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| 1: | Douglas, J. D. & Bruce F. F.: New Bible Dictionary
(New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) In the Old Testament: Though the doctrine is not developed in the Old Testament, it is implicit in the divine self disclosure from the very beginning. But in accordance with the historical character or the divine revelation it is presented at first only in a very rudimentary form. this is found not only in isolated passages but interwoven in the entire organism of the Old Testament revelation. The earliest foreshadowing is contained in the narrative of the creation, where Elohim is seen to create by means of Word and Spirit (Gn. i. 3). (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) It is thought that Gn. i. 26 ('And God ... 24) must also be noted as perhaps the prototype of the New Testament apostolic blessing. (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) The apostolic conception of the Holy Ghost and of His relation to the Father and the Son is clear from Acts. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Douglas.htm | 97%  Size: 15K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | The Error of the Catholic Nicene Trinity Click to View The Catholic Trinity denies the Bible doctrine of the subordination of Christ to the Father. Click to View The Catholic Trinity speaks where the Bible was silent in explaining how God is three in one. Click to View The Catholic Trinity goes beyond the simple Bible truths of the deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit and speculates the "mechanical make-up" of God on almost an "atomic level". When Jehovah's Witnesses attempt to prove that the trinity is ... Convinced that this doctrine is a Christian doctrine that did and could originate only from divine revelation. I start the study from the authentic record of divine ... a place formally in the theology of the Church till the 4th century. (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) TRINITARIAN PROBLEM AS POSED ... if the term 'Trinity' were employed to designate the Trinity of revelation or the doctrine of the threefold self-manifestation of God), and the term 'Triunity' (cf. Germ. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-catholic-nicene.htm | 97% Size: 31K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans! ... of deities in ancient Near Eastern paganism." (New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Colin Brown, 1932, God, vol 2, Three, ... The Indian Trimurti, altogether pantheistic in spirit, is still further from the Christian Trinity" (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian ... of the doctrine of the Trinity outside of Christianity or of the Bible, though in the eighteenth century efforts were made to derive the ... Encyclopedia, Trinity, Doctrine of the; p18) "The doctrine of the divine Trinity is the summarized statement of the historical revelation of redemption for the Christian consciousness of God. It affirms that God is not only the ruler of the universe, but the Father of Christ, in whom he is perfectly revealed, and the source of a holy and blessed life which transforms nature and is realized in the Church. ... Yet it is self-evident that Father, Son and Spirit are here linked in an indissoluble threefold relationship. On the other hand, the NT does not ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan.htm | 95% Size: 124K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal ministries and preachers Hagin, Kenneth Hickey, Marilyn Hill, Steve Hinn, Benny Holy Trinity Brompton (UK) Howard-Browne, Rodeny ...BIBLE.CA Information section! Self- Proclaimed Prophet Quotes, history and information Dollar, Creflo: World Changers Ministry coming Dortch, Richard Former Jim Bakker associate, Word of Faith movement, Endorses the "Holy Laughter Movement" of Rodney Howard Browne Promise Keepers coming Hagee, John Cornerstone church A Statement of our Doctrine: The Lord Jesus Christ We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God. We ... We believe that this salvation is available to all who will receive it. The Holy Spirit We believe in the ... and his wife gave approval to a woman's report of a divine message from Jesus that she should leave her ... p606-7) "Why don't you examine your baptism of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that false 'trinity' it's ... a fireman. (Dwight J. Wilson, "Cho, Paul Yonggi," Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 161) ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-encyclopedia-pentecostal-preachers.htm | 94% Size: 247K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ... ... Explicit implies "ontology". But the Biblical trinity (uncreated deity of Christ and personality of the Holy Spirit) are taught in the scripture. The Watchtower will quote Trinitarian sources who ... faith in the deity of Christ, and the necessity to defend it, that first compelled the Church to face the duty of formulating a full doctrine of the Trinity for its rule of faith." (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) In the immediate post New Testament period of the Apostolic Fathers no attempt was made to work out the God-Christ (Father-Son) relationship in ontological terms. ... it might be well if the term 'Trinity' were employed to designate the Trinity of revelation or the doctrine of the threefold self-manifestation of God), and the term 'Triunity' (cf. Germ. ... says that the "Nicene concept of Trinity" is not in the Bible, they would say that early Christians and the scriptures clearly taught that Jesus was both pre-existent and fully divine! ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-development.htm | 94% Size: 17K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | The Decepto-Meter goes crazy when you bring it near the Watchtower ... ... Hick completely denies the incarnation, but is so liberal in his view of the Bible that not even Christadelphians, who also deny ... his trinity from another pagan! JW's project the false impression that the same source would exempt them from borrowing from Plato in other areas too! Click to View Lachatre, Maurice 1. Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel (New Universal Dictionary) 2. ... JW's project the false impression that ancient Babylonians would not label the Watchtower version of God as a Triad. (Father-true God, Son-a created demi-god and Holy Spirit-the force or energy of God) Click ... Reglan, Lord The Hero Deceptive quote Self-Quoting Anti-Trinitarian For once JW's and other anti-Trinitarians have found someone ... impression that Fortman either rejects trinity, or that he is willing to accept trinity without any Bible support for the doctrine. ... seeing little difference with their "trinity of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, constituting a divine family of father and son." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-anti-trinity-booklet-decepto-meter.htm | 94% Size: 43K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Trinity proof texts: John 8:58 ... New Century Bible, Barnabas Lindars, John 8:58, p336) "I am; older than Abraham's origin is my existence. As Abraham had not pre-existed, but came into existence (by birth), ... so far as He exited before time, as to His divine nature, ... existence of the Lord Christ." (White, The Forgotten Trinity, ch. 6, p.97, "I am He") "it invincibly proves his ... Jews, who claimed Abraham as Father, Jesus asserted, "Before Abraham Came to be, I am" (John 8:58, literal translation). ... There is a contrast between Abraham as a created being and our Lord as uncreated, the self-existent, eternal God. (Wuest, The Deity of Jesus in ... never advocated before the 20th century, we would ask why would the Holy Spirit wait 1900 years to reveal this to them alone. ... A similar statement advoctating that John 8:58 was "PPA"later appeared in Herle's "The Trinity Doctrine", p44 in 1983. ... He bases this claim on two textbooks of English grammar. The first is Crowell's Dictionary of English Grammar and of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john8-58.htm | 93% Size: 210K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Trinity proof texts: John 1:1 ... If the NWT followed its own "self invented grammar rules", it would translate the texts at the right as we have done below in the right hand ... Now God's plan was materialized in all its fulness." [cf. The Trinity, J. H. Broughton, p 247, Christadelphian doctrine book] In the beginning, ... To say, "and the Word was deity" violates the Greek. It is like saying, "and the Word was Holy/begotten" These are adjectives not nouns. The use ... in The Journal of Biblical Literature) Harner also flatly denies that John 1:1c could be translated "a god" or "divine" in the same article! ... "Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated . . . 'the word was a divine being.'" (Dictionary of the Bible", by John L. McKenzie, 1965, p. 317, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal #14 refuted Click to View "The Decepto-meter" Satanic Quote It [The NT] offers no room for a statement of the relations of Father, Son, and Spirit which would imply that one of them ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john1-1.htm | 93% Size: 76K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | SUMMARY: PROOF that TRINITY is NOT of PAGAN origin! ... Now if you just stop and think for a minute, what "Bible believing Trinitarian" is going to say that a key element ... Talk about self made religion! Reason # Click to View The Devil is a counterfeiter! click for documentation Reason ... trinity-type of god among paganism, it should be remembered that real demons are involved in the origin of false doctrine and worship. "That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons." 1 Cor 10:19 and "1 Timothy 4:1-2 "But the Spirit explicitly ... Read this quote from the Watchtower magazine: "The evidence of the holy spirit in the quality and content of the ... Click to View Mithra, The god of light. Here he is slaying the divine bull. Virgin birth Pagan sun gods and ... theology that sees Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three distinct Persons, each partaking of the divine nature. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-not-pagan-reasons.htm | 93% Size: 90K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ... ... and I will receive you, and will be to you a father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." ... brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which we have learned; and avoid them. ... They are up to no good thing now in the promotion of such efforts through certain self-appointed leaders in the churches ... VIEWING THE WALLS 23 The restatement of the slogan decrees that where the Bible is silent we may speak, because we are ... meant"-just the opposite of what the Holy Spirit caused him to say also? But here a divine precept speaks again: "That ye may learn not to go beyond the things that are written"-Paul, in 1 Cor. 4:6. Does that read like we may speak where the word of God is silent? ... Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or for such a thing to be performed with or without the Godhead, in or out of the Trinity? ... In his personal work, the one-volume Dictionary of The Bible, the noted scholar and historian, Philip Schaff, presi-dent ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic/Catholic-church-doctrine-Bulwarks-of-the-Faith-Foy-E-Wallace-JR-Refuting-Dogmas-Catholicism-Protestant-Denominationalism-1951AD.htm | 91% Size: 1.6M Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Jehovah's Witnesses abuse the divine name YHWH of my God ... out and say, "Trinity was a pagan origin doctrine". But what the "door to door class" of Jehovah's Witnesses doesn't know, is that all the scholars who say trinity is pagan in that booklet are themselves Bible ... I. The progressive use of God's name in the Bible: El Shaddai was God's prime name to the Patriarchs. YHWH was ... this name has not been pronounced by the Jews because of reverence for the great sacredness of the divine name. ... If that is what the Holy Spirit chose to use, it is good enough for us! III. Jehovah's Witnesses Misspell YHWH! "Jehovah" cannot be the name of God since neither Hebrew, Greek, Latin don't even have a letter "J" and ... times in KJV and not at all in RSV. (Anchor Bible Dictionary, YAHWEH) Take a look at the obvious error of ... It is self-defeating for Jehovah's Witnesses to attempt to prove the Septuagint originally contained YHWH in ... Jesus, Christ, Son, God, Lord, Spirit, Savior, David, Cross, Mother, Father, Israel, Man, Jerusalem, Heaven. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/jw-YHWH.htm | 91% Size: 63K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | "KJV Only" advocates refuted! would significantly alter the meaning of a passage, and NONE of them would contradict or alter any of the basic points of Christian doctrine. ... BY DIVINE INSPIRATION THE CORRECT RENDERING, hence no need for any alternate readings in the margin. Remember, although we have only shown one example of this first type of marginal reading, there are over 8000 more we have not shown! The New American Standard Bible is in the ... "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the ... As if the Translators would have silently allowed the publisher to confuse the readers after the Holy Spirit had told them which reading was ... The last gasp of a dying false doctrine! #4: The fact is, the marginal readings are NOT THE WORDS OF GOD and the TEXT IS. The translators did ... you really think it is a good thing that a person must use an Early Modern English dictionary just to understand the Bible in casual reading? ... ... https://www.bible.ca/b-kjv-only.htm | 91% Size: 229K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Trinity: "Plural of Majesty", "pluralis majestaticus", "singular ... ... is a plurality of person in the one Godhead." (The God of the Bible, R. A.Torrey, 1923, p 64) "Another very popular view in modem ... this (Gen. ii. 18; Is. xxxiii. 10)." (Trinity, A Catholic Dictionary, William E. Addis & Thomas Arnold, 1960, p 822-830) E. What ... Fathers was that "we" referred to the three persons of the trinity, he then rejects this and adopts the plural of majesty view. ... to make an image of God, nor any one else, except the Word of the Lord, nor any Power remotely distant from the Father of all things. ... Plural of Majesty fails because we find plural references to both God and individual men. If the Holy Spirit intended to use these plural references of God as "singular of ... Jesus emphasizes the "us vs. them" challenge of authority between human and divine. C. "just as he is Christ's, so also are we. For ... But Heb 1:5 proves Jesus cannot be, nor ever has been an angel. Further, in their self contradictory doctrine, they have Jesus the creature, as our ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-oneness-unity-plural-of-majesty-pluralis-majestaticus-royal-we.htm | 91% Size: 22K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... Begin our comments below What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus? If people were to read the Bible from cover to cover without any preconceived idea of a Trinity, would they ... Although these verses do not teach the developed 4th century trinity doctrine, they more than teach the deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit. God Is One, Not Three THE Bible teaching that God is one is called monotheism. And L. L. Paine, professor of ... Trinity doctrine is considered by scholars to be monotheistic. Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, ... Hippolytus certainly applies Rev 1:8 to Christ and calls Jesus "The Almighty" several times. But even if the Father is alone called the Almighty, this still doesn't prove Jesus is ... 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 ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm | 90% Size: 727 bytes Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ... ... to see the glory of Christ, to which the Father bears witness, saying, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased." ... He was eventually chosen as rival Bishop of Rome. His followers remained orthodox in doctrine, but their continued emphasis ... The prophet wants the same persons to be made drunk and filled to all fullness with the divine gifts, so that their ... which these powers produce." (Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, 8:33; CorpusChristianorum 8:30; CChr 62a:340) Hilary of ... After the water-bath, the Holy Spirit rushes upon us from the gate of heaven, that we might bathe in the anointing of the heavenly glory, and that we might become sons of God through adoption spoken by the voice of the Father." ... Athanasius "[W]e ought not to doubt whether such marvels were wrought by the hand of a man. For it is ... Jesus him- self who ... Franciscans, Europe. ("Tongues, Gift of," B, IV, 796; "Tongues, Gift of," Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, H. B. Hackett, ad. (1870; Rpt. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-history.htm | 90% Size: 295K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | Divine Titles, Functions and Character Qualities ascribed to ... Divine Titles, Functions and Character Qualities ascribed to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit "And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart." (Eccl 4:12) Click to View To prove trinity true we need either prove Jesus is uncreated God and/or the Holy Spirit is a person with will, thoughts and emotions like God, angels and man. Click to View Divine TITLES Jesus shares with the Father. Click to View Divine TRAITS Jesus shares with the ... Although we prove in a following chart that the Holy Spirit is a person, it is powerful to see that almost all the Divine traits of the Father are applied to the Holy Spirit. Divine Traits The Father The Son The Holy Spirit Eternal, self-existent ... 13:11; Phil 4:9; 1 Thess 5:23; Heb 13:20 1 Cor 1:3; 2 Cor 1:2; Gal 1:3; Eph 2:14 Rom 8:6; 14:17; Gal 5:22; Eph 4:3 Intercedes like a lawyer to God - 1 Jn 2:1 Rom 8:26; John 14:16,17,26; 16:7 By Steve Rudd Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-definition-god-divine-qualities-ascribed.htm | 90% Size: 37K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd ... In a self-inflicted literal Holocaust, the Jews used their own holy Altar wood to start burning their own city! (Josephus Wars 2.425). Jesus warned, "when you see ... may be said to be a good thing, and the effect of divine justice. (3) Now as to the attack the zealots made ... a spirit body, the living will be changed into a spirit body, the physical universe will be uncreated (Rev 20:11) and all will be judged before God who then creates a new heaven and earth (Rev 21). Come, Lord Jesus! Take the "Bible Only" test: This commentary is called, "The 5-minute ... the Jewish "Days of the Messiah end times" eschatology doctrine but Christians today have never heard of it. ... Boaz married a Moabite in 1284 BC d. Jesse (David's father) married an Ammonite e. David married Jews only f. ... Rome; his exile on Patmos and return to Ephesus" (Eerdmans' Bible dictionary, Acts of John, p589, 1987 AD) d. ... Jinn can be obedient to the Koran, but the Jinn must reject the Christian Trinity that God has a Son [Jesus] ... ... https://www.bible.ca/revelation/ | 90% Size: 3.0M Depth: 7 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914 ... They believe in the Bible, in conversion, in purity of life, in rigid temperance, in strict morality, and in other good things common to all ... Their theory is that all churches but their own were utterly rejected of God in 1844 for not embracing Miller's doctrine. Thus Mrs. White ... God will not smell in their assemblies. Selfishness, fraud and deceit are practiced by them without the reprovings of conscience." Spiritual Gifts, Vol. I, page 189, 190. She says it is the devil who answers their prayers. Thus: "I saw them look up to the throne and pray, Father give us thy spirit; ... work, so unquestionably accepted by all the churches, is not genuine, will cause the hands of Christendom to be raised in holy horror.... ... The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia says: "Ecstatic visions announcing the approach of the Second Advent of Christ... were set forth as divine ... It was made to fit a theory as false as the definition. Look at any dictionary. "Papacy: 1. The office and dignity of the Pope... 2. The ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Seventh-day-Adventism-RENOUNCED-by-D-M-Canright.htm | 90% Size: 749K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD ... Makes Billions for the Church With Her Un-Biblical Tithing Doctrine 286 Twelve - Church Corruption During The 1970's 294 ... He cites the work of Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (Charles Scribner Sons, New York, 1892-1902), the article, "On Sabbath: Babylonian," it ... "The Israelites . . . made the Sabbath the feasts of a living and holy God. The work of man became symbolic of the work of God, and human rest of divine rest, so that the Sabbaths became preeminently days of ... Furthermore, as Sanders observes, "The Father and Jesus work on the Sabbath. A non-biblical starting point seems to lead to a ... Robert K. Sanders clarifies what God's law really is in the next section. THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT by Robert K. Sanders We observe ... It was the MEMORY of the blessing and setting aside of this one day, together with the self-evident eternal rest of God from ... The doctrine of Athanasius [the Trinity] was received, not originated, by Rome" (pages 71, 72). This indicates how dependent Rome ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-lying-for-god-Kerry-Wynne.htm | 90% Size: 2.6M Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912 New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1965 A Catholic Dictionary, William E. Addis & Thomas Arnold, 1960 The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912 What the Watchtower quoted: What they left out to deliberately misrepresent the source and deceive you: "The Trinity is the term employed to signify the of the Christian religion . . . Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: 'the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but ... The Catholic Encyclopedia also comments: "In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word [tri'as] (of which ... I. THE DOGMA of the Trinity-The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion-the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there ... do we find any clear indication of baptism, the Lord's supper." "Nowhere in the Bible do we find any indication of the Watchtower organization" or that Christians ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Catholic.htm | 89% Size: 126K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | Hindu Gurus and Pentecostal preachers are identical!!! Sathya Sai Subud Qigong Shakers Pentecostal Today Bible Examples Slain in the spirit Click to View ? Click to View Click to View Click to View ... Click to View Go to 20th Century tongues refuted section Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA Documentation section: (Very long file: 400 KB, wait then ... Christina and Stanislov Grof, New Age authors of the book "The Stormy Search for the Self," describe how the awakening of Kundalini energy can ... His message was his God-consciousness. Drawn by the magnetism of Sri Ramakrishna's divine personality, people flocked to him from far and near ... Everyone who came to him felt uplifted by his profound God-consciousness, boundless love, and universal outlook. Each seeker saw in him the ... in an article for Spiritual Counterfeits Project entitled "HOLY LAUGHTER or Strong Delusion", Fall, 1994, Vol. 19.2) Click to View ... Mr Desai enclosed a pack of vibhuti with his letter to me. [exactly the same as Pentecostal preachers sending out their trinkets] My father ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-kundalini-shakers-charismastics.htm | 89% Size: 249K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | Part1: Pagan Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... ... Supporters of the Trinity say that it is founded not only on religious tradition but also on the Bible. Christians do not found the trinity upon tradition at all. We reject all human creeds and abide ONLY in the concept of trinity in the Bible where Jesus is uncreated divine God (like the Father) and the Holy Spirit is a person. Critics of the doctrine say that it is not a Bible teaching, one history source even declaring: "The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan."-The Paganism in Our Christianity. This source trashes all of Christianity, not just ... Should we really expect to understand everything about a Person who is so great that he could bring into existence the universe, with all its intricate design and stupendous size? (Reasoning from the scriptures, Watchtower publication, 1989, p 148-149) If JW's reject the trinity because it is hard to understand, then they might as well reject God himself! Thus, A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge says: "Precisely what that doctrine ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm | 88% Size: 110K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... ... Supporters of the Trinity say that it is founded not only on religious tradition but also on the Bible. Christians do not found the trinity upon tradition at all. We reject all human creeds and abide ONLY in the concept of trinity in the Bible where Jesus is uncreated divine God (like the Father) and the Holy Spirit is a person. Critics of the doctrine say that it is not a Bible teaching, one history source even declaring: "The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan."-The Paganism in Our Christianity. This source trashes all of Christianity, not just ... Should we really expect to understand everything about a Person who is so great that he could bring into existence the universe, with all its intricate design and stupendous size? (Reasoning from the scriptures, Watchtower publication, 1989, p 148-149) If JW's reject the trinity because it is hard to understand, then they might as well reject God himself! Thus, A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge says: "Precisely what that doctrine ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT.htm | 88% Size: 727 bytes Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | Official creed of the Orthodox church Go To Start Orthodox Creed Orthodox Catechism GOD THE FATHER: GOD THE FATHER is the fountainhead of the Holy Trinity. The Scriptures reveal the one God is Three Persons -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- eternally sharing the one divine nature. From the Father the Son is begotten before all ages and all time (Psalm 2:7; II Corinthians ... Others reduce it to a mere perfunctory obedience to Christ's command (cf. Matthew 28:19, 20). Still others, ignoring the Bible completely, reject baptism as a vital factor in salvation. Orthodoxy maintains that these ... is the divinely inspired Word of God (II Timothy 3:16), and is a crucial part of God's self-revelation to the human race. The Old Testament tells the history of that revelation from Creation through the Age of the Prophets. The New Testament records the birth and life of Jesus as well as the writings of His Apostles. It also includes some of the history of the early Church and especially sets forth the Church's apostolic doctrine. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-Orthodox.htm | 88% Size: 149K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | False Doctrine of Modalism: As taught by the United Pentecostal ... Click here for Trinity Mouse Rollover Graphical Helper Click to View Modalism: As taught by the United Pentecostal Church (UPCI) Click to View ... There is only one being at any one time. Modalism views God as a being that has three different forms. Sometimes God exists in the "form" the "Father", sometimes the "Son", sometime the "Holy Spirit", BUT NEVER ALL THREE AT THE SAME TIME. The essential difference between Modalism ... If the three modes of God are able to co-exist AT THE SAME TIME, then there is no essential difference with Modalism and Trinity doctrine. ... contradicts the Bible, it assaults common sense by destroying the utterly obvious distinction in persons between the Father and the Son. Contact Webmaster: Click here Modalism: (Modalistic monarchianism) Click to View Monotheism Click to View The Son is not divine, but a created ... Its ascetic features are mentioned in 2:16, 18, 21-23: "food," "drink" (2:16); "self-abasement" (2:18); "do not handle, do not taste, do not ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-modalism.htm | 88% Size: 106K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | Nimrod and the Archaeology of the Tower of Babel by Steven Rudd ... ... ancestor of Abraham. The Hebrews are "sons of Eber" (10:21)." (Easton's Bible dictionary, Hebrew, 1893 AD) e. "One of the most striking correspondences is between the ... Those who inquire into the literal nature of the divine writings think thus of the order in which these men are mentioned, looking upon him who is the first named, that ... Ham and Japheth may have resented leaving a life of opulent luxury before the flood where others served them, for a life of poverty and self-subsistence after the ... Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father [in heaven] but through Me." (John 13:36-14:6) f. Domino #6: Rejecting the ... Domino #7: Rejecting Jesus as God and making him into a creature/angel, destroys the Bible doctrine of the Trinity. h. Domino #8: Rejecting the Trinity transforms the Holy Spirit from a person into a thing. Not only is the Holy Spirit no longer God, He doesn't even exist as a person, but is merely a personification of God's ... ... https://www.bible.ca/nimrod/welcome.htm | 88% Size: 1.4M Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Brown, Colin: New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology Brown, Colin: New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology Click to View How the quote appears in "Should you believe in the Trinity", Watchtower, Jw's booklet. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology similarly states: "The N[ew] T[estament] does not contain the developed doctrine of the Trinity. 'The Bible lacks the express declaration that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are of equal essence' [said Protestant theologian Karl ... There are threefold formulae listing the Persons in such passages as Matt. 28:19; Jn. 14:26; 15:26; 2 Cor. 13:13; 1 Pet. 1:2 (---> God, art. theos NT 8). There seems to be no precursor of this idea in any significant usage of the numerical concept in the OT, nor ... This is nowhere more clearly evident than in Acts where the Spirit is presented as an almost tangible FORCE, visible if not in itself, certainly in its affects. ... For the first Christians, the Spirit was most characteristically a divine POWER manifesting ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Brown.htm | 88% Size: 14K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | Scholars on the Personality of the Holy Spirit Quotes by Scholars Anti-Trinitarians will misquote scholars so frequently, that they effectively projecting the false idea that these scholars actually reject that the Bible teaches the personality of the Holy Spirit and the trinity! The personality of the Holy Spirit is a knock out against all anti-Trinitarians and automatically proves that the trinity doctrine of three persons in the ... and even God the Father Himself! The word spirit means breath in some places, but not always. The Holy Spirit is associated with God's power, but is often attributed clear personality in both the Old and New Testament. To prove the Holy Spirit is not a person, Jehovah's Witnesses and all Anti-Trinitarians deal with the subject of spirit by picking one of many definitions from a Greek dictionary while ... If the New Testament writers nowhere explicitly call the Holy Spirit God and do not explicitly ascribe to Him the divine functions of creation, salvation and judgment, still they do at times put the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-quotes-personality-of-holy-spirit.htm | 88% Size: 24K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... Begin our comments below What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus? If people were to read the Bible from cover to cover without any preconceived idea of a Trinity, would they ... Although these verses do not teach the developed 4th century trinity doctrine, they more than teach the deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit. God Is One, Not Three THE Bible teaching that God is one is called monotheism. And L. L. Paine, professor of ... Trinity doctrine is considered by scholars to be monotheistic. Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, ... Hippolytus certainly applies Rev 1:8 to Christ and calls Jesus "The Almighty" several times. But even if the Father is alone called the Almighty, this still doesn't prove Jesus is ... 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 ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm | 88% Size: 91K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | The New Testament Jewish Sects: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes ... ... So, we are not the first people to say that we should follow only the Bible and yet divide over very many things. Yet since the Bible tells us ... That is, they didn= t believe in a resurrection to an angel or a spirit or that they denied the elaborate angelology and demonology popular ... Jackson 12), but it is doubtful that many Jews before the Pharisees held to a doctrine of resurrection. That is why, while we tend to label ... A Essenes@ might mean A holy ones@ or A pious ones@ (Evans 343). Another possibility is A healers@ (Bruce 82). Initiation into the group ... Religious beliefs Deterministic: everything determined by divine providence: A The Essenes affirm that fate governs all things, and that ... Soul set free at death: They believed in the immortality of the soul (Ant. 18.1.5), and taught that God would punish an evil soul but set free ... They did, however, believe in self-defense, and even carried weapons for such (J. W. 2.8.4). (Philo gives a conflicting account, saying they ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/d-jewish-sects-pharisees-sadducees-essenes-zealots.htm | 87% Size: 55K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion What else did they fail to quote from this source? theologians today are in agreement that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity ... theologians agree that the New Testament also does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity. In the immediate post New Testament period of the Apostolic Fathers no attempt was made to work out the God-Christ (Father-Son) relationship in ontological terms.(The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea Eliade, Trinity, Vol 15, p53-57) It was prompted chiefly by belief in the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier ... The language of the Bible, of early Christian creeds, and of Greek and Latin theology prior to the fourth century is "economic" (oikonomia, divine management of earthly affairs). It is oriented ... Because the emphasis is placed on what the divine persons share, Latin theology tends toward modalism (which obscures the distinctiveness of each person). Also the Trinity is presented as self-... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Eliade.htm | 87% Size: 27K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Trinity proof texts: Philippians 2:5-8 Trinity Proof Texts: Phil 2:6 Jesus is not a creature Click to View Philippians 2:5-11 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, ... Before His incarnation Jesus existed in heaven in the form of God, possessing the very authority, power and appearance of God. Jesus consented to the eternal plan of the Father who placed Jesus divine Spirit into the body of a man in ... On the first day of the week, by Jesus' own divine power, along with the Father and Holy Spirit, Jesus raised himself up from the dead. (Acts 2:32; John ... When Jesus rejects being equal with God, it is not humility, it is reality and self-acceptance. Jesus was in the "form of God" at the transfiguration, ... Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Bible students (JW splinter groups) and other Arians try to make the verse say that Jesus, being a humble ... But even if that was true it still doesn't help them in Phil 2:6. Our approach lays the axe at the root of the false doctrine! c. The "Arian View" of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-philippians2-6.htm | 87% Size: 320K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | Official creed and Baptismal vows of Seventh-day Adventist church The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration through holy men of God who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. In this Word, God has committed to man the ... Support is found in these Bible passages: 2Peter 1:20,21: 2Timothy 3:16,17: Psalms 119:105: Proverbs 30:5,6: Isaiah 8:20: John 17:17: 1Thessalonians 2:13: Hebrews 4:12 #2 The Trinity There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons. God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever present. He is infinite and beyond human comprehension, yet known through His self-revelation. He is forever worthy of worship, adoration, and service by the whole creation. Support is found in ... When members employ these spiritual gifts as faithful stewards of God's varied grace, the church is protected from the destructive influence of false doctrine, grows with a growth that is from God, and is built up in faith and love. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-SDA.htm | 87% Size: 40K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | Abbott, Lyman: Dictionary of Religious Knowledge is a very marked feature in Hindooism, and is discernible in Persian, Egyptian, Roman, Japanese, Indian and the most ancient Grecian mythologies." (Religious Dictionary, Lyman Abbott, p944, as quoted in by anti-Trinitarians) Example of selective quoting (Blue is Jw quote from booklet, Should you believe the Trinity?) "It is certain, however, that from the apostolic times they paid worship to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, addressed to them their prayers, and included them in their doxologies." ... "Precisely what the doctrine is, or precisely how it is to be explained, Trinitarians are not agreed among themselves." ... "It is not possible for the human intellect to comprehend fully the divine nature. The Bible represents God to us as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. ... Incarnation means to me more than that the Spirit of God dwelt unrecognized by the world centuries ago for a few years in Jesus of Nazareth; it also .means to me that the-, same Spirit still dwells in the world, carrying on now ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Abbott.htm | 87% Size: 11K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Commentary on what the early Christians believed about the Trinity Father and Son) is strenuously asserted by the Prophets. The Trinity is made known by the Gospel" (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, Vol. 15, p 47-49) "The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the OT. ...In many places of the OT, however, expressions are used in which some of the Fathers of the Church saw references or foreshadowings of the Trinity. ... The revelation of the truth of the triune life of God was first made in the NT, where the earliest references to it are in the Pauline epistles. The doctrine is most easily seen in St. Paul's recurrent use of the terms God, Lord, and Spirit. (New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1965, "Trinity, in the Bible", p306) The Apostolic Fathers ... In thus using a two-stage theory of a pre-existent Logos to explain the Son's divine status and His relation to the Father. They Probably did not ... in the theology of the Church till the 4th century. (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) Origen But Origen, in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-apostolic-fathers.htm | 86% Size: 25K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | Trinity proof texts: John 17:3 and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. (John 17:3 represents the primary proof text that Anti-trinitarians use to teach Jesus is a creature and trash the trinity. ... It is obvious that Jesus and the Father are not the same person, but two distinct persons. Therefore Jesus is not God. The fact that the Father is the "only true God", excludes Jesus as being the "only true God". Our preliminary comments: No verse in the Bible ever outright states that Jesus is not divine or God. John 17:3 does not ... King in John 18:37 and 1 Tim 6:15) Rev 15:4 excludes Jesus from being called Holy One. (Yet Jesus is called Holy One in Mark 1:24; Acts 3:14; John 6:69) Mark ... Yet such language did not exclude Jesus Christ from also being called good with the approval of the Holy Spirit: Mt 23:8-10 "But do not be called Rabbi; for One is ... only in that he was given self-sustaining immortality, while we will have immortality that needs recharging from time to time, like eating from the tree of life. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john17-3.htm | 86% Size: 63K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | Trinity proof texts: John 19:7 Trinity Proof Texts Click to View John 19:7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God." Click to View The irrefutable ... non-divine beings, proves that when Jesus applied the term to Himself, he was claiming equality with God and divinity itself! The Jews were fully aware that Jesus claimed to be sent/ordained/appointed of God in John 19:7, THEY REJECTED THIS CLAIM! John 19:7 proves that the gospel of John uses the following terms interchangeably: "Son of God" "God" "Equality with God" "calling God His own Father" ... The term "made himself out to be" means, "this is how Jesus described himself", not that he was self appointed. There is no way to make the expression "made himself out to be" to have any ... Bible student's never need to make such desperate arguments! Unscholarly and inconsistent logic of Jehovah's Witness: Does "Made" [Strong's: 4160 poieo] in John 19:7 mean "appoint"? The Greek ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john19-7.htm | 86% Size: 22K Depth: 7 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | Kittel, Gerhard: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament Kittel, Gerhard: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament Click to View Gerhard Kittel quoted in: Should you believe the ... Kittle refers to the threefold formulae IN THE BIBLE ITSELF, not later trinitarian dogma! Do Arians believe that polytheism influenced the text in 2 Cor 13:13 and Mt 28:19? Kittel's comments do not exclude the Arian view (JW's) of God from ... Notice that although Kittel admits, like all Trinitarians do, that the developed doctrine of the Nicene Trinity is not in the Scripture, but that early Christians believed Jesus was divine and rejected Jesus was a creature! In ... What this means is that although Kittel says that "only-begotten" might imply the origin of Jesus is the Father, he rejects that ... The divine work of salvation is thus prosecuted in the historical threefold relation of Father, Son and Spirit. This threefold ... Yet it is self-evident that Father, Son and Spirit are here linked in an indissoluble threefold relationship. On the other hand, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kittel.htm | 86% Size: 18K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Biblical Subordination expressed by scholars of God and is equal to God; he assigns to Him the divine functions of creation, salvation, and judgment; and he probably also calls Him God explicitly. ... Triune God, Edmund Fortman, p31) "Although the Spirit is distinguished from Christ and subordinated to him, it can be said in 1 Jn 2:1 that Christ is the Paraclete with the Father. All this underlines the point that primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the creeds of the early church." (New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Brown, Colin, 1932, God, vol 2, p84, J. Schneider) At times Paul writes as if Christ were 'subordinate' to the Father. ... The New Testament writers do not witness to the Holy Spirit as fully and clearly as they do to the Son. (The Triune God, Edmund Fortman, p30-33) If God ... on the divine level of being than another. (Dictionary of the Bible, John L. McKenzie, Trinity, p899) "Jesus Christ does not usurp the place of God. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-subordination-scholars.htm | 86% Size: 12K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | Official creed of the Wesleyan Church Therefore, our statements of faith, which we call "Articles of Religion," seek to express only what the Bible teaches, as those teachings have been understood by the Church as a whole in its ... Preamble 200. In order that we may wisely preserve and pass on to posterity the heritage of doctrine and principles of Christian living transmitted to us as evangelicals in the ... Contents Faith in the Holy Trinity The Father The Son of God The Holy Spirit The Sufficiency and Full Authority of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation God's Purpose for Man Marriage and the Family Man's Choice The Atonement Repentance ... We believe that the two great commandments which require us to love the Lord our God with all the heart, and our neighbors as ourselves, summarize the divine law as it is revealed in the ... We believe that man is created in the image of God, that human sexuality reflects that image in terms of intimate love, communication, fellowship, subordination of the self to the larger ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-wesleyan.htm | 85% Size: 39K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | BEWARE: Arian Biased Translations Kingdom Interlinear Lamsa Cotton Patch New English Bible Revised English Bible New Testament in an Improved Version ... Below are the Bibles Jehovah's Witnesses will quote to support their false doctrine. They quote them profusely. The fact is ... These men are usually anti-trinitarians themselves, so the vast majority amount to self-quoting. Bibles frequently quoted ... deity of God the Father! Schonfield, an advocate of the "swoon theory" is quoted by the Muslims in support of their view that Jesus didn't actually die on the cross. Jehovah's Witnesses habitually quote faithless men like this to trash the trinity. ("The ... is quoted by the Watchtower, but he is an occult spiritist, who claimed to get his translation through a spirit medium! ... by the third Council of Ephesus in A.D. 431, taught that Jesus had two persons in one body, one human and one divine. ... of the English language who has ever translated the Holy Bible from the original Aramaic texts into English and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-translations.htm | 85% Size: 12K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | The Historical Development of "Arian style" (Jehovah's Witness ... "The Apologists were, in a sense, the Church's first theologians: the first to attempt a sketch of trinitarian doctrine and an intellectually satisfying ... In thus using a two-stage theory of a pre-existent Logos to explain the Son's divine status and His relation to the Father. They Probably did not realize ... Thus two currents of thought and belief began to stand out. One read the Biblical witness to God as affirming that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three who are equally God and somehow one God. The other read ... But Origen, in his attempt to combine strict monotheism with a hierarchical order in the Trinity, ended up by making the Son and the Holy Spirit not ... An alternative solution was to interpret Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three modes of the self-disclosure of the one God but not as distinct within the ... becoming man, and who is neither God nor man." (Outlines of the History of Dogma, Adolf Harnack, p251) By Steve Rudd Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-subordination-arian-development.htm | 85% Size: 13K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | Schaff, Philip: 1. History of the Christian Church. 2. New Schaff ... The Indian Trimurti, altogether pantheistic in spirit, is still further from the Christian Trinity" (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church New York: Scribner's, 1924, vol. 2, p. 566) "The Ontological Doctrine: There is no reason to seek for sources or types of the doctrine of the Trinity outside of Christianity or of the Bible, though in the ... of the Old Testament..." (New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, Trinity, Doctrine of the; p18) "The doctrine of the divine Trinity is the summarized statement of the historical revelation of redemption for the Christian consciousness of God. It affirms that God is not only the ruler of the universe, but the Father of Christ, in whom he is perfectly revealed, and the source of a holy and blessed life which transforms nature and is realized in the Church. ... Justin was, as he him self relates, an enthusiastic admirer of Plato before he found in the Gospel that full satisfaction which he had sought earnestly, but in vain, in philosophy. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Schaff.htm | 85% Size: 27K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | Trinity Proof Texts: Genesis 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8 likeness" I. Plural pronouns used of God proving the trinity: Click to View Click here for detailed study of plural ... And again, "I will be a Father to Him And He shall be a Son to Me"? " (Hebrews 1:5) Of course the answer is rhetorical: God never said to any angels "Today I have begotten You". But he did say this to Jesus. Therefore Jesus cannot be an angel, but we begotten at his resurrection as Acts 13:33 says, thereby fulfilling Ps 2:7. The self contradictory doctrine of the Watchtower has Jesus the ... This passage teaches that if Jesus is the creator, as the Bible says he is, then he cannot be a creature. Jesus cannot ... For with Him were always present the Word and Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit, by whom and in whom, freely and ... Against Praxeas, Chapter XII. Other Quotations from Holy Scripture Adduced in Proof of the Plurality of Persons in ... Son Another.) Constitutions of the Holy Apostles: "the divine Scripture testifies that God said to Christ, His ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-genesis1-26.htm | 85% Size: 20K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | Hastings, James: Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics character to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is its close association with the distinctive Christian view of divine incarnation." ... " As Augustine said, "if in the books of the Platonists it was to be found that 'in the beginning was the Word,' it was not found there that 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.'" ... "None the less Christ is acknowledged as the eternal Son of God and the supreme revelation of the Father, and the quickening Spirit of life is acknowledged to be ... the term 'Trinity' were employed to designate the Trinity of revelation or the doctrine of the threefold self-manifestation of God), and the term 'Triunity' (cf. Germ. ... Paul a saving experience of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the love of God, and of the communion of the Holy Ghost; and the theologians of the ancient Church ... Economic Trinity: First in a simple sense, as we find in the Bible, where there is an affirmation of the deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit combined ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Hastings.htm | 85% Size: 27K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | TRINITY: Christology: Diety and Humanity of our Savour! Introduction: 1. God the Son is Jesus Christ (Messiah) a. Eternally pre-existent b. Creator not a creature: Rom 1:25 c. God, but distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit d. In heaven, Jesus was omnipresent ... The Gnostics taught that Jesus as God, was spirit only and did not have flesh and bones. e. John attacks this false doctrine and calls it the antichrist: i. "By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from ... what drove the development of trinity doctrine. 1. The necessity to formulate the doctrine was thrust upon the Church by forces from without, and it was, in particular, its faith in the deity of Christ, and the necessity to defend it, that first compelled the Church to face the duty of formulating a full doctrine of the Trinity for its rule of faith." (New Bible Dictionary, J. D. Douglas & F. F. Bruce, Trinity, p 1298) 2. For the early Christian belief that Jesus was divine, the Son of God, and that as the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-deity-of-christ.htm | 85% Size: 117K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | Early Christian faith on Trinity, deity of Christ, personality ... Earliest Christians taught Trinity! (50 - 600 AD) Uninspired records of how early Christians worshipped and what doctrine they believed! Click to View Trinity Deity and eternal pre-existence of Jesus Christ Person & Personality of the Holy Spirit Click to View Regarding the "US", in Gen 1:26 "Let us make man in our ... But, when the disciples saw it, they were indignant. . . . God, aware of this, said to them: 'Why do you trouble this woman? She has ... (Apology 16). 150 AD Justin Martyr 150 AD Justin Martyr "The Father of the universe has a Son, who also being the first begotten ... adored, the expiator of sin, the Saviour, the clement, the Divine Word, He that is truly most manifest Deity, He that is made ... And it is manifest that all these gifts [possessed by believers] "worketh one and the self-same Spirit." There are not then either ... Book V. XX. A Prophetic Prediction Concerning Christ Jesus.) Go to Early Christian index Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... https://www.bible.ca/H-trinity.htm | 85% Size: 122K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | Official creed of Assemblies of God ARTICLE V--CONSTITUTION (Revised 1983 General Council) The Bible is our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice. This ... The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the ... self-existent "I AM," the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10, 11; Matt. 28:19; Luke 3:22. THE ADORABLE GODHEAD (a) Terms Defined The terms "Trinity" and "persons" as related to the Godhead, while not found in the Scriptures, are words in harmony with Scripture, whereby we may convey to others our immediate understanding of the doctrine of Christ ... The Lord Jesus Christ, as to His divine and eternal nature, is the proper and only Begotten of the Father, but as to His ... The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit (Romans 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-assemblies-of-god.htm | 85% Size: 17K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | Encyclopædia Britannica ... Britannica, 1979, Constantine the Great, Vol. 5, p.71) In later years, he wrote to Eusebius to commission new copies of the Bible for the use of the growing congregations at Constantinople. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979, Constantine the Great, Vol. 5, p.71) ... Thus, the New Testament established the basis for the doctrine of the Trinity. The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. Initially, both the requirements of monotheism inherited from the Old Testament and the implications of the need to interpret the biblical teaching to Greco-Roman paganism seemed to demand that the divine in Christ as the Word, or Logos, be interpreted as subordinate to the Supreme Being. An alternative solution was to interpret Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three modes of the self-disclosure of the one God but not as distinct within the being of God itself. The first tendency recognized the distinctness among the three, but at the cost of their equality and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm | 85% Size: 95K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | Life of Mrs. E.G. White - Her Claims Refuted, by D.M. Canright ... Click to View Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA Preface Mrs. E.G. White, the prophetess, leader, and chief founder of the Seventh-day Adventists Church, claimed to be divinely inspired by God the same as were the prophets of the ... Spirit" ("Testimonies for the Church," Vol. IV., p. 148; Vol. V., p. 661; No. 88, p. 189) that is, by her through her writings. Every line she wrote, whether in articles, letters, testimonies or books, she claimed was dictated to her by the Holy ... to which her followers, who have freely criticized other claimants to divine inspiration, can not reasonably object. ... Having no faith in any other doctrine or people, I did not know what to do nor where to go. So I tried to believe the visions ... Joanna died in her self-delusion Dec. 27, 1814; but her followers, who at one time numbered a hundred thousand, continued till ... That is all he says about it. His father had been a Baptist deacon, then a member of the Christian church. Neither his ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Life-of-White-her-claims-refuted-canright.htm | 84% Size: 336K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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