Hello everybody, this has been just 12.3 back in the video.
In this video, I want to talk about the Trinity Doctrine.
For those of you who don't know, I have indeed changed my beliefs on the subject of the Trinity
Doctrine.
In time past, I did not believe in the Doctrine of the Trinity, and I instead taught a different
position known as Arianism on this channel, which is the position that only the Father
is Almighty God and that Jesus is not God and is a created being.
But for at least three or four months now, I've adhered to a different doctrine, and
that is that of the Biblical Trinity.
The purpose of this video is to explain why I changed my mind and to defend this new position,
to defend the Trinity.
And I admit that I made a mistake.
I admit that what I believed in time past was wrong, and I give thanks to God for teaching
me with the Holy Spirit what I need to know.
And that's the thing.
I admit that I'm wrong.
I know that I was false.
When I got saved last year, I changed other interpretations of doctrines as things in
the Bible became clear.
The Bible teaches us that this will be the case in 1 John 2, verse 27.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any
man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no
lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
And what is that anointing?
How are we taught?
It says in John 14 and 26, But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things into remembrance whatsoever
I have said unto you.
John chapter 16, verse 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 show you things to come.
So when we get saved, we receive the Holy Spirit as it teaches in Ephesians chapter
1, verse 13 and 14.
And this Spirit, the Holy Ghost, teaches us all things.
The same Spirit indwells all Christians.
It will cause all Christians to, if they actually read their Bibles, if they actually study
the Bible, to accept the same doctrines contained within with the understanding of such, because
the Holy Spirit will teach them and guide them.
And to explain why I now believe in the Trinity, I want to first describe what I mean by the
Biblical Trinity, because there's different doctrines out there, which some people might
call the Trinity, but which isn't actually the Trinity.
And I also want to give five main reasons, five main points that I notice which show
this truth.
First I want to talk about what I mean by the Trinity.
I decided to distinguish between what the Bible actually teaches and what the Orthodox
and the Catholic churches teach, because it's different.
There's only one God, but that God is three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost.
And these three are all from eternity, they're eternal, and they are all equally God.
So the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all the same God, they're all equally
God.
But they are not equal in every way.
The Son is still subject to the Father.
Jesus said the Father is greater than I, and in 1 Corinthians 15 it teaches that even in
the future Jesus will be subject to him who put all things under him, that is the Father.
So even though Jesus is fully God, Jesus is not completely equal to the Father in rank
power, knowing, and so on.
And this is not what I call Athanasianism, which is just a title that I kind of invented,
but I give it to many traditional Christians who accept a borderline modalism form of Trinitarianism
where the only difference between the three persons in the title, or is the title that
they're given, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and the mere fact that they're
separate hypostases.
This is based on the Athanasian Creed, that's why I call it Athanasianism, which basically
says that no person in the Trinity is greater than another.
This has inspired many examples of Christian art on which the three persons of the Trinity
are depicted as exactly the same, or as a person with three faces.
And you can look that up.
Just look up Trinity and just go through Google Images, you'll find some traditional Christian
art where it's just one person with three faces, or they're just three people that just
look like the traditional representation of Jesus.
So there's no difference.
Basically they believe that they're exactly the same, they're just three different people
and that's it.
But there's no difference, really, in their doctrine.
That's not what I'm defending.
I'm defending simply the concept that Jesus is God, the Holy Spirit is God, and the Father
is God, but they're all one and the same God.
So this is the first point that I want to make, and this is something I really began
to notice last year, is that virtually all Christians in Christian churches which actually
believe the Gospel and which are actually saved believe the Trinity, while those groups
which reject the Trinity are groups of false prophets.
And let me give you a few examples.
The Mormons, who believe in a false workspace gospel, they reject the Trinity.
The Jehovah's Witnesses, which is an organization founded by a false prophet, Charles Taze Russell,
they teach a false workspace salvation and they also reject the Trinity.
In fact, their position, the Jehovah's Witnesses' position on the Trinity, was similar to what
mine used to be.
Iglesia y Cristo, which is a large denomination in the Philippines, they believe in a workspace
salvation and they believe that one must be in the church, in their church, in order to
be saved.
They reject the Trinity.
La Luz del Mundo, which is a group of about five million, which exists in Mexico and the
southern United States, they believe in a workspace salvation and they also reject the
Trinity.
The Christadelphians, which believe in a workspace salvation, they reject the Trinity.
The Assemblies of Yahweh, which believes in a workspace salvation, they reject the Trinity.
And I could go on and on with a bunch of false groups, a bunch of false denominations, which
teach a form of Arianism, but they're actually cults which deny the Gospel.
But those who teach the true Gospel, that salvation is by faith alone and that salvation
is eternal, such as many Baptists and many non-denominational Christians and other minor
Protestant groups, they all believe in the Trinity.
So I noticed this back, I think, in like November or December and I decided that it
was time, based on that, to study the Scriptures on the subject to see exactly what the Bible
teaches about the Trinity.
Now I want to get to my second point, which is kind of two-fold.
At the time, one of the biggest things, one of the biggest problems for me when I believed
in a different doctrine was the lack of understanding of how one God could be three persons.
It just didn't seem to make sense to me.
But I looked into the matter in the Bible and another verse which isn't directly related
helped to show me the fact that it certainly is possible for one God to be three persons.
It says in Mark 10, verse 7 to 8,
For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and
they twain shall be one flesh, so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
This of course is a reference to Genesis 2, Genesis 2, 24, which says, Therefore shall
a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall
be one flesh.
So here Jesus is teaching from Genesis 2 in which it teaches that although there are two
individuals, there are two persons, a man and his wife, they are one flesh.
So they being twain will be one flesh.
Yet I've never heard anybody argue with these scriptures, with Genesis 2, 24, Mark 10, 7,
8, or whatever verse it is that Jesus quotes from in the book of Matthew.
I think it's somewhere in either Matthew 19 or Matthew 22.
Nobody's ever said that it's improperly translated or anything like that.
So what's going on here?
The problem is that the flesh here is distinguished from the individuals.
Genesis 2 does not say the two individuals shall be one individual or the two flesh shall
be one flesh or something like that.
It's simply saying that they're united, that they partake of the same nature.
With God, the definition of what God is is different from what the individuals who make
up the Trinity is.
And this is also where I got confused.
This is the second part of this second point is I assume that God had to be one person
because that's what a God is, right?
It's just one person.
No, that's not what God is.
That's the world's definition of a God.
That's a pagan definition of a God.
All the pagan gods are false gods.
Zeus, Thor, and all those who are not the God of the Bible are false gods.
We shouldn't get the concept of what a God is from pagan religions.
We should get the concept of who or what God is from the Bible alone.
The Bible teaches that there is only one true God, and that is the divine unity of
the three eternal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit of the Holy Ghost.
Now, the third point is that all three of these individuals, the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost, are called God.
The Father is obviously called God.
I don't think anybody disagrees with that.
But the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 8 verse 6, but to us there is one God, the Father,
of whom are all things that we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things
that we by him.
Isaiah chapter 63 verse 16, Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant
of us, and Israel acknowledge us not, thou, O Lord, art our Father our Redeemer.
Thy name is from everlasting.
Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
And then the Bible calls Jesus God something which I used to deny.
I used to not believe that the Bible said this, but I'll address that in a minute.
But right now, Harrison verses 1 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 says, And without controversy,
great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto
the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
And then Romans chapter 9 verse 5 says, Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning
the flesh Christ came, who was overall God blessed forever.
Amen.
These are two very simple verses which clearly identify Jesus as being God.
And I'll get to the other proofs in a minute, but the problem I had in time passed, even
though I knew about these verses, I knew about 1 Timothy 3 verse 16, was my arguments using
translation.
The problem isn't that 1 Timothy 3 verse 16 isn't translated correctly, but I instead
selectively decided to side with the Alexandrian text at the time.
However, even long after I started to believe in the Trinity, even after I got saved, or
long before I started to believe in the Trinity, even after I got saved, I realized that the
Alexandrian text is not the Word of God, okay?
The new Bibles, the ESV, the NIV, which are translated from the Alexandrian text, they
remove a lot of verses, okay?
It changes God's Word all over the place.
It removes 16 verses, it contradicts itself over and over again, there are a lot of discrepancies,
but the actual unabridged Word of God found that the actual Greek text of Septus proclaims
Jesus as God.
That's the majority of manuscripts, 95% of manuscripts will have this verse which say
God was manifest in the flesh, not who was manifest in the flesh or which was manifest
in the flesh.
God was manifest in the flesh.
It was Jesus who was in the flesh, who was justified in the Spirit, who was seen of angels,
who was preached unto the Gentiles, who was believed on, and it identifies him as God.
God manifest in the flesh.
So these are just two simple verses which come right out and say it, but I also want
to give a few verses which are not completely direct about it, but which can still be used
as evidences for the fact that Jesus is Almighty God.
One of them is Romans chapter 10 verse 13 which says for whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved.
Now the context shows this is referring to calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It says in the previous verses, Romans chapter 10 verse 9, that if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him the
dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confesses made unto salvation.
For the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
So this is a quote from the Old Testament.
Joel chapter 2 verse 32 says, and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon
or shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered.
This is Lord, capital L-O-R-D.
This would be Yehovah in Hebrew.
So the New Testament when referring to Jesus Christ is quoting from Old Testament passages
which are undoubtedly talking about God.
Thus this shows that Jesus is the Lord God, Jesus is Yehovah.
Colossians chapter 2 verse 9, for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
This verse again referring to Jesus Christ says that all the fullness of the Godhead
dwells in him.
This is thus identifying that he is the divine quality which makes him God.
And this verse can be compared with Galatians chapter 4 verse 6 which says, and because
ye are sons, God has set forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba Father.
This verse identifies the spirit as also being the spirit of the son.
Thus since the son shares both the fullness of the Godhead and the spirit of God with
the father, then there's no reason to deny that Jesus is God.
Now watch this, 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 23 says, and the very God of peace sanctify
you holy, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So who sanctifies us?
According to this verse, it's the God of peace.
Hebrews chapter 13 verse 12, wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with
his own blood, suffered without the gate.
So we have one verse in which Paul is saying, is praying that God sanctifies us, and another
tells us that Jesus sanctifies us with his own blood.
So you put these two together and it becomes clear that Jesus is God, because it says God
sanctifies us and then Jesus sanctifies us, so Jesus is God.
Hebrews chapter 3 verse 1 to 4 says, wherefore holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful
to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded
the house hath more honor than the house.
For every house is builded by some man, but he that built all things is God.
So this verse also identifies Jesus as God, because it first identifies the subject as
Christ Jesus in verse 1, and then it tells us that Jesus was counted worthy of more glory
than Moses.
Why?
Because those that build a house have more glory than those of the house.
Verse 4 then says, for every house is built by some man, but he that built all things
is God.
So it's telling us that Jesus built the house of Moses and Jesus is God, because it is God
who has built all things.
It's very clear.
I want to finish off with one more verse about this.
It's another crystal clear.
It's another verse which comes right out and says it, which comes right out and calls Jesus
God.
It's 1 John 5-20, and it says, And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given
us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true,
even in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.
So the entire verse is talking about the Son of God, talking about Jesus Christ, and it
closes by saying, this is the true God.
Not only that, but the Holy Spirit is God.
Acts chapter 5 verse 3-4, But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart
to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Was it remained?
Was it not thine own?
And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?
Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
So in verse 3, Peter says that Ananias lied to the Holy Ghost, and in verse 4, Peter
says Ananias lied unto God, thus identifying the Holy Ghost as God.
1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that
the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
So the Bible says that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit dwells in you.
It wouldn't be much of a temple for God if his Spirit wasn't God itself.
So here we see from the Bible that the Father is God, that Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit
is God.
All three of the persons are called God, and this shows the Trinity, that there's three.
Okay, but I'm not done yet.
This again may be confusing to some, considering the fact that the Bible tells us that there's
only one God.
It says in Isaiah chapter 43 verse 10, Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant,
whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he.
Before me there is no God formed, and neither shall there be after me.
Isaiah chapter 45 verse 5, I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside
me.
I girded thee, though thou hast not known me.
And this brings me to my fourth point, that the singular God sometimes speaks with plural
pronouns.
While going over this, we have to keep in mind the first point, that just as the Bible
teaches us that man and his wife are a unity in one flesh, that God is a unity of Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost.
The Bible says in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, and God said, Let us make man in our image
after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
And in Genesis chapter 3 verse 22, And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as
one of us, to no good and evil, and now lest he put forth his hand, and take also the tree
of life, and eat and live forever.
Note that it says, and one of us.
So this defeats the whole lie which originated, by the way, from Jewish rabbis, and this is
something that I've heard before, this argument which doesn't make any sense.
This argument came from Jewish rabbis who were arguing against Christians.
This is the so-called Royal We, and that's the idea that, well, when it uses we or us
in the Old Testament, that's just one person using it in order to express his majesty,
the fact that he's so great that he speaks in plural pronouns even though it's actually
one person.
That doesn't make any sense because that was something that didn't even exist until the
Middle Ages in Europe anyway.
It's not like something that every single king throughout history has always used.
But this verse defeats it because it says, become as one of us.
So it still identifies that there's another one.
You can't say one of us if there's not more than one.
Genesis chapter 11 verse 7 says, Go to, let us go down, and they are confound to their
language, that they might not understand one another's speech.
And in Genesis chapter 19 verse 24 it says, Then the Lord reigned upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
This is quite a strange verse, but it teaches the Trinity.
It says that the Lord reigned upon Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of heaven.
How is this possible?
Why is this so?
Well, if we read the context in Genesis chapter 18, three men come up to Abraham at the beginning
of the chapter, and Abraham bows to them, and he identifies a subject that he's speaking
to as the Lord in verse 3.
Now we find that two of these men are angels because they're the two that go down to Sodom,
and only one is left with Abraham, who God speaks to at the end of chapter 18.
Abraham speaks to God, the one that's left.
The other two, which are the angels, go down to Sodom.
So there's at least two persons, the Lord who is standing with Abraham, and then there's
the Lord in heaven, and that is the Father.
Isaiah chapter 6, verse 8, also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send
and who will go for us?
Then said I, harem I, send me.
So even though there's only one speaking, that's the Lord, says, how shall I send, but
who will go for us?
Okay, so there's only one sitting on the throne, and that's Jesus Christ, who Isaiah can see,
but his speech clearly indicates that there's more than one person.
And I could go on and on for a long time with different scriptures, different verses that
teach this doctrine, that there's more than one person.
But to save time, I'll limit it to these.
I want to quickly move on to the fifth point, and that is the eternity of Jesus Christ.
We all know that the Bible teaches us that God has always existed, tells us that God
is from everlasting, meaning that he has always existed.
It tells us that in Psalm chapter 90, verse 2, and other places.
And I had trouble with some of these verses before, with some verses in the Bible, because
I believe that they taught that Jesus was a created being.
These would include Colossians chapter 1, verse 15, which says, who is the image of
the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature?
And then Revelation chapter 3, verse 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.
But there are now answers which can be given to these verses.
So in time past, I believe that these verses proved that Jesus was created, but now I have
answers.
That Revelation chapter 3, verse 14, is not calling Jesus the creation of God, but rather
that he was the source of the creation of God.
Beginning of the creation does not have to mean that he was the first thing created.
It can also mean that he was the originator of the creation.
This will make sense in light of the other verses, which I'm going to read soon.
Colossians chapter 1, verse 15, tells us that he is the firstborn of every creature.
And this is the point that we get into what is called the doctrine of the Son being eternally
begotten.
He is born, he is begotten, he is brought forth, but this is something that takes place
in no point of time.
It's from everlasting.
It's an eternal thing.
This is taught in the Bible.
First in Micah chapter 5, verse 2, which is a prophecy of the coming of Jesus, it says,
But thou, Bethlehem, ethrathah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet
out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be a ruler in Israel, whose goings forth
have been from of old, from everlasting.
So the important thing here is that this ruler from Bethlehem's going forth, which
is another way of saying his being begotten, has been from everlasting.
So here it clearly teaches that he is eternally begotten.
And then there's another amazing passage in the book of Proverbs which talks about Jesus
Christ and is actually told from the perspective of Christ.
It says in Proverbs chapter 8, verse 22 to 30, The Lord possessed me in the beginning
of his way, before his works of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or over the earth was, or ever the earth was.
When there was no depths, I was brought forth.
When there was no fountains abounding with water, before the mountains were settled,
before the hills was I brought forth, while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the
fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there.
When he set a compass upon the face of the depth, when he established the clouds above,
when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, when he gave to the sea his decree,
that the water should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the fountains, the foundations
of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him.
And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.
This passage agrees with John chapter 1, saying that, saying in this passage that when he
prepared the heavens, I was there, and then it also says, then I was by him.
It says in John chapter 1, verse 1, In the beginning was a word, and the word was with
God, and the word was God.
So here we see the doctrines of Jesus Christ's existence in eternity pass, that he was already
in existence, that he was brought forth even before there were depths, even before there
was anything in the universe.
Verse 23 again says that he was set up from everlasting.
So again, it's another amazing passage which teaches Christ's existence in eternity.
I want to conclude with a final verse, which is Hebrews chapter 7, verse 1 to 3.
It says, For this Melchizedek king of Salem priesthood the Most High God, who met Abraham,
returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave
a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation king of righteousness, and after that also
king of Salem, which is king of peace, without father, without mother, without descent, having
neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God abideth
a priest continually.
So this is comparing Melchizedek to the Son of God, and it says in verse 3 that he is
without beginning of days.
Thus from this we can conclude that the Son of God was without beginning of days.
He has always existed, and he always will.
Why?
Because Jesus Christ is God.
So as we can see, there are a multitude of verses.
There are many scriptures, there are many passages, and I could go on and on.
This video could be many hours long.
There are a multitude of verses in the Bible which teach eternity.
I hope that this doctrine has become crystal clear now, and you can understand those out
there who were around when I taught otherwise.
Hopefully you can understand why I now have changed my mind and why I believe the Trinity.
I thank God for enlightening me to the truth of his nature and what God actually is.
So thank you everybody for watching.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and thank you everybody for watching and goodbye.