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| 1: | McKenzie, John L.: Dictionary of the Bible
The Watchtower takes little bits of McKenzie's comments on Jn 1:1 (a god) and leaves the false impression in the mind of the reader that McKenzie agreed with the JW's mistranslation. What is clear, is that when McKenzie says Jesus is a divine being, he is saying that Jesus is in that unique class of divine being with the Father and the Holy Spirit, to the exclusion of all others. Jehovah's Witnesses satanically redefine the meaning of the phrase, "divine being" into something different than what McKenzie meant. McKenzie, John L.: Dictionary of the Bible Click to View "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) What they left out to ... The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of "person" and "nature" which are Gk philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-McKenzie.htm | 97%  Size: 20K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... ... Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, differentiating ... After all Gen 1 says, "Let us make man in Our image". So the seeds of trinity are clearly present! Not a Plural God JESUS called God ... "One Lord" excludes God from being Lord. Yet we know that they share these identical characteristics. learn more That is why nowhere in the Bible is anyone but Jehovah called Almighty. Otherwise, it voids the meaning of the word "almighty." Neither Jesus nor the holy spirit is ever called that, for Jehovah alone is supreme. Hippolytus certainly applies Rev 1:8 to Christ and calls Jesus "The Almighty" several times. But even if the Father is alone called the ... But how can a person be a son and at the same time be as old as his father? ... Can a man father a son without begetting him? Jesus ... And Jesuit John L. McKenzie wrote in his Dictionary of the Bible: "Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated . . . 'the word was a ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm | 93% Size: 91K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... ... Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, differentiating ... After all Gen 1 says, "Let us make man in Our image". So the seeds of trinity are clearly present! Not a Plural God JESUS called God ... "One Lord" excludes God from being Lord. Yet we know that they share these identical characteristics. learn more That is why nowhere in the Bible is anyone but Jehovah called Almighty. Otherwise, it voids the meaning of the word "almighty." Neither Jesus nor the holy spirit is ever called that, for Jehovah alone is supreme. Hippolytus certainly applies Rev 1:8 to Christ and calls Jesus "The Almighty" several times. But even if the Father is alone called the ... But how can a person be a son and at the same time be as old as his father? ... Can a man father a son without begetting him? Jesus ... And Jesuit John L. McKenzie wrote in his Dictionary of the Bible: "Jn 1:1 should rigorously be translated . . . 'the word was a ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm | 93% Size: 727 bytes Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | The Error of the Catholic Nicene Trinity The simple affirmation of the "three-ness of God", seen at the Baptism of Jesus and the baptism of every Christian, is the ... Relational Vs. Ontological trinity Trinity of the Bible Vs. Trinity of Dogma economic or dispensational Trinity Vs. essential, ... Economic Trinity: The observed activity of God in the World (that is, early Christians perceived and believed God to have directly intervened in history in the persons of the Father, Son and Spirit) Vs. Essential Trinity: A more ... Convinced that this doctrine is a Christian doctrine that did and could originate only from divine revelation. I start the ... It tells us of His Word, Wisdom. Spirit, of the Messiah He will send, of a Son of Man and a Suffering Servant to come. But it ... They do not speak in abstract terms of nature, substance, person, relation, circumincession, mission, but they present in their ... in which His personal reality is not explicit. (Dictionary of the Bible, John L. McKenzie, Trinity, p899) "The Trinity. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-catholic-nicene.htm | 93% Size: 31K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | Trinity proof texts: John 1:1 Trinity Proof Texts Click to View John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was ... The word "God" is used in two ways. First "God" is used many places as the generic "class of being" definition as in Gen ... in its two occurrences in John 1:1. However, they define God as a personal proper noun/name for the same person, thus they want to read into the passage that Jesus is the same person as the Father. This does incredible damage to the distinction of God, so ... Their answer is, that the human half of Jesus was praying to the divine half. So although we give them a gold star for ... Eugene A. Nida, head of Translations Department, American Bible Society: Responsible for the Good News Bible - The ... a divine being.'" (Dictionary of the Bible", by John L. McKenzie, 1965, p. 317, as quoted in, Should you believe the ... 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 | 91% Size: 76K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | The Decepto-Meter goes crazy when you bring it near the Watchtower ... anti-Trinitarians lead the reader to falsely conclude that if Jesus is subordinate to the Father, that Jesus must be a creature. ... Christianity Trasher Washburn trashes the whole of Christianity, not just trinity: "Finally, the life, temptation, miracles, ... to Watchtower view of God, (where they call Jesus Lord, a God, and Messiah) than Trinitarians to the Triune God. The fact that Muslims reject the resurrection of Jesus says it all! ... Trashes whole of Core Christianity. Weigall, is a modernist and doesn't believe the Bible is God's word. He trashes 99% of what both JW's and ... as a Triad. (Father-true God, Son-a created demi-god and Holy Spirit-the force or energy of God) Click to View Larousse ... seeing little difference with their "trinity of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, constituting a divine family of father and son." ... on Jn 1:1 (a god) and leaves the false impression in the mind of the reader that McKenzie agreed with the JW's mistranslation. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-anti-trinity-booklet-decepto-meter.htm | 91% Size: 43K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | TRINITY: Christology: Diety and Humanity of our Savour! ... In the prologue he identifies Him with the Word, the only begotten of the Father, Who from all eternity exists with God, Who is God (John, ... any event, the passage [Phil 2:6-8] makes it plain that before Christ Jesus emptied himself he was not human but divine." (Gods and the One God, Robert M. Grant, p105) 11. Speaking first of the person of Jesus Christ ... ... between God the Father and Jesus the Son (e.g., 11.27), but he falls short of claiming that Jesus is equal with God. It is John's gospel that suggests the idea of equality between Jesus and God ... While there are other New Testament texts where God, Jesus, and the Spirit are referred to in the same passage (e.g., Jude 20-21), it is important to avoid reading the Trinity into places where it does not appear. An example is 1 Peter 1.1-2 (Oxford Companion to the Bible, Bruce M. Metzger and ... (Dictionary of the Bible, John L. McKenzie, God, p317) 7. "Many questions arise in the mind concerning the divine consciousness of Jesus. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-deity-of-christ.htm | 89% Size: 117K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | 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 ... The distinctions made by the doctrine of the Trinity between one God and three hypostases do not satisfy Muslims, who are confused, rather than enlightened, by theological terms derived from Syriac, Greek, and Latin. Muslims find it all a word game. . . . Why should anyone want to add anything to the notion of God's oneness and uniqueness that can only dilute or nullify that oneness and uniqueness?" It is totally dishonest for Jehovah's ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-pagan-section.htm | 87% Size: 110K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | 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 ... The distinctions made by the doctrine of the Trinity between one God and three hypostases do not satisfy Muslims, who are confused, rather than enlightened, by theological terms derived from Syriac, Greek, and Latin. Muslims find it all a word game. . . . Why should anyone want to add anything to the notion of God's oneness and uniqueness that can only dilute or nullify that oneness and uniqueness?" It is totally dishonest for Jehovah's ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT.htm | 87% Size: 727 bytes Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | 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 ... The Father loves us and sent His Son to give us everlasting life (John 3:16). JESUS CHRIST JESUS CHRIST is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, eternally born of the Father. He became man, and thus He is at once fully God and fully man. His coming ... 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 ... The idea that being "born again" is a religious experience disassociated from baptism is a recent one and has no biblical basis whatsoever. JUSTIFICATION JUSTIFICATION is a word used in the Scriptures to mean ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-Orthodox.htm | 86% Size: 149K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | 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, who, although He existed in the ... 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 Mary's womb. God created man ... Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Bible students (JW splinter groups) and other Arians try to make the verse say that Jesus, being a humble creature, never wanted to reach out ... Tom O'neal, Semi Kenotic He stripped himself of the ensignia of majesty, that is what the word "empty" means. Tom O'neal, Semi Kenotic Jesus gave up the "form of God" (non-essential ... equal to God" William Hendriksen, New Testament Commentary, Semi Kenotic Being in very nature God looks back to our Lord's pre-temporal existence as the second person of the trinity. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-philippians2-6.htm | 86% Size: 320K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | False Doctrine of Modalism: As taught by the United Pentecostal ... 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 ... Hence Modalism is defined in relation to Trinity as "Trinity where only one person of the Godhead exist at any one time" If the three modes of God are able to co-exist AT ... Now some Modalists, will disagree with our definition pointing to the fact that all three modes did indeed manifest themselves a the baptism of Jesus... Modalism, therefore, not only 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, ... They believe that unless the Holy Spirit has made each one of them speak in tongues, THEY ARE NOT SAVED! So the prophetic word of the pastors ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-modalism.htm | 85% Size: 106K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Fortman, Edmund: The Triune God Although they identify Fortman as a Catholic, they project the false impression that Fortman either rejects trinity, or that he is willing to accept trinity without any Bible support for the ... activity in the same Godhead." (The Triune God, Edmund Fortman, quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) The doctrine of the Triune God has had an amazing history. ... But it tells us nothing explicitly or by necessary implication of a Triune God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If we take the New Testament writers together they tell us there is only one God, the creator and lord of the universe, who is the Father of Jesus. They call Jesus the Son of God, Messiah, Lord, Savior, Word, Wisdom. They assign Him the divine functions of creation, salvation, judgment. Sometimes they call ... They give us in their writings a triadic ground plan and triadic formulas. They do not speak in abstract terms of nature, substance, person, relation, circumincession, mission, but they ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Fortman.htm | 85% Size: 76K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | 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 ... 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 ... Combine this with the fact the Yahweh said, "Who will go for US" is a plural pronoun indicating more than one person in the Godhead. Isaiah 40-55 Click to View Jesus echoes the "I AM" statements in Isaiah chapters 40-55. This spectacular link explores over 20 different passages in Isaiah and John. Isaiah 45:23-24 Click to View I have sworn by Myself, The word ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-proof-texts.htm | 85% Size: 36K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Catholic Encyclopedia's and Dictionaries ... In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son'. ... regarding 'God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system. In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word [tri'as] (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A. D. 180. He speaks of "the Trinity of God [the Father], His Word and His Wisdom" ("Ad. ... The Catholic Encyclopedia: "Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person." (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912, Vol. 15, Trinity, p 47-49, ... 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 | 85% Size: 126K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | Scholars on the Personality of the Holy Spirit proves that the trinity doctrine of three persons in the one Godhead is true! Discussion: Deceptive Quoting only a Partial etymological definition of "spirit": There are no places in the Bible where the Holy Spirit is called an "it" or a "thing". When Jehovah's Witnesses tell you the word spirit, as used in the Bible, means wind or ... angels, the Holy Spirit 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 ... 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, ... Thus in II Cor, xiii, 13, St. Paul writes: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the charity of God and the communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all." Here the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-quotes-personality-of-holy-spirit.htm | 85% Size: 24K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | TRINTITY: 6 Different ontological views of God Examined and defined The Bible, for example tells us that God is one, yet the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all called God, yet they are distinct. This has brought about numerous speculations about how we might "diagram God out on paper". We really have no right to inquire about things that God has not revealed. 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 ... 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 ... Marriage: two distinct individuals, are joined as one. Class of being: deity, Mankind: Singular word for a class of being composed of many individuals. Family: Singular word comprised of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-ontology-views.htm | 85% Size: 20K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion and Arianism. & Creates false dilemma that if "explicit details" of trinity are not in the Bible that Jesus is a creature . ... 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 ... the divinity of Christ and later in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, but even earlier by the consistent worship of God in a ... Christ of Johannine and Pauline theology with the Logos ("word") of Greek philosophy.(The Encyclopedia of Religion, Mircea ... and also the father of Jesus Christ; "Father" is not a title for the first person of the Trinity but a synonym for God. ... and of Greek and Latin theology prior to the fourth century is "economic" (oikonomia, divine management of earthly affairs). ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Eliade.htm | 84% Size: 27K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Watchtower Deceptions: Confusing Modalism as if it were trinity ... Modalism and Trinity deliberately confused in "Should you believe the Trinity?", Watchtower publication. Here is what the booklet says: "AT JOHN 1:1 the King James Version reads: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Trinitarians claim that this means that "the Word" (Greek, ho lo'gos) who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God himself. Someone who is 'with' another person cannot also be that other person." The deception is that this false argument implies that Trinitarians believe that Jesus is the same person as the Father, when ... In agreement with the WT we would say NO; but as we have seen the WT does not use the word God the way the Bible does. Now, did Jesus ever say He was God, not in the sense that He's ... According to the Athanasian Creed, there are three divine Persons (the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit), each said to be eternal, each said to be almighty, none greater or less than another, each said to be God, and yet ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-deceptions-modalism.htm | 84% Size: 15K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Official creed and Baptismal vows of Seventh-day Adventist church Revision of these statements may be expected at a General Conference session when the church is led by the Holy Spirit to a fuller understanding of Bible truth or finds better language in which to express the teachings of God's Holy Word. #1 The Holy Scriptures The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration through holy men of God who ... 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 ... God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Through Him all things were created, the character of God is revealed, the salvation of humanity is accomplished, and the world is judged. ... Regarding divorce, Jesus taught that the person who divorces a spouse, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery. Although some famiily relationships may fall short of the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-SDA.htm | 84% Size: 40K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | 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 image": ... But, when the disciples saw it, they were indignant. . . . God, aware of this, said to them: 'Why do you trouble this woman? She has done [a beautiful ... Spirit" (Apology 16). 150 AD Justin Martyr 150 AD Justin Martyr "The Father of the universe has a Son, who also being the first begotten Word of God, is even God." (Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch 63) 150 AD Justin ... in reality adored, the expiator of sin, the Saviour, the clement, the Divine Word, He that is truly most manifest Deity, He that is made equal to the ... of the Holy Apostles, 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 | 84% Size: 122K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | Modalism refuted: UPCI's Sixty Questions On The Godhead refuted ... facts. The expression Holy Spirit is a descriptive basically meaning separate Spirit. Godhead is an old English word for Godhood (That which makes God, God). ... 4. A god 5. Deity (Ro. 1:20) and theotes - deity - meaning 1. State of being God 2. Divine nature 3. A god (Col. 2:9). No one is obligated to defend a position he does not hold. ... Refutation of their answer to their own question in this column in black UPC Question #1. "Is the word trinity in the Bible? No" a. There is a difference between believing there ... The Bible simply identifies three who possess Godhead. UPC Question #3. "Does the Bible speak of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost? Yes" In ways which show that ... Due to the fact John wrote this, he should be an acceptable authority regarding the meaning of the word "one." In John 17:21 he quoted Jesus as praying for His ... UPC Question #9. "Then why did Jesus say to Philip, 'He that has seen me hath seen the Father' (John 14:9)? Because Jesus is the express image of God's person. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-modalism-UPC-60-questions-godhead.htm | 83% Size: 40K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal ministries and preachers Click to View Go to 20th Century tongues refuted section Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA Information section! Self- Proclaimed Prophet Quotes, history and ... 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 believe in His substitutionary death for all men, His ... We believe in the existence of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity and in His interaction with man. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as manifested by the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit. The Sacred Scripture We believe in the scripture as the inspired Word of God and that it is the complete revelation of God's will for mankind. .../94) John Arnott and his wife gave approval to a woman's report of a divine message from Jesus that she should leave her husband because he was like ... Publications, 1975, p606-7) "Why don't you examine your baptism of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that false 'trinity' it's so-called..." ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/tongues-encyclopedia-pentecostal-preachers.htm | 83% Size: 247K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | Official creed of Associated Gospel Churches (AGC) Note: This is for popular circulation only and is intended to be interpreted in light of the official Statement of Faith and Doctrine of the AGC. I. The Divine Authority and Plenary ... We believe that the Bible is God speaking in man's language, and in the original writings is exactly as He gave it, word for word without any error whatsoever. It has been preserved by God to be the authoritative standard for every age and every life. II. The Trinity of the Godhead We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes and perfections, and are worthy of precisely the same ... We also believe that God is the sole Creator of the universe. III. The Deity and the Virgin Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ We believe in the essential Deity and the Virgin Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and that all the Scriptures from first to last centre about Him, His Person and work, His ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-AGC.htm | 83% Size: 20K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | Trinity proof texts: John 10:30-33 Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'? "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the ... Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp. The argument stated: This section is a clear and precise statement of Jesus Christ's divine nature and equality with God in both purpose and being. The text cannot support the Modalist view that Jesus and the Father are the same person because the oneness of the Trinity referenced in this passage is one of ... The disciples one in unity but remain many separate persons. God is one in unity, but remain three separate persons in Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is the meaning in James 2:19 "You believe that God ... The truth is Jesus was claiming to be equal to the Father, and that is why they wanted to stone Jesus. Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal #7 Does not Jesus' own use of the Bible show there are other "gods" or ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john10-30.htm | 83% Size: 34K Depth: 6 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | Official creed of the Wesleyan Church Arminius (1560-1609), a Dutch theologian, stressed that God has predestined all who believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life and those who reject Him for ... He added to Arminius' insights an emphasis on the assurance of salvation believers can enjoy through the inner "witness of the Spirit." He also taught about the entire sanctification of believers by which their hearts are made perfect in love for God and other persons. Wesleyans are convinced that the Bible is God's written Word and the final ... 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 ... 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 ... It begins in the agreement of the mind and the consent of the will to the truth of the gospel, but issues in a complete reliance by the whole person in the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-wesleyan.htm | 83% Size: 39K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Brown, Colin: New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology Selected quotes mislead reader to wrong conclusion & Give false impression that if intimate details of trinity are not in the Bible that Jesus is a ... "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 Barth]." ... 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 ... I Jn. 5:8 (in Lat. texts from the 6th cent.), contains the triad, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit (cf. E. Stauffer, TDNT III 108 f.). ... For the first Christians, the Spirit was most characteristically a divine POWER manifesting itself in inspired utterance. ... The Spirit was evidently ... From this it follows also that the dead person can be thought of simply as a pneuma, as belonging wholly to the spiritual realm (Lk. 24:37, 39; 1 Tim. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Brown.htm | 83% Size: 14K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | Douglas, J. D. & Bruce F. F.: New Bible Dictionary Fails to supply critical information which misleads the reader & Give false impression that if intimate details of trinity are not in the Bible that Jesus is a creature. ... 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 said, Let us make ... 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. ... essential being, but that the divine essence exists in three modes or forms, each constituting a Person, yet in such a way that the divine essence is wholly in each Person. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Douglas.htm | 83% Size: 15K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | Trinity proof texts: John 17:3 ... the Bible ever outright states that Jesus is not divine or God. John 17:3 does not say that Jesus is not the only true God. Jehovah's Witnesses use faulty inductive logic to incorrectly conclude that Jesus is excluded from God in John 17:3. Again, John 17:3 does not say: "Jesus is not God", anti-trinitarians read this into the verse without warrant. Jesus is called true God in 1 ... Arians do not understand the difference between Trinity and Modalism. Modalists wrongly teach that Jesus is the same person as the Father. So such an argument is worthless and misplaced when arguing against trinity. Jehovah's Witnesses constantly apply anti-Modalist arguments ... Little children, guard yourselves from idols." 1 Jn 5:20-21 This verse in no way excludes Jesus from the group of "only true God". The word God is used in the sense of ... 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 your ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john17-3.htm | 83% Size: 63K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | Trinity proof texts: John 8:58 Trinity Proof Texts Click to View John 8:56-59 "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." The Jews therefore said to ... Finally, the unanimous opinion of the apostolic Fathers was that this was Jesus talking to Abraham, in Genesis 18. In this story, Abraham meets God and the two angels. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Your father ... Click to View Commentators that precisely express what the verse is saying Click to View Important comments and observations Click to View Word Study on I AM in the Bible Click ... So entirely are they one, that he who has seen the Son, "who is the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of His person," has seen in Him ... They saw only the historical manifestation, not the eternal Person; only the human, not the divine. Jesus, therefore, reaffirms his eternal, timeless, ... Since the Jehovah's Witnesses teach a view of John 8:58 that was never advocated before the 20th century, we would ask why would the Holy Spirit wait ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john8-58.htm | 83% Size: 210K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Commentary on what the early Christians believed about the Trinity summed up by Epiphanius, when he says: "The One Godhead is above all declared by Moses, and the twofold personality (of Father and Son) is strenuously asserted by the Prophets. ... 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 were witnesses to the Biblical data and the traditional faith rather than ... p.xv, p43, p59-61) The Apostolic Fathers: The Apostolic Fathers wrote between A.D. 90 and 140. Their discussion of the person of Jesus Christ simply repeated the teaching of the New Testament. ... Nevertheless, if, as Justin notes (I Apol. 13), Christians worship Christ in the second place and the Spirit in the third place, there is still no inconsistency; for Word and Spirit ... 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 that this theory had a ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-apostolic-fathers.htm | 83% Size: 25K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Official creed of The United Church of Canada ... and the mystery of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, three persons of the same substance, equal in power and glory. 2.2 Article II. Of Revelation. We believe that God has revealed Himself in nature, in history, and in the heart of man; that He has been graciously pleased to make clearer revelation of Himself to men of God who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit; and that in the fullness of time He has perfectly revealed Himself in Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, who is the brightness of the Father's glory and the express image of His person. We receive the Holy Scriptures of ... God, as containing the only infallible rule of faith and life, a faithful record of God's gracious revelations, and as the sure witness of Christ. 2.3 Article III. Of the Divine Purpose. ... Click Your Choice Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA Click to View Bill Phipps Head of church denies Resurrection of Christ! Interview with Bill Phipps, current moderator of the United church of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-united-Can.htm | 83% Size: 43K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans! Bible Trinity is not Pagan Origin Click to View Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans! (You have been lied to!) Introduction: 1. ... As far as the New Testament is concerned, one does not find in it an actual doctrine of the Trinity. This does not mean very much, however, for generally speaking the New Testament is less intent upon setting forth certain doctrines than it is upon proclaiming the kingdom of God, a kingdom that dawns in and with the person of Jesus ... The Indian Trimurti, altogether pantheistic in spirit, is still further from the Christian Trinity" (Philip Schaff, History of the ... showed a presentiment of a threefold distinction in the divine essence; but only a remote and vague presentiment which, like ... 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 ... Son, incarnation, atonement, sacrifice, new birth, sin, divine word, angels, demons, washings Noah Flood story In the past century, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan.htm | 83% Size: 124K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | Biblical Subordination expressed by scholars Pauline Writings, Summary: ... Without doubt Paul attributes full divinity to Jesus ... Though at times he presents the Son as in some sense ... to Him the divine functions of creation, salvation, and judgment; and he probably also calls Him God explicitly. Paul makes Christ's eternal pre-existence more explicit than the Synoptists did. If at times he sees the Son as in some sense subordinate to the Father, yet he never makes Him a creature but always puts Him on the side of the creator. (The Triune God, Edmund Fortman, p31) "Although the Spirit is ... All this underlines the point that primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently ... Nor were they subordinationists in intention or words, if subordinationist is understood in the later Arian sense of the word; for they did ... properly 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 | 83% Size: 12K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Debate with Catholic on Sola Scriptura (Riggs Vs Lopez) No doubt, my opponent will ask, "Where does the Bible say: 'the Scriptures alone are the authority'?" Those who ask that question (and ... We cannot reject His word and be guiltless (John 12:48). God, therefore, makes known His will to us today through His Son who gave us His New Testament. Jesus Christ did not choose to write His New Testament (His commandments) for us, but selected others to do that for Him. Jesus gave the same words and commandments that He received from the Father to His twelve apostles (John 17:6-7; 17-20). He promised them the Holy Spirit who would remind them of ... As we read still farther, we see that Philip is the next person who was able to work miracles. "Then Philip went down to the city of ... No one considers Enoch canonical, but Jude considers this portion as reliable, and divine revelation. c) Matthew 23:2-3 Jesus said "The ... 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 ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-debate-riggs-lopez.htm | 83% Size: 166K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | Encyclopædia Britannica ... 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) it was his [Constantine's] personal choice made in 312 that determined the emergence of the Roman Empire as a Christian state. ... This attempt to save the oneness of God led, however, to an awkward consequence. For Jesus Christ, as the divine Logos become man, moves thereby to the side of the creatures-i.e., to the side of the created world that needs redemption. How, then, should such a Christ, himself a part of the creation, be able to ... I, p.509 "Trinity, the doctrine of God taught by Christianity that asserts that God is one in essence but three in "person," Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: "Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord" (Deut. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm | 83% Size: 95K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | Officail creed of Dutch/Christian/Canadian Reformed Churches ... The Belgic Confession The Canons of Dort Top of page Click Your Choice Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA . . THE BELGIC CONFESSION The Heidelberg Catechism The Canons of Dort Top of page ... The testimonies of the Holy Scriptures, which teach us to believe in this Holy Trinity, are written in many places of the Old Testament, which need not be enumerated but only ... overshadow you; and therefore that holy one to be born of you shall be called the Son of God." And in another place it says: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you." "There are three who bear witness in heaven-- the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit-- and these three are one." In all these passages we are fully taught that there are three persons in the one and only divine essence. ... He is one in essence with the Father; coeternal; the exact image of the person of the Father and the "reflection of his glory," being in all things like him. He is the Son of God ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-CRef-Belgic.htm | 83% Size: 137K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | McClintock and Strong: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and ... "Matthew 28:19 reads: "Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations; baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Do those verses say that God, Christ, and the holy spirit ... not prove, by itself, that all the three belong necessarily to the divine nature, and possess equal divine honor." Although a supporter of the Trinity, that source says of 2 Corinthians 13:13 (14): "We could not justly ... or divinity. ... 2 Cor. 13:14, " The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and beloved of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. ... It was the custom in former times for theologians to blend their own speculations and those of others with the statement of the Bible ... All a trinitarian has to do to refute JW's doctrine is prove that the Holy Spirit is a person! They deceptively misquote McClintock for he ... given to Christ: John 1:1, 2. Christ is here called [Greek] (the Word), which signified among the Jews and other ancient people, when ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-McClintock.htm | 83% Size: 24K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Jehovah's Witnesses abuse the divine name YHWH of my God name of my God! In order to have "Jehovah" in the New World Translation, they must claim the Bible has been altered and corrupted. Like all cults, they destroy the reliability of the manuscripts of the Bible. Click to View Here ... The truth is, they have added the divine name in the New Testament where it is never found in the original Greek ... Not even one! Instead the letter "I" is used for Jew, Jesus, Joshua, Joanna, John AND the person pronoun "I". Instead these words were written in 1611 AD as, ... What most JW's don't know is that they are the one's who are truly guilty of adding to the word of God because the New ... Perhaps the word trinity was also used in Matthew 28:18-19, but it too was deleted! A lost Hebrew Matthew that used YHWH ... If that is what the Holy Spirit chose to use, it is good enough for us! III. Jehovah's Witnesses Misspell YHWH! "Jehovah" ... following: Jesus, Christ, Son, God, Lord, Spirit, Savior, David, Cross, Mother, Father, Israel, Man, Jerusalem, Heaven. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/jw-YHWH.htm | 83% Size: 63K Depth: 1 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | Refuted: Anti-Trinitarians misuse these passages to prove the ... ... Notice Luke 1:35 is the closest verse Arians can come up with that might suggest the Holy Spirit is said to be God's power. Granted that "Hebrew parallelism" is in fact common in the Bible, there are so ... Is God trying to confuse us? Or is God taking special steps to make sure we understand the Holy Spirit is a person? The word spirit is frequently "neuter gender" when it refers to the Father in Jn 4:24, to Jesus in 1Cor 15:45, to baby Jesus, in Mt 2:8, 11, 13, 14, 19-21, Such an argument displays a dismal understanding of the Greek language. #4 Anti-Trinitarian Proof Text ... "But on the other hand, we find Jesus repeatedly using IMPERSONAL pronouns when referring to God's holy spirit, a most DISRESPECTFUL thing to do if the holy spirit were the third person of a trinity, ... 6:6. It is most unlikely that such expressions would be made if reference were being made to a divine person." (Jehovah's Witnesses, Insight p 1020, & Aid p 1543) This argument is utterly false, but ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-holy-spirit-arian-proof-texts-refuted.htm | 82% Size: 51K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | Definition and Nature of God Click to View Catalogue and List of Divine Titles of God Click to View Divine qualities that each member of the Godhead share as equal members of the trinity Click to View Texts that speak of God being one. Click to View The ... I. Unchangeable Qualities of God: Creator, not creature God is not a creature and never had a beginning point, being eternal: Deut 33:27; Isa ... Rom 1:25 refutes this contradictory false doctrine that Jesus is a creature. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit share the quality of eternal pre-existence with each other equally. No angel, ... Mal 3:6; But God can change his mind: Jonah 3:10; Gen 6:6 God is a person: Rom 9:19; Isa 1:18; Rom 11:33-34; Gen 1:27; Ps 18:19; Ps 103:13; ... To the man, we believe that Jesus retained His deity, as the word is legitimately defined." (Gene Frost, Frost-Welsh debate) "The distinction ... dwelt in Jesus while he walked the earth. (Col 2:9) Although the Bible says God is immutable (unchangeable) this quality refers not to the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-definition-god.htm | 82% Size: 18K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | Trinity proof texts: John 5:18 The sabbath controversy allowed Jesus to give one of the most compete statements of his divine nature. No where does the Bible say that Jesus did not break the sabbath. Anti-Trinitarian rebuttals: Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal #1 "Another scripture offered as support for the Trinity is John 5:18. It says that the Jews (as at John 10:31-36) wanted to kill Jesus because "he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God." But who said that Jesus was ... lying is definitely condemned in the Bible, this does not mean that a person is under obligation to divulge truthful information to people who are not entitled to it. ... ... to Mt 4:4 "living by every word of God" "the sum of they word" and Jesus argued, "on the other hand Satan it is written" When two laws come into conflict, one must give way. ... And behold, there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all. 12 And when Jesus saw ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-john5-18.htm | 82% Size: 65K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | Anti-Trinity Proof Texts Refuted: Galatians 4:14 Anti-Trinity Proof Texts Refuted Click to View Galatians 4:13-14 "you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I ... Click to View False Arian argument stated: The two expressions "angel of God" and "Christ Jesus Himself" prove that Jesus is ... treated a rich man, a nobleman or a king; or as Christians would treat apostle Peter, an angel, Jesus Christ or the Father. ... Now where in the Bible is Jesus directly called an angel. Heb 1:13, on the other hand clearly states that Jesus IS NOT an angel. Even ... Humans are also called DIVINE MESSENGERS (angels) throughout the Bible and they are not ANGELS are they! We cannot emphasize ... Arians love to play on words and confuse people by pointing out that the original language word for ANGEL is literally MESSENGER throughout the Bible. Of course functioning as MESSENGER does not make one an "ontological literal spirit ... list both passages, but under different categories! 1 Cor 3:1 emphasizes the quality of a person, thing (HOS section 2d). ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-galatians4-14.htm | 82% Size: 19K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | John Calvin: Commentary On The Gospel According To John (Translated ... In fact, the passage clearly proves Jesus was divine, because twice the Jews wanted to stone Jesus for making himself out as being God. Jesus never denied he was God. John Calvin: Commentary On The Gospel According To John; A new translation, from the ... For Christ does not argue about the unity of substance, but about the agreement which he has with the Father."" (As quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication, ... They argue therefore that Christ is a blasphemer and a sacrilegious person, because, being a mortal man, he lays claim to Divine honor. And ... In fact, Calvin was merely observing what Biblical Trinitarians know to be true, namely, that the Bible does not reveal what "stuff" the ... Law, I said, You are gods? 35. If it called them gods, to whom the word of God was addressed, and Scripture cannot, be broken, 36. Do you ... As true religion, in maintaining the glory of God, burns with its own zeal which the Spirit of God directs, so unbelief is the mother of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Calvin.htm | 82% Size: 21K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | Weigall, Arthur: The Paganism in Our Christianity In fact, Weigall specifically addresses the Watchtower/Arian/Jw view of God known as Angel-Christology, stating that ... claims to have found 27 major Bible doctrines to exist in Pagan religions before it was first recorded in the Bible. ... pagan." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) "Historian Arthur Weigall notes: "Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word 'Trinity' appear. ... and, in the second plate, because so many gods and semi-divine heroes have mothers whose names are variations of 'Mary' ... Tammuz or Adonis was worshipped, as the early Christian Father, Jerome, tells us; and its adoption as the scene of the ... to manhood, reigned on earth, later becoming the third person of this great Egyptian trinity." (The Paganism in Our ... the mysterious and undefined existence of the Holy Spirit; but there was no thought of these three being an actual ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Weigall.htm | 82% Size: 54K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | Lohse, Bernard: A Short History of Christian Doctrine ... He flatly rejects a pagan source after stating it has its foundation in the Bible. Second, the Watchtower irresponsibly portrays Constantine as a faithless sun-god pagan idol worshipper with no ... 1979, Constantine the Great, Vol. 5, p.71) is that the arguments between the Trinitarians and the Arians in council of Nicea, were based on complex etymology (precise Greek word definitions etc). ... So the fact that Lohse says Constantine had little understanding and that Trinity is not found in the Bible projects the false impression that such facts refute the fact that Jesus is divine and the Holy Spirit is a person not a thing! Full Text: First, it is important to note that the doctrine of the Trinity does not go back to non-Christian sources [pagan], as has sometimes been supposed in the ... The New Testament is not satisfied, however, with these sometimes rather far-reaching assertions about God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Some passages present triadic formulas. They ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Lohse.htm | 82% Size: 22K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | Bulwarks of the Faith Foy E Wallace JR. Refuting Dogmas Catholicism ... ... We are ordered by the Spirit to "try the spirits whether they are of God." (1 Jno. 4: 1) Christ's preaching was both positive ... I shall not deviate from it in this meet-ing. Our slogan is: "Plain Bible Preaching." I stand before God as humbly as in human ... of loyalty to a divine cause; of the sacrifices of a renowned people to keep alive the principles that gave birth to a nation that lived through Old Testament eras and ages, to accomplish the purpose of Almighty God. In this sacred ... First: Jerusalem. (1) There is the sacred and secular history of Jerusalem. I mean by the word "secular" that Jerusalem has ... Within the walls of Jerusalem Jesus wept for its plight, and without its walls He died for our sins. To the Jew it has a ... them, 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." ... and these recorded cases of conversion make the plan of salvation too plain for any thoughtful person to misunderstand. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/catholic/Catholic-church-doctrine-Bulwarks-of-the-Faith-Foy-E-Wallace-JR-Refuting-Dogmas-Catholicism-Protestant-Denominationalism-1951AD.htm | 82% Size: 1.6M Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | Development from the trinity as taught in the Bible and the trinity ... When the Watchtower says, "trinity is not EXPLICITY taught in the New Testament", they are right and all Trinitarians would agree! The key word is "explicit", for it means: "trinity, as defined ... By the end of the fourth century, and owing mainly to the challenge posed by various heresies, theologians went beyond the immediate testimony of the Bible and also beyond liturgical and creedal expressions of trinitarian faith to the ontological trinity of coequal persons "within" God. The shift is from function to ontology, from the "economic trinity" (Father, Son, and Spirit in relation to us) to the ... for generally speaking the New Testament is less intent upon setting forth certain doctrines than it is upon proclaiming the kingdom of God, a kingdom that dawns in and with the person of Jesus Christ. ... 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 | 82% Size: 17K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | Kelly, J.N.D.: Early Christian Doctrines JW's Quote Kelly in such a way as to leave the impression that he is not a trinitarian or one with no Bible basis. Kelly, J.N.D.: Early Christian Doctrines Kelly is quoted in, ... "Of a doctrine of the Trinity in the strict sense there is of course no sign" (Watchtower, Aug. 1, 1984, pg 23, quoting J.N.D. Kelly) "Of a doctrine of the Trinity in the strict ... In spite of incoherencies, however, the lineaments of a Trinitarian doctrine are clearly discernible in the Apologists. The Spirit was for them the Spirit of God; like the Word, He shared the divine nature, being (in ... Athenagoras echoes this idea when he inveighs [a verbal attack] against labeling as atheists 'men who acknowledge God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit, and declare both ... There is nothing Kelly would say that would support the JW's view of Jesus being a creature or that the Holy Spirit cannot be a person! Go To Alphabetical Index Of Deceptive Quotes Written By Steve Rudd, Used by permission at: www.bible.ca ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Kelly.htm | 81% Size: 11K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | Rylands, John: Bulletin of The John Rylands Library ... Library, Vol 50, (1967-68) p 247-261, as quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) But let me give another view. ... Supreme God. (In the article " Does the New Testament Call Jesus God? ", Expository Times, lxxiii, No. 4 (January 1962). p. 118.) Notice ... But the biggest deception with the Watchtower quote, is that Rahner is arguing against Modalism and the idea that Jesus is the same person as the Father. Rahner is ... is a liberal-modernist, Bible-trashing infidel that no Jehovah's Witness could quote as if a "conservative Bible believing scholar". ... they-ordinary Christians would "become partakers of the (or 4 a) divine nature"" Deception Exposed: It is the height of satanic deception ... from becoming the orthodoxy of the Middle Ages " (The Word Incarnate (1959), p. 102.) and Knox declares that " at whatever ... the New Testament references to the Holy Spirit are left on one side, would not the resultant conception of God be a form of ditheism ? ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Rylands.htm | 81% Size: 46K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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