The Trinity a "Foolish and Unscriptual Doctrine"

 

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The Trinity a "Foolish and Unscriptual Doctrine"

From The Doctrine of the Trinity Examined 1885 (Published by John B. Day)

Spurious churches have long been bewildering themselves with the foolish and unscriptual doctrine, that a Trinity of Persons constitute the One God, —a pagan doctrine forced upon the ignorant people in early Christian times against their common sense, at an epoch when superstition, false legends, and nonsense everywhere were rife, —the spurious priests miscalling their great credulity “Faith,” thereby deceiving the well-disposed into giving blind credence and blindly accepting as the foundation of their Christianity the monstrous lie —that Three Persons constitute the One God. 

How is this great error known to be untrue? 

1. It is more in accordance with the absurd mythology of the Greeks and Romans living in the days of the early Christians, many of whom were Greeks and Romans, than with the common sense of mankind.

2. God has many times declared that there is no other God than Himself. 

3. The Scriptures nowhere mention a Trinity of persons as constituting One God. 

4. The absurd doctrine was utterly unknown to the Israelites before the crucifixion, and to the twelve Apostles.

 

5. The utterance of the Prophets concerning the Messiah alluded to him as a holy being, wholly distinct in person from God. 

 

6. The blessed mother of Christ, her husband Joseph, and the Apostles, although believing that Christ was truly the long-promised Messiah, accounted him in accordance with the prophecies as an angel who came from heaven, and being born out of the Virgin Mary became man, who through God's almighty power, in some way (inexplicable to them until after the resurrection) would save the souls of mankind from being shut out everlastingly from heaven. After the resurrection they fully comprehended, through the teachings of Christ, the mighty plan of God, and clearly understood that his birth out of a pure virgin, his attempted destruction by Herod, the flight of his mother and Joseph with him into Egypt, his great wisdom, his teaching, his great and many miracles, the testimony of John the Baptist, his peculiar public entry into Jerusalem, his betrayal, his crucifixon, his resurrection, the testimony of the angels at his tomb, and his teachings after his resurrection, were in exact accordance with the prophecies concerning the Messiah. Being convinced that he was really the long-promised Messiah they deeply reverenced him as the Messiah, but did not worship him as they worshipped God—they taught the people after the ascension of Christ, that when upon earth with them he was simply a man like to themselves, giving him the highly reverential spiritual name of Lord; but giving to his God alone the far higher reverential name of God. 

7. The utterances of the Apostles, which speak of God and of Christ as two distinct holy beings—the son not equal in power to his Father, but subservient to his Father in all things, the son so obedient as to have no will of his own, but accepting the will of his Father as his own will. 

8. The utterances of Christ himself, who ever spoke of God as a Holy Being, wholly distinct from himself, teaching his disciples and the people to pray to God his Father, beseeching Him, praising Him, singing to Him, and giving Him thanks, never accounting himself to be God-plainly saying that God is greater than himself, but calling himself the son of God. 

The unwise, idolatrous, early Christian priests, in their admiration of Christ, exalted him in their imagination to be God Himself, forgetting the Creator God, and exalting in their foolish imagination his blessed mother as the mother of God - folly that has been widely perpetrated down to these days. Oh, foolish churches, how great has been your folly, how widely you have departed from the truth; therefore how little you have been able to cope with the wicked heart of man!

In like manner as the Israelites, from the crucifixion down to these days, have erred in disbelieving the Messiahship of Christ, 80 the spurious Churches have, during many ages, exalted Christ in their imagination to be God. The Israelites and the spurious churches being equal in their great error-the one refusing to acknowledge him as the long promised Messiah, the other exalting him in their imagination as being the Messiah, the Holy Ghost, and God the Creator also; the Israelites refusing to give any glory to Christ, the spurious Churches madly rushing, in their ancient antagonism towards the Jews, to the opposite extreme, by robbing, in their imagination, God the Creator of His Glory, and giving all glory to the Messiah, to the great grief of the Messiah.

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