19–3: How The Trinity Limits Our Understanding Of God’s True Nature

Wanna know the biggest reason why Christians have difficulty accepting that one of the three men who visited Abraham is not Yeshua?

It’s because their minds are so attached to the trinity teaching, which holds that God is composed only of three persons.

They try to box all physical manifestations of God into this limited definition.

Another problem with the trinity is that it has a tendency to give us this idea of God being composed of three different pieces that form a whole.

We mistakenly apply this three-dimensional thinking to our understanding of God.

It’s not like when Yeshua was here on earth, the Father in heaven was only two-thirds whole.

God in heaven was NOT incomplete while Yeshua conducted his mission on earth.

I think it is much more theologically accurate to think of the Holy Spirit and Yeshua as “manifestations” or “attributes” of God.

But I cannot be dogmatic about that either.

The simple truth of the matter is that it is notoriously difficult to express the mysteries of God in words.

Nevertheless, the Scriptures teach that Yeshua was an agent of God.

When he said, “My father and I are the same”…

Or, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.”

These are statements of unity and purpose…

NOT biology.

Ya feel me?

One way to look at is like this:

If you have seen the perfect implementation of a plan by Yeshua given to Him by His Father…

Then you have also been witness to the mastermind behind that plan.

So in that sense, if you have seen Yeshua, you have seen the Father.

I’d just break it down to this:

Father= The grand Author of the salvation plan for mankind

Holy Spirit = The enabler and messenger of the divine plan

Son = The implementer of the divine plan

Finally, here is an interesting historical fact for you to contemplate.

During the 300 years following Yeshua’s crucifixion, the early church did NOT have a trinity doctrine.

It was not until the church was Romanized and taken over by Gentiles in the 4th century did this teaching come into being.

The first written record of this concept was formulated in what we know today to be the Athanasian Creed:

“…we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity… for there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one… they are not three gods, but one God… the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal… he therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity…”

This is just another example of those teachings that have caused a serious rift between Jews and Christians.

If the Jewish people ever abandons its national creed of…

“Here, O Israel, the Lord Our God, the Lord Is One”…

It’s gonna be a dark day for Israel and collective mankind as a whole.

Why?

Because that’s the fundamental truth that undergirds the whole universe.

© Richoka