At a time when the whole world is globally informed, the events associated with biblical end-time prophecy do not remain hidden from us either. According to Matthew 24:14, the true gospel of the kingdom of God is to be preached to all nations as a witness; only then can the end come. All nations also include the more than 40 nations of the Islamic world, which must be included in this proclamation of the divine message of salvation.

The Jews were the first whom God included in His plan of salvation; they will now be the last, for His glory. Because Israel is completely surrounded by Islamic countries, it forms a very special focal point, also with regard to faith in the one God. The Muslims also believe only in the one God, whom they call Allah. Like the Jews, they reject the doctrine of the Trinity to the utmost.

According to the first commandment and hundreds of utterances of God in the Bible, the Almighty is not a three-person God, but a one and only God and Lord. This is testified to us again and again in many places from the beginning, later in the Law and through the prophets into the New Testament. The one true God and Lord says: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me!" [Deuteronomy 5:7]

It is disastrous that the doctrine of the Trinity, which was discussed at the end of the 3rd Christian century and formulated in the 4th century, has been unwittingly adopted by the traditional denominations since the Reformation. The dogmatic formulation about a three-person God, a so-called three-in-one, is indeed foreign to the Bible. For a truly biblical believer, one thing is certain: he can and will only believe as the Scriptures say. God has left His own clear testimony, and His servants and prophets have also borne testimony of Him in His name. Human imaginations have no place here. God is not as we imagine Him; God is as He presents Himself to be. The doctrine of the Trinity is neither prophetic nor apostolic and certainly not of divine origin. It is neither witnessed to in the New Testament nor in the Old Testament. Should three have existed from eternity and each of them is to be equally omniscient and omnipotent?

In the Old Testament, during the four thousand years from Adam to Christ, not a single person has prayed to God with the phrase: "Heavenly Father…". This was not possible at all, because only through the begetting of Jesus Christ, the Son, did God become the Father. Before that, He was Creator, Sustainer, King, Judge and has already revealed Himself in the Old Testament in manifold ways, such as in the form of an angel and in the supernatural cloud of glory.

Especially when it comes to the Godhead, anyone who is serious about their faith should ask, "What does the Scriptures say about this?" Likewise, one should only be satisfied with an answer that actually comes from the Word, not an interpretation, because it alone exists before God. The Lord Himself instructed His people: " Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD!" (Deuteronomy 6:4). In the persecutions by the Trinity Church of Rome, countless Jews preferred death to acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity. They are bound in their conscience to God's eternal Word. They cannot and must not believe otherwise. The first three centuries of Christianity passed without an intellectual explanation of God. As long as the fear of God and the revelation of the Word and the Spirit was in the church, there was no speculation about it.

To the extent that, in the course of church history, after the initial beginning, the proclamation detached itself from the word of the Old Testament and Judaism and paganistic philosophical ideas began to penetrate. Anyone who has studied the first centuries of Church history will also know that the highly celebrated Church teachers had neither a biblical conversion nor born again nor did they personally experience Jesus Christ, let alone recognize God. Not a single one of them is reported to have had a divine calling and sending. They were neither apostles nor prophets, they were merely "Christian philosophers" who stirred up hatred against the Jews. Very soon the experience with God, which can only be made in Christ as an experience, became a so-called "Christian doctrine and tradition". It was then no longer a matter of receiving Jesus Christ and following the biblical path, but of certain teachings that made sense to the mind and were preached.

The disputes about the Godhead at the councils would have been unthinkable in Jerusalem and among Jewish Christians. In this connection it must not be overlooked that until the time of Constantine there was no unified church at all. Most church historians pass on the falsehoods introduced by the Church of Rome. They speak of an "early Catholic epoch" and even refer to men such as Irenaeus and others who lived in the 2nd century as "representatives of the Roman state church". The truth is that until the end of the third century there were only the various Christian faiths, all of which were persecuted in the Roman Empire. The worst persecution took place in the years 303-306 under Diocletian. After that, Constantine set the course for a unified church in which all these directions were to be combined. The cruel persecution contributed to nominal Christianity bowing to the wishes of the ruler, and thus the foundations for the Catholic state Church were laid. In the year 381, Christianity, which had been combined with earthly political power in the Roman Empire, was declared the state religion, and the papal history only began in 441 with Leo I, who was Bishop of Rome. Every other version was invented afterwards and does not correspond to the actual development.

As far as the Godhead is concerned, for example, we find repeatedly the saying from the mouth of the Lord: "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD…" Not only in the Old Testament in the conversation with Abraham and in the prophet Isaiah, but also in the New Testament in the letters to the Hebrews, it is mentioned that God could not swear by no one but Himself. If there had been two persons like Him, He could have taken one on the right and one on the left and, with both hands raised, swore by them. Such a thought is not far from blasphemy. On closer inspection, the doctrine of the Trinity is blasphemy because it is directed against God Himself and against His Word.

All the promises in the entire Old Testament that were made with reference to Jesus Christ only found their fulfillment and thus their existence when they became reality. When we read in Psalm 2: "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee." or in Isaiah 7: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel…" or in Isaiah 9:6: "… For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…", then we can read and comprehend the realization and fulfillment in detail in the New Testament.

A son was not born in heaven – there was no one in heaven who needed to be redeemed. The Son was born here on earth through the virgin, as God had foretold through the prophet. It was not God in heaven who gave birth to a son, but, as it is written, "… a virgin shall conceive". The doctrine of the Trinity was brought into being by people who had no historical perspective of salvation at all and knew nothing of the divine plan of redemption, devised by Him before the foundation of the world, whereby He predestined us to be His sons. This divine purpose could and had to be accomplished here on earth with mankind in a very practical way through the Son of Man, who is the beginning of this new divine creation.

It was only at the moment when the begetting and birth of the Son took place that the Old Testament words of God were fulfilled: "I will be His father, and He shall be My son." and also: "He shall cry unto me, 'Thou art my father' …, Also I will make him my firstborn." (2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 89; Hebrews 1:5-6 and other verses).

Every address that refers to God or comes from Him was always in the singular and not once in the plural. Nor has any prophet or apostle ever applied the three passages which contain the word us, which are cited as evidence by the proponents of the Trinity, to the Godhead. This was done later by the Christian philosophers who did not know God. For example, in Genesis 1:26 it says: "Let us make man in our image…" Here God did not talk to Himself, nor did he speak to any of God's persons who do not exist, but to the angels and hosts who were present when He created heaven and earth. This is confirmed to us in Job 38:4-6 in connection with the creation account: "… When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." The Lord has always been seen surrounded by heavenly hosts. This is also clearly described in Isaiah chapter 6, when the prophet saw the King, the Lord of hosts.

The prophet Micah also saw the Lord on His throne and the heavenly host on His right and left, to whom He spoke (2 Chronicles 18:18). In Genesis 11, the Lord speaks to the angels, the ministering spirits, who surround Him: "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language." Whether it is written us or we, it never refers to a plural God, but to Him and the angels who surround Him.

In the New Testament, as already mentioned, our Lord confirms the oneness of God: "And Jesus answered him, 'The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.'" How beautiful that even the scribe with whom the Lord spoke confirmed these words as true. If only the scribes of today could confirm the word as true! But a scribe can only do this in conversation with the Lord and Master, because only from Him, in whom God revealed Himself in human form, does clarity come. "And the scribe said unto him, 'Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he.'"  (Mark 12:28-34).

Paul also confirms at the end of the Epistle to the Romans: "Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever! Amen." (vv. 25-27).

In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul describes the revelation of God as Father in heaven and in Jesus Christ our Lord as the Son on earth: "… But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." (v. 6).

Jude, Jesus' brother, concludes his letter with the words: "… To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever! Amen."

The manifestations of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which are part of the fulfillment of the plan of salvation, do not entitle any human being to make different divine persons out of them. In the Son the Father has revealed Himself, and through the Holy Spirit He is operating. What is important is that we recognize the manifestation of God in Christ from the standpoint of the redemption plan and our eternal predestination as sons and daughters. The Godhead should never have been a point of contention, but rather had to be brought to the attention of mankind by the proclamation, namely, that God was in Christ and reconciled the world to Himself. It is not three persons who have been independent from eternity – that would really be a pagan God – but it is a true God who manifested himself in three ways: in heaven as Father, in connection with our redemption in the Son, since the founding of the congregation by the Holy Spirit.

There is only one "Lord's Prayer", not an "Our Son" and not a "Our Spirit". The Lord taught us how to pray, namely, "Our Father which art in heaven…" Everyone can read how the apostle Paul in particular addresses God in his prayers and writes: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." The designations "God the Son" and "God the Holy Spirit" are not found in the Holy Scriptures, it is always only "God the Father…", nor is the designation "eternal Son", but only "everlasting Father" (Isaiah 9:6) and "everlasting God" (Isaiah 40:28). The manifestations as the Son and as the Holy Spirit always refer to God and are derived from Him: Son of God, Spirit of God. A Bible correction must indeed begin with the most important subject.

From the perspective of the plan of salvation, all those who accept God's salvation in Christ have been reconciled to God through His death on the cross. By being born again, God has made children of God out of children of men. Thus the God of heaven has become our heavenly Father, for in Christ, the firstborn among many brethren, as the introductory text testifies, we were predestined to be sons and daughters of God before the foundation of the world, according to the good pleasure of His will. Since we have become sons and daughters of God by virtue of redemption, the Savior called the redeemed His brethren, because He who redeems and sanctifies, as well as the redeemed of old who are sanctified by Him in the truth of His Word, are from the same Father (Hebrews 2:11). So our Redeemer, as the Son of Man, could say, "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your God."  (John 20). "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness." (Romans 1:1-5). God has taken us into His eternal plan of salvation in Christ. By grace we are allowed to experience its realization.

At a time when the whole world is globally informed, the events associated with biblical end-time prophecy do not remain hidden from us either. According to Matthew 24:14, the true gospel of the kingdom of God is to be preached to all nations as a witness; only then can the end come. All nations also include the more than 40 nations of the Islamic world, which must be included in this proclamation of the divine message of salvation.

The Jews were the first whom God included in His plan of salvation; they will now be the last, for His glory. Because Israel is completely surrounded by Islamic countries, it forms a very special focal point, also with regard to faith in the one God. The Muslims also believe only in the one God, whom they call Allah. Like the Jews, they reject the doctrine of the Trinity to the utmost.

According to the first commandment and hundreds of utterances of God in the Bible, the Almighty is not a three-person God, but a one and only God and Lord. This is testified to us again and again in many places from the beginning, later in the Law and through the prophets into the New Testament. The one true God and Lord says: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me!" [Deuteronomy 5:7]

It is disastrous that the doctrine of the Trinity, which was discussed at the end of the 3rd Christian century and formulated in the 4th century, has been unwittingly adopted by the traditional denominations since the Reformation. The dogmatic formulation about a three-person God, a so-called three-in-one, is indeed foreign to the Bible. For a truly biblical believer, one thing is certain: he can and will only believe as the Scriptures say. God has left His own clear testimony, and His servants and prophets have also borne testimony of Him in His name. Human imaginations have no place here. God is not as we imagine Him; God is as He presents Himself to be. The doctrine of the Trinity is neither prophetic nor apostolic and certainly not of divine origin. It is neither witnessed to in the New Testament nor in the Old Testament. Should three have existed from eternity and each of them is to be equally omniscient and omnipotent?

In the Old Testament, during the four thousand years from Adam to Christ, not a single person has prayed to God with the phrase: "Heavenly Father…". This was not possible at all, because only through the begetting of Jesus Christ, the Son, did God become the Father. Before that, He was Creator, Sustainer, King, Judge and has already revealed Himself in the Old Testament in manifold ways, such as in the form of an angel and in the supernatural cloud of glory.

Especially when it comes to the Godhead, anyone who is serious about their faith should ask, "What does the Scriptures say about this?" Likewise, one should only be satisfied with an answer that actually comes from the Word, not an interpretation, because it alone exists before God. The Lord Himself instructed His people: " Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD!" (Deuteronomy 6:4). In the persecutions by the Trinity Church of Rome, countless Jews preferred death to acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity. They are bound in their conscience to God's eternal Word. They cannot and must not believe otherwise. The first three centuries of Christianity passed without an intellectual explanation of God. As long as the fear of God and the revelation of the Word and the Spirit was in the church, there was no speculation about it.

To the extent that, in the course of church history, after the initial beginning, the proclamation detached itself from the word of the Old Testament and Judaism and paganistic philosophical ideas began to penetrate. Anyone who has studied the first centuries of Church history will also know that the highly celebrated Church teachers had neither a biblical conversion nor born again nor did they personally experience Jesus Christ, let alone recognize God. Not a single one of them is reported to have had a divine calling and sending. They were neither apostles nor prophets, they were merely "Christian philosophers" who stirred up hatred against the Jews. Very soon the experience with God, which can only be made in Christ as an experience, became a so-called "Christian doctrine and tradition". It was then no longer a matter of receiving Jesus Christ and following the biblical path, but of certain teachings that made sense to the mind and were preached.

The disputes about the Godhead at the councils would have been unthinkable in Jerusalem and among Jewish Christians. In this connection it must not be overlooked that until the time of Constantine there was no unified church at all. Most church historians pass on the falsehoods introduced by the Church of Rome. They speak of an "early Catholic epoch" and even refer to men such as Irenaeus and others who lived in the 2nd century as "representatives of the Roman state church". The truth is that until the end of the third century there were only the various Christian faiths, all of which were persecuted in the Roman Empire. The worst persecution took place in the years 303-306 under Diocletian. After that, Constantine set the course for a unified church in which all these directions were to be combined. The cruel persecution contributed to nominal Christianity bowing to the wishes of the ruler, and thus the foundations for the Catholic state Church were laid. In the year 381, Christianity, which had been combined with earthly political power in the Roman Empire, was declared the state religion, and the papal history only began in 441 with Leo I, who was Bishop of Rome. Every other version was invented afterwards and does not correspond to the actual development.

As far as the Godhead is concerned, for example, we find repeatedly the saying from the mouth of the Lord: "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD…" Not only in the Old Testament in the conversation with Abraham and in the prophet Isaiah, but also in the New Testament in the letters to the Hebrews, it is mentioned that God could not swear by no one but Himself. If there had been two persons like Him, He could have taken one on the right and one on the left and, with both hands raised, swore by them. Such a thought is not far from blasphemy. On closer inspection, the doctrine of the Trinity is blasphemy because it is directed against God Himself and against His Word.

All the promises in the entire Old Testament that were made with reference to Jesus Christ only found their fulfillment and thus their existence when they became reality. When we read in Psalm 2: "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee." or in Isaiah 7: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel…" or in Isaiah 9:6: "… For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…", then we can read and comprehend the realization and fulfillment in detail in the New Testament.

A son was not born in heaven – there was no one in heaven who needed to be redeemed. The Son was born here on earth through the virgin, as God had foretold through the prophet. It was not God in heaven who gave birth to a son, but, as it is written, "… a virgin shall conceive". The doctrine of the Trinity was brought into being by people who had no historical perspective of salvation at all and knew nothing of the divine plan of redemption, devised by Him before the foundation of the world, whereby He predestined us to be His sons. This divine purpose could and had to be accomplished here on earth with mankind in a very practical way through the Son of Man, who is the beginning of this new divine creation.

It was only at the moment when the begetting and birth of the Son took place that the Old Testament words of God were fulfilled: "I will be His father, and He shall be My son." and also: "He shall cry unto me, 'Thou art my father' …, Also I will make him my firstborn." (2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 89; Hebrews 1:5-6 and other verses).

Every address that refers to God or comes from Him was always in the singular and not once in the plural. Nor has any prophet or apostle ever applied the three passages which contain the word us, which are cited as evidence by the proponents of the Trinity, to the Godhead. This was done later by the Christian philosophers who did not know God. For example, in Genesis 1:26 it says: "Let us make man in our image…" Here God did not talk to Himself, nor did he speak to any of God's persons who do not exist, but to the angels and hosts who were present when He created heaven and earth. This is confirmed to us in Job 38:4-6 in connection with the creation account: "… When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." The Lord has always been seen surrounded by heavenly hosts. This is also clearly described in Isaiah chapter 6, when the prophet saw the King, the Lord of hosts.

The prophet Micah also saw the Lord on His throne and the heavenly host on His right and left, to whom He spoke (2 Chronicles 18:18). In Genesis 11, the Lord speaks to the angels, the ministering spirits, who surround Him: "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language." Whether it is written us or we, it never refers to a plural God, but to Him and the angels who surround Him.

In the New Testament, as already mentioned, our Lord confirms the oneness of God: "And Jesus answered him, 'The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.'" How beautiful that even the scribe with whom the Lord spoke confirmed these words as true. If only the scribes of today could confirm the word as true! But a scribe can only do this in conversation with the Lord and Master, because only from Him, in whom God revealed Himself in human form, does clarity come. "And the scribe said unto him, 'Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he.'" (Mark 12:28-34).

Paul also confirms at the end of the Epistle to the Romans: "Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever! Amen." (vv. 25-27).

In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul describes the revelation of God as Father in heaven and in Jesus Christ our Lord as the Son on earth: "… But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." (v. 6).

Jude, Jesus' brother, concludes his letter with the words: "… To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever! Amen."

The manifestations of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which are part of the fulfillment of the plan of salvation, do not entitle any human being to make different divine persons out of them. In the Son the Father has revealed Himself, and through the Holy Spirit He is operating. What is important is that we recognize the manifestation of God in Christ from the standpoint of the redemption plan and our eternal predestination as sons and daughters. The Godhead should never have been a point of contention, but rather had to be brought to the attention of mankind by the proclamation, namely, that God was in Christ and reconciled the world to Himself. It is not three persons who have been independent from eternity – that would really be a pagan God – but it is a true God who manifested himself in three ways: in heaven as Father, in connection with our redemption in the Son, since the founding of the congregation by the Holy Spirit.

There is only one "Lord's Prayer", not an "Our Son" and not a "Our Spirit". The Lord taught us how to pray, namely, "Our Father which art in heaven…" Everyone can read how the apostle Paul in particular addresses God in his prayers and writes: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." The designations "God the Son" and "God the Holy Spirit" are not found in the Holy Scriptures, it is always only "God the Father…", nor is the designation "eternal Son", but only "everlasting Father" (Isaiah 9:6) and "everlasting God" (Isaiah 40:28). The manifestations as the Son and as the Holy Spirit always refer to God and are derived from Him: Son of God, Spirit of God. A Bible correction must indeed begin with the most important subject.

From the perspective of the plan of salvation, all those who accept God's salvation in Christ have been reconciled to God through His death on the cross. By being born again, God has made children of God out of children of men. Thus the God of heaven has become our heavenly Father, for in Christ, the firstborn among many brethren, as the introductory text testifies, we were predestined to be sons and daughters of God before the foundation of the world, according to the good pleasure of His will. Since we have become sons and daughters of God by virtue of redemption, the Savior called the redeemed His brethren, because He who redeems and sanctifies, as well as the redeemed of old who are sanctified by Him in the truth of His Word, are from the same Father (Hebrews 2:11). So our Redeemer, as the Son of Man, could say, "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your God." (John 20). "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness." (Romans 1:1-5). God has taken us into His eternal plan of salvation in Christ. By grace we are allowed to experience its realization.