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- APO:The Trinity
-
- 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.
-
- 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 (?).
-
- 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.
-
- 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:
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- I AM
- FATHER JESUS
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- Exodus 3:14,15 John 8:58
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- IMMANUEL
- FATHER JESUS
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- Isaiah 8:8 Isaiah 7:14
- Matthew 1:23
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
-
- THE REAL HOLY SPIRIT
- In Mormonism the "Holy Ghost" is a personage, or a god, but the "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.
-
- 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".
-
- The Holy Ghost does things which only a person COULD do.
-
- He SPEAKS:
- "The Spirit said unto Philip, 'Go near'" (Acts 8:29)
-
- He STRIVES:
- "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). Other 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).
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- 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.
-
- 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
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