Why the Trinity Doctrine Doesn't Make Sense: Five Reasons

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the challenge
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Will you ask these five questions of your pastor or trusted Christian expert? Most people just believe in the Trinity because that is how they were raised. Tradition has been passed down from generation to generation and no one seems to be asking whether or not this doctrine is biblical. If you care about this subject, if this is important to you, if you want to know who God really is, then you owe it to yourself to wrestle with these questions

the expected response
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Time after time when we engage in conversation with other Christians about these issues we are brushed off with appeals to our human limitations. They tell us that the Trinity is a mystery that we just have to accept by faith. We are cautioned that we are not capable of understanding God. Though there is some truth in this type of sentiment, we still consider such appeals to incomprehensibility as cheating. I mean, let's just reverse our positions for a moment. You be the Unitarian and I'll be the Trinitarian. You try to convince me that my beliefs are unbiblical, anachronistic, and illogical. You make some solid arguments and rather than listening and really considering what you are saying I say, "Well, I hear what you are saying, but really, you just need to accept that this is a mystery that you cannot understand; you just have to believe it." If I pulled that on you, wouldn't you feel like that was dirty? Yet, this is what happens over and again. We have to be willing to change our beliefs if they are wrong. May God help us!

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[stixandpix1966]

"Let Us make man in Our image it means that whoever He is speaking with has a part in our creation..not that they are just witnesses to it, but that they too have created us."

Ok then read the next verse....

Gen 1:27 So God (singular) created man in his (singular) own image, in the image of God(singular) created he him; male and female created he them.

This statement of "multiple" creators is non biblical.

Context, context, context......

[stixandpix1966]

"Let Us make man in Our image it means that whoever He is speaking with has a part in our creation..not that they are just witnesses to it, but that they too have created us."

Ok then read the next verse....

Gen 1:27 So God (singular) created man in his (singular) own image, in the image of God(singular) created he him; male and female created he them.

This statement of "multiple" creators is non biblical.

Context, context, context......

[karenvickery1]

@polopowers1 You need to read John 17:20-23, it clearly states it's a unity not a trinity, we can all be one with God just like Jesus..therefore it can't possibly be a trinity.

[karenvickery1]

@citizenpetroff You need 2 read John17:20-23 Jesus says he prays that all of them may be one Father, just as you are in me & I am in you. May they also be in US..it also says that they may be one as we are one: I in them & you in me. It's saying we can all be in God just like Jesus is, it is a unity not a trinity if we can all be in God just like Jesus,think about that scripture it changes everything you have been taught about the trinity.Its a unity, we are not creators, because we are in unity

[citizenpetroff]

@karenvickery1 (2) created us with Him, therefore making them our creators. Why would we worship only one of our creators if there are more than one? Doesn't that seem disrespectful? It would be like loving and respecting one parent and not the other. What this does prove is that we have more than just one creator, something that was unexplainable until Yeshua came and then left us with Ruach HaKodesh. It was at that time that more of our God's identity was revealed to us. Peace and blessings :)

[citizenpetroff]

@karenvickery1(1) Indeed, itis not "proof" that He is three in one, as it does not specifically say that, but to compare it with how He used Moses for His will is almost humourous, no offense..because considering that it says "Let Us make man in Our image" it means that whoever He is speaking with has a part in our creation..not that they are just witnesses to it, but that they too have created us. It is completely different, so whoever you believe He was speaking with, they have

[citizenpetroff]

@karenvickery1 Okay, well let's look at what did Yeshua do by being a servant to us..He humbled Himself (as He is part of Elohim) and He set an example for us. His first visit to Earth was to teach us, and to give us everlasting forgiveness for our sins.

[polopowers1]

You believe intellectually you can convince.? Jesus taught through Paul that men like this cannot understand what is clear to believers who have the Spirit, he does not. The natural man understands not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned. A natural man is ignorant sounding like he just refuted what for two thousand years millions of believers believe. That is ego personfied.If you don't know God, you don't know God. I'm sure you will convince those who don't know God

[55k3v1n]

@karenvickery1 Jesus said that He came down from Heaven. God the Father obviously remained up in Heaven. This makes them two distinct persons. Jesus cannot be an angel because angels are created beings, not Creators. John 1:3 & Phi. 1:16 tells us Jesus made all things.

[55k3v1n]

@karenvickery1 Angel can mean two things: 1.) messenger 2.) actual angelic beings. Actual angelic beings are often used by God as messengers. The word "angel" is used of God, Christ, men and certain spirit beings. But literal angels, including Michael the archangel, are created supernatural beings (Philippians 1:16). They can never be creators as in John 1:3. "All thing were made by Him (not Michael), and without Him (not Michael) was not anything made that was made"