Trinity . . . Egyptian or Christian?
August 15, 2012
Is Trinity a Christian or Egyptian idea?
Find out in our short new reflection! It is in the "Thought Nuggets" section of the site!
Let us know your thoughts on the matter as well. Be blessed and please, remember that nothing separates people from the Living God of Israel like idolatry! And the trinitarian worship is idolatry!
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Hi, Dmitry! I do enjoy the topic of God is One. I have thought that the Trinity concept is overrated. I would like to learn more of your viewpoint. I want to learn the reality of and Truth of God for who He is and what that means to me. But not scholastically, comparing texts, and versions, and translations, etc. Do you (1) have an article about how God is One can bless me? And (2) where then do I put Jesus and the Holy Spirit - what do I do with them? I'm very open to hearing that. If you have such articles, please send me the link! God bless!
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Hi, Paul!
You have a couple of great questions here, which would take me a couple of volumes to cover in my response! The best article on the Oneness of God and how knowing this One God can bless us is already written, - it is called the Hebrew Scriptures (what Christianity has pejoratively and wrongly termed “The Old Testament”)!
1) You may want to start with the Book of Isaiah. In it the Living God is crying His heart out, stretching His hands to His people, pleading with them to renounce all idolatry and turn to Him and Him alone with their whole hearts: “Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me! I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.” (Is. 44:21-22)
Through Isaiah, the LORD reminds His people that He is One and Only: “Keep silence before Me, O coastlands . . . Who has performed and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? ‘I, the LORD, am the first; and with the last I am He.’” (Is. 44:1,4) – Notice that the Living God is “He” and not “them” as in Trinity. Here is more: “Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God. . . You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.’” (Is. 44:6,8)
In Isaiah 48 we read: “Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.” (v.12) What does this mean? God means to say here that “Before Me there was no other god, - I have no Father; and after me there will be no deity, - I have no Son!” God is truly One! The quotes could be multiplied tenfold, but the conclusion is the same, - the Bible is the best article on the Oneness of God!!
In her zeal to replace the People of Israel as the Chosen Ones, the Church had no choice but to replace the Real God (the God of Israel) with an invented one (Trinity); His Torah was replaced with Church traditions and corrupted text of the New Testament; God’s Holy Days and Feasts were replaced with pagan festivals, etc, - you know this yourself, don’t you?
As for your question of how this revelation can impact you personally, - The Holy One of Israel is the only source of Life and blessedness there is in the entire Universe! Only after having come to Him, do we begin to experience life in its fullness, freedom from falsehood and death and a true meaning in life! Everything else is idolatry. Idolatry, as you are well aware, is the most heinous crime against the One God of the Bible. Unfortunately, the entire Christendom is guilty of it!
2) What do we do with Jesus and the Holy Spirit? We have tons of articles on the site that deal with these matters in one way or another, - please, browse them and you will discover the answers to many of your questions. To put it in a nutshell, there is no need to do anything with either Jesus or the Holy Spirit!
If Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah, the Lamb of God and the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek, he came to point everybody, Israel and Gentiles, to the One and Only Source of Salvation and Eternal Life, - the Holy One of Israel. If, on the other hand, Jesus came to establish the Church as we know it and teach us that god is somehow three-in-one, he was to be stoned on the spot according to God’s very Word (See Deuteronomy 13)!
When asked about the core of God’s Word, Jesus responded without a moment’s hesitation: “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.” (Mark 12:29-30) – He did not come to establish the worship of the Son or some pagan Trinity, he came to lead others to the Mighty One of Jacob, did not he?
Hope this helps!
Be blessed!
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It is true that the trinity is a sad state. . . That being said, I have read an article you have posted. I cannot read Hebrew or Greek and I do not, nor do many others, have a ready access to the resources and manuscripts, nor the energy to do exhaustive manuscript reading and comparing; which makes textual criticism very difficult.
Yet I do have a question in regards to your view of monotheism. You believe that Jesus is the Word of God enfleshed. This is my belief as well, and in this manner, He is the only-begotten of the Father, because the Word proceeded forth from the Father. That being said in regards to monotheism, is it not then made manifest that the Son is heir to the divine nature by birth?"
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Hi, Christopher!
Good question! Everything that "proceeds" from God is divine by definition.
Thus, God's wisdom is divine and even personified in the Book of Proverbs and other places. God's presence (Shekhina Glory) is divine and is also personified in the Hebrew original. Both of these entities are feminine in the original text, by the way!
Are we to conclude that God consists of five divine persons (father, son, holy ghost, Lady Wisdom and Maiden Presence)? Of course not! It's absurd, isn't it? But that's exactly what Christianity has done in the course of time!
Although the Word of God is divine by nature, it is not a separate person within some "compounded" god-head, - that is a thoroughly pagan idea!
Please, examine the wealth of information we have on the site - your understanding of the Word and God's truth will never be the same!
Be blessed!
Dmitry
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