No responsible New Testament scholar would claim that the doctrine of the Trinity was
taught by Jesus, or preached by the earliest Christians, or consciously held by any writer of
the New Testament. It was in fact slowly worked out in the course of the first few centuries. (1)
Did the apostles who were faithful to the Lords mission and commands ignore and deny this commandment? No, why would they the truth is the text was enlarged (in the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit) to back the Trinity theory taught by the Catholics.
Referencing the triadic form of Mattai 28:19, the Anchor Bible dictionary observes: According to a wide scholarly consensus, it is not an authentic saying of Jesus.11. Adolf von Harnack, leading historian of the Christian church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notes: Matth. XXVIII. 19, is not a saying of the Lord. […] The Trinitarian formula is foreign to the mouth of Jesus and has not the authority in the Apostolic age which it must have had if it had descended from Jesus himself. (2).
Theophania 4.16 Our redeemer said to them therefore, after his resurrection:Go and instruct all Gentiles in my name. […] And this they fulfilled in deed. They went out into the whole creation, and they preached to all Gentiles. (3)
12) Theophania 5.17 He said in one word and anouncement to his talmidim: Go and instruct all Gentiles in my name and teach them to uphold all things that I have commanded you. And the deed he made to follow the word. For thence, every race of the Greeks and Barbarians became at once, and in short space of time, his talmidim (3)
Jesus had previously told them to baptise in his name, as seen in Matthew 28, Luke 24, John 20, and Acts 10:41-44.
To have remission (forgiveness) of sins and to receive the Holy Spirit, a person had to repent and be baptized (in water). ‘Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you’ (Matthew 28:20).
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. (Luke 24:44-49)
And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. (John 20:30).
We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree, God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen— not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead. And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the One appointed by God to judge the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”(Acts 10;40-43)
Some know and believe that baptism is essential for salvation and yes it is, but belief and acknowledgement of ones faith is of no use unless one acknowledges the name of Jesus as the giver of the faith. It is in Jesus that we have faith, not just faith in a faith!
The only verse in the NT altered was Matthew 28;19. these other scriptures reveal the truth baptism in not in a triune formula but in the name of Jesus.
The Trinity dogma required many councils, many threats, much deceit, and much blood for its consolidation – thousands were put to death before people eventually succumbed to the man-made mantra; but many more were to follow. During her ,260-year reign, the Papacy exterminated between 50 and 150 million dissenters, and Trinity denial was frequently worthy of death.10 (4)
(1)A. T. Hanson, The Image of the Invisible God (London, 1982), 87.
(2) 2 A. Harnack, History of Dogma, trans. N. Buchanan, vol. 1 (London, 1894) 79, fn. 1
(3) The supersessionist Forgery of Matthew 28
(4) See the well documented research of D. A. Plaisted, “Estimates of the Number Killed by the Papacy
in the Middle Ages and Later” (Chapel Hill, 2006), 19–43
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