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.
If we believe that “God is Spirit” (John 4:24) and that He is “Holy” (Isaiah 6:3), then the Holy Spirit could not be a separate or distinct person from God, like some sort of an impersonal force outside of Him or a third person of a trinity.
The Holy Spirit is God acting, creating, working, influencing, controlling, giving life, and guiding all things and all creatures, at all times.
"How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke 11:13)
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me...to preach the gospel to the poor...to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." (Luke 4:18)
"Because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit...having been given to us." (Rom 5:5 ESV)
Jesus Christ never once claimed to be the Holy Spirit or an equal to it. In fact, he made it clear there is a vast difference between himself and the Holy Spirit, making him clearly not coequal or co-eternal as taught by church theologians.
There is no need to use ambiguous teaching claiming that Jesus was acting in his humanity, being lower than his divinity. Though such may sound intellectual, it is scripturally false. It is far better to follow the scriptures in their clarity and simplicity, rather than clever theological reasoning!
We come to a critical passage in Matthew 12:31-32 where Jesus clearly makes a distinction between himself and the Holy Spirit:
"Therefore, I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (ESV)
Why the distinction? Why did it matter? If the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ are coequal, then it would not matter, in the least, whether the Pharisees blasphemed the Son or the Holy Spirit. The outcome should have been the same with no forgiveness under any circumstances. But that was not the case.
Although the Pharisees attacked Jesus, they were forgiven. Not so when they blasphemed the Holy Spirit of God, which is in Christ Jesus. The unpardonable sin is reserved only for the Holy Spirit, not Jesus! Therefore, Christ couldn't be the Holy Spirit.
Here are a few scriptures proving Jesus is NOT the Holy Spirit, but possesses the full power of God's Holy Spirit:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me." (Luke 4:18)
"For he gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand." (John 3:34-35 ESV)
“God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!” (Gal 4:6)
What is Jesus doing with all the power and authority God bestowed on him? He became a "Life-giving Spirit," imparting a new life to those who believe, and by distributing the Holy Spirit which he received from His Father.
The next few scriptures track how the Holy Spirit flows through Christ to all true believers:
“Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.” (Acts 2:33)
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God...Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12-13)
"For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will." (John 5:21 NKJV)
"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser...you are the branches, without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:1,5 NKJV)
"All things that the Father hath are mine. Therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall shew it unto you" (John 16:15).
"The last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit." (1 Cor 15:45) ESV
The following expressions, though different, simply mean the Holy Spirit, which is in Christ Jesus, who, in turn, gives to those who believe.
The Spirit
The Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God
The Power of God
The Spirit of Christ
The Spirit of Truth
The Paraclete
The Advocate
The Consoler
The Helper
The Comforter
Why is the Holy Spirit now available?
Because Christ's death reconciled us to God, the door is open widely to become children of God. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that marks one as a child of God, one who is not subject to sin and death.
How does one get the seal of the Spirit?
Through true faith and repentance in the name of Jesus Christ, one obtains the holy Spirit (Acts 2:38). You will know it when you receive it, which profoundly changes one's inner being from that moment on. You and others will begin to recognize your anointing mainly by the fruits the Holy Spirit produces in a believer's life, just as Jesus taught,
"The tree is known by its fruit." (Matt 12:33)
"Ye shall know them by their fruits." (Matt 7:16)
To be clear, the fruits here (or works) are "of the Holy Spirit" and not our own fruits, which are "of the flesh" (See Gal 5:17-24) and can only lead to sin and death.
How is receiving the Holy Spirit confirmed?
God will confirm your new birth by giving you "His witness" concerning His Son. Rather than receiving a "witness" only from a book or through someone, God will also send the "Spirit of His Son" into the new believer's spirit, increasingly "drawing" the believer toward "His Son," confirming His seal. This gives a believer an incredible feeling as though he or she has known the Father and the Son intimately. Such wonders are seen in these verses below
"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him." (John 6:44)
"The Spirit of truth...Yet you know it, for it is remaining with you and will be in you." (John 14:16-17 CLT)
"If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son." (1 John 5:9 ESV)
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." (Rom 8:16-17)
"Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (Gal 4:6)
Does the Spirit dwell permanently in a believer?
The indwelling Holy Spirit doesn't just come occasionally to a born-again believer. Rather, it fills, dwells, and remains in the believer as God's seal, a guarantee of the new life:
"I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matt 28:18)
"If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." (John 14:23)
"Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Rom 8:15)
Do I experience a life change instantly?
Just as a new infant grows gradually, God begins to conform a born-again believer into the image of His Son gradually and into full maturity.
"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (designate; CLT) to be conformed to the image of his Son." (Rom 8:29)
God is not some Tyrant who compels all creatures to worship Him day and night robotically. If this is your idea of God, perhaps it's time to reconsider!
While it pleases God that we all glorify Him (as we should), it pleases Him even more to shower humans with His perfect love and care, to give us the best life. God has already proven this when He "Spared not his own Son." (Rom 8:32)
Further, the "Oneness" between Jesus and God is also bestowed upon all true believers. By pouring His Holy Spirit, God shares His "divine nature" with us as He does with His own Son! Do you find it shocking? It's shockingly amazing! God is actually letting all true believers share and partake of His divine nature. And why not? After all, if one is born of God, shouldn't he or she share and partake of His "divine nature"?!
Does this make them equal to God? Of course, not! Neither believers nor Jesus himself is equal to God in any way when they share in God's bountiful divine nature. God is "the Father of all," and He is a giver. If this seems to you an exaggerated statement, then,
Examine what the apostle Peter said:
"His divine power has given to us all things...by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature." (2 Pet 1:4 NKJV)
Hear what Jesus prayed for:
"That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us." (John 17:21 ESV)
Read what Paul was inspired to write:
"And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." (1 Cor 15:49)
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." (2 Cor 5:17 ESV)
One needs to recognize that a believer will be judged on his or her personal conviction of faith, and not on what they have been told to believe.
No matter how persuasively one was taught in a church, or how obedient one was to a teaching, it is our responsibility to examine all things by the Spirit, the scriptures, and a sound mind.
"So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God." (Rom 14:12)
The Trinity was not taught by Christ or the apostles. It is an affront to God. There is no such thing as "one God in three persons" anywhere in the scriptures. There are only two beings, God and Jesus Christ, and they are not one being, but two SEPARATE beings. Making them into one that are coequal and co-eternal, trinitarians blur the identity of both, which could be blasphemous.
It is paramount to know well who we worship and who we serve. To do so accurately, consider what the scriptures teach about God and Jesus Christ:
The Holy Spirit is not another person
The Holy Spirit is the power of God
God is not the Son
Jesus is not God
God begat the Son
God is to be worshipped
Jesus is to be served
God is eternal (no beginning, no end)
Jesus is not eternal (has a beginning, no end)
God is not a man
Jesus is a man
God cannot die
Jesus died
Etc.
Is it that simple? I assure you, it is.