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Presented by Gary Fakhoury at the One God Conference, Seattle WA May 31st 2008, commentary by John Obelenus. Click here to listen to this talk.

Gary starts by providing the stalwart belief of Judaism to be the belief that YHWH was God. YHWH is a personal name, of a single Person who alone truly holds the title of God. He notes that all serious scholars and pastors agree this is the essential statement of the Old Testament and Judaism until Jesus. We know revelation to be progressive and new truths are given over time to us. However, is this single person of God changed by subsequent revelation in the new covenant?

In a quick survey of NT passages, Gary shows that God is also presented as a single individual person. Only through ignoring or hand-waiving are these clear NT verses of a single individual God done away with. And people have propped up certain verses against this clear presentation only by presupposing their doctrine when doing exegesis.

Gary proposes that if we were to grant the Trinitarians arguments, and ignore any NT verses that support God as a single individual. He asks, what are the implications of saying the NT reveals the true nature of God as multi-personal, then the OT presents a lie about God as an individual person? This isn’t a “lie by omission” either, the OT clearly says only one person is God (everyone agrees). Furthermore, everyone agrees that God does not change, according to Malachi.

What are the possibilities he asks? One, we could abandon the inspiration of the OT. Yet Jesus in John 10.35, and 2 Tim 3.16 stand in our way - both in the NT which we hold as inspired. Therefore if you say the OT is false, the NT must also be false since it attests to the truth of the OT (QED)!

Gary concludes that attempts to prove this Trinitarian dogma end up being self-defeating, and defeating about the inspiration of both testaments of Scripture. The Bible cannot hold the weight of the Trinity. Therefore the Trinity must be rejected as a truth. Garys begs that this is important because the “faith of the patriarchs, messiahship of Jesus, the reliability of Scripture and the truth Christianity hangs in the balance.”