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THE
TRINITY
The
formation by "the Church", of the dogma of the Trinity was not completed
until the Council of Nicea, in Turkey in AD 325, devised the Nicean
Creed, which endeavoured to marry together both the Pagan and Christian
concepts of God and gods. The Nicean Creed replaced
the original Apostles Creed which was a simple and truthful document.
ONE GOD...NOT
THREE:
Many
people from different nations have worshipped a multiplicity of
gods. Many of those gods consisted of a trinity,
whereas the Father told Moses to instruct the Children of Israel.
"HEAR O ISRAEL; THE LORD (Jehovah) OUR GOD (Elohim) IS ONE LORD (Jehovah)" (Deut 6:4). Jesus
selected this instruction as "the first of all the commandments."
(Mk 12:29)
The
word "trinity" is nowhere to be found in the Bible and cannot be
found in any Christian literature written before the end of the 2nd. century. The Bible does not present the Father
as three but ONE and positively presents Jesus as the SON
OF GOD at least 91 times, but "god the Son", NOT ONCE. At His baptism, God referred to Jesus
as His beloved Son, which of course He could not have been if He
had been God, very God. Paul
writing to Timothy speaks plainly of "One God and one mediator between
God and men...THE MAN CHRIST JESUS.
(1 Tim 2:5). Obviously Jesus could not be a mediator IF indeed
He was the God with whom He was supposed to mediate.
HOLY SPIRIT:
The
Bible presents the HOLY
SPIRIT as the power of the Father, by which He works and
acts in human affairs....CERTAINLY NOT A PERSON. The "promise" of
the Holy Spirit to the disciples, which Luke spoke of, he described
as being "endued with power from on high". (Luke 24:49). The angel Gabriel speaking to Mary, speaks
of the Holy Spirit coming upon her, which he clearly says is the
"power of the highest." (Luke
1:35)
DOGMA NOT DOCTRINE:
The
dogma of the Trinity is an invention of mankind and the ENCYCLOPEDIA
BRITANNICA once wrote on the subject..."The propositions constituent of the Trinity
were not drawn directly from the New Testament and could not be
expressed in New Testament terms....they WERE PRODUCTS OF REASON,
SPECULATING on a revelation to faith...they were only formed THROUGH
CENTURIES OF EFFORT, only elaborated by the aid of conceptions formulated in the
terms of GREEK AND ROMAN METAPHYSICS."
THE "CHURCH"
DENIES JESUS WAS GOD.
As
the Church at Rome truly "invented" the Trinity, then it is fitting
to read what their Catechisms say on the subject and the Catholic
Catechism for Australian Schools of 1st Sept. 1963, book 2, on page
63 has this to say. 'GOD HAD NOT TOLD HIS PEOPLE THE MYSTERY
OF THE BLESSED TRINITY, NOR HAD HE SAID CLEARLY THAT THE MESSIAH
WOULD BE GOD HIMSELF." Thus
we read with startling clarity the amazing revelation that the Roman
Catholic Church agrees with the Encyclopedia Britannica...the whole
dogma of the Trinity is NOT IN THE BIBLE... it was composed by
human thinking and reasoning, and as such is NOT BIBLICAL and is
NOT
A DOCTRINE NECESSARY FOR SALVATION as the Church so blatantly
insists.
JESUS COULD HAVE
SINNED...GOD CANNOT:
In
the same Catechism, on page 65 we read..."BECAUSE HE ( Jesus) IS ALL HOLY, HE COULD
NOT POSSIBLY SIN.......WHEN THE SON BECAME MAN HE DID NOT CEASE TO BE GOD". To claim that Jesus COULD NOT POSSIBLY
SIN, removes him from the realms of human weakness and frailty and
presents Him as GOD, as the Creeds seek to do. However, in Rev 3:21, we are told conclusively...."To
him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even
as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in His throne."
It
is obvious that, as Jesus used the word OVERCAME,
He was beset by the same trials and temptations which every
man and woman experience and He could have sinned had He not OVERCOME
sin...that is ..He
resisted all sin and temptations. To add to this, we turn to
Luke 22:28, where we read of Jesus saying to the Disciples..."YE ARE THEY WHICH HAVE CONTINUED WITH ME
IN MY TEMPTATIONS".
Jesus
could have sinned, BUT DID NOT.
James, the brother of our Lord states categorically ..."GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED" (James 1:13)
This proves JESUS
WAS NOT AND IS NOT GOD.
We
can be sure therefore, that
the dogma of the Trinity is false, as are the claims of the latter
Creeds.
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