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- THE TRINITY
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- The word TRINITY is not found in the BIBLE. There is no religious
- significance or value in the word, alone. What is special is the
- understanding of the TRIUNE nature of the ONE GOD. We can best explain this
- by stating that we, ourselves, exist as a triune entity.
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- We have a BODY (flesh) that we walk and talk and touch with. We have a
- MIND (soul) that is our will and our intellect.
- We have a SPIRIT that controls our very nature - this can be the old or
- "worldly" spirit or the NEW spirit received by being "born again".
- If you could take away your mind, you no longer are you. If you take
- away your spirit, you cease to behave like yourself. If you take
- away your body - well, that doesn't need to be expressed, does it?
- Only when all THREE of you are "together" are you really the ONE person
- that we all know and love (?).
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- Within the NATURE of ONE GOD, there are THREE eternal MINISTERS or
- persons: God the FATHER, God the SON and GOD the HOLY SPIRIT. One GOD
- by essence, eternally complete and immutable (meaning without
- possibility of change - or unchanging). Many "cults" today attempt to
- deal with these MINISTERS as separate GODS; However, the BIBLE
- clearly states that there is but ONE GOD.
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- Deuteronomy 6:4 and 32:39 - Isaiah 43:10 to 11 and 44:6 to 8 Psalm 86:10
- - Mark 12:29 - Galatians 3:20 - I Corinthians 8:4,6
- While ONE GOD is expressed, THREE MINISTERING ENTITIES are shown
- throughout the Bible. EACH entity is shown to have the same attributes
- and authority that is given to the other entity. At no time is one
- entity shown to be greater or lesser than the other. It may be best to
- express this by stating that each ENTITY ministers to us in a SPECIFIC
- and clearly designed manner as needed by each of us. These attributes
- are:
- CREATOR
- FATHER JESUS HOLY SPIRIT
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- Isaiah 64:8 & 44:24 John 1:3 Job 26:13 & 33:4
- Genesis 1:1 Hebrews 1:2
- Revelation 4:8,11 Colossians 1:15-17
- INDWELL US
- FATHER JESUS HOLY SPIRIT
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- 2 Corinthians 6:16 Colossians 1:27 John 14:17
- Romans 8:10 Romans 8:9
- Galatians 2:20 I Cor 3:16
- FIRST AND LAST
- FATHER JESUS
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- Isaiah 43:10 Revelation 1:17
- Revelation 21:6 Revelation 2:8
- and 22:13
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- ALPHA AND OMEGA
- FATHER JESUS
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- Revelation 1:8 Revelation 22:13,16 Revelation 21:6
- I AM
- FATHER JESUS
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- Exodus 3:14,15 John 8:58 IMMANUEL
- FATHER JESUS
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- Isaiah 8:8 Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:23
- RESURRECTION
- FATHER JESUS HOLY SPIRIT
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- I Thessalonians 1:10 John 2:19 Romans 8:11
- Acts 2:32 17:30,31
- DRAWS AND CONVICTS
- FATHER JESUS HOLY SPIRIT
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- John 6:44 John 12:32 I Cor 12:3
- John 12:32 John 16:13-15
- LIFE GIVER
- FATHER JESUS HOLY SPIRIT
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- Genesis 2:7 John 1:3,4 17:2 2 Cor 3:6,17
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- SAVIOR
- FATHER JESUS
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- Isaiah 43:3 John 4:42
- Psalm 106:21 1 John 4:14
- Isaiah 45:21-23 Acts 4:12
- 20:28
- TO BE WORSHIPPED:
- "EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW, EVERY TONGUE CONFESS.."
- FATHER JESUS
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- Isaiah 45:22,23 Philippians 2:10
- Romans 14:10,11 Matthew 28:18
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- JUDGE
- FATHER JESUS HOLY SPIRIT
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- Joel 3:12 2 Cor 5:10 John 16:8
- Genesis 18:25 2 Timothy 4:1
- IS GOD
- FATHER JESUS HOLY SPIRIT
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- John 5:18 John 1:1,14 Acts 5:3,4
- I Cor 1:3 John 20:28
- THREE PERSONS
- I John 5:7 | Matthew 28:19 | Romans 8:9 | Titus 3:4-6
- Jude 20,21 | Matthew 3:16,17
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- THE REAL HOLY SPIRIT
-
- In Mormonism the "Holy Ghost" is a personage, or a god, but èthe "Holy
- Spirit" is an impersonal force. The Mormons refer to verses that the Holy
- Spirit is symbolized by oil, fire and water and show that these are
- "impersonal". The Bible referes to the Father and the Son as "bread
- of life", "living water" and other "impersonal" terms. Again, we must
- look at the context. In John 16:7, our Lord is placing His emphasis on
- His going away and the Holy Spirit's being sent by the Father to replace
- our Lord himself. This change (or replacement), Jesus says, would be
- beneficial for His disciples. AN IMPERSONAL FORCE COULD HARDLY IMPROVE
- ON THE PERSONAL PRESENCE OF OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST!
- The word in Hebrew and the word in Greek for SPIRIT and
- GHOST both mean the same, "breath or wind" and the "translators"
- of the King James Bible noted that the Greek word denoted a neuter
- gender and mistranslated to be an "IT", but they did utilize the word
- Ghost and Spirit and interchanged them on many occassions. The
- words as translated are from only ONE word in Hebrew and ONE word in
- Greek - therefore there is NOT two words for SPIRIT and GHOST - only
- ONE. Now, let's look at this ONE entity called the HOLY SPIRIT. In John
- 16:13 and 14 we see our Lord, Jesus telling us this about the Holy Spirit,
- "HE shall not speak of HIMSELF ... HE shall glorify me ... HE shall
- receive of mine ....". NOTE that our LORD gives PERSONALITY to the
- Spirit. Otherwise our Lord would have used the term that Mormons use
- "IT".
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- Jesus repeatedly (John 16:7-15) uses the MASCULINE PERSONAL pronoun "He"
- when referring to the Spirit. Jesus used the term clearly to tell us that
- the Spirit had personality and intimacy. Ananias was struck dead for
- lying to the HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 5:3). You cannot lie to an impersonal
- force! It would be like walking up to a window box fan, turning it
- on and facing its "force" and then telling lie after lie to it - IT WOULD
- NOT CARE THE SLIGHEST, WOULD IT? Now, you look at Ananias and, if you
- are not a complete idiot, you would not repeat his behavior, now would
- you? The Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost are not two different items
- mentioned in the Bible. There is only one entity referred to as both
- HOLY GHOST and HOLY SPIRIT.
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- The Holy Spirit is a person. The Spirit may be "grieved"
- (Ephesians 4:30) and "sinned against" by UNFORGIVABLE blasphemy
- (Mark 3:29). None of these things are possible for an "impersonal force".
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- The Holy Ghost does things which only a person COULD do. He SPEAKS:
- "The Spirit said unto Philip, 'Go near'" (Acts 8:29)
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- He STRIVES:
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- "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever" (Genesis 6:3) - "The Spirit
- also helpeth our infirmity ... [and] MAKETH INTERCESSION for us." (Romans
- 8:26)
- He REVEALS, SEARCHES, and KNOWS:
- "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit
- searcheth all things ... the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of
- God" (I Corinthians 2:10,11).
- èOther verses can be shown that the Spirit IDENTIFIES with believers
- (Acts 15:28), The Spirit is ETERNAL (Hebrews
- 9:14), OMNIPRESENT (Psalm 139:7-10), DOES GOD'S WORK
- (Genesis 1:2), INVOLVED IN REGENERATION (John 3:8), participates
- in the RESURRECTION (Romans 8:11).
- Paul identifies the Spirit as the speaker to Isaiah. Acts 28:25-26 and
- Isaiah 6:8,9. An impersonal force does not counsel, speak, feel, or
- anything resembling personality. The HOLY SPIRIT is a person - one of the
- THREE ENTITIES of the ONE TRUE GOD.
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- There is but ONE GOD. Yet the THREE PERSONS or MINISTERS -the FATHER,
- the SON and the HOLY SPIRIT (GHOST) - are eternally linked and
- spoken of as ONE in their existance, authority and power. You cannot
- separate them into three separate gods.
- If A=D and B=D and C=D, then A=B=C=D!
- If the Father if God
- and
- If the Son is God
- and
- If the Holy Sprit is God
- then
- The Father equals the Son equals the Spirit equals TRUE GOD Computers For
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