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Does John 1:1 prove that Jesus is part of a trinity?

"Without a doubt, misunderstanding these verses at the beginning of the gospel of John has done more to further the cause of Trinitarian orthodoxy than misunderstanding any other section of Scripture. Whenever we challenge the traditional understanding of God and Christ, the first three verses of John’s prologue are invariably and almost immediately brought to the forefront of the discussion. Thus, it behooves us as workmen of God’s Word to thoroughly consider them."~~(Schoenheit, John W.; Graeser, Mark H.; Lynn, John A.. One God & One Lord: Reconsidering the Cornerstone of the Christian Faith (p. 205). Spirit & Truth Fellowship International. Kindle Edition.) And as Kegan Chandler notes: "Interestingly, we find that misunderstanding Jesus is actually a major theme of the Gospel of John.  Episodes involving his audience’s misinterpretation of his sayings occur in at least fifteen out of the twenty-one chapters.  Might contemporary audiences be missing his int...

Watchtower or Jesus?

From the Watchtower: "You must be part of Jehovah's organization, doing God's will, in order to receive his blessing of everlasting life." Live Forever book p. 255 "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) So is Jesus or an organization "the way", the "truth", and the "life"? Where is the integralness of Watchtower membership heralded in God's holy word? If you have to be in the Watchtower for God's favor and salvation, then surely we would have been told by God's word and not just the Watchtower. "Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life." (John 5:...

The Holy Spirit: 10 Reasoning Points for Trinitarians

1. "These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual." (1 Corithians 2:10-13) Trinitarians use the fact that the Holy Spirit can know something as proof it's a person. But these texts say that our spirits likewise "know us." Is God's holy spirit not compared to ours within these passages quite readily? Are our "knowing" spirits separate persons within our "very beings" simply because they're personifiable? If not, how could you possi...

Arius, Athanasius, Plato, and the Trinity

When I hear modern day trinitarian debaters describe their dogma (I accidentally first wrote this word as "fogma", which is really kind of accurate, but I digress) with particular and peculiar language foreign to scripture, I immediately recognize that they're speaking from incessant indoctrination instead of simple and sacred revelation. I wonder how they would have described God and with what terminology were they not handed certain sets of words and philosophies. I would venture to hypothesize that they could not have in their wildest imaginations come up with the proposal, much less the acceptance, that God is a triune homoousios consisting of three coequal and consubstantial persons. How could one imagine such a thing given Jesus's consistent and prevailing declarations of being ignorant about the day and hour, having to grow in knowledge, being utterly reliant upon someone greater, etc.? They've been handed something from men who aren't Jesus, and hence ...