The Trinity Controversy Revisited

He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as Well...When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beggining. John 15 excerpts. Notice the distinctions.

are there. I won't refute that the scriptures say that there's One God. That's plain. I will refute how we define who He is. Even the scripture in Dueteronomy uses the Hebrew word "echod" which is the word for one but also holds an understanding of that one being a unity in its original meaning.

"echod" has been argued up and down, side to side, and dragged through the mud. And still people have their same understanding of what that meant. Some hold it means 1 in # because heathen nations all had many gods, Hebrews were to worship 1 God in number. And some hold it meant "unity" which could be the "completeness" of God in His many faculties or roles as it relates to mankind and eternity. Either way it never gives us explicit evidence of a 3 person Godhead. That is a big stretch.

Distinctions do not equal multiple "persons" "personalities" or "personages". Get it?

These kinds of terms detract from the oneness of God and His absolute One God status that he's tried to reveal to mankind from the beginning. The problem is educated scholars as yourself think you have to explain what God really meant when He said One. "God doesn't mean One, He means Three"....come on!!!

I have "distinct" qualities and jobs I hold. Does that make me multi-personality???

Well I'm definately not a scholar. I'm twenty-one with one semester of community college under my belt. I just love studying the scriptures cause God saved me and is saving me and I want to grow in my knowledge of Him. That's all. I don't think it detracts from His oneness at all. I think it shows it for what it says in scripture. He means one and Hes means three. That's what it says. Flame hit it with the prayer in Gethsemene. Who was He praying to? The Father. Jesus lived in submission to...

the Father. You may play different roles in your life but you cant apply your own reasoning over the scriptures. You have to simply take it at what it says. It literally explains a trinity. The problem is that we go at the scriptures with human reasoning but it take the work of the Holy Spirit to enlighten us to the truth so that we can reason properly.