The Trinitarian Trap: Twists and Trysts

Deuteronomy 6:4 “Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad.

“Hear, Isra’el! Adonai our God, Adonai is one.”

Why would Moses record this? Yes, God/Elohim, told him to record this statement. So the question becomes; why did Elohim tell him to record the statement?

For the “Cliff Note” crowd…. Elohim wanted to set the record straight. The “religions” of the world believe, both then and now, in multiple gods called polytheism. The faith of mankind was to center on the Power of God/Elohim to protect and sustain the creation.

For those with a deeper interest in this subject, we will cover the deception of trinitarianism (polytheism) and its effect on the modern church. In the study on Hebrews (on this website; link at the bottom) we can see the deep theological defense for the singular God. Paul, much like an attorney, lays out the point by point actions of a loving God to teach, train and rescue mankind. Here we will dissect the deception of the 3-in-1 gods. A good friend and Bible study partner Bob said recently; “3-in-1 is a great lubricant and a terrible theology”. Bob is right!

3 entrances to St. Peter’s Basilica

In a search for the beliefs of the various “Christian” denominations I discovered a “standard verbal expression” and a ‘varied belief’ on the persona and duties of the Trinitarian system. A snippet from..(to Bob’s chagrin) the widely known Lakewood Church in Houston…. just know this is not an attack directly on Lakewood as it prevails among the majority of churches identifying as “Christian”…

Seems pretty straight forward on the surface AND it looks like it affirms a trinitarian perspective. From a very young age I was taught that the trinity was, in-fact, 3 totally separate gods with the same mission yet a different expression. This gave way to the Creator God of the Old Testament, this was the angry vengeful God who has a huge list of rules. The New Testament Jesus was everyone’s best friend and the one who gets us good with the angry vengeful God. The Spirit gets the role of vending machine god as the faithful pray to Him in hopes of bending and swaying the favor of God their direction.

Remember, the apple look good for proper food too. Like the event in the Garden, Satan is continually whispering fraud into the lives of humans designed for our destruction. Ultimately we should be able to see the actions of God/Elohim as creation, education and equipping of the human species to live at peace with each other and more importantly, living with God in perpetuity.

In the most simple way possible God/Elohim asked mankind to follow his directions. DId mankind oblige? Maybe for a while. Where did they go wrong?

Jeremiah 3:8-10 “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.”
Ezekiel 22:26 “Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.”

The confusion or mixing of the worldly religions into the faith that God/Elohim has designed makes for muddy waters. Satan would love nothing more than to divert the worship intended for Elohim to himself, and he has been successful at it for thousands of years. The manipulation of mankind through the guilt of uncertainty of their faith.

In his speech to Stanford University, Barack Obama states the most aggreges destruction of society is “the manner in which information and education is obtained and or disseminated.” He went on to say the line of truth can easily be blurred through conjecture and fictitious additions to the narrative. This is the best and oldest tool used by Satan. “Did God really say ___________”. Today we can easily attribute the same to the Scriptures. Does God describe himself as a 3-in-1 god?

It was said that those who do not know the past are destined to repeat it. This is where we will begin, a look at the history of various religions.

Buddhism

The following image [obtained from the internet 3/9/24 from http://www.gesar-travel.com] depicts the Holy Trinity of Buddhism…

In Tibetan Buddhism, the Three Jewels and Three Roots are supports in which a Buddhist takes refuge by means of a prayer or recitation at the beginning of the day. Tibetan Buddhism preserves many Indian Buddhist tantric practices that began as early as 465 C.E. The trinitarian godhead of Buddhism follows…

the Buddha, the fully enlightened one
the Dharma, the teachings expounded by the Buddha
the Saṅgha, the monastic order of Buddhism that practice the Dharma

According to Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana tradition, Lord Buddha is the Enlightened One who discovered the Ultimate Path to release clinging and craving and liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth. For practicing Buddhists, references to “Dharma”, or the teachings of the Buddha, includes the discourses on the fundamental principles such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. The Saṅgha is the third of the Three Refuges. Sangha teaches a monastic life is considered to provide the safest and most suitable environment for advancing toward enlightenment and liberation due to the temptations and vicissitudes of life in the world.

According to the Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols:

“The trinity of body, speech, and mind are known as the three gates, three receptacles or three vajras, and correspond to the western religious concept of righteous thought (mind), word (speech), and deed (body). The three vajras also correspond to the three kāyas, with the aspect of body located at the crown (nirmāṇakāya), the aspect of speech at the throat (saṃbhogakāya), and the aspect of mind at the heart (dharmakāya).” Beer, Robert (2003). The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols. Serindia Publications. ISBN 1-932476-03-2.

The Trikāya doctrine is a fundamental doctrine within Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism that delineates the multidimensional nature of a Buddha’s existence. This concept posits that a Buddha has three distinct bodies or aspects, each representing a different facet of enlightenment. This sound familiar?

Hinduism

The Trimurti (/trɪˈmʊərti/; Sanskrit: त्रिमूर्ति, lit. ’three forms or trinity’, IAST: trimūrti,) is the trinity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, in which the cosmic functions of creation, preservation, and destruction are personified as a triad of deities.

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The Puranic period from the 4th to the 12th century CE saw the rise of “synthetic Hinduism” according to Majumdar, R. C. “Evolution of Religio-Philosophic Culture in India”, in: Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1956), volume 4, p. 47.

Regarding the spirit of reconciliation, R. C. Majumdar says that: “Its most notable expression is to be found in the theological conception of the Trimūrti, i.e., the manifestation of the supreme God in three forms of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva… But the attempt cannot be regarded as a great success, for Brahmā never gained an ascendancy comparable to that of Śiva or Viṣṇu, and the different sects often conceived the Trimūrti as really the three manifestations of their own sectarian god, whom they regarded as Brahman or Absolute.”

Hellenistic Greeks

Hermes Trismegistus (from Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς ὁ Τρισμέγιστος, “Hermes the Thrice-Greatest”) is a legendary Hellenistic period figure that originated as a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. [the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII (30 BC)] He is the purported author of the Hermetica, a widely diverse series of ancient and medieval pseudepigraphica that lay the basis of various philosophical systems known as Hermeticism.

*There is an in-depth article on this website covering syncretism.

The name Hermes Trismegistus comes from Hermes, the Greek god of interpretive communication, who was combined with Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. The Egyptian priest and polymath Imhotep had been deified long after his death and therefore assimilated to Thoth in the classical and Hellenistic periods. The Hermetic literature among the Egyptians, which was concerned with conjuring spirits and animating statues, inform the oldest Hellenistic writings on Greco-Babylonian astrology and on the newly developed practice of alchemy. In a parallel tradition, Hermetic philosophy rationalized and systematized religious cult practices and offered the adept a means of personal ascension from the constraints of physical being.

SIDEBAR:

Refer back to the photo of the Basilica and view the statues all along the roof line. You can see these on all the buildings within Vatican City and the majority of Rome. The Romans adopted and adapted their pantheon of gods with each kingdom they conquered. This is where the clash between the present and the past once again gets compromised by the human desire to control the religious narrative.

The Messiah comes “in the fullness of time” at the pivotal point of the war. This is when the Romans will attempt to “adopt” the Hebrew people into their pantheon. Being the perineal sheep that they truly are, God had to intervene, else they would have dove off the cultish cliff thinking they were doing the right thing.

Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
Galatians 4:3-5 “Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”

We are walking our way back through history to see the origins of this trinitarian theology making notes of the effect on the modern church. Do see anything that resonates with modern theology so far? Do you see the path that is being laid before you on how we got here? If not, just stick with me. The repetition of the behavior through the centuries will eventually identify the issues.

Greeks

Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/; Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or “soul guide”—a conductor of souls into the afterlife and is often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiad. A. Frothingham, professor Princeton University, thought the god Hermes to have existed as a Mesopotamian snake-god, similar or identical to Ningishzida, or Quetzalcoatl; a god who served as mediator between humans and the divine.

The famous Greek philosopher Plato (ca. 429-347 B.C.) believed in a divine triad of “God, the ideas, [and] the World-Spirit,” though he “nowhere explained or harmonized this triad” (Charles Bigg, Christian Platonists of Alexandria, 1886, p. 249). “Towards the end of the 1st century, and during the 2d, many learned men came over both from Judaism and paganism to Christianity. These brought with them into the Christian schools of theology their Platonic ideas and phraseology” (Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, 1891, Vol. 10, “Trinity,” p. 553).

The world admits to the syncretism of pagan idealism with the faith once delivered to the saints.

Aztec, Mayan, Incan

Along with Quetzalcoatl, the two other gods of the Aztec, Mayan and Incan Empires (400 BC – 600 AD) (represented by the planets Mercury and Venus) are Tlaloc (ally and the god of rain) and Xolotl (psychopomp and its twin). The Temple of the Feathered Serpent is the third largest pyramid at Teotihuacan, a pre-Columbian site in central Mexico. The entire American continent, North, Central and Southern, have a long held belief in the plumed serpent. Viracocha, also a feather serpent, was the most important deity in the Inca pantheon and seen as the creator of all things, or the substance from which all things are created, and intimately associated with the sun.

We are witnessing the trinitarian-serpent-sun god worship in all civilizations across all millennia. The culmination of syncretism of cultures and religions centered in human sacrifice, alchemy and sorcery.

The decision to use the term “God” in place of “Viracocha” is seen as the first step in the evangelization of the Incas. The reasoning behind this strategy includes the fact that it was likely difficult to explain the Christian idea of “God” to the Incas, who failed to understand the concept. In addition, replacing reference to Viracocha with “God” facilitated the substitution of the local concept of divinity with Roman Catholic theology.

Romans 1:20-23 “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.“

In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman Egypt during the first few centuries AD. Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications and its esoteric spiritual aspects. The start of Western alchemy may generally be traced to ancient and Hellenistic Egypt, where the city of Alexandria was a center of alchemical knowledge, and retained its pre-eminence through most of the Greek and Roman periods.

Greco-Roman ft. Hellenistic Egyptian Polytheism

The double headed dragon representing Satan giving power to the sun and moon as he balances the globe. A blasphemous usurping of the Power of God. This is the concept that was delivered at the Tower of Babel. A self ascending power through sorcery, making an alchemy of syncretic practices, to codify a religious order.

Ancient Egyptian gods were said to hold the highest position in divine society, including the solar deity Ra, the mysterious god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 2348 – c. 1550 BCE) as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her slain brother and husband, the divine king Osiris, and produces and protects his heir, Horus. She was believed to help the dead enter the afterlife as she had helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who was likened to Horus. This is the trinitarian sun god worship which is now introducing the mother-child cult defined as “The Queen of Heaven”.

The Queen of Heaven is mentioned twice in the Bible and in both passages, she is associated with Israelites’ idolatry practice which angered the Lord. In Jeremiah 7:18, the Queen of Heaven was an Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, also called Ashtoreth. The latter was worshiped by pagan civilizations but unfortunately, it gradually became popular among the Israelites as well.

In the second passage, Jeremiah warned the Israelites of God’s punishments awaiting them because of their disobedience and idolatry, but they responded that they did not intend to abandon their idol worship, but that they would continue to drink and offer to the Queen of Heaven, Ashtoreth (Jeremiah 44:17-25). In this pagan culture, the Queen of Heaven (commonly called Asherah in the Bible) was none other than the Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, known as a false god Ba’al (1 Kings 18). During the New Kingdom (c. 1550 – c. 1070 BCE), as she took on traits that originally belonged to Hathor, the preeminent goddess of earlier times, Isis was portrayed wearing Hathor’s headdress: a sun disk between the horns of a cow.

The Egyptians took the “religious” behaviors from their teachers who came from the Mesopotamian origins of all mankind. When the tower project was disbanded they didnt lose the things they had been taught. They took this serpent-sun god-trinitarian worship went across the world in different languages.

Genesis 10: 8 – 12 “And Cush begat Nimrod (we shall rebel): he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

(The words state that Nimrod ‘began’ H2490 חָלַל chalal (chaw-lal’) v. (properly) to bore. to begin (as if by an “opening wedge”). To defile. This indicates that there was a process by which Nimrod could traverse the natural and become a Nephilim.)

He was a mighty hunter (eager to take prey and set snares) before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel (to confuse or mix), and Erech (to lengthen, prolong or live with), and Accad (to subtly strengthen), and Calneh (fortress of Anu), in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh (abode of Ninus, fish goddess), and the city Rehoboth (avenue or path), and Calah (completion and strength),

(Asshur is simply the Assyrian name for Nimrod; Nimrod being a Babylonian name.)

12 And Resen (bridle control) between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Where does it all begin? The fight between good and evil? Consider this: Anu, the Sumerian god known as “Lord of the Constellations, Spirits and Demons” [i.e. Satan] was said to have fathered more than 50 different gods and goddesses of the ancient world. These ancient names of Enlil, Naama, Ishtar and so on, would become the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and Romans. Zeus, Apollos, Diana are all the exact same demons.

Nimrod and his wife Semiramis are known by each of the 70 different languages just by a different name.

So reading this back, right to left as the Hebrews write, we can see it was Nimrods goal to: Bridle or control mankind completely with his path to the home and fortress of Anu by subtly strengthening a prolonged mixing or confusion of religion. We can see this in the influence that Constantine (Mithras- Roman name for Nimrod) introduced and still prevails today.

Semiramis, like Isis, continues to appear in Western culture, particularly in esotericism and modern paganism, often as a personification of nature or the feminine aspect of divinity. Her worship has influenced Christian beliefs and practices such as the veneration of Mary as Queen of Heaven and as deity.

All this after Elohim told the people specifically to not mix their faith with the actions of the nations.

Deuteronomy 18:9 “When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.”

The triune concepts of Isis, Horus and Set of the Post flood civilization matches that of the Post flood Middle Eastern Semiramis, Nimrod and Tammuz; which matches nearly all other trinitarian beliefs.

Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism, also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Middle Eastern trinitarian religion. The religion’s eschatology predicts the ultimate triumph of good over evil. Zoroastrians exalt an uncreated and benevolent deity of wisdom, commonly referred to as “Ahura Mazda” (Avestan: 𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬋 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬃), as the universe’s supreme being; opposed to Ahura Mazda is “Angra Mainyu” (𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎), who is personified as a destructive spirit and the adversary of all things good.

Historically, the unique features of Zoroastrianism, such as monotheism, messianism, belief in free will and judgement after death, conception of heaven, hell, angels, and demons, among other concepts, may have influenced other religious and philosophical systems, including the Abrahamic religions and Gnosticism, Northern Buddhism, and Greek philosophy.

With possible roots dating back to the 2nd millennium BCE, the Zoroastrian religion enters recorded history around the middle of the 6th century BCE. For more than a millennium between c. 600 BCE and 650 CE, it served as the official religion of the ancient Iranian empires, formally coming to an end with the Muslim conquest of Persia.

In Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda is the beginning and the end, the creator of everything that can and cannot be seen, the eternal and uncreated, the all-good and source of Asha. Daena (din in modern Persian and meaning “that which is seen”) is representative of the sum of one’s spiritual conscience and attributes, which through one’s choice Asha is either strengthened or weakened in the Daena.

Traditionally, the manthras (similar to the Hindu sacred utterance mantra) prayer formulas, are believed to be of immense power and the vehicles of Asha and creation used to maintain good and fight evil. A mantra, or mantram मन्त्रम् is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers. This is SORCERY!

Matthew 6:7 “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”

Time for a recap!

The Tower of Babel was the first Post-flood mega-church. Nimrod taught people, most of whom just wanted to see God and goodness, a perverse form of self actualized sorcery grounded in the deception of the Serpent. He sold them the same lie as he offered in the Garden…. did Elohim really say _____.

Nimrods goal was to: Bridle or control mankind completely with his path to the home and fortress of Anu by subtly strengthening a prolonged mixing or confusion of religion.

The doctrine of a Triune or Trinitarian god prevails in Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Catholicism and has been the theology of the Aztec, Mayans, Incans, and the various Indian tribes that inhabited the Americas. Likewise the conquering civilizations and empires of the Egyptians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Romans focused on triads, trios or trinities.

God/Elohim stated clearly in Deuteronomy 6:4 “Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. “Hear, Isra’el! Adonai our God, Adonai is one.”

Gut check time.

Did you do your research in Hebrews? If not, I encourage you to invest the time before you answer this next question… link to part one below….

Hebrews 1:1-1:3 The Power of God

Why did Elohim tell Moses to record the statement that God is One?