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John 2:19 | Exposing the False Trinity Doctrine

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Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up. (John 2:19)


The Trinitarian Claim

Trinitarians interpret the text to mean Yahushua raised himself from the dead and somehow suppose this means he must be G-d [Yahuwah] who raised himself from the dead.

The Claim vs. The Facts

The Scriptural facts show us that the Father raised Yahushua from the dead. Yahushua was the Father's Word and the Father spoke decisively when He raised Yahushua from the dead. Since Yahushua was the Father's Word, what should we expect the Father to say when the Jews planned to kill His son but the words, "Destroy this Temple and I will raise it up"?

The Problems with the Claim

1. John 10:17-18

For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my soul so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

In this passage, it says Yahushua was given the authority to take it up again by a command of the Father. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to claim John 2:19 means Yahushua is G-d [Yahuwah] because he raised his own body if he needed to be given the authority to do so by G-d [Yahuwah].

It is also worth noting that the word commonly translated as "take" in verse 17 is the same Greek word which is inconsistently translated as "receive" in verse 18b.

Now compare these two verses:

For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my soul so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

For I do not speak from myself, but the Father Himself who sent me has given me a command as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His command is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told me. John 12:49-50

2. Violating other Scripture

The following passages do not square with the Trinitarian interpretation of John 2:19.

I saw the Lord always in my presence for He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; moreover my flesh also will live in hope because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You allow Your holy One to see corruption. Acts 3:25-27

In the days of his flesh, Yahushua offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the One who is able to save him from death and he was heard for his G-dly fear. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. Hebrews 5:7

These passages make it abundantly clear that the Trinitarian claim is certainly wrong. If Yahushua declared he was going to raise himself from the dead, these verses don't make any sense. Why would he be praying to Yahuwah to save him from death if indeed he was going to raise himself?

3. The Absurd Imaginations of Trinitarian Minds: The Dead raising the Dead

According to the Trinitarian mindset, one is expected to somehow suppose Christ was not actually dead and lifeless in a tomb but was quite alive and empowered to raise his own dead body to life. This problem is completely disregarded by Trinitarians. If the person Yahushua was not actually dead, but alive and able to raise his body from the dead, then no person was dead for the sins of the world. But like Cerinthus, they suppose that at the point of death, the divine Christ departed from that flesh named Yahushua hanging on the cross. In this way, the divine Christ was not dead but alive and they laid a dead human named Yahushua in a tomb. Put another way, dying usually results in being dead but not in the Trinitarian mindset. His dying did not result in being dead. G-d the Son died only in process but not in result and he remained quite alive while discarding his human flesh and leaving his dead carcass behind. Yahushua the divine being escaped to parts elsewhere and remained quite alive while Yahushua the human being was that dead flesh hanging dead on the cross. In the Trinitarian mind, it is necessary to espouse this heretical Cerinthian concept where Yahushua the divine being remained alive while Yahushua the human being was hanging dead on the cross.

Yahushua was dead. The dead do not raise the dead. The dead require life to be given to them in order to raise them from being dead. But if yourself are dead, you are lifeless since that is the definition of being dead.

4. A Self Refuting Claim

Trinitarians like to claim John 2:19 means Yahushua raised himself. For some strange reason, they don't see the problem with their claim. They also claim that G-d the Father [Yahuwah] raised Yahushua from the dead, the Holy Spirit raised Yahushua from the dead, and Yahushua raised himself from the dead. And so they believe that all three persons of Trinity doctrine raised Yahushua from the dead. Therefore, they conclude, the Triune G-d raised Yahushua from the dead. Here is where their utter confusion manifests itself. Unfortunately, they don't seem to understand that they aren't making any sense. In the doctrine of the Trinity, the Father is not the Triune being, the Son is not the Triune being, and the Holy Spirit is not the Triune being, and conversely, the Triune being is not the Father, the Triune being is not the Son, and the Triune being is not the Holy Spirit. So to say Yahushua raised himself is therefore to say the Triune being did not raise Yahushua because Yahushua is not the Triune being in Trinity doctrine. Or to say the Triune being raised Yahushua is to say that Yahushua did not raise himself since the Triune being is not the Yahushua.

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Either the Triune G-d raised Yahushua from the dead or Yahushua raised himself from the dead. In Trinitarian doctrine, you can't claim both without contradicting yourself. But because they do claim both, they do contradict themselves and demonstrate their own confusion.

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Moreover, what sense does it make to claim Yahushua raised himself and then insist that two other persons raised that same "himself"? But it's even worse than this since they are ultimately claiming four different identities raised this particular "himself": (1) the Father, (2) the Son, (3) the Holy Spirit, (4) the Triune G-d. For some reason, Trinitarians are unable to see or acknowledge their own muddled contradictory confusion.

5. Yahushua was able to do nothing from himself

In the Gospel of John, Yahushua insisted that he was not able to do anything from himself. As he himself testified, it was the Father abiding in him who did the works (John 14:10; cf. Matt 12:28; Acts 2:22). Now if this was true of Yahushua while he was alive and well, how much more was he unable to do anything of himself when he was laying dead in a tomb!

I am not able of my own self to do anything. John 5:30.

6. The Testimony of Scripture

The New Testament consistently declares that G-d the Father [Yahuwah] raised Yahushua from the dead by the power of His Holy Spirit. Yet, Trinitarians want to have it that John 2:19 is an exception which states someone else actually did it. But a review of the Scriptural data shows rational minded people that something is terribly amiss with the Trinitarian claim.

G-d [Yahuwah] raised him up again, having loosed the pangs of death, since it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Acts 2:24

This Yahushua G-d [Yahuwah] raised up again. Acts 2:32.

You put to death the Prince of life, the one whom G-d [Yahuwah] raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.
Acts 3:15.

Yahushua Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom G-d [Yahuwah] raised from the dead. Acts 4:10.

The G-d of our fathers raised up Yahushua, whom you had put to death by hanging him on a cross. Acts 5:30.

G-d [Yahuwah] raised him up on the third day. Acts 10:40.

G-d [Yahuwah] raised Him from the dead... G-d [Yahuwah] has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Yahushua, as it is also written in the second Psalm, "You are My son; Today I have begotten You." He raised him up from the dead, no longer to return to corruption... He whom G-d [Yahuwah] raised did not undergo corruption.
Acts 13:30-37.

His Son, who came to be out the seed of David according to the flesh, fixed son of G-d [Yahuwah] in power by the resurrection out of the dead, according to the Spirit of Holiness, Yahushua Christ our Lord.
Romans 1:3-4

Those who believe in Him who raised Yahushua our Lord from the dead. Romans 4:24.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Yahushua from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Yahushua from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit which dwells in you.
Romans 8:11.

G-d [Yahuwah] raised him from the dead. Romans 10:9.

Now G-d [Yahuwah] has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. 1 Corinthians 6:14.

Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of G-d [Yahuwah] , because we testified against G-d [Yahuwah] that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.
1 Corinthians 15:15.

We also believe, therefore we also speak knowing that He who raised the Lord Yahushua will raise us also with Yahushua.
2 Corinthians 4:13-14.

The G-d of our Lord Yahushua Christ, the Father of glory.... He raised him from the dead and seated him at His right hand in the heavenlies.
Ephesians 1:17-20.

You turned to G-d [Yahuwah] from idols to serve a living and true G-d, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead.
1 Thessalonians 1:10

...through him are believers in G-d [Yahuwah], who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in G-d [Yahuwah].
1 Peter 1:21

G-d the Father [Yahuwah], who raised him from the dead. Galatians 1:1.

Notice the consistency in all these passages. The Father raised Yahushua by the life-giving power of His Spirit. But at John 2:19, we are expected to believe Yahushua threw a wrench into the cogs.

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SEE: Analysis of the Facts

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7. The Word became flesh: the Father's Word

Yahushua was the Prophet who was coming into the world (6:14). Yahuwah put His words in Yahushua's mouth.

I will raise up a prophet... I will put My words in his mouth. (Deuteronomy 18:15-18).

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And Yahushua cried out and said, "He who believes in me, does not believe in me but in Him who sent me. (John 12:44).

Yahushua was the Word of Yahuwah. As Yahuwah's Word he was the Father's voice to Israel.

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Conclusion

The Scriptural facts show us that his body was the Temple of Yahuwah; the Word tabernacled in human flesh and that flesh was the Father's Temple. He, this body of flesh, was the Father's Word and he spoke the words of the Father. This account is about the Father's house, the Temple. Yahushua's words were not his own but the Father's who sent him. This body of flesh, His Temple, was His Word to the world. Since he was the Father's Word, there were two witnesses as according to the Law. Yahushua tells us many times in John's Gospel that he spoke the words of the Father. He kept his Father's word (8:55) for eternal life.

For I did not speak from myself, but the Father Himself who sent me has given me commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told me. John 12:50

The word Yahushua had spoken at John 2:19 were the words of the Father. The Father's word is "the word of life" (1 John 1:1). In the Gospel of John, Yahushua is the Father's word tabernacled in human flesh. Therefore, being the Father's word, what then did you expect the Father to say when these men asked Yahushua by what authority he had cleared the Temple? "Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up."

"I am the resurrection and the life." John 11:25
 


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