The Lord our God is one Lord:

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 1, 2025 – As many of you know, I came to belief in God and in his Messiah, Jesus, directly from atheism. I didn’t meander down a long and twisted path of “Is he?” or “Isn’t he?”, trying to apply logic and deductive reasoning to the existence of God and by extension to the messiahship of Jesus. You can’t logic your way into genuine belief, as your belief exists prior to knowing you believe. In other words, I believed before I knew I believed, because my belief in God came from God, not from me. Genuine belief is placed in us as a measure of God’s Holy Spirit; it isn’t generated by us. Genuine belief comes from God and is God.

You can’t genuinely believe in God based solely on logic and reasoning. You can only genuinely believe in God if God is working through you, by his Holy Spirit. So when I went from unbelief to belief in under a second, it wasn’t my doing. It was God’s doing. All I did was choose to forgive, and God did the rest.

Which brings me to the topic of today’s discussion, which is God, and by extension his Messiah, Jesus. These are two distinct beings, with God being God and Jesus being the Messiah. God is Lord over everything and everyone, and Jesus is Lord over those areas and beings God designates Jesus to have lordship. They are two distinct beings with different and in some cases overlapping jurisdictions, but in the cases of overlap, God still has ascendancy, as Jesus pointed out when he stated: The Father is greater than I.

God’s Holy Spirit is God manifesting in time and space. The Old Testament prophets well knew this, as should we. When the Holy of Holies was built as the inner sanctum within the temple, according to God’s specifications, the Holy of Holies was meant for God to come to visit his people on designated days or sometimes to show up unannounced. It wasn’t meant for a “lesser” spirit that was tapped by God to represent him. It was built for God himself to descend to the temple in Spirit form, as he was and is wont to do when he interacts with earthly beings (not just humans). God had previously descended in Spirit form on numerous occasions in the tabernacle that he specified be built just after the exodus from Egypt. Again, it wasn’t a messenger of God that Moses went to be with in the tabernacle, it was God himself, manifesting as the Holy Spirit.

Old Testament prophets also knew that God’s Holy Spirit was God himself manifesting in Spirit form. Whenever they’d inquire of God or be inspired by God, it was to God directly they’d inquire or by God directly they’d be inspired. They knew it wasn’t a messenger sent from God they were interacting with, but very God himself. Genuine prophets today likewise inquire of God directly through his Spirit and are inspired by God directly through his Spirit. If you’re genuinely reborn, you would know this, because you have a portion of God’s Holy Spirit in you at all times (not just on occasion, like Old Testament prophets). You are one of several perambulating Holy of Holies that Jesus, by his sacrifice, enabled you to be.

God directed Moses to declare:

HEAR, O ISRAEL: The Lord our God is one Lord:

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Jesus later declared this the greatest of all God’s Commands, and yet it rarely features in any list of the Ten Commandments. It should always be there, front and center. If Jesus says that the most important of all God’s Commandments is that the Lord our God is one Lord, and that we should love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and might, then it’s unquestioningly the most important of all Commandments, and as Jesus’ followers, we need to know it and embrace it and live it and preach it.

Which is a roundabout way of saying the doctrine of the trinity is nonsense and has no place in the hearts and minds of genuine believers. When I was born-again and taught directly by God, as scripture says his children will be, God never taught me the trinitarian doctrine. It’s not in the Bible and it’s certainly not in the Ten Commandments. In fact, I only came to know about the trinitarian doctrine when I first started attending Catholic masses about six weeks after I was reborn. Which is to say, I had to learn about this doctrine from men, not from God. Which is to say, this is one of those dreaded doctrines of men that Jesus (and later, Paul) warned us about and dismissed.

To be honest, I dismissed the trinitarian doctrine the first time I heard of it. The trinitarian concept of God was not the God I knew as my heavenly Father, and certainly not the Jesus I knew as my Lord, teacher, big brother, and best friend who, during his time on Earth, had a greater measure of God’s Spirit in him than anyone before or since, but that still didn’t make him God. It was this exceedingly great measure of God’s Holy Spirit in him that enabled Jesus to perform so many miracles, but that still didn’t make him God. It made him Lord, but it didn’t make him God.

Nor did the trinitarian doctrine reflect the Holy Spirit that I knew was God’s way of interacting with me as a mere mortal, the same Spirit God placed in me by measure at my rebirth, when he adopted me as his child. As Jesus said, “God is spirit”, and so he is to us now, but if and when we get to Heaven, Paul promises we’ll see God as he is, “face to face”.

You can’t limit God to this or that or one or the other, as God is all-powerful and can do all things, far beyond anything we can imagine. But when God stated to Moses that he is One Lord, we need to take him at his word, not spiritually genetically modify him into something he clearly stated he isn’t. We can’t sub-divide God into three co-equal beings that are somehow by some tortured human logic still all “God”, all while thinking we’re adhering to the Commandment that God is one Lord.

God is God, our heavenly Father.

Jesus is God’s Son and the one and only Messiah.

And the Holy Spirit is God manifesting in time and space.

This is not difficult to understand. God never meant it to be difficult. Truth is never difficult, not to those who have God and Jesus in them.