Publisher's Synopsis
The primary purpose of this 4 volume series is to shine the clarifying light of rigorous and objective scriptural scholarship upon the most important of the many false teachings that have attached themselves to Christianity during its almost 2000 years of existence - the Trinity. Most of these false teachings had become an integral part of Church doctrine and dogma by 400 A.D with the establishment and growth of the Catholic Church. Of course, this was to be expected as both Jesus and the apostle Paul foretold a great falling away from the truth, or "a great apostasy" that would occur after the death of the last of the apostles. Contrary to what most Christians have been taught, Christians of the first and second century had no concept of the "Trinitarian Godhead" of three equal beings (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) that would eventually become official Church doctrine by the time of the Council of Constantinople in 381 A.D. As a Trinitarian do you worship what you know or is it possible that you don't understand what the Trinity really is and what kind of a God it attempts to describe and represent? Many people think that they understand the Trinity and what it teaches about God but when they actually read the official doctrinal statements and the creeds produced by the apostate Catholic councils of the fourth to the ninth century they find that what they thought was the doctrine of the Trinity is really something quite different from what it actually is and how it was defined by these Catholic Church Councils. Anything that was added to the body of Christian knowledge and understanding after the first century was an apostate perversion of true first century Christianity. It's as simple as that - any teachings added to Christianity about the supposed true nature of God and his relationship to Jesus Christ is a false apostate teaching and should be summarily rejected out of hand. First century Christians understood God and His relationship to Jesus Christ to the greatest extent that this relationship could be understood by human beings. The teaching activities of Jesus Christ, Peter, Paul and the other first century teachers provides sincere Christians with all the knowledge that they need in order to understand God and His relationship to Christ. The "gradual realizations about the true nature of God and Christ" as revealed hundreds of years after the Bible was completed certainly aren't needed by anyone professing to worship the God of the Bible. The coming, foretold apostasy against Christian truth was completely understood by Jesus, the apostle Paul and the apostle Peter and they warned Christians about its coming and the damage that it would do to true Christianity. The first century Christians understood the relationship between Jesus and God the Father as completely as it ever could be, should be or needed to be understood. That the foretold apostasy, or the falling away from true Christianity was already beginning at the end of the first century was foretold by the apostle John at 1 John 2:18 (written approximately 98 AD) where John said:1 John 2:18 (New American Standard Bible) 18 "Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that is the last hour". Hopefully, these 4 volumes will make it clear to the objective reader that the Trinity is a false, unscriptural doctrine that should be rejected by everyone who wishes to serve the God of the Bible in a way that He approves.
