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The Trinity: An Inconvenient Truth

 

The First Thing to Go

When a belief system sets out to redefine Christianity, the first doctrine to be discarded is almost always the same:

The Trinity.

It is not the virgin birth.
It is not the resurrection.
It is not even the authority of Scripture.

It is the identity of God Himself.

This is not accidental.

What the Trinity Is (and Is Not)

The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct persons:

  • The Father

  • The Son

  • The Holy Spirit

Each person is fully God.
Each person is distinct.
There is one being, not three gods.

This is not:

  • Three gods (tritheism)

  • One God wearing three masks (modalism)

  • One God and two lesser beings (subordinationism)

The Trinity is not a philosophical invention—it is the unavoidable conclusion reached when all of Scripture is allowed to speak honestly.

Why the Trinity Is So Uncomfortable

The Trinity forces a confrontation with a deeply unsettling idea:

God is not simple in the way we want Him to be.

Human reason prefers neat categories.
Religious systems prefer clarity without mystery.
Institutions prefer doctrines that can be controlled, simplified, or administered.

The Trinity refuses all of that.

It declares that:

  • The Father is God

  • The Son is God

  • The Spirit is God

  • And yet God is one

This cannot be reduced without changing the text.

So instead, the text is reinterpreted.

The Pattern: How the Trinity Is Explained Away

Across history and across religions, the pattern is remarkably consistent.

Step 1: Redefine Jesus

If Jesus is not truly God, the Trinity collapses.

So He becomes:

  • A created being

  • A prophet

  • A lesser god

  • An exalted angel

  • A uniquely empowered man

Step 2: Isolate Verses

Statements like:

  • “The Father is greater than I”

  • “The Son does not know the hour”

  • “Jesus prayed”

are lifted out of context and treated as proof against deity, rather than evidence of the Incarnation—God truly entering human limitation.

Step 3: Introduce a Simpler God

A god who is:

  • Singular in person

  • Easily defined

  • More compatible with human reason

  • More compatible with institutional authority

What is lost is not complexity—but relationship.

How Different Religions Handle the Trinity

Judaism

Judaism rejects the Trinity primarily because it rejects Jesus as Messiah. Once Jesus is removed, the Trinity never even comes into consideration.

Islam

Islam explicitly denies the Trinity, not by engaging the biblical doctrine, but by misrepresenting it—often portraying it as God, Mary, and Jesus.

This strawman allows Islam to reject a Trinity it never truly defined.

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the Trinity by redefining Jesus as a created being—Michael the Archangel—and reinterpreting passages that affirm Christ’s deity.

The doctrine is not disproven; it is translated away.

Unitarianism & Progressive Christianity

These systems often reject the Trinity as “too mysterious,” “too ancient,” or “too divisive,” preferring a Jesus who inspires rather than saves.

Why the Trinity Must Go

The Trinity is dangerous to systems of control.

Why?

Because if Jesus is truly God:

  • He cannot be merely a teacher

  • He cannot be corrected by later prophets

  • He cannot be subordinated to an organization

  • He cannot be edited without consequence

And if the Holy Spirit is God:

  • Authority is no longer centralized

  • Conscience matters

  • Truth can confront power directly

The Trinity dismantles hierarchies built on fear.

What Is Actually at Stake

This is not an abstract theological debate.

If Jesus is not God:

  • His sacrifice is insufficient

  • His forgiveness is symbolic

  • His authority is borrowed

  • Worship of Him becomes idolatry

But if Jesus is God:

  • God has entered human history

  • God has borne human sin

  • God has revealed Himself fully

  • And salvation is personal, not institutional

That is why the Trinity is always the first thing to go.

An Invitation, Not a Demand

You are not asked to accept the Trinity blindly.

You are asked to examine Scripture honestly.

Read the Gospels slowly.
Let Jesus speak for Himself.
Resist the urge to explain Him away.

If Christianity is false, it will not survive scrutiny.
If it is true, no amount of simplification will improve it.

The Trinity is not a problem to be solved.
It is a reality to be encountered.

—Truth 521

“Test everything; hold fast what is good.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

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