Why I Reject the Trinity Part: 6Mark 13:32 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son but only the Father."
John 5:19 "Jesus gave them this answer: I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does."
John 14:28 "You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."
John 17:20-23 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
John 20:17 "Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Acts 7:55-56 "But he (Stephen), being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God."
Colossians 1:15 "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation."
1Corinthians 15:24-28 "Then the end will come, when he (Jesus) hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For he "has put everything under his feet." Now when it says that "everything" has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all."
John 17:3 "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
1Corinthians 8:5-6 "For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live."
1Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"
Mark 12:29 “And Jesus answered him, the first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord.”
James 1:13 “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.”
Mathew 4:1 “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.”
Hebrews 2:18 “For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.”
There are verses that really sound like Jesus is God and there are verses that really sound like he is not. I understand most Trinitarians would complete mental gymnastics around some of these verses in order to make them fit. My primary reason for rejecting Trinity is its’ conflict with the gospel. My second is that I don’t believe scripture requires the Trinity.
The Trinity doctrine is one that tries to marry a human/divine Jesus by creating an illogical conundrum. Jesus is both completely God and completely man at the same time. If the doctrine is challenged as nonsensical it’s then explained as a mystery of God only discernable by the spirit. I understand that until we leave these bodies we will never fully grasp God. But I believe there is a harmonious alternative to the Trinity.
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