Ephesians 4:4
"There is one body, and one Spirit..."
Let's continue from what we started two posts back.
The doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit also is a rather controversial matter amongst professing Christians. But the Bible warns us that some might receive another spirit.
II Cor 11
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Simply put, the charismatic movement speaks of a spirit that is not in accordance with what the Bible says. They claim that the Holy Spirit baptizes one into an invisible body, thus perverting the doctrine of the church, and perverting the promise the Lord made in Acts 1:5:
"For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."
And that was fulfilled in Acts 2, when the first church in Jerusalem was empowered to do the work they were called to do, the great commission. The signs given were proof of this, and the results also bore witness to the fact.
Peter preached the Lord Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead, and the Holy Spirit drew men unto the Lord. That was not the start of some movement making much of the Spirit of God, but rather fulfilling what the Lord had said.
John 16
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
That is the one Spirit of Ephesians 4, briefly shown to you in his work in the New Testament. He is the third person in the Trinity, God Almighty.
Constantine, a self-proclaiming pagan heads the 1st Council at Nicaea in 325 A.D. Here is an excerpt:
ReplyDelete"...The emperor had by this time escaped from the influence of Eusebius of Nicomedia, and was under that of Hosius, to whom, as well as to St. Athanasius, may be attributed a preponderant influence in the formulation of the symbol of the First Ecumenical Council, of which the following is a literal translation:
We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, that is, of the substance [ek tes ousias] of the Father, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, begotten not made, of the same substance with the Father [homoousion to patri], through whom all things were made both in heaven and on earth; who for us men and our salvation descended, was incarnate, and was made man, suffered and rose again the third day, ascended into heaven and cometh to judge the living and the dead. And in the Holy Ghost. Those who say: There was a time when He was not, and He was not before He was begotten; and that He was made out of nothing (ex ouk onton); or who maintain that He is of another hypostasis or another substance [than the Father], or that the Son of God is created, or mutable, or subject to change, [them] the Catholic Church anathematizes."
To go back in history, and expose the origns of the "gods", we find ourselves in post-flood times with Nimrod and his followers refusing to be redistributed by Noah around the world. He decides to build the tower of Babel, in Shinar, and God changes their languages and disperses them anyways. All the civilizations around the world come from that moment in time. They may have a different language, but they all share the same religion of "creature-worship" (stars, sun, moon, animals, ancestors, etc.) that came from ancient Babylon. The whole "mother and child" worship came from Nimrod and his mother/wife Semiramis long before Mary gave birth to Jesus, and can be seen in religions around the world.
Mainstream "christianity" today received their gospel by Constantine and the Catholic Church, which received it by the smelting of paganism and the teachings of Christ (Galations 1:6), which was the "perversion" spoken of, which came out of Rome, which received it from Greece and Egypt, which received it from Babylon, which was established by Nimrod and not Noah.
The Holy Spirit of God is God's Power, which Jesus Christ has, and used to create the universe, which is given to us, by measure, so that we can keep God's Laws, statutes, and judgments. It is the only way we can be "born" into God's Kingdom, at the blowing of the seventh trumpet, prior to the return of Christ (until then, all are resting in the grave, awaiting that moment in 1 Corinthians 15;52). The Holy Spirit is a "gift" from God, to those He calls, and is the (Ephesians 3:7) "...effectual working of His Power."
Any translations and/or verses that support a "Trinity" concept come from a source that predates the writing of the bible, and can be catagorized under the Galations 1:6 verse. ;-)
I will leave the comment above for my readers to learn from.
ReplyDeleteThe trinity is shown clearly in many places in the Bible, as Jesus said, "have ye never read". I won't find them all for you, as the admonition is given which says, "search the scriptures". The Bereans were more noble we are told in Acts 17 for they searched the scriptures daily. So dig in there yourself and find them, but we will give the most controversial one.
I John 5
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
The pro-Catholic and pro-J.W. manuscripts are against the truth in this verse, and either grossly change it or remove it in all modern version. Of course the Authorized Version, commonly referred to as the King James Bible has it correct. See our post titled, "Lets start with something elementary".
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/monocogman/612301/
Without a final authority, you are attempting to elevate yourself to god and are the judge of all matters. That is the same problem that was going on in the garden. Eve fell for that one. "Ye shall be as gods" was the lie the serpent told her.
And without a final authority, no amount of arguing will ever amount to anything.
Job 6
25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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