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Unveiling the Truth: The Trinity of Adam-The God-Given Illustration of His Nature in Bible by Alexander Okenwa
“Where Ignorance is Bliss, It is Folly to Be Wise” is a popular saying from Thomas Gray’s poem.
My name is Alexander Okenwa, and I am here to write on the topic: “The Trinity of Adam—The God-Given Illustration of His Nature in the Bible.”
This topic is significant to both you and me because we are all human beings created by God. He has placed us on this earth to serve as ambassadors of His heavenly kingdom and personal agents of His divine affairs. The Bible, authored by God, is the only source of true knowledge He has given to humanity, covering all areas of our lives and endeavors.
I believe my expertise in the Bible stems from the unique training and divine mandate I have received to teach its contents accurately to people worldwide. I intend to use the Bible as the sole source to elaborate on this topic and will gladly address any questions that arise.
For centuries, individuals—Jews, Gentiles, and Christians alike—have perceived the Bible as a collection of fairy tales, make-believe stories, metaphors, or even corrupted texts. The Muslims, for example, believe the Bible has been altered in its original form.
The truth, however, is that the Bible is neither a book of fairy tales nor has it been corrupted.
The issue within our churches today lies in theologies, doctrines, interpretations, and teachings that Gentile believers in Jesus Christ have used to explain the Bible. Our churches have not only failed to approach the Bible from the correct perspective, but they have also misused the Bible’s precise wording in their interpretations.
The situation is even more dire than it appears, both within the churches and secular groups. It is troubling enough that our churches have failed to apply the proper approach to the Bible in formulating their doctrines and theologies; it is even worse that they have not used the exact wording of the Bible to interpret its content. The most critical aspect of the dilemma is that our churches remain unaware of their misinterpretations of the Bible and their failure to use the correct wording to support their theological positions.
In truth, our churches do not adhere to the same teachings that the Jewish apostles of Jesus Christ passed down. We have drifted from the positions held by the early Jewish believers in Jesus Christ, the gospel they passed down to us. This drift, however, is not intentional, and God does not count these mistakes against us (Acts 17:30).
The reason God has tolerated our mistakes is because, originally, it was not our (the Gentile believers’) responsibility to explain the Bible. This role was meant for the Jewish people. However, since the Jews, who were tasked with explaining the Bible, refused to do so because they did not believe Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of God’s promised Messiah, the Gentiles were left with no choice but to attempt to explain the Bible. They did so, however, through the lens of their own cultural understanding, leading to the errors present in many of today’s church teachings.
As if it was not enough for the Gentile believers to approach the Bible from their former cultural background, they also relied on their understanding of the New Testament experiences. These experiences were initially used by the Jewish apostles to evangelize the gospel to them. This, in turn, gave rise to the current form of Biblical Christianity, which still shapes our churches today.
The truth is that neither the churches nor the Jews (or non-believers in Jesus) are teaching you and me the truths as they are written in the Bible. Furthermore, they are unaware of the errors they are making in their teachings.
This is why it is crucial for you to pay close attention to the mandate God has given me. It is my responsibility to point out these unintentional errors in church teachings about the Bible and to correct them using the special training God has provided me.
The difference between the explanations I will provide from the Bible and those offered by our churches today lies in the fact that I will use the precise examples given to us in the Bible to support my points. In contrast, the explanations from our churches are not based directly on the Bible but rather on the decisions made by Ecumenical Church Councils in past years.
In doing so, I will employ the correct approach to interpreting the Bible, which is to begin with the book of Genesis. This is the only viewpoint that allows for a logical and consistent analysis of the Bible as the story of God’s creation. This approach differs from that of the churches, which often focus primarily on the New Testament.
Take, for example, the topic “The Trinity of Adam—the God-Given Illustration of His Nature in the Bible.” It may surprise you that God does not explicitly describe His nature in the Bible. Rather, He uses the analogy of Adam’s nature—whom He created in His own image and likeness—to illustrate His own nature. This means that, by understanding the nature of Adam as presented in the Bible, we can then understand the nature of God.
In other words, to know the nature of God, we must first understand the nature of Adam, as it is described in the Bible, in order to comprehend God’s nature.
At this point, the question we should ask ourselves is: “What is the nature of Adam, as it is revealed to us in the Bible?” According to the Bible, Adam’s nature is trinitarian.
The next logical question is: What is the Trinity, according to the Bible?
The Trinity, as presented in the Bible, consists of the male spirit of Adam, the female spirit of Adam, and the Breath of Life from God—what we call the soul today. These are three spiritual persons existing within the physical body of Adam (Genesis 2:7; 5:2).
Here’s how the Bible presents it:
- In Genesis 1:27, we read: “So God created man (which refers to both the male and female spirits of Adam) in His own image; in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them (plural spiritual persons—male and female).”
- In Genesis 2:7, it says: “And the LORD God formed man (the physical body) of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (which is God’s third trinitarian divine Person of His Indwelling/Creative Word), and man became a living soul.”
Genesis 2:7 provides the definition of Adam’s trinitarian nature. Here, we see that it is the male spirit and the female spirit, which make up the man in Genesis 1:27, combined with the Breath of Life from God (which sustains life), that together form the Trinity within Adam’s physical body. This is the three-in-one body, with the three spiritual persons—male spirit, female spirit, and the Breath of Life spirit—united within Adam.
As the Bible continues, we learn that it is from these three spiritual persons—indwelling the one physical body of Adam—that God created Eve (Genesis 2:21-22). When God separated Adam’s female spirit from his male spirit, the original three spiritual persons within him were used to form two distinct human beings: Adam and Eve.
However, the churches have mistakenly, though unintentionally, misinterpreted this as a representation of God’s Trinity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, implying two male persons (the Father and the Son) and one female Spirit (the Holy Spirit). In reality, God created only two human beings, Adam and Eve, from the original trinitarian nature of Adam—not three separate persons as commonly taught.
It then follows that we can only get two separate divine beings—the Father and the Holy Spirit—from the trinity of God, just as He formed two separate human beings from the original trinity of Adam.
So, when our churches teach that the Trinity of God consists of three separate divine beings—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—you and I can see that such theology, doctrine, or teaching is not according to the precise wordings on the pages of the Bible, but pure make-believe.
(N/B: Please, remember that whenever we speak about our churches, we are referring to the Gentile believers in Jesus Christ who had left their former idolatrous faith/belief system to come and embrace the Faith of Christianity. Even when they had accepted Jesus Christ, for sure, nonetheless, they were still conversant with their former fetish rituals and practices. It is those experiences from the idolatrous lifestyle that they had left that they brought into their new Faith of Christianity. This is exactly what happened with our Gentile Church Fathers of our Christian Faith; they brought their fetish experiences into their understanding and teaching of the Bible.
(N/B: Remember that the reason why our then Gentile Church Fathers, who should not have translated the Bible from its original languages for us in the first place, did translate the Bible for us was because the Jews, who should have done so, refused to do so since they did not accept Jesus as their God’s promised Messiah for them. Interestingly enough, it is the same Gentile Church Fathers who formulated all the theologies and doctrines that we (our churches) have been using to read, learn, study, know, and teach the Bible both in our churches and in the world to this day and age. You and I can now understand the reason why we are having all these wrong and false teachings in our churches today.)
In other words, there are only two sexes of one male Spirit, known and called the Father, and one female Spirit, known and called the Holy Spirit/Ghost, in the Trinitarian nature of God, just as there are two sexes of one male human being, known and called Adam, and one female human being, known and called Eve (or the woman) in the trinitarian nature of Adam.
Trinity, no doubt, means three spirit-persons that live in one body of either Adam or God; nevertheless, it is only two separate beings that God formed from the trinity of Adam. This means that it is only two separate divine persons—the Father (male) and the Holy Spirit (female)—from the Trinity of God Himself, whether it is on the side of Adam or on the side of God.
On the side of Adam, it was only he (Adam, the male) and Eve (the female) that were formed from Adam’s original trinitarian nature, while it is only the Father (the male divine being) and the Holy Spirit/Ghost (the female divine being) that are formed from God’s original trinitarian nature.
The issue of Jesus as one of the Trinitarian members of God is a high error of our churches, and this doctrine has no biblical basis or support. It is also true that Jesus is not God in the sense of the word “God” in the Bible.
According to the Bible, though, this is not part of the topic that I am writing on or about in this article. However, it would be important for me to state who Jesus is as per God’s biblical presentation.
In the Bible, we are presented with only two human Adams whom God created in His image and likeness in their spirit selves. The first human Adam is the one described in Genesis, chapter two, and verse 7, while the second human Adam is described for us in John, chapter one, and verse 14 (1 Corinthians 15:45, 47). His name is Jesus Christ.
While the spirit persons of the first Adam are male and female, whom God called man, the spirit person of the second Adam is given the name “Word of God” (John 1:1; Revelation 19:13). All other human beings are patterned after these two Adams: first, we all enter this world as infants in the pattern of the first Adam, either as males or females, while all believers in Jesus Christ are patterned after Him (Jesus Christ). Immediately, anyone accepts Him as the only gift of God for the salvation of their soul-spirit, that person is then patterned after the nature of the second Adam, Jesus Christ.
However, it would be important for you and me to know that our real persons are our spirit selves, and they (our spirit persons) are the persons that the Bible recognizes as ourselves, and not our physical bodies or selves. The Bible recognizes our physical bodies as the houses that our real persons (our spirit persons) are living inside.
That is the reason why Jesus says in John, chapter eight, and verse 58, that He is before Abraham; He is not referring to His physical body, but His spirit person, whom God created as the first spirit person (Proverbs 8:22-36). Though He was living in heaven as the enforcer of the laws of God’s heavenly and earthly kingdoms (Philippians 2:5), He existed even before He (God) created the male and female spirit persons of the first Adam (Genesis 1:27). He was not referring to His physical body as Jesus, but His Spirit person as God’s Created Word—the Spirit replica of His Indwelling/Creative Word Divine Person.
I wish to stop here since I shall have an appropriate heading under which to discuss this point further in the future.
In any case, you and I would have seen and understood, at this point, that there are many mistakes that our churches have made and are still making in their doctrines and teachings on the Bible today that they are not even aware of. However, it would be necessarily important for us to understand that these unintentional mistakes of our churches are natural since they could not have involved themselves in the translation of the Bible and formulation of these mistaken theologies and doctrines had the Jews, who were and are still supposed to carry out such duties for God, refused or failed to do so—just because they have not believed that Jesus was and still is their God’s promised Messiah.
In other words, while these many mistakes of our churches, both in their wrong translation of the Bible and in their formulation of these erroneous theologies and doctrines that they are not even aware of, were natural and tolerable in the past (since that is the most they knew how to do at the time), we must not allow them to continue in this present age. We now have better knowledge and understanding of the Bible than they did in their era. This is the reason why God has appointed me to point out and correct these unintentional errors of our churches.
I would not have done justice to this article if I failed to point out the difference between trinity and tripartite. Just as I pointed out earlier, the trinity consists of three inner persons in one physical body of the first Adam (Genesis 2:7), or three inner persons in God’s original spiritual body (bear in mind that God’s outer body is spiritual in form, as Adam’s outer/physical body was tangible). However, after separating the female spirit person of Adam from his male spirit person, He divided his soul and his physical body that both his male and female spirit persons had in common between the two of his sexes, resulting in each of them (the male and female spirit persons of Adam) having three parts on either part of them (his male spirit and his female spirit)—1 Thessalonians 5:23.
In other words, while trinity means three inner/spirit persons in one outer/physical body (quad-partite/four persons on the whole), tripartite means two inner/spirit persons in one outer/physical body (or three persons on the whole), which is the form that every human being is in today—whether on the side of human beings or on the side of God. The truth is that both male human and female human beings, as well as God-the Father and God-the Holy Spirit, are all in tripartite form today, and not in trinitarian forms. Said in another way, there are two spirit persons living inside of every human being today (1 Thessalonians 5:23), just as there are only two Spirit Persons inside of God-the Father’s body and God-the Holy Spirit Person today, and not three spirit persons as in the trinitarian form.
These are the teachings that we can get on the pages of the Bible, and not the three persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit that our churches have wrongly and falsely, but unintentionally, been teaching in our churches to this day and age. You cannot see such teaching on any part(s) of the Bible. Therefore, I beg you, our churches, it is high time for us to get the Bible right. Not until we discover and correct all these many errors that our churches have been making on the Bible, even without them being aware that they are making such egregious mistakes, ignorance will continue to be bliss for them, thus making any conscious attempt(s) to be wise the most utter foolishness.
P.S. I would want you guys to subscribe to my YouTube Channel, “The Hour Has Come,” and also buy my books on Amazon with the same title: “The Errors and Wrong Opinions in the Churches Today, Part 1 and 2.” I need money to write more books and produce more videos because time is no longer on our side to correct all these many unintentional mistakes of our churches on the Bible. I have no blame for these mistakes, but admiration for our Gentile Church Fathers because they did what they could with the limited knowledge that they had in their time on the Bible. Bear in mind that they tried to do what they could since the Jews, who were supposed to translate the Bible and formulate the theologies and doctrines that we are expected to know, refused or failed to do so. Nevertheless, the task is too onerous and challenging; however, all of us working together will see us through the task—All Thanks to God Alone. Remain blessed.
Alexander Okenwa is the author of The Errors and Wrong Opinions in the Churches Today: Part One and Two