Written by Heather Zubiate |
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Proverbs 26:4-5
This unfortunate event has inspired me to explore the Trinity teaching in a way to wisely and lovingly get the truth out there. Not only because I love the truth, but because I also love those who are lost in clever lies. My intent is not to belittle anyone, my intent is to get people to think and search Scripture to see if what they have been taught, is so. And so, emotions aside, how you choose to respond to my information dear reader, will simply determine whether or not you are willing to see if what I say is so. So, are you up to the challenge? I truly hope so!
What Is The Trinity?
In this painting, visually we see that there are indeed three individual persons, God the Son, God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit in the Trinity. Well, I would hardly call a dove a person, it's really an animal, more specifically, a bird. But that may be a bit nit picking on my part since admittedly, the Bible does allude to the symbolism of the Holy Spirit as being like a dove. Regardless, this paining shows an obvious visual of three separate gods, not one, as is claimed by Trinitarians. The drawn graphic here is more simple. It depicts God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as all being God, but it is also careful to illustrate that they are not one in the same person. This is a VERY important fact to keep in mind as you follow along. Don't forget it - - the Trinity teaching declares that there are three separates God's that aren't each other, yet are one. Got it? Good. |
Now look at this illustration of the same concept, but it's a bit more elaborate than the simplified graphic, and it's in Latin. I find it interesting that The Holy Spirit icon depicts a dive bombing dove surrounded by eight tiny stars. I'm also quite taken aback by the stylized hexagrams that house the icons representing The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit, and even the God icon in the center. There is also a larger stylized hexagram within the circle itself, made up of the red ribbons emanating out from the center, and the white ribbons pointing into the center from the icons of the persons. This painting on the right also illustrates the Holy Spirit as being a dove, and not a person at all, more symbolism. I have also found that God the Father is usually shown as an old man, while God the Son is depicted as being a long haired hippy that gives a halfhearted Cub Scout's salute. A lot of this art came out of the Renaissance era and the following Age of Enlightenment, and that is an important clue as to the |
Fork-tongued Hypocritical Doublespeak?
Words Mean What Words Mean
The Numbers Three and One
When we grammatically investigate the words "one" and "three," we see that they are both nouns and adjectives. Even so, both grammatical forms of these words mean the same thing. One means that it is an amount that is more than zero, and less than two. Three means that it is more than zero, one, and two, and it's less than four. I don't know how this concept can be made more clear, these numbers describe amounts, or quantities. As far as the use of numbers in mathematics goes, I can't think of any possible way of making thee equal one, other than writing one to the third power. Even so, all that means is that the number one is multiplied by itself three times, the sum being one, not three.
Therefore, by grammatical definitions and basic math, three being equal to one is not possible, because as illustrated in both the definition and the artwork, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are each separate individuals, they are not one in the same. Like it or not, Trinitarians, that logically means that there are three Gods, and not one as y'all claim. To strengthen my point, let's look at plurals.
Plural /ploo-rel/ adj. more than one in number
n. a plural word or form
The grammatical category in nouns, pronouns, and verbs that refers to more than one thing. Most nouns become plural with the addition of -s or -es: hats, chairs, dishes, countries, and so on. Some nouns form the plural in other ways, as in children, feet, geese, and women.
However, when this Greek word is directly translated into English it means: confidence, confident, person, or substance. These words are not plural, nor is any inference of plurality made in the context where they are found in surrounding passages. In fact, the one time in the New Testament where "hypostasis" is directly translated as "person" (singular) is in Heb. 1:3; it speaks of the singular person of Jesus Christ. In fact, most of Hebrews is spent proving the excellence of Jesus Christ as being the only Son of God that came to earth from heaven, and that he is our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. I have yet to find a direct definition of the doctrine of the Trinity in Scripture, much less in this singular passage.
In the Old Testament, we are instructed that only God the Almighty and angels reside in heaven. There is no mention anywhere in the Old Testament of any other God, even the Almighty makes that point very clear in several passages. Forgive me, but I'll get into that in more depth later on. Please bear in mind, dear reader, that I too once espoused this belief, but when I was forced to consider the facts from Scripture and yes, even logical reason, the truth demanded an answer. I found that I could no longer justify my belief in this teaching. But a false teaching must be replaced by the truth, and so I studied Scripture to learn the reality of what the Bible taught, that there is indeed only one God. The thing that changed was my understanding of what the Bible directly teaches about God's true Divine Nature. Which is what I will expound upon in future posts.
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, are three separate, co-equal, co-eternal persons, one God.
The Trinity Part 2: The Inversion Of God's Divine Nature