Some of claims which The Unholy Trinity makes are similar to those made in religious conspiracy books such as The Da Vinci Code and The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. For example, the book questions the Virgin Birth, the divinity of Jesus, and the literal truth of the resurrection. However, the main purpose of The Unholy Trinity is not to try to expose a cover-up or conspiracy perpetrated by the church. The Unholy Trinity is not concerned with the church’s motivation for claiming that the Bible supports its outdated doctrines. The main concern of the book is that this stance has created an obstacle to a proper understanding of the Bible, and, as a result, the moral teaching, important lessons, and dire warnings that the Bible contains are all too often either misunderstood or ignored.

A selected list of the questions regarding the link between church dogma and the biblical account of the life of Jesus that The Unholy Trinity addresses are:

• Given that the gospel of Matthew, which is the only gospel that unequivocally states Jesus was born of a virgin, contains other similar stories that cannot possibly be literally true, for example, an account of corpses coming back to life and walking about Jerusalem; how did the story of Virgin Birth become enshrined in infallible doctrine?
• How can the Bible be used to support the doctrine of Jesus’ divinity when, in addition to the passages that do refer to Jesus as divine, other New Testament passages flatly deny His divinity, thereby casting serious doubt on this claim
• Why did Jesus, an avowed pacifist, participate in the celebration of a festival that commemorated the slaughter of innocent children?
• According to the gospels Jesus either arranged, or allowed to happen, many of the events leading up to His death. Why should this not have included His ‘betrayal’ by Judas? Jesus was certainly aware of Judas’ intentions and was, at the very least, complicit in the events that led to His betrayal.
• In any event, in what way did Judas betray Jesus? The Jewish authorities who were planning to execute Jesus would not have needed anyone to help them find or identify a figure who was in the public eye on a daily basis.
• Given that Jesus made it clear to His followers that He would have to be killed, but would rise again from the dead after three days; why was it that the disciples did not expect, let alone look forward to, His prophesied resurrection?
• How can we be certain of the resurrection of Jesus two thousand years after the event when the reaction of some of His closest followers, after they allegedly had actually seen His resurrected body, ranged from doubt to disbelief?