By Nab B.
October 2016
Updated Nov 2026
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 discover what God is saying, not what a system of theology says! Although the scriptures are profoundly deep, they are equally plain and simple to understand if we allow His Spirit and reason to guide us.
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There is a reason why "Jesus" is often contrasted with "Adam," but not with God. Please keep reading...
To grasp Jesus' role, look at Adam's role. Churches and theologians, rather than comparing Jesus to Adam, compare Jesus to God. In doing so, they miss the point and vainly imagine a false doctrine as the trinity!
God, who is one—not three in one—had created only two sons in the whole history of man. Everyone else either came through Adam in the flesh or through Jesus in the Spirit.
Let me explain...
You already know how the first Son of God, Adam, fell, died, and thus all humans. (Rom 5:12) For God, it was "paramount" to bring humans back to Him. To do this, a second Son was needed.
Trinitarians solve this quandary by inventing the "One-God-in-three-persons" doctrine, and incarnating the second person of the Trinity to be the God-Man Saviour. Unreasonable is a mild word!
Trinitarians ignore that Jesus had to be Adam's equal, not God's. To be as such, he could not be a heavenly being, nor existed before; in a word, "thoroughly human." Though the whole plan (logos) of salvation was God's own making, all participants, Christ and humans, were fully free to choose.
"I will put enmity between you and the woman...he shall bruise your head.” (Gen 3:15 ESV)
"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law." (Gal 4:4 ESV)
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." (Rom 5:22)
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
The first Adam became a death-giving soul. The last Adam, Jesus Christ, appointed by God to be a life-giving spirit; “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit." (1 Cor 15:45 ESV)
Just as we could never be born in the flesh without Adam, we could never be reborn in the spirit without Christ. Our remaking, from soulish to spiritual, is done only through the Spirit-Man, Jesus Christ.
If Jesus is the 'second person of the Trinity,' why would he, in heaven, need to serve as "Mediator" (1 Tim 2:5), "Advocate" (1 John 2:1), "Intercessor" (Heb 7:25), and "High Priest" (Heb 4:14)? Here's why: First, because the man Jesus could not be God. Second, God requires a fully human Son who continually serves us in heaven to bring us back to God.
No one can approach God directly, at least in this age, without Jesus. Anyone who tries, even sincerely, to circumvent his "independent" role is hostile to God. Trinitarians blur that role by making Jesus part of a trinity. In effect, saying God serves Himself! I pray our trinitarian friends be very cautious.
(Joseph and Pharaoh's account sheds light on the nature of the relationship between Jesus and God. See Genesis 41:41-46)
" I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:16)
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." (Heb 10:19)
To return to God, Jesus, supernaturally, transforms our old Adamic nature into a new one by the "power" of his Father. The contrast between Jesus and Adam in 1 Corinthians 15:46-49 proves that Jesus was Adam's equal, not God. Only Christ's ministry of life "SURPASSES" Adam's ministry of death.
Here is the passage in 1 Corinthians, verse by verse, contrasting Adam to Jesus (not God).
“The spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.
"The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
"As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust;
"And as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.
"And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.”
"We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten (Gk., monogenés) of the Father." (John 1:14)
The word "only-begotten" comes from the Greek word monogenés. Let's define it for better understanding.
Here is HELPS Word-studies:
monogenḗs (from 3411 /misthōtós, "one-and-only" and 1085 /génos, "offspring, stock") – properly, one-and-only; "one of a kind" – literally, "one (monos) of a class, genos" (the only of its kind).
(Source: https://biblehub.com/greek/3439.htm)
Why is Jesus the "only-begotten"? You will get the wrong answer if you compare Jesus with God, since God can neither be born nor die! Keep in mind that God brought only two Sons to humanity, Adam and Jesus. Adam fell and died; Jesus obeyed and lived. This leaves only one "Begotten" Son of God. It is in this context that being "only begotten" should be understood.
"Only-begotten" means having only one child. It applied to Jesus as well as others. For example, "only-begotten" was used for Jairus' daughter, "He had an only daughter, monogenés, about twelve years old, and she was dying. " (Luke 8:42). It was also used by a father pleading with Jesus, "Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child, monogenés." (Luke 9:38)
Because Jesus is fully human (not God becoming human), the language used expresses his kinship to us.
Just as he is an "only-begotten" (monogenés), we also became "begotten" (anagennaó) through him. Just as he is the "firstborn," we also are second in line, as his "brethren" (Heb 2:11).
Just as Jesus shares God's divine nature within his human nature, "born again" believers also share God's "divine nature" within their human nature. If you find this unbelievable, perhaps this passage can help.
"He has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature." (2 Pet 1:4 ESV)
God did not incarnate his second person of the Trinity; rather, He has "begotten" a Son, a separate man from Him, a second Adam, who could make us into sons of God. "The Son of man is come to seek and to save (humans) that which was lost (through Adam's sin)." (Luke 19:10)
Our story is a story of birth, death, and rebirth. It is the work of God, who is "One God (not-three-in-one) and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Eph 4:6)