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Does religion lulve to be a "mystery" in order to be understood? No one tru/y understands the so-called
"mystery ofthe Trinity. "Sorne nevertheless insist their followers accept the doctrine, though admitting
it is a mystery incapable ofbeing understoodl But Jesus said: "You shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free. " He said:
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Thy word [the Biblel is truth. " Can you real/y understand about God;
about the family ofGod; about who and how many members make up the Godhead? God's Word says
you can-and you must. Relieve it or not, the Bible nowhere teaches the Trinity. Here 's the proof.
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hy is the word
"Trinity" not found
ywhere in the Bible?
ok it up for yourself–
use any Bible dictionary or exhaus–
tive concordance. The word "Trin–
ity" just isn't there!
But then, neither is the word
"Lent," nor the word " rapture," for
that mattcr.
But why?
Why should it be that sorne of the
major doct rin es of a professing
Ch ristian world are shockingly ab–
sent from the Bible. the Word of
God? Don't most religious organiza–
tions claim to find their doctrines in
the Bible?
Probably you have either heard
or sung many times the song called
" Holy, Holy. Holy." Millions have.
In it, the words "blessed Trinity"
appear.
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by
Garner Ted Armstrong
I n the songbook. But not in the
Bible!
But then, millions of Americans
spend more time opening and clos–
ing a songbook in church services
than they do a Bible- so it's little
wonder the
impression
gained from
habit and tradition sometimes out–
weighs solid biblical truth.
As shocking as it may seem to
many, the doctrine of the Trinity is
another o f the pagan "mysteries"
which is nol found in thc Bible!
Does a doctrine
hove
to be ob–
scure, murky, dark, mystcrious,
im–
possib/e
to understand in a practica!.
day-to-day. commonsense manner?
Not according to Christ! He prom–
ised His followers the
truth!
He
plainly said the Father would
revea/
trutb to real Christians!
Most of the really true concepts
and doctrines of God's Ch ristianity
are
no/
out of sync with the real
world of natural laws invo lving
physics, chemistry a nd the way
things work in this whole o rde rly
universe. To our finite, limited. un–
seeing human minds, of course. mir–
acles might be an exception to this
general truism.
But the whole panorama of pagan
doctrines seems to have this one
common denominator: T hey are all
patently illogical. And the Trinity is
no exception! The Trinity is cloaked
in a murky maze of mystery. T heo–
logians find it exceedingly difficult
to pin thi s doctrine down and get a
firm grip on it. The layman is simply
told not to bother his head about
it- it is a "mystery:· anyway.
"The mind of man cannot fully
understand thc mystery of the Trin–
ity. He who would try to understand
the mystery fully will lose his mind.
The
PLAIN TRUTH May 1978