The Brisbane-based Creation Ministries International (CMI) does an astounding job in refuting evolution and long-age Creationist beliefs.  They argue staunchly for a special creation by God ex nihilo (Latin for ‘from nothing’) around 6,000 years ago from evidence found in both Scripture and nature.  However, I am increasingly amazed at the obstinate or willing ignorance [1] in their dogma regarding the Godhead.  

Lita Cosner is the latest CMI contender.  In the course of an intelligent review [2] of a book by, and about, former British atheist Antony Flew [3], she quotes Flew who attributes his god with ‘immutability, immateriality, omnipotence, omniscience, oneness [emphasis mine] or indivisibility, perfect goodness and necessary existence’ [4].  Cosner then makes a just-so statement with no reference to support her dogma:

‘Flew does not acknowledge the Trinity or Christ as the second Person of the Trinity, both of which are essential Christian doctrines’ [5].

The statement in her article is unreferenced.  I believe that the reason Cosner does not cite a Scriptural reference is that there simply aren’t any.  She would have to resort to citing one of the creeds that were generated far later than the Holy Scriptures.  Such beliefs are found not in Scripture but in articles of faith as the Nicean Creed (325 AD) and Chalcedon (451 AD).  To reference her statement would expose the doctrines as Biblically unsound, supported flimsily by man-made codes of belief.  

How can these creeds be “essential Christian doctrines if they are unsupported by Scripture?  To this day, Jews--particularly in the face of death--recite the Shema [6] as a pivotal article of their faith, a faith upon which the Jewish Apostles built the Christian church and wrote the New Testament!  It says:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:  [Deuteronomy 6:4]

Jesus Himself affirmed this essential doctrine [7].  James and other writers of the New Testament confirmed it:

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. [James 2:19]

If one is to be completely Biblical, the essential doctrine regarding the Godhead can only be found in Scripture.  The following is a non-exhaustive list of such Scripture:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.  [1 John 4:1-3]

For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.  [2 John 1:7]

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.    [1 Timothy 3:16]

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.  For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.  And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:  [Colossians 2:8-10]

Who (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:  [Colossians 1:15]

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  [2 Corinthians 4:3-4]

It is evident from these and other Scriptures that Jesus Christ was God revealed in flesh but it does not provide evidence of the so-called Trinity.  Cosner and her ilk would argue that while there are no direct Scriptural references, the Trinity is implied in Scripture [8].  I have demonstrated that this is a straw-man easily demolished by a plain reading of Scripture.  It is clear that they are biased by their preconceived notions of the Godhead.  They need to take off the veil from their eyes and don “Scriptural glasses”. [9]

Conclusion

Flew is correct in attributing Oneness to God.  Scripture is unwaveringly clear on both the Godhead and deceivers.  There is no Trinity or plurality of Persons in the Godhead- these concepts have their origins outside of Scripture. There is but One God Who is revealed as the Father in Creation, in flesh as the Son--our Lord Jesus Christ--in redemption, and as the Holy Spirit in regeneration.  It clearly warns us to beware of false teachers who teach otherwise, no matter how wise they appear to be in other matters.

Finally, whatever happened to sola Scriptura (Latin for ‘Scripture alone’) for the essential doctrines of the Bible?  

References
[1] Compare with 2 Peter 3:5:  ‘For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:’  
[2] Journal of Creation, Volume 22(3) 2008, p21, Former leading atheist argues for the existence of God, Creation Ministries International Ltd Journal, Australia.
[3] “There is a God: How the Wold’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, Antony Flew and Roy Varghese, Harper Collins, New York, 2007.  Flew was a life-long atheist who set about to prove that God doesn’t exist but came to the conclusion that He does (albeit Flew does not necessarily accept the Christian God)
[4] Ibid, p92.
[5] Journal of Creation, Volume 22(3) 2008, p23, Former leading atheist argues for the existence of God, Creation Ministries International Ltd Journal, Australia.
[6] In Hebrew; ‘Shema, Yisrael Adonai eloheinu, Adonai ehud’, hence its appellation ‘The Shema’.  For an slightly more comprehensive explanation of ehud (Hebrew for ‘one’), see my article at http://www.pentecostalsofshellharbour.com/food-for-thought/8-amen-jesus-christ-is-our-creator-a-response-to-a-cmi-website-article.html
[7] Jesus endorsed this Scripture in Mark 12:29.  
[8] This is not dissimilar to secular scientists who assert that long ages are implied in rocks and fossils, etc!  This too is based on a biased worldview.
[9] Compare with 2Corinthians 3:15:  ‘But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.’

Note
All quotes from Scripture are from the King James Version (KJV)