Is Jesus God? Is the Trinity True or a False Doctrine?
Of course, Jesus is God. Jesus was God IN A BODY. God in FLESH. In St. John 4:24 Jesus said, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." 1 John 4:12 says, "No man hath seen God at any time.." A person cannot see a Spirit, because it has no flesh–no body. God could not shed blood on a cross and die for the sins of humanity as a SPIRIT. St. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In v14, "And the Word [God] was MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,).." 1 Tim. 3:16 says, "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." God ROBED HIMSELF IN FLESH, and Jesus was the invisible God MADE VISIBLE. Colossians 1:15 says speaking of Jesus, "Who is the image of the invisible God.." Heb. 1:3 says speaking of Jesus, "Who being the express image of his [God’s] person.."
In St. John 14:8 Philip wanted Jesus to show them the Father. In v9 Jesus said, "..Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER, and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" In v10 Jesus said, "Believest thou not that I am IN the Father, and the Father IN me?…the Father that DWELLETH IN ME.." V11 "Believe me that I am IN the Father, and the Father IN me.." Jesus said in St. John 10:30 "I and my Father are ONE." They definately are NOT 2 "Persons."
The "Father" of Jesus was the Holy Ghost that begat Him in the womb of Mary. Mary gave Him His flesh, but His Father was the Holy Ghost. St. Luke 1:35 "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, THEREFORE also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of GOD." St. Matthew 1:20 "…fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost." The Father and the Holy Ghost cannot possibly be 2 Persons. A Spirit is not a person, and there is only ONE Spirit.
Being the "Son" of God does not make 2 Persons. The "Son" denotes the FLESH of Jesus; the "Father" is the omni-present, omni-potent, invisible SPIRIT that begat Him. So, when Jesus prayed to the "Father" it was his FLESH that prayed to the omni-present SPIRIT.
It is impossible for Jesus to have been ETERNALLY BEGOTTEN. Where was Mary? A son has to have a mother to be begotten. Galatians 4:4 says, "But when the FULNESS OF THE TIME was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman.." The fleshly body in which God dwelt while here on this earth did not exist in the beginning in the book of Genesis.
The OT is full of passages of Scripture that declare monotheism. One God is throughout the OT. The Apostles did not separate the Godhead into 3 parts, or "Persons". It was the early Catholics that began the doctrine of Trinity. The first attack against monotheism in the NT church era was in a doctrine called, "docetic gnosticism." This was the first step on the developmental road toward Trinity. The gnostics were labelled, "Christians," but they were not Spirit-filled believers, and they troubled the church and the Apostles. They had a fully developed "theological" system, and their practice was to fuse paganism with Jewish Scriptures. So, they "paganized" Jesus. Docetic gnosticism viewed the material world as too defiling for a divine being to come into contact with it, so Jesus had to be a secondary god, the Demi-Urge. Christ was not truly human but a semi-divine being whose body was only a phantom and who naturally neither was born nor died in the flesh. The gnostics are referred to in various passages in the Epistles, but John referred to them as "antichrists." 1 John 4:2,3 "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist." Again in 11 John 7, "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." The modern doctrine of Trinity literally DENIES that Jesus is God. To have "come" in the flesh indicates that He was in another place before He arrived at the present point. Where was He before He was "come"? He was the God of heaven, a Spirit, that took on flesh.
Trinity is based on idolatrous beliefs of pagan Greek philosophy. The definition of "trinity" was derived at progressively as the Catholic Church refuted "heresies" and reached its present state at the Catholic Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The term, "trinity," was originated by Tertullian, a Roman Catholic Church Father. The "International Encyclopedia" states, "The doctrine of the Trinity did not form part of the Apostles’ teachings, as this is reported in the New Testament." An entire page or more could be filled with historical proof the doctrine was not a part of the early church in the NT era. It definately was a product of the "antichrist" spirit, the same spirit that created the Catholic Church.
It is quite clear that Jesus is NOT God. He never claims it, and even denies it on 2 occasions. He says God is greater. The bible says God is the authority over Christ, and Christ has authority over us. The trinity is a false doctrine created long after Jesus & the apostles were gone. It tries to make Jesus into God Almighty, which is skating dangerously close to idolatry. It makes no sense. It is completely illogical any way you view it (whether you say they are 3 separate entities that make up 1 God, or whether you say it is 1 God simply “manifesting in different forms.”). Again, any way you slice it, it is bogus, makes no sense, and contradicts itself leaving questions that no one can logically answer. Why can no one really answer those tough questions and have to default and say “it is a mystery..”?? Because it isn’t true. It is like me trying to say this: Make a square into a circle, and keep calling it a square. They are 2 different things! I DO NOT mean this in any way to take t
