Errors, Lies and Trinitarian Tricks (ELTs)

Truth is not the standard as it should be in many situations and the positions put forth by people regarding the theology of the trinity doctrine provide good examples of taking a stand based on things other than truth. A pattern develops over time with predictable responses. This is an attempt to catalog some of the more predictable and consistent positions put forth by trinitarians which fail when tested against truth, the Word of God.

An all too common, but revealing, response when discussing the trintiy with trinitarians is their refusal to open God’s Word and consider the evidence. Trinitarians will consent to the Word of God being our authority, but will not study it sincerely with any committment to accepting what it reveals. Don’t let trinitarians bully you by pronouncing their faith in their doctrine while refusing to support it with a rightly divided Word of God.

Truth as given in God’s Word is our judge (John 12:48) and will be the standard by which God separates the wheat from the tares. The subject of the identity of God is central to having no gods before Him and to loving Him with all our hearts and minds. The trinity is a false god and to believe it is therefore a violation of the commandment to have no other gods before Him. It doesn’t make it acceptable to God to paste His name on the false trinity God. We must know God’s Word and use it to discern truth from error. Lukewarmness regarding the identity of God and the truth He has given in His Word is eternally deadly.

The last test God gives us is presented in the third angel’s message of Revelation. Who do you worship? Who is your God? It’s an open book test. No wrong answers will be accepted. Jesus passed the test for us and gives us by His righteousness everything we need to stand redeemed before God. We simply have to believe and accept what God has revealed to us and done for us.

Indolence and ignorance are not the same thing. God has some grace for sincere ignorance, but not one shred of grace for indolence. Don’t be indolent with the truth of God in your hands.

Is God a liar?

The trinity doctrine makes God the Father a liar. God the Father tells us that He has a Son, His only begotten Son in whom He is well pleased. The trinity doctrine says no, God and Jesus neither one had a beginning and that they are co-equal. That assertion destroys both the Father's claim that He is a father with a son and it destroys the Bible's teaching that Christ really is the Son of God. Either the Bible is incorrect and God and Jesus are both liars, or the trinity is a lie, a false god. When the Bible says that our salvation is conditioned upon our belief in the Son of the one true Father God, it means it. Believe it or not. You choose your own place when God renders His judgement.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:18-19

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7:21-23

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. John 5:23-24

The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit does not lie in any sudden word or deed—it is the firm, determined resistance of truth and evidence. 6LtMs, MS 30, 1890, par. 16

No one need look upon the sin against the Holy Ghost as something mysterious and indefinable. The sin against the Holy Ghost is the sin of persistent refusal to respond to the invitation to repent. 102SDA Bible Commentary 5:1093 – FLB 58.8

This case is placed on record for our benefit. Just what took place in Pharaoh's heart will take place in every soul that neglects to cherish the light and walk promptly in its rays. God destroys no one. The sinner destroys himself by his own impenitence. When a person once neglects to heed the invitations, reproofs, and warnings of the Spirit of God, his conscience becomes seared, and the next time he is admonished, it will be more difficult to yield obedience than before. And thus with every repetition. Conscience is the voice of God, heard amid the conflict of human passions; when it is resisted, the Spirit of God is grieved. –5T 120.1

We must not deny truth. We must be submitted to God by being submitted to His truth.

ELT: What we understand and believe about the Holy Spirit doesn't matter

It is asserted that when reading God's Word that what is said about the Holy Spirit can be understood in multiple ways. As such, we shouldn't get hung up on things that cannot be understood, that are mysterious. This assertion denies one of the fundamental principles of biblical interpretation, that the Bible interprets itself and is a reliable expression of God's revelation. God is not the author of confusion. God's Word does provide a consitent understanding regarding the identity of the Holy Spirit which becomes clear when all of Scripture is interpreted comparing one part with another. Trinitarians must maintain and foster the concept that the Bible is confusing becasue a clear reading of the Bible destroys a trinitarian doctrine.

If what one believes about the Holy Spirit doesn't matter and can be safely left to be explained by God after He renders judgement, then why do religious organizations so harshly persecute those who are convicted that the Bible actually means what it says, that the Holy Spirit is Christ in us, not a third being? The churches of the world that promote a trinitarian concept of a god readily disfellowship those who promote a non-trinitarian understanding of the Bible. Pastors have their ordination credentials pulled and are fired from employment over this issue. Clearly, what one believes on this subject matters.

Trinitarians, by the way, believe strongly that the Bible is very clear in support of their position regarding the identity of God. They just want anyone who would disagree to submit to confusion. For the arch deciever's purposes, confusion about God when God's Word is not confusing is as good as denying the one true God.

ELT: That's Arianism

What trinitarians intend to mean by identifying someone as an Arian is to assert that they deny the divinity of Christ. They claim that Arius denied the divinity of Christ at the councils of Nicaea in 321 AD and 325 AD. Conveniently for trinitarians, Arius was persecuted and all of his views documented in books and writings were deemed heresy and destroyed on pain of death if found in one's posession. We have precious little history remaining that explains what Arius actually believed, but there is some historical evidence and it is enough that we know that Arius did not deny the divinity of Christ. Arius asserted that Christ was begotten of the Father just as Scripture records. Trinitarians conflate the concepts of creation and what the Bible calls to be begotten. To be begotten is not to be created. Jesus is divine because He is the begotten Son of His Father. This means that Jesus had a beginning and is also divine. Trinitarians deny that Christ had a beginning and have no choice but to attempt to confuse the fact that Christ was begotten with a beginning with the false claim that begotten means to be created. Jesus not only had a beginning, but His beginning pre-existed all of creation. All things were created by God through His Son. Christ's sonship was a fact prior to creation, prior to sin, prior to the fall of one-third of the angels, and prior to His birth and sacrifice as the Lamb of God on earth.

Note Ellen White's clear distinction between being created in contrast to being begotten.

There is but one way of escape for the sinner. There is but one agency whereby he may be cleansed from sin. He must accept the propitiation that has been made by the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. The shed blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” “Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.” A complete offering has been made; for “God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son,”—not a son by creation, as were the angels, nor a son by adoption, as is the forgiven sinner, but a Son begotten in the express image of the Father's person, and in all the brightness of his majesty and glory, one equal with God in authority, dignity, and divine perfection. In him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Signs of the Times, May 30, 1895, par. 3

Note also Ellen White's clarity regarding that our salvation is possible exclusively through the Lamb of God. Trinitarians claim that the false god, God the Holy Spirit, is our mediator to God. That is a lie that if believed will result in loss of eternal life. The only way we can believe that lie is to deny the actual working of the Holy Spirit of Christ in our hearts which reveals the truth of God's Word.

ELT: Begotten doesn't mean born, it means 'unique'

Pseduo intellectuals/religious philosophers often appeal to the original Greek to show a superior understanding of a particular word or phrase as found in our modern translations of the Bible, but what shows them to be unworthy of honest intellectualism is their sloppy and incorrect ideas. The word begotten is one such example that is commonly challenged by trinitarians by claiming that the Greek word 'monogenese' which has been translated in English as 'begotten' doesn't mean 'born' but instead means unique. This supposedly allows Christ to be regarded with special significance but without acknowledging that he was literally born of God. Trinitarians are forced into such absurdities as the whole doctrine of the trinity would be exposed as false if Christ is acknowledged to be literallly born of God which necessarily means that He has a beginning and is not co-eternal.

The New Testament uses the Greek word 'monogenese' nine times. Five of those times refer to Christ. The other four times are used to identify the only born children of people. The Bible usage of the word 'monogenese' clearly and consitently gives the intended meaning of 'born' in the exact sense that we understand it when referring to human children.