Trinity & Present Christian Ideology

Trinity & Present Christian Ideology

The history, where it comes to religions, has many memories of variety of gods. Among that is an astonishing and strange philosophy that has confused the history and struggle of mankind in making a choice between believe or wisdom. An ideology has been presented that is dependent upon faith. Beside to logic, though heterogeneous to it, awaiting the party of holiness! The philosophy of trinity in Christianity, which has been turned out as a principal of the religious ideology, has been accepted as an article of faith by over 2 billion Christians, with few exceptions. A principle borrowed from an ancient belief, now has put whole Christianity at promontory of the battlefield of logic and belief.

This, however, has been treated more cautiously by the heads of the Christianity and in some cases attempted to save the ideology from the heterogeneous battle. Even some went to such extent to devoid from it by rejecting the idea of trinity. Some Trinitarians, on the other hand, in order to decrease the significance of trinity, gradually attempted to change the bible in the path of exodus from the trinity. The Jehovah witness is an example to the first sect, who totally rejected the idea of Trinity. As per the second group, the Christian leaders are the examples, who tried to delete some passages from the bible to degrade the Trinity. For instance, they removed the actual text of 1st John 5:7 from the new translations but kept the number 7 – assigned to the first portion of verse 8, so that the readers wouldn’t set off the alarm!

In this article I like to open the discussion not on the Trinity but on the arguments, which the Christian leaders make to exhibit a proof from the Old Testament and Jesus’ words for his divinity. To make it short, I grabbed the hook of rob as a start and chose the best of the arguments in this regard.

I asked an honorable church father, if ever Christ has expressed his deity?
The answer he gave was: Yes!
He mentioned several verses from the New Testament, the best and the strongest one is Matthew 22:44.

“‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”‘

Story says that the priests and rabbis of the Jews were questioning Jesus in hope of exploring an evidence to prove his blasphemy. But the answers given by Christ put them in their place. Eventually, Christ refers to The Old Testament, Psalm 110:1 to prove that even prophet David prophesized his deity. Therefore, not only Christ but also David had admitted Jesus Christ deity.

I asked the same Father if we could read the verse together. He happily opened his Bible and read Psalm 110:1.
“Can you also read it in the original Hebrew?” I asked. His reply was negative. I explained that in the original language of Psalm which is in Hebrew, it never says: “The Lord said to my Lord …” but “Yahweh said to my master …”

The discussion went long, so we continued it in another meeting.
Here is the exact text:

And here is the Hebrew transliteration:
lə-ḏā-wiḏ, miz-mō-wr nə-’um Yah-weh la-ḏō-nî, šêḇ lî-mî-nî; ‘aḏ- ’ā-šîṯ ’ō-yə-ḇe-ḵā, hă-ḏōm lə-raḡ-le-ḵā.

Due to my insufficient knowledge of Hebrew literature, I referred to a credible Christian website to examine the case. The following is an analysis of the verse from http://biblehub.com.

תהילים 110:1 Hebrew OT: Westminster Leningrad Codex