Many have had the sect known as the, “Jehovah’s Witnesses” knock on their door and proclaim that the Trinity Doctrine of Christianity is pagan in origin and is thus simply not Biblical. Are they correct?  HHhhhhmmmmm

We will look at their claim in this article and give a correct Biblical and historical look at the Trinity Doctrine. In the Watch Tower publication titled; “Should you believe in the Trinity?” they state regarding the Trinity:

“Is such reasoning hard to follow? Many sincere believers have found it to be confusing, contrary to normal reason, unlike anything in their experience. How, they ask, could the Father be God, Jesus be God, and the holy spirit be God, yet there be not three Gods but only one God? “

I would like to start at looking at the Watch Towers reasoning here compared to the Holy Scriptures. The Scriptures clearly state:

“This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” [1 Corinthians 2:13,14]

and……

“ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
       and lean not on your own understanding; 

    in all your ways acknowledge him,
       and he will make your paths straight.” [Proverbs 3:5,6]

So the Bible tells us not to trust in human wisdom and understanding yet this is what the Watch Tower does, it trust’s human understanding. As a matter of fact the Watch Tower claims that only 144,000 people can ever receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Since this is what they hold to and believe they cannot have the Holy Spirit’s existance to help them understand the things of God. Sad isn’t it.

The Bible tells us: “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.” [1 Corinthians 2:14]

Wow! What a claim! Right away we see problems with the Watch Tower understanding. Their publication about the Trinity goes on to admit:

“So it took centuries from the time of Christ for the Trinity to become widely accepted in Christendom.”

So the question is; Why did this issue ever arise to begin with? People must have saw the teaching of the Trinity in Scripture to even fight about it. What the Watch Tower does not stress is the fact that a man named Arius who came much later on in the Christian scene began to fight against the Trinity Doctrine. This is truly when it became an issue. Before him many Christians were content about what the Bible taught regarding the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The real debate, “Should you believe in the Trinity” began with Arius, a presbyter in the church in Alexandria. Arius considered God so far removed from men that it was impossible to know Him or to have fellowship with Him. Arius was thoroughly pagan Greek in his conception of God. It was thus his pagan Greek ideas that rejected the Divinity of Christ.

Another arguement that the Watch Tower tries very hard to use against Christians is their claim that pagans worshiped “trinity” god’s. Here is where they trick you! It is true that pagans would sometimes group three gods together and worship a “family of gods” but they always still recognized them as three separate gods. This is known as tritheism.  The Christian doctrine of the Trinity is not tritheism!

The Christian Trinity is ONE GOD in three persons. The Watch Tower mixes up different theories to try and confuse the uneducated Christian regarding this very important doctrine. If the Watch Tower cannot convince you that you are a pagan tritheist they next try and convince you that you are a modalist.

Modalism teaches that God simply plays three roles as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Watch Tower’s arguement is: “So when Jesus was praying to the Father he was thus praying to himself? See, the trinity just doesn’t make sense..it’s pagan!”

Here again they try and confuse the true Christian understanding. The true Christian understanding is that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three persons which have eternally been together and thus they are GOD, but not and never three gods. Jesus is not the Father and the Father is not Jesus but he who has the Father has the Son and visa versa.

Each person of the Godhead is involved in everything the others do, for the Father is in the Son and the Son in him [John 10:38], and the Spirit is both the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ [Romans 8:9. But Scripture also emphasizes general distinctions among the works of the three persons. We must give equal attention to, and give equal honor to all three persons as God. So we see that true Christianity does not teach modalism either!

Let's look at one more ridiculous paragraph from the Watch Tower publication regarding the Trinity;

"Are Christians to believe that centuries after Christ and after having inspired the writing of the Bible, God would back the formulation of a doctrine that was unknown to his servants for thousands of years, one that is an "inscrutable mystery" "beyond the grasp of human reason," one that admittedly had a pagan background and was "largely a matter of church politics"? "

Now we would hope that the Watch Tower people would not think us to be so stupid. They state here; "Are Christians to believe that centuries after Christ and after having inspired the writing of the Bible, God would back the formulation of a doctrine that was unknown to his servants for thousands of years..." First off, the Trinity doctrine was never in question agressively until hundreds of years after Christ. It really started to be debated over by the appearance of Arius, a pagan diest. Second, they shoot forth the claim 'would God back a doctrine that had not been known for thousands of years'. I suppose we could use this arguement against their claim that Jesus came invisibly in the year 1914 A.D.

Now who is the God of confusion? The Watch Tower or Jehovah? Clearly the Watch Tower is teaching confusion regardinig the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

Written by, Eric William King [September 15,2007]

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