By Nab B.
October 2016
Updated Nov 2025
We are commanded to “Rightly divide the word” (2 Tim 2:15), and to “Shun the traditions of men” (Col 2:8). Do you have the fortitude to do just that, especially when examining the doctrine of the Trinity?
My unorthodox approach will show how the Trinity doctrine lacks scriptural support. If it seemed to have solved the nature of God theologically, it has failed scripturally and logically.
My interest — and, hopefully, yours —is to hear what God is clearly saying, not what a complex system of theology likes to say! The scriptures, though profoundly deep, are equally plain and simple to understand if we let His Spirit and reason guide us.
Don't confuse the old creation with the new. It makes all the difference!
The old creation is physical through Adam, God's first Son. The new creation is spiritual through Jesus, God's only Son. The old was first; the new is last. The source and creator of both creations is God, "Father of all."
Such a concept is subtly expressed by the use of two prepositions, which often go unnoticed, especially by trinitarians. The prepositions are: "out of" and "through."
Words do make a difference. Even a simple preposition can change the meaning, as you will see.
The preposition "out of" indicates that something or someone came out of another.
The scriptures clearly show that "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Gen 1:1). At first, all humans were created and came "Out of God". At last, God is recreating the same humans anew "Through" Jesus Christ.
What about Jesus? Our Lord is no exception. Like any father who begets a son, Jesus came "Out of" his Father God, not as his equal, but as his Son with a beginning and fully dependent on God.
The preposition "Out from" or "Out of" in this passage, told by Jesus, says it all: "Have believed that I came forth from God. I came forth from the Father..." (John 16:27-28 BLB)
Here's the same verse rendered more accurately in the Concordant Literal Translation: "And have believed that I came out from God. I came out from the Father." (John 16:27-28 CLT)
Note how the Greek preposition "exerchomai" is defined in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance:
Come forth, depart, escape, get out.
From "ek" and "erchomai," to issue (literally or figuratively) — come (forth, out), depart (out of).
(Source: https://biblehub.com/greek/1831.htm)
Accordingly, Jesus came "Out from" or "out of" the Father who is his origin. As such, Jesus could not be coequal and co-eternal with Him.
Now we come to an important passage that shows a marked difference between the two prepositions, describing two types of creations.
"Yet for us there is one God, the Father, FROM (Gk., 'out of') WHOM ARE ALL things (all creation) and for whom we exist.
(and)
"One Lord, Jesus Christ, THROUGH (Gk., dia 'through') WHOM ARE ALL things (spiritual creation) and through whom we exist." (I Cor. 8:6 ESV)
Have you noticed from the verse above that God is bringing a new creation "Through" Jesus Christ? It's either "Through Jesus" or "In Jesus," but not "Out of Jesus".
Here's another passage demonstrating this in two translations:
"For in (Gk., en) him is all created (new spiritual creation)... All is created through (Gk., dia 'through') him and for him, and he is before all (in rank, not time)...and all has its cohesion in him." (Col. 1:16-17 CLT)
"For by him all things were created...All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." (Col 1:16-17 NKJV)
Jesus Christ (the Son) is charged by God in RE-MAKING the old ages which God has already created:
“God...in the last of these days speaks to us in a Son, Whom He appoints enjoyer of the allotment of all, through (Gk., dia 'through') Whom He also makes the eons (Gk., aión: ages).” (Hebrews 1:2 CLT)
Beware of Bible translations that imply Jesus created the physical world, instead of remaking the old ages (eons). The preposition, 'through' in Hebrews 1:2, clearly shows the world was already made, and God is "re-making" it "anew" through His Son. For just as God caused humans to be born through Adam in the flesh, He causes willing humans to be born through Christ in the spirit.
The old ages (humans and all) are brought into perfection through Christ and offered back to the Father. Only Christ "has been given (by God) all authority" (Matt 28:18) to impart a new and higher spiritual life into all:
"The last Adam was made a quickening (life-giving) Spirit." (1 Cor 15:45)
“To bring together all things in Christ–the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth...to the purpose of Him (God) who works all things according to the counsel of His will.” (Eph 1:10-11)
The Creator purposely started humanity in the flesh and is ending it in the Spirit. It was not accidental that our creative days began in darkness and broke into daylight, a symbol of moving from dark to light, low to high, natural to spiritual.
"And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Gen 1:5)
"But that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual." (1 Cor 15:46)
"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light." (Eph 5:8)
What God is creating through His Son is far greater than what was created through Adam—lowly physical beings becoming higher spiritual beings. And best of all, it has already begun!