Did you know that one trinity teaching is that God the Father,
Jesus Christ and the Holy Spiirt, are ONE being - that can
manifest itself as any of the THREE! They will tell you it is a
"mystery" - something we cannot know or understand, and shouldn't
even try to understand. Well I will tell you nothing could be
further from the truth! This idea of ONE that manifests itself as
any one of three at any time, is a silly teaching, nay, not just
silly, it is CRAZY!! The TRUTH about the Godhead CAN BE
UNDERSTOOD - God the Father WANTS you to understand the Godhead.
In the following article Pastor Stewart gives you some pretty
plain verses in God's holy word that tells you about the Godhead
and also about us as we enter the Kingdom of God in the course of
time.
Keith Hunt
GOD IS ONE!!
BLOWING AWAY THE TRINITARIANS
by Derwood Stewart
It has been said: This writer is a son, a husband, a father,
a friend, and a neighbor--yet he is not five different persons
but ONE.
God, the Heavenly Father is a Spirit and not a human being,
St. John 4:24. Note: He has NEVER been a human.
In Numbers 23:19 we read, "God is not a man, that he should
lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said,
and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make
it good?"
Although, He, God, can be all things, He specifically states
that He has a Son and Jesus states that He has a Father.
In St. Matthew 3:17 we read, "And to a voice from heaven,
saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom 1 am well pleased." Who
are we to call God a liar?
Please Note: The voice did not say, I am my son but this is
my son. See also: St. Matthew 17:5, St. Mark 9:7 and St. Luke
9:35
The Written Word, the Holy Bible, says there is one God and
that He as God says, that He has a Son and the Son says, that He
has a Father. Either we believe God's Written Word or we don't.
At this point I would like to pose a question to you. Do you
think that it is possible for Jesus to lie? I think that your
answer to this question would be "NO." Secondly, do you think
that Jesus could be denied any request of His Father? Again, I
think your answer to this question would be "NO."
Then consider the following statements of Jesus in St. John
8:17 where He said, "It is also written in your law, that the
testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of
myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me."
Here, you will note that Jesus states that He and His Father
are to be considered as Two witnesses.
The Apostle John in St. John 10:36-38 wrote, "Say ye of him,
whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou
blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the
works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye
believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe,
that the Father is in me, and I in him."
This also holds true for the Saints of God; The Father and
His Son, Jesus, dwells in the Believer, St. John 14:23.
The Word of God also says in St. John 14:20, "At that day ye
shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you."
It sounds to me like we are all one even as the Father and the
Son are one. Isn't that exactly what Jesus prayed and asked the
Heavenly Father for in St. John 17:11?
Jesus did not say that He sent Himself into the World but
that the Father sent Him.
In St. John 17:5-11 we read, "And now, O Father, glorify
thou me with thine own self with the glory which 1 had with thee
before the world was. 1 have manifested thy name unto the men
which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou
gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known
that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I
have given unto them the words which thou gayest me, and they
have received them, and have known surely that I came out from
thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for
them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast
given me, for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine
are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the
world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy
Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given
me, that they may be one, as we are."
Please note: If the Heavenly Father and Jesus are one entity
then according to the above Scripture when Time shall be no more,
We will be One as the Father and the Son are One because the
Father loves the Son and gives Him what so ever He asks.
Therefore, If Jesus and the Heavenly Father are one and have no
separate being, the one from the other, then it would stand to
reason that We too will not have a separate being in the New
Kingdom, because Jesus prayed that We might be One as He and the
Father are One.
Scripture seems to indicate that we will have our separate
being because it says that we will recognize Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, St. Luke 13:28. And we shall be known even as we are
known, 1st Corinthians 13:12.
The Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians 10:15-17 wrote, "I speak
as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we
bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread
which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all
partakers of that one bread."
We being many are one; just like these fifty United States
are one America.
In 1st Corinthians 8:6 the Apostle Paul wrote, "To us there
is but one God, the Father, of whom are ll things, and we in him;
and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by
him."
Jesus is of God and the Saints are of Jesus. The Saints are
in God by the Blood of Jesus.
The Apostle Paul in Galatians 3:28 said, "There is neither
Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither
male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
The fact that there is neither, male or female does not
negate the fact that each of us is individuals, members in
particular.
In 1st Corinthians 6:16-17 the Apostle Paul wrote, "What?
know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for
two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the
Lord is one spirit."
That which is joined to flesh is flesh and that which is
joined to Spirit is Spirit.
The Apostle Mark in St. Mark 13:31-32 wrote, "Heaven and
earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. But of
that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which
are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."
If Jesus is the Father of Heaven and earth why would He say
that even He didn't know the day and the hour that He would
return in the clouds of glory to receive the Saints to ever live
in God's Heavenly Kingdom?
In 2nd John 1:9b John said in part, "He that abideth in the
doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son."
It's a twofer; Double the pleasure; double the fun with
Jesus it's all in one; the Saints, the Heavenly Father and His
Son, Jesus. Praise His Holy Name!
In 1st John 2:22 John wrote, "Who is a liar but he that
denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth
the Father and the Son."
There are many antichrist today preaching in essence that
the Heavenly Father is the Son and/or that Jesus is Father. The
Word of God is of no private interpretation: Therefore, the Word
of God, the Bible, MUST interpret itself.
May the Heavenly Father of Lights Richly Bless and Keep you
as you follow on to Know and Serve Him in Spirit and in Truth, by
the Power of the Holy Ghost through His Only Begotten Son, Jesus,
our soon coming Saviour and King.
Your Faithful Servant in the Lord; Derwood A. Stewart,
Minister
......
From "Acts" magazine - July/August 2010 - a publication of the
General Council of the Churches of God (Seventh Day), Meridian,
ID. USA.
|
