TRINITY – THE TRUTH
!
Excerpts from M. Javed
Naseem’s book:
GOD’S PRESCRIPTION
(Chapter:
Christianity – The Truth)
يٰأَهْلَ ٱلْكِتَابِ لِمَ تَلْبِسُونَ ٱلْحَقَّ بِٱلْبَاطِلِ
وَتَكْتُمُونَ ٱلْحَقَّ وَأَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
‘O followers of the Book! Why do you
confound the truth with the
falsehood
and hide the truth while you know?
(Quran 3:71)
Is the Christianity, as we know it
today, a true religion promoted and preached by Jesus, the son of Mary, or is
it based on Paganism? To find out the truth, let us start with the biggest
pillar (the cornerstone) of the modern Christian faith – the Trinity, and then
we’ll look into their biggest religious festival Christmas.
Thomas Jefferson:
‘… The Trinity is an unintelligible
proposition of Platonic mysticisms that three are one and one is three.’
Christadelphia Worldwide:
Christadelphia is a church
organization in the USA San
Rafael , California , USA , it says: ‘Christadelphia Worldwide –
Proclaiming the impending establishment of the Kingdom of God
It seems like a very ambitious but
tough mission to accomplish (or mission impossible) – especially when you are
divided into a million denominations most of which ignore the commandments of
God, follow the pagan customs, change the Word of God and still try to
establish the ‘Kingdom of God’! However, despite all that, the mission itself
is a noble one.
Appeal to Trinitarian Christians,
Jeff Rath:
In ‘An Appeal to Trinitarian
Christians’ (by Jeff Rath, 11-97) the author explores the ‘Historical Background
of the Trinity’. Here are the findings:
‘The current mainstream teaching in
Christianity is that God is a coequal, coeternal, one-substance trinity, and
that Jesus Christ is God. This doctrine is considered by many as the
cornerstone of Christianity, but where did this doctrine come from? The
historical record is overwhelming that the church of the first three centuries
did not worship God as a coequal, coeternal, consubstantial, one-substance
three in one mysterious godhead. The early church worshipped one God and
believed in a subordinate Son. The trinity originated with Babylon
‘This polytheistic (believing in
more than one god) Trinitarian-ism was intertwined with Greek religion and
philosophy and slowly worked its way into Christian thought and creeds some 300
years after Christ. The idea of “God the Son” is Babylonian paganism and
mythology that was grafted into Christianity. Worshipping “God the Son” is
idolatry, and idolatry is Biblically condemned; it breaks the first great
commandment of God of not having any gods before him (Exodus 20:3).’
‘Then three centuries after Christ
the corrupt emperor Constantine forced the minority opinion of the trinity upon
the council of Nicaea
‘The council of Nicaea
325 said that “Jesus Christ is God”; the council of Constantinople 381 said
that “the Holy Spirit is God”; the council of Ephesus
431 said that “human beings are totally depraved”; the council of Chalcedon
‘However, the historical information
ties the trinity into various pagan origins.’
‘And yet most Christian churches
continue to teach and believe the doctrine that God is a coequal, coeternal,
one-substance, mysterious three in one triune godhead, and that Jesus Christ is
God, and that the trinity is “the cornerstone of Christianity”.’
The Church of the First Three
Centuries, 1865, Alvan Lamson:
‘… The modern doctrine of the
Trinity is not found in any document or relic belonging to the Church of the
first three centuries. … so far as any remains or any record of them are
preserved, coming down from early times, are, as regards this doctrine an
absolute blank. They testify, so far as they testify at all, to the supremacy
of the father, the only true God; and to the inferior and derived nature of the
Son. There is nowhere among these remains a coequal trinity … but no un-divided
three, -- coequal, infinite, self-existent, and eternal. This was a conception
to which the age had not arrived. It was of later origin.’
Note: I personally call such things
‘inventions’.
‘During the
first three centuries, Christians did not believe that Jesus Christ was
coequal, and coeternal with God, or that he was God the Son; they believed that
Jesus Christ was subordinate to God, and that he had a beginning, that he was
born. Those that believed otherwise were the exception.’
Let me mention here a verse from the
Holy Quran in which God Himself has clarified this false belief:
لَّقَدْ كَفَرَ
ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوۤاْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ثَالِثُ ثَلاَثَةٍ
وَمَا مِنْ إِلَـٰهٍ
إِلاَّ إِلَـٰهٌ وَاحِدٌ وَإِن لَّمْ يَنتَهُواْ
عَمَّا يَقُولُونَ
لَيَمَسَّنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ
مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ
أَلِيمٌ
‘They do blaspheme who say: Allah is
one of three in a Trinity; for there
is
no god except One Allah. If they
desist not from their word (of
blasphemy),
verily a grievous penalty will
befall the
blasphemers among them.’
(Quran 5:73)
And Allah also clarifies the status
of Jesus, the son of Mary, in the Holy Quran. Jesus was a messenger of God,
like many others before him, and he, as well as his mother Mary, was a human
being. Here is the verse:
مَّا ٱلْمَسِيحُ
ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ إِلاَّ رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ
مِن قَبْلِهِ
ٱلرُّسُلُ وَأُمُّهُ صِدِّيقَةٌ كَانَا
يَأْكُلاَنِ
ٱلطَّعَامَ ٱنْظُرْ كَيْفَ نُبَيِّنُ
لَهُمُ ٱلآيَاتِ
ثُمَّ ٱنْظُرْ أَنَّىٰ يُؤْفَكُونَ
‘Christ the son of Mary was no more
than a
messenger; many were the messengers
that
passed away before him. His mother
was
a woman of truth. They had both to
eat their
(daily) food. See how Allah doth make
His
signs clear to them; yet see in what
ways they
are deluded away from the truth!’
(Quran 5:75)
So, Jesus
Christ was a human being who, along with his mother Mary, had to eat daily food
to survive. He was not a spirit. He was chosen from among the Jews of that time
– like many other messengers of God who appeared in different eras but they
were all chosen from their respective nations.
The irony about the Trinity is that
Jesus himself condemned it and commanded his disciples and faithful followers
to worship Allah alone, ascribing no partners to Him. In Islam it is called the
concept of ‘Tawheed’, the first pillar of Islam. Jesus warned the violators of
God’s punishment:
لَقَدْ كَفَرَ
ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوۤاْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلْمَسِيحُ
ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ
وَقَالَ ٱلْمَسِيحُ يَابَنِيۤ إِسْرَائِيلَ
ٱعْبُدُواْ ٱللَّهَ
رَبِّى وَرَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ مَن يُشْرِكْ بِٱللَّهِ
فَقَدْ حَرَّمَ
ٱللَّهُ عَلَيهِ ٱلْجَنَّةَ وَمَأْوَاهُ ٱلنَّارُ
وَمَا
لِلظَّالِمِينَ مِنْ أَنصَارٍ
‘They
do blaspheme who say: Allah is
Christ
the son of Mary. But said Christ:
O
Children of Israel! Worship
Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. Whoever joins
other gods with Allah, Allah will
forbid
him the Garden, and the Fire will be
his
abode. There will for the
wrong-doers
be no one to help.’ (Quran 5:72)
Now, back to the Christian religious
authorities:
The Doctrine of the Trinity,
Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound, 1994, Anthony F. Buzzard, Charles F.
Hunting:
‘Those Trinitarians who believe that
the concept of a Triune God was such an established fact that it was not
considered important enough to mention at the time the New Testament was
written should be challenged by the remarks of another writer, Harold Brown:’
‘It is simple
fact and an undeniable historical fact that several major doctrines that now
seem central to the Christian Faith – such as the doctrine of the Trinity and
the doctrine of the nature of Christ – were not present in a full and
self-defined generally accepted form until the fourth and fifth centuries. If
they are essential today – as all of the orthodox creeds and confessions assert
– it must be because they are true. If they are true, then they must always
have been true; they cannot have become true in the fourth and fifth century.
But if they are both true and essential, how can it be that the early church
took centuries to formulate them?’
A History of the Christian Church, 2nd
Ed. 1985, Williston Walker: ‘AD 200 … Noetus had been expelled from the Smyrnaean church for
teaching that Christ was the Father, and that the Father himself was born, and
suffered, and died.’
Man’s Religions, 1968, John B. Noss:
‘The controversy first became heated
when Apollinarius, a bishop in Syria … asserted that Christ could not have been
perfect man united with complete God, for then there would not have been one
Son of God, but two sons, one by nature and one by adoption, the first with a
divine, the second with a human will. Such a thing seemed inconceivable,
religiously abhorrent.’
‘Nestorius … preached a sermon
against calling the virgin Mary ‘the mother of God’ declaring she did not bear
a deity, she bore a man.’
‘Numbers 23:19 states that God is
not a man. God was not born, and God certainly did not die, but when people
deviate from what the Bible teaches, you can come up with the bizarre
complexities of Trinitarian religious mysteries that contradict logic, common
sense and God’s Word.’
New Bible Dictionary, 1982:
‘The word trinity is not found in
the Bible …’
‘… it did not find a place formally
in the theology of the church till the 4th century.’
‘… it is not a biblical doctrine in
the sense that any formation of it can be found in the Bible, …’
‘Scripture does not give us a
formulated doctrine of the trinity…’
The Harper Collins Encyclopedia of
Catholicism, 1995:
‘… scholars generally agree that
there is no doctrine of the trinity as such in either the Old Testament or the
New Testament.’
‘If the trinity is the cornerstone
of Christianity then how did the church of the first three centuries get along
so well without it? If the trinity is the cornerstone of Christianity then why
is it not mentioned in the Bible?’
The Encyclopedia Americana
‘Christianity derived from Judaism
and Judaism was strictly Unitarian (believing in one God). The road which led
from Jerusalem
‘The trinity is a deviation from
believing in one God; it is a deviation from what the early church taught and
it is a deviation from the Scripture.’
The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967:
‘The formulation ‘one God in three
persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into
Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th
century.’
Who is Jesus? Anthony Buzzard
‘The Old Testament is a strictly
monotheistic. God is a single personal being. The idea that a trinity is to be
found there or even in any way shadowed forth, is an assumption that has long
held sway in theology, but is utterly without foundation.’
The New Encyclopedia Britannica,
1976:
‘Neither the word trinity, nor the
explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his
followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: “Hear, O Israel:
The Lord our God is one Lord” (Deut. 6:4) … The doctrine developed gradually
over several centuries and through many controversies … By the end of the 4th
century … the doctrine of the trinity took substantially the form it has
maintained ever since.’
‘The Shema consists of three
sections of scripture Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 11:13-21, and Numbers 15:37-41. It is
called the Shema after the Hebrew word ‘hear’, the first word in Deut. 6:4. The
Shema was to be recited twice daily once upon arising and once when going to
bed. So the Old Testament Jews would start and finish their day with ‘Hear O
Israel: The Lord our God is one God’.
The Complete Word Study, Old
Testament, 1994:
‘To the Jew, (Deut. 6:4-9) this is
the most important text in the Old Testament. Jesus himself called the
injunction in 6:5 “the first and great commandment” Matt. 22:36-38 … Moses is
teaching not only the priority of belief in one God, but also a means to
preserve that belief. As time went on the proper understanding of the Shema
with its spiritual implications was no longer grasped by the people. This
absence of saving knowledge became a factor in their spiritual downfall.’
‘Whenever God’s people forget that
there is only one God and they follow after other gods this will result in
their downfall. This can be seen time and time again in the Old Testament where
God’s people forsook the Lord and then evil came upon them. God does not send
this evil, but He warns us to stay away from the evil of worshipping more than
one God.’
Dictionary of the Bible, 1995, John
L. McKenzie:
‘The trinity of God is defined by
the church as the belief that in God are three persons who subsist in one
nature. The belief as so defined was reached only in the 4th and 5th
centuries AD and hence is not explicitly and formally a biblical belief.’
Why You Should Believe in The
Trinity, 1989, Robert M. Bowman Jr.:
‘The New Testament does not contain a
formalized explanation of the trinity that uses such words as trinity, three
persons, one substance, and the like.’
Exploring The Christian Faith, 1992:
‘Nowhere in the Bible do we find the
doctrine of the trinity clearly formulated.’
‘People who are
using the King James Version might be inclined to point to I John 5:7 “For
there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy
Ghost”. But it is now generally recognized that this verse does not belong to
the original text of the letter; it is a later insertion.’
(Note: Another invention?)
- ‘The theological formulation took
place later, after the days of the apostles.’
- ‘The doctrine of the trinity is
not found in the Bible.’
- ‘The doctrine was to develop along
mainly Greek lines.’
‘Take note of the words “explicitly
and formally”, “formalized explanation”, “express declaration”, and “clearly
formulated”. These words are indicative of the fact that all the clear verses
on the subjects of God, Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit do not even hint at a
trinity.’
‘The first century apostles did not
believe or teach, or write about God being a trinity, or Jesus Christ being
God. But the pagan and Greek and Babylonian religions used those words.’
The New International Dictionary of
New Testament Theology, 1976:
‘The Bible lacks the express
declaration that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are of equal essence,
(said Karl Barth).’
Dictionary of The Bible, 1995, John
L. McKenzie:
‘The trinity of persons within the
unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘persons’ and ‘nature’ which are Greek
philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The
Trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which
these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously
applied to God by some theologians.’
The Doctrine of The Trinity,
Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound, 1994, Anthony F. Buzzard, Charles F.
Hunting:
‘Eberhard Griesebach, in an academic
lecture on “Christianity and Humanism” delivered in 1938, observed that in its
encounter with Greek philosophy, Christianity became theology. That was the
fall of Christianity. The problem thus highlighted stems from the fact that
traditional orthodoxy, while it claims to find its origins in scripture, in fact
contains elements drawn from a synthesis of Scripture and Neo-Platonism. The
mingling of Hebrew and Greek thinking set in motion first in the second century
by an influx of Hellenism through the Church Fathers, whose theology was
colored by the Platonists Plotinus and Porphyry. The effects of the Greek
influence are widely recognized by theologians, though they go largely
unnoticed by many believers.’
‘The Greek mythology and pagan
religious beliefs were derived from Babylon
The Rise of Christianity, 1985,
W.H.C. Frend:
‘For him (Clement) the trinity
consisted of a hierarchy of three graded beings, and from that concept –
derived from Platonism – depended much of the remainder of his theological
teaching.’
Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel,
1870:
‘The Platonic trinity, itself merely
a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to
be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three
hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches … This Greek
philosopher’s (Plato, 4th century BC) conception of the divine
trinity … can be found in all ancient (pagan) religions.’
The Two Babylons, 1916, Rev.
Alexander Hislop:
‘Egypt
and Greece derived their
religion from Babylon
Microsoft Encarta, 1994, Funk &
Wagnalls:
‘The theologians Clement of
Alexandria, Origen, and St. Augustine
The Rise of Christianity, 1985, W.H.C.
Frend:
‘We find Christianity tending to
absorb Greek philosophical values, until by the end of the third century the
line between the beliefs of educated Christian and educated pagan in the east
would often be hard to draw.’
‘The early Christians began mixing
Greek and pagan and Babylonian philosophical and religious Trinitarian concepts
with their Christian doctrine which led them to begin considering the trinity,
and after three centuries that thinking finally took hold. Acts 17:22 says that
the Greeks were too superstitious, and I- Corinthians 1:22 says that the Jews
require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom. The Greeks were too
intellectual in their approach to God’s Word. They became wise in their own
eyes and the truth of God’s Word became foolishness to them, so they grafted
their own superstitious philosophical wisdom into God’s Word and changed the
truth into a lie; they changed Son of God to God the Son.’
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1991:
‘The term “Trinity” does not appear
in scripture.’
‘(The Doctrine of the Trinity) –
hammered out over the course of three centuries of doctrinal controversy
against modal-ism and subordination-ism.’
Why You Should Believe in The
Trinity, 1989, Robert M. Bowman Jr.:
‘Roman Catholics … often claim that
the trinity is not a biblical doctrine and was first revealed through the
ministry of the church centuries after the Bible was written. This is in
keeping with the Roman Catholic belief that Christian doctrine may be based
either on the Bible or on church tradition.’
‘The Roman Catholic Church did not
get the doctrine of the trinity from the Bible, they hammered out their own
theology of what they wanted God to be over several hundred years, and mixed
Greek philosophy with Babylonian mystery religion, and their own private
interpretations of the Bible.’
I Peter 1:20-21:
‘Knowing this first, that no
prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.’
II Timothy 2:15:
‘Study to shew thyself approved unto
God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth.’
‘People don’t respect God’s Word,
they are more interested in inventing their own theology by the will of man
instead of believing the word of God, they are not interested in rightly
dividing God’s word of truth. The trinity is private interpretation and wrong
dividing of God’s word.’
Jesus Christ is Not God, 1975,
Victor Paul Wierwille:
‘Long before the founding of
Christianity the idea of a triune god or a god in three persons was a common
belief in ancient religions. Although many of these religions had many minor
deities, they distinctly acknowledged that there was one supreme God who
consisted of three persons or essences. The Babylonians used an equilateral
triangle to represent this three-in-one god, now the symbol of the modern
three-in-one believers.’
‘The Hindu trinity was made up of
the gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. The Greek triad was composed of Zeus, Athena
and Apollo. These three were said by the pagans to ‘agree in one’. One of the
largest pagan temples built by the Romans was constructed at Ballbek (situated
in present day Lebanon Babylon
‘Although other religions for
thousands of years, before Christ was born, worshipped a triune god, the
trinity was not a part of Christian dogma and formal documents of the first
three centuries after Christ.’
‘That there was no formal,
established doctrine of the trinity until the fourth century is a fully
documented historical fact.’
‘Clearly, historians of church dogma
and systematic theologians agree that the idea of a Christian trinity was not a
part of the first century church. The twelve apostles never subscribed to it or
received revelation about it. So how then did a Trinitarian doctrine come
about? It gradually evolved and gained momentum in late first, second and third
centuries as pagans, who had converted to Christianity, brought to Christianity
some of their pagan beliefs and practices.’
Who is Jesus? Anthony Buzzard:
‘… We shall find not a hint that
Jesus believed himself to be an uncreated being who had existed from eternity.
Matthew and Luke trace the origin of Jesus to a special act of creation by God
when the Messiah’s conception took place in the womb of Mary. It was this
miraculous event which marked the beginning – the GENESIS, or origin of Jesus
of Nazareth.’
‘Arius and his followers believed
that Jesus Christ was created, that he was not in the beginning with God. They
believed that he had a beginning, whereas God has no beginning. This makes
Jesus Christ substantially different from God, which means he cannot be of
one-substance with God as the Trinitarians believe.’
Documents of the Christian Church, 2nd
Ed. 1963, Henery Bettenson:
(Quotes from Arius and his
followers)
‘If, said he, the Father begat the
Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence; hence it is clear that
there was (a time) when the son was not.’
‘The Son of God is from what is not
and there was (a time) when he was not; saying also that the Son of God, in
virtue of his free will, is capable of evil and good, and calling him a
creature and a work.’
The Rise of Christianity, 1985,
W.H.C. Frend:
‘If the Father begat the son, there
must be when he was not. He could not therefore be coeternal with the Father’
(said by Arius).
Man’s Religions, 1968, John B. Noss:
‘Arius held that Christ … was a
created being; he was made like other creatures out of nothing, … The Son, he
argued, had a beginning, while God was without beginning.’
The Church in History, 1964, B.K.
Kuiper:
‘The heathen believe in many gods.
Arius thought that to believe that the Son is God as well as that the Father is
God would mean that there are two Gods, and that therefore the Christians would
be falling back into heathenism.’
‘Arius believed that Jesus Christ
was born, that he had a beginning; he believed that Jesus Christ was the
created Son, not the Creator, and for taking the Word of God literally he was
ex-communicated and anathematized. Starting with Nimrod in ancient Babylon
Exodus 20:3:
‘Thou shalt have no other gods
before me.’
Exodus 34:14a:
‘For thou shalt worship no other
god.’
‘The trinity is idolatry, it puts
Jesus Christ as a god before God.’
Forgers of The World, 1983, Victor
Paul Wierwille:
‘To say Jesus Christ is God the Son
is idolatry. To say Jesus is the Son of God is truth.’
I Samuel 15:23:
‘For Rebellion is as the sin of
witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.’
Deuteronomy 6:4:
‘Hear O Israel
‘The Lord God Almighty, the Creator,
the Father of Jesus Christ is one God not three, not three-in-one, not
one-in-three, ONE! And only ONE! God is not a three-headed multi-personality
trinity.’
‘God the Son is not a biblical term,
it does not appear in the Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic texts. God the Son is
however a Babylonian term. The Babylonians made Nimrod a god, and when he died
they deified his son Tammuz as God the Son. Making God a man and man a god was
invented in Babylon
Ravaged By The New Age, 1996, Texe
Marrs:
‘Nimrod, the first of the great
Babylonian rulers, was also declared to be the first of the man-gods.’
The Two Babylons, 1916, Rev.
Alexander Hislop:
‘He was worshipped in Babylon
‘It is clear that the trinity does
not have a Biblical origin. It can be traced back to ancient Babylon
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968:
The Council of
Nicaea met on May20, 325. Constantine Constantine regarded the decision
of Nicaea Nicaea
The Origins of Pagan and Christian
Beliefs, 1920, 1996, Edward Carpenter:
‘And when at the Council of Nicaea
(325 AD) it (the early church) endeavored to establish an official creed, the
strife and bitterness only increased. … The Nicaea
Man’s Religions 1968, John B. Noss:
‘This creed, adopted under pressure
from the emperor, who wanted peace, did not immediately solve the doctrinal
difficulties or save the peace. The phrases (not made) and (of the same
substance with the Father) were bitterly denounced by many.’
The Rise of Christianity, 1985,
W.H.C. Frend:
‘The Emperor exerted all his influence toward winning
unanimous acceptance and nearly succeeded. Only two bishops stood out against
it; but two other senior bishops refused to sign the anathemas against Arius
and were exiled.’
A
History of The Christian Church, 2nd
Ed. 1985, Williston Walker:
‘He
(Constantine) accepted the pagan title of Pontifex Maximus, and his coins still
showed the emblems of the Sun-God.’
Forgers
of The World, 1983, Victor Paul Wierwille:
‘The truth of Jesus
Christ the Son of God was deliberately forged into the doctrine of God the Son.
Seeds of Jesus Christ as God were planted and sprouted during the lifetime of
Paul, continued growing during Timothy’s lifetime and flourished shortly
thereafter, reaching full bloom for all future creeds by 325 AD’.
’The doctrine that
Jesus Christ the Son of God was God the son was decreed by worldly and
ecclesiastical powers. Men were forced to accept it at the point of the sword
or else. Thus, the error of the trinity was propounded to the end that
ultimately people believed it to be the truth. Thus Christianity became in
essence like Babylonian heathenism, with only a veneer of Christian names.’
A History of
Christianity, Vol. 1, 1997, Kenneth Scott Latourette:
‘To enforce the
decisions of the Council of Nicaea, Constantine commanded, with the death
penalty for disobedience, the burning of all books composed by Arius, banished
Arius and his closest supporters, and deposed from their sees Eusebius of
Nicomedia and another bishop who had been active in the support of Arius.’
Man’s Religions,
1968, John B. Noss:
‘The doctrine of the
trinity he (Michael Servetus) felt to be a Catholic perversion and himself to
be a good New Testament Christian in combating it … According to his
conception, a trinity composed of three distinct persons in one God is a ration
impossibility.’
‘Saying that Jesus
Christ is not God does not degrade Jesus Christ; it merely sets things in their
proper order so we can know God and worship Him in spirit and truth.’
John 14:6:
‘Jesus saith unto him, I am the way
the truth and the life; no man cometh to the Father, but by me.’
John 14:13:
‘And whatsoever ye shall ask in my
name, that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son.’
‘Satan the Devil strongly desires
man to worship him instead of the One true God, and when he can’t achieve his
primary goal then his next desire is to get man to worship anything other than
the true God. Satan has been quite successful in tricking good Christians into
worshipping Jesus Christ as God instead of worshipping the One true God …’
Eph 5:14:
‘Wherefore he saith Awake thou that
sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.’
‘We can no longer be lulled to sleep
by the bizarre, complex, confusing, ritualistic, mysterious Babylonian
traditions of Trinitarian doctrines. We must come back to God’s Word and
worship the one true God …’
I Corinthians 8:4b:
‘There is none other God but one.’
The Doctrine of The Trinity,
Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound, 1994, Anthony F. Buzzard, Charles F.
Hunting:
‘The God of Moses, Isaiah, Jesus,
and the apostles was one person, the Father. One cannot be made equal to two or
three. All that can be done with one is to fractionalize it. Divide it into
smaller segments and it is no longer one. Expand, and in spite of prodigious
mental gymnastics on the part of Trinitarians, it cannot be made into two or
three and still remain one.’
‘… it is not uncommon for religious
leaders to insist that you must believe in the trinity to be a Christian, or be
branded a cultist. One of the great marvels of Christian history has been the
ability of theologians to convince Christian people that three persons are
really one God.’
A Statement of Reasons for Not
Believing the Doctrine of The Trinitarians Concerning the Nature of God and the
Person of Christ, 1833, Andrews Norton:
‘When we look back through the long
ages of the reign of the Trinity … we shall perceive that few doctrines have
produced more unmixed evil.’
‘The Bible does not give us a
doctrine of trinity, the historical record shows that modern Christian
Trinitarian beliefs were not formulated until about 300 years after the death
of Jesus Christ, but in pagan religions Trinitarian beliefs date back to
ancient Babylon, thousands of years before Jesus Christ. The coequal,
coeternal, one substance, three in one trinity is not a Christian Biblical
doctrine; yet there are those who insist that it is the cornerstone of
Christianity.’
‘In our day and time, the doctrine
of the trinity is a cornerstone of idolatry’ – Jeff Rath 4-97.
(End of the quotes.)
So, the Trinity is idolatry!
At least this is the majority
opinion among the Christian religious authorities. And if a religion or faith
is based on idolatry, can it be considered a true religion or faith promoted by
the messengers of God, the Almighty?
Allah, the Creator of mankind, says
in the Holy Quran:
وَإِنَّ مِنْهُمْ لَفَرِيقاً يَلْوُونَ أَلْسِنَتَهُمْ بِٱلْكِتَابِ
لِتَحْسَبُوهُ مِنَ ٱلْكِتَابِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ
وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللًّهِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ
وَيَقُولُونَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ٱلْكَذِبَ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ
‘And lo! There is a party of them
who
distort the Scripture with their
tongues,
that ye may think that what they say
is
from the Scripture, when it is not
from
the Scripture. And they say: It is
from
Allah, when it is not from Allah;
and they
speak a lie concerning Allah
knowingly.
(Quran 3:78)
Gospel of Barnabas, Ch. 93-97:
Finally, we go to the Gospel of
Barnabas. Barnabas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, the son of Mary.
Some of his quotes/references seem very authentic. During the height of the
controversy about the status of Jesus, people got divided into three main
groups – those who believed that Jesus was God; those who believed that Jesus
was son of God; and those who believed that Jesus was a prophet of God. There was
a big turmoil as these groups started fighting with each other. Therefore, the
Roman Governor of Judea , King Herod and the
high priest sought a public meeting with Jesus. They asked Jesus to explain to
the huge gathering of thousands, who he really was. Here are some excerpts from
Chapters 93-97:
‘The priest answered: “Now is Judea
so greatly moved over your signs and your teaching that they cry out that you
are God; wherefore, constrained by the people, I am come here with the Roman
governor and King Herod. We pray you therefore from our heart, that you will be
content to remove the sedition which is arisen on your account. For some say
you are God, some say you are son of God, and some say you are a prophet.”
‘Jesus answered: “And you, O high
priest of God, why have you not quieted this sedition? Are you also perhaps,
gone out of your mind? Have the prophecies, with the Law of God, so passed into
oblivion, O wretched Judea , deceived of
Satan!”
‘And having
said this, Jesus said again: “I confess before heaven, and call to witness
everything that dwells upon the earth, that I am a stranger to all that men
have said of me, to wit, that I am more than man. For I am a man, born of
woman, subject to the judgment of God; that live here like as other men, subject
to the common miseries. As God lives, in whose presence my soul stands, you
have greatly sinned, O priest, in saying what you have said. May it please God
that there come not upon the holy city great vengeance for this sin”. Then said
the priest: “May God pardon us, and do you pray for us”. Then said the governor
and Herod: “Sir, it is impossible that man should do that which you do;
wherefore we understand not that which you say”.
Jesus answered: “That which you say
is true, for God works good in man, even as Satan works evil. For man is like a
shop, wherein whoever enters with his consent works and sells therein. But tell
me, O governor, and you O King, you say this because you are strangers to our
Law; for if you read the testament and covenant of our God you would see that
Moses with a rod made the water turn into blood, the dust into fleas, the dew
into tempest, and the light into darkness. He made the frogs and mice to come
into Egypt
“And of Moses, every one confesses
that he is a dead man at this present. Joshua made the sun to stand still, and
opened the Jordan
‘Accordingly the governor and the
priest and the King prayed Jesus that in order to quiet the people he should
mount up into a lofty place and speak to the people. Then went up Jesus on to
one of the twelve stones …’. ‘Jesus said distinctly, so that everyone might
hear: “It is written in the testament and covenant of the living God that our God
has no beginning, neither shall he ever have an end”. The priest answered:
“Even so is it written therein”.
Jesus said: “It is written there
that our God by his word alone has created all things”. “Even so it is”, said
the priest. Jesus said: “It is written there that God is invisible and hidden
from the mind of man, seeing he is incorporeal and un-composed, without
variableness”. “So is it, truly”, said the priest. Jesus said: “It is written
there how that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, seeing that our God is
infinite”. “So said Solomon the prophet”, said the priest, “O Jesus”. Jesus
said: “It is written there that God has no need, forasmuch as he eats not,
sleeps not; and suffers not from any deficiency”. “So is it”, said the priest.’
Jesus said: “It is written there
that our God is everywhere, and that there is not any other god but he, who
strikes down and makes whole, and does all that pleases him”. “So is it
written”, replied the priest. Then Jesus, having lifted up his hands, said:
“Lord our God, this is my faith wherewith I shall come to your judgment; in
testimony against every one that shall believe the contrary”.
‘… When the prayer was ended, the
priest said with a loud voice: “Stay Jesus, for we need to know who you are,
for the quieting of our nation”. Jesus answered: “I am Jesus, son of Mary, of
the seed of David, a man that is mortal and fears God, and I seek that to God
be given honour and glory”.
The priest answered: “In the Book of
Moses it is written that our God must send us the Messiah, who shall come to
announce to us that which God wills, and shall bring to the world the mercy of
God. Therefore I pray you tell us the truth, are you the Messiah of God whom we
expect?”
Jesus answered: “It is true that God
has so promised, but indeed I am not he, for he is made before me, and shall
come after me”. The priest answered: “By your words and signs at any rate we
believe you to be a prophet and an holy one of God, wherefore I pray you in the
name of all Judea and Israel
‘Jesus answered: As God lives, in
whose presence my soul stands, I am not the Messiah whom all the tribes of the
earth expect, even as God promised to our father Abraham, saying: “In your seed
will I bless all the tribes of the earth”. But when God shall take me away from
the world, Satan will raise again this accursed sedition, by making the impious
believe that I am God and son of God, whence my words and my doctrine shall be
contaminated, insomuch that scarcely shall there remain thirty faithful ones;
whereupon God will have mercy upon the world, and will send his Messenger for
whom he has made all things who shall come from the south with power, and shall
destroy the idols with the idolaters who shall take away the dominion from
Satan which he has over men. He shall bring with him the mercy of God for
salvation of them that shall believe in him, and blessed is he who shall
believe his words.’
‘Unworthy though I am to untie his
hosen, I have received grace and mercy from God to see him. Then answered the
priest, with the governor and the King, saying: “Distress not yourself, O
Jesus, holy one of God, because in our time shall not this sedition be any
more, seeing that we will write to the sacred Roman senate in such wise that by
imperial decree none shall any more call you God or son of God”. The Jesus
said: “With your words I am not consoled, because where you hope for light
darkness shall come; but my consolation is in the coming of the Messenger, who
shall destroy every false opinion of me, and his faith shall spread and shall
take hold of the whole world, for so has God promised to Abraham our father.
And that which gives me consolation is that his faith shall have no end, but
shall be kept inviolate by God”.
‘… And having said this, the
multitude departed with the priest and the governor with Herod, having great
disputations concerning Jesus and concerning his doctrine. Whereupon the priest
prayed the governor to write to Rome to the senate the whole matter, which
thing the governor did; wherefore the senate had compassion on Israel, and
decreed that on pain of death none should call Jesus the Nazarene, prophet of
the Jews, either God or son of God. Which decree was posted up in the Temple
(End of the quotes.)
It’s ironic that People of the Book
blame the Romans for every evil whereas the Roman senate did a great favor to
the Jews and Christians by issuing an imperial decree regarding the status of
Jesus, the son of Mary.
You saw the Christian authorities
condemning and refuting the doctrine of Trinity because it is Babylonian. It is
a centuries old pagan concept. Prophet Abraham and the subsequent messengers of
Allah all campaigned against it; and promoted and preached the concept of
Tawheed (worshipping One God, ascribing no partners to Him). There is only One
God worthy of worship! And that’s the concept of Islam:
La ilaha illa-Allah – There is no
god but Allah (God).
Now, as the major issue – the
Trinity – (the cornerstone of Christianity) has been settled, and we agree that
there is only One God, without partners, we move on to the next big thing in
modern Christian faith – Christmas. (See my next post, Insha-Allah).
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