The Trinity

Church of Almighty God

The Trinity Does not Exist

One God with three names, not three persons, appears in three different ages

That is Jehovah in the Age of Law, Jesus in the Age of Grace, and Almighty God in the Age of Kingdom

No Bible direct or explicit Bible references (See CAG’s arguments and explanations below)

  • The Trinity does not exist. It is a man-made idea.
  • There is only one God, called Jehovah in the Age of Law, called Jesus in the Age of Grace, called Almighty God in the Age of Kingdom.
  • “The Word Appears in the Flesh,” has a section that posts a question “Does the Trinity Exist?”  It immediately responded with an answer that shows the author, supposedly the female Christ, has a misunderstanding of the Doctrine of the Trinity. Here is the response: “After the truth of Jesus become flesh came to be, man believed this: Not only the Father is in heaven, but also the Son, and even the Spirit. This is the conventional notion man holds, that there is a God such as this in heaven: a triune God who is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All mankind has these notions: God is one God, but comprises three parts, what all those grievously entrenched in conventional notions deem to be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Only those three parts made one is all of God. Without the Holy Father, God would not be whole. Similarly, neither would God be whole without the Son or the Holy Spirit. In their notions, they believe that neither the Father alone nor the Son alone can be deemed God. Only the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit together can be deemed God Himself.”[1]

[1] The Church of Almighty God, The Word Appears in the Flesh, “Does the Trinity Exist?,” accessed August 10, 2021, Google e-book, 2000.

  • “According to your explanation, the three persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one; if this be so, then there are three Spirits, but to have three Spirits means there are three Gods. This means that there is no one true God; how can this kind of God still have the inherent essence of God? If you accept that there is only one God, then how can He have a son and be a father? Are these not all simply your notions? ………. Since all people say that God is the only one true God, then there is a single God, divisible at will by none! God is only one Spirit, and only one person; and that is the Spirit of God. If it is as you say, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, then are They not three Gods? The Holy Spirit is one matter, the Son another, and the Father yet another. Their persons are different and Their essences are different, so how then can They each be part of a single God? The Holy Spirit is a Spirit; this is easy for man to understand. If this be so, then the Father is even more so a Spirit. He has never descended onto earth and has never become flesh; He is Jehovah God in the heart of man, and He is certainly a Spirit as well. Then what is the relationship between Him and the Holy Spirit? Is it the relationship between Father and Son? Or is it the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of the Father? Is the essence of each Spirit the same? Or is the Holy Spirit an instrument of the Father? How can this be explained? And then what is the relationship between the Son and the Holy Spirit? Is it a relationship between two Spirits or the relationship between a man and a Spirit? These are all matters that can have no explanation! If They are all one Spirit, then there can be no talk of three persons, for They are possessed of a single Spirit. If They were distinct persons, then Their Spirits would vary in strength, and They simply could not be one single Spirit. This concept of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is most absurd!”[2]

[2] Ibid.

Christianity

One God Revealed in Three Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Three Persons in One Nature)

  1. Only One God (Deut. 6:4; 1 Cor. 8:4; Gal. 3:20; 1 Tim. 2:5).
  2. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are distinct Persons; and they  appear at the same time (Matt. 3:16-17, 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; John 14:16-17).
  3. The Father is God (John 6:27; Romans 1:7; 1 Peter 1:2).
  4. The Son is God (John 1:1, 14, Romans 9:5; Col. 2:9; Heb. 1:8; 1 John 5:20).
  5. The Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4; 1 Cor. 3:16).
  6. Jesus is not the Holy Spirit. (John 14:16, 15:26, 16:7)
  7. The Father is not the Holy Spirit. (John 14:16, 15:26)
  8. Jesus is not the Father. (Matthew 26:42; Mark 14:36; Luke 10:21, 11:2, 22:42, 23:34, 23:46; John 11:41, 12:27-28, 17:1, 5, 11, & 25) 
  9. Father and Son are One but distinct Persons. (John 10: 28-30)
  10. We can pray to the Father in Jesus’ name and also pray to Jesus directly in Jesus’ name, Jesus will answers both prayers. (John 14: 13-14)

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” (Deut. 6:4, ESV)

“Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”” (1 Cor. 8:4, ESV)

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matt. 28:19, ESV)

 “Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” (John 6:27, ESV)

“To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.” (Romans 9:5, ESV)

“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16, ESV)

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;” (John 14:16, KJV)

“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:” (John 15:26, KJV)

“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”” (John 10:28-30, ESV)

“Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” (John 14:13-14)

“The Trinity is not three Gods, three modes of God, or three divine essences. The Trinity is three persons in one divine essence. In other words, there are three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – who share one divine nature. The Trinity is like a triangle: a triangle has three corners but it is still one triangle.”[1] This concept can be illustrated as “one triangle having only three corners which are distinct but not separated.”

[1] Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, (Wheaton: Crossway, 2004), 350.

CAG's Additional Arguments and Explanations

  1. CAG claims that the concept of the Trinity is too difficult to fully understand; and no one can explain it because it is fabricated by man. It asserts that the Trinity does not exist and denies the God of the Bible. The CAG denies the Doctrine of the Trinity:

    “Therefore, so too in this matter have you succumbed to this pernicious influence, for the triune God simply does not exist. That is, the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit simply does not exist. These are all conventional notions of man, and the fallacious beliefs of man. Throughout many centuries, man has believed in this Trinity, conjured up by notions in the mind of man, fabricated by man, and never before seen by man. Throughout these many years, there have been many Bible expositors who have explained the “true meaning” of the Trinity, but such explanations of the triune God as three distinct consubstantial persons have been vague and unclear, and people are all befuddled by the “construct” of God. . . This is because this great Trinity man holds in the heart simply does not exist. . . Let Me tell you that, in truth, the triune God does not exist anywhere in this universe. God has no Father and no Son, and much less is there a concept that the Father and Son jointly use the Holy Spirit as an instrument. All of this is the greatest fallacy and simply does not exist in this world!” [1]

    [1] The Church of Almighty God, The Word Appears in the Flesh, “Does the Trinity Exist?,” accessed August 10, 2021; Google e-book, 2000-2003.

  2. In the same section where the question “Does the Trinity Exist?” posted, it has statements that deny the only One God, revealed in three persons, all participated in creation and blames the misunderstanding of the Trinity on the Holy Spirit who allowed confusion of man forming the notions of the Trinity: “Of course, the blame cannot be put on man for forming such notions, for why did Jehovah the Father not have Jesus the Son accompany Him when He created mankind? If, in the beginning, all had gone by the name of Jehovah, it would have been better. If blame must be laid, let it be laid on the momentary lapse of Jehovah God, who did not call the Son and the Holy Spirit before Him in the time of creation, but rather carried out His work alone. If They had all worked simultaneously, then would They not have become one? If, from the very beginning until the end, there was only the name Jehovah and not the name of Jesus from the Age of Grace, or if He had then still been called Jehovah, then would God not have been spared the suffering of this division by mankind? To be sure, Jehovah cannot be blamed for all this; if blame must be laid, let it be laid on the Holy Spirit [emphasis added], who for thousands of years continued His work by the name of Jehovah, of Jesus, and even of the Holy Spirit, befuddling and confusing man such that man could not know exactly who God is.”[2]

    [2] Ibid; Google e-book, 2002-2003.

Clear Thinking Exercises

  • If the Trinity does not exist, to whom did Jesus pray many times in the Gospels?
  • To whom did Jesus pray in the Garden of Gethsemane? (John 17:1)
  • Regarding man’s confusion on the notions of the Trinity, Almighty God says: “if blame must be laid, let it be laid on the Holy Spirit.” (See above) I thought Almighty God just said that “the Holy Spirit is not a person, i.e., the Trinity does not exist.” Who does Almighty God refer to as the Holy Spirit?
  • Isa. 9:6: “Father of eternity” means eternal; compare other names formed with word “father”: Abialbon, “father of strength” = strong (2 Sam. 23:31); Abiasaph, “father of gathering” = gatherer (Ex. 6:24); Abigail, a woman’s name(!), “father of exultation” = exulting (1 Chron. 2:16). (Robert M. Bowman, Jr.)
  • John 10:30:
    1. Jesus did not say, “I am the Father,” nor did He say, “the Son and the Father are one person.”
    2. The first person plural esmen (“we are”) implies two persons. The neuter word for “one” (hen) is used, implying essential unity but not personal unity (compare John 17:21-23). (Robert M. Bowman, Jr.)

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