Can You Explain The Trinity

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Wait a minute. What's the topic this time? The Trinity, the Trinity. Okay, let's go.
		

			That's a good idea.
		

			Welcome back to the teacher. I'm your host, Edie. Now you coming from a Christian background. You
your father who knew the Bible very well, he was also a minister, I'm sure you can really help give
some insight to this topic, the Trinity. When we talk about the Trinity, this is not really three
gods. This is one of the things that the folks who criticize the Catholic Church, they're the ones
who really came up with this idea to start with. And then subsequently, any churches that broke off
from the Catholic Church, those who protested, or Protestants, they carried that forward as well.
But there are there are those who criticize the Trinity, not realizing how this all came about. It's
		

			not fair.
		

			And then there are those who claim to be Unitarians, because they say we believe in the unity of God
as one. And then the Trinitarian two Coursers saying that God is one but it right away real fast,
but there are three natures to God or there are three parts within one or the demonstration that
gave about the finger when you can move it.
		

			So
		

			how did one become three? Let's Let's ask it like that. Because in fact, the Old Testament the
Bible, the Jewish belief, and so on, even till today is God is one. And it's there's no
		

			consideration for anything else. And there's not two, not three, not four, it's one. So Abraham did
Abraham ever out of this word Trinity or Moses or Noah.
		

			As far as uttering a word, Trinity, the word is Latin, none of them spoke the Latin language it
wouldn't have used in any way.
		

			And as far as that goes, the word Trinity itself is not found in any of the Scriptures. Not even in
the Apocrypha, you don't find this word. How about for one one says for there are three that their
work record in heaven, the Father, the Son, but we said the word Trinity is not that, okay, the word
Trinity is not in the Bible. Not in any scripture, that word is not there. It's not until you get to
the Koran that you find this word. So what is this verse that I just quoted you that people use to
support the Trinity, the verse that you're talking about, now, this is in john, but it's not john
gospel. This is the john one, or the first epistle of john. And it's not necessarily even the same,
		

			john anyway.
		

			It's in chapter five, verse seven. And it says, there are three that bear witness in heaven, the
Father, the Son, and the Spirit. And these three are one.
		

			This verse is a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, is an addition. And all of the scholars of the
Bible agree that this was added many, many, many centuries later, by someone who wanted to resolve
this issue, once and for all and prove that somehow there could be three, let me get this straight.
So this is not in the original manuscript. Well, nobody can say it's not because they don't have the
original. It's not in the copy of the cut. It's not in anything. No, it's not in anything within I
think the first a,
		

			the first 1000 years. Okay, anything in the first 1000 years wouldn't have had that. That was added
much later in the cone, a Greek. Gotcha. Okay. Now, there were things that were in Trinity mentioned
Trinity, that were injected in some of these Latin copies and so on, but those were rejected anyway.
But in the cone, a Greek, there was never anything in any of the early manuscripts or anything came
after that. That was, you know, that anything serious that use this word, Trinity,
		

			and nor was there anything with this verse in it. Okay, what it is, it's a take off of the verse
before it, and a rewording of that verse to try to add what they want to. It says in the verse
before that, there are
		

			three that bear witness, the Father, the blood, and the Spirit. And these three agree.
		

			The father, the blood and the Spirit. And these three agree, and it doesn't say they're all in
heaven. And it doesn't say that they are one. This is they agree, but it was a chance for somebody
to say, Oh, wait, look, here's three things. Now we'll try to wrap it up and turn it into something.
		

			There were some very serious fights. And we're not talking about just fights with words, we're
talking about the kind of fights where people were being poisoned people being killed over this
subject. That's how really horrible it got by the third century.
		

			There was something called arianism versus the Council of Nicea, this is referring to something I
have on a website about this. And areas is the one who was insisting that the nature of Jesus was
such that he's not divine. And he's not a part of God. But they were always arguing over how you
explain the nature of Jesus, is he created? Or is he born? Is he begotten? Or is he not forgotten?
And the wording on how you would say that would determine whether or not you were considered to be a
Kaffir disbeliever.
		

			And so that's how this kicks off. And then the Nicene council offers a resolution on that basically,
if you don't agree with this will kill you. It was almost that bad was this over the rule of
Constantine. Constantine was the one basically who was presiding over the council himself. And yet
he was a pagan Son, God worshiper, he was in the cult called Sol Invictus. Sol is sun in Latin,
Invictus means invincible. They believe that the sun was invincible, and they believe that the sun
had the sun on Earth, which was basically the representative of, of the Sun power, etc. And he
considered himself to be that one. And he, only five years before this council, he had actually
		

			engaged in a war against some of the people who believed in Jupiter as being the god you know, the
planet. And the guy who was the son of Jupiter was killed by him in that war, so he considered
himself the really the big warrior. But to come back to this Trinity business, and when Constantine
convened this council, or he was looking for his absolution, he wanted to be rid of his guilt and
sin for having drowned his or actually boiled, boiling his wife and boiled his son, because of fear
that they would try to compete with him for his, for his position, security. And well, in any case,
he found a way to get it done. It was through this, one sect of Christianity said that if he would
		

			say that Jesus was the Son of God, and died for sins, then they would
		

			forgive him ever since. And then the trade off was then that the Roman government would now be
forced to accept this particular sect of Christianity as the Royal or the official Church of the
realm. And with that, this gave these bishops, you know, good position, because prior to that time,
you know, the Roman government was killing people who were Christians, and using them for
entertainment, take them out, throw them into the to the gladiators, throw them out to the lions and
bears things like that, too. It was horrible. It was disgraceful. And it was, of course,
		

			you know, killing people.
		

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			Okay, this writer asked, Why don't you Muslims accept that God can be a trinity? Well, thank you for
the very good question. We can't possibly accept that God could be a trinity because it's not
necessary, because in order for God to be a trinity, that means that he would have to require
		

			Help, in order for him to require help, that means he will be dependent upon another god, which
obviously doesn't exist, or he will be dependent upon something that he himself had created. And so
it's an obvious contradiction there listener that is to even expect or think or even hope that God
would have to be a trinity is a contradiction to the to the actual existence of Almighty God,
because in order for there to be a trinity, then that he would have to require the assistance, as we
said, of something else that he would pick up that he has created. That means that he, in order for
there to be a trinity, he would have to create another son that he would need assistance from, he
		

			would have to create a ghost that he would need assistance from. So there can't be a trinity.
There's not three gods, that means that one of the gods had to come first, if there was three gods,
and God Himself is only one, and he doesn't require any help from anyone that would take away and
it's an insult and contradictory to the existence and the fact that God is one and God is the
Almighty, how can we dare say, the God is almighty and we call him Almighty God, and Vince still out
of the other? On the other hand, on the other side of the coin, say again, that God is a trinity,
that he that he has to be three in one, why would he have to be three in one? Why would God who is
		

			who is not created, who is the beginning, who is the end, who is the Alpha and Omega, this one
Supreme God, who brought about the entire creation. In Christianity, we were taught that in the
beginning was the Word and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh in the flesh, what among us,
that we weren't taught what that word was. In Islam, we're taught what the word was the word that
was the beginning, the word that brought about the beginning of creation with comb, which means B,
and the Quran says coldfire, comb, B, and it is. So this is how God brought about creation. But it's
not how God brought about themselves, but God did not have to bring about himself. God was not
		

			created, nor was it even self created. God Himself is the beginning. And you can't think past God.
So in order to think that God needs to other beings, to help him to rule the universe, then that
means that they would have to be something that came before God, or came along with God, or the God
himself that created but God Himself is no is no need for Trinity. And God does not do unnecessary
things. The Creator of the heavens and the earth is complete, without form without description, and
he has no limitations. He has no height, no weight, no depth, no width, he has nothing that can be
described by human beings. And therefore there's no need for Almighty God to be a trinity. And it's
		

			impossible to expect that God would even have to be a trinity, because in order for him to be a
trinity, that he will have to be relying upon something that he has created, because no one else has
the ability to create anything, if things can only be done by the help, and the will and the plan of
Almighty God. That's why we cannot believe nor can we possibly expect, even with our wildest
imagination, that God could be a trinity, because it's contradictory to the very existence of
Almighty God, we hope we answered your question. That's it for this session of the mailbag of the
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			you, people. So up until then, if I get this straight, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to put
words in your mouth, that we had a stream of true monotheism coming from one direction, then you had
another stream coming from another direction. And it seems that this direction of the Trinity came
over and Roman eyes, Christianity with all their traditions that were going on? No, I don't think
so. I don't think that's what we're saying here is that the more you study this, I don't think
you'll see that that that Christianity became
		

			influenced by that I think this was just Rome, Rome's church, adapting a few things from them.
That's all because it the council, here's the things that they did. I'm looking at their website
right now on our website. Have a copy of it. Yeah. Where did someone find this? You can go to our
our main website for this is 911 Bible 911. Bible. Yeah, you can find a lot of information over
there. Another one we have is called the Islam code is lamc od e.com. And we talked about the
Trinity there as well. But any case, even on their own website, they explain that what happened
		

			And when when the Council of Nicea took place, the Roman government itself is now accepting
Christianity as the official religion,
		

			their particular sect.
		

			So this is good news for the Christians in a way. But now there was compromises. One of the
compromises was they had to change the date of the birthday of Jesus to become the 25th of December,
which coincided with the birth of a God called mithras. Interesting. Another thing they had to do is
to implement another feast or festival, called the feast of Ishtar. And this is the goddess of
fertility. This is why they have the reference here now to the eggs.
		

			And to the rabbits because they multiply quickly. So it was a fertility festival from the goddess
Ishtar, which we today call Easter. There's where your Easter eggs, your bunnies and all the rest of
it account for this has nothing to do whatsoever with Christianity. Now, most of the Christians know
this, most of the knowledgeable Christians they know this, and certainly the scholars in
Christianity will acknowledge that immediately. This is something that is no part of Christianity.
		

			Now, another thing that took place was to decide which books of the Bible would be now canonized.
And that's where this expression comes from. At that time, that's when the Catholic Church said,
This is what the Bible will be. And that's it finish. Don't argue about it anymore. Because he used
to argue about which books, put some in, take some out. But even the Catholic Church over a period
of time, took out the book of revelations, and then put it back in and then took it out and put it
back in.
		

			This is not our subject today. But I'm just letting you know, many things took place at that
Council. Yes. It wasn't just that they said this in this reference to the Trinity. Because when they
accepted it, of course, it's going to make a problem because how will you resolve this? When it's
clear through the Bible that God is one, how you resolve it?
		

			Well, the influence here is coming from the government, not from the scholars so much, but the ones
who were in the leadership position at the church wanted to do their best to twist things, bend
things compromise, so they can get this position. Let's don't go back to being thrown out into the
lions. You know, guys, let's work these people. And we become number one, you know, either you're
number one in the best condition is church, you know, and kids better thing to the world. But get a
compromise. Otherwise, we're back out here being eaten by lions. And what's the benefit of that? So
I think that was the mindset, I'm trying to give you an idea based on what information we have
		

			available today. But I think that seems logical.
		

			Another point is that the word Catholic
		

			means universal.
		

			There was always the Universal Church of Rome, it never was a Christian church. And it was in
business long, long, long before they were affiliated with Christians. Because Roman had a church,
and when citizens were wanting to join, or if they took over a country, and you would like to be a
full citizen, you had to join this church. Now you can keep your old gods no problem. But you
definitely needed to be a part of this. So that is still the name of it today, Roman Catholic,
church, Universal Church of Rome. Now if I'm reading what was available to me at that time, and I'm
finding I'm sincere, and I want to pray to God alone, how did I fit in this equation when
		

			everybody's trying to support this other belief, this other theology?
		

			Eddie, you can't say it that way. Because people didn't have Bibles. It wasn't until the time of
Gutenberg when he produced that press and started running Bibles off that a common person could even
have access.
		

			And also it was illegal. Even up until 1511. It was forbidden
		

			for anyone to translate the Bible, to the English language, even up to the time of 1511 when William
Tyndale
		

			produced his whole entire Bible in English,
		

			and what they did, they executed him. They burned him, the church burned him at the stake with his
Bible. tactus. Just Why? Because it's illegal. It's blasphemy. To translate the Bible. Nobody was to
have it, the priest only and in the Latin line.
		

			That's how the law was. And it was 100 years after that, even after William Coverdale, a student of
Tyndale came with another one. It will. And
		

			in 1611, there was a group who actually translated the Bible to English again, that's what we call
King James Version. But in fact, King James didn't even know they did it till after the fact.
		

			They wrote a soliloquy in the beginning of it, praising him, worshiping Him, calling him Lord, even
hoping that he would accept and not kill them.
		

			He never authorized it, although he'd never killed them either. But he never officially authorized
it. So they nicknamed it the Authorized Version. When it came to our country, it was called the King
James Version. Get it? That's how that works. So to come back to the Trinity, though, nobody at the
time
		

			of the Catholic Church taking over 325, nobody could have sat around and read the Bible anyway, how
you going to read something that doesn't exist? What they had was some priests, who had some
manuscripts or pieces of manuscripts, copies of things that were even in the q&a, Greek and so on.
But they did not have any full complete Bible that did not exist at that time.
		

			So tell us how at the end, did this word come about?
		

			Well,
		

			you know, when I say by the way that they didn't have a Bible, what I'm talking about is that the
average person didn't, because they did have the Roman vulgate. That was done by Jerome, in it has
tremendous amount of mistakes in it, and so on. But that's sad point. This word Trinity comes about
as a result of the influence of the Roman government itself. The Roman government was considered a
tri Union Government, because it had three bodies, just like the United States has three bodies,
that you have your President, you have the senate of Congress there, you know, and this all together
is equaling three, this is taken right from the Roman government. The Roman government also had
		

			three and three to make up their one body, and they were all in unison on their decisions, you
follow. So when the Roman government takes over, they want to have this to remain in the church,
which they had had before. So this was why there was an emphasis and a real push to make sure it
stayed. But the real problem in the early days wasn't over so much is whether God was one, two or
three, the real problem was over the issue of what was the nature of Jesus? Was he God? Was he man,
was he man, God, or God, man? Was he born was he created was he always. And they would get into
that, because if you didn't, if you didn't say he was always you will blast FEMA.
		

			According to some, of course, and then another thing comes up a passage in the Bible talking about
the spirit, that the blasphemy is that you say anything against the spirit, that spirit is
essentially a part of the deity or something at that stage. So this becomes an issue that gets so
big and so distorted. And over the years, people just say, Look, just believe it, just have faith,
let it go, God is one. But you know, he has these three parts, or he's like three things at one
time. And you know, like, for instance, I can be a father, and I can be a brother, I can be a son,
all at the same time. True. Of course, I could also be, I could be father, brother, son,
		

			grandfather, Uncle cousin, so wouldn't be limited. And I really think that when people start using
these kinds of examples, and especially trying to compare God to a human, or anything else that he
created, I think they're way off track. The best thing is to consider what the last told us in the
Quran. A lot told us the end he told us about Trinity in the Quran. That's why I said it's not in
the Bible, but it's in the Quran.
		

			Clearly, Christians, not to say three
		

			was clearly what Allah says to us, because God is one. There's only one God, and he doesn't have any
partners. Finish that ilaha illa Allah luxury cola.
		

			That's very simply put, so we know that this wasn't a teaching of Jesus. It wasn't teaching of
Abraham. Now it wasn't a teaching of any of the prophets, and not even the teaching of the last and
final message to mankind, the Prophet Muhammad
		

			from the from the scripture that we do have, we don't find any of it in there.
		

			You'll
		

			Have a lot of criticism of Paul, a lot of people criticize Paul. And when you go to seminary school,
you find that there is there are three synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, then you have the
johanne. gospel, then you have a teaching and dogma that coming in, you don't have it all. It's not
the same. It's not the same message. It's not the same teaching.
		

			And one of the key things they talk about is Pauline doctrine. Because Pauline doctrine isn't the
same, it doesn't follow the same way at all. And it has a different message even even to the extent
of breaking all the commandments and just, you know, being dead to the law. And if another
statement, if the false exact tale, bring the people closer to God, then why are they persecuting
me? This is coming from Paul, and his ideas of, and they were strange ideas, they some claim that
these ideas were based on the mystical religion
		

			of Tarsus where he was raised up. But regardless of that, and no matter how far you stretch it out,
you cannot find ball using this word Trinity. He didn't even he didn't come up with this idea. He
didn't come up with that kind of a nature of God, Jesus. What's the alternative now for the people
who agree with you? And they've done a little research or you know what, to them? It also doesn't
make sense, what's the alternative that they don't lose faith, which is another alternative way for
them to go, I don't want anybody to lose their faith. I know. There are trinitarians in Unitarians,
Christians, Jews, Muslims out there, talking about this subject, I don't want anybody to give up.
		

			Don't give up. This is my advice to myself as well, when I'm confused about anything. If I get upset
about anything, then I need to go back to the Lord above, and open up my own communication with him,
and pray to Him and ask Him to guide me to the answer. Because quite frankly, human beings are to
each other, just other human beings, we can't be gods to each other. We would like to help each
other out and help to gain a better knowledge, better understanding. But for sure, it's only the
Lord above who's going to grant this real wisdom, this real insight and understanding, and you have
to be patient. And you have to take your time. And then when you get an idea, and the Lord puts
		

			something in your mind speaks to your heart, then you need to go and read what it is He wants you to
read or think about or go sit with the people that he's guiding you to, you might be surprised. You
might find yourself sitting with Muslims talking to them about it. Or you might find yourself
talking to Jewish talking about the subject or Hindu. I'm not telling you not to do something, I'm
telling you just to think about what you're doing. This is what I'm saying. And pray to your Lord
and really ask him to come into your life in a way that he can guide you. Because most of us were
fighting guidance all the time.
		

			Thank you again for being with us.
		

			Shay, it's great to be with you. We're gonna have to have you back on again. Oh, we'll see. God
willing. Well, there you have it from from our guests, former Christian preacher, Minister chef use
of estus. I'd like to thank everybody who's been tuning in, from day one to the deen show you don't
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			we have a lot of information there also. And just to recap, God is one, just like if you take your
family of three to an airport, with one ticket,
		

			it's only going to be for one person, you can split it up into three cars, not like a pie that you
split them up. He's one, absolutely one and one alone. There's the same message of Jesus, Abraham,
Moses, knowing all the prophets of Almighty God. So we ask you again, to worship god alone and not
to associate any partners with him. And this is the main message of Islam. So we look forward to
seeing you again here on the deen show. If you have any comments or suggestions, please email me.
And this is your host Eddie signing off. Salaam Alaikum. Peace be unto you