A detailed Bible research infographic testing Revelation TV’s Trinitarian statement of faith against Scripture. It examines Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29, John 17:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6, John 10:36 and other passages concerning the one God, the Father, and Jesus Christ His Son.QUICK FACTS: REVELATION TV
TESTING THE TRINITY AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD
The Bible gives Christians a very important instruction:
1 John 4:1 — Berean Literal Bible
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
Christians therefore should not accept a doctrine merely because it is taught by a pastor, television preacher, denomination, church council—or even because millions of Christians believe it.
EVERY TEACHING MUST BE TESTED AGAINST SCRIPTURE.
That includes the teachings presented on Revelation TV.
Their published statement of faith says:
“There is only one God, the living and true God. Three persons are in the one God—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.”
It also teaches that Jesus is the “eternal son of God” who became man.
But here is the question:
DOES THE BIBLE ITSELF DEFINE THE ONE GOD AS THREE PERSONS?
Rather than beginning with a theological creed, let's begin with Scripture.
1. HOW MANY IS GOD?
Moses declared:
Deuteronomy 6:4
“Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.”
And Deuteronomy gives us an even more explicit statement:
Deuteronomy 4:35
“Yahweh, He is God; there is no other besides Him.”
Notice the language:
HE
and:
HIM.
The passage does not say:
“Yahweh, They are God.”
Nor does it say:
“There are three persons in Yahweh.”
It presents Yahweh as the one God of Israel.
2. JESUS CONFIRMED THE SAME CREED
Thousands of years later, Jesus was asked:
“Which commandment is the first of all?”
Jesus answered:
Mark 12:29 — Berean Literal Bible
“The foremost is, ‘Hear this, O Israel: The Lord our God is One Lord.’”
Jesus did not replace Israel's belief in one God with a new definition of God as three persons.
He reaffirmed it.
And the scribe replied:
Mark 12:32
“Right, Teacher. You have spoken according to truth that He is One, and there is not another besides Him.”
Jesus approved his answer.
That deserves serious consideration.
3. WHO DID JESUS CALL “THE ONLY TRUE GOD”?
Now consider one of Jesus' clearest statements.
Jesus prayed to His Father:
John 17:3 — Berean Literal Bible
“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
Look carefully at the distinction.
Jesus identifies:
THE FATHER
as:
“THE ONLY TRUE GOD”
and then identifies Himself as:
“JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT.”
There are clearly two subjects in the sentence:
1. The only true God
and:
2. Jesus Christ whom that God sent.
So we should ask:
WHERE DOES JESUS SAY THAT HE AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE ALSO PERSONS WITHIN “THE ONLY TRUE GOD”?
John 17:3 does not say this.
4. PAUL GIVES THE SAME DEFINITION
Paul writes:
1 Corinthians 8:6 — Berean Literal Bible
“Yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we through Him.”
Again:
ONE GOD — THE FATHER
and:
ONE LORD — JESUS CHRIST.
Paul distinguishes Jesus from the one God whom he identifies as the Father.
This agrees perfectly with Jesus' words in John 17:3.
5. WHAT DID JESUS SAY HE WAS?
Jesus never said:
“I AM GOD THE SON.”
But He did say:
John 10:36 — Berean Literal Bible
“I said, ‘I am Son of God’?”
That is Jesus' own identification.
Jesus is:
THE SON OF GOD.
And Peter gives the confession upon which Jesus said He would build His church:
Matthew 16:16
“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus did not correct Peter and say:
“No, Peter. You must believe that I am God the Son.”
Instead, Jesus called Peter blessed.
6. JESUS IS ALSO CALLED A MAN
Jesus Himself said:
John 8:40 — Berean Literal Bible
“But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has spoken to you the truth that I heard from God.”
Notice both parts:
Jesus = “a man”
who:
heard the truth FROM GOD.
Peter similarly preached:
Acts 2:22
“Jesus the Nazarene, a man having been demonstrated by God to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in your midst…”
And Paul writes:
1 Timothy 2:5 — Berean Literal Bible
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
Again there are two:
ONE GOD
and:
THE MAN CHRIST JESUS
who mediates between God and mankind.
7. DID GOD DIE ON THE CROSS?
Revelation TV's statement of faith does not literally say simply “God died”; rather, it teaches that the eternal Son is God and man and that Christ offered Himself as the sacrifice.
That raises an important theological question.
Scripture says:
1 Timothy 6:16
God “alone having immortality.”
The word immortality means not subject to death.
Yet Jesus:
DIED.
And Scripture repeatedly says:
GOD RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD.
Acts 2:24
“Whom God raised up, having loosed the agony of death…”
So ask the simple question:
If Jesus is literally the immortal God Himself, who died—and who raised Him?
The apostolic preaching consistently distinguishes:
GOD WHO RAISED
from:
JESUS WHO WAS RAISED.
8. JESUS HAS A GOD
After His resurrection Jesus told Mary:
John 20:17 — Berean Literal Bible
“I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.”
Even the resurrected Jesus says:
“MY GOD.”
Revelation records the glorified Jesus saying the same thing repeatedly:
Revelation 3:12
“MY GOD”
four times.
So here is another question worth asking:
IF JESUS HAS A GOD, HOW CAN JESUS BE THAT SAME GOD?
This cannot simply be dismissed.
It deserves a biblical answer.
9. WHERE DOES THE BIBLE SAY “GOD IS THREE PERSONS”?
This is perhaps the simplest question of all.
Search from:
Genesis
through:
Revelation.
Where does Scripture actually say:
“GOD IS THREE PERSONS”?
Where does Jesus teach:
“THE ONE GOD CONSISTS OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT”?
Where does Paul say:
“THE ONE GOD IS THREE CO-EQUAL, CO-ETERNAL PERSONS”?
Those formulations appear in later Christian theology.
But the question for anyone claiming Sola Scriptura must be:
WHERE ARE THEY ACTUALLY TAUGHT IN SCRIPTURE?
10. THE FATHER AND SON MUST NOT BE CONFUSED
John writes:
1 John 2:22–23 — Berean Literal Bible
“Who is the liar, except the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son. Everyone denying the Son does not have the Father. The one confessing the Son has the Father also.”
Notice John's language:
THE FATHER
and:
THE SON.
God sent His Son.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…”
The giver is God.
The one given is His Son.
The biblical message is beautiful precisely because:
GOD LOVED US SO MUCH THAT HE GAVE HIS SON.
QUESTIONS FOR REVELATION TV
Rather than attacking individuals, these are the questions I believe every Trinitarian teacher should be willing to answer directly from Scripture:
Where does the Bible explicitly say God is three persons?
Where does Jesus explicitly call Himself the one true God?
Why does Jesus instead call His Father “the only true God”?
Why does Paul say “one God, the Father”?
Why does Jesus call Himself “a man”?
Why does Paul call Him “the man Christ Jesus”?
Why does the resurrected Jesus still have “My God”?
Where does Jesus say salvation requires believing that He is God Almighty?
Why does Scripture repeatedly say God raised Jesus from the dead?
And perhaps most importantly:
WHY SHOULD WE DEFINE GOD USING WORDS THAT JESUS HIMSELF NEVER USED?
QUICK FACT CONCLUSION
Revelation TV professes belief in one God consisting of three persons and describes Jesus as the eternal Son who became man.
But Scripture repeatedly gives us a much simpler formulation:
“YAHWEH IS ONE.”
Deuteronomy 6:4
“THERE IS NOT ANOTHER BESIDES HIM.”
Mark 12:32
“YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD.”
John 17:3
“ONE GOD, THE FATHER.”
1 Corinthians 8:6
And Jesus identifies Himself as:
“THE SON OF GOD.”
John 10:36
Paul identifies Him as:
“THE MAN CHRIST JESUS.”
1 Timothy 2:5
So don't accept my conclusion simply because I say it.
And don't accept Revelation TV's conclusion simply because they say it.
TEST BOTH.
OPEN YOUR BIBLE.
EXAMINE THE SCRIPTURES.
And follow the example of the Bereans:
Acts 17:11
“EVERY DAY EXAMINING THE SCRIPTURES, WHETHER THESE THINGS WERE SO.”
That is how every Christian teaching should be tested.
Research by Simon Brown
wwwrealdiscoveriesorg-simon.blogspot.com
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