Mystery Babylon

Trinitarian Dogma: The Very

“MYSTERY BABYLON“

of Revelation 17:5!

“Trinitarian Dogma“: What Is It?

The expression, “trinitarian dogma,” refers to the classical “Christian” doctrines of the “trinity” or “triunity of God” and the “incarnation” (of God) or “deity” of the Messiah, which (doctrines) normally go together and constitute the core doctrines of most Christian denominations today, including Messianic Judaism. The term, “dogma,” refers to the “dictatorial”1 behavior associated with trinitarianism.

The doctrine of the “trinity” or “triunity of God” refers to the idea that “there is one G-d, eternally existent in three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit”2 or somehow “triune” at the same time that He is “one.” The three “Persons,” according to the classical dogma, are “co-equal, co-eternal, co-omniscient,” etc., i.e. equal in every way, but they are also distinct from each other, each “Person” having a discrete existence and function of his own. Because the Son has a discrete existence of his own, he is not identical to, i.e. the same Person as, the Father; hence the idea of the “plurality of the Godhead.” The dogma of the “deity” of the Messiah, however, is unequivocally the emphatic assertion that the Son is God in the full sense of the word, that he is God incarnate, God in the form of a man, “ontologically,” i.e. actually, God, rather than that the Son is merely figuratively God, not God in the full sense of the word but a portrayal of God, like a painting rather than the actual subject of the painting. The doctrine of the “deity” of Yeshua (”Jesus”), therefore, actually contradicts the doctrine of the trinity because it implies a oneness of identity between the Father and the Son in contrast to the duality of the Father and the Son asserted in the doctrine of the trinity. This is the fulcrum of trinitarian dogma, the dogmatic insistence on both the complete identity or equality and the simultaneous duality of Yeshua and Yah’weh, which trinitarians believe is an accurate and authoritative description of all that scripture says about the Messiah and God and to which, they say, all Christians must subscribe in order to go to heaven.

What’s Wrong with Trinitarian Dogma?

Many Christians accept trinitarian dogma because many scriptures seem to support it and because trinitarians have a lot of control in Christianity and exert immense, sophisticated, sometimes even violent pressure on Christians in order to keep them in the trinitarian corral. Because of the many scriptures which do indeed seem to support trinitarian dogma, many Christians are not inclined to argue with it and may even become ardent trinitarians themselves. The relatively small number of sheep who choose to question trinitarian dogma are normally easily reined in by trinitarian membership requirements, which are used as a kind of fence to keep the sheep from breaking out of the trinitarian corral. Those who persist in such non-conformity may be expelled from congregations, and those who go to the extreme of actively, effectively opposing trinitarian dogma face such obstacles as employment discrimination, slander, possibly even violence.

Perhaps this dogmatic atmosphere surrounding trinitarian dogma should be the first thing listed in answer to the question, What’s Wrong with Trinitarian Dogma? Such dogmatism is symptomatic of an underlying weakness, resulting in the defensive or even “dictatorial” behavior of trinitarians.

One weakness of trinitarian dogma is its subtle, or sometimes not so subtle, deviation from scripture. The Messiah Yeshua once said, for example, that it is not for him to decide who will sit on his right and left hands in his Kingdom “but for whom it is prepared by my Father“3. There is at least one area, then, viz. determining the positions of individuals in the Kingdom, in which the Father, i.e. Yah’weh, has authority that Yeshua does not have. This is not just due to the three Persons of the trinity having different functions or domains in the Kingdom, like the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the American government, which “balance” each other. The Messiah Yeshua cannot do anything “of himself.”4 He only does and says what Yah’weh authorizes. The very life of Yeshua comes from Yah’weh,5 a fact which trinitarians deny.6 The dominion of Yah’weh, therefore, is all-inclusive. It includes and exceeds the domain of Yeshua’s authority. They are not separate and equal. It is misleading, therefore, to speak of the “deity” of Yeshua or to say that he is “fully God,” “true God from true God . . . of the same substance as the Father” and so forth. To impose such dogma, finally, and to discriminate against or persecute those who fail to conform to such false standards is atrocious.

Another discrepancy between scripture and trinitarian dogma is the insistence that one must believe that the Holy Spirit is a “Person” or at least has a measure of autonomy in the Godhead such that God is to be regarded as triune, rather than just dual, not to mention one. Never does the Holy Spirit appear as a distinct man or person in scripture. The mere fact that three “men” met Avraham when “Yah’weh” appeared to him in Gen 18:1-2, for example, does not necessarily mean that one of the “men” was the personification of the Holy Spirit. The Bible does not tell us that one of the three men is the Holy Spirit, and to make such an assumption is presumptuous, especially in the light of all of the evidence concerning trinitarian dogma.

The mere fact that scripture speaks of the Holy Spirit as thinking, talking and acting also does not necessarily mean that he, or it, is a “Person.” Spirits think, talk and act, too. Demons, i.e. evil spirits, for example, speak, as when they told Yeshua that they were “Legion” when he healed the man with an unclean spirit in the country of the Gadarenes.7 The Spirit of Yah’weh also dwells in some people and may be transferred from one to another, as when Moshe (Moses) laid hands on Aharon (Aaron)8 or when Eliyahu (Elijah) gave a “double portion” of his spirit to Elisha.9 Scripture routinely describes spirit(s) as “wind” or “breath” or as being “poured out” or “entering into” or “dwelling in” people, not as the people themselves. Perhaps spirits could or did appear as persons, but there seems to be a difference between persons and spirits. It is tendentious, therefore, to insist that the Holy Spirit is a “Person.”

Nor does the fact that the Holy Spirit seems to have a certain measure of autonomy show that God is triune. Everybody’s spirit has a certain measure of autonomy precisely because spirit is not perishable flesh and is not subject to the same constraints, e.g. distance, heat, cold, etc., as flesh. Just because we have spirits, though, does not make us dual. One’s spirit is like the gas in a car: It is what makes us run, and if someone has no spirit, that person is dead. A car is not dual because it has gas in it and one if it doesn’t have gas; neither is an individual dual because he or she has a spirit and one if he or she doesn’t have a spirit. Neither does the freedom of the Holy Spirit make God “triune.”

The argument (of trinitarian dogma) is contrived. The Bible is being made to fit some preconceived philosphy or religion, and it is not true that trinitarian dogma faithfully conforms to all of the Biblical data. The more closely one scrutinizes trinitarian dogma in comparison to scripture, the more one sees the discrepancies between the two, which is precisely why a continuous train of people, including some of the most pre-eminent in history, such as Isaac Newton, John Locke, John Milton, William Greenleaf Elliot, U.S. Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and others, have opposed trinitarian dogma. Trinitarian dogma, therefore, contrary to the claims of its adherents, does not promote unity in Christianity, much less the attractiveness of Christianity to non-Christians, especially Jews. Just the opposite is true: Trinitarian Dogma is probably the deepest source of division within Christianity, and it is certainly one of the main factors which alienates Jews and others from the Truth.

To add insult to injury, finally, trinitarians have actually changed the Bible itself to try to force scripture to preach trinitarian dogma, even though it is alien in both letter and spirit to scripture. A case in point is 1 Jn 5:7, an alleged trinitarian proof-text, which for centuries now has been shown by scholars to be a complete fabrication.10 Another case in point is 1 Tim 3:16, in which the word, “God,” was substituted by forgery for the word, “who,” in an attempt to bolster the doctrine of the “deity” of the Messiah.11 Mat 28:19, the famous “Great Commission,” also appears to be another very early trinitarian substitution.12

What these more egregious discrepancies between trinitarian dogma and scripture, these desperate attempts to force the Bible to become trinitarian, highlight so well is that trinitarian dogma does not really come from the Bible! If sincere Christians will pay attention to the proponents of trinitarian dogma, they should be able to notice that trinitarians only highlight those scriptures and ideas which support trinitarian dogma. If someone makes a point which does not support or even opposes trinitarian dogma, trinitarians immediately jump to another scripture or idea which, again, supports the trinitarian point of view. Trinitarians, in other words, are one-sided. They will not look at another side, and they will not allow another side to be heard. They are like the monopolists earlier in this century, who sought to control segments of the economy and used any means necessary to keep others from encroaching on their commercial empires. The spirit of trinitarian dogma, in effect, is a spirit of intolerant, monopolistic domination, absolutely convinced of its own righteousness, absolutely unwilling to listen to another point of view and willing, if necessary, to resort to any extreme, from simple dishonesty to political chicanery to blatant violence, to keep trinitarian dogma in the ascendancy in Christianity. Trinitarian Dogma, in other words, is not really Christianity in the true sense of the word.

Since Trinitarian Dogma Is Not Really Christianity and Does Not Really Come from the Bible, What Is It, Really, and Where Does It Come from?

Several years ago I went to the public library to look for books about the Arian or Trinitarian Controversy of the fourth century in which trinitarian dogma finally took over in institutional Christianity, and I happened to check out a book by Cardinal John Henry Newman, a famous Anglican turned Roman Catholic, entitled, The Arians of the Fourth Century. That was the beginning of a new era in my life and has a lot to do with why I am writing this tract. Before I read Newman’s book, I opposed trinitarian dogma because of the obvious discrepancies between scripture and trinitarian dogma and because I detected something abominable in trinitarianism. After I read Newman’s book, I began to discover why the discrepancies between trinitarian dogma and scripture exist and why trinitarianism is an abomination. Newman, an ardent trinitarian, did not hesitate to admit that trinitarian dogma does not come from the Bible but from the “mystery cults” of antiquity and from the “dispensation of paganism.”13 The “secret tradition” of the mystery cults, wrote Newman, was “perpetuated” in the “early Councils,” meaning that the “secret tradition” of paganism was used to solve the Arian Controversy by superimposing trinitarian dogma on Christianity. The famous Nicene Creed, in other words, the foundation of Roman Catholicism and most Protestant denominations, including Messianic Judaism today, and the basis of later trinitarianism, is the very “secret doctrine” of the ancient “mystery cults” in disguise!

Newman’s statement arrested my attention. I realized that this was a revelation so I began to study further. What was this “secret tradition”? I read other books like Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop and The Mysteries of Mithra by F. Cumont. Now, some four years and many books and articles later, it is painfully obvious what the “secret tradition” really is, where it came from and why trinitarian dogma has the devious, “dictatorial” character that it has. A number of eminent church historians, notably Prof. Johann Laurence von Mosheim and the great physicist, Sir Isaac Newton, traced the secret tradition back to its origin in remote antiquity.14 The secret tradition began in ancient Babylon. From the Babylonians it spread to Persia, and from Persia it spread to ancient Greece and thence to ancient Rome. It was invented and kept alive by the magi, the ancient Babylonian priests. It is in fact magic,15 i.e. the secret essence of the power of the magi. This is why many are fooled by it. It is like the magic tricks, like pulling a rabbit out of a hat or the sleight-of-hand tricks, of magicians. Another word for it is witchcraft, but the Biblical term for it is the very “MYSTERY BABYLON“ of Rev 17:5! It is the “mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth,” i.e. the covenant with Satan made by those who, unlike Yeshua, choose “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory”16 instead of the Kingdom of Yah’weh. Trinitarian dogma, in other words, is the gospel of Satan, which leads, not to heaven, as the deluded trinitarians believe, but to “condemnation.”

Now That We Know the Truth about Trinitarian Dogma, What Shall We Do?

What is the Truth? It is so simple: Yah’weh, the God of Avraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), is the one, true God, and He is echad, one, not “triune” or “plural.” We must cleave to the exact Word of God, i.e. scripture, and not be fooled by any deviations from the Word, such as “God the Son,” “fully God and fully man,” “of the same substance as the Father,” etc., however “orthodox” such expressions may seem.

Satan is more clever than any human being. By quoting scripture, though, and by being unwilling to subscribe to anything more or less than the unadulterated, verbatim Word of God, we have a way to escape from Satan’s tricks, no matter who we are.

“Stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle,” said the Apostle Paul17: One must not subscribe to the trinitarian membership standards or doctrinal statements of Messianic or other organizations. This is the meaning of the commandment of the angel in Rev 18:4 for us today to “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues!”18Those who subscribe to trinitarian dogma have the name of the “whore” on their foreheads and are driven to persecute the saints and to suffer the judgements poured out on those who “do not have the seal of God,” i.e. the Sh’ma, “Hear, O Yisrael, Yah’weh is our God, Yah’weh is one” (not “triune”), “on their foreheads.”19 Yah’weh commanded the Yisraelim (Israelites) to “bind [the Sh'ma] as a sign” on their hands, and “they (the Mitzvot (Commandments) of Yah’weh) shall be as frontlets between your eyes,”20 meaning that the righteous look upon the Sh’ma on the “hand” and obey the Mitzvot. Obeying Yah’weh is the point, but those who insist on tampering with the Truth and “making the Mitzvot of no effect,”21 neutralizing the Word with their infernal alterations, compromises, creeds, dogmas, and manipulative “doctrinal statements” and membership standards, censorship, inquisitions, forgeries, murders, plots, greed, and so forth, are the “children of disobedience”22 who do not have the seal of Yah’weh on their foreheads. Confess only the very Word of Yah’weh; do not be fooled by the “unrighteous deception”23 of the enemy! Choose Life!24

If you, too, recognize the discrepancies between trinitarian dogma and scripture, if you deplore the calculated, manipulative imposition of trinitarian dogma in Messianic Judaism and Christianity today and believe, as I do, that this is the very “MYSTERY BABYLON ” of Rev 17:5, please join with me in exposing this “accursed Babylonian garment” hidden among us. Please tell others about this hidden atrocity. Copy this information and pass it on to others. If the Restoration we seek is to occur, the problem of trinitarian dogma and “MYSTERY BABYLON” cannot remain an unmentionable “taboo.” This gateway to the Restoration must be opened. Christianity must be de-paganized so that Judaism may be set free from anti-Messianic bondage. The whole world is waiting in misery and degradation for liberation from the slavery of its “Babylonian captivity.” Please don’t make them wait any longer.

Shalom b’Shem Yeshua Adoneinu (Peace in the name of Yeshua (”Jesus”) our Lord).

Mark R. Lerner, POB 2026, Centreville, VA 20122-3502

email kye20121@yahoo.com

Notes

1. “Dogmatism” means “positiveness in assertion of opinion esp. when unwarranted or arrogant” or “a viewpoint or system of ideas based on insufficiently examined premises.” “Dictatorial” is synonymous with “dogmatic” and “stresses autocratic, high-handed methods and a domineering manner” (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, Mass., 1989), pp. 373 and 352, emphasis mine).1

2. “By-laws of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations,” 9/83, Appendix I, p. 6. It is my understanding that the pertinent standards 2 & 3 have not changed from this 1983 revision.2

3. Mk 10:40 (emphasis mine).3

4. Cf. Jn 5:19, 30, 8:28.4

5. Cf. Jn 5:26, 6:57.5

6. See, for example, Spiros Zodhiates, Th.D., Was Christ God? (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1966), pp. 50, 65, 127.6

7. Cf. Mk 5:1-20.7

8. Deut 34:9.8

9. Cf. 2 Kgs 2:9-15.9

10. Cf. “Johannine Comma” in the New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967), p. 1175.10

11. Cf. Louis Trenchard More, Isaac Newton: A Biography (New York, 1934), pp. 634-637. Newton’s tract, An Historical Account of two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, a treatise concerning the discovery of the trinitarian alteration of 1 Tim 3:16, is hard to find-another victim, no doubt, of trinitarian censorshipbut More provides some essential details.11

12. Cf. David Flusser, “The Conclusion of Matthew in a New Jewish Christian Source” and Hans Kosmala, “In My Name” in Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute, Vol. V: 1966-67, pp. 111-120 and 86-109. “Coincidentally,” the last two chapters of Matthew have been lost or destroyed in every Greek ms. dating before the 4th century (cf. Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th ed. (1979) pp. 684-702 and Kurt Aland, The Text of the New Testament, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, 1989), pp. 96-128)!!12

13. Newman, Arians (Westminster, MD, 1968), p. 81ff.13

14. Cf. Mosheim, Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity . . . (New York, 1854), especially Vol. 1, and Sir Isaac Newton Mss. and Papers on microfilm (Chadwyck-Healey Inc., phone 800-752-0515) especially reels 18 and 33-39! The most significant parts of Newton’s superb theological research, actually probably his greatest achievement, still remain mostly inaccessible because they do not support, but in fact expose the truth about, trinitarian dogma and church history generally!14

15. The word “magic” comes from the word “magi”.15

16. Mat 4:8.16

17. 2 Th 2:15.17

18. Rev 18:4.18

19. Rev 9:4.19

20. Deut 6:4-9.20

21. Mat 15:6.21

22. Col 3:6.22

23. 2 Th 2:10.23

24. Deut 30:19.24