GO TO: The Trinity

• The Jewish faith of the Old Testament is Monotheistic - belief in One God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 44:6, 8; 45:5)
• The Christian faith of both Old and New Testament is Monotheistic. (1 Corinthians 8:4; Galatians 3:20; 1 Timothy 2:5).
• The Old Testament DOES show A Single Trinitarian God
• (Genesis 1:1,1:26,3:22, 11:7)
• The Hebrew word  "Elohim" is a plural noun.
• It separates and distinguishes, The Lord, The Spirit, and The Son.
• (Genesis 19:24; Hosea 1:4). 
• (Psalm 2:7, 12; Proverbs 30:2-4).
• (Numbers 27:18; Psalm 51:10-12).  
• (Psalm 45:6-7; Hebrews 1:8-9). 
• The New Testament DOES show A Single Trinitarian God
• (Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14)

• These separate and distinguished realities of God are called 'persons' in English within The Single Trinitarian God but The Bible ALSO shows that they are each unique persons within God.  
• The Fatherhood (John 6:27; Romans 1:7; 1 Peter 1:2). 
• The Sonhood (John 1:1, 14; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20). 
• The Spirithood (Acts 5:3-4; 1 Corinthians 3:16).
• These separate and distinguished realities and unique persons within God is called The Trinity.
• Orthodox Christianity from its beginnings throughout history is a Monotheistic Trinitarian faith.

The Bible does not use the term "the trinity"

•  This is a invalid argument because the bible does not use the term "the bible" or "Jehovah" either but this does not make the terms any less true.
• The bible does not say there are no little green men on mars either.  Should we then believe that there are because the bible does not specifically state there are not?

The Trinity was a later invented belief and was not part of the first church?

• Scripture shows the reality of The Trinity (see above).
•  Ignatius of Antioch (105AD), a disciple of the Apostle John stated this: "God Himself was manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life" He later states "Continue in intimate union with Jesus Christ our God" and "I pray for your happiness forever in our God, Jesus Christ". 
• Justin Martyr (150AD) stated this: "The Father of the universe has a Son. And He, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God". 
• Irenaeus of Lyons (185AD) stated "He indicates in clear terms that He is God, and that His advent was in Bethlehem… God, then, was made man, and the Lord Himself save us". And "He is God for the name Emmanuel indicates this". 
• Hippolytus (203AD) stated this: "The Logos alone of this One is from God Himself. For that reason also, He is God. Being of the substance of God. In contrast, the world was made from nothing. Therefore, it is not God". 
• Tertullian (213AD) even declared "For the very church itself--properly and principally--the Spirit Himself, in whom is the Trinity [trinitas], of the One Divinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit". 
• The earliest use of the actual "Trinity" word itself is used as early as 180AD by Theophilus of Antioch when he stated "In like manner also the three days which were before the luminaries, are types of the Trinity [triados] of God, and His Word, and His wisdom". 
• Origen (228AD) stated "Saving baptism was not complete except by the authority of the most excellent Trinity of them all. That is, it is made complete by naming the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In this, we join the name of the Holy Spirit to the Unbegotten God (the Father) and to His Only-Begotten Son".

The Trinity is a pagan concept  argument

• Ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs did not believe in A Triune God. They believed in triads of gods who headed up a council of other gods. In other words, whereas the doctrine of the Trinity teaches that ONE GOD is comprised of three co-equal and co-eternal persons, the Babylonians and Assyrians believed that three separate gods formed a leadership over other gods. The Trinity is monotheistic, whereas the Babylonians and Assyrians believed in a polytheistic henotheisitc system; completely different. 

Jesus said he is NOT God The Father

• John 17:3 is a common misunderstood quote.  Jesus does say that the Father is the only true God.  That is true.  But, Jesus' statement does not exclude himself or The Holy Spirit from being the only true God.  
• The Trinity details that The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the only true God.  What John 17:3 verse DOES do is exclude the notion of more than one God.  It DOES exclude the possibility of Jesus and The Holy Spirit from being SEPARATE gods; which they are not. 
• When Jesus prayed to God The Father in the garden, also, does not contradict his deity, but validated his willing and voluntary limitations in the form of man to communicate to His Father.
• The New World Translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses failed translation of John 1:1 where they attempt to say "the word was a god".  This translation contradicts what was believed by the Jewish faith and throughout the Old Testament and New Testament teaching of the reality of only One God.  The addition of "a" is a foreign idea in Jewish history imputed later by Jehovah's Witnesses.

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