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GODHEAD
Ps
110:1 “The Lord said unto my Lord, “Sit thou at my right
Hand...”
This thought
of Jesus at
God’s right hand is repeated several times in the Bible.
(egs.
Ac 7:56; He 1:3; 1P 3:22 to name a few.)
However, there can be no scripture found
that implies
that the Holy Ghost is seated at the right hand or left. Furthermore,
we know that God is called the father many times, and
Jesus is called the son many times, and He is called the Father; but
never is the Holy Ghost called either.
Notice here, too, in this verse in Ps
110:1, that God
& Jesus are both referred to as “Lord”. This is found many
times as well, (egs Jude 4; compare Lk 2:11 w/Lk 2:26) Likewise,
Jesus is referred to as God more than once (egs. He 1:8; Jn 1;1). But,
no scripture can be found that calls the Holy Ghost, God
or Lord. The word “Godhead” is found 3 times in the Bible, and
even though the word’s meaning has nothing to do with how many
“heads” are in 3rd heaven, or how many heads make up
God; yet there is a place where 3 heads are mentioned: 1Co
11:3 -- but here again the Holy Ghost is left out!
Anytime you can find a scripture that
shows how many
“persons” are governing all of creation from the eternal throne
of God, the Holy Ghost will always be left out.
egs [Rv 20:6] “They (the overcomers - not
the Holy
Ghost) shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign
with him a thousand years.”
[Rv 22;1] “And he shewed me a pure river
of *water
of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb. v3 “There shall be no more curse: but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it...”
**Here we do
spot the
Holy Ghost—but not as a person; rather as the life of 2 persons
proceeding
forth from
them. (I hope
you can see this!)
There are many more scriptures like these
that reveal
exactly how many “persons” are in the Godhead.
God is a person; a spirit and not
as mortal
man, but none the less a person. (He 1:3) clearly shows Jesus to be
“the express image of his (God’s ) person.”
There
are at least 40 scriptures in the Bible where 2 persons and not 3 are
referred to when a distinct acknowledgment
is being made
to the members
of the Godhead.
I want to
begin this
enumeration with one of the strongest verses I know of—if not the
strongest.
1Co 8:5 “For though there be many that
are called
Gods, whether in Heaven or in earth, (as there be Gods many, and
Lords many), but to us there is but [one God], the Father, of whom
are all things, and we in him; and [one Lord] Jesus Christ, by whom
are all things, and we by him.”
Very similarly, note: 1Ti 2:5 “There is one
God,
and one mediator between god and men, the man Christ Jesus...”
In these 2 powerful verses of scripture,
Paul only
acknowledges 2 men or persons in the Godhead. Note: Jn 8:17-18 Jesus
said concerning himself and his father, “The testimony of 2 men
is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the
Father that sent me beareth witness of me.”
Here again the “persons” are alluded to.
Even
though the Holy Ghost is a witness, yet “He” is never referred to
as a man or person. “He” is only *personified in certain places
like John Chapter 15 & 16. **personify: To conceive of or
represent as a person. - Webster
Notice in Ge 4:7 among many other places,
Sin
is likewise personified as a “He” only to be finally called an
“it” in Ro 6:12. Similarly, the Spirit of God is indeed called
“He” many times, only to eventually called an “It” in Ro 8:26
and 1P 1:11. “It is indeed the spirit of God - the person,
just as your person has a spirit.
.
In reality,
God’s spirit
is no more a separate person than your spirit is. the false
doctrine known as the trinity was conceived well after the
time that the Bible New Testament was written.
Notice if you will, this fascinating verse
in Lk 9:26
“...of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when
he shall come in his own glory, and in
his
Father’s, and of the Holy Angels.”
Luke
must have been delirious to have substituted the Holy Ghost’s place
with angels! No! He was not deluded or deceived—WE
have been deceived!
John
must have been delirious as well to make the following remark: (2J
1:9) “He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath Both
the Father and the Son.
How
could John, having known for so many years that there were 3 in the
Godhead, have used such an absurd word as “both” knowing that
that word can only mean 2!
Well,
at least when he wrote 1J 2:22, he didn’t use the word both... “He
is antichrist that denieth the father and the Son.”
But,
he still left the Holy Ghost out! Likewise, in the opening,
salutatory remarks of both letters, when he makes his customary
acknowledgments to the Godhead, he leaves “Him” out.
2Jn
1:3 “Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, [The son of the
Father...”]
(John almost
seems to be
stressing here that Jesus is the only son of the Father.)
1J 1:3 “That which we have seen and heard
declare
we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our
fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus
Christ.”
OK OK, I’m through being facetious, but
I’m
striving to get the sense of this point over to you. With all the
talk we’ve heard all our lives about the mystery of the trinity,
you would think that these verses would have included the Holy
Ghost.
The only thing that keeps the mystery of
the blessed
trinity a mystery, is the fact that it’s not the truth!
Jn
14:1 “Let
not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in
me.”
Here again (as in Lk 9:26) Jesus
himself
leaves out the Holy Ghost. I have shown already a few times where
John leaves him out, and a few times when Paul leaves him out, but
one can’t help but notice, when pointed out, that every writer;
in fact every letter, written in the New Testament, leaves out
the 3rd person when making it’s opening salutatory
acknowledgments to the Most High Divine Personages!
...Beginning
with the letter to the Romans...
Ro 1:7 “To all that be in Rome, beloved
of God,
called to be saints: grace to you and peace from God our Father
and The Lord Jesus Christ.
(next verse) ... I thank my God
through Jesus
Christ for you all... (next verse ... For God is my
witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son...”
Now
notice
the similar acknowledgment in the very last verse of the letter...
Ro
16:27 “To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ
forever. AMEN!
Now
Let’s
move to the next letter...
1Co 1:1
“Paul called to
be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God...
verse 3... Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father,
and from the Lord Jesus Christ ... (next verse) I thank my
God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given
you by Jesus Christ ... (verse nine) ... God is
faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son
Jesus Christ our Lord.”
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1Co 9:21 “To them that are without law,
as without
law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to
Christ) that I might gain them that are without law.”
Note: Paul claimed here to be subject to
2 persons in
accordance with 1Co 11:3 which shows the Godhead order: God the head
of Christ; Christ the head of the man (or the ministry to the church)
and man the head of the woman (the church).
Note:
Along with this, 1Co 3:22 “Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas (the
men), or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things
to come; all are yours (the woman); and ye are Christ’s; and
Christ is God’s.” (See study on Jesus’ subordination
to
God for further info on this point.) The main point, of course,
in all of this is that the Holy Ghost is not included in any of
this.
Eventually,
there will be a 3rd agency in the throne with God
and the Lamb, but according to various scriptures (egs Rv 3:21;
2:26-27; 20:1-6) it will not be the Holy Ghost: it will be the bride.
To
further evidence this, read the 45th psalm which shows in
prophetic language, the Bride on the throne with Jesus.
Ps
45:6 “Thy throne O God is forever and ever ... verse 9 ... upon thy
right hand did stand the queen in gold ... verse 14 ... she shall be
brought unto the king ... they shall enter into the kings palace ...”
This
queen in gold is the Bride, the overcoming element of the called
ones. Many are called, but a few are chosen - and faithful to love
not their lives unto the death; they are the chaste virgins who
follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth - are gladly beheaded for the
witness of Jesus and for the word of God. They will inherit the
position on the throne of God as the Lamb’s wife.
Revelation
chapter 21 also pictures this.
OK
enough on this diversion from the subject; let us go on to the next
letter...
2Co
1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God
... unto the church of God which is at Corinth ... verse 2 ... Grace
be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord
Jesus Christ. (the Holy Ghost must have been on vacation). Blessed
be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Note: If we weren’t being taught better,
we would
possibly be tempted to think that the gospel authors were dishonoring
the 3rd person of the trinity, by not ever mentioning
“Him” when these acknowledgments were being made. But, we are
being taught better.
Contrariwise, the Trinitarian creed
teaches quite a
different view as to the co-equality of the 3 persons, emphatically
implying that each is worthy of equal honor & mention.
I believe everyone is for the most part
familiar with
the creed, but here is an excerpt from a book called, “Christ among
us: A modern presentation of the Catholic Faith”; “there is but
one God, but in god there are three divine, Completely Equal
persons. this is the mystery of the blessed trinity. Each of the 3
persons is really distinct from the other two. each is wholly
God, equal to the other two. One did not come before the others.
Yet there is only one God.”
All
right,
now here again is another excerpt from the original Athanasian Creed
of about 370 AD.
“The
Catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and
Trinity in unity, neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the
substance.”
Furthermore it states, “But the Godhead of
the Father
of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, The glory equal,
the majesty CO-eternal.”
Yet
as I am endeavoring to point out, either the gospel writers failed to
acknowledge them equally, or this creed is not Biblical. Concerning
whether or not this creed truly does not confound the 3 persons,
notice this statement later in the creed: “As we are compelled by
the Christian verity to acknowledge every person by himself to be
both God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic religion,
to say, there be three Gods or three Lords.”
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This
has
always appeared to many to be very confounding.
Let me add
this excerpt
from the “Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church”...
“This doctrine is held to be a mystery,
in the
strict sense, in that it can neither be known by unaided human reason
apart from revelation, nor cogently demonstrated by reason after
it has been revealed.”
I believe, however, that the truth of any
Bible
subject can be “cogently demonstrated by reason”, providing that
the incorrect interpretation is not being forced from it.
The problem with the trinity doctrine is
that it has
erupted from the otherwise “simplicity that is in Christ”, into a
corrupted and, therefore confounding, or confusing doctrine.
The doctrine of the trinity materialized
long after
the apostles and their disciples had either died or were martyred,
but not before several of their great grandchildren adherents had
been condemned along with the last vestiges of truth on the subject,
which was labeled as “Subordinationism” and “Macedonianism”
among other things.
Both of these “isms”, I am endeavoring to
re-affirm after 1600 years of obscurity. The true, Biblical
doctrines of Christ are being restored to a latter rain
church.
Jn 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that
they might
know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast
sent.” - once again Jesus does not acknowledge the Godhead of the
spirit!
Eph 5:5 “...no whoremonger, nor unclean
person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom
(who’s kingdom?) of Christ and of God.”
Again - the Holy Spirit left out! And,
again Paul
ends this letter acknowledging only 2 ... 6:23 “Peace be to the
brethren, and love with faith, from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.”
Col
1:2
“Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.”
Note
how, in this next verse, three are mentioned;
but, this time instead of mentioning
the Holy
Ghost at all,
the Father is mentioned twice.
Col 2:2 “... being knit together in love,
and unto
all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the
acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father,
and of Christ.”
Note:
This phenomenon occurs several times in the Bible,
such as 1Th 3:11 and Rv 1:6 and is not meant
to give
the impression that there are 2 Fathers,
but, rather, is
meant to *stress the Fatherhood of God as
evinced by the
scripture just 2 verses past 1Th 3:11.
As you no doubt have already noticed, the
fact that
God is Jesus’ Father—and our Father has been stressed quite a bit
in the scriptures I’ve used. I remind you that no scripture can be
found calling the Spirit anyone’s Father or son!
Next
Letter:
1Th 1:1 “Paul, and Silvanus, and
Timotheus, unto
the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and
in The Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace from
God our Father, and The Lord Jesus Christ...
remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love,
and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of
God *and our Father.” **(or, even)
Next
Letter
Th 1:1 “Paul, and Silvanus, and
Timotheus, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and The Lord
Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father
and The Lord Jesus Christ.”
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Repeat
Acknowledgment in last verse of chapter:
2Th 1:12 “That the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ
may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our
God and The Lord Jesus Christ.”
Note: We know that the Son of God is to
be glorified
(as we see in this verse and many others) and honored (as we
see clearly in Jn 5:23 and Rv 5:12) and thanked (1Ti 1:12),
but no scripture can be found giving glory, honour,
or thanks
to the Spirit!
2Th
2:16 “Now
our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even
our Father
... comfort your hearts..”
Next Letter:
1Ti 1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the
commandment of God our saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
which is our hope; unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace,
mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and JESUS CHRIST
our Lord.” Notice how the plainness if the statement
made in
1Co 8:6,
God Our
Father
Jesus
Christ Our Lord
But
1Co 8:6
States it like this; “There is but one God, the Father...and one Lord Jesus
Christ.”
This Bible truth makes the Athanasian
creed of the
Trinity completely wrong! It declares that the Holy Ghost is also
God and Lord, making at least 2 Lords and 2 Gods, but actually
confirming 3 to be God and Lord.
I am not denying that God the Father, and
The Lord
Jesus Christ are each referred to as God and Lord, but I have yet to
find 1 verse that confers either of these titles on the Spirit of
God!
One attempt commonly made to show the
Spirit as God,
is to combine Ac 5;3 w/Ac 5:4 and 1Co 3:16.
God
doesn’t
leave his throne to send his spirit to / into a person any more than
the sun leaves it’s
place for you to receive It’s
power.
Notice Ac 7:55-56 “Here is Stephen about
to be
stoned to death; but what does he see just prior to this; “But
he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven,
and saw the glory of
God,
and Jesus standing on the right hand of God ...”
My
point is
that god didn’t have to go anywhere in order to fill Stephen with
His Spirit.
Even the effects of Paul’s spirit
was felt
in his churches while he was far away: Note 1Co 5:4 & Col 2:5.
that doesn’t
mean that
his spirit, or yours and my spirit has to be a separate person.
If I say
“the Spirit of
Sam Jones ....” Am I referring to a separate Person.
The Son of
God is a
separate person, but the Spirit of God is not—it is simply His
spirit.
If you want
to do verse
comparisons, compare these two Ac 2:4 Ac 2:17
Ac 2:4 “And
they were
all filled with the Holy Ghost ... as the Spirit gave them
utterance.”
Now
in verse 13, Peter explains this strange occurrence;
This
strange
occurrence; Ac 2:17 “And it shall come to pass in the last days,
Saith God, I will pour
out of my
spirit
upon all flesh ...”
God’s
Spirit—not a
3rd persons Spirit!
Another
comparison: Mt 12:28 & Lk 11:20
Q. Is the
finger of God a
separate person?
The Holy
Ghost is also
referred to as “The power of God” (2Co 13:4 & 4:7 &
2Ti 1:14/1P 1:5 combined) Does the power
of a person
create the need of another person?
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The
Holy Ghost is also referred to as “The Life of God” (Eph 4:18 &
Jn 5:26 & Ro 8:2,10 & 2Co 3:6) Is
Is your spirit of life another
person? (Note
Jms 2:26) Why, then, does God’s spirit of life have to be a
separate person?
God is an invisible Spirit being; he has
a form &
a shape (Jn 5:37) but it is spirit & not flesh; he has eyes (Am
9:4), and hands (Is 65:2), and feet(Ps 18:9), etc. Man in fact was
made after His own similitude (Jms 3:9). Concerning his bodily form
(spiritual, glorified body), it no doubt looks a lot like ours or
Jesus Christ’s [Phil 2:6 “... who being in the form of
God...”]
God is a spirit being—a person! He has a
mind (Je
19:5), and will Jn 4:34), and emotions (Ex 4:14; Neh 8:10). He
sitteth in 3rd heaven, between the 2 cherubims (Ps 80:1)
and yet he saith, “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” Je 23:24. This is His
Spirit going out and working among the children of
men.
“For in Him we live, and move, and have
our being
... He be not far from everyone of us.” (Ac 17:28). this is
the work of His Spirit—not a separate person—that is not
scriptural! “The Spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters”
(Ge 1:2). That’s not another person—it’s the Lord himself!
2Co 3:17 “Now
the
lord is that Spirit.” (Note also Gal 4:6)
Back to 1Tim: In quoting from 1Th 1:3 a
little
earlier, we saw the Thessalonians laboring “in Christ, in the sight
of God.” Look now at the exhortation that Paul gives Timothy in
the sight of the heavenly God heads.
1Ti 1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the
will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ
Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son” Grace, mercy, and peace,
from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul again
exhorts
Timothy in the sight of the God heads...
2Ti 4:1 “I
charge thee
therefore before God, and The Lord Jesus Christ...
Pardon me
but I seem to
have skipped Phil ... Phil 1:2 “Grace be unto you, and peace from
God our Father, and from The Lord Jesus Christ.”
Tit 1:4 “To Titus, mine own son after the
common
faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and The
Lord Jesus Christ our saviour.” (No grace, mercy, peace, or
greetings of any kind from the 3rd person—why?! Because
“He” is not a person in the Godhead. “He” is the Spirit of
God the Father, which was also given to the Son Jesus Christ upon his
conception.
However, before the days of his
flesh, Jesus’
Spirit also worked in the earth accomplishing the will of His Father.
Note 1P 1:10-11; “The Spirit of Christ which was in them
(the prophets)...” Also; God’s Spirit in Christ worked in
the Old Covenant well before the law was given. see Gal 3:17; “The
covenant confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was
430 years after...”
There are about a dozen more scriptures
just like
these that show Jesus, the Spiritual, glorified, fleshless being at
work long before “The days of His flesh.”
But
remember,
that spirit wasn’t one of 3 lords, but the Lord is that
spirit.
(2Co 3:17)
Note also Ga
4:6
Tit 2:13 “Looking for that blessed hope,
and the
glorious appearance of The Great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ.”
This
verse
and a few others show two persons coming at the last day.
(Note also
1Jn 3:1; 1Th
4:14; Rv 1:4 & 4:8; Rv 21:3)
Next
Letter:
Phil
1:3
“Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and The
Lord Jesus Christ.”
Paul’s next letter, to the Hebrews,
begins with the
entire first chapter being a sort of discourse by Paul, about the
comparison of the Father & Son’s relationship with that of
angels. Of course, the subject of, or the mention of, The Holy Ghost
as a person, or as part of the relationship, or as having had
anything to do with creation, or the beginning of things, or the
middle of things or the end of
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things never appears.
Jms
1:1
“James, a servant of God and of The Lord Jesus Christ
...” (but not the Holy Ghost)
In the next letter, we actually do
have a
mention in the opening acknowledgments, of The Spirit; but
Peter does not address it as a person; he only shows “sanctification
of the spirit” to be a qualification of the Spirit” to be a
qualification for election much as Paul does in 2Th 2:13;--”We are
bound to give thanks alway to God for you ... because God hath from
the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the
Spirit and belief of the truth.”
Here in these texts, the Spirit isn’t
spoken of as
a person, but rather as a force or power, just as the truth itself is
a force and power. The actual persons behind this “operation of
God” (Col 2:12) are acknowledged 3 verses later in 2Th 2:16 as I
have already pointed out.
God and Jesus work in us (Phil 2:13)
through “their”
Spirit. They themselves haven’t come into us, but it is
understood that their presence is represented by their Spirit.
1Jn
3:24
“Hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which
he hath given us.”
1Jn 4:13 “Hereby know we that we dwell in
Him, and
He in us, because He hath given us *of His spirit.” ** or, Part
of, or out of—remember Ac 2:17 and Eph
1:13-14.
He gives us
a portion of
His Spirit as an earnest of our inheritance.
You just
can’t put all
of God’s Spirit in a person. But, he has given us of His
Spirit.
Jn 6:56 “He
that eateth
my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him.”
This verse
blends
beautifully with the two we just mentioned in 1Jn.
They reveal
that Jesus’
Spirit is represented by His blood which in
turn is
taught by the
scriptures to be The life of a person—not a
separate
person. Then it
also reveals how Jn 14:23 is realized; by “drinking into God’s
Spirit:” and thereby dwelling in Him (baptized into his body) and
He, or They dwelling in us. -- 1Co 12;13
Next
Letter:
2P 1:1 “Simon Peter, a servant and an
apostle of
Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us
through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus Our Lord.”
Next
Letter:
I already showed 1Jn 1:3 which shows who
our
fellowship is with (The Father and The Son), but even though the
Spirit is not mentioned here, remember that the way in which
we have this fellowship is -
-
in the
Spirit; but, our fellowship is with The Father and
The Son—by or in the spirit, the Bible doesn’t teach
that The Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ is itself
a separate person. (see notes from Part 3 “by the spirit)
1Jn 2:22-24 “Who is a liar but he that
denieth that
Jesus is the Christ? He is anti-Christ, that denieth the Father and
the Son and the holy ghost—NO; the Holy Ghost is not
included) ... whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the
Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father and
the holy Ghost also.”
These many verses of scripture continue
to
disintegrate the false claim made by Athanasius and His millions of
adherents that a Christian is “compelled to acknowledge every
person by himself to be both God and Lord.” If he would have had a
duality in mind instead of a trinity, then he would not have been in
such grave error.
Next
Letter
2Jn.
I
covered it’s statements on the Godhead before.
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3Jn seems to be the only book in the New
Testament
that has absolutely nothing to say about Godhead and is void of any
mention of Jesus.
“Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ ... to
them that
are sanctified by God The Father, and preserved in Jesus
Christ ...”
Jude 4 “For there are certain men crept
in
unawares, ... turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and
denying The only Lord God, and Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Rv 1:1 “The revelation of Jesus Christ
which
God gave unto him, to show unto His servants ... and
He sent
and signified it by His angel unto His servant John: who bare record
of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ
...”
I will not fail to point out verse 4 of
Rv 1 which
does mention, in one breath, the Father and seven
Spirits and
Jesus Christ. Of course there are not 9 in the Godhead; these 7 are
the seven-fold Spirit of God and of Christ. Notice how I continue to
stress that the one spirit is possessed by both God and
Christ. This is evinced first of all by the hundreds of scriptures
that refer to “The spirit of (possessive) God”, such as;
1Co
2:12 which also stresses this possessiveness; “Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of
God.”—or in other words, God’s Spirit—His
Spirit—Not someone else’s spirit (Like the 3rd
persons spirit). And then, also, by the various scriptures that show
it to be Jesus’ Spirit: 1P 1:11 “Spirit of Christ”
Gal
4:6 “Spirit of His Son”
And
how about this one which mentions both in one breath:
“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit, if
so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” Ro 8:9
the
7 facets of the Spirit are enumerated in Is 11:2 The Lord
Now
notice how that Wisdom
“The
Lord God” utilized Understanding
The
Seven facets in Counsel
the
following Might
Scripture
references: Knowledge
Fear
of the Lord
2 facets, aspects, or qualities are used
in Pr 3:19
“The Lord by Wisdom hath founded the earth; by
understanding hath He established the heavens.”
And how about this one which again
stresses the
possessiveness of the spirit as if it were His own, and not
someone else’s: Pr 8:22 “The Lord possessed me in the
beginning of His way ... verse 30 ... Then I was by Him, as
one brought up with Him.” Is this a person talking? No! Back up
to the first verse to see that it is merely the Spirit (1 of 7) of
Wisdom that is being personified. Don’t be deluded by
personifications in the Bible or you’ll have a very hard time
understanding much of it. Here is a partial list of all the “things”
that are personified in the Bible:
A
sword Ez 21:4 The earth Nu 16:32
Our
soul Ps 34:2 Jordan River Josh 3:15
An
iron gate Ac 12:10 A stone Ge 29:3
The
candlestick Rv 2:5 Salt Mt 5:13
Wine Pr
23:31 The sun Jud 5:31
Heaven Ex
24:10 Patience Jms 1:4
So the Lord used the spirit of wisdom and
the spirit
of understanding to create all things. Wisdom and understanding are
characteristics of the Spirit of God and of Christ—the two persons.
Ps
136:5 “To
him that by wisdom made the heavens.”
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Je 10:12 “He hath
made the earth by His
power, he hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath
stretched out the heavens by His discretion.”
I think I have caused you to dwell on
this thought
long enough. I pray that you can see that the nature and
characteristics of the Spirit belong to God and Christ and not
another.
I want to conclude this study of the
Bible Godhead
acknowledgments, by looking at the book of Revelation one more time,
but before I do let me show you a similar passage from the 7th
chapter of Daniel. In several instances in the Revelation of Jesus
to John, He saw (in the Spirit) the throne room of God and all
present beings. Daniel also saw this:
Da
7:9 “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and The Ancient
of Days did sit .. .. verse 13 ... I saw in the
night visions, and, behold, one like The Son of Man came with the
clouds of heaven, and came to The Ancient of Days, and they brought
Him near before Him.” --- One Him is the
Ancient of
Days (God); the other Him is the Son of Man (Jesus). In this entire
vision, there are 2 personages that appear. We also understand that
there are angels by the thousands and “the cloud” which brings
Him to Him are the “saints of the most high” in symbolical form.
-- Now notice the same chapter & verse of Revelation.
Rv
7:9 “A great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations,
and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne,
and before The Lamb, and cried with a loud voice, saying,
“Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne,” and
unto The Lamb ... verse 15 ... Therefore are they before the
throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and He
that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall
hunger no more ... for The Lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall feed them ... and God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes.”
I
ask you --- “Where is the 3rd CO-equal, CO-eternal, and
CO-majestic person?”
Rv 21:22 “And I saw no temple therein:
for The
Lord God Almighty and The Lamb are the temple of it.”
Note:
The picture presented in the fourth chapter of Revelation is that of
God on His throne being worshipped.
The Lamb is then introduced in the
fifth chapter (as in
Daniel 7) and is then likewise worshipped by all at the end of the
chapter. The Holy Ghost is never mentioned.
Rv 5:13 “And every creature which is in
heaven, and
on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and
all that are in them, heard I saying, “Blessing, and honour, and
glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne,
and unto The Lamb forever and ever.”
Other
scriptures:
Rv
14:4
And
the 4 beasts said AMEN!
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