Is Jesus Christ God? The word trinity is NOT even in the Bible,?

Answer 1

Jesus Christ is *NOT* the Almighty God, and the word "trinity" is not found in the bible (although it is in the Koran).

Jesus never taught the trinity because it is not a true bible teaching. The actual teachings of Jesus have been continued by Jehovah's Witnesses, who are true Christians.

Ironically, Trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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Answer 2

Yes Jesus Christ is God, God the Son--one aspect of the Holy Trinity--the other two are God the Father and the Holy Spirit. You're right that the word trinity doesn't appear directly in the Bible. But I think there is scriptural references to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as having equal prominence, so that's how the trininity got interpreted.

Answer 3

Yes, Jesus is God in the flesh, read John 1:1-14. It speaks of how Jesus was always a part of God from the very beginning as the Word of God, and how another portion of the Word was the Light of men, which is the Holy Spirit.Then it mentions that the Word became flesh in verse 14. In the Bible Jesus mentions that He and the Father are One, John 10:30 is one example. If God is Holy, then what is His Spirit? Doesn t that make His Spirit the Holy Spirit. In Genesis 1:2, it talks about how God s Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. The Trinity is not mentioned in the Bible, that is true. But, he that has an ear to hear what the Word is speaking to them knows and understands what the bible is speaking to them. It s like when a mom/dad is in a store and they know when their child is saying mom/dad. One can recognize when God is speaking to you when/as you draw close to Him. Don t worry about when others come and try to confuse or take away what you already know. If you get a college degree in Law and pass the Bar exam, you don t allow someone to tell you you re not a Lawyer. Allow God to grow and prune that seed that is trying to produce and sprout into a tree.

Answer 4

This is a pretty tricky question. Jesus Christ is today pretty much thought to be God. However, this is due more to a question of developing tradition rather than a historical-literal rendering of the N.T. texts. In early Christianity, there were many different sects of Christians, some of which believed Jesus was God, others that thought he was just a human being with no divine attributes, and some who thought he was both human and God. Those who advocated that Jesus was both human and God eventually won the day, and then excommunicated those who didn't agree with them. It would help you to read an account of early church history, focusing primarily on the Council of Nicea which would probably answer some of your questions. And, in many of the places where Jesus is referred to as God, it appears that scribes added it into the text while they were copying it. Some of the best and earliest manuscripts of the N.T. do not have references to Jesus as God while later manuscripts do (the process of determining which texts are most reliable is much more complicated than that, but basically, that is the argument). So, it appers that Jesus 'became' God and that God 'became' a trinity due to the development of early Christian thought, and when that became dogmatized, then it basically stuck even up to today. Hope that helps a bit.

Answer 5

You're right, the word itself is not in the Bible, but the concept is there. The Bible talks about the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in several places. Jesus is called the Word in the book of John, and it says He was WITH God and WAS God.

Even in the Old Testament, there is indication of the Trinity. For instance, during the creation, God calls Himself "us".

Answer 6

Have you ever seen a boiled egg? There is 1. The outer shell
2. The white part of the egg 3. The inner part of the egg is different too, is a redish color. They are different but yet they are all one egg. There is 1. God the Farther 2. Jesus Christ the Son and 3. The Holy Spirit that is the Spirit we have today.
You got any questions then ask them now before you die and will have to stand before God and answer for all of you life. When we die we will all go to either Heaven or Hell and that is a decision we all will make.

Answer 7

I agree with ET that Dave mom is completely correct in his answer.

You don't have to look for the word 'trinity' but the concept is all over the place.

Isaiah wrote about it in the Old Testament. John discussed it in the New Testament.

And to answer Achtung's cut and paste attack -

Your so called anti witnesses have not hijacked the term Christian because the term Christian was about long before your group came into fruition not many years ago. Christian followers do preach the God word and evangelise - you are not the only one's.

Answer 8

No, he is God's son. The Bible does talk about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Technically that is a trinity.

Answer 9

Dave's mum is right, God was talking to Jesus at the very beginning of the bible - in the book of Genesis. The concept of the spirit is there. Though Jesus is equal to God, he never considered himself "high and mighty".

Answer 10

i'm really interested to see how people answer this because i believe they are two seperate beings but i know most people do not believe that. my question is why would jesus be called the SON of god if he was also god? jesus is the lord, yes, but he is not god the FATHER. I realize that the bible says they are one but my husband and I are also of one mind and one purpose but we are not one person.