Pathway to Apostasy?

By: Elihu Carranza

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This book is a project in apagogic reasoning, a method of indirectly proving a position by demonstrating that its negation leads to contradiction and/or absurdity. It makes use of the answers to two questions: What does the doctrine of the Trinity according to the creeds of the church presuppose or require? and What are the logical consequences of a nontrinitarian monotheistic position? In this project, Christianity, or Scripturalism as a worldview, is treated as a system of true doctrines, true beliefs, and knowledge of God. God is the God of truth. The implications of assuming that the doctrine of the Trinity is false are investigated. Those logical implications having bearing on the doctrines of the deity of Jesus, the incarnation via His virgin birth, the significance and necessity of a penal, vicarious, substitutionary atonement, and finally the significance of the crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension doctrines -- all of which are based on and flow from the previous doctrines, the most important being the deity of Jesus Christ. The denial of the deity of Jesus Christ and thereby the doctrine of the Trinity will be seen to logically imply the denial of most, if not all of the doctrines of Christianity to the extent that even the doctrine espoused by nontrinitarians, monotheism, is brought into question, for it too is part of the whole. It should be kept in mind that this project is not seeking to prove the doctrine of the Trinity (or to reject it in favor of a monotheistic nontrinitarian system) but rather to show that its denial or rejection leads to the collapse of the entire system known as Christianity or Scripturalism – a position that according to this writer leaves one with nihilism as a worldview, (it being the rejection of all worldviews including nihilism). The Bible alone is the Word of God.