Various attempts by post-Temple Christians were made to provide an answer to post-Temple Rabbinical Jews who were saying Christianity was breaking the commandment to “have no other gods before Me”. The original answer was Modalism and much later Oneness Pentecostalism dogma took the same approach. This approach was to create a way of saying that Jesus is God and the Father is God but still only have one God. Essentially it sought to make the Son and Father into one persona in various modes, with the Father fully becoming the Son. The dogma of the Trinity, came about as another way of saying Jesus is God and the Father is God but still only have one God. Here they invented a kind of Godness that Jesus and the Father could both be, then made this Godness the One God. Trinity dogma was a false doctrine and philosophical trap because Jesus and Paul had both taught that it is the Father who is the “One God”, “the one true God”. Oneness or Modalism was likewise a false doctrine and philosophical trap for the same reasons.
