About Author

Why I believe

In this world, many forces compel us NOT to believe, but when we open our ‘spiritual eyes’, we see infinite miracles surrounding us. For example:

• • The universe is infinite. Compared to our galaxy, our world is like a drop of water in the ocean and, compared to the universe, our galaxy is like a grain of sand in the desert.
  • But there is no end to the miracles in our bodies and the natural world.
  • Time began 13,000 billion years ago and the Bible promises that it will never end.

While surrounded by infinity, mankind focuses on the superficial things of this world. My faith is based on this infinity of miracles but I accept the Bible as God’s message to His creation.

Independent

This website does not reflect the views of any specific denomination or church. I do not have any formal theological qualifications and I do not attend any church. One reason is that I find social contact a bit stressful. But I have always had a love and deep respect for the Bible and, being an analytical person, I like to do these in-depth studies. But I also tend to be very independent, and some conclusions infuriate some people. This year (2024) I will turn 72.

Formal Training

But should a person with no theological training attempt to teach others?  Although I have no formal Bible training, I have studied the Bible for many decades and continue daily. I listen to recordings of sermons and discussions whenever I can. I download material from the internet, read books and articles, and try to organize the thoughts carefully.

Perhaps the fact that I have no formal theological training is my greatest asset. After many years of listening to many views, I have concluded that very few people study their Bibles to form their own opinions. In my view, most Christians are indoctrinated from childhood into a particular view of the Bible. True education teaches people HOW to think for themselves, but the enemy has successfully converted our institutions of higher learning into places of indoctrination, teaching people WHAT to think.

Personal

I was born in 1952, qualified as an accountant, and worked as a financial manager in government in Cape Town, South Africa.  I have a severely autistic daughter and a very gifted daughter that produced two delightful granddaughters; Anja and Mia.

The Trinity Doctrine

When I began this site, the Trinity doctrine was not an issue for me. But it has since become the main focus of this site.

Objection

I oppose the Trinity doctrine because it teaches that the Father and Son are a single Being with a single mind. Trinitarians often claim that the Trinity exists as three Persons or hypostases, but that is a false claim. This is kept hidden by an abundance of complex arguments but, in the standard Trinity doctrine, the three ‘Persons’ are mere modes of existing as God. They are not distinct ‘Persons’ with distinct minds. (See here)

This Site’s View

If one has to believe the Internet debate, the only alternative to the Trinity doctrine is that Jesus is or was a mere man. In contrast, this site defends the view that dominated during the first four centuries, namely, that the Son:

Since the Trinity doctrine uses the term ‘Person’ misleadingly, I prefer to ask whether Father and Son are one of two minds. But is this dispute serious enough to make such a fuss about it? I believe it is. In the first place, the Doctrine of God is the most important doctrine of the church. Furthermore, and it scares me to say because I have not seen anybody else saying this, I believe the Trinity doctrine is the Mark of the Beast. Allow me to explain:

The Beast is Roman.

The Beast of Revelation is not directly involved in the end-time crisis. In Revelation 13, the Beast gives power to the Land Beast, which gives life to the image of the Beast, which persecutes God’s end-time people (Rev 13:11-15) and puts the Mark of the Beast on its followers (Rev 13:16-17).

Articles on this site show that:

• • • The parallels between them show that Revelation’s Beast is the same as the 11th horn of the 4th Beast in Daniel 7 (see here), and
    • That 4th beast symbolizes the Roman Empire (see here).

It follows that the 11 horns, including the 11th, are the fragments of that Empire as it disintegrated. 

The Trinity Doctrine is Roman.

It was not the Council of Constantinople the next year (381), which adopted this doctrine:

Firstly, Theodosius’ Edict is explicitly trinitarian because it identified the ‘one God’ as the Trinity. In contrast, the Council of Constantinople still identified the ‘one God’ as the Father.

Secondly, by the time of the 381 council, Theodosius’ had outlawed all non-Trinitarian views. Therefore, only Trinitarians were able to attend the council.

Already beginning before the council, Theodosius began to ruthlessly eliminate all non-Trinitarian views from the Empire. The point is that Trinitarian Christianity functioned as part of the Roman Empire, with the emperor as its head.“If we ask the question, what was considered to constitute the ultimate authority in doctrine during the period reviewed in these pages, there can be only one answer. The will of the Emperor was the final authority.” (Hanson, p. 849)[/mfn]¹“The history of the period shows time and time again that … the general council was the very invention and creation of the Emperor. General councils … were the children of imperial policy and the Emperor was expected to dominate and control them.” (Hanson, p. 855)

Became the Roman Church.

In the next (fifth) century, Germanic tribes, who migrated into the empire over the preceding centuries, became so powerful that they divided the Western Empire between them. The Roman Church survived in the West but these new rulers were ‘Arians’. Consequently, the Trinitarian Roman Church was subjected to Arian domination. (Read More)

In the sixth century, Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian sent troops west, uprooted three Western Arian nations, liberated the Roman Church in the West, and set up the Byzantine Papacy, in which the Eastern emperors ruled the Western nations through the Roman Church. This continued for two centuries, transforming the Church into a powerful political organization. (Read More)

In the 8th century, Muslim conquests neutralized the Eastern Roman Empire. The church of the Roman Empire survived in the West without the support of the Roman Empire and became the Roman Church of the Middle Ages. (Read More)

Symbolized by the 11th Horn.

This history was predicted by prophecy. As stated, the 4th beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes the Roman Empire. The parallels to history show that:

• • • This beast’s first ten horns symbolize the Arian nations of Europe into which the Western Roman Empire fragmented.
    • The 11th horn that came out last represents the Roman Church. It was the final fragment of the Empire.
    • The three horns uprooted by the 11th horn as it came up symbolize the three Arian nations Justinian conquered.
    • That the 11th horn became larger than the others symbolizes the dominance of the Roman Church over nations of Europe during the High Middle Ages. (Read More)

Since the Beast of Revelation is Daniel’s 11th horn, The Beast is the Roman Church

For the following reasons, the Mark of the Beast is the Trinity doctrine:

As stated, the Beast is the 11th Horn in Daniel, which symbolizes the Church of the Roman Empire – namely Trinitarian Christianity – which survived the death of the Roman Empire to become the Roman Church of the Middle Ages. Therefore, the Mark of the Beast is the Mark of the Roman Church. It is not limited to the end-time but something the Roman Church always had.

When the Roman Empire made it its state religion, it was specifically identified as Trinitarian Christianity.

Its birth as a distinct entity, symbolized in Daniel 7 as an 11th horn coming up, uprooting three others, also specifically identifies it as Trinitarian because the three conquered horns were Arian nations and the Roman Empire conquered them to liberate the Trinitarian Church of the Roman Empire 

The frequent use of the term ‘worship’ in Revelation 13-14 identifies worship as the key issue in the end-time crisis; who we worship.

The doctrine of God is the most important doctrine of the church. It defines the God of the religion and, therefore, is the boundary between truth and the false.

Thanks for visiting my site.  I sincerely hope it helped. If you want, you may contact me at . May the Spirit of God lead you into all truth.

Andries

FOOTNOTES

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  “The history of the period shows time and time again that … the general council was the very invention and creation of the Emperor. General councils … were the children of imperial policy and the Emperor was expected to dominate and control them.” (Hanson, p. 855)