Saturday, April 25, 2015

MATHEMATICAL EQUATION OF THE GODHEAD (1x1x1=1)

The Trinitarian form of monotheism defies reasoning and common sense. The creedal codification of the Trinity (the Athanasian Creed) states that the persons of the Trinity are incomprehensible; line 9 of the Creed states: 
“The Father Incomprehensible, the Son Incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost Incomprehensible.” 
For this reason alone the Trinity is outside biblical tradition. We can make this assertion with confidence because the New Testament is clear that the Godhead is comprehendible  Paul writes that we may know God and His Godhead. He writes that we are without excuse if we do not know Him. Paul assures the believers that we may know Him through the things He has made. The Apostle writes it this way: “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: ... ” Romans 1:20

We do recognize a trithi-ness in the Deity. Truly, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. One must admit that these are three separate and distinct ... somethings; but not persons. The facts compel us to this conclusion because a person has a recognizable center of intellect, volition, and emotion; therefore persons (plural) would have separate and distinct centers of intellect, volition and emotion.   To say that God has separate and distinct persons is to say that within this group known as God, or within the corporation known as God, or even in this race known as God, or better yet, in this species known as God, there are three persons with three separate and distinct centers of intellect, three separate and distinct centers of volition, and three separate and distinct centers of emotion. This would mandate three separate and distinct gods within the sphere of deity. 

Try as Trinitarians might they cannot get away from the notions of three gods. No matter how they try to escape, no matter how deep a hole they try to hide in, they cannot evade the charge of tritheism. An accusation that Monarchianism lays at the feet of Trinitarian theology is this: Trinitarians pray to and worship three separate and distinct co-equal and co-eternal God-persons; each with their individual centers of intellect, volition, and emotion; and each being fully God without the aid of the other two.  This does violence to the Shema, (Deut 6:4 “Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD.” ) and is the height and depth of blasphemy.

The Trinitarian tells us that each God-person is separate and distinct from the others, and that each is fully God within Himself, without the aid of the other two. So, then, the Trinity has:  One God the Father, plus one God the Son, plus one God the Holy Spirit: 1+1+1. Their mathematical equation for the Godhead is addition: 1+1+1 equals (they want to tell us) 1. Now, that is not the math any of us learned in school. One god, plus one god, plus one god, equals three gods; there is no way to avoid this sum, if the equation is addition. The Trinitarian’s mathematical equation does violence to the Shema.   

One may well ask: “What is the correct mathematical equation for the Godhead.” Well it certainly is not addition. One cannot say that one, plus one, plus one, equals one (1+1+1=1). That would be a lie. But one could, and should, use multiplication. When the One God (who eternally exists as God) multiplied Himself in His Son, He did not add a God-person, but Himself became multiplied. (Himself became Himself in another way.) In this way one times one does not increase the equation. One, times one, times one—still equals one. We have, then,  God the Father (Who is One), Who came to earth and duplicated Himself in flesh as a man; One times One, Jesus Christ the Son of God. Now this God the Father who multiplied Himself as the Son of God, multiplied Himself once again as the Holy Spirit. Did Jesus not say, “It is expedient for you that I go away, for if I do not go away the Comforter will not come?” In John 14 Jesus is recorded as saying that the Spirit of Truth (Himself) that was, then, with the disciples would soon dwell within them as the Comforter? In fact, Jesus said in John 14:18 that He was the Comforter: “I will not leave you comfortless,” Jesus said, “I will come to you.” The Spirit of the Holy Ghost in the lives of the believers is the Spirit of Jesus Christ. So,  we do not have one —plus one—plus one. We have one (God the Father) times one (the Son of God) times one (the Holy Spirit) equals one God: 1x1x1=1.

 Karl Barth expressed a more biblically correct view of the Trinity and the understanding of 'Person', with which Modalism has no debate when he wrote: "'Person' as used in the Church doctrine of the Trinity bears no direct relation to personality. The meaning of the doctrine is not, then, that there are three personalities in God. This would be the worst and most extreme expression of tritheism, against which we must be on guard at this stage. . . . But in it we are speaking not of three divine I's, but thrice of the one divine I."  Which is what we are saying in 1x1x1=1.

This, my friend, is true and does no violence to the logic placed within each man by which he is to reason himself to God. “Come! Let us reason together,” the Bible says, “though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow.” 


Beloved, isn’t it great to know the God whom we worship? Is it not a thing wonderful to know that when we bow our knees, we do not bow to three individual persons? We do not pray, as the Trinitarians do, now to the Father, now to the Son, and now to the Holy Spirit. But when we bow, we bow our knee to one Almighty; Who is one—times one—times one—equals one. We pray to one God Almighty who is our Father, is the Son, and lives in our hearts as the Holy Spirit. Permit us to declare with the Modalistic Monarchians throughout history, We believe in, and worship, one God who is the Father in creation, the Son in generation and redemption, and the Holy Spirit in emanation and sanctification. 1x1x1=1!

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☩ David Ignatius

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☩☩ Jerry L Hayes
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  1. Randy WattsApril 11, 2020 at 10:02 AM

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  2. Randy WattsApril 11, 2020 at 10:04 AM

    If I'm not mistaken, orthodox Trinitarian doctrine does not use the term "separate". Removing this term from your treatise does nothing to lessen its strength, but rather gives Trinitarian Apologists one less thing to disagree with.

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