No. Have you forgotten that its God who gave us the ten commandments?
Of course not. There is but
ONE God--
UNDIVIDED--Whose Name is the "I AM".
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The "I AM" our God [is]
one "I AM":
Zechariah 14:9 And the "I AM" shall be King over all the earth: in that Day shall there be
one "I AM", and His name One [not a trinity].
Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him,
The First of all the Commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
But its also Him who told us about the Godhead in His Word? There is One God, three persons according to the Bible. Meaning they are completely unified in everything they do in their different roles. They have the same faith, the same mind, the same goal ...and so on. That's what makes them one. The apostle John wrote, "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (1 John 5:7).
Do you realize that the apostle John did
NOT write the phrase (referred to as the "Johannine Comma") that you just cited please? It was, in fact,
ADDED to the Bible by the Roman Catholic church over 1000 years
after John passed away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannine_Comma
http://www.trinitytruth.org/was1john5_7addedtext.html
This is what the passage looks like after the addition of the “Johannine Comma” (boldfaced) in the 15th century A.D.:
1 John 5:6-8
5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is Truth.
5:7 For there are three that bear record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are as one.
5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
And this is how the passage read when John wrote it in the 1st century A.D., according to the original Greek manuscripts:
1 John 5:6-8
5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is Truth.
5:7 For there are three that bear record,
5:8 the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
In the Bible there are many different names for God but the word
"Elohim" is a Hebrew plural word that was used in the Bible to describe the three separate persons in the Godhead. It was used in
Genesis 1:26,
"Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” This word "Us" tells us that it was more than one Divine being that created man. After man sinned God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”(
Genesis 3:22). All throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation you will find the teaching of God being a Triune God. The Angels say,
"Holy, Holy, Holy" for each member of the Godhead in
Isaiah 6.
None of those references have anything to do with a 3=1 nonsensical deity. They are a very simple way for Father (God) to describe Himself and His Sons/Angels in Heaven.
In the Old Testament book of Daniel, we see a picture of the Father and the Son as two separate persons. “I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him" (Daniel 7:13). The Son of man, Jesus, is seen coming before the Ancient of Days who is, obviously, God the Father.
And yet with such clear cut evidence that Father and Son are two SEPARATE individuals by your own admission, you are still trying to con others into thinking they are really one? ONE MEANS ONE, just as two means two, and three means three, etc. A Father is NEVER the same as the Son, or the terms wouldn't apply. A Son is clearly the OFFSPRING/CREATION of His Father, by definition, just as a Father is the Progenitor/Creator of His Son. Christ is God's FIRSTBORN SON, i.e. the BEGINNING of Father's Creation, exactly as it says. And Christ has MANY (billions) of siblings (younger brothers).
Colossians 1:12-15
1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, Which hath made us meet to be sharers of the inheritance of the holy people in Light:
1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into The Kingdom of His dear Son:
1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins:
1:15 Who is the
image of THE
invisible God, the
firstborn of every
creature:
Romans 8:29 For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be
the firstborn among MANY brethren.
Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the community of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness,
the beginning of the creation of God;
John 17:3
And THIS is Life Eternal, that they might KNOW Thee the ONLY True God, AND Christ the Saviour, whom Thou hast sent.
A Jesus' baptism all three persons of the Godhead were present at Jesus' baptism (Matthew 3:13-17). When Christ, God the son, came out of the water at His baptism, God the Father spoke and said,
"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." The Holy Spirit descended in the Form of a Dove too. So the three distinct Persons that make up God were all present.
When we get baptised, we are to be baptised in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus commanded it. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (
Matthew 28:19).
Matthew 28:19 was, like 1 John 5:7-8, very obviously tampered with by the Roman Catholic church.
Does Matthew 29:19 have added text and do we baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost or into the name of Jesus Christ only?
www.trinitytruth.org
Here is the verse in its original form and in context:
Matthew 28:18-20
28:18 And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying,
All power is GIVEN unto me in heaven and in earth.
28:19
Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them with the Holy Spirit: in my name (The Saviour),
28:20
Instructing them to observe (and DO) all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, [even] unto the end of the world (age).
How can we be absolutely certain that the trinitarian nonsense wasn't in the original Greek version of Matthew 28:19? Because it would mean all of the disciples directly disobeyed Christ, as
NONE of them baptized anyone in the name of the trinity. They all baptized in the name of Jesus, which mean "Saviour".
In the New Testament Paul and other apostles frequently referred to the three separate persons of the Godhead.
And yet
NONE of them ever refer to a "trinity" by name or by inference, nor do any of them ever baptize in the name of the
pagan trinity.
There is plenty of scripture on the Godhead in the Bible.
And yet
nowhere in Scripture does it define God as a 3=1 deity, nor are there any references to the word "trinity", "3 in 1", "1 in 3", "God the Son", or "God the Holy Spirit".
Its not a subject we fully understand but I trust God and what He has revealed to us in His Word about who He is.
It's not a subject
anyone can understand because it is absolutely extra-Biblical (found nowhere in Scriptures), requiring one to redefine dozens of terms to even entertain such complete and utter nonsense.
I choose to believe Him over anyone who denies what the Bible says.
If that were true, you wouldn't believe in something that isn't found anywhere in the Bible, and which contradicts scores of verses that prove beyond any doubt that Father is God and that Christ is His Firstborn (First-
CREATED) Son. That's why Christ referred to Father as His God at least 7 times.
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say,
MY God (1),
MY God (2), why hast Thou forsaken me? (
Eno. 89:20;
Psalm 22;
Isaiah 52:13-54:1;
Sura 4:157-8.)
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] MY God (3), and your God.
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the Temple of MY God (4), and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of MY God (5), and the name of the city of MY God (6), [which is] New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from MY God (7)*: and [I will write upon him] my NEW name.
Note well that Christ's Revelation to John was
AFTER His Ascension into heaven. So any argument that “Christ-Jesus only had a God while He (Christ) was in human form” is
baseless, i.e. it's a
LIE.
One of the reasons I chose not to respond to most of your posts is because you don't have one faith. The Bible says, "one Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Ephesians 4:5).
And you don't find that to be hypocritical considering you have divided God into 3 separate persons? The trinity is a Roman Catholic invention!
“Our opponents sometimes claim that no belief should be held dogmatically which is not explicitly stated in scripture ... But the Protestant Churches have themselves accepted such dogmas,
AS THE TRINITY, for which there is
no such precise authority in the Gospels,” — (Assumption of Mary, Life magazine, Oct 30, 1950, p. 51)
Source:
http://www.trinitytruth.org/the-trinity-doctrine-exposed.html#Part15
From the Athanasian Creed: "Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith. Which faith unless every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
And the catholic faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity...
...This is the catholic faith; which except a man believe truly and firmly, he cannot be saved."
"The doctrine of the Trinity is
the central Catholic Dogma, that Catholics are obliged to believe.
“He therefore that will be saved, let him thus think of the Trinity.”
-the Athanasian Creed"
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian_Creed
You have other faiths that are not to do with the God of the Bible. You believe in other gods that contradict the God of the bible.
Faith is trust in God. It is therefore
never plural. And there is only
ONE God: Father, Whose Name is "I AM"; the self-existing
ONE.
It appears you have
misjudged (see
Matt. 7:1-4) what you don't understand, or don't want to understand, that Father gave the Quran to the Moslems, to direct them to the Bible and ultimately to Christ, Who is THE Master/Teacher/Imam. Would you rather the Moslems not find Christ? Do you not realize that Jesus is the most mentioned individual in the Quran, being referenced directly or indirectly at least 187 times?
That is the very definition of having other gods before God as the first commandment says. You mix and match your faiths to suit your beliefs. How can you understand God when you are all over the place with your beliefs?
IF you get rid of
ALL organized religions and their superstitious rites and rituals, we are left only with the message that Father has sent down to us from above, through His Prophets/Messengers and His Firstborn Son.
ONE God,
ONE Message, being delivered to
ONE people, and being taught by the
ONE Teacher/Mediator/High-Priest: Christ.
And how did Christ teach us to pray?
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name.
If there really was a "trinity" of "Father, Son and Holy Spirit", then why wouldn't Christ, THE Master/Teacher teach His Disciples to pray to that? Instead Christ taught His disciples to pray to Father, just as He Himself prayed to Father (THE God).
Think about it.
I don't intend on responding to any replies from you unless miraculously you agree with God's word as is.
Understood.
Thanks for wishing me a good Sabbath though. It is good.
You're welcome.
