Trinity - Examined
Is Jesus, the Son of God? Or, God, the Son?
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As Christians we believe the Bible and that it is infallible. Whatever Bible says we show our humble obedience to it. But unfortunately, there are many distorted believes in the present day Christianity. We will examine one such distortion i.e. “THREE IN ONE GOD.” Some people simply conclude that “All the Three” constitute one God i.e. “TRINITY” and they say that it is A DIVINE MYSTERY. There are many mysteries in the Bible. “Let there be light and there was light.” This is a mystery and we accept it because nothing is impossible to God Almighty and God Himself is Light. Jesus walked on the water. This is a mystery and we accept it because Jesus got all Powers from His Father as mentioned in the Bible. This does not mean that everything can be treated as mystery in spite of the fact that the Bible teaches in a different way. The word “Trinity” is no where seen in the Bible. We have coined a new term and we say that this is a divine mystery. This was the presumption of some majority of Bishops during the 3rd century A.D., which is quite unknown to the writers of the Bible, to Jesus, to his disciples and to the Christians of the first century. Let us examine this. This was the belief of the PAGANS and Idol worshipers of Ancient Babylonia (where three Gods i.e. NIRMOD, SEMIRAMAS and TAMMUZ are treated as one God—another Trinity) and Egypt (where three Gods i.e. OSIRIS, ISIS, HORUS are treated as one God— yet another Trinity) of those days. 2.10 Christian Trinity followed (Just like Christmas to the first Christians which followed from MITHRA GOD i.e. SUN GOD in 352A.D. with Pope LIBERIOUS) from this Pagan System, TRINITY first was evolved as “UNKNOWN FATHER, LOGOS, and WORLD SOUL”(Plato’s Philosophy), then “FATHER, MOTHER WITH THE CHILD, and DOVE”(Catholic).. Lastly to the present stage “FATHER, SON and THE HOLY GHOST” 2.11 TERTULIAN first coined the new word “TRINITAS” for TRINITY in 200A.D. and finally Roman Emperor Constantine with the Meeting, known as Council of Nicaea, with all Bishops in 325A.D., officially declared TRINITY, taking the majority.
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God is one, not three. Deut. 6:4, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our GOD IS ONE LORD. “ 1 Cor. 8:6, “There is but ONE GOD: THE FATHER, of whom all things, and we in him.” James 2:19, 1 Tim. 2:5, “There is ONE GOD. And one MEDIATOR between God and man, the MAN JESUS CHRIST.” Even the devils believe (and tremble) that there is only one God. John 17:3 says, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ, whom THOU HAST SENT.” Eph.4:6, “ONE GOD and father of all.” Isaiah 43:10, “Before me there was NO GOD formed, neither shall there be after me.” “This Trinity is an established matter by Roman Emperor Constantine with the meeting, known as Council of Nicaea, with all bishops in 325 AD. We cannot open it again.” This is the opinion of many. After all, we are not under the kings and emperors now. We are in democracy. Nobody can dictate us. Constantine was not a Christian at the time of taking that decision, and it was only later he became a Christian. He was afraid that his Roman kingdom will break down into two with the fight among bishops about this Trinity, and so he held the Nicene Council with all the Bishops simply took the majority and then declared Trinity. We need biblical support for anything, not the human dictation.
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David R.Chinta is a recipient of M.A. in English, MSc in math, MEd, BL, and PhD from India. He has also a BD, MTh, and DMin degrees from India. He worked as Associate Professor and Principal of Colleges of Education in India. This piece is out of his forty years of teaching and preaching experience.