US-based author Alexander Okenwa calls for reexamination of church teachings on trinity

American-based Bible scholar and author, Alexander Okenwa, has called on the Christian community to rethink common theological interpretations, particularly those surrounding the concept of the Trinity.

Okenwa, who has received divine training to teach the Bible, in an article titled Unveiling the Truth: The Trinity of Adam—the God-Given Illustration of His Nature in the Bible, argued that many church teachings have strayed from the Bible’s true meaning due to cultural misinterpretations by early Gentile Christians.

One of the most contentious points Okenwa raised is the misinterpretation of the Trinity.

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My name is Alexander Okenwa. 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 important to you and me because we are all God’s created human beings whom He has placed on this earth to serve as the ambassadorial representatives of His heavenly kingdom and the personal agents of His personal affairs. This means that the Bible, whose author He is, is the only book of knowledge that He has written and given to all of us (His human creations) to be the necessary source of all our true knowledge on earth in all areas of our lives and endeavors.

My expertise in the Bible lies in the fact that I am the only one in the world today whom He has given both the necessary training in the biblical book of His knowledge and the mandate to teach it (the Bible) in the most accurate way to all other peoples of the world today.

I intend to use the Bible as the only source from which to expound upon the above-highlighted topic, and I will be answering any questions that may arise from it.
For centuries, countless individuals, including Jews, Gentiles, and Christians, have looked at the Bible as a book of fairy tales, make-believe, and/or metaphors. The Muslims/Moslems, on their part, believe that the Bible is either corrupted or changed (in its original texts).

The truth, however, is that the Bible is neither a book of fairy tales, make-believe, metaphors, nor corrupted/changed in its original texts.

The problems in our churches today are with the theologies, doctrines, interpretations, and teachings that our Gentile believers in Jesus Christ have been using to explain the Bible to the people. Our churches have not only failed in approaching the Bible from the proper angle or perspective that any book of knowledge is meant to be handled, but they have also failed in using the precise wordings that are on its (the Bible’s) pages to interpret or explain its texts or contents.

However, the situation is much more dire than any human being can uncover, whether amongst the churches or among secular groups. It is bad enough that our churches have failed to use the right approach to the Bible in formulating all the theologies and doctrines that they have been using to view, explain, and teach the Bible in our churches to this day and age; it is also bad enough that they have not used the precise wordings on the pages of the Bible to try to explain it. The worst part of the whole dilemma is that our churches are not aware of the facts of their mis-approach to the Bible and their failure to use the precise wordings on the pages of the Bible in arriving at their present positions on the Bible.

The truth is that our churches are not holding onto the same teachings that the Jewish apostles of Jesus Christ held onto and did bequeath to us (the Gentile believers) on the pages of the Bible, and we are still not aware of such a drift from the actual positions of the then Jewish believers in Jesus Christ (the gospel that they passed down to us).
Even then, God does not count all these egregious mistakes of our churches on the Bible, just because we (our churches) made and are still making these mistakes unintentionally (that is, not deliberately—Acts 17:30).

The reason God has been tolerating the mistakes that we have been making against His Word, the Bible, is because it was never our Gentile believers’ duty to explain the Bible in the first place; this role was set apart for the Jews alone.

But since the Jewish national people whose duty it was and still is to explain the Bible failed or refused to explain it, just because they did not believe that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of their God’s promised Messiah to them (the Jews), the Gentile believers have no other option but to try to explain the Bible for themselves and by themselves, though using their understanding of the Gentile cultures that they came out of to accept the Faith of Jesus Christ. Hence, these noticeable errors of our churches on the Bible that they are not even aware of and are still making today.

As if using their former Gentile cultural experiences to begin to explain the Bible for themselves is not enough, they (the then Gentile believers in Jesus) used the same New Testament experiences that they gathered from the New Testament part of the Bible that the Jewish apostles of Jesus Christ used in evangelizing the gospel to them (the then Gentile believers) to begin to understand and explain the Bible for themselves to this day and age—thus, the birth of the present Biblical Christianity of our churches today.

The truth is that neither our churches nor the Jews/non-believers-in-Jesus are telling you and me the truths as they are contained on the pages of the Bible and, at the same time, they are unaware of these errors that they are committing in their teachings on the Bible.

That is the reason why you must pay great attention to this mandate that God has given me, which is to point out these unintentional errors of our churches on the Bible, but also to correct such errors, using the special training that He (God) has given me on the said Bible.
The difference between the explanations that I shall be giving you from the Bible and the explanations of our churches on the Bible today lies in the fact that I will be using the precise examples that God has given to us on the pages of the Bible to explain my points, vis-a-vis our churches’ explanations that were and are still not based upon the Bible, but upon the Ecumenical Church Councils’ decisions of the yesteryears.

In doing so, I have to use the right approach to the Bible, which is to begin from the book of Genesis to try to give all my explanations on any topic that I shall be writing on/about, as that is the only viewport that will allow a logical and consistent view and analysis of the Bible as a book of God’s creation story (unlike our churches’ view and analysis of the Bible that is based upon the New Testament).

Take, for example, this topic on the ‘Trinity of Adam—The God-Given Illustration of His Nature in the Bible.’ It may surprise you and me to know that God does not give us the nature of Himself in the Bible. Rather, He uses the analogy of the nature of Adam, whom He (God) created in His image and likeness, to give and explain His nature in the Bible. This means that when we understand the nature of Adam, as He (God) has presented it to us on the pages of the Bible, we can then understand His nature.
In other words, for anyone to know the nature of God, he or she must, first and foremost, use the nature of Adam, as it is presented on the pages of the Bible to arrive at His (God’s) nature.

The question that we should ask ourselves at this juncture is, “What is the nature of Adam as it is revealed to us in the Bible?”

According to the Bible, the nature of Adam is trinitarian. The next question that we should ask ourselves at this point is: “What is Trinity as per God’s biblical presentation?”
Trinity, as per the Bible, is the male spirit of Adam, plus his female spirit, plus the Breath of Life of God, which we (human beings) know and call soul today—three spiritual persons in the physical body of Adam (Genesis 2:7; 5:2).

Here is the way the Bible puts it on its pages:
In Genesis, chapter one, and verse 27, we read: “So God created man (which is the name of the male and female spirits of Adam) in His own image, in the image of God created He (God, and not Jesus) him; male and female created He them (plural spiritual persons of a male and a female).”

In Genesis, chapter two, and verse 7, we read: “And the LORD God formed man (man’s physical body) of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (this Breath of Life is God’s third Trinitarian divine Person of His Indwelling/Creative Word), and man (the male and female spirits that make up the man) became a living soul.”
Genesis, chapter two, and verse 7 give us the definition of Adam’s trinity or trinitarian nature.
Here, we see that it is the male spirit and the female spirit that make up the man in Genesis 1:27, plus the Breath of Life of God (that is, the breath that gives and sustains life from God) in the physical body that makes up Adam that is called trinity in the Bible. Here, we see that the three spirit persons of the male and female of the man and the Breath-of-life Spirit of God formed Trinity or three-in-one body when three of them are in the one body of Adam.

Going forward, we find out that it is from these three spiritual persons indwelling the one physical body of Adam that God made the woman or Eve from (Genesis 2:21-22), when He separated Adam’s female spirit person from his male spirit person so that the original three spirit-persons in him are now used to make only two separate/individual human beings—Adam and Eve, and not three separate persons as our churches have wrongly and falsely, but unintentionally made God’s trinity into the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, thus making two male persons of the Father and the Son and one female Spirit Person of the Holy Spirit from whom they claimed the world came into being.
From this point onward, I will explain to you the process of revealing the trinity of Adam’s nature as per God’s illustration of Himself in the Bible.

In Pidgin, internet users replied to French President Bola Tinubu’s tweet welcoming him to France.
Macron highlighted the strong friendship and partnership between the two countries and hailed Tinubu’s state visit as a major honor for France.
A tweet from the French president welcome President Bola Tinubu to France in Pidgin has been reacted to by netizens.
Macron highlighted the strong friendship and partnership between the two nations in a tweet on Thursday night, calling Tinubu’s state visit a “big honor for France.”

As a great friend and partner of today and tomorrow, he said, “It is a great honor for France, dear President Bola Tinubu @officialABAT, to welcome you for this state visit.”
“It still brings me great joy to remember that I was a young intern at the French Embassy in Nigeria back then,” said Acron, who had previously interned at the French Embassy in Nigeria, as he reflected on his connections to the nation.

In response, the online community has praised the President for his attempts to establish cultural ties with Nigeria.

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Furthermore, some have argued for the recognition of Pidgin as Nigeria’s official language.

In other events, Chief Priest announced on social media that Davido’s newest luxury cars have arrived in Lagos.

These cars, which add to Davido’s already impressive collection, include a Tesla Cyber Truck and a Rolls-Royce Spectre.

Chief Priest praised Davido as the “Greatest of All Time” (GOAT) and shared pictures of the vehicles on his Instagram account. In addition, he promised to celebrate in style and proposed an eventful December in Lagos.

We Call Me the Greatest of All Time, @davido Let’s see how this December turns out. Sheee Dem Get, Electric Money, We’re Going to Turn This Lagos Upside Down.

Justice Binta Murtala Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has struck out the criminal charges filed against a property developer, Mr Cecil Osakwe.

The court struck out the charge following its withdrawal by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.

Justice Nyako discharged Osakwe, after the prosecutor, Mamman Alibaba, moved motion for the withdrawal of the criminal charge.

Justice Nyako held, “it is hereby ordered as follows: That as requested by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Charge be and it is accordingly struck out.
“That the Defendant is hereby discharged”.

The federal government had filed a criminal charge against Osakwe over allegation of electricity theft.

Before the case was struck out by the court, at the last adjourned date, the case was stalled due to some discrepancies in the statement of one of witnesses called by the federal government.

At the resumed trial, the prosecutor, Mr Alibaba Mamman called his witness, Mr John Suleiman who adopted his witness statement and identified some exhibits said to be the numbers of metres that were allegedly tempered with.

The defence counsel, Mr Victor Giwa, however, raised objections to the tendering of the exhibits on the grounds that the prosecutor had not attached such documents to the witness statement of Suleiman that he made available to him.

The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako agreed that, if such documents were not attached to Suleiman’s witness statement, he was not the right person to tender the documents in court.

In view of the following, the prosecutor prayed the court for an adjournment to enable him put his house in order.

Earlier, a prosecution witness, Mr Gabriel Ojo who identified himself as a former staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, (AEDC) told the court that he had received a complaint from a whistle blower on the alleged theft of electricity at one of the property of the defendant.

Ojo said that he constituted a team who investigated the complaint after which the report was forwarded to the management of the AEDC.

“I believe that the management passed the report to the revenue protection unit but I do not know what happened thereafter,” Ojo said.

He also told the court that he could not remember the names of the security guards at the defendants property that his team interacted with in the course of their investigations.

According to a Rivers State Alesa community leader, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has refuted the assertion that fuel is not yet being produced at the Port Harcourt refinery.

In a Thursday appearance on national television, Timothy Mgbere, a purported Alesa leader, accused the NNPCL of deceiving Nigerians by claiming the refinery was already processing crude oil.

In a statement released on Friday, Olufemi Soneye, the spokesperson for the NNPCL, accused Mgbere of being blatantly ignorant of how a refinery operates and said that he would not have responded to him with dignity if it weren’t necessary to correct the records.

The previous Port Harcourt Refinery, according to Mgbere, was only barely functioning and wasn’t handling PMS. The fact that the PMS truck-out was conducted at the new Port Harcourt Refinery’s gantry rather than the old one served as his evidence.

This shows how little he knows about the refinery’s functioning. For product load-out, the old and modern Port Harcourt Refineries have subsequently been combined into a single terminal.

Power and storage tanks are among the utilities they share. This implies that goods from the Old Port Harcourt Refinery can also be delivered to the loading gantry and storage tanks that he stated were part of the new Port-Harcourt Refinery, Soneye clarified.
By claiming that the PMS that was loaded off of the purported loading gantry of the new Port Harcourt Refinery was “old stock” from the previous Port Harcourt Refinery, Mgbere contradicted himself, according to the NNPC Chief Communications Officer.
What was the process by which the alleged “old stock” was transferred from the old Port Harcourt Refinery to the loading gantry of the new one?

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For a show, the old PMS stock from the old Port Harcourt Refinery can be moved to the loading gantry of the new Port Harcourt Refinery, according to the faulty reasoning of the so-called “community person.” However, newly produced PMS from the old Port Harcourt Refinery can only be loaded at its own dedicated gantry. It is blatant illiteracy on exhibit here! Soneye made a point.

“The nameplate capacity of the refinery is 60,000 barrels of oil per day,” Soneye said in reference to the refinery’s present capacity. It is now generating at 90% throughput, which means that, in addition to other products like diesel and kerosene, 1.4 million liters of PMS are made from Straight-Run gasoline (Naptha).

“We urge the public to reject the assertions of the self-described ‘community person,’ which are clearly motivated by sheer mischievousness and flagrant ignorance,” the statement said.

Refunds of N4.4 billion have been given by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, or NAHCON, to the Armed Forces, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and the pilgrims’ welfare boards in 36 states.

Muhammad Musa, NAHCON’s Head of Public Affairs, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

Mr. Musa clarified that the reimbursement related to the improperly provided energy services during the Masha’ir (core Hajj period) by the Saudi authorities during the 2023 Hajj.

Furthermore, the Commission has reimbursed 192 authorized tour companies that took part in the 2023 hajj a total of N917,148,479.99.

This sum is meant to be paid to the individual pilgrims, and the other participating businesses will also receive their money back following a proper reconciliation.

“This reimbursement demonstrates NAHCON’s dedication to maintaining accountability and transparency in the administration of Hajj operations, led by its Chairman, Prof. Abdullahi Usman.”

Mr. Musa clarified that in order to obtain their refunds, pilgrims who took part in the 2023 hajj were encouraged to get in touch with their individual State Pilgrims’ Welfare Agencies, Boards, and Commissions, or tour operators.

Every Pilgrim is eligible for an N61,080.00 reimbursement. This news release includes a comprehensive breakdown of the number of pilgrims by state and the associated numbers.

The commission hereby requests that all pilgrims planning to do the Hajj in 2025 swiftly submit their Hajj fees with the appropriate state pilgrims board.

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In strict accordance with the regulations established by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this step is necessary to guarantee the prompt transfer of cash to NAHCON, enabling early preparations for the 2025 Hajj.

NAHCON urges the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and other pertinent security authorities to keep a careful eye on the refund procedure in the interest of due process and transparency.

“The goal of this partnership is to guarantee that all refunds are paid out correctly and reach the designated recipients without any inconsistencies,” Mr. Musa stated.

Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani opened the livestock market, which had been shuttered for over a decade due to insecurity, and welcomed the first group of remorseful criminals to Birnin Gwari on Thursday.

The governor added that in order to achieve long-term peace and development, his administration would treat all state residents fairly and justly, “whether they are farmers, herders, or traders.”

He revealed that the state administration has formed “The Peace Dialogue Group” in cooperation with several federal authorities, and that group has been actively interacting with all parties involved.

Through countless meetings and in-depth conversations, we have established trusting relationships,” Mr. Sani stated. Together with their supporters, a number of prominent bandit leaders had surrendered their weapons and accepted peace.

The state government, in collaboration with the federal government, has created a rehabilitation program for these persons, he said.

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He continued by saying, “This program complies with international standards for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, guaranteeing that these individuals can rejoin society as contributing members of society.”

“While we welcome those who choose peace, we will not hesitate to take decisive action against anyone who continues to perpetuate violence,” the governor said, warning that the principle of “carrot and stick” will be the basis for the rehabilitation of the repentant bandits.

He added, “The security, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies have already achieved significant results, neutralizing the kingpins of bandits, dismantling criminal networks, and rescuing kidnapped victims.”

His government is creating what he called the “Kaduna Model,” a comprehensive framework for long-term peace and stability, according to Mr. Sani.

This concept will incorporate investments in rural development and conflict resolution in addition to disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration.

He continued by saying, “It is a holistic approach that addresses both the symptoms and the root causes of insecurity.”

“Through strategic communication and inclusive governance, we have earned the trust and confidence of our people,” Mr. Sani remarked, highlighting the impressive advancements made during his administration.

Farmer-herder conflicts and ethnoreligious tensions are quickly disappearing, and insecurity is drastically declining.

“Our peacebuilding initiatives have garnered the support of communities from a wide range of ethnic and religious backgrounds, promoting greater harmony and mutual understanding.”

The governor maintained that even while his administration was making progress in reviving the rural economy, his efforts would not be successful without security.

We have prohibited the Yan Sa Kai’s operations, restored rural marketplaces, and tightened oversight of vigilance organizations.

“These actions are meant to build trust and create a space where peace can thrive,” he stated.

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As the cornerstone of enduring peace, Mr. Sani stated that his administration promotes communication and has an open door policy.

My advice to anyone thinking about joining the military is straightforward: speak with us first, he continued. Instead of using violence, let’s use discussion to settle disagreements.

“I implore the bandits who still oppose peace to think twice. It’s enough. Force levies, livestock rustling, kidnapping, and other criminal acts are no longer an issue.

“Those who truly want to change will discover a government willing to help them rebuild their lives, protect them, and support them.”

The foreign component of the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) Intervention has been approved by the Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to be suspended, effective January 1, 2025.

Abdulmumin Oniyangi, the fund’s head of public affairs, provided media in Abuja with a statement on Thursday that included this information.

The high rate of foreign scholar absconding and the exorbitant expense of training in foreign institutions, according to Mr. Oniyangi, were the reasons for the suspension.

He, however, said the TETFund scholars who have already enrolled in foreign institutions would continue to draw down on their scholarships till the end of their programmes.

“It is expected that the suspension will conserve and reduce the pressure on foreign exchange rate, boost investment and local capacity in Nigerian tertiary educational institutions and significantly increase the number of beneficiaries of the intervention.

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“To this end, TETFund in collaboration with the National Universities Commission (NUC) has intensified efforts in the implementation of the Trans-national Education Guidelines recently approved by President Bola Tinubu,” he said.

He added that under the scheme, top ranking institutions from the United Kingdom, United States of America, Malaysia, Brazil, etc. would be encouraged to mount programmes in partnership with Nigerian institutions.

He said this is in a bid to offer the same standard and quality of courses that are obtainable in their home institutions.

He added that beneficiary institutions of TETFund had been advised to prioritise their training needs for implementation in Nigerian institutions and ensure strict compliance.