The Evil Function of The Doctrine of The Trinity – Part 2

 [Study Aired May 31, 2026]

We concluded our last study with the statement that God intended Adam to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and that He had prepared Christ as His sacrifice for the sins of the world “before the world began.”

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Tit 1:2  In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

This twice repeated statement that our salvation was “promised… in Christ Jesus before the world began”, demonstrates that the Lord really is “working all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph 1:11).

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

In this study we will give many verses which establish this Biblical doctrine and we will also demonstrate that the Hebrew does not say that God created man in His image. Rather, it actually tells us that He is in the process of “making man in His image and after His likeness”.

Here are the scriptures for this statement:

Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Tit 1:2  In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

1Pe 1:19  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pe 1:20  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Please take the time to read ‘After The Counsel of His Own Will’ to see how God really worked out the events in the garden of Eden as well as all events of all time. God’s dealings with Adam were no different than they were with Pharaoh or you or me. They are “all… after the counsel of HIS OWN will” (Eph 1:11):

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/after-the-counsel-of-his-own-will/

Like Adam we make many ‘choices’ every day, but to say that these choices are ‘free’ from the influences of God is to say that Joseph’s brothers decided “of their own free will” to sell Joseph into slavery. There is no denying that they decided to make that choice, but was that choice free from the influence of God? Not according to Joseph:

Gen 50:20  But as for you [Joseph’s brothers], ye thought evil against me; but God meant it [their evil thoughts and choices] unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

This verse explains the reason “God meant” for Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. “God meant” for Adam to become aware of the fact that he was created in a form [naked and out of the ground] that needed a Savior. The twin false doctrines of ‘free will’ and ‘the fall of man’ both deny the scriptural fact that Adam was “made [by God] subject to vanity, not willingly [not by choice], but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope [‘After the counsel of His own will’].”

This brings us to the crux of William Law’s misunderstanding about “the image of God.” What Mr. Law and the entirety of Christendom have missed is the fact that nothing in the old covenant is the fullness of Truth. Everything in the ‘law,’ the first five books of the Bible, and the prophets was mere ‘shadow.’ A ‘shadow’ by definition is something that is blocking the light. No, indeed, a shadow is in reality the lack of light.

Allow Christ to demonstrate the Truth of this principle. He has just fed 5000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fishes. When the people follow Christ across the sea in hopes of another free meal, Christ tells them that that is really all they are after. In response the people, or one of their representatives, quotes word for word Exodus 16:4.

Exo 16:4  Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

Now let’s read John and see if the people were telling the truth about what that scripture said:

Joh 6:31  Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

What is Christ’s response to having His own words thrown back at Him?  Pay close attention, as they are very instructive if you want to understand the function of the old covenant. Here is Christ’s incredible response:

Joh 6:32  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

Christ appears, to the natural man, to have flatly contradicted His own words in ‘the law:’

Exo 16:4  Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you;

How could He possibly do this? Here is how, and here is why.

Heb 10:1  (a) For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things…

Everything in ‘the law’ was a mere shadow of the Truth. That ‘Truth,’ that ‘true bread,’ those “good things to come,” were one and all Christ! Everything else was something that blocked the true light. The manna was not the “true bread.” It was a shadow of the true. Now we can understand the depth of this statement:

Joh 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

So when God says in ‘the law’ that He is “creating man in His own image,” what He is really saying is that thus far He has created a mere shadow of the true image of God. Because only mankind is being created into the image of Him who created him, Adam himself is called “the son of God.”

Luk 3:38  Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Paul reveals to us that Adam was nothing more than a type of the true ‘Son of God.’:

1Co 15:43  It is sown [God is the ‘sower’] in dishonour [naked and of the ground]; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul [a ‘living soul,’ is a ‘body of this death]; the last Adam [the true ‘Son of God’] was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual [and eternal], but that which is natural [and dying]; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

The false doctrine of ‘the fall’ is based upon the serpent’s lie, “You shall not surely die.” It was the serpent who told Adam that he was created perfect and in no need of a Savior. The Truth of the scriptures is:

Psa 51:5  Behold, I was shapen [by the hand of the creator] in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

David understood that it is God who creates evil:

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

These scriptures are not for the “carnal [Christian] babes” of I Corinthians 3:1-4. This is meaty Truth, but it is the Truth.

Rom 8:20  For the creature was made [right from the hand of the Creator] subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Here is how man was made:  1) of dust and 2) naked. What is God telling us when He reveals these details to us?

Here is what that means:

1) Dust:

Gen 2:7  And the LORD God formed man of  the dust of the ground,

1Co 15:47  The first man is of the earth, [dust] earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

1 Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

There it is. That verse equates ‘flesh’ with ‘corruption.’  The Lord God “formed man of the [corruptible] dust of the ground.”

Psa 51:5  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

2) Naked:

Nakedness is used in scripture to signify the sin into which man was made.

Gen 2:25  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and [just like Laodicea] were not ashamed.

Rev. 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Rev 16:15  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Rev 17:16  And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Nakedness in the scriptures is equated with our sinful, ‘made of clay’, composition:

Rev 3:18  I counsel thee [the church at Laodicea] to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Laodicea’s nakedness is in sharp contrast with the robes of  “white linen… which is the righteousness of the saints.”

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Adam was not created by God dressed in white linen. It was God Himself who brought Adam and Eve into this world ‘naked.’

If you want a thorough understanding of this subject, read the law and the offerings as revealed in Leviticus:

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/the-law-offerings_introduction/

God reveals in these offerings how He wants us to view the sacrifice of Christ. That is why we are told that God gave Israel both a ‘sin offering’ for what man IS right from the hand of his Creator, before he ever does anything good or sinful. Then, besides the ‘sin offering’ for what we ARE, Israel was also given a ‘transgression offering’ for what we DO.

In ‘the [shadowy] law’, the Lord told Israel that if a man has a field and digs a pit in that field, that the owner of the field is responsible for any harm that befalls the beast of his neighbor that might accidently fall into that pit. This is merely a shadow of the fact that Christ tells us that it is God who owns ‘the field,’ (“the field is the world” Mat 13:38). This shadowy law of Moses reveals the fact that God assumes responsibility for everything that happens in His ‘field’ and that before he ever created man, he had made provision for all the sins that he knew were yet to be committed. That ‘provision’ was Christ’s sacrifice of His life on the cross. God knowing all of this in advance is revealed when we are told that Christ was “slain from the foundation of the world.”

This false doctrine of ‘the fall’ has the whole Christian world wanting to ‘go back’ to the nakedness of Eden. William Law’s doctrine has the whole world deceived into believing that Adam was originally immortal and above sin and that we cannot lose that immortality even if we must burn in hell for all eternity with no purpose or goal in view other than the continued suffering of most of mankind for all eternity. Christendom tells us that we must “love our enemies,” yet God Himself will hate and torment our loved ones in an ever-burning hell forever.

God is not ‘going back’ to anything. He never intended to ‘go back.’ He is right on schedule with plan A. Here is plan A, and it has no room for ‘the fall of man’:

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

1Ti 2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

1Ti 4:10  For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially [Not exclusively] of those that believe.

1Jn 2:2  And he is [not could be but “is”] the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

God did not say “In the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. Here is what He did say:

Gen 2:17 Yet from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you are not to be eating from it, for in the day you eat from it, to die shall you be dying” (CLV).

Adam was “dying” before he ever ate of that tree. That is why he ate of the tree. He ate because he was weak. He was weak because he was of the earth. He was of the earth because God made him that way (Psa 51:5).

Here is what John has to say of all the things that we experience in this world:

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

All sins ever committed are included within these three classes of sin:  1) The lust of the flesh, 2) the lust of the eyes and 3) the pride of life.

Now notice what this ‘shadow’ of the ‘image of God’ did before she ever touched the forbidden fruit:

Gen 3:6  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food [the lust of the flesh], and that it was pleasant to the eyes [the lust of the eyes], and a tree to be desired to make one wise [the pride of life], she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 3:7  And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Eve, and Adam through Eve, committed every sin mentioned in 1 John 2:16 before she ever touched the tree that would open her eyes to see that she had been created in a sinful naked condition. Mr. Law simply was not given eyes to see this plain Biblical Truth.

This entire experience is nothing but an old covenant type and shadow of “the law… bringing us to Christ.”

Rom 7:7  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

God intended for the “first man Adam” to come to see that he had been “shapen in iniquity.” The law of Moses accomplishes that task, and the law of Moses was typified in the garden by the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil.’

For an in- depth study of this subject, read ‘The Law of Moses Versus The Law of The Spirit’:

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/the-law-of-moses-versus-the-spirit/

To give a direct answer to your question: “Have you ever considered William Law’s understanding of the Trinity,” the answer is, Yes, I have. The false doctrine of the trinity is based upon the false doctrine of the ‘fall of man.’

Here are Mr. Law’s own words: “Nothing can so fully, and justly show us the true nature of our Fall, as the nature and manner of our Redemption. These things have such a necessary correspondence, as cannot be denied, but by a mind utterly indisposed to receive conviction.”

Now with that statement before us, let’s go to what the scriptures actually say about what happened to Adam:

Jer 18:4  And the vessel that he [Christ, Joh 1:1-2) made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made [Hebrew, is making] it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly [“Not” by his own fabled ‘free will’], but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

…And about the Godhead:

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father [not ‘One God the trinity], of whom are all things, and we in him; and [besides God there is also “the beginning of His creation” (Rev. 3:17)] one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Go back and reread that trinity paper. Critique it for me using the scriptures. I welcome such input.

You say this below:

 “I just want to add something here – I believe, if I am not mistaken, that you say that Christ is the Holy Spirit. But is this necessarily the case, though. It is true that Christ equates the coming of the Holy Spirit, with His coming to them; but does this mean He is the Holy Spirit? Is it not merely the case that as the Holy Spirit can only proceed from Christ (and the Father, I know!) that He (the Holy Spirit) can only come to them when Christ comes to them? This seems right to me.” (End Quote)

No, I do not teach that the holy spirit is Christ. I agree with you insofar as God’s (the Father’s) spirit is not really Christ. When Christ was revealing the coming of the ‘parakleetos’, “the comforter which is the Holy Spirit” (Joh 14:26), He said “the Father will take of mine and give to you.” Then He goes to all the trouble to explain what He means by “take of Mine…” “Because all the Father has [He is speaking specifically of this ‘parakleetos’, this ‘comforter’] He has given to Me [Did the Father give Christ another third of the Godhead?], therefore I said that He will take of mine and give to you.”

This “gift” under  discussion by our Lord is the Holy Spirit. It is not a personality but the very makeup of God the Father:

Joh 4:24  God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth

We will pause our study at this point, and we will discuss what God is composed of as we continue to reveal this apostate, false doctrine of a Godhead composed of three separate and equal persons.