Program 30: “Dangers of the Trinity Doctrine”

The pagan trinity doctrine obscures deep truths about the love of Yahuwah.

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Part 1: (Miles & Dave)

Miles Robey: Hello! Welcome to WLC Radio. I’m your host, Miles Robey and joining me is Dave Wright.

Dave Wright: Greetings! Thanks for joining us today.

Miles: In a previous program, Dave showed us from the Bible that this idea of a triune godhead is not scriptural. In fact, as I recall, you said that the early Christians were not Trinitarians, isn’t that right?

Dave: That’s right, Miles. A triune godhead comes from ancient paganism, not the Bible.

Miles: Yeah, that was amazing. If you missed that program, you can still listen to it. Just go to our website and click on the WLC Radio icon. You’ll find there any programs you may have missed.

Dave: That’s right. Or you can listen to previous programs on YouTube as well.

Today, I want to talk about a dire side effect of the trinity doctrine. The trinity doctrine didn’t just come from paganism. It was actually designed by Satan to obscure a very important and profound truth, and it’s worked astonishingly well.

Miles: From what I understand, even non-Trinitarians don’t always pick up on the satanic agenda behind this doctrine.

Dave: That’s right, Miles. And yet it can, in a very real way, make of no effect the Saviour’s death at Calvary!

Miles: That’s serious! Just a quick word before we delve into that, though. If this is your first time joining us, I want to explain some terms you’ll hear us use. At WLC, we enjoy using the real names for “God” and “Jesus” which is Yahuwah—or Yah—and Yahushua. Just don’t want anyone wondering whom we’re talking about here!

So, Dave, this idea that the doctrine of a triune godhead is actually part of a satanic agenda to hide some big truth is a new idea to me, as I’m sure it is to our listeners. What more can you tell us about this?

Dave: The Trinity doctrine was deliberately devised by Satan to divert attention away from the Father and obscure the revelation of divine love made at Calvary.

Miles: Okay, but how? I’m not making the connection. Even when I was a Trinitarian, I believed in the Father’s love. It says, right in John 3:16: “For Yah so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” It says it right there! So, I’m not understanding your point that a triune godhead hides the love of the Father as demonstrated at the cross.

Dave: All right. Let’s go back to when Lucifer rebelled. Scripture says he wanted to be like Yah. In fact, let’s read it. It’s in Isaiah 14:13-14.

Miles: Okay. Give me just a second … I’ve got that here: “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of El: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” (Isaiah 14:13-14)

Dave: “I will be like the most High.” That’s what Satan wanted. Now, Yahuwah is love. That is His core essence. The very foundation of His being is love. All life, all happiness, all joy, it all flows from the originating source: Yahuwah. The only way Satan could hope to dethrone Yahuwah—because remember, that was part of his stated goal in Isaiah 14—the only way he could hope to exalt his throne above the stars of Yah, to sit upon the mount of the congregation, was to spread lies about the character of the Father.

You see, up until this time, deceit was unknown in Heaven! So when Lucifer, the covering cherub who stood closest to Yah, began a smear campaign against the Father, it was very deceptive!

Miles: I can imagine he was very subtle. Probably didn’t come right out and make any accusations against Yah at first. I can see it being more subtle. Kind of planting the suggestion and sitting back for it to take root.

Dave: And these holy beings who’d never been lied to, who counted Lucifer as a friend, had no reason to distrust him! You can see how the misrepresentation of Yah’s character could spread and be believed!

Miles: Oh, absolutely.

Dave: Let me ask you: have you ever known someone with a personality disorder? Like, say, a narcissist or someone with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Miles: Uh, yeah. Yeah, unfortunately, I have. You end up questioning your own reality after a while.

Dave: And why is that?

Miles: Uh … well, in my experience, they project! For example, the person I knew was deeply suspicious of others. Selfish, too. And so he’d project those same qualities on those around him. They might not be suspicious or selfish, but he would accuse them of being so—even when they weren’t—because he was!

Dave: Right. And that’s exactly what Lucifer—Satan—did. He projected onto Yah his own warped character. Isaiah says Lucifer wanted to ascend, to exalt himself. And like anyone with a depraved mind, Lucifer projected those same qualities on Yahuwah. Then, after ensnaring one-third of the angels by his lies, he got mankind to view the Father as harsh, and severe, and unforgiving. People became afraid of the best Friend they could ever have. It was a brilliant move, strategically speaking.

Miles: I can see that. But how did he do it?

Dave: Well, the divine law is a transcript of the divine character.

Miles: Right

Dave: So, to question the law of love is to express doubt about the character of the Law-giver.

Miles: All right. I can see that.

Dave: Lucifer’s main charge against Yahuwah was that He did not live up to the same law He required all His creatures to keep. Lucifer claimed Yahuwah demanded obedience; He demanded unselfishness; He demanded self-denying love in service to others, but (and here’s the rub) Lucifer claimed Yah did not exercise such self-denying love Himself!

Miles: Ohhhh, I see. By projecting his own traits of character upon Yahuwah, the devil deceived people into believing that the loving Father was actually cruel, harsh, unforgiving…

Dave: Exactly. The entire plan of salvation was designed to reveal the depths of the Father’s love.

See, hatred calls forth hatred. Hatred, anger, impatience. It’s all very easy to react with impatience or anger, when someone is angry or impatient with us.

Likewise, love awakens love! That’s why it’s the strongest power in the universe. The negative emotions are founded upon selfishness. But love is grounded upon selfLESSness. That’s why, in Song of Solomon, we read that “love is as strong as death … many waters cannot quench love.” [Song of Solomon 8:6-7]

As the source of all life, Yahuwah knew this. He knew the only way He could win, was to reveal the depths of His love.

The problem was how? How could the vastness of the infinite Creator, His limitless power, His incalculable wisdom, His boundless compassion, His immeasurable love, how could all of this be taught to finite beings?

Miles: That really would be a problem. Any demonstration would have to be of sufficient depth that holy, unfallen beings could be placed on an eternal basis of security so they’d never again be deceived by Satan’s lies. And yet, at the same time, it had to be so clear and simple that even a child, even the simplest of the mentally handicapped, could still grasp the significance of it.

Dave: Well, the only way it could be done was to reach us where we were, at the very depths of sin and depravity.

Bear with me for a moment, Miles. I want to use an example. It’s an imperfect example and kind of disgusting, but I think it’ll help us grasp the significance of what Yah did to save us.

Miles: Okay. Go for it!

Dave: All right. It would be like a human father, allowing his only child to take on a lower life form in order to save that lower life form. To do so, he’d have to become the same as the lower life form. Anything else, any higher life form, and the lower life form would not be able to understand. He couldn’t become a mammal. Mammals are too intelligent; too powerful and strong to reach the one he was trying to save. Nor could he become a fish or a reptile. To save a cockroach, he would have to become a cockroach.

Miles laughs: Yeah, that’s disgusting.

But I see what you mean. Any other higher life form and the cockroach wouldn’t be able to relate.

Dave: Yahuwah wanted to reach the most depraved, the most sunken in sin. To do so, His only begotten Son had to be fully human. He couldn’t have any demonstrable advantage. He had to be sent to the worst of the worst and there, as a human, reveal the Father.

This was the entire purpose of Yahushua’s life on earth! He wasn’t born just to die. He came to live, to “show us the Father.”

Miles: We’ve always heard that, always said that, but I’m seeing that in a whole new way. Yahushua came to demonstrate, literally, what the Father would be like if He were a human being!

Dave: Through every moment of His daily life, the Son revealed how the Father would act if He were hungry; how He would act if He were too hot, too tired; how He would react when insulted.

Just … close your eyes and picture this for a moment:

~Yahushua, breaking bread for thousands so that they wouldn’t have to go home hungry after a long day, is the Father, providing food for His children when they’re hungry.

~Yahushua gently rebuking the disciples, saying, “Let the little children come unto Me and forbid them not,” is the Father, welcoming the little ones to His arms while gently correcting those who meant well but made a mistake. [Matthew 19:14)

~Yahushua, bent over a figure trembling in the sand, is the Father softly encouraging, “Neither do I condemn you.” [John 8:11]

Miles: Hm. We’ve lost sight of that.

Dave: Every kind and loving word, every sympathetic glance, every quick offer of help, every compassionate deed revealed what the Father would do if He were a human being.

Now, Satan’s got it twisted around in the minds of people.

Miles: It’s true. Christians talk about Calvary as though it were some propitiatory blood sacrifice to appease an angry god.

Dave: It wasn’t. It was so much more than that. Calvary revealed the hidden heart of the Father. It showed His subconscious mind, if you will.

Miles: What do you mean?

Dave: Many people, through childhood training or social pressure, can act in a polite, kind way. However, reactions are more honest. A reaction is a split-second revelation of what is truly inside.

Reactions are instantaneous responses to someone else’s action.

Calvary revealed that the Father’s instantaneous reaction to insult, abuse and injury is…forgiveness. His reaction is instantaneous forgiveness!

Miles: Mmmm … say more.

Dave: Remember: Yahushua revealed what the Father would do if He were a human. So, as the spikes were driven through the tendons, flesh and sinew of the Saviour, the only words to fall from His lips were: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” [Luke 23:34]

His very reaction was instantaneous forgiveness.

Miles: As parents, we know that it is a lot easier to suffer ourselves, than to watch our children suffer. The very fact that the Father wouldn’t hate us for putting His Son through that says a lot right there.

Dave: It really does. John 10 expands on this very point. Yahushua said, quote: “Therefore doth my Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.” [John 10:17]

In other words, He’s saying: “My Father loves you so much, that He loves Me even more for being willing to die for you. That’s how much He cherishes you.”

Calvary revealed two things:

1. The evil in the heart of Satan that he would kill the Father if given the chance; and,
2. The depth of the Father’s love for sinners as revealed by what He was willing to risk in order to save them.

Miles: What Yah was willing to risk?

Dave: The divine law is eternal, right? No one can break it without paying the consequences.

So, what if? What if Yahushua had sinned in the slightest particular? What then?

Miles: Well, same as anyone else, I guess.

Dave: “The wages of sin is death.” [Romans 6:23] If on any point, Yahushua had sinned, there is only one thing the Father could do: surrender the life of His Son to eternal death from which is no resurrection.

This was the very real possibility the Father risked when He sacrificed His only begotten Son to save sinners.

Miles: And, you know? He would have done it in a heartbeat if only one person were to be saved.

Dave: The self-denying love of the Father was revealed for all time in the plan of salvation. Love triumphed at Calvary! It was the ultimate demonstration of self-sacrificing love. Satan’s charges were silenced at Calvary. So that is why he came up with the trinity doctrine. To hide what had been revealed.

Miles: Stay tuned! When we come back, Dave’s going to explain how the trinity doctrine hides the Father’s love.

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* * *Part 2: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: You know, as a Christian, you grow up hearing about the love of the Saviour. You read about it, hear sermons on it, you sing about it. And, to a lesser degree, we know that the Father loves us, but this idea that Yahushua revealed how the Father would act, how He would react under provocation, if He were human … that’s beautiful. I’m seeing that in a whole new light.

And, this whole idea that the gospel of the trinity was devised by Satan to, well, corrupt Christianity, to hide the love of the Father, is a new one to me, too. Could you expand on that a bit for us? Say more.

Dave: There is a verse in Psalm 85 that very beautifully describes what transpired at the cross. It says, quote: “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” Unquote.

LOVE triumphed at the cross! Yahuwah won! There was nothing left in Satan’s arsenal of lies that could refute such a demonstration of divine love. Furthermore, his ability to accuse Yahuwah of selfishness had been destroyed with this display of self-denying love.

Miles: That’s true. Once you grasp the sheer magnitude of Yah’s sacrifice at Calvary, you’re not going to ever view Him again as selfish, vindictive. You’re not going to think of Him as demanding something He Himself refuses to give.

Dave: The power of Christianity is found in the story of redeeming love. Wherever that story has gone, hearts have responded. The devil knew he couldn’t stop the spread of the gospel. So, he had to come up with a new plan: he would pervert truth at its source.

Under this new plan, respected leaders and “scholars would entangle truth with error. Truth would become so corrupted that, finally, the love of the Father, His willingness to help all who come to Him would be totally hidden.

Miles: I hate to say it, but that’s brilliant. Through religion, good people can be taught to do bad things. So, entwine truth with error, and you can deceive people into believing almost anything!

Dave: All he had to do was devise a form of religion that would institutionalize error while still presenting itself as Christian.

That’s a key concept. Listen while I say it again: all Satan had to do was devise a form of religion that would institutionalize error while still presenting itself as Christian.

Miles: Like how?

Dave: Replace the priesthood of all believers with a human priesthood. Teach people that they can’t recognize truth on their own. Teach them to rely on religious leaders to tell them what to believe. You do this, and you have effectively disrupted the individual’s ability to commune with the Father.

Miles: Wow! So when did this shift in theology occur?

Dave: Oh, Satan tried bringing in error all along, but it wasn’t officially formalized as part of Christian theology until the Council of Nicea in the fourth century. It was then that it was voted to adopt the non-Biblical three-in-one godhead. Church leaders who resisted were denounced, banished, and, according to some reports, murdered. It was the single most destructive, harmful act of Satan since he first tempted Adam and Eve.

Miles: Okay, but how? Growing up a Trinitarian, I still believed Yah loved me. How can believing in “God the Holy Spirit” be so destructive?

Dave: Because it diverted focus, love, prayers, and even worship away from the Father and onto the Son.

Christianity changed in a really profound way with the acceptance of the trinity doctrine. This new belief introduced confusing concepts.

Listen to this quote by Caesarius of Arles, found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It says, quote: “The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity … The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the ‘hierarchy of the truths of faith’.”

Miles: Pfff! What does that even mean? It’s not clear at all.

Dave: No, and by using the word “mystery” repeatedly, it implants the idea that it is something too much for finite minds to understand, so don’t even try.

One thing it said, though, is correct. And that is that the doctrine of the trinity is central to the modern Christian faith and that other doctrines are viewed through the lens of this particular belief.

Miles: That’s true. In fact, the trinity is the foundational doctrine of not only Catholicism, but most Protestant churches as well. In fact, most Christians view with contempt the handful of denominations that reject the doctrine of the trinity. I’ve even heard them pejoratively referred to as cults!

Dave: Yep. Satan covers in derision and scorn everyone who clings to the ancient belief of true monotheism.

But, it’s the implications of the trinity doctrine are truly abominable.

Miles: How so?

Dave: When you really look at it, the Trinity conceals the love of the Father in four ways.

First, the Trinity introduces a third being purportedly equal to the Father and the Son.

Secondly, the Trinity deflects attention away from the Father.

And, third: The Trinity diverts worship from Yahuwah.

A trinity creates a three-in-one godhead that has three distinct roles. The problem is, this lessens the impact of the lesson the cross was designed to display!

Miles: Ohhh. It creates a diversion. Focus on the Saviour who died for us; focus on the Holy Spirit who prays for us. But remain in fear of the Father.

Dave: Exactly. Following Nicea, the newly corrupted doctrines of Christianity misrepresented the character of Yahuwah. He was presented as cold, distant and vengeful.

After all, did He not demand the death of His own Son as the cost for forgiving the sins of those born into sin? What a monster!

Miles: I see. And even Yahushua was denigrated. After all, His death is ineffectual if any priest can symbolically kill Him over, and over, and over for the transubstantiation of the mass!

Dave: Calvary was the divine answer to sin! It revealed the infinite love of the Father by demonstrating the degree of self-sacrifice to which He was willing to go in order to save sinners.

The Father took very real risks! And yet, all of this: the Father’s infinite love, His selfless character, His willingness to save mankind at any cost to Himself … it’s all lost sight of with the acceptance of the doctrine of the trinity.

Miles: I get it. With “God the Father” playing the role of an angry god who must be appeased, “God the Son” gets all the attention, love and gratitude.

Dave: And the true relationship between Father and Son is obscured. And with the Father’s love obscured, His immense sacrifice is, in a very real sense, made of no effect.

Miles: Wow. That’s huge.

Dave: A triune Godhead presents a third being that is supposedly equal to the Father and His Son. This third being, referred to as “God the Holy Spirit,” is viewed as distinct from “God the Father” and “God the Son” yet still as “one” with them.

That doesn’t even make sense! And yet, it’s accepted as a “mystery” humans minds simply can’t grasp.

Miles: Not only that, but it also directly contradicts Scripture! Isaiah 44 states: Thus saith Yahuwah … I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no Eloah. Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there an Eloah beside me? yea, there is no Eloah; I know not any.” [Isaiah 44: 6, 8]

Dave: You can’t get more clear than that. And yet in the next chapter, Isaiah repeats it. Here, read it for us. Isaiah 45:5-6:

Miles: “I am Yahuwah, and there is none else, there is no Eloah beside Me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me: … there is none beside Me. I am Yahuwah, and there is none else.”

Dave: The New Testament agrees with the Old! Read 1 Corinthians 8:4-6.

Miles: “There is none other god [or theos] but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one Theos, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Master Yahushua the Anointed, by whom are all things, and we by Him.”

Dave: Again, you can’t get clearer than that.

Miles: I just want to insert here really quickly, for those who may have missed our other program about the trinity – there is a passage in 1 John that appears to teach the trinity. It’s 1 John 5:7-8 and it says: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.”

The thing you need to understand was that this was added later, much later. In fact, these two verses can’t be found in any Greek manuscripts before the 11^th century! That’s 1,000 years after Christ!

Dave: Nowhere in Scripture does the Bible present the “Holy Spirit” as anything other than what it says: the breath of Yahuwah that contains the divine power to accomplish His will. That’s it!

Miles: With the trinity, though, Satan has made Yah’s breath into an idolatrous god: some mystical “third being of the godhead.”

Dave: Notice, too, how the adoration of believers is shifted away from the Father and onto the Son, when, the entire point of the Son being born was to reveal the Father!

When the enormous love of the Father is hidden, He becomes distant. Cold. Angry. An all-powerful entity that must be appeased. This, in turn, creates the need for intermediaries to approach the Father for the individual and mediate.

The first mediator, of course, is “God the Son.

Miles: That’s true. I was shocked, one day, to realize how much of our focus as Christians is on the Son. Hymnals are full of songs about Jesus. We sing of His birth, His life, His death. We sing of, and preach sermons about, the love of the Son and totally overlook the Father whose love the Son was to reveal!

Dave: There are even hymns about the Holy Spirit, but hardly any about the Father and His love, compassion, and forgiveness. What few songs there are, dwell almost exclusively on His power, His majesty, and might.

Miles: His distance from humanity.

Dave: Yes. And with time, Satan has brought in even more mediators. Catholics refer to Mary as co-Mediatrix with “God the Son”.

Miles: I know! Isn’t that shocking? They even go so far as to give her the blasphemous title of co-Redemptrix.

Dave: And, as though one human mediator weren’t enough, various saints have also been introduced. There are saints for mothers, saints for travelers, and saints for students. There’s a saint for every day of the year, creating a multitude of diversions, all of which distract from the Father.

Miles: The Pope and his priests are even said to have the power to forgive sins!

Dave: And all the while, the true nature of the Father, His love, mercy and compassion is deeply buried under other persons who appear more loving and more interested in the individual.

Miles: It’s really diabolical.

Dave: Quite simply, gratitude awakens love in the heart. If you recognize the Father’s love and care for you, you are going to feel gratitude. This will, in turn, inspire trust and still more love in your heart. It’s a beautiful, healing cycle! But the doctrine of the trinity disrupts this cycle and divers attention, love, and even worship away from the Father.

True monotheism returns worship to Yahuwah as the Creator of all and the originating source of everything. It recognizes His only begotten Son as the Redeemer, but it returns worship and adoration to the Father. Yahushua Himself directed all worship to the Father.

Miles: When did He do that?

Dave: Right after His resurrection. Remember when He appeared to Mary Magdalene? She was so happy, she clung to Him. But remember what He said?

When He first appeared to Mary Magdalene shortly after being resurrected she, naturally, wanted to cling to Him in joyous relief. He gently set her aside, explaining: “Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father: but go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My Theos/Eloah, and your Theos/Eloah.” (John 20:17)

Miles: Oh, yeah. He said, don’t touch Me—or don’t cling to Me—because I haven’t ascended to My Father yet.

Dave: Right. Then He gave her a message to take to the disciples. Why don’t you read what He told her to tell them? It’s John 20:17.

Miles: Uhh … say unto them … “say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My god [or theos], and your theos.”

Dave: Any worship of any one or any thing beside the Father is idolatry. The trinity hides the love of the Father and whoever clings to it unknowingly supports Satan’s efforts to hide the Father’s love.

Before Calvary, Satan’s lies had misrepresented the character of Yah.

After Calvary, the doctrine of the Trinity has done the same thing.

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* * *Daily Mailbag (Miles & Dave)

Miles: Time now for WLC’s daily mailbag, where we take questions sent to us from listeners around the world.

Dave: What questions have you got for us today?

Miles: We’ve got a couple I’d like to know the answers to as well! Our first one is from Cynthia and Pietr de Vries in Cape Town, South Africa. They write: “After careful and prayerful study, we have come to accept the truth of the Creator’s Sabbath and are prepared to follow Yah regardless of the cost. We have learned so much in the last few years that now we’re wondering if we should be rebaptized. What are WLC’s thoughts on rebaptism?”

Dave: I love this question. It shows the desire of the inner heart is to please Yahuwah.

Miles: And it’s one a lot of people are facing, because as we learn more truth, it’s natural to want to recommit ourselves to the Father in an entirely new, deeper way. So, what do you say? Is it necessary to be re-baptized?

Dave: Well, I’m not really sure I like phrasing it that way. Is it necessary to be re-baptized? That sort of smacks of legalism. Baptism is a privilege. However, are there circumstances under which it is desirable to be re-baptized? Yes, sometimes there are.

Miles: All right. Fair enough. So, are there any criteria by which a person can know whether or not he or she should seek rebaptism?

Dave: Yes, I’d say there are about five reasons why re-baptism would be appropriate. The first reason would be if the first baptism were not done by immersion. Infant baptism, baptism by sprinkling, is not the Biblical mode.

Miles: It’s not how the Saviour was baptized.

Dave: No. Yahushua was baptized by immersion. And, as He is to be our example in all things, we should follow His example.

Miles: Well, now, just to throw out a possibility here: what if a person is ill? Say he’s in hospital, or she’s bedridden? What if there’s no possibility of being immersed, what then?

Dave: The thing to remember is that Yahuwah is not legalistic. Humans are; the Father is not. He reads the heart! If the heart’s desire is to honor Yah and follow Him, then He will accept our best efforts. That’s why the blood of Yahushua covers us!

For example, say a person is a quadriplegic and on a ventilator. There’s no way for him to be immersed, then certainly a symbolic sprinkling would be accepted by Yah when no other way is possible. Such a person should not be legalistically denied the opportunity to take a public stance for Yahushua.

On the other hand, if, say, a guy’s on crutches with a broken leg: just put it off until the cast comes off! If at all possible, it is best to follow the Saviour’s example, but when no other alternative is possible, trust that the Father knows and understands.

Miles: That’s true. We’re so quick to make rigid rules, and yet Yahuwah is love! He understands!

Dave: Amen.

The second reason there would be grounds for re-baptism is if the first baptism was not done in the name and by the authority of Yahushua.

Miles: Hm. Hadn’t thought of that. That’s true.

Dave: Another reason to be re-baptized is if the first baptism was not the result of a genuine repentance for sin.

Miles: I’m going to add here: I would think another reason for re-baptism is if, after being baptized the first time, the person backslid into a life of open sin. I’d think that would be one reason for re-baptism.

Dave: I agree. The last reason re-baptism should be considered is if the first baptism were conducted as membership into a specific denomination. Baptism should be into the ekklesia of the body of Christ. Too often, however, a person becomes a baptized member of This Church or That Organization.

Miles: True, true. Those are good principles to follow.

Okay, we’ve got time for another one. This comes from Rolando Perez in Taxco, Mexico. He says: “I have come to believe in the binding nature of Yah’s law, which includes worship on the seventh-day Sabbath. However, my family insists that, after Calvary, we need to worship on Sunday, the Lord’s Day. The problem is, there are passages of Scripture that refer to the ‘Lord’s Day.’ What would you say to someone who says we should worship on the Lord’s Day?”

Dave: I would say that I think we should worship on the Lord’s Day.

Miles: Sunday??

Dave: No, and that’s where the confusion comes in. Catholics traditionally refer to the first day of the week as the Lord’s Day, so people assume it is, but it really isn’t. When you carefully compare Scripture with Scripture, it quickly becomes clear that the seventh-day Sabbath is actually the “Lord’s Day.”

Miles: I think part of what contributes to the confusion is simply how the first day of the week is referred to in some languages. You know, in English we use the ancient, planetary designation of Sunday, or Day of the Sun. But in a lot of languages, such as Spanish, the first day of the week is actually called the Lord’s Day, or Domingo.

Dave: You’re right. And, as Rolando pointed out, there is one passage of Scripture that refers to the “Lord’s Day.” That’s Revelation 1, verse 10, where John states, quote: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day…”

But it is only tradition and assumption that has led to the conclusion the term is referring to the first day of the week. When we let Scripture interpret itself—

Miles: As we always should!

Dave: Yes. Very important to allow Scripture to define itself. When we let the Bible define what is meant by “Lord’s Day” it quickly becomes clear that it is actually referring the seventh-day Sabbath.

Would you please flip over to Matthew, chapter 12, and read verse 8 for us?

Miles: All right! It says: “For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.”

Dave: So. Yahushua is lord (or master) of which day?

Miles: “The Sabbath day.”

Dave: Right. So it would hardly be consistent to say any other day of the week is the Lord’s day, when right there, it says that Yahushua is “lord” of the Sabbath day!

Miles: Yeah, that would be rather nonsensical, wouldn’t it?

Dave: There’s more. Read Exodus 20, verses 8 to 10 now, would you please?

Miles: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it—“

Dave: Stop! Right there. Which day is the Sabbath of the Lord?

Miles: The seventh-day. The Sabbath.

Dave: Yes. In Scripture, Yahuwah clearly differentiated between the Sabbath and the first day of the week. He never uses both terms simultaneously to refer to the same day.

In fact, Acts 20, verse 7, and 1 Corinthians 16, verse 2 both refer to the first day of the week and they do it just as the Israelites did: they number it. It’s the “first” day of the week. The Israelites didn’t name their days—save for the Sabbath—they numbered them! So, when Scripture talks about the first day of the week, it’s always referred to as “the first day of the week.”

The “Lord’s day” is and always has been the seventh-day Sabbath.

Miles: That’s a great answer. Wish we had time for one more but we don’t.

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* * *Daily Promise

Hello! This is Elise O’Brien with your Daily Promise from Yah’s Word.

Howard Kelly will long be remembered as one of the greats in medical science. In 1889, he, along with William Henry Welch, William Stewart Halsted, and William Osler were the founding doctors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, widely regarded as one of the greatest hospitals in the world.

Dr. Kelly is believed to be one of the first, if not the first, to establish gynecology as its own specialty. In addition to writing a textbook on gynecology, he also developed many new techniques and innovations that have helped countless doctors in caring for patients. His “Kelly’s forceps,” or “Kelly’s Clamp,” is used to clamp vessels to control blood flow. It remains one of the most common and best known surgical instruments in regular use today.

One spring, Dr. Kelly was on a walking tour of northern Pennsylvania when he got thirsty and stopped at a farmhouse to ask for a drink of water. A little girl answered the door and, instead of water, brought him a glass of fresh milk. The doctor and the little girl visited briefly before the doctor continued on his way.

A while later the girl happened to come to him as a patient needing surgery. Dr. Kelly remembered her name and her kindness. When the hospital bill was brought to her room, written on the invoice were the words: “Paid in full with one glass of milk.”

Romans 8:28 assures us: “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love Yah, to them who are called according to His purpose.” That’s a promise! When your way seems dark and you don’t know what the future holds, remember: Yah is in control. The very tangled web of your life is not too complex for Him to unravel. With His infinite wisdom, His limitless power, and His exhaustless love, He is working all things together for your eternal good.

Romans 8 then goes on to say:

What shall we then say to these things? If Yah be for us, who can be against us?

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of Yahuwah, which is in the anointed, Yahushua our Lord. [Romans 8:31-32, 35, 37-39]

We’ve been given great and precious promises. Go, and start claiming!

* * *Part 3: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: Today’s topic has been really mind expanding. I grew up believing in a triune godhead; most Christians do. At church every week, we’d sing the doxology, and you know how that ends.

Dave: Oh, yes! “Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.”

Miles: Right. But I never really realized before now that the doctrine of a trinity was actually a Satanic plot to obscure the love of the Father! Amazing.

Dave: I know. We don’t generally go around trying to second-guess the devil’s motivations. But this is crucial.

With the best of intentions, Trinitarians unknowingly worship a false god created by Satan.

Miles: It’s really idolatry, when you stop and think about it. It hides the love of the Father, and it diverts souls away from Him! And this, this false worship has permeated nearly all Christian denominations!

There’s peer pressure and the scorn that’s heaped on those who renounce it.

After all, no one likes to be called a cult. No one likes to be mocked and ridiculed.

Dave: And no organized denomination wants to be labeled an unbiblical, unchristian cult! The mere threat has influenced most denominations that were originally anti-Trinitarian to renounce their earlier beliefs and accept the doctrine of the Trinity.

Miles: That’s true. If a church’s reputation suffers, so will their tithes and offerings. No one’s going to want to join a church everyone else dismisses as a cult.

Dave: But the real danger isn’t just to your reputation. The true danger is to your faith.

Miles: How so?

Dave: Well, can dead saints help you? Can belief in a mystical “third being of the Godhead” save you from being deceived, or protect you?

Can such theology strengthen you to stay faithful even when evil angels manipulate your feelings, imposing doubt and despair?

Miles: Okay, I get it. Because a triune godhead hides the very real love of the Father, the answering love that would be the heart’s natural response to seeing how deeply you are loved, just isn’t there. It’s never developed.

Dave: Exactly. Love awakens love. So, if a person never understands the degree to which he is loved, there will be no love in return—or, at the very least, a far-weakened, pale version of what could have been.

Miles: We really need to shun this evil doctrine for the soul-desolating belief that it is.

Dave: That’s it exactly: it is an abomination that desolates the soul. Yah knew that our sin-hardened hearts could only be reached by love! So, by hiding that love, Satan has, in a very real sense, made it of no effect.

I just want to appeal to everyone listening: don’t side with the forces of evil by clinging to this diabolical doctrine. Don’t—by silent acceptance, by giving your offerings, by attending church where such evil is taught—align yourself with Satan and his forces.

If your church teaches belief in a triune godhead, you owe it to the Father to separate yourself from that organization.

Miles: That’s true. Amos 3 asks, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”

Dave: You can see how this is doubly true for theological beliefs. When you attend a church that upholds the doctrine of the trinity, you are being a silent witness that you agree with this belief.

Miles: But it’s so hard! Sometimes, your church family can become even closer than those you’re related to by blood!

Dave: It is hard. You grow really close to those with whom you’ve shared spiritual blessings. It’s natural to want to share with them what you’ve learned. And that’s a good thing! Yahuwah has many children scattered throughout the various denominations. Your words may draw others to the truth.

Miles: And don’t be discouraged if your spiritual brothers and sisters don’t immediately accept this light as well. Your words can be seed, which will spring up and bear fruit at a later time!

Dave: True. However, it’s a mistake to believe that you’ll change the bedrock belief of your denomination. It’s also a mistake to think that the Father is calling you to stay and change your denomination from the inside out. Many sincere-hearted believers think that if they can just find the right words, they will be able to convince their church leaders of their doctrinal errors.

Miles: Yeah. No, that’s never going to happen.

Dave: The trinity doctrine is diabolical because of the effect it has on the heart.

Share your new belief with others, but do it from outside any organized denomination that clings to such an evil belief.

Don’t dishonor your loving heavenly Father by aligning yourself with these fallen churches. Don’t let your presence be a silent witness in support of this doctrine!

Miles: This is one more area where Heaven is pouring out truth, and we need to have the courage of our convictions to stand for that truth.

Dave: It can be hard, but that’s exactly what we need to do. Don’t pay any attention to sneers or threats of those who don’t believe the truth. The love of Yahuwah, knowing it, experiencing it for yourself, will keep you strong.

Miles: It really will. Having the love of the Father, knowing you can go to Him for yourself without an earthly mediator, is worth the risk.

Listen, friends: Yahuwah emptied Heaven to provide salvation for everyone by demonstrating His infinite love.

Can you do any less than to sacrifice everything in return?

Choose, now, to pray only to the Father, in the name of His Son and by the merits of His blood. His love for you can never be measured, and He will keep you safe through the days ahead.

We hope you will join us again tomorrow, and until then, remember: Yahuwah loves you . . . and He is safe to trust!

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