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A critique of the Trinitarian doctrine

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  • Asiwome 11 years ago

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  • JB 11 years ago

    Your account of these entities and their difference is total different from what other scholars(JW "REASONNING") say.So what do we believe.Your paper or theirs.More confusion in the Christendom huh?

  • Joe Annor 11 years ago

    No, I am not a Jehovah''s Witness. I only decided to write the article based on historical and biblical facts. In fact, there ar many doctrines that have been adultrated and it is important that the fundamental truths are dis ...
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  • SAY IT LOUD ! 11 years ago

    OH YES !


    NO COMMON SENSE CAN TRULY BELIEVE THE CRAP OF TRINITY.



    CHRISTIANISTS ARE NOT ONLY HYPOCRITES, SAYING THEY BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY TRUELY DO NOT BELIEVE AND CANNOT BELIEVE IN, THEY ARE ALSO SO BRAIN-DEAD. IT ...
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  • yb 11 years ago

    Ja man jah guide you!

  • Smart Atta Frimpong Emmanuel 11 years ago

    Lets make sure we're directed by the Holy Spirit when it comes to interpretation else we'll call for God's wrath upon ourselve.

    1st Timothy 3:16 Lets all meditate upon this quotation and ask for the Holy Spirit's understan ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    When I found out where the writer was going, I stopped reading, as I have no time to waste that type of rigmarole.

    It is clear the writer had discovered some of the contradictions and pagan practices which were adopted in ...
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  • JEFF 11 years ago

    NO ONE ON THIS EARTH KNOWS WHERE WE, HUMAN BEINGS, CAME FROM AND WHERE WE GO WHEN WE DIE.ALL THESE WRITINGS ARE GUESSES.

    THE JEWS,WHO WITNESSED HIS BIRTH, HAVE TOLD US THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS A HUMAN BEING LIKE YOU AND ME.H ...
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  • Campus Ministry Report 11 years ago

    I advice you to humble yourself, and look for a Bible believing Christian Fellowship to attend.

    You cannot live and die in ignorance.
    It is your responsibility to receive what the covenant God of Israel has given you. It ...
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  • Gregory, miracle worker 11 years ago

    References:

    10) Wikipedia - Trinity.

  • MOSES NGOUH 11 years ago

    MR JOESPH ANNOR ANSWER THIS QUESTION-----WHICH HOLY GHOST(SPIRIT)DID JESUS PROMISE TO SEND TO THE BELIEVERS?WHOM ARE THEY TO WAIT UPON?THE FATHER AND THE HOLY GHOST ARE ONE.REFER TO THE LAST WORDS TO HIS APPOSTLES BEFORE HIS ...
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  • Joe Annor 11 years ago

    I think you are referring to John chapter 14, where Jesus promised his disciples that after his departure, he would send them the Paraclete. The Paraclete literally means the advocate. Thus, Jesus only told them that he woul ...
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  • yb 11 years ago

    it seems to me Mr. Anor himself doesn`t beieve the Bible

  • Asiwome 11 years ago

    What about Acts 2:1-4?

  • caleb 11 years ago

    What is the name of the Father. where in the Bible has it being stated that the Father was a Person.
    Try comparing John 1 and Mathew 13 to Isaiah 6. This gives us clear indication that Jesus is GOD.
    Isaiah tells us the true ...
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  • Kojo S 11 years ago

    People have degrees but they cannot simply grasp something simple and logic. The father is greater than I Jesus said. He said these words are not of my own just as the father tells me so I speak to you I don't do anything of ...
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  • Joe Annor 11 years ago

    I think it is not that they cannot grasp, but they do not want to grasp it because they do not want to leave what they have always believed
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  • Kojo S 11 years ago

    Thank you. This is what Apostle Paul declared: I bear witness that you have the zeal to worship God but not according to acurate knowledge.

  • kwaku boaitey 11 years ago

    thank u my brother for this work to the blind christains in ghana who dnt read any history abt chritainity.ur on right road.the moment you mention the hitory arius i new ur eyes is open n mind.they made them worship the image ...
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  • kululu 11 years ago

    The Spirit is greater than the flesh. It the spirit that moves the flesh, so the flesh does nothing or is lifeless without the spirit. The spirit fuses with the flesh to make one personality if you like, God. The words of GOD ...
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  • Jay 11 years ago

    Hi people. Understanding these matters come via spiritual revelation and not human reasoning or mere logic. God is Spirit and the Holy Spirit has personality. Also understand by revelation the pre-, incarnate and post-incarna ...
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  • Sir John 11 years ago

    My bible teaches in the same John 14: from 15 to 28 that the Holy Ghost is a person, a teacher and lives forever. It further emphasizes that the "world" cannot receive HIM because it seeth it not. Brothers and sisters, the wo ...
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  • SAY IT LOUD ! 11 years ago

    THIS IS SIMPLE COMMON SENSE,
    NO SANE MIND CAN BELIEVE IN THIS TRINITY CRAP.


    CHRISTIANISTS ARE NOT ONLY HYPOCRITES, SAYING THEY BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY TRUELY DO NOT BELIEVE AND CANNOT BELIEVE IN, THEY ARE ALSO SO BRAIN-DEA ...
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  • yb 11 years ago

    say it loud I slute You I ^need ur contact

  • Monty Python 11 years ago

    God can't save you from anything. God can't teach you anything. God can't hear any babble praying that he will fulfill it. God was a human with fresh and blood like you and I. God is dead, dead, dead, dead, dead for over some ...
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  • kululu 11 years ago

    Who on earth has the power to give eternal life? not even angels can. who has the power to forgive sins, no prophet could do that. Only God holds this powers.Is it too difficult to understand 'if you have seen me, you have se ...
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  • Monty Python 11 years ago

    Your logical thinking is really Kululululu, gagagaga!?

  • kululu 11 years ago

    Yes, you said logical, right, that is why you dont understand anything. spiritual things turn out to be wrongly interpreted when scrutinised under logical microscope. If it were logic, then you may say, excuse me heir, that G ...
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  • Monty Python 11 years ago

    Jesus never existed, as God was also just a human. There you get it; your post even contradict itself.

  • kululu 11 years ago

    Mr. python, are u sure you arent my friend the atheist? if you are, then i put my hands up cos i dont have the physical evidence which you may ask from me in the end. otherwise say something, like your idea on the topic. i w ...
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  • Monty Python 11 years ago

    Why not read what I posted "The holy books are INSANITY". You criticize others before you read what they posted???
    Dalwin was a nut head who plagiarized "Human rise out of apes" to get his doctor title. The truth is, apes ar ...
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  • Solution Master 11 years ago

    Are you from Offinso?

  • Dzata 11 years ago

    Its true that no one has ever seen God. When you said Moses and others have seen God I personally disagree with you because God only manifested Himself to Moses in the form of the SOUND and LIGHT- remember he saw a burning bu ...
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  • RAPHAEL 11 years ago

    I LOVE THIS ARTICLE, I UNDERSTAND IT PERFECTLY BUT MY COLLEAGUES AT CHURCH DON'T GET IT.. I WISH I AM YOUR NUMBER. PEOPLE MAY SAY IM JEHOVAH WITNESS,BUT IM NOT..THIS IS SIMPLE GRAP.IF JESUS IS THE SAME AS GOD, THEN THERE'S NO ...
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  • Kojo S 11 years ago

    The wisest men can't simply get it. Why do they choose to mix up things?

  • Samuel 11 years ago

    It is quite alarming that the author of the article is lifting up his University title to disdain the Christian Faith.

    Please Mr. Joseph Annor your intellectual development and enhancement of Human Knowledge in the Univer ...
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  • DD 11 years ago

    Thank you my brother in Christ. It is obvious also that the author lacked Perseverance and Hope which are the pre-requisite mark of witness of our Faith; which is encapsulated in the Holy Trinity, Faith in God the Father, God ...
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  • bella 11 years ago

    Again,Ghanians with their big,big,big grammar!!!!!!!!!!!u will kill us,thank God some of us are not ignorant about the scriptures.Any way 1+1+1=3 and not 1 christ has never assumed to be God.Christ died and was resurrected in ...
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  • Akua Salifu 11 years ago

    John Annor, know that the devil is an avid student of the scriptures, and he does not set one trap for the Adamic race. For some like you, Say it Loud, Monty Python, Bo Ho Bio etc, he makes them see inconsistencies in the wri ...
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  • Akua Salifu 11 years ago

    "Some references to the Holy Spirit are not consistent with the belief that the Holy Spirit is a person"?


    Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the ...
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  • Monty Python 11 years ago

    Christ Jesus, Tim, Thessalonians, Romans, Luke, Acts, Revelation, Paul, Saul, John, Matt, Peter and all the so called other moron deluded apostles etc. etc, etc. can be some people for you, you like to hold on to feel better ...
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  • Joe Annor 11 years ago

    I wonder why people get offended when the truth is said. All my discussion were based on scriptures and vey much also on Jesus'own words. As I discussed Jesus himself stated that he was not the true God, so what prove again d ...
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  • Joe Annor 11 years ago

    Well, it can be your faith but that does not make it right.

  • Kofi Yamson 11 years ago

    This is just a theological masterpiece and has no value to any believer who yearns for spiritual truth. In Acts 13:2 say while they worshiping and fasting the Holy Spirit said set apart for me Banabas and Saul... Who said it? ...
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  • KOFI 11 years ago

    Hmm,U ARE USING NOKIA PHONE MANNUAL TO LEARN HOW TO OPERATE SUMSUNG PHONE! You dont know foko! of the Bible.
    I wish I could explain this but what this man ahd written is what earns degree but not what moves God. If he is lo ...
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  • Musa Kano 11 years ago

    Mark 8:36-37 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

    2 Timothy 3:7-9 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowle ...
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  • Smart Atta Frimpong Emmanuel 11 years ago

    Lets make sure we're directed by the Holy
    Spirit when it comes to interpretation else
    we'll call for God's wrath upon ourselve.


    1st Timothy 3:16 Lets all meditate upon this
    quotation and ask for the Holy Spirit's
    und ...
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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 11 years ago

    There is Almighty God , Jesus who is God (John 1:1)and the Holy Spirit (Sins against him will not be forgiven). It is like a spanner with three ends. The fitter removes different bolts and nuts, sizes 12, 13, and 14 with thi ...
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  • stephen 11 years ago

    Joe, your studies of religions in classical history is a fact. However, Trinitarian formula or doctrine is not a fact neither is it fictitious.It is Metaphysical and , therefore, we cannot use academic syllogisms based on wha ...
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  • Satu 11 years ago

    Mr Annor, are you a Christian? Your theological understanding of the trinity will be understandable if you were an adherent of of the eastern religions or a spiritualist.

    You may need to get down on your knees and ask for ...
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  • Kwame Boateng 11 years ago

    you've done a good job. all the comments for once are also very polite and I think all deserve commendation as well
    what I especially like is how you gave a historical account of how the doctrine started and this is readily ...
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  • Dr. Greg Dongkore 11 years ago

    Dear Joe, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity was sealed in 381 at the council of Constantinople. I will humbly suggest that you read about the hair-splitting arguments among hige profile theologians before the doctrine of the T ...
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  • Dr. Greg Dongkore 11 years ago

    Dear John, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity was sealed in 381 at the council of Constantinople. I will humbly suggest that you read about the hair-splitting arguments among hige profile theologians before the doctrine of the ...
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  • Eric 11 years ago

    A lot of people don't want the truth(I mean simply bible truths) but they claim to be Christians. The reason? Read 2 Corinthians 4:4.
    Good work done. Bravo!!!

  • captainjohn 11 years ago

    the word trinity is not in the bible where did they got that stupid word from???????

  • captainjohn 11 years ago

    everthing is paul paul paul what did jesus your god says?

  • Kasoa Boy 11 years ago

    ....you fibble minded, I have been telling you to throw that your fake book the koran away.

    Study the true book of the true and only God Almighty Jehovah and his Son Jesus Christ and you will stop asking this class one que ...
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  • justice 11 years ago

    very true ...in spirit and word...

  • Campus Ministry Report 11 years ago

    This is a gargantuan article, and I hope to comment on it, paragraph by paragraph.

    Let me correct, by way of introduction that there is no where in the scriptures that suggests Jesus was created. If we go by the guiding pr ...
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  • Campus Ministry Report 11 years ago

    This topic or subject matter can be very unending. The subject cannot actually be exhausted in the light of the Scriptures.

    The term Trinity is not in the scriptures, and I personally do not use it in advancing my argument ...
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