Dear friends,

Christians, I included, typically believe that Jesus was deity because we are taught that he was and is God; based off of old doctrines developed in Rome. But I wonder, could Jesus simply have been considered deity because God chose to dwell in him? Is the Trinity really correct? What does scripture say? 

1 John 4:12-13 (New Century Version)

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

John 4:24 (New Century Version)

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

Colossians 1:19 (New International Version)

19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him [Christ],

John 3:34 (New International Version)

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

John 6:63 (New International Version)

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

The Trinitarian doctrine teaches that Jesus was 100% man and yet 100% God. Yet the Bible clear shows two seperate persons by the following:

2 John 7 (New Century Version) & 1 John 4:2-3

Many false teachers are in the world now who do not confess that Jesus Christ came to earth as a human. Anyone who does not confess this is a false teacher and an enemy of Christ.

Acts 2:32 (New International Version)

God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact.

John 20:17 (New International Version)

17Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Acts 2:34 (New International Version) & Psalm 110:1

For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,
   ” ‘The LORD said to my Lord: 
      ”Sit at my right hand

One clear sees the Jesus is not the Father, but that Jesus recognizes the Father as being God. Jesus tells us that his words are not his own:

John 12:49 (New International Version)

For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it.

John 12:49 (New Century Version)

The things I taught were not from myself. The Father who sent me told me what to say and what to teach.

John 10:35-36 (New Century Version)

35 This Scripture called those people gods who received God’s message, and Scripture is always true.36 So why do you say that I speak against God because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? I am the one God chose and sent into the world.

The Trinity teaches that Jesus is equal to the Father. What does the Bible say?

Isaiah 42:1-9 (New Century Version)

 1 “Here is my servant, the one I support.
       He is the one I chose, and I am pleased with him.
    I have put my Spirit upon him,
       and he will bring justice to all nations.
 2 He will not cry out or yell
       or speak loudly in the streets.
 3 He will not break a crushed blade of grass
       or put out even a weak flame.
    He will truly bring justice;
 4 he will not lose hope or give up
    until he brings justice to the world.
       And people far away will trust his teachings.”
 5 God, the Lord, said these things.
    He created the skies and stretched them out.
       He spread out the earth and everything on it.
    He gives life to all people on earth,
       to everyone who walks on the earth.
 6 The Lord says, “I, the Lord, called you to do right,
       and I will hold your hand
    and protect you.
       You will be the sign of my agreement with the people,
       a light to shine for all people.
 7 You will help the blind to see.
       You will free those who are in prison,
       and you will lead those who live in darkness out of their prison.
 8 “I am the Lord. That is my name.
       I will not give my glory to another;
       I will not let idols take the praise that should be mine.
 9 The things I said would happen have happened,
       and now I tell you about new things.
    Before those things happen,
       I tell you about them.”

Acts 4:27 (New Century Version)

Jesus is your holy servant, the One you made to be the Christ. 

John 13:16 (New International Version)

I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Philippians 2:6 (New Century Version)

Christ himself was like God in everything.
       But he did not think that being equal with God was something to be used for his own benefit.

Jesus was like God, because God dwelt in him and allowed him to perform miracles through God’s power.

1 Corinthians 15:27-28 (New Century Version)

The Scripture says that God put all things under his control. When it says “all things” are under him, it is clear this does not include God himself. God is the One who put everything under his control. After everything has been put under the Son, then he will put himself under God, who had put all things under him. Then God will be the complete ruler over everything.

Notice, wasn’t Jesus still a man after the ressurection?

Luke 24:39 (New Century Version)

Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have a living body as you see I have.”

Romans 1:23 (New Century Version)

They traded the glory of God who lives forever for the worship of idols made to look like earthly people, birds, animals, and snakes.

  

Isn’t this the same apperance as earthly people as commented in Romans 1:23? The pagans commonly thought their God’s to be people. So it makes sense that a deity of Jesus doctrine would arise from pagans.

2 Peter 2:1 (New International Version)

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

They even thought Paul and Barnabas as God’s because of the miracles they performed.

“The gods have become like humans and have come down to us!” (Acts 14:11) 

But the Bible again in Hosea clearly tells us,

Hosea 11:9 (New Century Version)
 I am God and not a human; I am the Holy One, and I am among you. I will not come against you in anger.

But some might say that Jesus was special because he’s the only one able to forgive sins, but not true.

John 20:21-23 (New Century Version)
 Then Jesus said again, “Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, I now send you.” After he said this, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven. If you don’t forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

I think this is the problem with the current Christian belief in the Trinity:

Romans 1:25 (New Century Version)

They traded the truth of God for a lie. They worshiped and served what had been created instead of the God who created those things, who should be praised forever.

Does the Trinity teach us to worship the man named Jesus coequal in the place of the Father?

Have you look at what your singing lately in Church?

So then, why Jesus?

Galatians 3:20 (New Century Version)

But a mediator is not needed when there is only one side, and God is only one.

Galatians 3:19 (New Century Version)

So what was the law for? It was given to show that the wrong things people do are against God’s will. And it continued until the special descendant, who had been promised, came.

John 8:56 (New Century Version)

Your father Abraham was very happy that he would see my day. He saw that day and was glad.”

John 3:17 (New International Version)

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Romans 5:19 (New International Version)

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Romans 5:14-18 (New International Version)

14Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
 15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
 18Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.

Galatians 1:4-5 (New Century Version)

Jesus gave himself for our sins to free us from this evil world we live in, as God the Father planned. The glory belongs to God forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 5:19 (New Century Version)

God was in Christ, making peace between the world and himself. In Christ, God did not hold the world guilty of its sins. And he gave us this message of peace.

Ephesians 4:6 (New Century Version)

There is one God and Father of everything. He rules everything and is everywhere and is in everything.

Ephesians 4:13 (New Century Version)

This work must continue until we are all joined together in the same faith and in the same knowledge of the Son of God. We must become like a mature person, growing until we become like Christ and have his perfection.

Ephesians 3:19 (New Century Version)

Christ’s love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with the fullness of God.

Acts 17:31 (New Century Version)

God has set a day that he will judge all the world with fairness, by the man he chose long ago. And God has proved this to everyone by raising that man from the dead!”

God Bless,

Amen