Why more people are questioning the Trinity. Are you?
Perhaps you’re wondering why it’s so non-sensical? Unbiblical? Paradoxical?
As we know - now, it takes a while to undo the official narrative when it has been accepted truth for decades, centuries.
The official narrative around the Covid pandemic was riddled with false claims and blatant lies from our formerly, mostly respected, sources. Many have become alarmed at how they were grossly misled and taken advantage of. ‘Do this and you will be safe’, was the mantra shouted dogmatically by everyone - government, media, corporations - both medical and commercial, and a host of others, even sporting clubs demanding we conform.
We have a religious narrative too which has its roots in the 3rd and 4th centuries through the church fathers. While not a biblically based idea, it was mandated by the state to unite Christianity under one dogma and direct it away from Jewish roots which was not who they wanted to focus on going forward.
Some Christians, who are familiar with their Bible, have been realising for some time that the trinity doctrine doesn’t make biblical sense. If fact, the Bible rejects such a notion, though they don’t think in those terms initially.
At first, there is just a verse or two that don’t mesh; Jesus says something that is contrary to trinity theory, so there is a bit of wondering how to reconcile the apparent contradiction. Jesus says one thing, but the church teaches another.
No good asking the Pastor. No good discussing with your peers, they probably still blithely believe the official narrative without the slightest qualms or suspicion. They’ll think you have lost the plot by questioning the official narrative! “We’ve always believed this”, or, “everyone believes this is true“, are the usual responses.
Most simply ‘sit on it’, half hoping it will be resolved or they will come to understand the strange paradox better and their slightly anxious feeling will go away.
No, you have to do it alone—just you and God. You have to do your own research and hopefully find people who have discovered this before you and have some excellent material to really get you excited and grounded in truth, grounded in the Bible!
You eventually start compiling a list of biblical passages that teach who Jesus really is. Clearly, he cannot be the God as we have been enthusiastically indoctrinated since we started attending church or seminary - there are too many verses that affirm Jesus’ humanity alone and none that honestly teach his deity. Jesus has a God as we do!
Which brings us to—why does trinity doctrine rely completely on misread scripture and by twisting and changing words to support the orthodox narrative?
Why have our Bibles confused the matter with poor word choice and inserting a biased overtone to clumsily promote a trinitarian God and a paradoxical Jesus?
Can’t they see the contradiction they have created?
It’s quite bizarre that they will hold up a verse that they say teaches this, while another (or several) verse teaches the opposite! What kind of silly theological process produces that scenario? The contradiction is obvious if you are willing (or able) to see it.
Gradually, you’ll meet people who understand your rationale. You agree that the language of the church is infected and false. In time maybe a small group will form to discuss and encourage this discovery of actual truth - from God’s written word, not the doctrines of men - as we are warned.
You start to appreciate Jesus in a totally different way - what he did, how he did it, who he really is - not God, but a man, ‘made like us’ (Heb 2:17), the last Adam, who obeyed his God and literally, actually, died for all humanity.
Of course, God cannot die! What a silly idea!
I can hear the shouts of ‘but only his humanity died’, yeah right. An example of reading into the text things we have been told it means - rather than humbly accepting what it actually says.
John 1:1- is a good example. So many think it says, ‘in the beginning was Jesus’. It doesn’t say that, but most are taught that principle to affirm his eternal existence.
No wonder Jesus was glorified and exalted into the heavens to be with his God and Father and given a name above all names and authority over all creation. Not because he is God, no, God needs no exaltation or new name, or new spirit life, or authority.
You realize Jesus is worthy to have such a fuss made over him, not because of who he is, but because of what he did as a man only.
And they are singing a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and you purchased to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation Rev 5:9.
Jesus is holy, without sin, perfectly fulfilling God’s assigned mission - to live among sinners, a man tempted in all things like his brethren, remaining without sin up to and through a ridiculous trial and hideous death on a cross.
If Jesus had sinned, it would all be for nothing! He would die and remain dead. God’s plan of salvation, finished without the glorious ending He had planned from before the foundation of the world.
Cue more shouts of protest from our trinitarian folk that ‘Jesus cannot sin’, he could not fail. Such is the misunderstanding based on a few popular proof-texts which actually, when read in context, prove nothing they imagine, or are taught they mean.
To believe these mean what they imagine is to put doctrine before the Bible. Does God contradict Himself? Of course not! Neither does the Bible when we read a responsible translation and note the misleading bias. No wonder there are so many ‘translations’, if we should call them that, as they can be quite misleading with their word choices.
Another post explores the reality that Jesus could indeed sin and that was the whole point of him becoming the Lamb. The first Adam failed, falling for the devil’s lies, Jesus, the last Adam, didn’t. If he couldn’t sin, there was no temptation.
When one takes the time to explore scripture from a natural reading, not with a presumed theological overlay, but to hear the words and understand the truth delivered, we see a trinitarian theology dependent on myth, imagination, illogic and forcing contradiction. Our Bibles still contain error - not translational, but publisher bias which departs from the Greek text to bolster the ‘Jesus is God’ myth.
Of course trinity devotees love to quote the biased versions and poorly translated ones because they play into the dogma and settle the heart against challenge.
The time to accept the challenge.
If there is a question, a hesitation to taught dogma, an obvious paradox, it’s probably God prompting you to follow the path to His truth and escape from the deception that is binding you to trinitarian dogma because everyone tells you it’s true!
It’s not true and will never be true.
The irony is, they proclaim, ‘Believe this and you will be saved!’.
The Bible doesn’t affirm this or the veracity of the traditional claims, it rejects them all. But, it’s a big ‘but’, you cannot understand truth while deceived - God must call you out of error, darkness, deception into the light. He must make you able to see.
That’s why it’s pointless arguing about these things, either there is an interest or there isn’t. It’s God’s job to start the process of changing a person in their heart and mind - theology is a matter of spirit - that is definitely God’s department!
He calls us to repentance which is realizing we are living a lie and choosing to live in alignment with God and His son - a spiritual process.
God bless you for reading to the end and your growing realization of how amazing is our Lord and Savior, Jesus. He is far more awesome than the paradoxical, complicated hybrid God we have all been taught - the counterfeit Jesus we were warned about.
I’ve not included supporting scripture for brevity. My other posts fill in the details of the matters discussed here which is intended as an overview only.
God is true, His word is truth. When we resist God’s truth, we resist God.
Are you ready to discover the biblical truth about the most important man to walk the earth, and who now sits next to God?
Nope…Not for a second. If Jesus isn’t God, his statements that indicated his deity were lies and he died as a victim of powerful elites for his own sin. The Christian narrative does not work if Jesus is not who he said he was.
Are more people really questioning the Trinity? Heretics have always existed. Paul, John and Peter dealt with a variety of false teachers before the close of the canon. There are more people alive at this moment so if the percentage of false teachers remained the same, it logically follows that more heretics would exist.
What I want any reader to notice in this article is that the author claims that the Bibles used by Christians are corrupted translations. But what the author doesn’t say is that he can’t read any of the original languages, has never even taken a class in Greek or Hebrew grammar so his claim that these are translations corrupted by Trinitarians is based on his complete lack of knowledge in the areas one would need to have knowledge to make such a claim.
I have engaged the author multiple times and it is clear to me that he can use Strong’s Concordance to look up definitions of words. Strong’s is a good tool and provides entry level knowledge to someone just beginning to look a the variety of ways Hebrew and Greek words are translated, but it isn’t a sufficient source to declare a translation corruptions.
It is also clear from my other interactions with the author that he has never studied the rules of hermeneutics or logic since he violates both regularly.
There are some prolific writers on SubStack who promote many of the same heresies denounced by the Apostles and other Theological and Christological heresies taught in the church. Because the same few people post often on the same heresies, it may seem like there are more people embracing those heresies but it can also be that they might be the loud vocal minority that heretics have always been.