The Deception of Saying "A Three-in-One God"
One of the worst deceptions on the subject of the Trinity, and perhaps the very worst, is the way that some Christians claim that the Trinity actually refers to One God. Some Christians, uneasy at the Trinity being compared to a pagan belief, maintain that the three components refer to a single god. They themselves do not generally understand this very well, and they are basically describing a belief in three gods.
Some Trinitarians claim that the three elements unite in a single body, that the three elements are therefore God. Some say that the Father is the greatest and that the others come from Him. Others speak of a division of labor between the three gods, while still others say that the Son came from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Son. There are many other such ideas regarding the Trinity. However, they all claim that the doctrine of the Trinity that they describe so confusingly actually refers to One God. If they really believe in the One God, that is of course an excellent thing, but the descriptions in question are totally wrong.
The entire Gospel tells Christians of the Oneness of God. This is very important. The Gospel contains many passages that speak of the Oneness of God and commanding people to serve the One God and all these passages are quite explicit. Similarly, in the same way that the term Trinity appears nowhere in the Gospel, it also contains no passages that could be used to support such an idea. The passages proposed as evidence are all interpreted in a forced manner, passages to which the "son of God" and the "Holy Spirit" have been added in parentheses or passages deliberately distorted so as to bear an entirely different meaning, such as the Trinity. The One God is explicitly present in the Gospel, while a tripartite deity appears nowhere in it.
Supporters of the Trinity say that the three components they have fabricated, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, are both three separate entities and also the same entity. But they have never been able to explain how the three can be both three and one. They have always been aware of this inconsistency. In the same way, they have never been able to explain how the tripartite god assumes different functions, how if creation supposedly belongs to the Father whether the other two also possess this property, or how a single Divine entity, that was not born and is unfettered by time and space, turned into different entities in time and space. And it is impossible for them ever to explain it.
If, according to Trinitarians' claims, the three deities are equal in all regards – an idea that most Christians who believe in the concept of the Trinity espouse – then in their eyes it should be enough to worship just one of them in their rituals. But Trinitarians believe the three have to be worshiped at once. This shows that the Trinity is essentially no different to pagan religions with three deities.
The idea of the oneness of three deities is extraordinarily illogical. How can God, He Who has the power to do all things, the Lord of all, He Who creates them all from nothing, need to manifest Himself as three separate entities? (Surely God is beyond that.) Moreover, the proponents of the Trinity who claim to believe in a single deity do not fully comprehend the "absolute Oneness of God" that represents the basis of the monotheistic faith of Muslims and Jew. In monotheistic belief, God is absolutely One alone, and He has no equal or equivalent. Nothing can be His equal and nothing is like Him. That is the Oneness of God. The Trinity is therefore absolutely not a monotheistic belief. Those who claim to believe in both the Trinity and the One God are either mistaken, or lying.
The nave of St. Peter's Basilica
The Presence of God, Who sees and knows all, is a blessing. The Presence of God, Who is with us at all times and answers our prayers, is a great blessing. The confusion of the Trinity deprives Christians of this great blessing. That is one of the reasons why this belief is so dangerous.
The Presence of God, Who sees and knows all, is a blessing. The Presence of God, Who is with us at all times and answers our prayers, is a great blessing. The confusion of the Trinity deprives Christians of this great blessing. That is one of the reasons why this belief is so dangerous.
The real question, however, is why there is the need for such confusion. Why, in the face of the peace of mind, ease, comfort and happiness that come from believing in the One God, do some people feel the need for totally inconsistent and contradictory accounts? Believing directly in the One and Only God and turning to Him alone is far better than believing in all this confusion. The existence of One God Who sees and knows all is a great blessing. The existence of our Almighty Lord Who is with us at every moment, Who hears our prayers, Who knows and responds to even our most secret thoughts and Who keeps all things under His control is a huge blessing. Those of our Christian brothers who are swamped in the confusion of the Trinity need to be aware of the beauty of this monotheistic faith. If they knew the beauty of being so close to God, they would realize that with the Trinity they have turned away from their Creator. Knowing the omnipotence of God, believing in Him as the One and Only and properly appreciating His might is the greatest of all happiness.
Say: "I am only a warner. There is no god except God, the One, the All-Conquering, Lord of the heavens and the Earth and everything between them, the Almighty, the Endlessly Forgiving." (Koran, 38:65-66)
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