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Sola Scriptura: Apostolic Fathers used scripture as the primary ... ... Roman Catholic and Orthodox advocates deceptively mislead you into thinking that since the heretics also tried to prove their ... problem, we must first master the knowledge which the Divine Scriptures give of Father and of Son, that so we may speak ... Notice he does not say, "we are the church, we have the Holy Spirit to guide our interpretation", but "as we understand it". He ... common man to understand their defense of doctrine? Yet Orthodox and Catholic defenders think they are better skilled at writing religious literature than God! For only in their writings can man understand truth! "Such suggestions are inconsistent with the clear sense of Scripture." (Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity, Book 4, 16) "There is no room for ... But you, taking occasion by this, if you light upon the text of the Scriptures, by genuinely applying your mind to them, will ... conversant with them, who have also become martyrs for the deity of Christ, to your zeal for learning, in turn. (Athanasius, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-apostolic-fathers.htm

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Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity: Dr. David W. T. Brattston ... The Sabbath Abolished? With three dissenting voices, Christian authors before the mass apostasy of AD 249-251 believed that Jesus abolished the ... abolished their sabbaths and fasts and holy-days and circumcision, and the doctrines of men and the rest of the traditions he did abolish." ... doctrine was that the god of the Old Testament commands Sabbath observance while that of the New does not. Here we have an enemy of mainstream Christianity seizing on a difference as well-established. To prove that there is only one deity, Tertullian's Against Marcion defended the continuity of the Bible and its God. As for the Sabbath, Tertullian said that Christ did not rescind, annul or destroy it, although confining its prohibitions to human works for one's own benefit as distinct from work he would permit for healing, restoring, and other "divine" ... Sometimes early Christians partially enumerated the Ten Commandments as still binding, sometimes as good rules of conduct evident from nature in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/H-sunday-sabbath-and-sunday-in-early-christianity-before-400AD-DavidW.T.Brattston.htm

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The polytheistic "henotheism" of Jehovah's Witnesses and Christadelphi ... ... Worshipping of angels is condemned: Col 2:18. Gal 1:8 warns that angels, like demons, can become agents of false doctrine: ... In fact the Holy Spirit went out of His way to make sure we would not directly equate angels with the word elohim (god) in ... The above facts alone, powerfully remove the stock answer Jehovah's Witnesses give to prove Jesus is a "created demi-god" ... all the [good] angels of God worship Him") The point is that they are no more gods than wooden idols and instead of being worshipped by man as "demons", they are commanded to offer divine worship to a man by the name of Jesus Christ. This is most profound and sends Jehovah's Witnesses into a tail spin when they try to appeal to this as a proof text that "angels are gods". ... you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. " (Galatians 4:8) E. Satan is called the "god ... of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs; for they are spirits of demons, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-definition-god-watchtower-JW-henotheism.htm

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Mormonism: God had sex with Mary to conceive Jesus Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View Original documents prove it without question! ... And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense ... means what it says. (1 Ne. 11.) (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.742 Son Of God, LDS Collectors Library '97 CD-ROM) Bruce R. ... And the Son is a Son is a Son; he is not some transient emanation from a divine essence, but a literal, living offspring of an actual Father. God is the Father; Christ is the Son. The one begat the ... Jesus is the Son of God in at least three ways. First, he is the firstborn spirit child of God the Father and thereby the elder ... As Mary was His saintly mother, so the Mighty God was His everlasting and literal Father. He was "the only begotten" of Deity, in the ... From his exalted Father he inherited immortality, the capacity to live forever. The Savior's dual nature-man and God-enabled him to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-god-had-sex-with-mary.htm

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Prophecy Blunders! 100 Years of Failed Watchtower prophecies Yet what you will observe is an ever changing system of doctrine. Take careful note at how they make bold claims of events to happen in a ... of the great day of God Almighty' (Rev. 16:14), which will end in A.D. 1915, with the complete overthrow of the earth's present rulership, is already commenced." (The Time Is At Hand; 1889; 1915 ed.; p. 101) 1915 "As in the type that date - three and a half years ... this age - to become joint-heirs with Christ and partakers of the divine nature." (The Time Is At Hand; 1889; 1915 ed.; p. 235) 1915 So it was in ... (The Time Is At Hand; 1889; 1915 ed.; p. 236) 1915 The Gentile Times prove that the present governments must all be overturned about the close ... the appearing of the 'desolating abomination in the holy place' is an unerring proof that the unknown day and hour of the ... Although having rejected such false teachings as the Trinity and immortal soul, they were still tainted by Babylonish practices. Many had ... ... https://www.bible.ca/Jw-Prophecy.htm

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Bible Quiz: 100's of questions for Outdoor Fairs & Home Shows ... but didn't have the Holy Spirit. (Acts 8:16) ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ × Paul believed, fasted for three days and was baptized. (Acts 22:16) ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ × "The Ethiopian said, "I believe" ... Question 5 The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls proved that the text of the Bible is unchanged in 2000 years. Jesus rose from the dead. the Dead Sea once supported life. Identify the Bible quotes "Pray the sinners prayer and thou shalt be saved" "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now" "A ... Believing false doctrine Extra (new) unused question: DOES GOD EXIST? The easiest way to prove that God exists. (Romans 1:20) 1. Is to quote a passage in the Bible. 2. take a nature walk and observe creation. 3. to touch God with your inner feelings. Click to View 8 fair questions at Outdoor festival 1998 The "Who Is Jesus" Bible quiz! The most important thing Jesus provided for man was a sinless, loving example for how we ought to live morally His shed blood for forgiveness of sins divine insight into the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-fairs-home-shows.htm

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Johannes Greber: "The New Testament", and "Communication with ... ... The spirit who spoke through the boy later identified itself, and the nature of his mission: "You are right to ask me who I am, for it is your first duty to test the ... In fact, the Watchtower felt that the doctrines the spirit revealed to Greber, were true. Remember, the Watchtower believes that the Holy Spirit communicates with the ... Doctrine Johannes Greber, "Communication with the Spirit World of God--Its Laws and Purpose. Revealed to him by demon spirits: Watchtower doctrines revealed by the ... Christ not divine Christ was therefore the Son of God, and claimed to be nothing more. He was not the Deity. Not once did he say: "I am God." (p. 330) Well, did Jesus ever say that he was God? No, he never did. Rather, in the Bible he is called "God's Son." (You ... Trinity is a Human Creation You teach the union of three persons in one Godhead ... This is a piece of human fallacy and is an absurdity. (p.265) ... Christ taught a unipersonalist God ... He knows of no triune God of Whom ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Greber.htm

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Sabbathgate 1888 by Kerry Wynne ... Adventist leaders have known the facts about this text and a host of other anti-Sabbatarian facts since 1888. Tragically, Adventist leaders ... Adding insult to insult, Bacchiocchi conceded that he could not prove that the influence of sun worship influenced Christians to adopt Sunday ... hundreds of years before there was a Roman Catholic Church, proving that Ellen White lied when she said that God showed her the pope did it! ... Samuele Bacchiocchi, the Church's best known Sabbath scholar of the last 100 years, validates Canright on three key issues, either directly or ... knew virtually all of the impossibilities of the Church's Sabbath doctrine by 1888 except for the argument from Hebrew linguistics regarding ... the imagination beyond the limits of propriety to think that they would be willing to break one of God's holy laws just to save their necks. ... Furthermore, although they believed Jesus was sinless, they taught that he possessed sinful human nature like the rest of Mankind. Yet it is a ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-sabbathgate-1888ad-Kerry-Wynne.htm

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The false doctrine of Roman Catholic apostolic succession! ... It is impossible for one in our time to be a witness in the sense they were. Instead, it is through their writings--the holy ... We must not take from, add to, or pervert the gospel of Christ because doing so causes the curse of God to come upon us (Rev. 22:18-19; Gal. 1:6-9). Thus, if Catholics are to sustain their doctrine that the authority of ... whose adherence to it has been secured by a special Divine assistance, as that of the apostles was in the beginning." ... No Bible was cited to prove his contention. The argument is unreasonable as well as unscriptural. We might as well argue that ... In the New Testament the words "elder," "bishop," or "pastor" are used interchangeably. The three terms refer to the same office ... In both of the foregoing verses, the word "priest," singular or plural, is a mis-translation. The Greek text used the word ... (Matt. 4:10). Men should not seek the glory which belongs only to Deity. They should not accept it, nor endeavor to give it. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-apostolic-succession.htm

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Ralph P. Martin: The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians ... of the apostle leads on directly to the Christological section. 6. The following notes try to give the meaning of the words in the text. See the Additional Note (pp. 110-114) for a consideration of the form, style and authorship of the verses. Being in very nature God looks back to our Lord's pre-temporal existence as the second person of the trinity. ... tradition of Adam as created in the image of God (Gn. 1:26-27; cf. 1 Cor. 11:7) and reflecting the divine kabod or splendor (Ps. 8:5 hints at this) which he subsequently forfeited at the fall. ... relative attributes of deity, viz. omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence, and even suffered the extinction of his eternal self-consciousness. ... The doctrine of the heavenly man has been traced elsewhere in Paul's writings (e.g. i Cor. 15:45ff .), but not convincingly. Bruce sees a ... See the Additional Note, pp. 110-114. At all events, the story of Christ reaches its first climax at this point. These three stanzas (vv. 6-8) ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Martin.htm

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The Samaritan Pentateuch (SP) Bible manuscript: Oldest and only ... ... This messianic expectation among the Samaritans is further proven by the rise of three exclusively SAMARITAN false messiahs: ... Pentateuch is an equal witness to the autograph word of God as the Septuagint (LXX) than the Masoretic text. (MT). 9. ... Ebal" by Ezra to counter Samaritan claims that Gerizim, not Jerusalem was God's holy Mountain. See: Deut 27:4: Joshua's Altar ... "smoking gun" that Ezra changed the Hebrew text and not the Samaritans, is Ezra's variant in Lev 26:31 that changes the singular "sanctuary" to plural "sanctuaries". The Samaritans used this verse to prove that ONE and only ONE sanctuary (singular) ... there are three great eras of history, the present era of divine disfavor sandwiched between two periods of divine favor. ... Volume 5, Page 81, 2009 AD) c. "A useful guide to the nature of Samaritan eschatology is the subtitle of Gaster's ... in Deut. 18:18 (which passage, according to Samaritan doctrine, is the only true Messianic prophecy ever given) and as ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Samaritan-Pentateuch-SP-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Paleo-Hebrew-1362AD.htm

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Gifts ceased: Encyclopedia of Pentecostal objections and their ... ... The Wesleyan doctrine of perfectionism, logically leads to Pentecostalism. This is proven by the rumor that some of Wesley's ... Such is to claim equality with deity, and to know the mind of God as well as the Holy Spirit knows God. "Who has known the mind of God EXCEPT the Spirit who is from God?" Even in heaven, only the Holy Spirit will have a perfect knowledge of God! Regarding "Know" John 10:27 - "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." Galatians 4:8-9 - "Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. But now that you know ... case of the masculine gender (in the singular number in all three instances) have the same spelling in all three instances. ... That mirror reflects "face to face" now that God's word is finished. see also: Jer 32:4; 2 John 12; 3 John 14. Looking at the text ... Seventh-day Adventists use this identical false argument in order to incorrectly prove that we must keep the weekly sabbath ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-ceased-pentecostal-arguments-refuted.htm

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Christianity Wasn't Influenced by Pagan Religions! ... they were experiencing the beginning of a new life. (4) The mysteries had little or no use for doctrine and correct belief. ... This biased and sloppy use of language suggests three misleading analogies between Osiris and Christ: (1) a savior god dies ... As previously noted, during its later mystery stage, the male deity of the Isis cult is no longer the dying Osiris but ... era had absolutely nothing that could resemble a dying and rising savior-god. The Cult of Cybele and Attis Cybele, also known as the Great Mother, was worshiped through much of the Hellenistic world. She undoubtedly began as a goddess of nature. ... 6:1-4. Not one existing text supports the claim that the taurobolium memorialized the death and "resurrection" of Attis. ... The mere fact that Christianity has a sacred meal and a washing of the body is supposed to prove that it borrowed these ... A. D. Nock, "Early Gentile Christianity and Its Hellenistic Background," in Essays on the Trinity and the Incarnation, ed. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan-christianity.htm

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Saul Hunts David. Timeline, maps, chronology, sermons of Judges ... ... Samuel lived to oversee the tabernacle for about 4 years until he died. C. David's 3 lies and deceptions The three/deceptions lies: David ... David's lying to prove it is OK to lie to your enemies. Just as the Bible didn't openly criticize Noah for getting drunk, so too it didn't criticize David's deceptions. This, however, should not be viewed as divine approval because God expects the reader to apply the most basic moral template onto any Bible story for their own discernment of what is right and wrong. Also, in this very text where David is not criticized for lying, no note is ... questionnaires of those who claimed they were not aware of the doctrine shows they were far less involved in the Watchtower-some were at ... While David's eating of the sacred Shew Bread placed on a table inside the Holy Place of the tabernacle goes without even a passing ... because they are atheistic, evolutionary and deny the dichotomous nature of man having a body and spirit. Christians know better. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-maps-timeline-chronology-1samuel-21-31-saul-david-on-the-run-1012-1004bc.htm

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Discussion: Eternal torment or annihilation? Several years ago on an e-mail list I was accused of living in the dark ages, and being of an evil and malevolent nature, and committing blasphemy against God, because I ... The depiction of the first resurrection and the second death were not meant for expositions of the doctrine of the resurrection from the ... the application to the pageantry of apocalyptic description of the fortunes of the early church and the divine judgments on its enemies." ... Lets not start now and take the pictures literally. ... Here in our present text is the fate of the wicked spelled out. Many of the ... I'd have you notice that this torment takes place: In the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. Hell, the final ... While certain passages speak of the nephesh as though it went to Sheol (Ps 16:10; 30:3; 86:13; 89:48; 94:17; Prove 23:14) an speak of the ... It is often used for the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:8ff; etc). But then it is also used three times in the New Testament. By Paul it is an ... ... https://www.bible.ca/su-annihilation-refuted-discussion.htm

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Joshua's Altar on Mt. Ebal and the Lead Curse Tablet ... Some scholars (A. Mazar, M. D. Coogan, I. Finkelstein) agree that the site has a cultic nature but do not interpret it as an altar; ... Joseph's Tomb was burned and torn down stone by stone, then bulldozed. It was immediately declared a Muslim holy site. I was ... The three-letter spelling "YHW" is used in the Aramaic Elephantine papyri: c. 400 BC 1. "YHW the God dwelling in Yeb." (404 BC, Anani) 2. "Greetings to the temple of YHW at Elephantine" (Padua 1) 3. "Let us get rid of the temple of the God YHW in Fort Elephantine!" ("Text A" (AP 30) 4. "If our lord [will give permission] for the temple of ... The law of the 10 commandments: Ex 20:3-17; Deut 5:6-21 4. Divine witness: Deut 4:26; 28:58; 30:19; 31:28; 32:1 + 31:19-21 a. ... and earth, the Storm-god, Lord of the kurinnu of Kahat, the Deity of Herds of Kurta, the Storm-god, Lord of Uhushuman, ... It would mean that the round altar was a pagan altar built by the Canaanites. Such would be enough to prove the rectangular altar ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm

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Eternal torment proved ... annihilation refuted Their false doctrine of annihilation is not proved right, just because they prove Dante's equally false concept of hell ... "Morally, the doctrine of eternal conscious torment is incompatible with the Biblical revelation of divine love and justice. ... God-dishonoring doctrine? And what is his purpose? The promulgator of it is Satan himself; and his purpose in introducing it has been to frighten the people away from studying the Bible and to make them hate God. (Jw's: J. F. Rutherford, Watchtower Society's Second President) How can Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and vindictiveness whose ways ... Rev 14:10-11 he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. ... Antitype Shadow of what is to come: Col 2:17 Type Text Literal Incense Symbolic incense: Prayer Rev 5:8 Literal Candles ... reasoning, we could conclude that TVM 5660 only means "lost" since it is only used three times and each time it means "lost". ... ... https://www.bible.ca/su-annihilation-refuted.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) ... the cold, the 2300 days, the seventy weeks, the sanctuary doctrine, the United States in prophecy, the "mark of the beast," ... every word have Its proper army on the subject of the text, if my view of it harmonized with every collateral passage ... man, though a fool, need not err therein."' [326] "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy Holy City." ... are not sustained by the word of God. ... I found it plainly taught in the Scriptures that Jesus Christ will again descend to this earth."' [324] Daniel 8:14: "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.". .. ... to my mind ... after examining them in the light of the divine word." [330] "When I was about my business," he said, "it ... out more pure and free from the imperfections of human nature, and the wiles of Satan, than that of the autumn of 1844. ... Q[252]" . How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days? "A. By the very act of changing the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-exhibits-Great-Contro.htm

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Matthew Fontaine Maury "Pathfinder Of Sea" Psalms 8 paths of the sea, the paths of the sea, if God says the paths of the sea, they are there, and if I ever get out of this bed I will find them." ... KATHERINE C. STILES. See also: God's inspired message to man. Scientific evidences to prove it!!! Click to View Some have called into question ... Pass in 1923 and put this inscription on it: "HIS INSPIRATION HOLY WRIT Psalms 8 and 107, Verses 8, 23 and 24 Ecclesiastes Chap. 1, Verse 8". ... Click to View Note on the above monument: M F Maury's monument with text "Pathfinder of the Seas" (Matthew Fontaine Maury) monument; Monument ... of omnipotence, and majesty, and eternity, it came and whispered to him in gentle and soothing tones of divine beneficence, wisdom, love. ... who would have thought that the inkling which he then caught as to a law of nature would enable us to turn aside the artillery of heaven? ... geography confesses that existence, and is based on the, Biblical doctrine 'that the earth was made for man.' 'Upon no other theory can it be ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tracks/matthew-fontaine-maury-pathfinder-of-sea-ps8.htm

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Debate with Catholic on Sola Scriptura (Riggs Vs Lopez) ... We plead with him to please explain how those verses prove that "apostolic oral traditions" are an authority in addition to the Holy Scriptures. ... 5) Jesus and the apostles rely on extrascriptural revelation as divine revelation; 6) The Word of God for future generations is oral and ... by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets." 1) This is a letter written to the Ephesians prior to the scriptural letter to the Ephesians. ... In fact, Paul had preached the Word of God for three years (Acts 20: 27, 31). After Paul died, were the Ephesians all of a sudden supposed to forget what Paul told them?; 3) The mystery (as explained in v. 6) is not about all doctrine that must be believed but only that the ... church because it had been established. 9) Clearly my opponent does not understand the nature of the church as revealed in the New Testament. ... The word bible is not in the bible does that mean we should not read it? Neither is incarnation, Trinity and other terms my opponent would agree ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-debate-riggs-lopez.htm

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The Exodus Route: The Archaeology of Mt. Lawz as Mt. Sinai to View Rephidim (Meribah) Click to View Wilderness of Sinai Click to View Mt. Sinai Introduction: 1. We can prove from the Bible alone that Mt. ... The only two options in interpreting Josephus' "three months" are to reject the 90 days as an error he made or confirmation of the 47-day itinerary. ... This is just another in series of revisions where Jews in AD 160 at Zippori changed Masoretic Text and key chronological events in the Old Testament ... This law was 'written with the finger of God,' and this finger of God the New Testament explicitly identifies with the Holy Spirit. For, when one Evangelist has: 'By the finger of God, I cast out devils,' another says this same thing thus: 'By the spirit of God, I cast out devils.' Who would not have this joy in the divine mysteries, when the redemptive doctrine shines with so clear a light, rather ... Thus, the advantage of the country is the cause of misfortune to its inhabitants because Nature generally gives men together with good things those ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route-mt-sinai.htm

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Why I left the Roman Catholic church! (personal testimony) I will mention, though, that I came from a large, devout Catholic family of twelve children. I attended Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky. ... God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book" (Revelation 22:18, 19). ... there is, therefore, absolutely no place or purpose in God's design for a so-called "divine, infallible apostolate." Please remember this conclusion. ... But my mother encouraged our study of the Bible and I recall quite well that often she gave us Bibles as presents and the text would be King James version. For where I am today, I owe much to her through the grace of God. Doctrine Of Depravity Of ... One Sunday afternoon in September, 1928, as I was sketching at the Dallas zoo, three young ladies approached. One of them lived in my neighborhood ... Catholic Error Why "I" Left One's conversion is, in its nature, a personal matter and to it we have given some attention; but when I am called upon ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-why-I-left.htm

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The New Testament Jewish Sects: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes ... ... They also believed, and I concur, that since man totally has the free will to choose good or evil, God is not responsible for ... Jackson 12), but it is doubtful that many Jews before the Pharisees held to a doctrine of resurrection. That is why, while we ... Sadducees were more congenial toward Hellenism, but this is only a guess based on such factors as their aristocratic nature. ... A Essenes@ might mean A holy ones@ or A pious ones@ (Evans 343). Another possibility is A healers@ (Bruce 82). Initiation into the group required a three year probation period of three stages: the first year the initiate lived entirely outside the ... Religious beliefs Deterministic: everything determined by divine providence: A The Essenes affirm that fate governs all ... If they said anything short of death, Jonathan said, then that would prove that they all thought just like Eleazar. Josephus ... Piety in Early Judaism: Texts and Documents (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1991), 1-50. D. S. Russell, Between ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/d-jewish-sects-pharisees-sadducees-essenes-zealots.htm

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Messianic Sermon Topics In Synagogues: How Christians used the ... is the listing of three synagogue activities: reading the Torah, teaching the commandments, and providing rooms and water for itinerant pilgrims. ... eager attention in becoming order. (82) Then one, indeed, takes up the holy volume and reads it, and another of the men of the greatest experience ... and of falsehood, and of a strict adherence to the principle of looking on the Deity as the cause of everything which is good and of nothing which is evil. ... first century "Rabbinical preaching Style": a. Like Paul He would proof text in Old Testament prophecy about the Messiah in order to prove Jesus was the Christ. 8. Sermons in the first century church would follow ... was spoken of through the prophet Joel: 'AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' God says, 'THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS ... "Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/Sermon-Topics-ancient-Synagogue-Messianic-prophecy-Rabbinical-approach-how-to-convert-a-Jew-first-century-church-New-Testament-prototype-ritual-liturgy-worship.htm

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White Estate's suppressions of Ellen G. White's book "Spirit ... ... are not to be found in the later editions of the visions published in 1851 and in 1882. We have all three editions in our possession. ... Here God's professed prophetic messenger dared to tamper with an alleged divine revelation. Now, reading on seventy-two lines farther in ... It is clearly manifest why all these "inspired" statements and visions were suppressed. They taught the shut-door doctrine, and said ... The Lord has shown me that the power that is with them is a mere human influence and not the power of God." Mrs. White here quotes Hosea 5:6,7, to prove that there was no genuine ... but 'Experience and Views' (1851) contained the full text of the early visions...After the unjust treatment I have received (from Mrs. ... It is claimed, however, that every line of these writings was inspired by the Holy Ghost to guide that people now. Yet they are withheld ... and I quote: 'In four or five instances we have withheld letters because of the highly personal nature of some of the contents of them.' ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-Spirit-of-Prophecy-supression.htm

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SDA 1919 Bible Conference that discusses E. G. Whites' inspiration ... And O, I would feel terribly to have this denomination lose its true, genuine, proper faith in this gift that God gave to this church in these ... At that time here was a gift given to this person; and with that gift to that individual, at the same time, came this movement of the three-fo... between all error and truth, - the Sabbath day, Baptism, the nature of man, etc., - and so they openly taught errors from this book. ... The doctrines of baptism, the law, the place and value and dignity of the Holy Spirit in the church, and all the other teachings that we have, ... Is it proper for the teacher to explain that scripture, with perhaps other scriptures illuminating the text, and then bring in the spirit of ... itself, and I think we can understand the Book, fundamentally, through the Book, without resorting to the Testimonies to prove up on it. ... I have resorted to it many times for help from a teacher's viewpoint. Last week we were studying here the divine call to teach, and I resorted ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-1919-sda-conference.htm

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Ontological trichotomy of man: Spirit, Soul and Body Man is dichotomous because he is half spirit and half physical. The entire man is actually trichotomous (three parts) in nature because the Bible speaks of a ... Psychiatry has a long history of being caustically hostile to Christianity and openly mocks this duel nature of man in the current edition of the DSM manual describing Christian doctrine of the soul as "foolish and obsolete, ... their heart, yet in such a way, so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end [without special revelation like the text of the Bible or being told directly by God]. " (Ecclesiastes 3:11) Clearly ... Jesus Christ is uncreated God. In fact he is the actual creator in Genesis 1-2. Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Father are distinct persons of the one God. The ... At no point of Jesus' human life on earth did he ever cease to be "very God" or divine. After the incarnation, He never gave up deity or stopped being god. "For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-human-ontological-dichotomy-of-man-dichotomous-body-spirit-memory-conscience-freewill-personality-mood-choice-behaviour.htm

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Origin of Ancient synagogues: Architectural prototype of the ... For the Christian, this book provides the tools and evidence to prove that the church of the first century was an exact replica of the ... It is believed it came from Fayyum, where there were two Jewish synagogues. (Der Text des Alten Testaments, Stuttgart: Deutsche ... Crocodilopolis 113 AD The great transition from Temple to Synagogue to Church: God permitted the Jews self government from the time of the ... The wisdom of God's plan and His divine providence is seen in the three missionary journeys of Paul. Imagine, for a minute that God never translated the Hebrew scriptures ... For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, ... This is one of the most shocking displays of false doctrine on earth today, considering this passage: "Now where there is forgiveness of ... For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how ... ... https://www.bible.ca/synagogues/welcome.htm

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Why I left the Pentecostal church all that I had been teaching for 18 years as a "Pentecostal" had been "false doctrine" and that I was like the "blind leading the blind." ... KS.) This is when a small group of people supposedly received a "Divine Revelation" for the first time ever recorded. 1. The Lord's ... also receive fire baptism at a separate time? 4. May one be baptized in fire more than once? 5. Doesn't this then make three baptisms? ... .. producing the "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal 5:16-25). 4. The Holy Spirit will resurrect the sons of God. (Rom 8:11-25) 5. The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit ... as each one should speak alone with God. V. Let's Go Back To Our Text. .. (Acts 2:1-4) A. Who had the "power" to speak in "Unknown ... C. The Holy Spirit .. the third person of the God-head .. equal to God in deity .. is alive and well. Click to View Click to View ... The biblical use of the term involves an event that takes place in this world that goes against or beyond the laws of nature. "Webster's ... ... https://www.bible.ca/t-why-I-left-pentecostalism.htm

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mormon church: Critical Essay written in 1832 AD ... Mathoni and Mathoninah, Kumen, Kumenonhi, Jeremiah, Shimnon, Jonas, Zedekiah, and Isaiah, They were baptized in fire and the Holy Ghost.' ... Another testimony is appended signed by four Whitmers, one Hiram Page, and three Smiths, affirming that they saw the plates, handled them, and ... On this account alone has it become necessary to notice it, and for the same reason we must examine its pretensions to divine authority; for ... It is to make God violate his own covenants, and set at nought his own promises, and to convert his own curses into blessings. Excision from ... The imposter was too ignorant of the history of the Jews and the nature of the covenants of promise, to have even alluded to them in his book, ... He decides all the great controversies - infant baptism, ordination, the trinity, regeneration, repentance, justification, the fall of man, ... in the days of Cyrus,' p.119. 'The only true doctrine of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost which is one God without end. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-1831-review-campbell.htm

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The original 1830 Edition, Book of Mormon had 1000's of errors ... ... in this study. (In 1981 the LDS Church published a new edition of the Book of Mormon, making a number of additional changes in the text. ... But there was no change of doctrine. "Now, these Sons of Belial who circulate these reports evidently know better. I will not use the word ... "But after due allowance is made for all these conditions, the errors are so numerous, and of such a constitutional nature, that they cannot ... them which have written before him, but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may ... made all this people that they could speak much, because of the Holy Ghost which thou hast given them; and thou hast made us that we could ... David Whitmer, one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, made this statement: "I will now give you a description of the manner in ... It was done by divine aid. There were no delays over obscure passages, no difficulties over the choice of words, no stoppages from the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-1830-changes.htm

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The Myth Of Psychotherapy, Thomas Szasz, 1979 AD ... It is this rhetoric that ushers in and justifies the psychiatric holy wars for making men free by constraint and happy by ... Our ancient Jewish toughness will prove itself in the end."17 He ends the letter with this frank revelation: "Our Aryan ... anti-Semitism or of Jewish "self-hatred" is the stubborn persistence of a set of false images about Freud and his doctrine. ... vindictiveness of Christians toward Jews, avenging the death of the God of Forgiveness by never forgiving the Jews for His fate and by persecuting them as "Christ- killers," not through three generations but through two thousand years. ... initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment.45 Here, 1,300 years before the birth of ... compelled him to concern himself with the origin and nature of Judaism. "We know," adds Jones, "how greatly he admired ... The matter concerned Jung's understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity and the ritual of Holy Communion. As the time for ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-myth-of-psychotherapy-thomas-szasz-1979ad.htm

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In Darkest England and the Way Out, William Booth 1890 AD ... Pawned a shirt and apron for a shilling; spent that, too. At last pawned their tools for three shillings, which got them a few days' food and ... You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine. All that I propose in this ... To change the nature of the individual, to get at the heart, to save his soul is the only real, lasting method of doing him any good. In many ... doctrine that any man or woman is past saving by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, I would sometimes be disposed to despair when contemplating these victims of the Devil. The doctrine of Heredity and the suggestion of Irresponsibility come perilously ... The records of our Rescue Homes abound with life-stories, some of which we have been able to verify to the letter --which prove only too ... It is nearly eight o'clock when we sally forth. Each of us carries a handful of printed slips bearing a text of Scripture and a few words of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/in-darkest-england-and-the-way-out-william-booth-1890ad.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) ... voice of God and to become the basis of Adventist worldwide Christology (itself a subject that was of special interest to Prescott). ... Specht, while conceding that Hanna had been used by Ellen throughout both the early edition of The Spirit of Prophecy (volumes two and three) ... Nevertheless, there are numerous instances of clear literary correlation which prove conclusively that Ellen White made use of some of the ... Although the text of the report as a whole was not given wide circulation; the 2.6 percent figure was quoted and repeated everywhere. ... Perhaps the most damaging evidence emerging is that whatever help Ellen had, human or divine, she had uncanny ability to go back and pick up ... taken or already held in the church that EGW writings are an extension of the canon, are authoritative for church doctrine, and are inerrant. ... search the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find a single text marking out theologians as having the gift of the Holy Spirit. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-CH6-Ellens-sources.htm

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Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD ... And Present That I Have Known Has The Most Exalted Moral Nature - To Walt Whitman" (Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice ... No comparable innovations affected psychiatry. The therapeutic ethos at Bucke's asylum revolved around three types of ... astounding fact and was concerned with the orderly transfer of authority and doctrine from dying master to living disciples. ... I finished him about 8 or a little after; it is the very God of 22 Chapter One novels, I was wholey carried away by it, far from the dim east and north once more westward to the most divine land of America, fairly wallowing in the glorious sunshine ... lines and then presents a commentary and paraphrase in which, ostensibly, the underlying meaning of the text is made clear. ... He sought to prove that instances of this consciousness were increasing in a geometric fashion, and that soon the entire ... Descended of good sturdy English stock on both sides, his father was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm

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THE PIRATES OF PRIVILEGE: Walter Rea Rocks the Seventh-day Adventist ... ... and unnecessary, but they make much of the text in Matthew 18 under other circumstances when it does not involve them or their church. ... From the beginning to the end the structure favors the executive, the administrator, the divine that has made it to the top. Even the ... In so doing, I have parted company with those Adventist scholars who insist on the following presuppositions: (1) that the Holy Spirit has ... past raised questions concerning the main pillars of Adventist doctrine, such as the twenty-three hundred days, the heavenly sanctuary, and the pre-Advent judgment. ... really going on in the heavenly sanctuary above, where no one could see it, thus not being able to prove that the idea was right or wrong. ... The dissertation also suggests that she was somewhat of a witch doctor, calling the wrath of God on all those who refused her instructions ... This was a common practice and had been done in past cases of this nature and was used later to keep the membership in ignorance concerning ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-pirates-of-privilege.htm

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INDEX OF TRINITY proof texts in the Bible! Trinity Proof Texts Click to View 55 Triadic Bible texts that prove the Trinity Divine qualities ascribed equally to the Father, Son and holy Spirit. Old Testament Trinity Proof Texts New Testament Trinity Proof Texts Old Testament Trinity Proof Texts Genesis 1:26 "Let US make man in OUR image": Three plural pronouns, (We, Us, Our) used 6 different times in four different passages: Gen 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8. The unanimous opinion of the apostolic Fathers was that the Father was talking to Jesus. Genesis 19:24 Click to View "Then Yahweh [on earth in human form] rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh [in spirit form in heaven] out of heaven. Genesis 19:24. In this text Abraham is visited by three individuals, one being Yahweh and the other two angels. Here we have God on the earth (Jesus) and God in heaven (father) sending down fire from heaven. This incident when Abraham met with Yahweh God, is what Jesus referred to when he said, "Your father Abraham ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-proof-texts.htm

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On hallucinations: a History and Explanation, Alexandre J. F ... ... committed every imaginable crime. " I am," she said " the beast mentioned in the Apocalypse, which is to appear in 1840. God has forsaken me. ... These remarks clearly prove the influence of moral causes in the production of hallucinations. The following details cannot leave any doubt on ... she trembled; she entreated; she became faint, and calling on the holy name of Jesus, the spectre vanished."* Such was the real origin of ... Lauze : Essai Medico-hittorique tur lei Pouedeet de Loudun, pp. 12-13. Paris: 1S39. f J. Gariuet: Ojtut cit. p. 118. These three were-wolves ... His complete recovery seems to have been accomplished by the unaided resources of nature, f It is curious to find in our own times, amongst ... To this instance, which has been quoted in favor of a divine interposition, has been opposed another vision which occurred in the seventeenth ... : here is a man who is preparing to send forth a book against revelation, and entreats the Deity to favor him with a special revelation. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/on-hallucinations-a-history-and-explanation-alexandre-j-f-brierre-de-boismont-1859ad.htm

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The Deity of Jesus Christ Since they assert man has no soul, he also ceased to exist during the three days he was dead. Upon his resurrection, Jesus became the fullness of deity in bodily form thus completing a three step progression in nature. (Heb 13:8) They do not believe Christ will ever be equal to God or truly divine since they believe Jesus is a created being just like man and the angels. Jehovah's Witnesses They teach that Jesus was created by God just prior to creation. Jesus then created everything else. (Col 1:16,17 NWT inserts "other" before "things" to make the text read, "By His all OTHER things were created". The word "other" inserted ... They will then fly off to some uninhabited planet with their many polygamous wives and populate that planet. Bible The Bible teaches that Jesus is one of three separate personal beings who are divine. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are equal and have always existed. The Bible view of the divinity of Christ is categorically different from all the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/su-deity-christ.htm

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Trinity Proof Texts: 2 Corinthians 13:14 and Philippians 2:1 ... Trinity Proof Texts Click to View 2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, ... in spirit, intent on one purpose. 1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. What the verse is saying: Three different things are given to Christians by three different persons of the Godhead. This verse is so powerful in proving the Holy Spirit is a person, that anti-Trinitarians are at a loss what to do with ... Christ, and the love of God, and the sharing of electricity, be with you all." 2 Cor 13:14 and Mt 28:19 both prove the personality of the Holy Spirit. ... This is the only logical and consistent way to read the text. Some want to translate Phil 2:1-2 as "if anyone has a sharing spirit" rather than "if ... Since all anti-Trinitarians deny that the Holy Spirit is a person, trinity doctrine is proven by default. There is no in-between position: If the Holy ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-2corinthians13-14.htm

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Coins of the Maccabean Hasmonean Era 166-37 BC. Messianic Star ... ... The text was always spelled in extinct Paleo-Hebrew. Here are the variations of the spellings on the coins: (this is not a ... to come. (51) I will also, that the city of Jerusalem be holy and inviolable, and free from the tithe, and from the taxes, ... But Hyrcanus having taken the high priesthood that had been his father's before, and in the first place propitiated God by ... He it was who alone had three of the most desirable things in the world-the government of his nation, and the high priesthood, and the gift of prophecy; (69) for the Deity conversed with him-and he was not ignorant of anything that was to come ... upon him, and was carrying his blood away, did, by divine providence, as I cannot but suppose, slip down, and shed ... neither the Jews would leave off their rage, nor the Greeks prove unfaithful, they came to an engagement, and to a close ... Idumean, called Antipater, who was very rich, and in his nature an active and a seditious man; who was at enmity with ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/coins/Jesus-coins-of-the-bible-Maccabean-Hasmonean-166-37BC.htm

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Official creed of United Pentecostal Church International The Bible is the only God-given authority which man possesses; therefore, all doctrine, faith, hope, and all instruction for the church must be based upon, and harmonize with, the Bible. It is to be read and studied by all men everywhere, and can ... ARTICLES OF FAITH THE ONE TRUE GOD We believe in the one ever-living, eternal God: infinite in power, Holy in nature, attributes and purpose; and possessing absolute, indivisible deity. This one true God has revealed Himself as Father, through His Son, in redemption; and as the Holy Spirit, by emanation. (1 Cor. 8:6; Eph. 4:6; 2 Cor. 5:19; Joel 2:28). The Scripture does more than attempt to prove the existence of God; it asserts, assumes and declares that the knowledge of God is universal. ... He is the only mediator between God and man. "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus on His Father's side was divine, on His mother's side, human; Thus, He was known as the Son of God ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-United-Pentecostal-(upci).htm

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PLAY: The Holy Spirit Game: Prove the Holy Spirit is a person ... Play The Holy Spirit Game! Click to View The Holy Spirit Game (Prove the Holy Spirit is a person and not an "it".) Invented by Steve Rudd Click to View Other links: Click to View Personality & deity of the Holy Spirit proven from the Bible Click to View Why we invented the Holy Spirit Game: In order to show how absurd the Arian (Anti-Trinitarian) ... Anti-Trinitarians not only reject the Holy Spirit is one of three members of the Godhead, (Trinity) they reject that the Holy Spirit even exists as a person at all! Arians like Jehovah's Witnesses and Christadelphians, for example, call the Holy Spirit "God's active force", "energy", "like electricity". Now we know that God does indeed have what they describe. We deny not that God has an active force of energy like ... You will have 19 game pieces numbered 1 - 19. Each game piece has a number, the actual script the player will read and the supporting Bible text. Hand out one or more of the game pieces to each member. Hand out the Bible ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-holy-spirit-game.htm

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Official creed of Anglican/Episcopal Church I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the Maker, and Preserver of all things both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there are three persons, of one substance, power and eterntity; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. II. Of the Word or Son of God, which was made very Man. The Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb ... And the other Books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth not apply them to establish any doctrine; such are these following: The Third ... The original 1571, 1662 text of this Article, omitted in the version of 1801, reads as follows: "General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-Anglican.htm

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Kittel, Gerhard: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament 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 his comment, for JW's are just as "polythesitic" as trinitarians, FROM A PAGAN POINT OF VIEW.. But notice that ... 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 discussing whether "mono-genes" (only-begotten) means "comparison or source" Kittel flatly states first "In compounds with genes, adverbs describe the nature rather than the source of derivation" then "Grammatically both interpretations are justifiable". What that means is that JW's cannot use only-begotten to prove Jesus is a creature because the Greek does not necessarily mean that. So at best, Arians who argue ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kittel.htm

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Trinitas - A Theological Encyclopedia of the Holy Trinity "The great African fashioned the Latin language of the Trinity, and many of his words and phrases remained permanently in use: the words Trinitas and persona, the formulas 'one substance in three persons,' 'God from God, light from Light.' He uses the word substantia 400 times, as he uses consubstantialis and consubstantivus, but hasty conclusions cannot be drawn from usage, for he does not apply the words to Trinitarian theology" (Trinitas - A Theological Encyclopedia of the Holy Trinity, p. 208) Our comment Tertullian was clearly a Trinitarian who believed in the uncreated deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit. Click here for proof Tertullian wrote about the trinity in detail. In fact the full title of chapter 2 of Tertullian's "Against Praxeas", was: "The Catholic Doctrine Of The Trinity And Unity, Sometimes Called The Divine Economy, Or Dispensation Of The Personal Relations Of The Godhead." This proves that Watchtower liars and deceivers! The selective ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Trinitas.htm

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TRINTITY: 6 Different ontological views of God Examined and defined Duet 29:29. The Nicene creed, for example, tries to explain God in metaphysical terms. They debated whether Jesus had a divine or human spirit, whether Jesus was made up of the same "stuff" as the Father, or different "stuff". In fact they were trying to answer questions that went beyond what is revealed. We must therefore be content to know that God is one, yet three are distinct, the Son is uncreated and the Holy Spirit is a person. Trying to "diagram God out on paper" is going beyond what is written. Let us stay within these parameters. The nature of God, as a "Biblical trinity" is the single most talked about subject in history. The discussion continues today. Let us all be humble and ... Water: H2O has three states depending on the temperature: liquid, solid (cold), gas (hot) B. Illustrations of God that are best in our opinion: Marriage: two distinct individuals, are joined as one. Class of being: deity, Mankind: Singular word for a class of being composed of many ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-ontology-views.htm

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Brown, Colin: New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology 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 Barth]." "Primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the creeds."-The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. What else does this source say? "Yet the number three assumes peculiar importance indirectly in connection with the concept of the Trinity. 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). ... What they deceptively left out of the quote: What Anti-trinitarians quote: Full Text of article The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology ... For the first Christians, the Spirit was most characteristically a divine POWER manifesting itself in inspired utterance. ... The Spirit was evidently ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Brown.htm

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Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion 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 by the consistent worship of God in a trinitarian ... divine management of earthly affairs). It is oriented to the concrete history of creation and redemption: God initiates a covenant with Israel, God speaks through the prophets, God takes on flesh in Christ, God dwells within as Spirit. In the New Testament there is no reflective consciousness of the metaphysical nature ... By the close of the fourth century the orthodox teaching was in place: God is one nature, three persons (mia ousia, treis hupostaseis). Questions of Christology ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Eliade.htm

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The Personality & Deity of the Holy Spirit proven from the Bible ... The Personality & Deity of the Holy Spirit proven from the Bible! I. The Holy Spirit is a person! Two central and irrefutable proof texts: Click to View CN Tower verses that proves the Holy Spirit is a person: ... "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" Mt 28:19 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all" 2 Cor 13:14 Although the verse gives us no information of 4th century Trinitarian doctrine of "three in one" etc, it ... Click to View III. The Holy Spirit is a divine person, like the Father A. The Holy Spirit is outright Called God: Acts 5:3-4 "You have lied unto the Holy Spirit ... you have lied to God" Mt 12:28; Lk 11:20 "If ... However, although this pattern of bearing witness by quoting Old Testament scripture may not definitively prove the Holy Spirit is Jehovah, it does prove He is a person! Heb 3:7-11 (Ps. 95:7-11)Therefore, just ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-holy-spirit-personality-deity.htm

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