine of the trinity was not official church teaching until the council of Nicaea in the year 325 of our common era. The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Vol. 14, concedes, "The formulation ‘one G-d 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… Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective." The early Apostolic Fathers had no concept of a triune reading here.
relationship among the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is also freely admitted that the doctrine was not established until 400 years after the Saviour’s resurrection. This fact can only cause us to ask, if this were a key truth known by YAHUSHUA the Messiah and the apostles, why is there no evidence of it in their teachings or writings? And if the doctrine of the Trinity is not of Biblical origin, where did it come from? Continue

Doctrine of the trinity   
 
3 centuries after Yeshua ( Jesus )  emperor Constantine forced the minority opinion of the trinity upon the council of Nicea.
The history of religion has always been one of degeneration from the originally revealed pure monotheism to various forms of polytheism. "Christianity," as popularly known, has been no exception.  The first scriptural principle to be considered, when approaching the matter from a scriptural point of view, is the oneness of God. God is constantly, repeatedly, and emphatically stated to be ONE, never three. There is never a word anywhere in the scripture from beginning to end about such Greek metaphysics as "Three persons in the Godhead" or any such language. continue reading

If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians was changed by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the Trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief.

Because the Trinity is such an important part of later Christian doctrine, it is striking that the term does not appear in the New Testament. Likewise, the developed concept of three coequal partners in the Godhead found in later creedal formulations cannot be clearly detected within the confines of the canon. But nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead.

All Pagan religions from the time of Babylon have adopted in one form or another a Trinity doctrine or a triad or trinity of gods. In Babylon it was Nimrod, Semiramas, and Tammuz. In Egypt it was Osiris, Isis, and Horus. Within Israel paganism it was Kether, Hokhmah, and Binah. In Plato's philosophy it was the Unknown Father, Nous/Logos, and the world soul. In the book, A Statement of Reasons, Andrews Norton says of the Trinity: We can trace the history of this doctrine, and discover its source, not in the Christian revelation, but in the Platonic philosophy … The Trinity is not a doctrine of Jesus and his Apostles, but a fiction of the school of the later Platonists.

Historians also know that the trinity doctrine is not authorized in the New Testament.
There is no evidence the Apostles of Jesus ever heard of a Trinity. The Bible does not teach the doctrine of the Trinity. Neither the word Trinity itself, nor such language as one in three, three in one, one essence or substance or three persons, is biblical language. The language of the doctrine is the language of the ancient Church, taken not from the Bible but from classical Greek philosophy.

Long before the founding of Christianity the idea of a triune god or a god-in-three persons was a common belief in ancient religions. Although many of these religions had many minor deities, they distinctly acknowledged that there was one supreme God who consisted of three persons or essences. The Babylonians used an equilateral triangle to represent this three-in-one god, now the symbol of the modern three-in-one believers. The Greek triad was composed of Zeus, Athena and Apollo. These three were said by the pagans to 'agree in one.' One of the largest pagan temples built by the Romans was constructed at Ballbek (situated in present day Lebanon) to their Trinity of Jupiter, Mercury and Venus. In Babylon the planet Venus was revered as special and was worshipped as a Trinity consisting of Venus, the moon and the sun. This triad became the Babylonian holy Trinity in the fourteenth century before Christ. Although other religions for thousands of years before Christ was born worshipped a triune god, the Trinity was not a part of Christian dogma and formal documents of the first three centuries after Christ. That there was no formal, established doctrine of the Trinity until the fourth century is a fully documented historical fact.

Clearly, historians of church dogma and systematic theologians agree that the idea of a Christian Trinity was not a part of the first century church. The twelve apostles never subscribed to it or received revelation about it. So how then did a trinitarian doctrine come about? It gradually evolved and gained momentum in late first, second and third centuries as pagans, who had converted to Christianity, brought to Christianity some of their pagan beliefs and practices.

When we turn to the problem of the doctrine of the Trinity, we are confronted by a peculiarly contradictory situation. On the one hand, the history of Christian theology and of dogma teaches us to regard the dogma of the Trinity as the distinctive element in the Christian idea of God, that which distinguishes it from the idea of God in Judaism and in Islam, and indeed, in all forms of rational Theism. Judaism, Islam, and rational Theism are Unitarian. On the other hand, we must honestly admit that the doctrine of the Trinity did not form part of the early Christian-New Testament-message. Certainly, it cannot be denied that not only the word "Trinity", but even the EXPLICIT IDEA of the Trinity is absent from the apostolic witness of the faith.. The doctrine of the Trinity itself, however, is not a Biblical Doctrine.
Since the doctrine is unscriptural, it took an emperor to make Christianity start embracing the concept.

It was at this stage that Constantine made his momentous suggestion. Might not the relationship of Son to Father be expressed by the term homoousios ("of the same substance"). Its use, however, by the Sabellian bishops of Libya had been condemned by Dionysius of Alexandria in the 260s, and, in a different sense, its use by Paul of Samosata had been condemned by the Council of Antioch in 268. It was thus a "loaded" word as well as being unscriptural. Why Constantine put it forward we do not know. The possibility is that once again he was prompted by Hosius, and he may have been using it as a "translation" of the traditional view held in the West, that the Trinity was composed of "Three Persons in one substance," without inquiring further into the meaning of these terms. The Emperor had spoken, and no one dared touch the creed during his lifetime. The great majority of the Eastern bishops found themselves in a false position.There is only one passage in the Authorized Version of the Bible used by Trinitarians to support their view.

I John 5:7-8, For there are three that bear record [in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in Earth], the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. AV

Editors added the bracketed words in the early fourth century to the Latin Vulgate translation. They are not in the older Greek manuscripts. For this reason, modern translations omit them. Bible commentaries explain that these words were never in the apostle John's manuscript or any existing early copies of it.How does the Trinity Doctrine apply to mankind?God's PURPOSE in having created humanity – is to reproduce GOD.
God is not merely one Person, nor even limited to a "Trinity," but God is FAMILY. The doctrine of the Trinity is not a family.-

Taken from : The Reluctant Messenger

For more resources & information on the subject, visit the links below:

Is God a Closed Trinity Or An Open Family?

The Doctrine Of The Trinity

Is The Doctrine Of Trinity Biblical?

Disproving The Trinity

God is not 3 guys in the sky

An appeal to trinitarian christians

Trinity by John W. Ritenbaugh

Since I was born again in 1987, I have always believed in the concept of the trinity  because I was born into a congregation that taught this doctrine.  Every Christian I knew held this view too and it seems like a sound doctrine that did not require any question or examination - until I stumbled upon some articles on the Internet that questioned its veracity .   After a period of time searching the scriptures on this subject, on Nov 21, 2011, I had a strong ' impression'  that Yahweh God was One . It brought great relief to me . Now I didnt need to grapple with the  doctrine of God as existing in three persons and one substance which is not demonstrable by logic or Scriptural proof .  If you scroll down further, you will see how this trinity idea is ridiculed by non-Christians, Christians who have left the church & became muslims as well as muslim theologians - all of whom are well versed with the Bible . How did this doctrine which is practiced by pagans & the Roman Catholic church creep into the Protestant church ? We should all do some study on the history of christianity & educate ourselves on this matter.

What we should all note first is that the word “trinity” doesn’t exist anywhere in the Bible.  Neither is there the term " triune God' .  Neither is there a sentence to say that God is three persons in one substance. NOWHERE in the Bible is God referred to as “Substance”. However, it does say that God is Spirit & there are numerous scriptures which make it clear that God is One & not a trinity.  For example:

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus who gave Himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time” (I Tim. 2:5-6).

Not much to argue here, perfectly clear that God is not a Trinity .Some Christians will attempt to claim that 1 John 5:7 proves the doctrine of the Trinity. Lets read it :

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


But get this!!!  The words “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost” are words that do not appear in many translations of the Bible but the King James added it.   Look at the same Scripture in the Concordant Literal New Testament, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, New Translation by James Moffatt, and others. In fact, The Emphatic Diaglott translation has a footnote:

This text concerning the heavenly witnesses [as found in some versions] is NOT contained in ANY Greek manuscript which was written earlier than the 15th century. It is not cited by ANY of the Greek ecclesiastical writers; nor by ANY of the early Latin fathers…

What about the following Scripture that some claim is proof of the Trinity?

“I and the Father, We are one” John 10:30.

What the above sentence means is I and the Fatherr, We are one in purposse . It does NOT say “I and the Father, We are ONE God” But the Scriptures do tell us that there is but ONE God.  Not a God of three parts, not three Gods, not two Gods.  NOWHERE does it state there is a Trinity.  What about this Scripture?

For even if so be that there are those being termed gods, whether in heaven or on earth, even as there are many gods and many lords, nevertheless for US there is ONE God, the father, out of Whom all is, and we for Him, and ONE LORD, Jesus Christ, through Whom all is, and we through Him” (I Cor. 8:5-6).

Check out the next verse:

“But not in all is there this knowledge”  Yup, we should all ask hard questions about why we believe what we do and check whether its biblical. Here are some other articles, great videos and links to books written on this subject. I hope they will make you more aware of this subject .
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The Pagan Trinity - by Shalom Institute of the South Pacific - Hebraic Understanding of Hebrew Scripture 

For nearly 2,000 years the church has taught the doctrine of the Trinity. Astoundingly, nowhere in the Bible can we find the word Trinity, and even the concept of three beings in one heavenly majesty is just as difficult to come by in the Scriptures.

Jay P. Green’s Classic Bible Dictionary says about the word trinity, "This is not itself a Biblical term, but was a term coined by Tertullian to refer to this whole concept under one word" (p. 483). The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature says forthrightly, "Respecting the manner in which the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit make one G-d, the Scripture teaches nothing, since the subject is of such a nature as not to admit of its being explained to us" ("Trinity," p. 553). The doctrine of the Trinity is often defined in the following terms: "The holy trinity is one supreme being existing in three persons, all equal in rank and in eternity and having the same substance, all united in one Godhead."

When pressed to explain it from the Bible, clergymen usually respond with something like, "It is a great mystery and no one can really understand it." This leads us to ask, would YAHUAH give man a key teaching that could not be understood? How could He teach us a concept that is absent in the Scriptures?

Regardless of these facts, the belief in a co-equal and co-eternal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is so pervasive and ingrained that few any longer question its origins and legitimacy.  In some congregations, It has even become a test belief to determine whether one is of the faith called Christianity.



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