A Refutation Of Trinitarianism (Part 3)

https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-refutation-of-trinitarianism-part-1.html

https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-refutation-of-trinitarianism-part-2.html


In parts one and two of this series, I explained what heresy is and isn't, demonstrated using logic and math that the popular conception of the Trinity is objectively false and impossible, and showed that the Bible teaches that Yahweh and Christ (in particular) are distinct beings.  With those issues addressed, I will turn my attention to responding to a common defense of Trinitarianism I have encountered and to highlighting the vagueness of the alleged Biblical confirmation of the Trinity.

I have found a certain argument presented to be by multiple Trinitarians throughout my life.  When pressed for a defense of the Trinity as defined by them, Trinitarians will sometimes hide behind the pathetic claim that the Trinity is not comprehensible because of the limitations or corruption of our human intellects.  Ironically, even if this were true that the Trinity exists but is not comprehensible, they have admitted that they are holding to an irrational belief in the sense that they are admitting that they cannot rationally establish Trinitarianism and thus must believe without actual confirmation.  If they argue against the human intellect as a whole in order to uphold this erroneous point, they will be using the very thing they are calling unreliable to argue against itself, meaning their claim here is self-defeating.  Human cognitive abilities are infallibly reliable to the extent that they are aligned with reason itself and no one can argue to the contrary without affirming and relying on that very thing.  Of course, the Trinity isn't even possible.  In part two of this series I explained that in detail.  Trinitarianism is objectively impossible and the Bible rejects it.

And now I will assess the process of actually arriving at this vague belief.  The Trinity must be cobbled together in an illogical manner from scattered texts.  It is not only logically and mathematically impossible and Biblically false, but it is also nowhere laid out in the text itself directly.  Even if the Bible did actually teach the Trinity (and it doesn't, as I established in part two of this series), one would quite possibly not be able to identify this doctrine without a great deal of assumptions and conditioning.  I have yet to meet someone who said that he or she would have found and embraced the doctrine of the Trinity had that person never had any previous theological influence exerted on him or her by others.  The Bible simply does not have information about the ontology of all three divine beings in the same place in a systematic manner that describes the evangelical notion of the Trinity.

I suspect that many Trinitarians know deep down that they cannot defend or truly articulate how God could possibly be three persons in one, how these three separate minds are still one single being.  Unless they mean that there are three separate divine beings who share the same moral nature and to describe this group they use the word "Trinity", they propose an erroneous thing.  Sometimes they may even appeal to traditional creeds based on the consensus of historical theologians instead of the Bible in an effort to defend the Trinity--after they reject logic and math in this area, they must hold something up besides Scripture, for the Bible does not teach Trinitarianism.

As I said before, beyond the fact that the Trinity is simply a false truth claim, the real reason to oppose it is not because it is vague and impossible to apply to one's life in any significant way, but because representing an impossible contradiction as being at the core of Christian theology is extremely asinine.  If Christianity is true, and if the concept of the Trinity as popularly defined cannot be true, then equating one with the other is to mix two irreconcilable things and present them to the world as a consistent truth that conforms to reality.

And that is a highly dangerous thing for Christians to do.