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The Evil Function of The Trinity, Part 4

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The Evil Function of The Trinity, Part 4

 [Study Aired June 14, 2026]

I closed our last study with the promise to read the question you posed about how Christ could be in all of his creatures if He were a created being. Here is your question:

I concluded that study with these two verses:

Mat 28:20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Heb 13:5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

I have no doubt that you are seeking to know what scripture teaches us concerning the Godhead. I do not think for one moment you want to argue. Therefore, I am taking the time to show you the scriptures which explain how Christ can be within me here in the United States while also being within His children in Australia and all over the globe.

I, too, “merely want to know the Truth.” Though we may not see everything alike, we will agree that we must ‘try the spirits’ but not with either my writings or Andrew Jukes’ or William Law’s writings. We ‘try the spirits’ with the Word of God and the Truth, both of which are titles given to Christ:

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh 14:7  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

I am not intending to cast Mr. Law in a bad light, but Christ’s explanation of the Holy Spirit is better than Mr. Law’s. So, we will examine what “the sum” of the scriptures themselves teach “line upon line, and precept upon precept, here a little and there a little” (Isa 28:9-13), and we will compare the scriptures with the writings of William Law:

Psa 119:160  The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever. (ASV)

Isa 28:9  Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Isa 28:10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Failing to apply these two sections of scripture to help us understand the Bible has contributed heavily to producing the over 40,000 conflicting Christian denominations. We will seek not ‘some of thy word’, but “the sum of Thy Word” concerning the Godhead and how Christ, being a created being, can still live His  life within each of us:

Let’s begin our study with a few verses in which Christ calls the holy spirit “the spirit of Truth” and He tells us that the Father has given to Him “all things”, including the spirit of Truth:

Joh 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Joh 16:14  He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Joh 16:15  All things [even God’s Spirit] that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The nine times the pronoun, ‘he’ appears in John 16:13-15, they are referring back to the ‘parakletos’, the “comforter” mentioned previously in verses 7-8:

Joh 16:7  Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter [G3875: ‘parakletos’] will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Joh 16:8  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

I don’t understand why you think that if Christ is a created being that He is therefore “[un]able to dwell in all of His creatures.” Are you saying that if Christ is truly “the beginning of the creation of God” (Rev 3:14) that therefore Christ cannot make the claim that “All things that the Father hath are mine?” Is that not the equivalent of saying ‘If Christ is a created being, then it is not possible for Him to create anything?’ It is Paul who, inspired by the holy spirit, said in 1 Corinthians 11 that “as the woman is of the man, even so is the man by the woman.” Paul is explaining “the Godhead… by the things that are made.”

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: [“The head of Christ is God”]

According to the apostle Paul, who is writing under the inspiration of the holy spirit, our relationship to Christ parallels Christ’s relationship with The Father.

1Co 11:3  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1Co 11:8  For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1Co 11:9  Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
1Co 11:12  For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

Christ is called “the everlasting Father” in:

Isa 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Finally, you paraphrase what I said about 1 Corinthians 11:

Certainly I forgive you. I simply pointed out that if there is any Truth to what Paul tells us about how to understand the Godhead by the things that are made (Rom 1:20), then there can be no truth to the trinity doctrine because Paul tells us that even now, long after Christ’s resurrection, that to understand His eternal power and Godhead, we must understand and believe that “the Head of Christ is God” just as “the head of the woman is the man”.

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 11:3  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

1Co 11:11  Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
1Co 11:12  For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

“The head of Christ is God… but all things of God” accords with Paul’s doctrine concerning the Godhead in:

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and [besides this “one God, the Father” there is also] one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

That is how the scriptures teach us to understand the Godhead. 1 Corinthians 11:12 tells us that all men come “by the woman; but all things of God.” 1 Corinthians 8:6 tells us that ‘all things are by Christ but of the Father.’

“The things that are made” which make the Godhead to be “clearly seen” are revealed to be the “head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God”. Since the Father created all things by Christ and is the head of Christ that signifies Christ as the wife of the Father.

Here Paul has two chances to explain the Godhead to us, and in neither case does he so much as hint at a third “equal but separate person of the Godhead.” Those are not scriptural words, and that certainly is not a scriptural phrase!

God the Father could never “empty Himself” of His divinity and come down into this death realm of physical existence to die for the sins of the world. However, being a created being, Christ could and did do just that:

Php 2:6  who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold.
Php 2:7  But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.
Php 2:8  And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross.
Php 2:9  Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name,
Php 2:10  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, (ACV)

Here is yet another opportunity Paul had to emphasize the triune Godhead and once again he fails to do so simply because the word ‘trinity’ and the false doctrine of a triune God made up of three separate but equal persons is not to be found in the scriptures.

We are told that Christ was conceived “of the holy spirit” yet Christ never once claimed the holy spirit as His Father. Instead Christ is referred to as “the Son of God”:

Gal 4:4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman [sinful flesh], made under the law [the “church in the wilderness”]

So when Paul tells us that Christ was “made to be sin for us …”

2Co 5:21  Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God’s righteousness in him. (Darby)

…He is not talking about Christ being crucified; he is referring to Christ being made flesh. According to the law of the offerings, we are sin simply by virtue of our birth in Adamic flesh.

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

Getting back to the purpose for marriage as it relates to our understanding of the Godhead, do you think I am misunderstanding Paul? Here are his own words concerning the lessons of married life:

Eph 5:22  Wives [husbands], submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Eph 5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Eph 5:24  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:28  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Eph 5:29  For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Eph 5:31  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Eph 5:32  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

I dare say that even Mr. Law would be hard pressed to show how the trinity is typical of a married couple!

While I respect Mr. Law, I cannot concede that 1+1=3.

To me “there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things [including the one Lord] and one Lord, Jesus Christ by whom are all things [just as all men come into this world by a woman].

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

You say:

I could not agree more. As I said before I don’t see what Christ being created has to do with this.

Here is how Christ intends to use His created ‘Wife:’

Eph 2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

Eph 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Eph 3:9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;
Eph 3:10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

1Pe 2:9 But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: [not ‘out of light into darkness back into light’, as the false doctrine of ‘the fall of man’ teaches]

Psa 68:35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: The God of Israel, he giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

If Christ can do all this for those who come out of Him, why could not God do the same for that which we are told “proceeded out from the Father” and is “the beginning of the creation of God?”

Joh 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

The One who sends is always greater than the one who is sent, and that is exactly what Christ tells us is true of His Head, His Father:

Joh 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.

In traditional Trinitarian theology, this statement is interpreted “as referring to functional subordination and positional humility during Jesus’ earthly ministry, rather than a difference in divine nature or essence.”

Traditional trinitarian theology is proven to be unscriptural because, as we have quoted several times already in this study, the scriptures declare that the Father is still head of Christ even now. I will quote that verse again:

1Co 11:3  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

It is Christ Himself who informs us that He is the first thing His Father created, and then through Christ the Father created everything that exists:

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Joh 1:3  All things were made by [G1223: ‘dia’, through] him [Christ]; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by [G1223, ‘dia’, through] whom are all things, and we by [G1223: ‘dia’, through] him.

I apologize for the length of this e- mail. I hope I have expressed my thoughts in a spirit that has not offended you.

Your brother in Christ,

Mike

 

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