One day, Sister Li and I came to the house of an old sister in our church. We read the Bible and preached the Lord Jesus’ gospel to Xiaoli, the old sister’s daughter-in-law. When we were communicating, Xiaoli’s cousin came. During our chat, I knew she was also a believer in the Lord, so we fellowshiped together. This sister was very familiar with the Bible and what she preached was also high. Then I asked her some questions which puzzled me and she explained them thoroughly one by one. I felt her fellowship was quite fresh and made sense. The sister also fellowshiped that the Lord Jesus’ redemptive work just forgave man’s sins, but man’s sinful nature hasn’t been removed. That’s why we still commit sins in the day and confess them at night without breaking free from the bondage of sin. God said: “For I am Jehovah your God: you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy” (Leviticus 11:44). It can be seen that no man shall enter God’s kingdom without holiness. God does His work according to the need of mankind, and so in the last days the Lord Jesus becomes flesh again and in the name of Almighty God, He does a new stage of work to thoroughly cleanse man. Only by keeping up with the new work of God can we have the opportunity to cast away sins thoroughly and be saved by God.

What the sister fellowshiped made me surprised: Has God truly come back? I dare not believe it, but I thought her fellowship was very reasonable and also in accord with the Bible. I had never heard such a high fellowship all these years. Has God really done new work? After the fellowship, I took home a book of the words of Almighty God.

Coming back home, I began to read the words of Almighty God seriously. The more I read, the better I felt about it. Almighty God has revealed many mysteries which I didn’t understand in the past. These words have authority and power and cannot be spoken by any human being. One day, I read the words of Almighty God again and randomly, I turned to “Does the Trinity Exist?” I was puzzled when seeing the title, for all the believers knew that God is the Trinity. Then with some curiosity I went on reading. Almighty God says, “You have accepted too deeply these conventional notions of religion, and this poison has seeped too deep within you. Therefore, so too in this matter have you succumbed to this pernicious influence, for the triune God simply does not exist. That is, the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit simply does not exist. These are all conventional notions of man, and the fallacious beliefs of man. Throughout many centuries, man has believed in this Trinity, conjured up by notions in the mind of man, fabricated by man, and never before seen by man” (“Does the Trinity Exist?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). Seeing this I felt somewhat panicked. Is it not denying the Bible or the Lord’s words? I dared not read it anymore, because the Bible obviously documents the idea of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I hurried to open the Bible and then I saw the scriptures, “And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, see, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting on Him: And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:16–17). “And He went a little farther, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as You will” (Matthew 26:39). “Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). I read these words again and again and I believed the existence of the Trinity. But why does the book say it does not exist? I thought of what the sister fellowshiped with me the other day and felt that there was nothing wrong with it. Besides, the questions having puzzled me for many years were all solved. And I felt the several pieces of words that I read in the book some days ago were very well said. At that moment, I felt very conflicted inside. Thus I prayed to the Lord and sought, “O Lord, I have read the words in the book. I found the meaning of many of them is the same as that of Yours, so the more I read it, the more I loved reading it. But today when I saw the words in “Does the Trinity Exist?” I had some opinions and didn’t want to read it anymore. O Lord, I am very perplexed now and I don’t know what to do. O Lord, may You give me discernment. Please protect my heart and help me discern so that I can recognize Your voice. …”

Two days later, the sister came to my home and I told my confusion to her. I said, “In the Bible, the Lord said, ‘Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’ (Matthew 28:19). It is clearly seen here that there does exist the idea of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God is the Trinity, but the book says the Trinity actually does not exist at all and these are all our notions and fallacious beliefs. I can’t understand why.”

The sister explained my confusion with composure. She first said, “With regard to the idea of the Trinity, Jehovah God didn’t say this and the Lord Jesus didn’t say it either, nor did the Holy Spirit testify it. Now that God hasn’t said it, this idea was just from the mouths of men and came from our conceptions and imaginations. We have distorted the Lord’s words. The words of the Lord Jesus ‘baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit‘ had a background. When the Lord Jesus began His work, many people didn’t recognize Him at that time, nor did they accept His work and words. So the Lord Jesus allowed man to call on the name of the Father, and called on the name of the Son if they could accept the Lord Jesus, and it is also fine for them to call on the name of the Holy Spirit if they really could not accept Him. From this we can see the Lord Jesus’ tolerance toward us and that He sympathizes with our weakness and ignorance. The meaning of the Lord in saying these words is that when one is baptizing he can invoke the name of the Father, of the Son, or of the Holy Spirit as well, but this is surely not linking the names of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit together. In fact, the Lord Jesus is God Himself. He is Jehovah God’s incarnate flesh; in other words, He is God’s Spirit, that is, the Holy Spirit, realized in the flesh. So we can pray simply in the name of the Lord Jesus. But the whole of the religious community see calling on the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as a formula according to their conceptions and imaginations. It is our men’s mistake and one name is enough. There is only one God, in the heaven He is the Spirit, and the substance of God incarnate is still the Spirit. The Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament documents, ‘You are My witnesses, said Jehovah, and My servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me’ (Isaiah 43:10). And the Gospel of John documents, ‘Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known Me, Philip? he that has seen Me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father? Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwells in Me, He does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me’ (John 14:9–11). From the record of the Bible we can see that these words were God’s bearing witness to Himself, telling us that God is the only true God. The Lord Jesus said, ‘I and My Father are one,’ yet as we do not possess the faculty of understanding God’s words, we cannot understand it, but instead think that God is the Trinity according to the analysis of our own brains. If we go according to the idea of the religious people, we are segmenting God into three persons. Then how can God be called the only true God? Is this not splitting up God? So the Trinity is untenable at all!”

I had ever seen these scriptures, but I indeed didn’t understand them. It seemed that I really did not possess the faculty of understanding the truth. Later, the sister read another passage of Almighty God’s words to us, “What is the Holy Father? What is the Son? What is the Holy Spirit? Is Jehovah the Holy Father? Is Jesus the Son? Then what of the Holy Spirit? Is not the Father a Spirit? Is not the essence of the Son also a Spirit? Was not the work of Jesus the work of the Holy Spirit? Was not the work of Jehovah at the time carried out by a Spirit the same as Jesus’? How many Spirits can God have? According to your explanation, the three persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one; if this be so, then there are three Spirits, but to have three Spirits means there are three Gods. This means that there is no one true God; how can this kind of God still have the inherent essence of God? If you accept that there is only one God, then how can He have a son and be a father? Are these not all simply your notions? There is only one God, only one person in this God, and only one Spirit of God, much as it is written down in the Bible that ‘There is only one Holy Spirit and only one God.’ Regardless of whether the Father and the Son of which you speak exist, there is only one God after all, and the essence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit you believe in is the essence of the Holy Spirit. In other words, God is a Spirit, but He is able to become flesh and live among men, as well as to be above all things. His Spirit is all-inclusive and omnipresent. He can simultaneously be in the flesh and in and above the universe. Since all people say that God is the only one true God, then there is a single God, divisible at will by none! God is only one Spirit, and only one person; and that is the Spirit of God. … This concept of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is most absurd! This segments God and splits Him into three persons, each with a status and Spirit; how then can He still be one Spirit and one God?” (“Does the Trinity Exist?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). After reading these words, the sister fellowshiped some more with us. I was startled after hearing that. I thought, “Yes, don’t we always say God is the only one true God? Does ‘the only one’ not mean one God? It surely means one God, one Spirit. Have I not segmented God in my heart? God is one God yet I have split Him into three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But on second thought, since God is only one, then why is there the idea of the Father and the Son in the Bible?”

Thinking about this, I asked the sister with a seeking heart, “What Almighty God says is extraordinarily good and makes me suddenly enlightened. The idea of the Trinity is really man’s notions and imaginations, but I have one more question. The Bible documents, ‘And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, see, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting on Him: And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:16–17). ‘O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as You will’ (Matthew 26:39). Since God is only one, why then is there the idea of the Father and the Son?”

Soon afterward, the sister let me read several passages of Almighty God’s words, “There are still those who say, ‘Did not God expressly state that Jesus was His beloved Son?’ Jesus is the beloved Son of God, in whom He is well pleased—this was certainly spoken by God Himself. That was God bearing witness to Himself, but merely from a different perspective, that of the Spirit in heaven bearing witness to His own incarnation. Jesus is His incarnation, not His Son in heaven. Do you understand?” “When Jesus called God in heaven by the name of Father as He prayed, this was done only from the perspective of a created man, only because the Spirit of God had put on an ordinary and normal flesh and had the exterior cover of a created being. Even if within Him was the Spirit of God, His exterior appearance was still that of a normal man…. However great the authority of Jesus on earth, prior to the crucifixion, He was merely a Son of man, governed by the Holy Spirit (that is, God), and one of the earth’s created beings, for He had yet to complete His work. Therefore, His calling God in heaven Father was solely His humility and obedience. His addressing God (that is, the Spirit in heaven) in such a manner, however, does not prove that He was the Son of the Spirit of God in heaven. Rather, it was simply that His perspective was different, not that He was a different person. The existence of distinct persons is a fallacy! ... After Jesus went away, this idea of the Father and the Son was no more. This idea was only appropriate for the years when Jesus became flesh; under all other circumstances, the relationship is one between the Lord of creation and a created being when you call God Father. There is no time at which this idea of the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit can stand; it is a fallacy rarely seen through the ages and it does not exist!” (“Does the Trinity Exist?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). After reading God’s words and hearing the sister’s fellowship, I understood the idea of the Father and the Son mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible came into existence because of the work of God incarnate. The reason why there was not the idea of the Father and the Son in the Old Testament of the Bible is that God did not become flesh in the Age of Law, but instead it was God’s Spirit that did the work. In the Age of Grace, because God was to do the redemptive work and the Spirit couldn’t do the work of crucifixion directly, it is necessary for God to become flesh to complete the work. Therefore in our view, there is a distinction between the Spirit in heaven and the incarnate God on earth. In reality, what the Lord Jesus expressed then were the thoughts of God’s Spirit, that is, the thoughts of the Father, and was the expression of the Father. At that time people, however, just didn’t know the Lord Jesus is God Himself and is the Father. Thus the Lord Jesus humbly hid Himself and called the Spirit in heaven by the name of Father from the perspective of a created being, that is, from the perspective of we human beings. His calling God in heaven by the name of Father doesn’t mean that God and He are Father and Son, nor that He is a created being, much less that He is a man who is completely the same as us. This is because the Lord Jesus’ substance is God and He is the Father. As for the voice from heaven saying, “This is My beloved Son,” this is God’s Spirit (the Father) bearing testimony to His own flesh by calling the flesh Son. And that God incarnate called the Spirit within Him by the name of Father from the perspective of the flesh is the humility and obedience of Christ and is also to set an exemplar of truly worshiping God for man. So there is the idea of the Father and the Son.

Through Almighty God’s words, I was more and more clear about the idea of the Father and the Son in the Bible. So it is because of the needs of God’s work and the different perspectives from which He spoke, that the addresses are different. Still, They are one Spirit in substance. Then the sister read another passage of Almighty God’s words to me, “The Spirit within Jesus, the Spirit in heaven, and the Spirit of Jehovah are all one. It can be called the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the sevenfold intensified Spirit, and the all-inclusive Spirit. The Spirit of God can carry out much work. He is able to create the world and destroy it by flooding the earth; He can redeem all mankind, and moreover, He can conquer and destroy all mankind. This work is all carried out by God Himself and cannot have been done by any other of the persons of God in His stead. His Spirit can be called by the name of Jehovah and Jesus, as well as the Almighty. He is the Lord, and Christ. He can also become the Son of man. He is in the heavens and also on the earth; He is on high above the universes and among the multitude. He is the only Master of the heavens and earth! From the time of creation until now, this work has been carried out by the Spirit of God Himself. Be it the work in the heavens or in the flesh, all is carried out by His own Spirit. All creatures, whether in heaven or on earth, are in the palm of His almighty hand; all of this is the work of God Himself and can be done by no other in His stead. In the heavens, He is the Spirit but also God Himself; among men, He is flesh but remains God Himself. Though He may be called by hundreds of thousands of names, He is still Himself, and all the work is the direct expression of His Spirit. The redemption of all mankind through His crucifixion was the direct work of His Spirit, and so too is the proclamation unto all nations and all lands during the last days. At all times, God can only be called the almighty and one true God, the all-inclusive God Himself. The distinct persons do not exist, much less this idea of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is only one God in heaven and on earth!” (“Does the Trinity Exist?” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). The words of Almighty God are very clearly said. God is the only one true God and the all-inclusive God Himself. The idea of the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit doesn’t exist at all. In heaven and on earth there is only one God! We shouldn’t split God into three persons. Through Almighty God’s words and the sister’s patient communication, the religious notions which I had held for many years were finally reversed so that I have welcomed the Lord Jesus’ return and followed God’s footsteps. Thank God! All the glory be to Almighty God!