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When interpreting scripture, it must be understood that the interpreter is interpreting the words of God. This should not be done without using the word of God to interpret itself. ( 2Pe 1:20, 21   [ pa | in ] ) Looking outside the Scriptures to interpret scripture, forcing an interpretation without scriptural evidence of that interpretation is not only ill-advised but is unscriptural. ( Ge 40:8   [ pa | in ] ) Unscriptural interpretation puts the narrative in Satan's hands. ( 1Ti 4:1   [ pa | in ] ) There is no denying that the Bible is used to attempt to support the doctrine of the Trinity, but it has also been used to support racism, sexism, wars, and many patently false doctrines clearly not supported in the Scriptures. The situation is so bad that even people who have never read the Bible believe the Bible can be interpreted any way one wants to. Even many claiming to read the Bible and love God believe that way. However, just because someone can choose to forceful...

Updated on August 29, 2022 This information is vital to letting the Scriptures interpret themselves. If you ignore the following counsel, you  will  be misled. Read Your Bible Daily If "nature" was all that we needed, God would not have provided the Scriptures, nor the sacrifice of his Son. Not one word in the Bible is without purpose. So read your Bible  daily . ( Ps 1:1-3   [ pa | in ] )  Do not  neglect your Bible reading. Do not read with a preexisting bias. Get familiar with the accounts in the Bible. Read the accounts, read about the accounts. Study, research, meditate. Identify the subject under discussion and the point being made. Consider various viewpoints. This is not obsession, but is the means by which you can gain the knowledge to live the life God wants for us and the foundation upon which you can seek and find the one and only truth. Confusion Comes from Indoctrination Colossians 2:8 warns: "Look out that no one takes you captive...

Many Athenasian Trinitarians try to claim that their belief is not "modalism" by narrowly defining the modalist view as what is actually the more specific Sabellian Modalism as ’God represented through three identities at separate times ’ in order to dissemble and weaken the claim. (This dissembling is not usually purposeful, but is the result of seminary indoctrination.) However, modalism does not actually require that he represents himself at 3 different times. Only Sabellian Modalism has that requirement. Just because the Sabellian form of modalism is the first does not make it the only form. Saying that God is 3 co-equal personages in one substance does nothing to distinguish the Trinity from modalism, but adds a tritheistic element that fogs up the issue. What is rather clumsily labeled "non-modal non-tritheistic" is actually just a merging of modalism and tritheism into what has been dubbed "tri-modalism" by some. The tritheism aspect is to say t...