ExposingThe
Trinity!
Abraham and Isaac's Story
Destroys the Trinity
Paying attention to old accounts to instruct us!
Nab B, October 2016
“Rightly Divide the Word” (2 Tim 2:15-18)
“Shun the Traditions of Men” (Col 2:8)
A Different Approach!
I hope my unorthodox approach will show you how the Trinity doctrine is inadequate to fit what is revealed in the scriptures.
My interest, and hopefully yours, is to find what God is saying, not what a system of theology is saying! My notes endeavour to show how the scriptures, though profoundly deep, are equally clear and simple to understand if we allow His Spirit to guide us. Whether you agree or not, let us "speak the truth in love". (Eph 4:15)
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If faith is a prerequisite for salvation, then God’s plan of salvation has to be comprehended and appreciated to be believed by faith (God is not in the business of blind faith!). To explain His plan of salvation, God used a true story of a father, a son, and a sacrifice. What can be better comprehended and appreciated than this to explain His plan?
Abraham and Isaac's account proves that God and Jesus Christ are as distinct and separate beings as Abraham and Isaac were! The story is an EXACT TEMPLATE of God and His Son. Every part of it was to be fulfilled. There are simply too many parallels in the story to be dismissed as unnecessary!
Note a few of these similarities (allow the spirit to reveal more to you):
Abraham and Isaac were so related, but distinct and separate from each other as any father and son.
Issac had to be the firstborn like Jesus.
Isaac had to be the only son of the free woman as Jesus was.
Isaac had to be Abraham’s sole heir as Jesus. (John 1:14; Rom 8:17).
The miraculous birth of Issac foreshadowed Jesus’ miraculous birth. (Sarah was old and barren, and Abraham was very old)
Abraham having a son at a very old age, prefigured God bringing His Son to the human family at a very late time (in the last age) of mankind's history. (Heb 1:1,2)
The Son willingly accepted to be sacrificed as Jesus did.
God mercifully spared Abraham sacrificing his only free son by providing a lamb in his place. And this is where the similarities end.
Please understand that even if Abraham pleaded to be sacrificed instead of his son Isaac, God would not have accepted his offer. It was the son who had to be sacrificed and not the father!
God lovingly spared Abraham from sacrificing Isaac but did not spare His own to save humanity.
"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all." (Rom 8:32)
Trinitarians need to think this through and reflect on the story of Abraham and Isaac. It was written for a reason! Every part of it typified the greatest love story in the history of mankind wherein God bore His greatest pain of offering His own willing and obedient Son a sacrifice—a "sin offering", so we can live.