.:Yes, You Should Believe In The Trinity!!!
—A Page-by-Page Response To The Watchtower Society’s 1986 Brochure: “Should You Believe in the Trinity?”

A scholarly answer to Watchtower arguments concerning the origin and history of the Trinity doctrine and a thorough analysis of Scriptural proof texts used for and against the doctrine.

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INTRODUCTION: WHY YOU SHOULD BELIEVE IN IT

CHAPTER 1: DEFINING THE TRINITY

• WHAT IS THE TRINITY?
• “BEYOND THE GRASP OF HUMAN REASON”
• “IS IT CLEARLY A BIBLE TEACHING?”
• TESTIMONY OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK SCRIPTURES
• THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION
• NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
• THE TRIUNE GOD, by Jesuit Edmund Fortman
• THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
• “PROTESTANT THEOLOGIAN KARL BARTH”

CHAPTER 2: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

• TAUGHT BY EARLY CHRISTIANS
• “WHAT THE ANTE-NICENE FATHERS TAUGHT”
• IGNATIUS (30-107 A.D.)
• JUSTIN MARTYR (165 A.D.)
• IRENAEUS (200 A.D.)
• CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (215 A.D.)
• TERTULLIAN (230 A.D.)
• HIPPOLYTUS (235 A.D.)
• ORIGEN (250 A.D.)
• THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA
• THREE VIEWS OF CHRIST DISCUSSED AT THE COUNCIL
• “CONSTANTINE’S ROLE AT NICAEA”

CHAPTER 3: PAGAN ROOTS OF THE TRINITY?

• WHAT ABOUT EGYPTIAN, BABYLONIAN, AND HINDU TRIADS?
• THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION: Part III, Caesar and Christ, by Will Durant
• EGYPTIAN RELIGION, by Siegfried Morenz
• THE PAGANISM IN OUR CHRISTIANITY, by Arthur Weigall
• ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS, by James Hastings
• THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE
• THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES, by Alvan Lamson
• OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA, by Adolf Harnack
• A STATEMENT OF REASONS, by Andrews Norton

CHAPTER 4: TRINITY IN THE BIBLE

• DOES MONOTHEISM (BELIEF IN ONE GOD) SUPPORT THE TRINITY?
• ANSWERING WATCHTOWER PROOF TEXTS
• COLOSSIANS 1:15-16
• REVELATION 3:14
• PROVERBS 8:12, 22-23
• “HOW MUCH WAS THE RANSOM?”
• JESUS THE “ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON”

CHAPTER 5: IS JESUS INFERIOR TO GOD?

• WHAT ABOUT JESUS' SUBMISSION TO THE FATHER'S WILL?
• JOHN 20:17
• 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6
• MARK 10:17-18
• HABAKKUK 1:12
• MARK 13:32
• 1 CORINTHIANS 11:3
• JOHN 14:28
• BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY

CHAPTER 6: THE HOLY SPIRIT—A PERSON OR FORCE?

• PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• THE TRIUNE GOD

CHAPTER 7: JESUS IS GOD!

• WHAT ABOUT TRINITY “PROOF TEXTS”?
• JOHN 10:30: “I and the Father Are One”
• JOHN 5:18: “Making Himself Equal To God”
• PHILIPPIANS 2:6: “Equal With God”
• JOHN 8:58: “I Am”
• JOHN 1:1 “The Word Was God”
• THE NEW TESTAMENT IN AN IMPROVED VERSION, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome’s New Translation: With a Corrected Text, 1808: “…and the word was a god.”
• THE EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT, interlinear reading, by Benjamin Wilson
• THE JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE
• JOSEPH HENRY THAYER
• DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, by John L. McKenzie
• 4 REASONS THE SOCIETY’S TRANSLATION OF JOHN 1:1 IS UNTENABLE
• THEOS = GOD OR “DIVINE QUALITY”?
• ARE THERE TWO “MIGHTY GODS”?

CHAPTER 8: “WORSHIP GOD ON HIS TERMS”

• SHOULD WE WORSHIP JESUS?
• IS JESUS CHRIST THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL?
• TITLES AND ATTRIBUTES OF JEHOVAH APPLIED TO JESUS