Key Proof Texts Against the Trinity
Key Proof Texts Against the Trinity
A proof text is a text that can only be legitimately interpreted one way.
God Is One Person
- Deut. 6:4: Listen Israel: Yahweh our God is one Yahweh. (Also, Mark 12:29).
- Gal. 3:20: Yet God is [only] one Person. (original Amplified Bible).
- 1 Cor. 8:4: there is no God except one (Gk eis = one person)…
- Jas. 2:19: You believe that God is one (eis) person; well done!
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Only the Father Is Almighty God
- John 17:1, 3: Father...you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
- John 5:43, 44 I have come in my Father’s name … the only God.
- 1 Cor. 8:6: to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things …and one Lord Jesus Christ.
- Eph. 4:6 There is one God and Father of all, who is over all.
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Jesus is Not Almighty God
- 1 Tim. 2:5: For there is one God and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
- John 20:17 I am ascending to my Father… to my God.
- John 20:31 These have been written so that you believe that Jesus is the Christ (not God).
- Eph. 1:3 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (The salutations in almost all of the NT letters separate Jesus from God)
- Eph. 1:17 The God of our Lord Jesus Christ
- Jude 1:25 To the only God, our saviour, through Jesus Christ
- Rev. 1:1 The revelation from Jesus Christ. God gave this to him.
- Rev. 1:6 Priests to his [Jesus’] God and Father
- Rev. 3:12 of my God … from my God
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Jesus is Subordinate to God
- John 14:28: The Father is greater than me.
- John 5:19, 30: Son is not able to do anything on his own initiative.
- Acts 3:13 God glorified His servant Jesus
- 1 Cor. 11:3: The head of Christ is God
- 1 Cor 15:28: Then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to him.
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Jesus’ Will is Separate from God’s Will
- Luke 22:42 Yet not my will, but Yours be done
- Heb. 10:7 I have come to do your will… O God
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Holy Spirit Is God’s Mind/Power
- Luke 1:35 Holy spirit = power of the Most High (by Hebrew parallelism).
- Micah 3:8 I am filled with power, with the Spirit of Yahweh.
- Rom. 11:34: Who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counsellor? Here Paul quotes from:
- Isa. 40:13: Who has measured the spirit of Yahweh, or what man shows him his counsel?
- Matt. 12:28 the spirit of God // Luke 11:20 the finger of God.
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