One major problem that continues to plague Christendom is people “leaving their brains at the church door”! This is particularly true when it comes to telling the world who God and His only-begotten Son truly are.

For example, we all know that singular pronouns and verbs are used according to the laws of grammar. Words like “he” and “himself” convey objective facts about how many persons are being referred to. Yet, many Trinitarians insist that “Myself” (Isa. 44.24), “one LORD” (Mark 12:29) or “one God” (John 5.44) can mean more than one single person/individual!

The fact is that the doctrine of the Trinity can only make “sense as a mystical or spiritual experience…It was not a logical or intellectual formulation but an imaginative paradigm that confounded reason. [For many] the Trinity is simply baffling” (Karen Armstrong, A History of God).

The Oxford Companion to the Bible is right to state, “the NT offers no new doctrine of God. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is now the God and Father of Jesus Christ. Thus, all OT theology is implied in the NT.”

So Jesus did not alter the Shema! (Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29).

Those words from Catholic and Protestant notables are supported by the words of Jesus himself, in his prayer to the one God, his Father in John 17:

3: “Now this is the life of the age to come: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus the Messiah, whom you have sent.”

Note his prophetic last words in this chapter, as paraphrased by The Amplified Bible, Classic Edition:

“O just and righteous Father, although the world has not known You and has failed to recognize You and has never acknowledged You, I have known You [continually]; and these men understand and know that You have sent Me. I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known” (John 17:25-26)