“The Trinity” is not the God of the Bible.
Trinity and the multitude of verbal trappings that consume theologians and seminaries, serve to get a handle on God, and put Him in a box.
The wording of trinity with all its catch phrases bears little resemblance to the Word of God—the Bible is just used to back up the trinity doctrines.
We should instead read the Bible and ask, “What does it say about God?”—not say how it proves our point.
(By the way, that applies to all doctrinal teaching.)
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By universal and continuous use of trinity and all that goes along with it, we actually reverence and worship man’s words more than God’s Words—when we say them more.
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Undisputed teachings of honored church fathers without caution can be dangerous.
Do we swallow everything Luther said and wrote?
That is not a good idea.
Do we accept without question what early church leaders said just because they lived closer to Jesus’ time on earth than we do?
That is not a good idea.
Do we follow what our pastor and teachers say because we like them and trust them? Lots of people do.
That is not a good idea.
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Sadly, the masses of people in the pew accept as gospel truth what they hear repeatedly from the pulpit, without ever opening their own Bible to see where it came from—or even IF it came from the Bible.
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Just start listening to the frequency of trinity and all it’s affiliated phrases, compared to the frequency of Bible verses quoted on Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.