So a handful of 19th century born cults got it right, and 1800 years of universal Christian core doctrine got it wrong.
Call the trinity doctrine what you like but it doesn't prove a thing. The doctrine was invented in the fourth century and is still controversial today and for GOOD reasons, it's a concept invented by man. Jesus' own words DEBUNKS the trinity! I do believe Jesus is God but see the trinity as a poor way to describe Him or Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
I believe God is greater than Jesus. Everything that Jesus is, God is, but God is yet more.
John 13:16
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John 14:28
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Why isn't "the Holy Spirit" found in John's description of God's Throne? The Holy Spirit emanates from God through
the seven Spirits of God which I believe are the seven hierarchies of angels and the powers available to them. The Holy Spirits presence usually comes through the presence of angels, Jesus or God Himself. And Jesus is usually with angels anyway. God, the Seven Spirits, Jesus, they all have the same mind but they don't have all the same power and knowledge as that emanates from, and can only be attributed to, God Almighty.
I've found over the years that the simplest most logical explanation is usually the correct one. This is my simple explanation.
I don't see Jesus as being ALL knowing.
Mat 24:36,
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
I question the trinity as it is taught because of the trinitarian mis-translation of Mat 28:18.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
This verse appears to imply that Jesus is all powerful but it does not. When the word all is used WITHOUT the article it means, "every kind or every variety!" What Jesus is saying is that every kind of power in heaven is available to him. I say those powers come from God through the seven Spirits of God. If someone were to ask me who is the Holy Spirit I would say He is the Seven Spirits of God which emanates from the throne of God. Trinitarian's tell us that the Holy Spirit is a separate person than Jesus and God. If that's the case, why doesn't
he have a name, and why isn't
he found in or around God's Throne?
Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Think about it.
The word all is probably the most often misunderstood and mistranslated word in the bible. I don't think God has always been understood as though He has just ONE power but as One who has many powers. His power and authority is ministered through the seven Spirits of God. To me that's the most logical explanation.
The language and grammar.
Vines says...
All:
radically means "all." Used without the article it means "every," every kind or variety.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/...gs=G3956&t=KJV-click on Vines entry-
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
I've never been able to grasp why or how the Holy Spirit could be ONE separate unnamed person. I have never found the trinity doctrine as being sound. I've never left my Catholic roots and attend all or, "every kind" of churches. But I do believe that Jesus is God in that he is everything that God is. But God is simply, "yet more!"
