Is God a Trinity - Herbert W. Armstrong Library and Archives

22 Is God a Trinity?
believe in a mysterious Trinity and a vociferous minority
who believe that Christ was a created being. Neither has
the truth.
But why all the confusion?
Who Jesus was is clearly indicated in the pages of the
Bible. It has been there for centuries. While Christians
were busily excommunicating and killing each other over
the question of who Jesus was, the answer has been in the
pages of the Bible, and that explanation is not in harmony
with what is taught by most churches today. Christ is not
the second person in a Trinity, and He was not created by
God - He is the Creator God!
In the Beginning. . .
To find out who Jesus was, let’s go back to the beginning.
Beginnings are mentioned in the Bible in at least two
separate places - in the first chapter of Genesis and in the
first chapter of John’s Gospel.
The Apostle John began his Gospel by describing who
and what Jesus was before He came to this earth as the
saviour of mankind.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made by him; and
without him was not anything made that was made.. . .
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth” (verses 1-3, 14).
If we read no further in the New Testament than this,
we would be able to know beyond a shadow of a doubt
that Jesus Christ was God and that He is the One who
created man in Genesis 2:7. Because John clearly states
that the Word - the One who became Christ - created
all things. Had Christians clearly understood these verses
there would have never been an Arian controversy or a
doctrine of the Trinity.
But the Apostle John is not the only New Testament
writer who wrote about the pre-existence of Christ. Notice
what Paul wrote to the Corinthians. “Moreover, brethren,
I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our