I’m writing this because God has called me to share what He has revealed to me through His spirit. God wants His children to understand the relationship He has with His Son, and He wants us to understand the severity of His love for us; really understand what He did.
The Bible says that God is our Abba Father, and it also says that we are joint heirs with Christ. In Hebrews, Jesus says that he is not ashamed to call us brethren. He is our brother. He is our King. He has been given all authority over heaven and earth by His Father. He is the son of God, but he is not God.
The Bible tells us that Jesus came to do His Father’s will:
– “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me” (John 6:38).
– “…saying, ‘Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.’” (Luke 22:42).
– “Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner” (John 5:19).
We can learn two major things from these verses and others like them (John 5:30, Matthew 26:39): that Jesus submitted to the will of his Father, and that his will was not always his Father’s. If Jesus’s will was not always the same as his Father’s, then they had separate wills, and it is not possible for Jesus and God to be the same being and have separate wills.
The Bible consistently talks about God and Jesus as two separate beings. Here is a small handful of examples:
– “Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.” (1 Corinthians 8:4-6).
– “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,” (1 Timothy 2:5).
– “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17:3).
– “you believe in God, believe also in Me” (Jesus’s words in John 14:1).
– “Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:3).
– “We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you” (Colossians 1:3).
Jesus distinguished himself from God in Luke 18:18 and Mark 10:18: “So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.’” It is not possible for God to be good and Jesus to not be good, if they are the same being. How can God be both good and not good at the same time? Jesus also let us know that he does not know when the world will end when he said, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Mark 13:32, and again in Matthew 24:36). How could Jesus and God be the same being if one of them knows when the end will come and one does not? Also, Jesus and God both rule separately in the eternal city in Revelation 22:1&3 (Note that the Holy Spirit is not mentioned here at all, only God and Jesus).
The Bible continuously points out the authority of God over Jesus. Jesus himself said, “My Father is greater than I” (John 14:28). He also said, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God” (John 8:54). The list of verses like these goes on and on. Now, it is true that Jesus is our Lord. He has been given all authority over heaven and earth until the end when all will be returned to God (1 Corinthians 15:24-28), but the Bible is very clear that he is still under God’s authority even now: “For ‘He has put all things under his feet.’ But when He says ‘all things are put under him,’ it is evident that He who put all things under him is excepted” (1 Corinthians 15:27).
On multiple occasions, the Bible speaks of how Jesus was created. The New Testament tells us that Jesus is God’s son over 1,000 times. John 3:16 tells us that Jesus is the only begotten son of God (Jesus didn’t begat himself), and Hebrews 1:5 tells us that Jesus became the only only begotten son of God. Jesus is also the firstborn of all creation (Colossians 1:15), and he is referred to as the “last Adam” in 1 Corinthians 15:45.
There were many opportunities for God to mention the trinity in the Bible, but never did. One such perfect time is in Matthew 3:16-17, when Jesus was baptized and God parted the heavens to say who Jesus is: “the heavens were opened to him and he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and coming upon him, and Look!, a voice came out of heaven, saying, “This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I am well pleased.” Why wouldn’t He mention the trinity here or say that Jesus is God? He literally parted the heavens to tell us about His son and mentioned nothing about the trinity or Jesus being God. On a side note, why would God say He is well pleased with Himself? If Jesus is God, that’s exactly what he did here.
Let’s not forget that Jesus prayed to his Father and instructed us to do the same while he was here, and that he was killed for claiming to be the son of God, not for claiming to be God (John 19:7). Jesus called Yahweh his God. “Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’” (John 20:17). We strive to be more like Jesus, using his life and ministry while he was here as our example, so shouldn’t we likewise follow what he said about God and himself?
We have to be careful not to slip into idolatry when we approach the relationship between God and His son. If we believe in the trinity, which is found nowhere in the Bible, we fail to recognize the authority of our Father, Yahweh. Most importantly, when we pray to Jesus only, claim that Jesus is the most high God, and that Jesus is the only name to remember, we are breaking God’s first commandment, “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You must not have any other gods besides me” (Exodus 20:2-3).
Satan loves the trinity because it causes sin and separation of the church, undermines God’s authority, and it takes away from our understanding of how much God loves us. There is a reason why Satan is called “the father of lies” (John 8:44). He’s really good at deceiving people, so much so, that the Bible says he “deceives the whole world” (Revelation 12:9). The trinity came from a church that has a history of deliberately changing the Bible with no authority to do so, and in direct disobedience to God’s multiple commands not to add to, or take away from, His word. For example, they removed Yahweh’s name from the Bible over 7,000 times, changing it to LORD. They changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, so that now most Christians aren’t even aware of God’s command to keep Friday night to Saturday night holy. They, still today, teach selling indulgences and discourage their followers from reading their Bibles because “they won’t be able to understand it anyway.” As followers of God, we are called to “test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). We would be wise to heed these words. I encourage you to pray about what you have read. Pray that God would reveal His truth and make it clear to you.
