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The Trinity vs the ‘wordprophet’

I had always intended to write on the essentials of the Christian faith, but I didn’t expect to start that just yet. What changed my mind was a so-called “christian” account called the ‘wordprophet’ I ran across on a social media site called ‘Gab’ a week ago that openly flaunted the rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity. [1] What makes this one different is that it seems to defy a label like Arianism or Jehovah’s Witness or Oneness Pentecostal. All three of these deny the classical definition of the Trinity and all three have been thoroughly dealt with by Christian apologists in the past. But what I saw was very limited, if any, engagement of his posts even though he has about 250 followers, but has over 16K YouTube subscribers and over a decade of videos defending his view that the Trinity is a false ‘Christian’ doctrine.  Besides the history and theology of the matter, there are three things about this account that bother me. First, he calls himself a prophet, the ‘wordprophet...