Gwen Shamblin, The Christian Diet Guru

If you are overweight and tired of being spiritually defeated, Gwen Shamblin claims to have the answers and reveals them in her Weigh Down Workshops. Though she says she's a Christian, she has made it very clear that she denies the doctrine of the Trinity, which is a fundamental aspect of the Christan faith. Here are a couple of news clips of interviews with Gwen where she talks more about her beliefs.

Gwen believes that there is only one God, who is God the Father. She also says that she believes in Jesus, who is God's Son, but that neither Jesus nor the Holy Spirit are God. In fact, the Holy Spirit, she says, is not a person, but is just the "force" of God.

Back in Oct. 2000, Rob Bowman, the Director of Research at Watchman Fellowship wrote a letter to Gwen Shamblin in the hopes of being able to share with her what the doctrine of the Trinity actually teaches and to clear up any misunderstandings that she may have been taught about the Trinity.

A few weeks ago, my Adult Bible Fellowship class at church finished a 2-week study on the Trinity, and I just recently my professor in my Systematic Theology class taught a lecture on the doctrine of the Trinity. Trinitarian doctrine is a very heavy subject, and after reviewing Mr. Bowman's letter, I think he did a very good job in covering the basics and explaining its key aspects.

(Excerpt from website)
The core elements of the doctrine of the Trinity are these:

1. There is one true God, the LORD, i.e., Yahweh, or Jehovah. (Deut. 4:35, 39; 6:4; Isa. 43:10; 44:6-8; Acts 17:29; James 2:19)
   


2. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is this one true God, the LORD. (John 17:3; 20:17; cf. Ps. 110:1)
   


3. The Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is this one true God, the LORD. (John 1:1; 20:28; Rom. 10:9-13; Phil. 2:9-11; Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 1:1; 1 John 5:20).
   


4. The Holy Spirit, who was sent by the Son from the Father, is this one true God, the LORD. (Acts 5:3-4, 9; 2 Cor. 3:17-18)
   

Though the concept of the Trinity can be a difficult subject to fully grasp, we simply have to accept that even though we don't completely understand it, it's still true because the Bible says so. In spite of what Gwen Shamblin, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Oneness Pentecostals may say, Evangelical Christians are not polytheists, nor are we modalist. We are monotheists... we worship the only one true God who eternally and co-equally exists as 3 Persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

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