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Why I No Longer Believe in the Trinity
A reformed look at the theology of the trinity in Christianity
When I was fifteen and newly “saved”, I asked a really nice church-going woman who was a friend of the family: “Can you explain how God is Jesus and Jesus is God and how the Holy Spirit fit in this?”
It was dark and we had just left a riveting church service. It was a nearly empty parking lot, save for a few passersby while she and I walked around the trees that touched the silver disk-shaped moon in the sky.
Unlike the clear night sky, the woman’s answer was not as clear, nor logical to me then. She told me: “Jesus is in God, God is in Jesus and the Holy Spirit completes the fold. They are three people in one person.”
She told me this is a gentle way, in a friendly way, and I nodded just to appear as if I was not stupid, but deep down I knew something was wrong about this.
Over time I accepted it as natural that we believe in three entities that are all God. Never questioned it for many years. As this message was preached, as it was sung, as it was read, and talked about. I was fully submerged in the idea that I still served under one God who was split into three entities.
