'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.' - Galileo Galilei
There is no trinity in the mystical Catholic sense of three coequal coeternal beings in one as adopted by the First Council of Nicaea in 325AD. The Catholic Encyclopedia, the trinity section of which can be found at: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm defines the trinity as follows:
The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion -- the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed:
"The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God."
In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This, the Church teaches, is the revelation regarding God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.
This is quite obviously not well defined in the mathematical sense and therefore non existent. It is a definition of the form:
The trinity is a Hotel in North London with a South London Postcode (There is no such Hotel). The trinity is an odd number which is divisible by two (There is no such number). The trinity has a size that is three times larger than one yet equal to one (There is no such size).
A son has to be created, and so since the trinity defines a son as being uncreated, it defines nothing.
Three does not equal one, since the trinity defines three as being to one, it defines nothing.
At this point any reader who has studied either Mathematics or Logic will not need to read any further to know that the trinity just does not exist.
However for the reader who has not so studied we have the words of Habakkuk:
12 Are you not from long ago, Oh Jehovah? Oh my
God, my Holy One, you do not die (Habakkuk 1).
So God does not die, but Jesus died, so Jesus is not God, and neither is he
equal to God since he was mortal and God was never mortal.
Isaac Newton used arguments such as these to King James when he persuaded the King to waive his obligation as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge to sign an attestation to the Trinity (Newton - Cohen & Westfall, Isaac Newton - Michael White, The life of Isaac Newton - Westfall) for Newton's own arguments - see [C12.1]. There is no Trinity in the Catholic Church sense. This is not a trivial matter. In the days of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) both the Catholic Church and the Church of England were infected by this deception. This meant that every Christian in England was an idolater of a non existent illogical contrivance of man (or of Satan). Newton knew this and it caused him very serious psychological problems indeed. He thought he was in the position of Elijah, the only one left who had not bent the knee to Baal, a false God. Paul explains:
2 God did not reject his people, whom he first recognized. Why, do you not know what the Scripture says in connection with Elijah, as
he pleads with God against Israel?
3 Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have dug up your altars, and I alone am left, and they are looking for my
soul.
4 Yet, what does the divine pronouncement say to him? I have left 7,000 men over for myself, [men] who have not bent the knee
to Baal.
5 In this way, therefore, at the present season also a remnant has turned up according to a
choosing due to undeserved kindness (Romans 11)
The remnant in Paul's day were the Jews who became Christians, by virtue of
their understanding of the scriptures, and their faith in Jesus. Newton
believed that the Christians in his day were facing the same problem that
the Jews both in Paul's day and in Elijah's day were facing. He was right.
The Trinity doctrine was debated and adopted by the early church at the church council of Nicaea in 325 AD. It was not taught or preached or known by the apostles, who lived 3 centuries before. The debate was between Arius who opposed it and Athanasius who proposed it. Arius lost the debate and then Emperor Constantine enforced the Trinity doctrine ruthlessly as was explained by Archdeacon of Westminster Frederick Farrar, Chaplain to the Queen Victoria. He wrote:
Constantine heartily accepted the [Athansian] Creed. He presumably retained the opinion which he had so forcibly expressed, that the dispute was verbal and superfluous, and he would have probably preferred the creed proposed by Eusebius of Caesaria had there been and chance of its acceptance.....The one desire of the Emporer was for peace and unity, and he determined that henceforth the Arians, or Porphyrians should be put down. The books of Arius were to be burnt. No one was to read them under penalty of death. He [Arius] was banished, as were also Theonas and Secundas, the only Bishops who would not forsake his cause (p489, Lives of the Fathers Volume 1, Adam and Charles Black, 1907).
Now the above persecution is the lot of the Christian. Constantine had no idea what he was really doing. But his tactics are from the darkness, not from the light. Given that it has always been the fate of those who know the divine truth to be persecuted by governments rather than being accepted by them, it is apparent that Arius was correct. In fact the council of Nicea was a convening of the heads of the fallen church of FDS1 - see [34].
This section is now covered in I11.
Paul says of him:
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation (Colossians 1).
So Jesus is the image of his father, and the firstborn of all creation, just as Adam, the firstborn human son, was made in God's image:
26 And God went on to say: Let us make man in our
image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic
animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the
earth.
27 And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God's image
he created him, male and female he created them (Genesis 1).
So God and the angels together made man in their image. But God made Jesus in his image alone. God also made Adam himself in his image alone, not in the image of the angels as well. Like begets like. These two are related by Paul who says...
45 It is even so written: The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit (1 Corinthians).
Since the first creations of God were angels, Jesus at first glance looks like he was the first angel that God created, the firstborn angel. Whereas Adam was the first judicially alive human, but not the first human - see [1], we know this thanks to the Archeologists. But in truth it was Satan who was created first, for the scripture says:
1 God, who long ago spoke on many occasions and in many ways to
our forefathers by means of the prophets,
2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a
Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the systems of
things.
3 He is the reflection of [his] glory and the exact representation of his very
being, and he sustains all things by the word of his power; and after he had made a purification for our
sins he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places.
4 So he has become better than the
angels, to the extent that he has inherited a name more excellent than
theirs (Hebrews 1).
Jesus inherited this name at his resurrection. The more excellent name was
actually Jehovah. When Jesus inherited this name he became a God just like
Jehovah. He became a God to be worshipped, he became the second true God. So
right now we have to of them. Jesus also became the heir who is the firstborn son when he
died.
He took Satan's firstborn rights at that time, whilst Satan was actually
dead having committed suicide in Judas. For Jesus was not the original firstborn angel of
God, Satan was - see [243].
1 In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was [a] god.
2 This one was in [the] beginning with God.
3 All things came into existence through
him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence.
4 What has come into existence by means of him was
life, and the life was the light of men (John 1).
This is a deep scripture. Here is the literal meaning...
1 In [the] beginning
[of the world, when Adam
sinned] the Word [Jesus]
was [in existence], and the Word was with
God [loyal to God unlike
Satan], and the Word was [ a] god [an
angel].
2 This one was in [the] beginning with God.
3 All things
[created after that
beginning] came into existence through
him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence.
4 What has come into existence by means of him was
life, and the life was the light of men (John 1).
The full literal meaning is explained in section U256. The Greek says literally: the word was God (John 1:1). But Greek has no indefinite article, no word 'a'. So the translation: the word was [a] God, is a possible translation of the Greek (although the scripture could have said: The word was one God - Greek does use 'one' as the indefinite article). It is not possible for Jesus to actually be God, because then God would not be Jesus' father and Jesus would not be his son. In fact Sir Isaac Newton argued that the Father was God of the son from:
17 Jesus said to her: Stop clinging to me. For I have not yet ascended to the Father. But be on your way to my brothers and say to them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God (John 20).
46 About the 9th hour Jesus called out with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27).
Later in the same chapter we read:
14 So the Word became flesh and resided among us, and we had a view of his glory, a glory such as belongs to an only-begotten son from a father; and he was full of undeserved kindness and truth (John 1).
18 No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that has explained him (John 1).
The only begotten God is Jesus, he was seen, but the God, is Jehovah, who cannot be seen. What is more Jesus is a begotten god, but God himself is uncreated, unbegotten. Jesus is the only begotten God, because he is the only God who was begotten and who is to be worshipped. Like Thomas said:
27 Next he said to Thomas: Put your finger here, and see my hands
and take your hand and stick it into my side, and stop being unbelieving but become
believing.
28 In answer Thomas said to him: My Lord and my God! (John
20).
'My God', but not 'the God'. Jesus did not rebuke Thomas for saying
this because Jesus was his God, since he now had the family name of Jehovah.
The following sections are now covered in I17...
1. Jesus was and is Michael
2. When did Michael become Jesus Christ?
3. Pre Michaelic Jesus was Immanuel
4. The
Resurrection of the Christ
5. Enoch was Michael
6. Some simple proofs that Angels did possess humans
7. A Simple Proof that Michael/Jesus had a mum and therefore was not the
firstborn angel
[1] If Jesus is not God then why does the King James Bible bible say:
2 And behold there came a leper and worshipped him saying: Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean (Matthew 8).
Only God can be worshipped (or could be at that time), so Jesus must be God right? No, the Greek word prosekunei, can mean worship or simply pay homage to/do obeisance to. Obviously the leper was entreating Jesus, not worshipping him, his words show this. Another example of this Greek verb which the King James Bible also mistranslates as Worship but which plainly means 'paid homage to' is:
26 The servant then fell down and worshipped him saying: Lord have patience with me and I will pay thee all (Matthew 18).
Obviously the slave was not worshipping his master, as if such a master was God.
[2] The holy spirit led Jesus into the Wilderness to be tested by Satan:
1 Then Jesus was lead by the spirit up into the Wilderness to be tempted by Satan (Matthew 4).
The second test (which FDS2 failed) was:
6 If you are a son of God, hurl yourself down,
for it is written, He will give his angels a charge concerning you, and they
will carry you on their hands, that you may at no time strike your foot against
a stone.
7 Jesus said to him: Again it is written: You must
not put the Lord, thy God to the test (Matthew 4)
If Jesus was God, then the Holy Spirit has led Jesus into sin, since God must not be tested. The Holy Spirit cannot do that, so Jesus is not God.