Christian doctrine dumped on us so long ago, can have shaky grounding in the Bible. Who was Jesus? Was Jesus also God? Is the one God of scripture also the confusing triune God of three persons? Some of us say that the life and death and resurrection of Jesus was and is only a God powered testimony to the spiritual reality of the one God among us. This being said, the biblical Jesus record does not include the assumption that Jesus was also God. This is the obvious conclusion asserted by Forrest Maready in his little book, “why Some Christians don’t Believe in the Trinity”.
The book is
neither a deep dive into a biblical theology nor is it a thought-out theology.
The book is a plain verse by verse, common sense, summary of all that the Bible says about the
nature of God, from Genesis to Revelation. No where is the Triune nature of God
in three persons to be found. The biblical, so-called scholars, will make excuses
for the absence of such an understanding in the words of the Bible but all of
them have jobs to protect, they can’t state the obvious. Mr. Maready, whoever
you are, thank you for stating the obvious.
Despite this
minority opinion, the author rightly considers himself to be Christian, clinging
to the remaining Christian doctrinal orthodoxy. Some of us, if only me, believe
that another Christian doctrine is even more perverse and makes the Christian
label, if defined by the “Creeds” of doctrine, quite impossible. There is only
one God and we humans have never been angels sitting around heaven smoking a
peace pipe with God. We humans are and have always been highly competitive, self-centered creatures
existing for only a moment in this dog-eat-dog world. The nature of God is an
issue and the nature of mankind is an issue.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
