Yahweh is One.

"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ("taking on the likeness of humanity" from the Christian Standard Bible is a better less bias translation here) And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." (Philippians 2:5-8) Traditionally, most Christians have misunderstood these beautiful verses and readily assumed the humiliation in view is God becoming a man, BUT is that the author's context and intent? These inspiring Philippians texts call to mind a few correlating passages that can help us reach a proper interpretation. "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich...

There is so much noise and so many voices in this world spewing so many opinions that, if we're sensitive or tired, can become overwhelming. Simply scrolling social media or youtube subscriptions can unveil an avalanche of nonsense in every conceivable form. I think it's safe to say that the powers-that-be like to keep us perpetually distracted by nonsense and fluff. Christians are in a battle with our flesh and also dark spiritual forces, so a consistent diet of binging upon unhelpful or simply distracting visuals and opinions that are inconsequential or deceiving or downright ungodly is not the noblest or wisest pursuit. We must commune with God as constantly as is humanly possible if we desire to be fortified against the strongholds and weapons of Satan, demons, and even people who don't have our best interest at heart, intentional or not. Fill your heart and mind with Yahweh's soul food, poring the milk of his word and eventually further growing with it's meat, ...

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 ...

God can instantaneously demolish any seemingly unassailable stronghold we may harbor or suffer. Or sometimes it takes more time in accordance with our cooperation, or failure to cooperate, with his divine will for our precious lives. In the midst of enduring addiction, we might seem utterly hopeless and defeated. Addicts who don't even acknowledge, and are hence not desirous of profuse worship of and service to the One True God, are at an even greater loss to establish an anchor of strength and aspiration. Perhaps their human will to live and indomitable spirit that God gifted them, whether they know it or not, can inspire. Yes, unbelievers have to consistently borrow from the Christian worldview and God's grace and riches to even continue to breathe or speak or move, knowingly or not. Those of us who DO have faith and trust in a benevolent God of love and grace, while maintaining stubborn strongholds, likewise, in the eye of the hurricane, feel an urgent inability to sustainab...

"No record of the Trinitarian formula can be discovered in the Acts or the Epistles of the Apostles." (Intl. Standard Bible Ency.; Vol. 1; p. 396). "The doctrine of the Trinity did not form part of the apostles preaching as this (preaching) is reported in the N.T." (Ency. Intl.; U. Of Glasgow; 1982 ed.; Vol. 18; p. 226). Jesus taught his loved and valued disciples precisely how they should go out into the world to proclaim the Kingdom good news and what it is they should say. They had the truth because they had Jesus, God's word of truth to mankind, who equipped them sufficiently. They were refreshingly untainted by centuries of extrabiblical, or explicitly nonbiblical, ideals and/or philosophies that crept into Christianity. Their knowledge and doctrines hadn't merged with others who were uninspired. All scripture is inspired and beneficial for teaching and reproof, so if we don't learn how it is we should engage with and what it is we should herald...