| (Copyright) by James Steinle (Swanville, Minnesota) |
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| Where is the Trinity in these writings? (Where you would think it would be!) Deut. 6:4 Hear (sense is obey) O Israel, Yehovah [YHwH] our Elohim (Mighty One) is one (H. 256 echad meaning one Yehovah, not family) Isaiah 45:5 I am Yehovah, and there is none else, there is no Elohim (God) beside me. I girded you, though you have not known me. (The word “I” is H.595 singular – i.e., not 3 persons in one) John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of Yehovah [Greek direct article ‘the’ God] abideth on him. (Note: no requirement to believe in the Trinity) John 5:23 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. (Note: no mention of honoring Holy Spirit) John 17:5 And now O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. (No mention of including Holy Spirit here) 1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Yayshua is the Messiah? He is anti-messiah, that denieth the Father and the Son. (No mention of denying “Father, Son and Holy Spirit) 1 John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Yayshua is the Son of Yehovah [the God], Yehovah [the God] dwelleth in him, and he in Yehovah [the God]. (No need to confess the Holy Spirit is a part of a Trinity in order to have salvation) Revelation 3:21 Yayshua also did not include a trinity of Beings. Notice, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” (No Holy Spirit Being sitting on the Throne) Greetings from the apostles (Holy Spirit never included) 1Cor 1:3 Paul says “ Grace be unto you, and peace, from Elohim [God; and singular in this sense] our Father, and from the Lord Yayshua Messiah.” (no greeting from Holy Spirit) For many other similar examples from Paul see 1 Cor. 1:9; Galatians 1:3; Ephesians 6:23; Philippians 1:2; Colossians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 1 Timothy 1:2; Philemon 1:3. The apostle James also gives like greetings in James 1:1. Peter also in 1 Peter 1:1. Jude the half-brother of Yayshua gives a similar greeting in Jude 1:1; Holy Spirit The Power of Yehovah: Zech. 4:6 Yehovah says “…by MY Spirit” showing ownership of Holy Spirit. Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of Elohim. (God, i.e., no Gk direct article ‘the’). Eze 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says Yehovah. Acts 10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit. 2 Tim 1:7 For Yehovah [the God] hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Romans 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of Elohim [God]; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Messiah. Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; MEANING OF Greek word ‘one’ G1520 – in the neutral ‘Hen’ in John 10:30 I and my Father are one. (G. 1520 hen (neut.) “In the mas. Heis must be distinguished from the neut. Hen. Heis means one numerically while hen means one in essence, as in John 10:30; (i.e., one in essence although two different personalities). Had it said Heis, it would have meant one person.” Reference: Lexical I Aids to the NT by Spiro Zodhiates, TH. D (And notice Yayshua did not include the Holy Spirit in this oneness). John 17:21-23 That they all may be one (gk. Hen – in essence); as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one (gk. Hen) in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. v22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one (gk. Hen – in essence), even as we are one (gk: hen) v23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one (gk. hen); and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. SPECIAL NOTE: From the above verses, IF there were such a thing as a Trinity (3 in one) it now would have to be eliminated from the vocabulary as with all the saints now included with the Father and the Son in one (and thegk. word would have had to be heis in the numerical sense; which it isn’t), it would have to be known now with some such phrase as a “Multiplicity”, not a Trinity. Who Our Fellowship is with: 1 John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Yayshua Messiah. (Does not say any fellowship with the Holy Spirit) Scriptures often used to show there is a Trinity: 1 John 5:7-8 Often mentioned as “The Johannine Comma”, most scholars understand the words that show a trinity of Beings were added as margin notes in the medieval days and became incorporated in some later Bible versions. See for example: http://www.bible-researcher.com/comma.html Matthew 28:19 Similarly, starting out in Matthew 28:18 “And Yayshua came and spake unto them, saying [as it should read per indications from other Scriptures], All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in My name; 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. As mentioned, other Scriptures that correlate with Matthew 28:19 is Mark 16:15-18, Luke 24:47, John 14:13 and John 15:16. For actual application of baptizing in Yayshua’s name only see Acts 2:37-38; Acts 8:16; Acts 10:48; Acts 19:5. Also see 1 Corin. 6:11 and Galatians 3:27. The Trinitarian theory by some authorities was put in by Constantine in the 4th century after the death and resurrection of Yayshua Messiah. For more information on this subject and with the understanding that I am not necessarily in agreement with all their doctrines, check out http://english.sdaglobal.org/research/mt2819.htm or http://israelofgod.org/ and click on their Biblical Teachings, then on Constantine Wrote Matt. 28:19 Into Your Bible! |
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