One God Report 100) 1,315 Reasons that the God of the Bible is not a Trinity
Episode 100 – offering a $100 prize to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament where “God” (Theos, Ha Theos) means the Trinity!
Difference between a Triad vs. the Trinity
James White, The Forgotten Trinity, p. 23:
“Within one Being that is God, there exists eternally three coequal and coeternal persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit”
Athanasian Creed:
“Anyone who does not keep it whole and unbroken will doubtless perish eternally… one cannot be saved without believing it firmly and faithfully.”
“…we worship one God in trinity and the trinity in unity,
neither blending their persons
nor dividing their essence.
For the person of the Father is a distinct person,
the person of the Son is another,
and that of the Holy Spirit still another.
But the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one,
their glory equal, their majesty coeternal.
Quote from Murray Harris book, Jesus as God, explaining that that “God” in the Bible never means the Trinity, never means the Trinitarian God, the Tri-person-one-being of mainstream Christianity.
p. 47 footnote
Biblical references in this episode:
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his unique (or only begotten) Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Rom 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba! Father!"
Gal 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
1 Cor 8:6 “As for us, there is one God, the Father….and one Lord, Jesus Christ…”
Eph. 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
1 Thess. 1:1, 9-10, 3:11, 13,
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Hebrews 1:1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all…
To believe that the God of the Bible is a Trinity, one must believe these statements:
“In the Bible, God is never the Trinity. But the God of the Bible is a Trinity.”
“The God of the Bible is a Trinity, but in the Bible God is never a Trinity”
Trinitarians need to write a book “The Trinity as God” in which all 1315 references to God in the New Testament are examined to see which of those references mean the Trinity. It will be a very short book.
Who is God in the phrase “Son of God”?
Who is God in the phrase “Spirit of God”?
Who is God Most High in the phrase “Son of God Most High God”?
If the Father is God Most High, then neither the Trinity, nor Jesus, are God Most High.
The Trinity is a denigration of the Father, whom Jesus called the only True God and whom Paul says for us there is one God, the Father. If the Trinity is the one God, then the Father is not the one God.
The Father and the Trinity can’t both be the one God. One of them is an idol.
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