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How Can A Loving God Send Someone to Hell? SeanMcDowell.org

You Christians say God is a trinity. The word, Trinity, is not in the Bible. Do
you believe in three Gods?

Many people believe that God is not a triune God, but only one God; they teach that
Trinitarianism is a belief in three gods, and thereby, Satan-inspired polytheism. One of
the founders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Rutherford wrote: "... sincere persons who
want to know the true God and serve him find it a bit difficult to love and worship a complicated,
freakish-looking, three-headed God. The clergy who inject such ideas will contradict themselves in the
very next breath by stating that God made man in his own image; for certainly no one has ever seen a
three-headed human creature" (Let God Be True, 2nd ed., pp. 101-102). Muslims deny the Trinity stating
that God is one God and does not have a father or a son.

Many believe that the idea of the Trinity has satanic origins and is another lie made and
told by Satan for the purpose of reproaching God’s name. They say the concept of the
Trinity was adopted by the church some three hundred years after Christ died by Emperor
Constantine (Nicaean Creed)

They argue that the word, “trinity” is not in the Bible, so therefore it is false. However, just
because a word is not found in the Bible does not mean that the doctrine is absent. There
are many doctrines that are scriptural, but the word does not appear in the Bible. For example,
“theocracy” does not appear, yet does that mean that God’s kingdom does not exist. The word
“rapture” does not exist, but the doctrine is taught clearly in I & II Thessalonians. The doctrine of the
Trinity is clearly revealed in Scripture.

The following is found in Got Questions (https://www.gotquestions.org/Trinity-Bible.html) in answer to the
Biblical teaching about the Trinity:

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