The little One from the Almighty Father

“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 9:6).

The Son of God would inherit all the high titles and character of His Father. We see the Father through His beautiful Son. The Child of heaven was diffident and deferential when at all possible, yet always affable. “In every gentle and submissive way, Jesus tried to please those with whom He came in contact.” Desire of Ages, p. 85.

   

The Trinity has a big problem. It can’t see Jesus as the Father’s little One. In the Trinity the Son does not tug at the human heart because the Trinity doctrine says that the Son is not young and especially precious. Therefore, Trinitarianism is not redemptive. In the mind of the Trinitarian, Jesus cannot compare with youthful Isaac when Abraham laid him on the altar to be offered. The Trinity doesn’t let Jesus be young and innocent because Satan doesn’t want Jesus to have the attraction that comes naturally with youthful innocence. But, the devil lets all the other children of this sinful race to be adored and worshiped. “He magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.” (Dan. 8:11).

The Trinity doctrine says that Jesus is co-eternal, co-eval (or co-equal) with the Father. The “Son”, according to the Trinity doctrine, is a God who is not really a Son to God the Father, but who dishonestly plays the role of a Son. And the Father is not really a Father to the Son; but He is simply playing the role of Father. They pretend to be Father and Son. According to the Trinity doctrine, some time back in the past infinite eons three Gods volunteered to play the part of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The Trinity is eerie and ghostly and wicked. Our hearts can’t identify with the Triune gods to trust in them.

With the Trinity, there is no “dear Son” of our Father. Therefore, the Trinity cannot be biblical.

“…[the Father] hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.” (Col. 1:13). The Son is not precious to the Father, as human children are to their parents, and even as are the offspring of the animal kingdom. How can the Son be precious to a God who is only role-playing a Father’s part in a movie? Have you ever seen a mother lioness or house cat licking her cub’s furry head, its furry brow being pushed down over its big, cute eyes? That is a beautiful sight.

But the Trinity isn’t like that. There is no similar beautiful bond between the Father God and the Son God of the Trinity. They are co-eternal, meaning they are the same age. They are equals. They are not really a Son and His Father who begot Him. This subtlety destroys the redeeming attraction to fallen man. According to the Trinity doctrine, the Son didn’t come out from the Father’s person, as Eve came out of Adam. God the Father didn’t birth God the Son as 100 year old Abraham birthed Isaac. “This [Eleizer] shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.” (Gen. 15:4). Each of the Father and Son is not infinitely bound to each other as Adam and Eve became one flesh, and as Abraham and Isaac were bound by a tie that nothing, not even death, could break. The Trinity’s Gods don’t compare with the human experience in the least. They don’t appeal to our hearts, setting up the sinful human to yearn for such an eternal, self-sacrificing love. This lack of an infinite bond is a huge, real problem. 

The Trinity wars against Jesus’ revelation of the Godhead, that “My Father and I are one.” (John 8:51). This subtlest of falsehoods casts down the church―the armies of the God of Israel―and stamps upon them. “It waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.” (Dan. 8:10). Its preferred humanistic construct of gods destroys the truth of the Godhead. “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” (Rom. 1:25). “I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands” (Jer. 1:16), “the queen of heaven” (Jer. 44:17). 

Christ’s comparison between earthly fathers and the heavenly Father was a waste of words if the Trinity were true:

“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?” (Matt. 7:11).

“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” (Luke 11:13).

Or David’s comparisons of the earthly to the heavenly:

“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear Him.” (Ps. 103:13).

“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward….

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.” (Ps. 127:3,5).

So, according to the Trinity doctrine, it didn’t please God the Father infinitely to give God the Son all the fullness of the Godhead. Yet, the Bible says that it did please God the Father to bestow everything to His beloved, only begotten Son. “For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell.” (Col. 1:19).

The Trinity dogma declares that it didn’t cost the Father everything to give up His Son for our place in His infinite wrath of damnation. That doctrine of devils says that all the fullness was already God the Son’s from eternity past. The Trinity relationships may appear full of love, but that shallow love doesn’t rank with the bond between the true, biblical divine Father and His divine only-Begotten.

“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle; and them that dwell in heaven.” (Rev. 13:5,6).

Nevertheless, look at how the Bible makes Abraham and Isaac to typify the Father and His Son.

“By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called.” (Heb. 11:17,18).

“And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And He said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.” (Gen. 22:1,2).

What made Isaac so precious to Abraham? What made Isaac’s sacrifice so egregious? Wasn’t it that Abraham had to wait so long, yearning for a son before his precious son was begotten from him? Isaac was the only son Abraham could ever have. Isaac was a miracle child in Abraham’s old age; and, now years later there would never be another chance for a child who he could love. There would certainly not be another Isaac, who Abraham had already bonded with for many years, watching the beautiful bundle of life grow up into a young man, happy to be perfected by the love and godly training of his beloved father.

A Trinitarian friend of mine sometimes declares his joy that God chose the leadership form of a patriarchy, rather than a demanding, distant King, an equally demanding Prince, and a mysterious Spirit being. But, my friend daily wrestles with being able to trust in the Son. I believe my friend struggles during his long dark and emotionally distressful periods because, even though he knows the Bible, my friend still sees Jesus as another Father God, aloof and sitting greatly upon a throne, no differently than the Trinity God the Father and God the Spirit who my friend imagines sit stoically and sage-like upon their thrones. My friend sees three Kings, all high and out of reach, overseeing Their universal empire. Such an arrangement leaves the connotation that They all sit platonicly, condescendingly, immune to our pains and unwilling to make Themselves reachable. The Trinity infers that the Godhead are multi-billionaire neighbors in a gated, palatial community, who make house calls to one another, but who remain suspicious of being undermined and one-upped by the other two. To the Trinitarian the Godhead isn’t really a patriarchy at all; but, rather a Triumvirate. This is the psychology of the Trinity deception.

Jesus counseled His disciples, “Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you.” (Matt. 20:25,26).

In other words, the kingdoms of this world sit as great men on their thrones, and the people are forced to bow in acquiescence, and not to even look at them, lest they be killed. But, it would not be so among the redeemed children of God, because it is not so with their heavenly Parents.

Hear the longing for the Son of God to again be in the bosom of His Father.

“And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” (John 17:5). We bow before a Father and Son who are infinitely intimately and affectionately bound. The Father wraps Himself around His Son in infinite love, and gives wrath upon everyone who doesn’t love His Son also.

“The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:35,36). The Father has given all power to His Son. Giving with all the heart is the natural response of genuine―not platonic, role-played―love. Giving with all their hearts came from the love between Jonathan and David.

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“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul…. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.” (1Sam. 18:1,3,4).

Prince Jonathan was not the only one precious to David. Jonathan’s father was as precious to David as his own father, King Saul, who was chasing David with an army to kill him.

“Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

And David answered and said, Behold the king’s spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it. The LORD render to every man His righteousness and His faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’s anointed. And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.” (1Sam. 26:20-24).

Because the Son of God was so willing to comply with His Father’s need of our redemption, at His baptism the Father gave His Son the greatest of all gifts.

“And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him.” (Matt. 3:16).

“Never before have the angels listened to such a prayer. They are eager to bear to their loved Commander a message of assurance and comfort. But no; the Father Himself will answer the petition of His Son. Direct from the throne issue the beams of His glory. The heavens are opened, and upon the Saviour’s head descends a dovelike form of purest light,―fit emblem of Him, the meek and lowly One.” Desire of Ages, p. 112.

   

“And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him. And I knew Him not: but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.” (John 1:32-34).

“For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” (John 3:34). That day of baptism, the Father anointed His Son with the Spirit without measure. The anointing came not from a third person of a Trinity, but, it was the life of God, the glory of God, a part of His “own self” (John 17:5). The dove-like form of purest glory came from the Father’s heart to kiss His Son, and was “a fit emblem” of not a third person of a Trinity, but of the meek and lowly One, His only begotten Son. And it was not only a fit “emblem” of Christ, but also an emblem of the meek and lowly “Father of spirits” (Heb. 12:9).

We have a precious Son, whose poured out blood was equally precious with His poured out soul. We have a Saviour like the year-old lamb that was brought into the Israelite homes for four days before the Passover, binding their hearts to it. We have a Son, the only begotten and chosen from the beginning, who is precious to His Father, and dwelling in His bosom. And by loving the Son, He sends us His precious own Spirit, the gift-dove from His own bosom, faith through the promise of His grace, His gift of faith and power to obey, a power that works by love and sanctifies the soul. All who receive the peace-giving “Spirit of [God’s only begotten] Son” (Gal. 4:6), are “born” (John 1:12) from the Son. His grace and love for His precious children gives us a resilience that enables us to rebound from difficulties and tragedies of this life, and a power that endures harsh persecution.

“And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” (Rev. 5:5,6).

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” (1Pet. 1:18-20).

“If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

To whom coming, as unto a living Stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner Stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded.

Unto you therefore which believe He is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner.” (1Pet. 2:3-7).

“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (2Pet. 1:1-4).

The Son God of the imperial Trinity never descended into hell for us because Satan has forbidden his people to be saved. And therefore the Trinity Son God can never stoop to uplift our burdened souls. Salvation through faith in the preciousness of the Father and Son can never be had by the imperial Trinitarians. All they can know is a lifeless three-in-one God of force. All they can have is a loveless, Christless, imperious religion that destroys its opposition without mercy. The Trinity leads people to persecute. They don’t have the source of all redemption and “all power” (Matt. 28:18)—that is, agape love from the precious Lamb and our love for Him, Christ our Passover.

The Trinity is not only a huge problem, but an infinite, subtle, oh so subtle one. The non-Trinitarian debate is not a war of semantics, but the Christian’s war against this wicked and diabolical obstacle of the world’s deliverance from the wicked one.