DOCTRINE OF TRINITY EXPOSED! (updated!!!)
By O. Khodjo
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mis-translations and mis-interpretations
El is the
singular form of the word God, when -im is added e.g. Elohim, it is made plural. When used to refer to God Almighty, Elohim is similar to a uniplural noun. A uniplural noun can be used to
indicate an object in the singular or plural sense. Example: The word sheep can be
used to describe one sheep or many sheep. Example: Deer. One deer was at the
lake. Many deer are in the woods. Even though Elohim is the plural form of the word, it is ALWAYS translated in the
singular form when used in reference to the one true God. There are times when elohim is translated in the plural sense when referring to pagan gods, but it is also translated singularly to describe a pagan deity. Since elohim describes more than one god when translated in the plural form and is used so frequently as a name for God, Trinitarians use it to promote the concept of plurality in reference to God Almighty.
Some Trinitarians interpret the word GOD (Elohim) to mean a group of individuals in one unit, specifically, three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, as one God. They believe that the very word elohim sends messages of plurality within the “Godhead”. The doctrine of the Trinity uses the word Elohim to give support to its argument that three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, can exist as one God. This uniplural interpretation of the word elohim is used to support the Trinitarian dogma in texts of the Bible where the solitary "Oneness" of God is disputed.
When applying the Trinitarian explanation of the word Elohim, we find that God's presentation of His nature is incompatible with Trinitarian thought.
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God (El- -singular);
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God (Elohim- -plural) talked with him. God (El- -singular) appeared to Abram. Only one individual appeared in Genesis 17:1, but in 17:3, that same individual, God (Elohim- -plural), appeared to Abram. Was God alone during one moment and accompanied by the other two members of the Trinity in the the next, while Abram continually saw only one LORD? This would be a very difficult feat regardless of the semantic side stepping. The method of explanation implemented by Trinitarians to avoid this potential contradiction in their doctrine is to believe that the triune nature of God was appearing to Abram and talking to him.
If Trinitarians do not interpret El to be the entire Godhead, then one member of the Godhead is claiming to be "Almighty" over the other two members. Does this manner of interpretation remain consistent with the basic truths of the Bible? It is not consistent with the Bible, nor with common sense! ration
Should a subject like this be of any more than
passing interest? Supporters of the Trinity say that it is founded not
only on religious tradition but also in the bible. Critics of the doctrine say
that is not a bible teaching. Should this doctrine be embraced in Christendom?
Countless pages have been written attempting to
explain the Trinity, Yet after struggling through the storm of confusion and
explanations, investigators still come away unsatisfied.
Paul once wrote:
“the time is sure to come
when far from being content with sound teaching, people will be devoted for the
latest novelty and collect themselves a whole series of teachers according to
their own tastes; and the truth, they will turn to myths” 2 Timothy 4:3
Trinity is a matter of formal belief, but it has a
little or no effect in the day to day Christian life and worship yet it is the
central doctrine of the churches.
Many centuries before the time of Jesus the Christ
(ON EARTH), there were triads or trinities of gods in ancient Babylonia and
Assyria. The French “Lorousse Encyclopaedia
of Mythology” notes
one such triad in that Mesopotamian area: “The universe was divided into three
regions each of which became the domain of a god.
- Anu’s was god of the sky.
- The earth was ruled
and governs by Enlil, and
- Ea became god and ruler of the waters.
Together they constituted the triad of the Great
Gods. Throughout the ancient world, as far back as Babylonia, the worship of
pagan gods grouped in threes or triads was common.
In Indian, e.g., we meet with the
Trinitarian group of
- Brahma (the creator),
- Vishnu (the preserver) and
- Shiva (the destroyer);
and
In Egyptian religion with the
Trinitarian group of
- Osiris (god of the underworld and the dead, husband of
Isis and father of Horus),
- Isis (the goddess of fertility, generally depicted
wearing a cow's horns bearing a golden disc representing the sun. She was
the wife of her brother Osiris and the mother of Horus and
- Horus (the god of the Sun, the sky, and goodness,
usually depicted as having a falcon's head, Horus was the son of Isis and
Osiris)
Triad gods influence was prevalent in Egypt, Greece
and Rome in the centuries before, during and after Christ. After the death of
the apostles such pagan beliefs began to invade Christianity.
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted
it....from
Egypt came the ideas of the divine trinity. Trinity was a major preoccupation
of the Egyptian Theologians. Three gods are combined and treated as a single
being, addressed in the singular.
Some of the Christian theologians says that
paganism was conquered by Christianity, but they have forgotten that it is
equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism.
The following is images of triad gods that I did
researched on, I won’t go into details on each of them, but just to draw your
attention to what is going on in Christendom.
Why didn’t the Prophets
teach anything on Trinity? The New Testament does not teach that either.
The apostate churches also
began other pagan ideas such as hell fire and immortality of the soul. Spiritually speaking, Christendom had entered its
foretold dark ages, dominated by a growing “man of lawlessness” clergy class - 2 Thess. 2:3, 7
In the bible we read
“Who,
existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God; as something
to be used for His own advantage,” Philippians 2:6
Jesus our saviour never ever, not once considered himself equal with the
father, for he knew that he has a father.
The basic faith (belief) of traditional Christianity is the
Trinity. The Trinity is a pagan doctrine taken from other religions, which
became a part of Christianity. Trinity does not belong to the original
teachings of Christianity. The Catholic Church established
this doctrine during the NICENE Council in 325 After Jesus Died. This is the
same Nicene Council that changed the Passover to Easter.
The Nicene states the belief that the FATHER, SON and HOLY
SPIRIT are one GOD. Yet it also states that each one is separate and eternal...
This Nicene Creed which establishes the doctrine of the Trinity teaches that
the Holy Spirit is a separate being of a triune GOD.
They fail to understand that God is spirit and he uses his
Spirit to do his will. It is his power and is subject to him. God is not
subject to his spirit or Jesus but they are rather subject to God...
If people were to read the bible
from cover to cover without a preconceived idea of Trinity, would they arrive
at such a concept on their own? NOT AT ALL
The doctrine of the trinity is so absolutely fundamental to the
followers of Christendom that it is just taken for granted. They do not even
deem it necessary to explain it, prove it, or in any way substantiate whether
or not such a thing actually exists or is even so much as mentioned in the
entirety of the Holy Scriptures! Although lacking any Scriptural proof to
validate such a theory, denying the trinity is nonetheless considered heresy of
the highest magnitude.
The popular hymn goes:
"Holy Holy Holy, Lord God Al-mighty, God in three per-sons,
Bless-ed trin-i-ty"
"God is a TRINITY" we have been told by the world’s leading theologians.
That is, "God" is composed of THREE PERSONS. They are:
1. God the Father
2. The Holy Ghost [Spirit]
3. Christ Jesus the Son of God.
With just the above statement (which is accurate according to Christian
teaching) we already have several unscriptural problems!
Learn something important and profound: Whenever the theologians try to
teach you a doctrine that is Unscriptural, they will always be forced to
use words that are unscriptural just like Rapture, Hellfire
e.t.c
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First of all, nowhere in the Scriptures is God referred
to or called a "trinity."
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Second, the word "three" is never used in
reference to Who or What God is.
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Third, God is never called or referred to as "a PERSON."
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Four, the Holy Spirit is never called "God."
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Five, since Christ is the Son, He cannot also be the
Father or be coequal with His Father. Christ plainly said:
"My Father is GREATER than I" (John 14:28).
The Holy Spirit is never called God, God is never referred to as a
trinity or a person or consisting of three, and Christ is the Son of the
Father, YET this mysterious doctrine is believed by millions. Why? CHRISTIANS! We Are Very Sad People Because We Allow
Our Life To Be Run By Theologians Yet We Talk Against Theologians In The
Pulpit.
Let’s see if Hastings Dictionary of the Bible can help
us.
Page 1015: TRINITY--The Christian doctrine of God as
existing in three persons and one Substance …
The Trinity defines God as three persons. God is spirit not a person, not even one scripture
proclaims that God is a person... from the dictionary definition,
Person: a living human; a living human body.
The bible says God is one and he is divine (spirit) - not a person
Even the most casual reader of the Scriptures knows that God is not
composed of some kind of substance. That’s unscriptural nonsense... The
Scriptures are plain:
"God
is SPIRIT, and those who are worshiping Him must be
worshiping in spirit and truth" (John
4:24)
Spirit has nothing to do with "substance." In the original Greek, God is
called "spirit," not "a spirit." There is a big difference. Likewise,
God is God not a God.
The existence of a trinity is admittedly not demonstrable by logic or
scriptural proof; however, it is called a "necessary hypothesis."Being the inquisitive person that I am,
I would inquire as to just why is it a "necessary hypothesis"? Why hypothesize at all,
seeing that the Scriptures give us plain, factual, actual information without having
to theorize or hypothesize? Let’s get a definition of that word "hypothesis:"
Webster’s Dictionary, hypothesis, a system or theory imagined or
assumed to account for what is not understood. An unproved theory, theory, a speculative plan... a formulation
of underlying principles of certain observed phenomena which has been verified
to some degree... a conjecture; guess.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol. 2, page 480: trinity is quoted as
this,
TRINITY: Fundamental Conception. This conception of the Trinity is systematically
developed by theologians, Greek, Latin and Protestant...The doctrine, then, is
primarily religious and if we define God--as in practice religion does--as
‘That which has an absolute claim upon our obedience’ or as ‘the Supreme Object
of our reverence,’ the paradoxical element in the doctrine is at least
diminished...Is there, then any insuperable difficulty in the notion of a
threefold personal embodiment of the one Divine Will and Character, an
embodiment so complete in each case that contact with the Divine Person is
contact with God:...This ultimate unity of subordination to a single principle
is not necessarily identical with the unity which comes from being included
within the mind of a single Divine Being. Nor is it obviously identical with
the theologian’s ‘numerical unity of substance.’ The Unity, then, of the Object
of our supreme reverence and trust is not plainly inconsistent with the
existence of personal distinctions (in the modern sense of the word) within the
Godhead. It was probably an afterthought to regard the doctrine of the Trinity
as providing a more satisfactory conception of ‘personality in God’ than could
grow up under a ‘uninpersonal’ theology. Yet Trinitarians has some points of
superiority over a theory which may compel us to conceive God as waking up at
the Creation from ‘an eternity of idleness.’ ...It has been similarly argued
that in conceiving the ‘not-self with which God contrasts Himself’ as ‘wholly
internal to His essence’ while the unity (the Holy Spirit) ‘within which the
relation of the two falls is not, as in us, a dark mystery at the back of our
life but something which ‘proceeds from both’ we have ‘the best notion that we
can frame of Being at its highest.’ Such an argument leads not merely to a
plurality but to a trinity of Divine persons, and supports the Western doctrine
of the procession of the Spirit from the Father and the Son. (End of Britannica
quote).
Wow! What an intellectual enlightenment! What an exposition of deep
mysteries! What profound theological insight! WHAT A CROCK .
. .!!!
Notice what Paul instructs those who would teach God’s
Word:
"For if a trumpet, also, should be
giving a dubious sound, who will be preparing for battle? THUS, YOU ALSO, if
you should not be giving an INTELLIGIBLE expression through the language, HOW
WILL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS BEING SPOKEN?"
Does this verse need any comment? Does anyone think for one moment that
the theologians responsible for this Britannica article on the trinity follow
Paul’s instructions seriously?
God also warns against...
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"Adding to" or "taking
away from" His Word (Rev. 22:18-10)
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We are to
rightly "divide" God’s Word (II Tim.
2:15-18)
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We are
to "...distinguish the things that DIFFER" (Phil. 1:10)
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We are to
have a "PATTERN OF SOUND WORDS" (II
Tim. 1:13-14)
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Also, we
are to shun the "TRADITIONS OF MEN" (Col. 2:8)
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and
the "WISDOM OF THIS WORLD" (I Cor. 1:20 & 3:19)
Dr. Ed DeVries, President of the School of Biblical &
Theological Studies. In his book "Doctrine of the Trinity" His first paragraph makes the
following statements:
"Since the word Trinity IS NOT FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE RECEIVED TEXT
or in its offspring (the Authorized Version and other biblical translations
derived from the received text), many argue that the doctrine of the Trinity is
NOT A BIBLICAL ONE. However, when a person comes to understand the THEORY [yes
dear readers, we are back to that word "theory" again] that is
embodied in the terminology they can NOT HELP BUT FIND PROOF OF THE
TRINITY THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. The doctrine of the Trinity is
believed by ALL Christian groups. Some groups profess to be Christian and DO
NOT believes in the Trinity, however, none of these
groups are truly Christians..." (Bold underlined emphasis mine--of
course).
Did you get all that? Notice that in order to "find PROOF of the
trinity THROUGHOUT the Bible," all one has to do is come to
"understand the theory that is embodied in the terminology." That is unscriptural nonsense!
Please understand and believe me when I say that I am not poking fun at
such teachers or men of GOD as this. I am not, but I am poking fun at their
stupid, stupid teachings! God inspired the proverb that teaches us to:
Answer a fool with his own stupidity, or he will think he is
wise (Prov. 26:5, Gods word Translation)
and
"...expose those
who contradict..." (Titus
1:9, Concordant Literal New Testament).
Since the word Trinity is used to represent God as a triune being, what
is triune? Noah Webster defined the word triune to mean, “three in
one.” This means that God,
a singular being, exists in a PLURAL manner... The Hebrew name for God used in
all known manuscripts is ELOHIM... The word ELOHIM means three in one. This is
exactly what they are trying to imply, this is nonsense and I mean unscriptural
nonsense!
Did I miss something? Noah Webster defines the word "triune" to mean "three
in one," and therefore we
have PROOF THAT GOD IS A TRINITY? What kind of scholarship is that?
The Hebrew word Elohim [eloheem] is the
plural form of Elowahh [eloah]
which answers to "The
Deity." The Greek word generally used in the New Testament
for God which answers to the Hebrew word Elohim is Theos which
means PLACER
(God), literally Disposer or Arbiter. Let’s hold this thought we shall explain it in detail later.
Let’s look at a few Scriptures that Trinitarians claim add
credence to their theory. I will take no more than a few pages to try and
clarify the Scriptural teaching on who, what, and how many Gods there really
are.
ERRORS FROM OUR FATHERS (Translators and Copyists)
First of all we must dispense with 1 John 5:7 which reads in the King James
Version
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
There is a problem with this verse. The words that I typed in bold print above are
not Scripture. They should NOT be in the Bible. There are many Bibles that do not contain these
words. Here are a few:
I
John 5:7 The
Concordant Literal New Testament: "...seeing that three there are that are
testifying, the spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are for the
one thing."
I
John 5:7 New World
Translation of the Holy Scriptures: "For there are three witness bearers, the
spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are in agreement."
I
John 5:7 A New
Translation by James Moffatt: "The witnesses are three, the Spirit and the
water and the blood, and the three of them are in accord."
I
John 5:7 The Emphatic
Diaglott: "For there are three which testify; the
Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are of one."
The Emphatic Diaglott has a footnote:
"This text concerning the heavenly witnesses [as found in some
versions] is NOT contained in ANY GREEK manuscript which was written earlier than the 15th century. It is
not cited by ANY of the Greek ecclesiastical writers; nor by ANY of the early
Latin fathers..."
I
John 5:7 The Holy
Bible--New Catholic Version: "For
there are three that bear witness [in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three
are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth]: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and
these three are one."
This is a lie, but to support the DOCTRINE OF TRINITY, The translators
and copyist inserted this into the scriptures.
The brackets in green are supplied by the translators and copyist. This
version also has a footnote:
"According to the evidence of many manuscripts, and the majority of
commentators, these verses should read: ‘for there are three that bear witness: the Spirit, and the water, and
the blood; and these three are one.’
The New Testament from 26 Translations: Footnote, page 1183:
"The words between ‘bear record’ (Vs. 7) and ‘the spirit’ (Vs. 8) are now recognized as not
adequately supported by original manuscripts."
As those words were hand written in a copy of a manuscript as late as
the 15th century and do not appear in ANY Greek manuscript, they have no place
in the inspired Word of God.
The following scripture is another favourite scripture used by
Trinitarians to support the Trinity Doctrine.
"I
and the Father, We are ONE" (John
10:30).
Let me be perfectly clear, logical, and Scriptural on this matter:
One plus one plus one DOES NOT equal one!
One God plus one God plus one God DOES NOT equal one God!
One third of a God plus one third of a God plus one third of a God DOES
NOT equal one whole God!
The Holy Spirit of God cannot also be that
same God! ANYTHING that is either "from" or "of" something ELSE cannot also "BE" that something else no matter what or
who it is!
A "Father" and a "Son" CANNOT ALSO BE THE SAME PERSON!
Countless things can be said to "be ONE" in numerous forms of close
relationship. In this close relationship of purpose, will, harmony, etc., our
Lord said:
"I
and the Father, We are ONE" (John
10:30).
Jesus made a clear and a specific statement. Jesus DID NOT say "I
and the Father, We are one GOD," did He? No, He did
not!
Do the Scriptures, however, tell us that there is only ONE GOD? Yes,
they do.
Do the Scriptures, however, tell us WHO that ONE God is? Yes, they do.
Do the Scriptures tell us what the relationship of Jesus Christ is with that
ONE God? Yes, they do.
In fact, all of these things are answered in ONE Scripture.
I will now give you the ONLY Scripture you will EVER need for
understanding Who Jesus Christ and God the Father are and how many Gods there
are, and who composes that ONE God. Here it is:
"For
even if so be that there are those being termed gods, whether in heaven or on
earth, even as there are many gods and many lords, nevertheless for US there
is ONE GOD, the FATHER, out
of Whom ALL is, and we for Him, and ONE LORD, JESUS
CHRIST, through Whom all is, and we through Him" (1
Cor. 8:5-6).
Can this make trinity possible? NEVER!
And the next verse says
"But
NOT IN ALL is there this knowledge" (1 Cor.8: 7)
I can say "Amen" to that. Practically "not in all"
Christendom is there this knowledge.
THANKED GOD for making these things so clear, so meaningful, and so
simple, DO IT NOW! The man in collar does not know this so they can’t teach you
but follow the stupid traditional teaching of the uncircumcised theologians.
Is Jesus Christ an equal part of this "ONE God?" NO, He is
not. Let God’s Word tell us. We don’t need to speculate and theorize. Here is
who and What Jesus Christ is, He is the "one
LORD." This is not hard. It is only hard for those who wrestle and twist
Scripture to their own destruction (II Peter 3:16)
John 8:5-6 makes the following very clear:
This Scripture tells us that "ALL IS OUT OF" GOD (the FATHER).
And this Scripture tells us that "ALL IS THROUGH" Jesus Christ.
God the Father is the first cause of all and ALL IS OUT OF GOD, even Jesus Christ is "OUT of God." So Where Is Trinity?
"...I [Jesus] came OUT from God. I CAME OUT FROM the FATHER..." (John
16:27-28).
Now if Jesus came out from the trinity, why doesn’t the Scripture say
so? He didn’t come out of the trinity and He didn’t come out of the Holy
Spirit, but HE DID COME, "...OUT FROM THE FATHER!"
And after Jesus Christ came OUT from the Father, ALL ELSE came THROUGH
Jesus Christ:
"Who [Jesus Christ] is the Image of the invisible God, Firstborn
of every creature, for in Him is ALL CREATED, that in the heavens and that on
the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or
sovereignties, or authorities, all is created THROUGH Him and FOR Him, and He
is BEFORE all, and all has its cohesion in Him" (Col. 1: 14-17).
Nowhere do we read that God came out from Christ!
No, Christ came OUT FROM THE FATHER and all else was created THROUGH Jesus
Christ.
Jesus Christ is not the SUPREME DEITY. Christ is not the originator of all. Christ is "the
Lord." He is the Son of God.
He is the IMAGE of the invisible God. He is the Mediator, The name of God is in Him.
For there
is ONE God, and ONE Mediator OF God and mankind,
a MAN Christ Jesus..." (I Tim. 2:5).
As I said before, one cannot be both "of" something or someone and at the same
time "be" that something or someone. There is certainly no trilateral, triune,
trinity of God here!
Jesus Christ said,
"...I
am going to the Father, for the Father is GREATER than
I" (John 14:28).
Where do we read that Christ is GREATER than the Father? There is no
trinity in this verse!
And again:
"Now,
whenever ALL may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself [Jesus
Christ] also
shall be SUBJECTED to him [God the
Father] who
subjects all to Him, that GOD may be ALL IN ALL."1 Cor. 15:28
Where do we read that someday God the Father will be SUBJECT to Christ?
There is no trinity in these Biblical truths.
And again:
"Now
I want you to be aware that the Head of every man is Christ, yet the head of
the woman is the man, yet the Head of Christ IS GOD" (I
Cor. 11:3).
Where do we read in Scripture that Christ is the Head of God?
There is another profound statement in the Scriptures that PROVES
CONCLUSIVELY that Jesus Christ is not part of a trinity, but is now and always
will be, under the Headship of His Father. Here it is:
"...that
the GOD OF OUR LORD Jesus
Christ, the FATHER..." (Eph. 1:17).
There it is--Jesus Christ HAS A "GOD!" Paul wrote this and all of the
above Scriptures AFTER Jesus Christ was resurrected and restored to His
previous GLORIES in God. And in His glorified state, Jesus Christ is STILL
subjected to HIS GOD! Who wants to be the first blasphemer
to even suggest that God the Father "has a God?"!!! But Jesus Christ
DOES have a God! Notice the following:
Eph.
1:3: "Blessed be the God and Father OF our
Lord Jesus Christ"
Col.
1:3: "We are thanking the God and Father OF our
Lord Jesus Christ"
I
Pet. 1:3: "Blessed
be the God and Father OF our Lord Jesus Christ"
And remember these statements concerning Jesus Christ "having a
God" were made long after His resurrection and
restoration back to His former glories. Today, our Lord STILL HAS A GOD! And
need I repeat the fact that the God and Father of Jesus Christ DO NOT
HAVE A GOD?! And someone out there still thinks God is an
equilateral trinity?
What I Don’t Understand Is, The Apostles Never Ever Talked About
Trinity, So Why Do We Make such A Doctrine Out Of The Writings Of The Apostles.
?
What
Is Wrong With The Christian Church? I Believe Is Lack of Respect for Biblical
Authority due to mis-translations and mis-interpretations,
There are many more Scriptures that show the distinction between God the
Father’s office of supreme deity of the universe and that of His Son and Image,
Jesus Christ the Lord and Mediator.
Does no one think it strange that in all these pages of Scriptures the
"holy spirit" was not even mentioned so much as once? If the Holy Spirit is an EQUAL to
the Father and Son, it sure seems it is being short changed in all these
profound Scriptures. Could it be that just as Jesus is the Son "of" God and not God Himself, that the Holy
Spirit is the spirit "of" God and not God Himself? Yes, that is
what the Scriptures clearly teach. We have the Son "of" God and the spirit "of" God and yet God is "of" NO ONE!! Is there anyone who wishes to
challenge this?
God Almighty is out of NO ONE! God
Almighty
is of NO ONE! Yet we have Jesus addressed in the Book of
Revelation as the Almighty GOD…yes that is true, but what does that mean? He is
the Alpha and Omega…what does that mean? The Beginning and the Last, what does that mean?...
Let it be known: NONE of these Scriptures take away from the glories of
God’s grandest achievements in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. His name is
now and will forever be ABOVE ALL ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE! AMEN!
Here is another main Scripture used by Trinitarians to try and make
people believe that God is a trinity:
"Going,
then, disciple all nations baptizing them into the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit [Authorized,
ghost]..." (Mat. 28:19).
And how does this verse prove that God is a three-in-one trinity? I
DON’T KNOW! It certainly doesn’t say that these three form ONE GOD. Or that
these three are coequal with one another. They are just all three mentioned in
one verse, that’s all.
The mention of the "holy spirit" in this verse no more proves that the
holy spirit is the third God part of a trinity than the mention of "the
Comforter" in John 15:26 proves that it is the fourth God part
of a quartet, or the mention of "the spirit of Truth" in this same verse in the fifth God
part of a quintet! But why stop here. If we look for phrases such as "the
holy spirit" being representative of some kind of personal being of a multi-person
Godhead, we can find a plethora of "gods."
Let’s count them
1. God
2. The Father
3. The Highest
4. The Holy Ghost
5. The Holy Spirit
6. The Spirit of God
7. The Spirit of Christ
8. Jesus Christ
9. The Son of God. We are now up to a TRIPLE trinity.
10. The Mediator
11. The Mind of God
12. The Spirit of truth. Now we have a quartet of
trinities
13. The Word was God
And to these we could add "The SEVEN Spirits of God (Rev. 4:5), etc., etc.
We are now up to twenty potential coequal candidates
for this so-called triune godhead. Clearly, God is NOT a trinity or a
collection of trinities. By the way, "Godhead" is not a proper translation of any
Greek word; it should be translated "Deity" or "Divinity."
No matter how many different spirits there are, one thing is certain:
ALL SPIRITS ARE IN SUBJECTION TO THE FATHER--NONE ARE EQUAL TO OR WITH THE
FATHER, because we have Scriptural proof that God is superior to all spirits, seeing
that:
"Yet
shall we not much rather be subjected to the FATHER OF SPIRITS..." (Heb. 12:9)
To him who has an ear to hear; let him hear!
No, there are NOT twenty members of a coequal godhead. Not ten or even
five. There are not even three or two.
"...there
is ONE God, the FATHER..." (I Cor. 8:6)
Bear with me a moment now. Do we all agree that this verse is from the
Scriptures and that it is a TRUE statement? Good! Because if this statement is
true, then to say that God is a trinity composed of the Father, the Son and the
holy ghost [spirit] HAS GOT TO BE A FALSE STATEMENT, because the
two statements absolutely CONTRADICT.
Back to the Trinitarians' favourite proof text to support their theory
"Going,
then, disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the holy spirit..." (Mat. 28: 29).
Does anything in this verse preclude the "holy
spirit" from being "the
holy spirit OF God?" Of course not, God the Father is "holy"[Gk, hagios] (John
17:11), and God the
Father is "spirit" [Gk, pneuma] (John
4:24).
No one is denying the close relationship between the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. But close relationship does not prove or even necessarily suggest
sameness.
"Consequently,
then, no longer are you strangers and sojourners, but are fellow-citizens of
the saints and belong to God’s FAMILY..." (Eph. 2:19).
The trinity is like a closed triangle where no one gets
in. That is what Satan [the false church] would like people to believe. But,
dear reader, God desires a very large family wherein you and I
are family members! When were you taught such a marvellous
truth in Sunday school? Ultimately, everyone in the entirety of the Universe is
going to be one, holy, united, happy, glorious, giant, and FAMILY OF GOD!!!
"...that
God may be ALL IN ALL (I Cor. 15:28).
And all the while Christendom is out there spending hundreds of millions
of dollars telling the world that a few are going to play harps in heaven while
many of their friends, neighbours, and relatives, and indeed the rest of the
universe will burn in hell forever. This they proclaim is
the good news GOSPEL of God, while Satan chortles in his joy!
Now we are getting down to what the Bible really teaches. God has a
family. God is "The FATHER" of His family. Jesus Christ is "the
Firstborn SON" of God’s Family.
"Who
rescues us out of the jurisdiction of Darkness, and transports us into the
kingdom of the SON OF HIS LOVE, in whom we are having the deliverance, the
pardon of sins, Who is the Image of the invisible God, FIRSTBORN of every creature..." (Col.
1:13-15)
"For
you did not get slavery’s spirit to fear again, but you got the SPIRIT OF SONSHIP in
which we are crying, ‘Abba, FATHER !’ The spirit itself is testifying together
with our spirit that WE ARE CHILDREN OF
GOD" (Rom. 8:14-16).
Yes, God wants sons (and daughters, of course).
"Blessed
be the God and FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blesses us with every
spiritual blessing among the celestials, in Christ, according as He chooses us
in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy, and flawless in His
sight, in love designating us beforehand for the place of a SON..." (Eph.
1:3-5).
If God is a closed triune Godhead (as theologians call it), then there
would be NO PLACE FOR SONS INSIDE OF THAT CLOSED TRINITY! God could
never be, "...ALL IN ALL."
Everything that God the Father gave to His son Christ Jesus, He is going
to GIVE TO US! And this includes being His CHILDREN.
"Now
when the full time came, God delegates His Son, come of a woman, come under
law, that He should be reclaiming those under law that WE may be getting
the place of a SON. Now, seeing that you are SONS, GOD
DELEGATES THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON INTO OUR HEARTS, CRYING, ‘ABBA! FATHER !’
So that you are no longer a slave, but a SON, Now if a SON, an
enjoyer also of an allotment from God, through Christ" (Gal.
4:6-7).
God almighty will be the same "Abba FATHER" to us, as He was also "Abba
FATHER" to our Lord Jesus
Christ (Mark
14:36). Did you catch that
it is the "...spirit OF His [the Father’s] Son..." That comes into our hearts. It is NOT
the "the holy spirit which is supposedly the third person of the
trinity" that comes into our
hearts, but Christ’s spirit. The spirit of God and the spirit of Christ are the same spirit and it is
THEIR spirit not a third person (God) of a trinity!
So God is the Father of Jesus Christ His Son. But who or what then is
the "holy ghost" [spirit]? The Bible speaks much about Christ’s
relationship with the Father. It says NOTHING of a relationship with "the
holy spirit." And yet, Jesus was CONCEIVED by the HOLY SPIRIT!
"...the
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of
David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is CONCEIVED IN
HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST" (Mat. 1:20).
Here is a Scripture so simple that any child above the age of seven can
surely understand. And with its understanding comes the total demise of the
trinity theory. We learned in Eph.
1:17, that God is both
the GOD AND FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ,
"...the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, THE FATHER of glory..."
Okay, here it is--you’re going to love this: If the holy ghost is
actually and literally "God" as Trinitarians maintain, and Jesus
was "CONCEIVED" by the Holy Ghost, then Jesus would have to be "The
Son of the Holy Ghost" and not the Son of God the Father! It is not physiologically or
Scriptural possible to be "conceived" by one person and then when born, be
the son of another person! Whoever causes women to conceive is also the FATHER
of the child conceived, NOT ANOTHER AND DIFFERENT PERSON! Jesus was conceived
by the holy spirit "OF" God. It was the spirit OF the Father, not some other spirit
or ghost that caused Mary to conceive. Therefore "God," not the "spirit of God," is the FATHER of Jesus.
Next we will see that the second witness to this same event in Luke 1:35 comes right out and says who the Father of
Jesus is:
"And
the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost [spirit] shall
come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow
thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be
called the Son OF GOD."
Not the son of the Holy Ghost (capital letters were not used in the
Greek text and so "Holy Spirit" has no reason to be capitalized
here). "...the HIGHEST..." also refers to God the Father, not the
holy spirit.
Let me assure my readers that God did not have intercourse with Mary to
cause her to conceive. God, who is called "THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST”, caused Mary to conceive by and through
His own "holy spirit," Hence Jesus is the Son of the Highest, the Son of the Father, the Son
of God, but NOT the son of the Holy Spirit! Back up to Vs.30-32
"And
the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with
God [not favour with the Holy Spirit]. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall
be called the SON OF THE HIGHEST [not the son of the Holy Spirit]: and the Lord God [not the Holy Spirit] shall give unto him the throne of his father
David."
In Matt.
12:28 Jesus said He
cast out demons "by the SPIRIT of God." Yet the Pharisees claimed He did it by the power of Beezeboul.
Jesus told the Pharisees that accusing Him of casting out demons "by the
power of Beezeboul," when He did it by the "spirit of God," is blasphemy against the "HOLY SPIRIT" (Vs. 32).
Here is clear and simple proof that the "spirit of God" and the "holy spirit" are ONE AND THE SAME SPIRIT...not a third
person of a so-called trinity!
Again let me state: Anything that is "of" or "from" someone else cannot BE that same
someone else! Nothing can be "of" someone and yet, at the same time, "be" that same someone! This is axiomatic.
The Holy Spirit is something that God the Father possesses--it is not a
separate, third god or deity of some fabled trinity. The spirit "of" God is "God’s" spirit. And notice that God offers His
spirit as a gift to those who ask:
"If
ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much
more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him?" (Luke 11:13)
The Holy Spirit is not an entity of its own, but is rather a possession of
God which He gives to us.
And notice that even the King James Version in this verse uses the word Spirit instead of Ghost as they normally do in translating the
same identical Greek word pneuma.
We read in the latter chapters of John’s gospel just how intimate and
loving and close Jesus is with His Father and His Father with Him. This is
emphasized over and over again dozens of times in the Scriptures. However,
there is NO SUCH INTIMACY mentioned between the Holy Ghost [spirit] and the
Father or with Jesus Christ. The reason is clear. The holy spirit of God
is not a deity or god with a personal relationship with the Father or Christ,
but is rather THEIR spirit. We will show from Scripture that both the Father
and His Son have, and posses "holy spirit," and that They BOTH impart that same
spirit to US! And that is how they BOTH dwell with us and in us and make their
abode with us (John
14:23).
The Holy Spirit is not the sister of Jesus, nor the brother, nor the
mother and certainly not a SECOND Father! It is futile to try and make the Holy
Spirit into a "god" distinct from Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Again, Jesus said that He and His Father are ONE. He never said that He and the
Holy Spirit are ONE. It is rather THROUGH the Holy
Spirit that the Son is in the Father and the Father is in the Son, and we are
in Christ and Christ is in us and the Father is in us!
Next let’s consider who or what is the "comforter" mentioned only in John’s gospel
account.
"And
I will pray the Father, and He shall give you [it is not "from"
the Holy Spirit, but "from"
the Father] another
Comforter [this
word does not require a capital letter], that he [it] may
abide with you forever [Gk: for the aion--eon or age]. Even the Spirit of truth..." (John
14:16-17 KJV).
Remember that Jesus said "I am the truth." How then can this "comforter" be coming from both His Father and Himself?
Is this possible? Once we understand just what this "spirit of truth,"
"spirit of God," "holy spirit," "holy ghost,"
"comforter” really is we will see that it certainly DOES come from
both the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
It is evident when checking various translations that the translators
did not have a clear idea as to just what they should call this "comforter." In the Greek, the word is [parakletos BESIDE-CALLER].
·
It can be "consoler" or "Entreater" in I John 2:1.
·
The Moffatt translation has "...to give you another Helper..."
·
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has "...another
Advocate..."
·
The Revised Standard Version has "...Counselor..."
·
The Monsignor Knox version has "...another
to befriend you..."
·
The Phillips Translation has "...someone
else to stand by you..."
·
And the Amplified New Testament has "...another Comforter (Counselor,
Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener and Standby)..."
It should be noted that not all translators capitalize this Greek
word parakletos in their translations, nor do all translators use the
pronoun "he" but rather "it."
From The Concordant Literal New Testament:
John
14:16-18 (CLT), "And
I shall be asking the Father, and He will be giving you another consoler,
that IT, indeed, may be
with you for the eon--the spirit of truth, which the world cannot get,
for IT is not
beholding it, neither is knowing it. Yet you know it, for IT is remaining with you and will be in you. I will not leave you
bereaved; I am
COMING TO YOU."
In this section of Scripture, Philip, Thomas, Peter, and Judas (and
possibly all the Apostles) did not quite understand what Christ was
teaching them. They especially didn’t understand how that Jesus was going away
and that they could not come with him, but that it was necessary for Him to go
away to His Father, or He could not send them the comforter or consoler.
Jesus was assuredly "the spirit of truth" of which He spoke. And as such Jesus was with the disciples. But now He is
telling them that when He leaves them to be with the Father, He will come back
to them, only this time He will not just be with them, but He will be in them! The spirit of truth was with the apostles in the person of Jesus Christ, but He told them that after He left
to be with the Father that this same spirit of truth would be in them. This is all done by "spirit," the spirit of God.
Notice
John 14: 26
"Now the consoler, THE HOLY
SPIRIT, which the Father will be sending in MY NAME..."
And see how this is done, Vs.
23:
"If
anyone should be loving Me, he will be keeping My word, and My Father will be
loving him, and WE shall
be coming to him and making OUR abode
with him.
This is done through the consoler, the comforter, the spirit of truth,
THE HOLY SPIRIT of God! Jesus said He would not leave them "comfortless" (Vs. 18), so for sure Jesus must return to His followers to "comfort" them. This He did and still does by
the "spirit of God" which God gave to His son Jesus and which the Father then turns around
and gives FROM that very same spirit in Christ TO US! The following Scripture
make this plain:
"All
things that the Father hath are mine [all things include the Holy Spirit]: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine [that is, of the spirit that His Father gave to
Him], and shall shew it UNTO
YOU" (John
16:15).
Here is one more proof that the "holy ghost [spirit]" and the "spirit
of God" are one and the
same. Here is what Jesus told His disciples would happen when they would be
brought before magistrates and powers:
"And
when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and
powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what
ye shall say: For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in
the same hour what ye ought to say" (Luke 12:11-12).
In the very same account of this portion of Christ’s teaching in
Matthew’s gospel, we read this:
"But beware of men: for they will
deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony
against them and the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, take no
thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that
same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but
the Spirit of your Father which
speaketh in you”
There can be no doubt from these two accounts that the "Holy
Ghost [spirit]" and the "Spirit
of your Father" are one and the same spirit--THE SPIRIT OF GOD! NOT a third person of some fabled trinity!
Now let us recap what we have learned so far and bring it all in one
lively summary.
WHO AND WHAT
IS GOD? (God Is One)
In the Hebrew Scriptures
like I said earlier on, the word ´eloh'ah (god) has two plural forms, namely, ´elo·him' (gods) and ´elo·heh' (gods of). These plural
forms generally refer to Almighty God?, in
which case they are translated in the singular as "God." Do these plural forms indicate a Trinity? No, they do not. In A Dictionary of the Bible, William Smith says:
"The fanciful idea that [´elo·him'] referred to the trinity
of persons in the Godhead hardly finds now a supporter among scholars. It is
either what grammarians call the plural of majesty, or it denotes the fullness of divine strength, the sum of the powers displayed by God."
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures says of ´elo·him': "It
is almost invariably construed with a singular verbal predicate, and takes a
singular adjectival attribute." To illustrate this, the title ´elo·him' appears 35 times by itself in the account of
creation, and every time the verb describing what God said and did is singular. (Genesis 1:1-2:4) Thus,
that publication concludes: "[´Elo·him'] must
rather be explained as an intensive
plural, denoting greatness and majesty."´Elo·him' means, not "persons," but "gods." So those who argue that this word implies a Trinity make themselves polytheists, worshipers of more than one God. Why? Because it would mean that there were three gods in the Trinity. But nearly all Trinity supporters reject the view that the Trinity is made up of three separate gods.
The Bible also uses the words ´elo·him' and ´elo·heh' when referring to a number of false idol gods. (Exodus 12:12; 20:23) But at other times it may refer to just a single false god, as when the Philistines referred to "Dagon their god [´elo·heh']." (Judges 16:23, 24) Baal is called "a god [´elo·him']." (1 Kings 18:27) In addition, the term is used for humans. (Psalm 82:1, 6) Moses was told that he was to serve as "God" [´elo·him'] to Aaron and to Pharaoh. Exodus 4:16; 7:1.
Obviously, using the titles ´elo·him' and ´elo·heh' for false gods, and even humans, did not imply that each was a plurality of gods; neither does applying ´elo·him' or ´elo·heh' to Almighty God mean that he is more than one person, especially when we consider the testimony of the rest of the Bible on this subject.
"There
is ONE GOD, the FATHER, out of Whom ALL is..." (I Cor. 8:6)
"For
there is ONE God" (I Tim. 2:5)
"You
are my witnesses whether there is any god, any Power, any besides ME" (Isa.
44:8 Moffatt Translation)
"The ONE Who
is operating ALL in accord with the counsel of HIS will..." (Eph.
1:11)
"Out
of Him and through Him and for Him is ALL: to HIM be the glory
for the eons! Amen!" (Rom. 11:36)
"...your
heavenly Father IS PERFECT" (Mat.
5:48)
"God IS LOVE" (I John 4:8)
"God IS SPIRIT" (John 4:24)
"...the INVISIBLE GOD" (II
Cor. 4:4)
"Now
it is eonian life that they may know Thee, the ONLY TRUE GOD, and
Him Whom Thou dost commission, Jesus Christ" (John 17:3).
Jesus
called His Father "...the ONLY TRUE GOD" (Jn. 17:3).
"God
is NOT A MAN..." (I Sam. 15:29)
“I am YAHWEH, and there is NONE
ELSE. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have
not known me;” Isaiah 45:5
“That they may know that thou ALONE, whose name is JEHOVAH,
art the Most High over all the earth” Psalm 83:18
God the creator has got no name that
can be written on paper…we can create names for him and accept it in agreement
GLOBAL, but that still does not spell god’s name….THEY ARE ALL TITLES…give it
up!
Remember
that one of the ways YHWH has been
translated is "The Self-Existent one." What
does this mean? Did the ancient ISRAEL
have the right knowledge about who GOD THE FATHER is? I don’t think so, Something is self-existent if it can exist all by itself, without any dependencies whatsoever. Everything we encounter in life is dependent on something else. Life needs air. Air needs molecules. Molecules need molecular cohesion. Molecular cohesion needs.......and so on. Where does the chain of dependency end? What is the "ontological anchor" of the universe?
GOD THE FATHER the creator of the universe depends only on Himself for existence. He is the source and origin of all that exists. In Him we live and move and have our being.
That is why YHWH is sometimes translated the self-existent one.
THE GOD ALMIGHTY! WHO IS HE?
Jesus said to the apostles:
·
"And the Father Himself, which hath sent me,
has born witness of Me. ye have neither HEARD HIS VOICE at any time, NOR SEEN
HIS SHAPE" (John 5:37).
·
“No one has seen God at any time. The
only begotten Son (Gk. theos = GOD), who
is in the bosom of the Father, He
has declared Him.” John 1:18
Some translations put GOD in place of the SON which is the proper translation. The word
translated SON in the Greek manuscript is “theos” so why SON. “theos” has always
mean God.
WHOSE VOICE IS THIS IF NO MAN HAS NEVER EVER HEARD
THE VOICE OF GOD THE FATHER BEFORE???
Mat 3:17 And lo A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
The question is whose voice is this? Since no man has seen the Father or heard His voice who then could be speaking these Words?
We have had answers ranging from angels, to spiritual words that only could have been heard with spiritual ears to the Father manipulating the natural elements (air, clouds, wind, etc.) to proclaim His message of pleasure in His Son…but these answers are not acceptable anyway.
Actually there is no great mystery concerning this "voice" from heaven.
At Jesus' baptism we read: "And lo A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, saying, This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17). Mark 1:11 and Luke 3:22 say virtually the same words.
Again in in John 12:28 we read: "Father, Glorify Your Name. Then came there A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
Mat 3:17 And lo A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
The question is whose voice is this? Since no man has seen the Father or heard His voice who then could be speaking these Words?
We have had answers ranging from angels, to spiritual words that only could have been heard with spiritual ears to the Father manipulating the natural elements (air, clouds, wind, etc.) to proclaim His message of pleasure in His Son…but these answers are not acceptable anyway.
Actually there is no great mystery concerning this "voice" from heaven.
At Jesus' baptism we read: "And lo A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, saying, This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17). Mark 1:11 and Luke 3:22 say virtually the same words.
Again in in John 12:28 we read: "Father, Glorify Your Name. Then came there A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
On what is called 'The Mount of Transfiguration," we read this, "While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold A VOICE OUT OF THE CLOUD, which said, This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased; hear you Him" (Matt. 17::5).
And this was something James, John, and Peter never forgot: “but [we] were eyewitnesses of His Majesty. For He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such A VOICE TO HIM FROM THE EXCELLENT GLORY, This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased" (II Pet. 1:17).
In all cases it is called "A VOICE," so this does not contradict the Scriptures which state that no man has ever heard the voice of God the Father. It was "A VOICE," but it is a message from God the Father. What is important is WHERE it came from, and WHAT the message was. In all cases the voice came FROM A HEAVENLY source, and the message established Jesus Christ as the greatest Human Who has ever lived, and the only one acknowledged by God, to "PLEASE" God.
The message is from God out of Heaven, but it is delivered by a messenger. A dozen times in the book of Revelation we have messages from God delivered out of Heaven by messengers.
Now read all these scriptures below which talks about GOD ALMIGHTY, and combine the messages from Jesus above and then tell me what you think khodjo74@hotmail.com.
What you
need to remember is that, no one has heard his voice before, and no one has
neither seen his image before.
“And God said unto him, I [am] God
Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be
of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins” GEN 35:11
And I heard another out of the altar
say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous [are] thy judgments (but i
thought the bible says God The Father
judges no one but all judgements has been given to the Son). REV 16:7
Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord
God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to
thee thy great power, and hast reigned. REV 11:17
And I saw no temple therein: for the
Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. REV 21:22
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto
Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH
was I not known to them.
EXODUS 6:3……see Genesis 15:7, where God
reveals himself to Abraham by this very name: And he said unto him, I am
Jehovah, that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees. How then can it be said
that by his name Jehovah he was not known unto them? START
THINKING.
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, GEN 48:3 …no
one sees God and live!!!
And God Almighty bless thee, and make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; GEN 28:3
And when Abram was ninety years old
and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect GEN 17:1 …no
one sees God and live!!!
And God Almighty give you mercy
before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be
bereaved [of
my children], I am bereaved. GEN 43:14
And they sing the song of Moses the
servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways,
thou King of saints REV 15:3
The
Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the
excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city
with all that is therein. AMOS 6:8
Hear ye, and testify in the house of
Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, AMOS 3:13
Hate the evil, and love the good, and
establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be
gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. AMOS 5:15
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts
(ALMIGHTY), the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they
shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman
to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. AMOS 5:16
He answered, "LORD God of
Armies, I have eagerly served you. The Israelites have abandoned your promises,
torn down your altars, and executed your prophets. I'm the only one left, and
they're trying to take my life."1 KINGS 19:14
And he said, I have been very jealous
for the LORD God of hosts (ALMIGHTY): for the children of Israel have forsaken
thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword;
and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 1 KINGS 19:10
Therefore now thus saith the LORD,
the God of hosts (ALMIGHTY), the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye [this]
great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and
suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; JEREMIAH 44:7
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah,
Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt
assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall
live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and
thine house: JERERMIAH 38:17
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer:
give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah PSALM 84:8
Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts,
the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any
wicked transgressors. Selah. PSALM 59:5
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come,
the Almighty. REVELATION 1:8
And he said unto me, It is done. I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst
of the fountain of the water of life freely. REVELATION
21:6
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end, the first and the last REVELATION 22:13
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last (The highlighted is not found
in the early manuscripts): and, What thou seest, write in a
book, and send [it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus,
and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and
unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. REVELATION 1:11
WHO AND WHAT IS JESUS CHRIST?
WHILE on earth, Jesus
was a human, although a perfect one because it was God who transferred the
life-force of Jesus to the womb of Mary, (Matthew 1:18-25) But that is not how he began. He
himself declared that he had "descended from heaven." (John 3:13) So it was only natural that he would
later say to his followers: "What if you should see the Son of
man [Jesus] ascends to
where he was before?"John 6:62.
Thus, Jesus had an
existence in heaven before coming to the earth. But was it as one of the
persons in an almighty, eternal triune Godhead? No, for the Bible plainly
states that in his pre-human existence, Jesus was a created spirit being, just
as angels were spirit beings created by God. Neither the angels nor Jesus had
existed before their creation.
Jesus, in his pre-human
existence, was "the first-born of all
creation." (Colossians 1:15) He was "the
beginning of God's creation." (Revelation 3:14). "Beginning" [Gk. ar·khe'] cannot rightly be interpreted to mean
that Jesus was the 'beginner' of God's creation. In his Bible
writings, John uses various forms of the Greek word ar·khe' more than 20 times, and these
always have the common meaning of "beginning." Yes, Jesus was created by God as the
beginning of God's invisible creations.
Notice how closely
those references to the origin of Jesus correlate with expressions uttered by
the figurative "Wisdom" in the Bible book of Proverbs:
"Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his fashioning, before
the oldest of his works. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I
came to birth; before he had made the earth, the countryside, and the first
elements of the world." (Proverbs 8:12, 22, 25, 26,)
While the term "Wisdom" is used to personify the one whom God
created, most scholars agree that it is actually a figure of speech for Jesus
as a spirit creature prior to his human existence.
As "Wisdom" in his pre-human existence, Jesus goes
on to say that he was "by his [God's] side, a
master craftsman." (Proverbs 8:30) In harmony with this role as master
craftsman, Colossians 1:16 says of Jesus that "through
him God created everything in heaven and on earth."
So it was by means of
this master worker, his junior partner, as it were, that the self existent God
created all other things. The Bible summarizes the matter this way:
"For us there is one God, the
Father, from whom are all things . . . and one
Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things." 1 Corinthians 8:6
It no doubt was to
this master craftsman that God said: "Let us make man in our
image." (Genesis 1:26) Some have claimed that the "us" and "our" in this expression indicate a Trinity.
But if you were to say, 'Let us make something for ourselves,' no one would normally understand this
to imply that several persons are combined as one inside of you. You simply
mean that two or more individuals will work together on something. So, too,
when God used "us" and "our," he was simply addressing another
individual, his first spirit creation, the master craftsman, the pre-human
Jesus.
Jesus Christ IS A MAN!
"For
there is ONE GOD and ONE MEDIATOR of God and mankind, A MAN, Christ
Jesus..." (I Tim. 2:5).
"Thou
art the Christ, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD" (Mat.
16:16).
"Christ,
who is the IMAGE of the invisible God" (II
Cor. 4:4).
"The
Lord Jesus Christ, the SON OF THE FATHER" (II Jn 3)
"The BEGINNING of
the creation of God" (Rev.
3:14 JKV)
"God’s CREATIVE
ORIGINAL" (Rev. 3:14 CLNT)
"If
God were your Father, you would have loved Me. For OUT OF GOD I CAME FORTH and am arriving" (John 8:42).
"Nor
Jesus said to him, Why are you terming Me good? No one is good
except ONE, GOD" (Mark 10:18)
(Luke 4:18 YLT) “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did
anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of
heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To
send away the bruised with deliverance,”
Anointing is the giving of authority
or a commission by a superior to someone who does not already have authority.
Here god is plainly the superior, for he anointed Jesus, giving him authority
that he did not previously have.
“Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me:
nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” .Luke 22:42 KJV
To whom was Jesus praying to? To a
part of himself?. NO he was praying to someone superior who was and is the only
one to remove the cup.
After
Jesus died, he was in the tomb for three days, if he were GOD (the eternal
father) then Habakkuk 1:12 is wrong when it says “O my GOD,
my holy one, you do not die”
“For Christ is not
entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are]
the figures of the true; but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” Hebrews 9:24
If you appear in someone else’s
presence how can you be that same person? You cannot. You must be different and
separate.
“And he came and took the
book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.” Revelation
5:7
In Revelation 4:8 to 5:7 god is
shown seated on his heavenly throne, but Jesus is not. He has to approach God
to take a scroll from Gods right hand. This shows that Jesus is not God in
heaven but separate from him.
I believe
most can see from the above Scriptures that there are numerous and fundamental
differences between the Father and Jesus the Son. However, there are still
reasons to ask whether or not Jesus Christ, the Son of God the Father, is not
also "God." Is Christ for example, not worthy our worship?
Dare we worship any but "God?" And if Christ is indeed "God," why isn’t He of the very same status, rank, authority, etc., as His
Father? Good questions. Let’s take them one at a time.
IS CHRIST GOD THE ALMIGHTY? YES HE IS!
"Yet
to the Son [this is
GOD speaking]: ‘Thy
throne, O GOD, is for the eon of the eon..." (Heb. 1:8).
And also:
Who [Jesus], being
inherently in the form of God, deems it not pillaging [taking by force or plundering] to be EQUAL WITH GOD" (Phil.
2:6).
Jesus IS God! True, but this fact does NOT make Him the FATHER! Let us
always read and believe the Scriptures. The English word "GOD" is translated from the Greek word Theos which means placer or disposer. ANYONE to whom the Father gives such an office of "placer
or disposer" is a God! Notice what God says in Psalm 82:6,
"I
have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most
High."
Jesus
explains this verse for us:
"Jesus
answered them, ‘Is it not written in your law, that ‘I say you are gods’? If He said those were gods, to whom
the word of God came [and the
scripture cannot be annulled], are you
saying to Him Whom the Father hallows and dispatches into the world that You
are blaspheming,’ seeing that I said, ‘Son of God am I’? If I am not doing
My Father’s works, do not believe Me. Yet if I am doing them, and if ever you
do not believe me, believe the works, that you may be knowing and believing
that in Me is the Father, and I am in the Father."
Okay then, let’s notice a few very important points. Jesus never came
out and said "I AM GOD!" He always called Himself, "The Son OF God." Recall that Jesus did not
consider it "pillaging" to be equal with God. That is, he didn’t need
to steal, or take His office by FORCE, because His God, the Father, gave all things to him freely! Though Jesus is certainly
"God," we must always remember that everything that made Him "God" (like His Father), was given to him! Is there anyone who would suggest
that someone GAVE God the Father all that He possesses? I
think not. There is clearly a distinction--we have a "Father" and a "Son," NOT two equal Gods of a so-called
trinity.
Notice that Jesus always acknowledges His subjection to
His Father:
"Jesus,
being aware that the Father has GIVEN ALL INTO HIS HANDS, and
that He came out FROM God and is going away TO God" (John 13:3).
i love this scripture
"Now
the Father, remaining in Me, He IS DOING HIS WORKS" (John
14:10)
"And
the word which you are hearing is NOT Mine, but the Father’s Who sends me" (John 14:24).
"I
am going to the Father, for THE FATHER IS GREATER THAN I" (John 14:28).
"Now,
whenever all may be subjected to Him, THE SON HIMSELF ALSO SHALL BE SUBJECTED
TO HIM Who subjects all to Him, that God may be ALL IN ALL" (I Cor. 15:28).
These Scriptures are clear, and there are many more like this. The
Father is GREATER than His Son, and the Son will ALWAYS be subjected to His
Father. They are NOT two, coequal Gods of a fabled trinity. They are “Father and
Son.” They are “FAMILY!” And the “SPIRIT OF GOD” is just that, the spirit “OF” God, not “THE SPIRIT GOD,” And Jesus Christ has this SAME
SPIRIT in Himself also. And it is THIS VERY SPIRIT that God the Father gives to
US through His Son, Jesus Christ. It is not difficult to
understand if one will simply believe the Scriptures.
Again, I want everyone to take note that when Christ speaks of the close
relationship between Himself and His Father, He NEVER includes the “holy spirit” into that relationship! This is surely
not an oversight on Christ’s part.
Our Lord gives us a beautiful metaphor in these same chapters of John.
Jesus says:
“I am the
true Grapevine, and My father is the Farmer... I am the Grapevine. You are the
branches” (John 15:1 & 5).
Notice that the Holy Spirit is
NO PART of this analogy. Now seriously, if the Holy Spirit were a third
personality or god of the trinity, then why does it have NO PART in so many
dozens and dozens of Scriptures like this one? Surely if there is a trinity,
the Holy Spirit could represent maybe the soil, or the sunshine, or the rain,
or at least be some part of this analogy with the Father, the Son, and the
Saints, don’t you think? But no! The Holy Spirit is not mentioned. That is
because it is not necessary for it to be mentioned, and also because it is not
a third god of a trinity.
IS JESUS I AM THAT I AM?
At JOHN 8:58 a number of translations, for
instance The Jerusalem Bible, have Jesus saying: "Before
Abraham ever was, I Am." Was Jesus there teaching, as Trinitarians assert, that he was known by
the title "I Am"? And, as they claim, does this mean
that he was YAHWEH of the Hebrew Scriptures, since the King James
Version at Exodus 3:14 states: "God
said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM"?
At Exodus 3:14 (KJ) the phrase "I
AM" is used as a title
for God to indicate that he really existed and would do what he
promised. “I will be what I will be.”
The expression
at John 8:58 is quite different from the one
used at Exodus 3:14. Jesus did not use it as a name or a
title but as a means of explaining his pre-human existence. He was in the mind
of God, he was in existence in something else.
1869:
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"From
before Abraham was, I have been." The New Testament, byG.
R. Noyes.
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1935:
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"I
existed before Abraham was born!" The
Bible—An American Translation, by J. M. P. Smith and E. J.
Goodspeed.
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1965:
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"Before
Abraham was born, I was already the one that I am." Das Neue Testament, by Jörg
Zink.
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1981:
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"I
was alive before Abraham was born!" The Simple English Bible.
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1984:
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"Before
Abraham came into existence, I have been." New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
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Thus, the real
thought of the Greek used here is that God's created “firstborn,” Jesus, had existed long before Abraham
was born. Colossians 1:15; Proverbs 8:22, 23, 30; Revelation 3:14. (Cross check Revelation 13:8 which speaks similar meaning, he was slain before
the foundations of the earth)
Again, the context
shows this to be the correct understanding. This time the Jews wanted to stone
Jesus for claiming to "have seen Abraham" although, as they said, he
was not yet 50 years old. (Vs. 57) Jesus' natural response was to tell the truth
about his age. So he naturally told them that he "was
alive before Abraham was born!"—The Simple English Bible.
WHO OR WHAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?
In
the Scriptures it is not unusual for something to be personified. Wisdom is
said to have children. (Luke 7:35) Sin and
death are called kings. (Romans 5:14, 21) At Genesis 4:7The Bible says: "Sin is a demon crouching at the door,"
personifying sin as a wicked spirit crouching at Cain's door. But, of course,
sin is not a spirit person; nor does personifying the Holy Spirit make it a
spirit person.Similarly, at 1 John 5:6-8 not only the spirit but also "the water, and the blood" are said to be "witnesses." But water and blood are obviously not persons, and neither is the Holy Spirit a person.
In harmony with this is the Bible's general usage of "holy spirit" in an impersonal way, such as paralleling it with water and fire. (Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8) People are urged to become filled with Holy Spirit instead of with wine. (Ephesians 5:18) They are spoken of as being filled with Holy Spirit in the same way they are filled with such qualities as wisdom, faith, and joy. (Acts 6:3; 11:24; 13:52) And at 2 Corinthians 6:6 Holy Spirit is included among a number of qualities. Such expressions would not be so common if the Holy Spirit were actually a person.
Then, too, while some Bible texts say that the spirit speaks; other texts show that this was actually done through humans or angels. (Matthew 10:19, 20; Acts 4:24, 25; 28:25; Hebrews 2:2) The action of the spirit in such instances is like that of radio waves transmitting messages from one person to another far away.
At Matthew 28:19 references is made to "the name . . . of the holy spirit." But the word "name" does not always mean a personal name, either in Greek or in English. When we say "in the name of the law," we are not referring to a person. We mean that which the law stands for, its authority. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament says: “The use of name (onoma) here is a common one in the Septuagint and the papyri for power or authority.” So baptism “in the name of the holy spirit” recognizes the authority of the spirit, that it is from God and functions by divine will.
JESUS spoke of the Holy Spirit as a "helper," and he said it would teach, guide, and speak. (John 14:16, 26; 16:13) The Greek word he used for helper (pa·ra'kle·tos) is in the masculine gender. So when Jesus referred to what the helper would do, he used masculine personal pronouns. (John 16:7, 8) On the other hand, when the neuter Greek word for spirit (pneu'ma) is used, the neuter pronoun "it" is properly employed.
Most Trinitarian translators hide this fact, as the Catholic New American Bible admits regarding John 14:17: “The Greek word for 'Spirit' is neuter and while we use personal pronouns in English ('he,' 'his,' 'him'), most Greek MSS [manuscripts] employ 'it.'”
So when the Bible uses masculine personal pronouns in connection with pa·ra'kle·tos at John 16:7, 8, it is conforming to rules of grammar, not expressing a doctrine.
The Jews never regarded the spirit as a person; nor is there any solid evidence that any Old Testament writer held this view. . . . The Holy Spirit is usually presented in the Synoptic [Gospels] and in Acts as a divine force or power.
Are we getting there?
Paul has always addressed the powers that be, other than the spirit of GOD.
“Paul, an apostle of
JESUS CHRIST by the will of GOD, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the
faithful in CHRIST JESUS: Grace be to you, and peace, from GOD OUR FATHER AND
FROM THE LORD JESUS CHRIST” (Gal. 1:1-2).
But Paul never ONCE mentioned
or addressed the Holy Spirit in ANY of his epistles EVER. Do you have a good
explanation for such a gross omission and degradation of the Holy Spirit, if
the Holy Spirit is PERSON, and VERY GOD? Well do you? No, of course you don't.
John 16:7: “It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will NOT COME UNTO YOU; but if I depart, I will SEND HIM unto you.”
John 16:7: “It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will NOT COME UNTO YOU; but if I depart, I will SEND HIM unto you.”
Is this "comforter" the third God of a trinity? Let us see
who this Comforter really is! Didn’t you ever wonder why this Comforter could
not come until Christ departed? The comforter does not come until Christ
departs to the Father, because the comforter IS THE SON returning in the form
of "spirit," "holy spirit." Jesus is saying to him,
"I am the Way and the Truth and
the Life. No one is coming to the Father except through Me" (John
14:6).
"Now,
whenever the consoler [comforter] which I shall
be sending you from the Father..."
Notice that Christ sends the comforter from the Father
and what Jesus instructs. And notice that it does not involve a third person of
a fabled trinity:
"Yet whenever that may be coming--the spirit of
truth [Jesus said that HE is the Truth] it will be guiding you
in to all the truth, for it will NOT be speaking from itself [it is NOT A GOD], but whatsoever it
should be hearing [from
Whom sent it] will it be speaking, and of what is coming
will it be informing you. That will be glorifying ME, seeing that
of MINE will it be getting, and informing you. All, whatever the Father has, is
MINE. THEREFORE I said to you that OF MINE IS IT GETTING, AND
WILL BE INFORMING YOU." (John
16:13-15).
This is not hard to understand. The spirit of Truth is Christ. The comforter is Christ.
Jesus said:
"I
will NOT leave you bereaved [comfortless], I am coming to you [in the form of the comforter and spirit of truth]" (Jn. 14:18).
Now notice how clear Jesus makes this. Who or What is this spirit, holy
spirit, holy ghost, spirit of truth, comforter? Is it really the third person
of a triune God? Let Jesus Himself answer:
"IN THAT DAY [the day
when the comforter comes] you shall know that I am in My Father, and you
in Me, and I IN YOU" (Jn.
14:20).
"Now the consoler [comforter], THE HOLY SPIRIT, which the Father will be
sending IN MY NAME, that will be teaching you all, and reminding
you of all that I said to you" (Jn. 14:26).
"I am going, and I AM
COMING TO YOU" (Jn.
14:27).
Jesus Christ by means of the holy spirit of God which his father gave to
him is the comforter. The Greek proves that Christ is the comforter!
In the Greek, the "comforter" or consoler is translated from parakleetos as said earlier on. Now, is there any Scriptural proof that
Jesus Christ is called "parakleetos?" Yes there is. In 1John
2:1 we read:
"And if anyone should be sinning, we have an Entreater
with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just."
In the King James it says we have an "advocate" [with a small "a"].
King James ALWAYS capitalizes the Greek word “parakleetos," so why don’t they capitalize it here?
You see, "advocate" or a better translation "Entreater" is translated from the GREEK
WORD "parakleetos!"
Can we see Jesus as the "PARAKLEETOS!" now?
Isn’t this just amazing what we can learn and study well about the truth
of God’s Word instead of the strange and unscriptural teaching of theologians?
To those that do not believe up to this point, there is nothing that
will let u believe that God is not a trinity.
HAVE YOU
THOUGHT OF THIS?
God is not "flesh."
Jesus had to be "made flesh."
And then AS flesh, Jesus had to "grow and wax
strong" (Luke 2:40).
God does not "grow
or wax strong," but Jesus "made flesh" had
to grow and wax strong.
Jesus also had to "overcome" (John 16:33).
God does not need to overcome anything.
Jesus had to "suffer" and "learn obedience" (Heb. 5:8).
God does not suffer: God does not learn anything, seeing
that God is all knowing (Isa. 46:10).
Jesus was "troubled in His soul" (John 12:27).
God is never troubled in HIS soul.
Jesus got "weary" (John 4 6).
God never gets weary (Isa. 40:28).
Jesus became "exceeding sorrowful" (Matt. 26:38).
God never sorrows.
Jesus was famished after fasting for 40 days and nights. He
was so "hungry" that he was ready to die (Matt. 4:2).
God never gets hungry. God can never die of hunger.
Jesus got very "thirsty" (John 19:28).
God never gets thirsty.
Jesus "wept" (John 11:35).
God never weeps.
Jesus was acquainted
with "sickness" (Isa.
53:3).
God never gets sick.
How sad that many Christians believe that nothing bad ever
happened to Jesus before His crucifixion.
Remember the apostles did not talk about TRINITY, they did
not know anything of that sort so give it up Holy Ghost babies!!
FINALLY,
God is a title, not a name, the father of Jesus is never ever called God
in the bible...No where. The word God has been used so much over the centuries that the
word God has now become synonymous with the name of Jesus father. According to the schema...God is one person but that is not true, the bible never
says God is one person but it does say God is ONE for GOD is not a person but SPIRIT…Fraudulent teachers give it up
Who think the translators knew not what they were doing? They are very
much aware of what they were translating; check this out Rev
13:8
According to Trinitarians, there are five texts
that clearly teach that Jesus is GOD, i will just quote four of them which is
1.
Heb: 1:8-9 But about the Son he
says,
“Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever,
and
righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom.
You have loved
righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore
God, your God, has set you above your companions
by
anointing you with the oil of joy.”
- John 1:1 in
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,
- John 20:28 Thomas
said to him, “My
Lord and my God!”
- Romans 9:5 ‘Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the
human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen’.
What is your say after reading up to this stage? Do you understand these
texts? As simple as ABC but does not make Jesus GOD THE FATHER.
WHO IS ALMIGHTY, ALPHA AND OMEGA?
‘I am
the Alpha and the Omega,
says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to
come, the Almighty." Rev 1:8
Rev 21:6 He
said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha
and the Omega, the Beginning and
the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to
drink without cost from the spring of the water of life
Now
note something here...was an angel talking to John or was it Jesus or Jesus
father? Think...
Compare this text
Mat 16:27 NIV "For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done."
Who is the Son of man that is coming in his Father's glory? Vs 27, it is The Son of Man, (Jesus)
Almighty
from the Greek word "pantokrator," which means all-ruling, Almighty,
and Omnipotent.
Christ is ruling the universe, and he is entitled to the TITLE Almighty
GOD, the father has put his name in him.
Christ
is called Almighty God but Christ does not own this title but was given to him
by his father.
We can go on and on and on...but am
exhausted now...
God should help us to understand