You say that so confidently after stating just a little earlier that you don't understand the Trinity. From where does this confidence that the scriptures teach the Trinity so clearly arise? Are you sure you aren't simply repeating what others have stated with equal conviction and lack of understanding?
I myself was raised Trinitarian and went to great lengths to defend it. But when all was said and done, when I truly took the time to study the scriptures, the writings of the Church Fathers, to acquire my own Bachelors in Religious Studies, etc. it was clear that the neither the scriptures nor the early church taught the Trinity. Indeed, there are far more scriptures that conflict with the Trinity doctrine than support it. For instance...
1 Cor 15:20-28 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.â€[c] Now when it says that “everything†has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28 When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.
This is a good one for it both distinguishes Christ from God ('God' not 'Father') and makes clear that Jesus is/will be subject to God (aka, not equal). The usual un-biblical response that Jesus was only temporarily lower than God is here demolished, for this is future. I've presented this verse on this site many times and not once has any Trinitarian been able to give an intellectually honest account for this passage that reconciles with the Trinity. Typically it is ignored in favor of some non-sense like "all of scripture teaches the Trinity, so that one must too!" Circular-argument.
You're so right, i see verse after verse that shows to me that there's no trinity, it's been placed so central to the teachings of many churches that people just can't see how many verses contradict it. Others even call those who don't believe the trinity, heretics, yet nowhere in the Bible are we told that we are to believe in it or that believing in the trinity saves us. There's no God the son and there are so many verses that show that Jesus is under subjection to God it's unbelievable. He even says that God is his God, and that there is only one true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. How much clearer do people need it. They are Jesus's own words yet we're wrong. It's just unbelievable, but I suppose that until God opens The eyes and ears that none of us can see and hear, even when it's so clear.
Look at Revelation 1:1
The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John
And this, the apostle Peter
1 Peter 1
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
The apostle Paul
Ephesians 1
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places*in Christ
And further down the chapter
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him
1 Corinthians 8
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
2 Corinthians 1
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort
Jude
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
And further down the chapter
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ
James
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting
And people bring up Hebrews 1:8
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
But then look straight after at Hebrews 1:9
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
I can go on and on, but I just wanted to show that even the apostles say that God is the God of Jesus Christ. It even says in the Bible that the head of Christ is God.
I just don't get how people can't see it, it's clear as day. There is no trinity and no God the son anywhere at all in the Bible, everywhere it is God the father and Jesus Christ the son of God, yet apparently I'm wrong for not believing in the trinity? I believe in what Jesus said, that God is his God and father, and he said that eternal life is this to know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. And I do know both of them, God and Christ
And I can carry on with scripture after scripture.
