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The abundance of trinitarian scholars do not accept the trinity of three persons who are each God. But they do not see this doctrine as being evil, just a wrong idea. So, while they do not believe in the trinity they will not say they believe in one God who is in some way Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Why? Because they are professors in trinitarian colleges and universities for the most part and they must sign an employee agreement they believe in the trinity. Are they lying by saying they believe? Not exactly, because their believing has more to do with believing it is a dogma of the Catholic and Protestant churches which they accept as an ok doctrine. The quotes on the following pages show with clarity the trinity was not a Christian doctrine in the early Apostolic Jewish Church.

We Apostolics believe the trinity is a false philosophy borrowed from paganism and this makes it evil. Does God want us “learning the way of the heathen” when he tells us specifically in Jeremiah 11 he does not. Does God want us applying beliefs about idols and false gods to him? We say no! We believe we must distance ourselves and all that is holy from heathen gods. We reject the trinity doctrine because it brings God down to the level of human made idols and false gods and the riddles of philosophers. God deserves to be exalted and as such we with Abraham call him God Almighty. He is above all gods of men and he is above all their philosophic riddles. We Apostolics refuse to apply to God what man applies to their gods.

Here are quotes that will show you the trinity doctrine of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is a philosophy of three separate gods. Keep this lesson and refer to it when you are witnessing to trinitarians to win them to the Oneness faith of Apostolic Messianic Church. Make copies and give them to your family and friends.

"The doctrine of the Trinity did not form part of the apostles' preaching, as this is reported in the New Testament" (Encyclopedia International, Ian Henderson, University of Glasgow, 1969, page 226).

"The fanciful idea that [elo-him] referred to the trinity of persons in the Godhead hardly finds now a supporter among scholars. It is either what grammarians call the plural of majesty, or it denotes the fullness of divine strength, the sum of powers displayed by God" (William Smith: A Dictionary Of The Bible, p220).

"The doctrine of the trinity he [Michael Servetus] felt to be a Catholic perversion and himself to be a good New Testament Christian in combating it. According to his conception, a trinity composed of three distinct persons in one God is a rational impossibility" (Man's Religion, John B. Noss, 1968). [note: John Calvin, founder of the Presbyterian Church, had Servetus burned at the stake because of his anti-trinitarian views].

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 Christ and his Apostles, but a fiction of the school of the later Platonists” (A Statement of Reasons, Andrews Norton, 1872, Fifth edition, p 94, 104).

"The doctrines of the Logos and the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who ... were much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the Platonic philosophy ... That errors and corruptions crept into the Church from this source can not be denied" (The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson, 1957, Vol. IX, p. 91).

"The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. ... This Greek philosopher's conception of the divine trinity ... can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions" (French Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel [New Universal Dictionary], Vol. 2, p. 1467).

"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it ... From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity" (The Story of Civilization, Caesar and Christ, Will Durant, Part III, 1944, p. 595).

"The trinity "is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and engrafted on the Christian faith" (A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge, Lyman Abbott, 1875, p944).

"Precisely what the doctrine is, or precisely how it is to be explained, Trinitarians are not agreed among themselves" (A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge" (Lyman Abbott, 1875, p. 944).

"Thus the New Testament itself is far from any doctrine of the Trinity or of a triune God who is three co-equal Persons of One Nature" (William J. Hill, "The Three-Personed God", Washington DC, The Catholic University of America Press, 1982, p. 27).

In this image of the trinity of Gods all look like human beings. They all look the same age. They all look exactly alike. Behind each of their heads is the pagan triangle pyramid of Egypt. Here we see the Father and the two brothers of the trinity.

"These passages give no doctrine of the Trinity... Paul has no formal Trinitarian doctrine and no clear-cut realization of a Trinitarian problem......there is no trinitarian doctrine in the Synoptics or Acts... nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead" (Fortman, "Triune God", pp. 22-23).

"Although the notion of a divine Triad or Trinity is characteristic of the Christian religion, it is by no means peculiar to it. In Indian religion e.g., we meet with the trinitarian group of Brahma, Siva, and Visnu; and in Egyptian religion with the trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, constituting a divine family, like the Father, Mother, and Son in medieval Christian pictures. Nor is it only in historical religions that we find God viewed as a Trinity. One recalls in particular the Neo-Platonic view of the Supreme or Ultimate Reality, which was suggested by Plato in the Timmoeus; e.g., in the philosophy of Plotinus the primary or original Realities are triadically represented as the Good or (in numerical symbol) the One, the Intelligence or the One-Many, and the World-Soul or the One and Many. The religious Trinity associated, if somewhat loosely, with Comte's philosophy might also be cited here: the cultus of humanity as the Great Being, of space as the Great Medium, and of the earth as the Great Fetish. (Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, James Hastings, Trinity, p 458).

"It is a good thing to examine the revelation that God made to the Jewish people in the Old Testament. We shall not find in it a lesson on the trinity--there is none [Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism, Vol. 20, What Is The Trinity, Bernard Piault]."

"What does the Old Testament tell us of God? It tells us there is one God, a wonderful God of life and love and righteousness and power and glory and mystery, who is the creator and lord of the whole universe, who is intensely concerned with the tiny people of Israel. It tells us of His Word, Wisdom. Spirit, of the Messieh He will send, of a Son of Man and a Suffering Servant to come. But it tells us nothing explicitly or by necessary implication of a Triune God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit." "But nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead" (The Triune God, Edmund Fortman, pp 6, 15).

"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 [Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr., Christian Doctrine, p 92]."

"There is no evidence the Apostles of Jesus ever heard of a trinity [H. G. Wells, Outline of History, 1920 Edition, p 499]."

"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 bad 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" (The Rise of Christianity, 1985, W.H.C. Frend, p140-141).

The trinity: "is a very marked feature in Hindooism, and is discernible in Persian, Egyptian, Roman, Japanese, Indian and the most ancient Grecian mythologies" (Religious Dictionary, Lyman Abbott, p944).

"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. Since the Christians have come to worship Jesus as a god ... Matthew 28.19 ... Matthew records a special connection between God the Father and Jesus the Son (e.g., 11.27), but he falls short of claiming that Jesus is equal with God. It is John's gospel that suggests the idea of equality between Jesus and God ... While there are other New Testament texts where God, Jesus, and the Spirit are referred to in the same passage (e.g., Jude 20-21), it is important to avoid reading the Trinity into places where it does not appear. An example is 1 Peter 1.1-2" (Oxford Companion to the Bible, Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan, Trinity, p 782).

One of the trinity died and
left two in the godhead alive
for three days and three nights.
The middle God died and was
not eternal any more. How did
this Godhead live with one dead?

Here is another image of the
trinity having one body, one
head with three faces: notice
they look identical, have four
eyes, three noses, three mouths,
one chin, and we suppose two
ears. And long hair.

"In the immediate post New Testament period of the Apostolic Fathers no attempt was made to work out the God-Christ (Father-Son) relationship in ontological terms. By the end of the fourth century, and owing mainly to the challenge posed by various heresies, theologians went beyond the immediate testimony of the Bible and also beyond liturgical and creedal expressions of trinitarian faith to the ontological trinity of coequal persons "within" God. The shift is from function to ontology, from the "economic trinity" (Father, Son, and Spirit in relation to us) to the "immanent" or "essential Trinity" (Father, Son, and Spirit in relation to each other). It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian pattern and the practice of baptism into the threefold name of God. By the close of the fourth century the orthodox teaching was in place: God is one nature, three persons (mia ousia, treis hupostaseis)" (The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, Trinity, Vol 15, p53-57).

"Without abandoning our principle that Egyptian influence made itself felt as an undercurrent throughout Hellenism, we may nevertheless claim pride of place for Alexandria and so consider Alexandrian theology as the intermediary between the Egyptian religious heritage and Christianity. The Trinity is not the only subject- matter at issue here. Also Christology, which is closely linked to it - the doctrine concerning the nature of Christ and especially his pre-existence before the creation and time - revolves around questions which had been posed earlier by Egyptian theologians and which they solved in a strikingly similar way" (Egyptian Religion, Siegfried Morenz, p254-257).

"Economic and essential trinity:- (a) The transition from the Trinity of experience to the Trinity of dogma is describable in other terms as the transition from the economic or dispensational Trinity [Greek] to the essential, immanent or ontological Trinity [Greek]. At first the Christian faith was not Trinitarian in the a strictly ontological reference. It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected in apostolic the NT and other early Christian writings. Nor was it so even in the age of the Christian apologists. And even Tertullian, who founded the nomenclature of the orthodox doctrine, knew as little of an ontological Trinity as did the apologists; his still the economic or relative conception of the Johannine and Pauline theology. So Harnack holds, and he says further that the whole history of Christological and Trinitarian dogma from Athanasius to Augustine is the history of the displacement of the Logos-conception by that of the Son, of the substitution of the immanent and absolute Trinity for the economic and relative. In any case the orthodox doctrine in its developed form is a Trinity of essence rather than of manifestation, as having to do in the first instance with the subjective rather than the objective Being of God. And, just because these two meanings of the Trinity-the theoretical and the practical, as they might also be described-are being sharply distinguished in modern Christian thought, it might be well if the term 'Trinity' were employed to designate the Trinity of revelation or the doctrine of the threefold self-manifestation of God), and the term ‘Triunity' (cf. Germ. Dreienigkeit) Adopted as the designation of the essential Trinity (or the doctrine of the tri-personal nature of God)" (Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, James Hastings, Trinity, p 461).

"The ideas implicit in these early catechedical and liturgical formulae, as in the New Testament writers' use of the same dyadic and triadic patterns, represent a pre-reflective, pre-theological phase of Christian belief. It was out of the raw material thus provided by the preaching, worshiping Church that theologians had to construct their more sophisticated accounts of the Christian doctrine of the Godhead" (J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, p 90).

"In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word [tri'as] (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A. D. 180.” “Shortly afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian" (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, Vol. 15, Trinity, p 47).

"The Old Testament tells us nothing explicitly or by necessary implication of a triune God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a trinity within the Godhead. Even to see in the Old Testament, suggestions or fore-shadowings or veiled signs of the trinity of persons, is to go beyond the words and intent of the sacred writers. The New Testament writers give us no formal or formulated doctrine of the trinity, no explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons. Nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead [The Triune God, by Edmund Fortman, Jesuit].

"As Far as the New Testament is concerned, one does not find in it an actual doctrine of the trinity [A Short History of Christian Doctrine, by Bernhard Lohse]."

"Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: "Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord" (Deut. 6:4). ... Thus, the New Testament established the basis for the doctrine of the Trinity. The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies" (Encyclopedia Britannica, Trinity, Vol. X, p.126, 1979).

"The New Testament does not contain a formalized explanation of the trinity that uses such words as trinity, three persons, one substance, and the like" (Why You Should Believe In The Trinity, 1989, Robert M. Bowman Jr.).

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" (Emil Brunner, "The Christian Doctrine of God", Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1949, pp. 205 & 236).

The NT does not contain the developed doctrine of the Trinity"The Bible lacks the express declaration that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are of equal essence and therefore in an equal sense God himself" New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Brown, Colin, 1932, God, vol 2, p84, J. Schneider

"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.> The concept of three divine persons-Father, son, and Holy Spirit united in one Godhead-came into Christianity, not via the Bible but from philosophical categories of the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. ...It baffles and repels modern man, who misses the nuances of the Greek ('Prosopon') in which the doctrine was formulated and therefore concludes, mistakenly, that Christianity preaches a kind of polytheism. ...Nothing essential would be lost and much clarity would be gained if Christians abandoned traditional Trinitarian terminology< and simply spoke of God acting as the Creator and sustainer of the universe, revealing Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, or dwelling within men as a holy spirit" Bishop James A. Pike, Denver Post, August 28, 1965).

Response: This is a false accusation. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe Jesus was a created angel named Michael. They believe Michael became Jesus. They believe it was the angel Michael-Jesus who died upon the cross and was resurrected. WE BELIEVE JESUS WAS GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH. WE DO NOT BELIEVE JESUS WAS AN ANGEL. We believe Jesus as to his humanity and the Son of God died upon the Cross. We do not believe an angel died for our sins. Therefore, to spread this lie upon us is nothing but bigotry and hatred.

On the left the three trinity Gods, two who are human like and one a bird. All are said to be the same age being co-eternal, yet the one God looks aged and the other a younger God. The Father has a hex behind his head in the pagan sun-disk and the Son looks to have a cross in his pagan sun disk.

2.) You are Unitarians. You deny the trinity.

Response: This is slick lie. Unitarians do not believe Jesus was God. They believe he was a man only. Anyone who believes in God but believes Jesus was only a man is a Unitarian. Jews, Muslims, Sowderites (Gospel Assembly), Unitarians, Iglesia ni Cristo of the Philippines: these are all Unitarians since they believe Jesus was only a man. They do not believe in the trinity of Gods for this reason. It is false to accuse Oneness of being Unitarians. But, trinitarians are known to tell lies very well to get people to believe in the trinity of gods. WE BELIEVE JESUS WAS GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH. WE DO NOT BELIEVE JESUS WAS JUST A MAN. WE BELIEVE HE WAS GOD AND MAN, FATHER AND SON, LORD AND CHRIST. Therefore, to spread this lie around against us is nothing but lying.

Response: This is a false accusation. Jesus was God and he was man which all trinitarians believe. If Jesus was the eternal divine God the Son he would be equal to God and would not need to pray to the Father about anything. But Jesus was man, and as man he did pray. Did he pray to himself if he was God also? You could say this if you believe Jesus was God the Son and prayed to himself as God the Son. But he was man, human flesh, of the seed of David, and humans pray. God does not pray. There is no Scripture where God prays. Man prays to God. Here is a simple concept to understand Jesus praying.

Christians claim they have God in their heart, dwelling in them. They claim God lives within them. This same God they claim lives within them also is present in heaven and he sits upon his throne. Here is the question for these Christians. Since the same God who is upon his throne is within them, do they pray to themselves when they pray to God? No, they pray and wheresoever God is, in them and in heaven they expect their prayer to be heard. What is so different in understanding Jesus. Jesus had God within him. God was still present upon his throne at the same time. When Jesus prayed did he pray to himself? No! We do not teach Jesus prayed to himself and any lie that we do is bearing false witness. We teach Jesus as man prayed to the Father and the Father was in him, in the whole universe and also in heaven at the same time. We find this given to us in perfect form in 1Timothy 3:16.

Response: This is another false accusation. We teach as to his flesh Jesus was human and of the seed of David. We do not teach Jesus had sex with his mother Mary and she conceived by him and he was his own father. This is a slanderous incest lie that trinitarians must stop spreading or they will go to hell.

Now, let’s lay this down straight: Jesus was born in Bethlehem as a son, as a male, and his Father was the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35). The Holy Ghost overshadowed her and she conceived. This same Holy Ghost that was upon her caused her womb to conceive. This Holy Ghost is referred to as the Father. It is the trinitarians who have a problem here. Was the first person in the trinity the father of Jesus or was it the third person in the trinity the father? Who was the father of Jesus? It was the Holy Ghost, the Father (both the same). Jesus as man did not conceive himself and we do not teach this preposterous lie. Jesus did not have sex with his mother before he was even born. God was the Father of this human body and it was this same God who was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself (2 Corinthians 5:19). We teach the Father who dwelt in Jesus the Son was the Father of Jesus. Jesus was both God and man, but it was God who was the Father of the body of Jesus. Therefore, to spread this lie upon us is nothing but bigotry and hatred.

Response: This is another lie. We confess Jesus and the Father but we refuse to confess it like trinitarians and claim they are separate Gods of the triune trinity. So, the accusation is false. You could restate this and say: Oneness deny the trinity doctrine that the Father and the Son are separate Gods. Then we would agree. But the text of 1 John 2:22 does not identify a person to be an antichrist who denies the trinity. A person who denies the Father and the Son are antichrist. We confess both the Father and the Son as the Father being God and Jesus being the Messieh. So, we are not antichrist we are indeed in agreement with John. This text does not say we must confess the Father and the Son are two separate Gods in the trinity. Therefore, to spread this lie upon us is nothing but bigotry and hatred.

6.) The trinity was at the baptism of Jesus and you deny the trinity was present. The Father God spoke from heaven “this is my beloved Son,” God the Son was standing in the water, and God the Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove upon Jesus. Yet you deny the three distinct evidences of the trinity.

Response: I like the way you say God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. This proves you believe in three Gods not one God. So, your trinity consist of three separate Gods not one God who has three personalities. What you as well as other trinitarians deny is that Jesus standing in the water was there as “the lamb that taketh away the sin of the world.” He was there not as God but as the LAMB, the human sacrifice! But you trinitarians miss this in your haste to make false accusations against One God Believers. Jesus was not standing there as the eternal God the Son as your statement claims. Why should we then believe three Gods were at the baptism of Jesus? The Holy Ghost is not a bird. It is the Spirit of God the Father. It did not appear until after God spoke from heaven and then the Father’s Spirit came down upon him. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Father. So, the Holy Ghost descending like a dove is not a third God fluttering down like a bird upon Jesus. All the images of the Holy Ghost as a bird god are ridiculous. So, yes, we deny there were three Gods present at the baptism of Jesus. One God was present and one lamb of God, the man Christ Jesus.

7.) There are many scriptures that identify the Father separate from the Son and this means there are two. Yet you say Father and Son are one and the same. Who is right you or the Bible?

Response: You have found some scriptures, there are many that speak of the Father, Son, and even the Holy Ghost. The confusion here is corrected when you understand scriptural terms. When we say Father and read in it the Bible we understand this is speaking of the one divine and holy God who alone is God and there is none else. When we say Son and we read it in the Bible we understand this is speaking of Jesus, the one and only begotten Son of God, born of Mary in Bethlehem. The Father planned salvation, the Son brought salvation as the Messieh, and so in their respective redemptive modes and roles these need to be understood separate from each other. No where in the Scriptures where Father and Son are mentioned is it intended to be a trinitarian statement that these are two separate Gods. So to make that claim by use of scriptures where Father and Son are both mentioned is mishandling the Word of God. I have already stated we believe in the Father and the Son. And I have already explained how we believed the Father is God and the Son is the Messieh of the seed of David We confess this. So we are right and the Bible is right but trinitarians are wrong.

Now trinitarians claim the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one. So why pick on us when we say the Father and the Son are one? In fact, Jesus said he and the Father were one (John 10:30). He told Philip “when you see me, you see the Father. Here is the Scripture on this:

“If ye had know me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

And Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, shew us the Father?

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.”

We take nothing away from this and we do not add anything to it. Jesus and the Father are one. God was in Christ. Christ was God manifest in the flesh. Jesus is God the Father revealed. So, who is right? We are right in following the Bible. Trinitarians are wrong when they say Jesus was a God and the Father is a separate God and there were two Gods in the one human body of Jesus. This would be two Gods manifest in Christ not one God.

Jesus is then God as to the deity within him and he is the Son of God as to his humanity. When we look at Jesus we see the Father and the Son and they are one. Jesus as to his flesh is not God, but Jesus as to the Father in him, is God. If Jesus was not the Father manifest in flesh then he lied to Philip.

Jesus said: “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). We will accept this and use it to reject the theory that Jesus is one God and the Father is a separate God. We therefore reject the trinity theory.

Response: This is one of those trinitarian jokes. It is not only a false accusation, it is an outright lie. Continuedly throughout numbers 1-7 I have demonstrated that we believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, but not according to the pagan trinitarian theory. Do we believe in Jesus only? No, that is false. Jesus is God and man. To be Jesus only would be to believe only in his humanity part. He is Father in the Son. Yes, we believe in this only. We believe Jesus is the Father incarnate. So why do you not say we are Father in Jesus only? Why not state it correctly? You do not because you want others to think we believe Jesus the man only is God without the Father and without the Holy Spirit. The very statement is misleading and false and designed to make people doubt Jesus when he specifically stated:“When you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” So get it right: we believe the doctrine of the Father in Jesus only: That only in Jesus did the Father dwell to reconcile unto himself the world. And only in Jesus is there salvation through the Father. And, only in the name of Jesus Christ do we baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost according to Acts 2:38. Jesus is the only express image of the Father. So, the accusation we are Jesus only, believing only in the man Christ Jesus and deny the Father and the Holy Ghost is false.

This is the conclusion of our third Bible lesson on the trinity. You can easily see that it is a false teaching. No one should believe in the trinity doctrine. It does not deserve our acceptance or respect. You will not go to hell if you do not believe it. You are not a cult member if you deny the three god doctrine. You are not deceived if you believe in one God and that Jesus is God. You are not being demon controlled or possessed by doing all things in the name of Jesus. If Jesus told Philip that he and the Father are one, he would tell all of us the same thing. In lesson #4 of our 5 lesson series I will answer the question: WHO AND WHAT IS JESUS CHRIST?

Having studied this course on the Trinity I believe the trinity theory came from paganism. I believe there is one God and Jesus was God in human form. I also believe the Father and Holy Spirit were in Jesus and this makes Jesus God. I believe Jesus is the only image of God and I believe when I get to heaven I will see all that God is when I see Jesus upon the throne. I expect Jesus to say to me there: “When you have seen me, you have seen the Father.”