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Trinity, Fact or Fiction?
SCRIPTURAL HARMONY PROCESS
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Section A
IN THE HISTORY of the Christian religious world and the twentieth century Pentecostal movement there have been many doctrines, divisions, contentions, and different interpretations of scripture. In this great turmoil has erupted at times in different places which has divided families, friends, churches, organizations, and even nations. Wars of every size and description have been fought over perceived truth against that which is viewed as false. Looking at history your author has identified six different categories as to why the history of Christianity has been filled with such bloody strife, division, and turmoil. As you review the reasons below ask yourself the following question. What if these problems could be eliminated, where would the Christian world be now and in the future?
With the reasons above one would ask, has the Lord given to man a way to overcome these problems which would result in finding the truth of the word of God? The answer is yes if one stops to think about it. Solving the religious turmoil problem I believe can be done with what I call Scriptural Harmony. By this I mean if one takes a subject found in the word of God and then runs a cross check of all the scriptures found in the Word of God on the subject, the true meaning will shine forth. By running a cross check study with the goal of Scriptural Harmony one is assured of perfect understanding of the Word of God about 90% of the time on any Biblical subject. For those subjects more difficult to understand, additional study tools must be used. These being word meanings, time, location, and setting of the scripture passage. Always keep in mind, anytime one has a wrong interpretation of any of the scriptures in the Word of God a contradiction will pop up somewhere else in the scriptures. When one has correct interpretation of the scriptures the scriptures will be in harmony with each other. What this means is there is a way to allow the Bible to interpret itself and take man out of the picture in most cases. This fact about Biblical interpretation must be kept in mind when doing a study on any subject in the Word of God. As an example of religious debate and strife over scriptural interpretation we can look at the subject of the doctrine of the trinity. This doctrine has been debated, fought for and against for over seventeen hundred years. It is one that has cost millions of lives and one that has been hidden in mystery. In an effort to take away the mystery and establish fact, your author has taken this subject and run it through the Scriptural Harmony Process. In this report you will see an example of the Scriptural Harmony Process at work and the resulting answers given. May this information prove to be a blessing. THE TRINITY, FACT OR FICTION? Of all the doctrines listed as being major Christian teachings none is more controversial than the subject of the Godhead. For many centuries wars, persecutions, and debate have raged as to who and what is God? In looking at the subject of the Godhead there are two ways uncover what the truth is, concerning the Godhead. One is religious history and the other is the Scriptural Harmony Process. To fully comprehend the scope of the subject of the Godhead one should look closely at both approaches. The reason being, the Scriptural Harmony Process and religious history are in full agreement and harmony with each other. The two systems also form a check and balance system for each other. Between the two study systems of greatest importance is the Scriptural Harmony Process. This is because of the power and importance of the word of God. As stated earlier anytime one has a wrong interpretation of any of the scriptures a contradiction will pop up somewhere else in the scriptures. When one has correct interpretation of the scriptures the scriptures will be in total harmony with each other. This basic fact about the Scriptural Harmony Process must be kept in mind when doing a study on any subject in the Word of God. This is especially true when doing a study on the Godhead. In our study on the trinity we will first review history then move on to the Scriptural Harmony Process. RELIGIOUS HISTORY AND THE TRINITY Amazing as it may sound according to the Church Fathers it took God one hundred years to reveal the first two trinities. This took place between 200 A.D. and 300 A.D. For anyone who knows how spiritual revelation works one would automatically know something is fundamentally wrong with the trinity concept because it does not take God one hundred years to reveal anything. The word trinity means triune and three. In the so called trinity Christian religious world the concept of a trinity of the godhead means three persons who make up the godhead. The idea of three persons in a godhead was not new when the Christian trinity concept was first developed in the Christian religious world by the early Church Fathers. The concept of a trinity godhead system goes back to the first city nation called Babylon. The timing of original development of the first religious trinity system would be between four and five thousand years ago. This took place during the time of Nimrod and Semiramis. In this first pagan trinity Nimrod the king was the first person, Semiramis his Queen was the second person, and Tammuz their son was the third person, of this godhead system. In this system Semiramis was also declared to be the Queen Mother of Heaven and earth, and the goddess of love sex and fertility. This original pagan trinity system was based on the following characteristics. A three person godhead. A woman known as the Queen Mother as a part of the godhead system. Astrology-Mystery as key parts of the religious system. Human-animal sacrifice. Mystical practices which evolved into witchcraft. Temple prostitution. Hidden knowledge only revealed to the priesthood or those with the proper education. After the flood and then the scattering from the tower of Babel, the earth was in a repopulation process by pagan trinity believers initially from Babylon. As the original Babylonians scattered across the face of the earth from the tower occurrence, they took their religious system with them even thought they expressed their religious system in their new languages. Even in their new languages the general characteristics of the trinity system remained the same. Over the many following centuries after the scattering from the tower this Babylonian pagan religious system mutated through evolution, was modified many different ways, sectioned off into splinter groups which developed into new movements, and systems of religion. This process of never ending change and modification in the original Babylonian trinity system has been going on even down to today. This system eventually infected the Christian religious world and is spoken of in hidden detail in Revelation chapters seventeen and eighteen. It should also be noted. With several thousand years of the indoctrination for mankind to the concept of a three person godhead religious system, the RELIGIOUS gentiles of the world have been fully convinced there are three persons and there is a trinity. This was also the situation when God first called Abraham at Ur and revealed to him there was only one God and not three or more. Once the pagan trinity system was firmly established in the minds of most religious gentiles in the world, God then did something rather amazing to illustrate his nature of being one. He called Abraham and his seed to follow him and only him. From Abraham to Moses God raised up a ONE GOD people known as the Nation of Israel. They were different from all religious systems around them because they did not worship three or more, they worshiped only ONE. This is stated clearly in the Shamah of Deut 6:4-5:
From Abraham forward in time the Jews practiced their monotheistic ONE GOD religion in the middle of a three person god head pagan religious world. During these years until the coming of Jesus Christ, the Nation of Israel was constantly tempted by their trinity neighbors to convert to several pagan religious systems. As history shows the Nation of Israel and later Judah, when faithful to their ONE GOD religion were blessed of God. Anytime they adopted any of the pagan trinity systems around them they were cursed of God and fell to destruction. The Jews of the promised land were not cured of their backsliding from their ONE GOD religion until the first destruction of the temple, and the seventy years of captivity which followed. Once the remnant of Judah returned to Jerusalem from Babylon and rebuilt the temple and the city, the seed of Abraham dwelling in the promised land remained fairly successful in remaining faithful to their monotheistic ONE GOD religion up until the last twenty five years of the twentieth century. Even during the occupations of the Greek and Roman empires the promised land Jews were very successful in not backsliding either to the Greek or Roman mythology trinity religious systems which ruled over them. Amazing as it may sound we now find at the end of the twentieth century a very small portion of the Jewish population of the world has now returned to the three god trinity religious world in worship and belief. They call themselves the Messianic Jewish Christian movement. These people are believers in God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ as the three separate persons in the Christian godhead. They follow and believe the theory of the Western trinity as do most Protestants and which means they are Roman Catholic at the core. Needles to say their salvation plan is not as the Apostles taught but they follow the plan of salvation developed by the Reformers under Martin Luther. How the development of the trinity Christian religious world took place follows a little later in this report. After Jerusalem was rebuilt along with its second temple being dedicated to the one true God, the nation of Israel was concurred by the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great, then the Romans of the Roman Empire. It was during the occupation of the Roman Empire the first appearance of God being MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH of Jesus Christ took place. Why this event took place at this time in history we do not know. We do know with the manifestation and birth of Jesus Christ as the son of God and God being made visible in human form the introduction of a New Covenant to replace the Old Covenant and the Law of Moses was ushered in. In the old covenant only Jews of the seed of Abraham could be saved by believing and obeying the Old Covenant commandments. In the New Covenant beginning in Acts 2, anyone could be saved by believing and obeying ALL the New Covenant commandments. These New Covenant commandments were given to the original Apostles by Jesus during his time of ministry on this earth and later they were revealed to the Apostle Paul after his conversion in Damascus. In this New Covenant and for the first 170 years of the Christian religious world the concept of a Christian trinity based on three separate persons did not exist. This was mainly due to the fact the early Christian church was a Jewish church who believed totally in the ONE GOD teachings in the Law of Moses. In this Apostolic church world initially headed up by the original Apostles, everyone in general believed Jesus Christ was God himself MANIFESTED in the flesh as well as being the Son of God born of the virgin Mary. To the early Jewish Christians God was the INVISIBLE Holy Ghost-Holy Spirit who was the one Divine Spirit who was also the FATHER in creation. The early Apostolic church believed Jesus Christ was the express image of the invisible God and he was both fully man and fully God. To the early Apostolic Christians Jesus Christ was never the second person of the godhead, HE WAS THE ONLY PERSON OF THE GODHEAD. This is also the main reason the religious leaders in Jerusalem and the temple wanted to kill Jesus. Not only did he claim to be the Son of God, he also claimed to be the ONE true God at the same time. The Jews could accept Jesus as the Son but not as God him self. Sad but true even to this day the Jews down through history and the trinity Christian world have never fully understood Isa 9:6.
The Birth of the Trinity Christian World After the Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ and through the ministry of the Apostle Paul, gentiles were introduced into the Christian world in large numbers. As thousands of gentiles slowly came into the Jewish Christian Apostolic world between 50 AD and 200 AD, they brought their pagan concept of three persons in the godhead with them. From these thousands of gentile converts came intellectual leaders known as the early Church Fathers. These men who were mostly lawyers, scholars, and philosophers, claimed to have new revelation of the scriptures. Their feeling was the Apostles were not educated men and thus could not understand the deep mysteries of God. They felt God had left to them the true revelation of the mysteries of God because of their secular education and high levels of intelligence. With this claim of new revelation based on higher education the first Church Father named Justin Martyr changed the teaching of the Apostles on the doctrine of water baptism. Even though Justin agreed with the Apostles water baptism was central to salvation his change in water baptism application was introduced into the Christian world around 150 AD. Justin's change in water baptism application was to add the words of Jesus Christ in Matt. 28:19 to the name of Jesus Christ as found in Acts 2:38, Acts 8, Acts 10, Acts 19:1-7, and Acts 22:16. By adding the titles of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to the Name of Jesus Christ in water baptism the functions and purposes of water baptism were destroyed for those who followed his teaching. The reason being this change represented a change in the gospel of the Apostles. According to Apostolic teaching water baptism was to be done only in the name of Jesus Christ and all those following Justin's doctrine became false Christians and were lost because they were no longer believing and obeying the gospel of the Apostles. Of course for those following Justin's revelation they believed they were correct and still do to today. The truth is, Justin changed the gospel of salvation which means no salvation with any kind of change away from the doctrine of the Apostles. Following Justin Martyr came Tertullian of Carthage North Africa and Origen of Alexandria Egypt. These two men entering into the Christian religious world from the pagan religious world also brought with them the concept of the three godhead system known as the trinity. Between 175 A.D. and 225 A.D, these two men became followers of Justin Martyr theology on water baptism. As so called early Church Fathers both men during these years also developed the first TWO Christian trinity theories to support their change in water baptism. One trinity was known as the Western trinity by Tertullian which laid the doctrinal foundation of the Roman Catholic Church system. The other was the Eastern trinity of Origen which laid the doctrinal foundation of the Orthodox churches in the world. Once the developmental process of the first two trinities began these two men and their followers removed the name of Jesus Christ in water baptism and just repeated the words of Jesus in Matt. 28:19. This was another major departure from the Doctrine of the Apostles on water baptism. According to the Apostles the end result will be the same. Change the gospel and loose salvation. 4 Between 200 A.D. and 325 A.D. religious debate and warfare ensued between the followers of the Apostles and their one God belief, and the Western and Eastern trinity believers. All three groups fought each other for control of the Christian Religious World for over one hundred years. In this many thousands died fighting for what they believed to be the truth. In 325 A.D. the Western trinity believers and their theology gained political approval and power by becoming the official state approved religious system of the Roman Empire. This took place at the Council of Nicaea via the Creed of Nicaea. In this development the Roman Catholic Church was born with the Roman Emperor being its high priest and Pope. (As a side note the title of Pope was not adopted by the bishop of Rome until the fall of the Roman Empire in the sixth century. This means it is impossible for Peter to be the first Pope because the Roman Emperor held that title until the fall.) With the development of the different trinities (in which there are at least six in the world today) the early church world which had been dominated by ONE GOD Christian Apostolic Jews now found the new trinity theology to be a violation of their ONE GOD beliefs and the teachings of the Apostles. In this situation even Jews looking at possible conversion to the Christian world rejected these three god systems as they called them as nothing more than a new twist of the old pagan religious systems which were based on the trinity. Once the Western trinity was in official position as the only true religion of the Roman Empire the gentile takeover of the public Christian world was complete. As for the Jewish Apostolic Christian world, they just faded away in a short time. As for the teachings of the early Apostolic Church world and the Apostles. History shows contrary to trinity teaching there has always been somewhere in the world an Apostolic movement of truth. Never very public, never large in numbers even to this day, and always being attacked by the trinity religious world as being false and of the Devil. In this situation of the trinity religious world always attacking the Apostolic Christian world the following prophecy by the Apostle Peter had and has come true.
Of special attention, the following should be a matter of deep consideration. The Apostle Peter has told us in the word of God (2 Pet. 2:1-2) the day would come when the way of truth would be evil spoken of by all false prophets. The Apostle Paul tells us in Gal 1: 8-9 anyone preaching a different gospel than preached by the Apostles would be cursed of God. In Jude we find the term, COMMON SALVATION, being spoken of and a warning for any who would change this COMMON SALVATION. Jude tells us the very same thing would happen to anyone changing the COMMON PLAN OF SALVATION as happened to the children of Israel who made the golden calf. Searching what happened to the Golden Calf makers in the Word of God we find those who made the Golden Calf had their names taken out of the Lambs Book of Life. It is very evident when Justin Martyr changed Apostolic teaching on water baptism and when Origen and Tertullian developed the first two trinities, exactly what Peter, Paul, and Jude, said would happen did happen. This means all who follow the teachings of the Church Fathers as well as the Church Fathers themselves will not be saved. This also means anyone or any type of professing Christian or non Christian will not be saved until they BELIEVE and OBEY the COMMON SALVATION — GOSPEL as taught and believed by the original Apostles of the Lord. 5 THE REFORMATION AND THE TRINITY Between 325 A.D. with the birth of the official Roman Catholic Church and the Reformation of the 1500's A.D., great battles took place between Western Trinity believers, Eastern Trinity believers, and any religious groups who were not trinity based. Of prime focus of attack was the trinity believers both East and West against any who followed the teachings of the Apostles and water baptized in it name of Jesus Christ. At the same time and for over one thousand years the Roman Catholic Church lost its control of the Eastern trinity world and the developing Orthodox religious world. During these years millions of non trinity Christians were murdered by the Roman Church and the Orthodox religious world. In the Western religious world this was known as the Inquisition. Towards the end of the Inquisition period came the Protestant Reformation. The result of the Reformation was to split the Roman Catholic Church and western Europe between Catholics and Protestants. In this Reformation period millions died in contending for what they believed to be the truth. In Reformation theology salvation became just a matter of believing in Jesus Christ and obeying the New Covenant commandments of the Gospel of the Apostles was declared to be legalism and bondage not to be given any value what so ever. As the early Reformation leaders developed the doctrine of the movement the question of the godhead had to be established. In looking at this, Apostolic teaching on the godhead was declared to be a heresy, and a decision had to be reached as to which trinity was correct. After years of study the Reformation leaders picked the Western trinity as the true revelation of the godhead. This means even though the Protestant church world split from the Roman Catholic Church, they remained Roman Catholic at the core because of the trinity they followed. Whether eastern trinity, western trinity, or non trinity, any change or modification in the gospel of the Apostles can result in only one end according to the Bible. NO SALVATION, NO NAME IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE. THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH WORLD
One must also keep in mind. Millions of so called Apostolics in the world today and down through history have never been saved and have died lost even though they were water baptized correctly. The reason they remained lost is because they have never been taught how to BELIEVE and OBEY the true gospel as the Apostles as the Apostles believed it. The Word of God tells us how the people of God are destroyed for lack of knowledge. This means one can believe and obey the truth in part and still be lost because one does not have the full truth. This is why anyone who does not BELIEVE and OBEY the full truth will not be saved whether one is oneness, trinity, or whatever. The reason the Apostolic movement world wide has never been UNITED in how they believe Acts 2:38 and the full Gospel along with the trinity believers having never seen the true gospel, is because all those who have not believed it have not had pure hearts and this is why they have never been shown the full truth. In not revealing the true gospel to the lost God has just let them be destroyed for lack of knowledge. This means believing and obeying the true gospel is connected to the condition of the heart of man and not his intelligence, education, and preaching ability. Always keep in mind, visual signs, wonders,and miracles, are not signs of doctrinal truth and do not indicate the presence of the full Apostolic truth. In this we can quickly see why and where the Church Fathers and the Reformers were so far off base in their doctrine and why so many millions of Apostolics have missed salvation also. We have to many sign followers and not enough truth followers. This indicates salvation is based stickily on a one to one relationship between the believer and the Lord Jesus Christ with those who have knowledge of the full truth. We can now see the following, truly is the road of salvation narrow, much narrower than we ever dreamed. Just a little food for thought from your author. Section B With a general overview of religious history in Section A complete we are now ready to study the doctrine of the Christian trinity with the Scriptural Harmony Process. Before we can do this we must first determine exactly what is the doctrine of the Christian trinity and how did it come about? To understand how the Christian trinity was developed and what it is we must go back in history to the time of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Origen. This time frame is between 150 A.D. and 250 A.D. During this one hundred year period following the passing of the Apostles a system of scripture study was developed. How and why it came about we do not know for sure. It does appear from the evident results of this system it was used by gentile Christian converts to discredit and if possible destroy the teachings of the Jewish Christian Apostles. The term used to describe this system in modern day English is Scholastic Theology. In Scholastic Theology the interpretation of the scriptures is determined by ones ability to speak and write in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Because of the development of Scholastic Theology the understanding of the Word of God was taken out of the hands of the common uneducated church member and given to the highly educated ministry and developing priest hoods. As the system evolved and grew in complexity schools of doctrinal study began to appear. These schools which began as pre-baptismal schools of study quickly evolved into what is called today, seminaries. With nineteen hundred years of history to observe the results of Scholastic Theology and seminaries one amazing point stands out. Scholastic Theology turns out to be a very fluid and liberal study system which is responsible for the formation of over three thousand different Christian movements, sects, groups, and denominations, over the past two thousand years. This number alone is clear indication this system is not designed to find and proclaim the truth of the Word of God. In application the system has turned out to be a control system which allows the ruling class of ministry and educated elite to develop personal truth and new revelation as Biblical truth to be used in attracting and controlling followers. In this we can quickly understand why the world has so many different Christian religious movements and groups all speaking from the same scriptures but coming up with different interpretations. It all comes down to numbers, money, and building organizations for control and power. Where the Bible tells us to study in order to find truth, Scholastic Theology has been used to study in order to generate truth. Needless to say this is mass confusion on a grand scale especially since the Word of God repeatedly says there is only one truth. From Scholastic Theology came the different Christian trinity systems. Knowing there is over six different Christian trinity systems in the world today gives clear indication the Christian trinities are not of God and do not represent the truth on the nature of the godhead. As stated in section A, the early first generation Church Fathers on the most part were believers in the pagan concept of the trinity before they became believers in Jesus Christ. Once becoming believers they developed Scholastic Theology as a tool to be used to develop new Christian doctrine totally foreign to the teachings of the Apostles. In this system was conceived and born the concept of the Christian trinity. What really takes place in Scholastic Theology is adaptation and merging. In this partial truth is merged and adapted with that which is false to form new truth which is how the Church Fathers developed the different trinities. As the Scriptural Harmony Process reveals, the Apostles had the truth and the Church Fathers over a period of five hundred years changed every point of doctrinal salvation truth proclaimed by the Apostles. In looking at the trinity theory one quickly sees the presence of a central doctrinal core. This core states there is one God who exist as three different persons. These three persons who look like humans have no beginning and no ending. Their names are Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. These three persons dwell in the New Jerusalem, have three thrones they sit on and are co-equal in authority and power. Any time God has to make a decision these three persons come together to develop a joint unified decision. This concept of the godhead is a result of Scholastic Theology and the merging together of selected scriptures with the teachings of Greek and Roman Pagan Mythology plus Greek philosophy. What we will do in this section of our report is examine a general statement of the trinity and then break down the different parts and concepts of the trinity to be compared with the Scriptural Harmony Process. TRINITY STATEMENT God is one Divine essence subsisting in three Divine persons, 1st Person Father, 2nd Person Son, and 3rd Person Holy Ghost. Co-Equal, Co-Eternal, Co-Omnipresent, Co-Omniscient, Co-Powerful. Three in one and one in three. In looking at this statement and concept one must keep in mind even trinity scholars themselves down through the centuries of time admit the trinity is not clearly found in the sacred text. This means the trinity is not expressed clearly as a fact in the Word of God. These scholars also admit the trinity theory is a result of human induction from the statements of the scriptures. This means humans with their educated minds have identified certain scriptures which indicate "to them" the existence of three different persons who are deity in nature but operate in different functions. These scholars also state one has to believe in this theory to be Christian and be saved even though there are scriptures in the Word of God which totally refute this theory. Following are common teachings by trinity believers which have scriptures in direct opposition to the teaching. Here the Scriptural Harmony Process clearly shows the many false teachings of the trinity believers and why the trinity is not a true Christian doctrine. God is one Divine essence subsisting as three Divine persons.
(No where in the Bible is God described as an essence or a substance. Nor is the Father and the Holy Ghost ever described as persons in the Word of God. Keep in mind in the spirit world there is neither male or female. Also, God the Great Spirit is neither male or female. This means the Father and Holy Ghost are titles given to the ONE Divine invisible omnipresent Spirit who is God. This Great Spirit is our heavenly Father and his name is Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus told the Apostles. "When you see me you have seen the Father.") There are three separate persons (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) living in heaven. Each has his own throne and they are seated next to each other with Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father.
(In the monotheistic religion of Abraham and Moses the seed of Abraham learned the Old Covenant scriptures well. They also knew these verses in Isaiah perfectly well. With these scriptures coming from one of the most powerful prophets of God ever in history is it any wonder the early Apostolic Jewish Christians and traditional Jews rejected the theory of a trinity godhead system? To the Christian Jews and traditional Jews alike in early church history this trinity thing was nothing more than a new twist of old pagan idolatry. This was especially true when the early Trinitarians started making statues and paintings illustrating the so called three separate persons in heaven. It is also very evident from these scripture verses in Isaiah there never has been nor is there a co-eternal godhead of three persons dwelling in heaven. Here again the "Bible" confirms the non-existence of the Christian trinity.) The trinity teaches the first person in the godhead "Father" is the father of Jesus Christ.
(Here we can clearly see the deception of the trinity. If the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were three separate persons then Jesus did not know who his father was when he prayed to his Father. The reason being trinity believers are taught anytime Jesus prayed to his father he was praying to the 1st person of the trinity godhead. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The reason being the "Bible" teaches the Holy Ghost is the father of Jesus Christ.) The trinity teaches that Jesus Christ is the second person in the godhead.
(There is no other teaching that is more repugnant to the Lord than the trinity teaching that Jesus Christ is in second position in the godhead. Being the King of Kings and Lord of Lord's he is the fulness of the godhead manifested in the flesh. While the Great Spirit has always been and will always be, Jesus Christ is the visible human manifestation of the invisible Holy Spirit.) The trinity teaches the three persons of the godhead are co-powerful in authority.
(Here we see another contradiction between the trinity and the Word of God. The Word tell us Jesus has ALL POWER. If he has all power this then leaves no power for the so called 1st and 3rd persons if there were three persons.) As we look at the theory of the trinity in light of the scriptures it is very evident the Church Fathers using Scholastic Theology to develop the theory of a Christian trinity made some very bad interpretational errors of the scriptures they use to prove the trinity. In addition most of the scriptures in the Word of God which clearly show there cannot be a Christian trinity they clearly ignored. In this process of picking and choosing one key word has been clearly ignored throughout the history of the trinity movement. This word is MANIFESTATION. In the Bible we know the following about God. He is an invisible Holy Spirit who is omnipresent in existence. Since he is invisible with no confinement in form the only way we can see and feel him is by MANIFESTATIONS. The word manifestation means to make visible and to make someone aware of. Examples of Biblical manifestations of God are: the voice of God speaking in the garden and in the burning bush, the pillars of fire and smoke, the great I AM revelation, the voice and fire on Mt Sinai, the glory of God on the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies, the Angel of the Lord, the Death Angel, the Father in creation, the Son in redemption, the Holy Ghost in regeneration, the Ancient of days on the throne, the Lord Jesus Christ on the throne, the Son, dove, and voice at the baptism of Jesus Christ by John. These many manifestations of God are all important to students of religious history and reveal the diverse nature and power of the one true God. What the authors of the Christian trinity did was select three of these manifestation and turn them into human like persons and the theory of the trinity while at the same time ignoring the complete nature and power of our God. In modern day terms the Church Fathers put God in a human shoe box called the trinity and then said, to be Christian, and to be saved, one had to believe the trinity and bow to it. This is not salvation because the Word of God does not support trinity doctrine. As stated before. The change in water baptism by Justin Martyr and the development of the different trinities represents change in the gospel of salvation of the Apostles. These changes can only result in one thing, the curse of God and the loss of salvation to all who follow these changes. |
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