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Showing posts with label Trinity Contradictions. Show all posts
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Monday, 14 September 2026

Quick Facts: Does the Trinity Contradict Deuteronomy 4:35?

 Quick Facts study of Deuteronomy 4:35 asking whether the Trinity contradicts Yahweh's declaration that there is no one else besides Him.

Quick Facts Bible study examining Deuteronomy 4:35 and its declaration that Yahweh is God and there is no one else besides Him, compared with the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.

QUICK FACTS: DOES THE TRINITY CONTRADICT DEUTERONOMY 4:35?

“Yahweh Is God. There Is No One Else Besides Him.”

One of the clearest declarations about God in the Old Testament is found in Deuteronomy 4:35:

“To you it was shown, that you might know that Yahweh, he is God. There is no one else besides him.”

Deuteronomy 4:35 — World English Bible

This statement raises an important question for Christians:

Who is the ONE God whom Moses identifies here?

Does Moses describe God as three coequal Persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

Or does Scripture consistently identify the One God as Yahweh, whom Jesus later identifies as his Father?

Let us examine the evidence.


QUICK FACT 1 — DEUTERONOMY 4:35 USES SINGULAR LANGUAGE

Nine Quick Facts examining Deuteronomy 4:35, Yahweh as the One God, Jesus as the Son of God, and the biblical question this leaves for the Trinity.

Quick Facts infographic examining nine biblical points from Deuteronomy 4:35, Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29–34, John 17:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6 and John 20:31, asking whether Scripture's identification of Yahweh as the One God supports the later doctrine of the Trinity.

Notice carefully what the verse says:

“Yahweh, HE is God.”

And then:

“There is no one else besides HIM.”

The language is strikingly singular.

The verse does not say:

“They are God.”

It does not say:

“There is no one else besides them.”

Instead, Yahweh is spoken of as HE and HIM.

This does not by itself settle every later theological question about the nature of God. Trinitarians also affirm that there is only one God.

But it does establish something extremely important:

The God proclaimed to Israel is presented as one Yahweh, and no other God exists beside Him.

That should be the starting point for any Christian doctrine of God.


QUICK FACT 2 — THIS WAS NOT AN ISOLATED STATEMENT

Only a few verses later Moses declares:

“Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other.”

Deuteronomy 4:39

Again the message is unmistakable:

YAHWEH IS GOD.

THERE IS NO OTHER.

This same truth continues throughout Scripture.

Isaiah records Yahweh saying:

“I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God.”

Isaiah 45:5

And again:

“There is no God besides me.”

Isaiah 44:8

The Old Testament repeatedly presents Yahweh as the one and only God.


QUICK FACT 3 — DEUTERONOMY 6:4 CONTINUES THE SAME TEACHING

Two chapters later we find perhaps the most famous declaration of biblical monotheism:

“Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.”

Deuteronomy 6:4

This became known as the Shema.

Israel was commanded to believe in and worship the ONE God — Yahweh.

This is important because Deuteronomy 4:35 provides the context for understanding Deuteronomy 6:4.

First Moses says:

“Yahweh, HE is God. There is no one else besides HIM.”

Then Moses declares:

“Yahweh our God, Yahweh is ONE.”

These passages belong to the same biblical understanding of God.


QUICK FACT 4 — JESUS REPEATED THIS SAME FAITH

Centuries later a Jewish scribe asked Jesus:

“Which commandment is the most important of all?”

Jesus did not introduce a new definition of God.

He quoted the Shema:

“The foremost is, ‘Hear this O Israel: The Lord our God is One Lord.’”

Mark 12:29

The scribe then replied:

“Right, Teacher. You have spoken according to truth that He is One, and there is not another besides Him.”

Mark 12:32 — Berean Literal Bible

Notice the similarity with Deuteronomy 4:35.

DEUTERONOMY 4:35

“Yahweh, HE is God. There is no one else besides HIM.”

MARK 12:32

“HE is One, and there is not another besides HIM.”

And what did Jesus say about the scribe's answer?

“And Jesus, having seen him that he answered wisely, said to him, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’”

Mark 12:34

Jesus described the man's answer as wise.

That is extremely significant.

Jesus did not correct the scribe by saying that Israel's understanding of the One God now needed to be expanded into three coequal Persons.

Instead, Jesus affirmed the Jewish confession that:

HE IS ONE.

THERE IS NOT ANOTHER BESIDES HIM.


QUICK FACT 5 — JESUS IDENTIFIED HIS FATHER AS “THE ONLY TRUE GOD”

The evidence becomes even more important in John 17.

Jesus lifted his eyes toward heaven and prayed to his Father:

“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

John 17:3

Look carefully at the distinction.

Jesus identifies:

YOU — the only true God

and

JESUS CHRIST — whom YOU have sent.

Jesus is not praying to himself.

Neither does he say:

“That they may know us as the only true God.”

He addresses his Father as:

“THE ONLY TRUE GOD.”

And he distinguishes himself as:

“Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

This fits naturally with the declaration of Moses:

“Yahweh, HE is God. There is no one else besides HIM.”


QUICK FACT 6 — PAUL ALSO IDENTIFIED THE “ONE GOD”

Paul's language follows the same pattern.

He wrote:

“Yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.”

1 Corinthians 8:6

Paul does not merely say:

“There is one God.”

He identifies that One God:

“ONE GOD, THE FATHER.”

And alongside the One God, Paul identifies:

“ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST.”

The Father and Jesus are not confused with one another.

God is the Father.

Jesus is God's Son and God's appointed Messiah and Lord.

Paul similarly writes:

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

1 Timothy 2:5

Again we have:

ONE GOD

and

THE MAN CHRIST JESUS — the mediator between God and humanity.

A mediator is distinguished from the one before whom he mediates.


QUICK FACT 7 — WHAT DOES THE TRINITY ACTUALLY CLAIM?

To examine this question fairly, we should represent Trinitarian doctrine accurately.

Classical Christianity does not officially teach that there are three Gods.

The doctrine teaches that:

The Father is God.

The Son is God.

The Holy Spirit is God.

Yet the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons, while together constituting one divine being or essence — one God.

Therefore the real question is not:

“Do Trinitarians openly believe in three Gods?”

They do not.

The real biblical question is:

DOES SCRIPTURE ITSELF DEFINE THE ONE GOD IN THIS WAY?

Where does Moses explain that the One God consists of three coequal and coeternal Persons?

Where does Jesus redefine Israel's confession of One God in this way?

Where does Paul say:

“For us there is one God: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit”?

That is the issue this study asks the reader to investigate.


QUICK FACT 8 — “THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM”

Return now to the original statement:

“Yahweh, he is God. There is no one else besides him.”

Deuteronomy 4:35

The statement is remarkably simple.

YAHWEH IS GOD.

HE IS GOD.

THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.

Then compare Jesus:

“He is One, and there is not another besides Him.”

Mark 12:32

And compare Jesus' prayer:

“You, the only true God.”

John 17:3

And compare Paul:

“One God, the Father.”

1 Corinthians 8:6

These passages form a remarkably consistent pattern.


QUICK FACT 9 — JESUS IS NOT EXCLUDED FROM GOD'S PLAN

Saying that the Father is the One True God does not mean rejecting Jesus.

Quite the opposite.

The New Testament tells us exactly who Jesus is.

John explains why his Gospel was written:

“But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.”

John 20:31

The biblical confession is not that Jesus is unimportant.

Jesus is:

The Christ.

The Son of God.

The one sent by God.

The Lord and Messiah.

The Savior through whom God gives eternal life.

God exalted Jesus and made him Lord and Christ.

Therefore honoring Jesus as God's Son does not diminish him.

It recognizes him according to the identity Scripture gives him.


THE QUESTION DEUTERONOMY 4:35 LEAVES FOR THE TRINITY

The issue is therefore very simple.

Moses declares:

“YAHWEH, HE IS GOD.”

and:

“THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.”

Jesus affirms:

“HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NOT ANOTHER BESIDES HIM.”

Jesus calls his Father:

“THE ONLY TRUE GOD.”

Paul declares:

“THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER.”

And John says that eternal life comes through believing:

“JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.”

So where does Scripture change this definition and tell us that the One God is actually three coequal, coeternal Persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

That question cannot simply be answered by quoting later creeds.

It must be answered from Scripture.


CONCLUSION

Deuteronomy 4:35 is one of the clearest declarations about God anywhere in the Bible:

“YAHWEH IS GOD. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.”

The same monotheistic confession continues through Deuteronomy 6:4, the prophets, the teaching of Jesus and the writings of Paul.

Jesus affirmed that God is One.

Jesus called his Father “the only true God.”

Paul identified the “one God” as “the Father.”

And the New Testament identifies Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, whom the Father sent.

Therefore every Christian should ask:

DOES THE LATER DOCTRINE OF ONE GOD IN THREE COEQUAL PERSONS FIT THE WAY MOSES, JESUS AND THE APOSTLES ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED GOD?

Do not accept this article merely because I wrote it.

Do not reject the Trinity merely because someone tells you to.

Open the Bible.

Read the passages in context.

Test the doctrine for yourself.

As Scripture says:

“Test all things. Hold fast that which is good.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21

And never forget the words that began this investigation:

“YAHWEH, HE IS GOD. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.”

Deuteronomy 4:35


Research by Simon Brown

wwwrealdiscoveriesorg-simon.blogspot.com

Sunday, 23 August 2026

Quick Facts: Revelation TV – Testing the Trinity Against the Word of God

Quick Facts Revelation TV Bible study testing the Trinity doctrine against Scripture and examining whether the Bible teaches that the one God is three persons.

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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Thursday, 13 August 2026

38 Trinity Contradictions — Comparing the Trinity Claim With the Word of God.

38 Trinity Contradictions biblical investigation comparing traditional Trinitarian claims with the Word of God and the teachings of Jesus.

A detailed introductory poster for Simon Brown’s study, 38 Trinity Contradictions. The series compares what traditional Trinitarian doctrine teaches about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit with key passages of Scripture concerning the one God, His Son Jesus Christ and the biblical identity of God.

QUICK FACTS: 38 TRINITY CONTRADICTIONS

PART ONE — WHO IS THE ONE TRUE GOD?

Research by Simon Brown

The doctrine of the Trinity traditionally teaches that there is one God in three distinct persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—and that the three are coequal and coeternal. That is a fair description of historic Trinitarian belief, not something invented for this article. (Orthodox Church in America)

In this series, we are going to do something very simple:

THE TRINITY CLAIM

versus

THE WORD OF GOD

For each point, we will ask:

What does Trinitarian doctrine teach?

What does Scripture actually say?

And do the two teachings agree—or contradict one another?

These are the first five of the 38 Trinity Contradictions in my original study.


TRINITY CONTRADICTION NO. 1

GOD SAYS THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BESIDES HIM

WHAT THE TRINITY TEACHES

Traditional Trinitarian doctrine teaches that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons, while each is fully divine and together they are the one God. (Orthodox Church in America)

WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

Throughout Scripture, Yahweh repeatedly speaks of Himself using unmistakably singular language:

“Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

— Isaiah 37:20

Again:

“I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no God.”

— Isaiah 45:5

And:

“Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me.”

— Isaiah 46:9

And perhaps most strikingly:

“See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god with me.”

— Deuteronomy 32:39

This same pattern appears repeatedly throughout Isaiah and the other prophets in the passages collected in my original study.

WHERE IS THE CONTRADICTION?

God does not say:

“We are God, and there is nobody besides Us.”

Instead, the biblical language repeatedly says:

I AM GOD

BESIDES ME THERE IS NO GOD

THERE IS NO GOD WITH ME

The question for the Trinitarian interpretation is therefore:

If the one God consists of three distinct coequal divine persons, why does God repeatedly identify Himself using this strongly singular “I” and “Me” language?

These passages are foundational to the biblical understanding of God and deserve to be allowed to speak for themselves.


TRINITY CONTRADICTION NO. 2

GOD IS ONE — THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT

WHAT THE TRINITY TEACHES

Trinitarian theology agrees that there is only one God, but defines that one God as existing in three distinct divine persons. (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

God gave Israel this fundamental commandment:

“Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.”

— Deuteronomy 6:4

Centuries later, Jesus was asked which commandment was foremost.

Jesus answered:

“The foremost is, ‘Hear this O Israel: The Lord our God is One Lord.’”

— Mark 12:29, BLB

Jesus therefore reaffirmed the declaration given to Israel.

GOD IS ONE.

WHERE IS THE CONTRADICTION?

The important point is not that the Hebrew word for “one” literally means “one person”—it does not by itself establish that.

The much stronger question is this:

Did Jesus ever redefine Israel's confession by saying that the one God consists of three coequal persons?

When specifically asked for the foremost commandment, Jesus simply reaffirmed:

“THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD.”

Your original article identifies this as one of the central problems with the Trinitarian interpretation.

If believing that God is three persons were essential to understanding God's identity, why did Jesus not say so when explicitly stating the foremost commandment concerning God?

That is a serious question.


TRINITY CONTRADICTION NO. 3

PAUL SAYS: “ONE GOD, THE FATHER”

WHAT THE TRINITY TEACHES

Traditional Trinitarian Christianity identifies the Father as God, the Son as God, and the Holy Spirit as God, while maintaining that there are not three Gods but one God. (RCA)

WHAT PAUL TEACHES

Paul writes:

“Yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ…”

— 1 Corinthians 8:6, BLB

Look carefully at Paul's identification:

ONE GOD — THE FATHER

Then Paul distinguishes Jesus:

ONE LORD — JESUS CHRIST

Paul makes another remarkable distinction:

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

— 1 Timothy 2:5, BLB

Again we have two clearly distinguished parties:

ONE GOD

and

THE MAN CHRIST JESUS — THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND HUMANITY

Paul also writes:

“…God is one.”

— Galatians 3:20, BLB

These were central passages in Contradiction No. 3 of my original study.

WHERE IS THE CONTRADICTION?

If Paul believed that the one God should be identified equally as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, why does he instead write:

“ONE GOD, THE FATHER”?

And if Jesus is Himself that same one God, why does Paul distinguish:

the one God

from

the mediator between God and humanity, Christ Jesus?

Paul certainly gives Jesus an extraordinarily exalted position.

But his wording still distinguishes God from Jesus Christ.

That distinction should not be ignored.


TRINITY CONTRADICTION NO. 4

JESUS IS THE WAY TO GOD

WHAT THE TRINITY TEACHES

The Trinity teaches that Jesus is fully divine and shares the same divine being as the Father.

WHAT JESUS TEACHES

Jesus said:

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, if not by Me.”

— John 14:6, BLB

Notice the direction Jesus gives us:

THROUGH JESUS → TO THE FATHER

Jesus does not present Himself as the final person to whom He is bringing us.

He presents Himself as the way through whom we come to the Father.

This was the argument presented in Contradiction No. 4 of my original article.

WHERE IS THE CONTRADICTION?

If Jesus is Himself the same one true God to whom humanity is being reconciled, why does He consistently present Himself as the way to the Father?

This fits perfectly with Paul's words:

ONE GOD

and

ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN

The mediator is:

“THE MAN CHRIST JESUS.”

— 1 Timothy 2:5

The biblical picture therefore presents Jesus as our unique mediator and way to God.


TRINITY CONTRADICTION NO. 5

JESUS CALLED HIMSELF “A MAN”

WHAT THE TRINITY TEACHES

Historic Trinitarian Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man. The Athanasian Creed explicitly describes Christ as God and man, so we must represent the Trinitarian position accurately here. (RCA)

Therefore, the fact that Jesus is called a man does not, by itself, refute Trinitarian doctrine.

But there is something else in Jesus' statement that deserves attention.

WHAT JESUS ACTUALLY SAID

Jesus told His opponents:

“But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has spoken to you the truth that I heard from God.”

— John 8:40, BLB

Notice the complete statement.

Jesus identifies Himself as:

“A MAN”

and then says that the truth He proclaimed was something:

“I HEARD FROM GOD.”

Your original article specifically contrasts Jesus' description of Himself as a man with the Trinitarian identification of Jesus as God.

WHERE IS THE CONTRADICTION?

The strongest question is not simply:

“Why is Jesus called a man?”

Trinitarians already believe Jesus became genuinely human.

The more important question is:

Why does Jesus distinguish Himself from God in the very same sentence?

He says:

“ME, A MAN”

who heard:

“FROM GOD.”

The natural reading presents the man Jesus receiving truth from God.

So we must ask:

Who is the God from whom Jesus heard this truth?

And why does Jesus speak of God as someone distinct from Himself?


PART ONE — CONCLUSION

We have examined only the first five of the 38 claimed Trinity contradictions, but already a consistent biblical pattern begins to emerge.

God says:

“BESIDES ME, THERE IS NO GOD.”

Jesus says:

“THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD.”

Paul says:

“ONE GOD, THE FATHER.”

Jesus says we come:

TO THE FATHER THROUGH HIM.

And Jesus describes Himself as:

“A MAN” WHO HEARD THE TRUTH “FROM GOD.”

The purpose of this series is not to tell you what you must believe.

It is to put the Trinity claim beside the Word of God and allow you to examine the evidence.

Ask yourself:

Do these statements naturally teach one God who is three coequal persons?

Or do they consistently distinguish the one God, the Father, from His Son and Messiah, Jesus Christ?

Jesus Himself prayed:

“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You sent.”

— John 17:3, BLB

There are still 33 claimed contradictions to examine.

And some of the strongest are yet to come.