Does Your Room Have a Door?

The motion picture, Room, tells the true story of a woman who is held captive for 7 years in a storage shed behind her captor's house. During that time, she has a child, a boy. The room is the only thing he has ever known. He watches videos and some television. Such information is the sole source of understanding of the world around him. Eventually the mother devises a plan to free the boy so that he might contact authorities. They are freed and the boy spends the rest of his days confronted with the truth and reality of world that was kept from him.

This true story is illustrative of the dogma of the Trinity in which many are confined. Surely God is "one", but "God" has been dogmatically defined as consisting of three "persons" -Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is all they have ever known. They were shown it, they heard it, they believed it and never knew to even question the limited and skewed reality they were presented. They have never approached the door. They were told not to. The other side of the door is a mystery. That's the way it has been. That's the way it is. That's the way it will be.

There is a resurgence of the Biblical understanding of the nature of the Father and the Son and the holy spirit. Those who have escaped the Room are facing reality for the first time. It is liberating and makes so many other things make sense. Those still in the room can only see the four walls, the glimmer of sunlight that streams through the window and have no idea what is on the other side of the door. 

"Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:20

There is One God. His name is Yahweh. There is one son, a human, conceived by the holy spirit, born of a virgin and anointed by Yahweh to be the messiah, the king of kings, lord of lords. His name is Yeshua. He is "a man, Christ Jesus." The holy spirit is the omnipresent activity of Yahweh among men. It is not a separate entity and has no name.

"For there is one God and one mediator between God and humankind, a man, Christ Jesus..." 1 Timothy 2:5

" 'one mediator between God and humankind, a man.' This is one of the great and clear texts in the debate as to who Jesus really is. If Jesus were God, this would have been a wonderful place to say it. Instead, Jesus is clearly called “a person” using the Greek word anthrōpos, “person, human, man.” The lexicons state that it is “man” in contrast with animals, plants, angels, and of course, God. The Greek text reads that there is one mediator between God and “humankind,” or “people” (the noun is plural in Greek; anthrōpōn, ἀνθρώπων), and that mediator is “a person” or “a man” (the noun is singular; anthrōpos, ἄνθρωπος), Jesus Christ. Although Trinitarians say that the referent to Jesus as “a man” is only referring to his human nature, that is their theology adding things; the Scripture never says that.

Actually, Jesus cannot be God or a God-man in this verse. The whole point of a mediator between people and God is that “God” cannot be the mediator. The mediator in this verse is “between” God and the people. If the mediator is God, then he is not between God and the people. In this verse, the mediator is playing part of the role of the priest, one who stands between the people and God. In fact, Jesus is called our High Priest in the New Testament (e.g., Heb. 2:17; 3:1; 4:14, 15; 5:5, 10; 6:20; 9:11). Both as our mediator and as High Priest, Jesus cannot be God or a God-man. The priest is a person who stands between God and people, and we learn from 1 Timothy 2:5 that this is also what a mediator does, which is why the verse specifies that Jesus is “a man, Christ Jesus.” That is the simple truth of Scripture, that Jesus was a man, a flesh-and-blood human being.

If Jesus were a God-man, this would be one of the many places to say it, but Scripture never says it, ever. Instead, Jesus is stated to be a member of the human race, just as the Old Testament prophecies foretold he would be." [REV Commentary]

Does your room have a door?

Question For The Honest Man

Yeshua was limited in knowledge. He claimed not to know everything.

“But no one knows about that day and hour, not the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father alone."

"Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32 are problematic for Trinitarians, who are forced to say that Jesus’ human side had limited knowledge and did not know the time of the events of the End, but his God nature had unlimited knowledge and did know the time. But there are huge problems with that assertion. One is that the Bible never says it was only Jesus’ human nature that did not know but his God nature did know. That is only assumed because it makes Trinitarian doctrine work. Furthermore, it cannot be explained how Jesus could have had both limited and unlimited knowledge at the same time. Theologians refer to it as communicatio idiomatum, but that is just Latin for “the communication of the properties,” and it does not explain how Jesus’ two natures could co-exist; it just assumes they do.

Trinitarians also assert that the two natures, God and man, existing simultaneously is a mystery, but again, the Bible never even says the two natures exist in Christ, much less that it is a mystery. About mysteries, Roger Olson wrote: “We must point out here the difference between mystery and contradiction; the former is something that cannot be fully explained to or comprehended by the human mind, whereas the latter is just nonsense—two concepts that cancel each other out and together make an absurdity.” Although Olson wrote about the mysteries of Calvinism, his comment about mysteries applies equally to the “mysteries” created by the doctrine of the Trinity. We assert that it is a clear contradiction that Jesus is both 100% God and 100% man." (REV Commentary)

But here is the loudest question for the honest man: If "only the Father alone knows the day nor the hour" does this not also limit the knowledge of the holy spirit? After all, is the holy spirit not the presumed third person of the Trinity, of the same essence and omnipresence?

The Trinity is a false doctrine not even mentioned until after 300 years of Christianity. It is not a mystery. It is a contradiction.

This is a pencil. It is also a banana. It is yellow and can be eaten. Is this a mystery or a contradiction? In any case, this proposition is an absurdity. So is the three-person but one God trinity doctrine.

Bonus question for the Orthodox Christian: Why is the holy spirit rarely, if ever, mentioned in the council debates? It's all about the nature of Yeshua and his shared essence with the Father. The holy spirit isn't mentioned or solidified as a part of the trinity doctrine until years after the Council of Nice. The 325 Nicean Creed simply states that the holy spirit is believed in. 80 years later, the creed was revised to clarify the fluid and innovative doctrine...and the Trinity Doctrine was born.

Recommended Reading from this former Eastern Orthodox Christian Reader:

The Church of the First Three Centuries

Notices of the lives and opinions of some of the Early Church Fathers

The Doctrine of the Trinity

Illustrating its late origins and gradual formation

By Alvan Lamson, D.D.

Boston:

Walker, Wise, and Company,

245 Washington Street,

1860

Or HERE for Hard Copy

The Only True God

"And this is life in the age to come, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." John 17:3

“the only true God.” This is similar to John 5:44 and is one of the many places that gives good evidence that Jesus Christ is not God. When Jesus prayed and called God “the only true God,” he was simply acknowledging a truth that was clearly stated in the Old Testament: For example, Nehemiah 9:6-7 says, “You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you. You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram” (cp. Ps. 86:10; Isa. 37:16; 43:11; 45:5). Yahweh is the Father and “the God,” the “only true God” that Jesus recognized and prayed to.

The Trinity, the doctrine that “God” is both three and one at the same time is mysterious, incomprehensible, and unbiblical. It is never described in the Bible and attempts to come close to explaining it have to use language that is not in the Bible. For example, that Jesus is said to be both “100% human and 100% God” is both unbiblical and self-contradictory. Also, the Trinity doctrine says there are three “persons” in the one God, but then Trinitarians are quick to state that “persons” does not actually mean “persons” in the ordinary sense, but then they cannot exactly define “person” in the Trinitarian sense. That is because a “person” is an individual, but the “persons” in the Trinity are not individuals in the ordinary sense, but are part of “the one God,” so they are persons but not persons at the same time.

Trinitarians say that God is “one what and three whos,” but that is, as stated above, both incomprehensible and unbiblical. When we read the Bible, God always speaks of Himself as one being. He uses “I” and “me” and “my,” and never refers to Himself as an “essence” or “nature.” The same is true of Jesus. John 17:3 is clear, succinct, and understandable: God is “the only true God,” and He “sent” His Son, Jesus Christ, who is a human being (1 Tim. 2:5).

John 17:3, REV Bible and Commentary (revisedenglishversion.com)

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‘You can't have Christianity without the Trinity. It's clearly an essential doctrine.’ Well, I beg to differ. It seems to me that in about the first 300 years, Christianity did rather well. But, there isn't the Triune-God teaching in any of those early sources. When it first comes in is right about the year of 381, which was also the time that mainstream, Bishop-led Christianity got in bed with the Roman Empire and used the empire to enforce their ideas about heresy. Dr. Dale Tuggy Trinities – Theories about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit