“Tell me, Panthea,” said Abradatas when he heard this, “what can I do to pay the debt of gratitude that you and I owe to Cyrus?”“What else, pray,” said Panthea, “than to try to be to him what he has been to you?

THE MAN JESUS OF NAZARETH DID NOT CREATE A PHYSICAL WORLD

Eph. 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Eph. 3:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
Eph. 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Eph. 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
        as it is now REVEALED unto his holy APOSTLES and prophets by the SPIRIT;

SPIRIT produces WORDS of INSTRUCTION: Spirit is never, can never be a god.

Jesus was sent to create a Spiritual Kingdom which is INVISIBLE. In this Church or School of Christ He creates a SAFE HOUSE but only for a small band of Lost Spirits: IN the world but not OF the World.
The World, Kosmos or the Ecumenical is the Kingdom of the Devil fighting the church of Christ.

Eph. 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body,
        and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Eph. 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God
         given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Eph. 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given,
        that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Eph. 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
        which from the beginning of the WORLD
        hath been hid in God,
        who created all things by Jesus Christ:

World is 165 Aion A Messianic Period NOT the MEGAVERSE

g2936.ktizo, ktid´-zo; probably akin to 2932 (through the idea of proprietorship of the manufacturer); to fabricate, i.e. found (form originally): — create, Creator, make.
2932.  ktaomai, ktah´-om-ahee; a primary verb; to get, i.e. acquire (by any means; own): — obtain, possess, provide, purchase.

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,
        over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers,
        to feed the church of God, which he hath PURCHASED with his own blood.

Eph. 1:13 In whom ye also trusted,
        after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation:
         in whom also after that ye believed,
        ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Eph. 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the PURCHASED possession, unto the praise of his glory

 4046. peripoie÷omai peripoieomai, per-ee-poy-eh´-om-ahee; middle voice from 4012 and 4160; to make around oneself, i.e. acquire (buy): — purchase.

The WORD is what one SPEAKS: Word is a Quality but not a god.

2Pet. 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the WORD
        which were SPOKEN before by the holy PROPHETS,
        and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
2Pet. 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
        walking after their own lusts,
2Pet. 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
        for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pet. 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word OF God
        the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pet. 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pet. 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now,
        by the same word are kept in store,
        reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Col. 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father,
        which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
         and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
        even the forgiveness of sins:
Col. 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col. 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col. 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

g2936.ktizo, ktid´-zo; probably akin to 2932 (through the idea of proprietorship of the manufacturer); to fabricate, i.e. found (form originally): — create, Creator, make.
2932.  ktaomai, ktah´-om-ahee; a primary verb; to get, i.e. acquire (by any means; own): — obtain, possess, provide, purchase

John Mark Hicks Christian System: 2 Alexander Campbell, “Unitarianism, or, Remarks on Christian Union. No. II,” Millennial Harbinger Third Series 3 (July 1846): 393.

YOU CAN BELIEVE ALL RECORDED SCRIPTURE: Paul silences both male and female to that we might be SAFE and come to a knowledge of THE TRUTH or THE WORD OR LOGOS as the REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE silencing all people who SPEAK ON THEIR OWN whom Jesus said are the SONS OF THE DEVIL.

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;

AND NOT BE A UNITARIAN

Alexander Campbell Unitarianism and Trinitarianism

Many persons have been called Unitarians, and some have so called themselves, who believe in the death of Christ as a sin-offering, who reject trinitarianism BECAUSE of its unscriptural, unintelligible, and barbarous phraseology; regarding it as a system of polytheism; who, nevertheless,  know not what to say or think of the pre-existent or ante-human state of the author of Christianity; some repudiating the phrases "eternal son," "second person," "consubstantial" "co-equal," "very God of very God," "Supreme Deity," &c.; &c.;

They reject these terms because to them barbarous and incomprehensible; but have no distinct idea or name for the antecedent state, relation, or character of Him that was made flesh. I neither believe in one supreme god, or more.
        The term Jehovah is itself indicative of the supreme. What would any sensible person say to him that asked him,

'Sir, do you believe that Jesus Christ was a human man--a supreme man?' Would he not reply, 'Sir, with me, man is man. I know nothing of supreme humanity, nor of supreme divinity. If any being be human, he is human; if he be divine, he is divine, possessed of a nature which has no positive, comparative, or superlative degrees in it.Indeed, what nature has in it degrees of comparison! It is not the divine, the angelic, the human.'

I have long taught that the Trinitarian, Arian, and Sabellian theories are wholly a corrupt speech--irrational and unscriptural speculations.

But there is this difference: All Trinitarians believe in the DIVINE NATURE of Jesus Christ, and in his death as a real sacrifice for sin--an expiatory offering, without which there could be no remission. I believe this most sincerely, but without any fellowship for their humanisms, their barbarous diction, and unscriptural modes of reasoning on the subject.

Therefore that Unitarianism which I repudiate denies both the divine nature of my Redeemer, and the necessity of his death as a sin-offering in order to remission.

SEE MORE BELOW NOTE 28

IV.III. While, then, the phrase "Son of God" denotes a temporal relation,
        the phrase "the WORD of God" denotes an eternal, unoriginated relation.

There was a WORD of God from eternity,
        but the SON OF GOD began to be in the days of Augustus Cesar. "
        Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

He was by his resurrection from the dead declared to be the Son of God
        with a power and evidence extraordinary and divine.

The WORD incarnate or dwelling in human flesh,
        is the person called our Lord and Redeemer,
        Jesus Christ--and while, in the system of grace,
        the Father is the one God,

John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
        the flesh profiteth nothing:
        the WORDS that I speak unto you,
        they are SPIRIT, and they are life.

John Mark Hicks Christian System: The “Christian Religion” confesses one “divine NATURE” and “three persons—the FATHER, the WORD and the HOLY SPIRIT.”2

John Mark Hicks  TEACHES that Campbell says ONE DIVE GOD.

God ALWAYS puts His WORDS directly into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets and LASTLY the Man Jesus later made both Lord and Christ.  Therefore, SPIRIT in all languages is figurative or a PARABLE to fool the theologians.

Tertullian an inventor of trias: But, first, I shall discuss His essential nature, and so the nature of His birth will be understood. We have already asserted that God made the world, and all which it contains,          by His Word, and Reason, and Power. It is abundantly plain that your philosophers, too, regard the Logos-that is, the Word and Reason-          as the Creator of the universe. And we, in like manner, hold that the Word, and Reason, and Power, ..........by which we have said God made all, have spirit as their proper and essential     substratum, in which the Word has in being to give forth utterances, ..........and reason abides to dispose and arrange, ..........and power is over all to execute. We have been taught that           He (reason) proceeds forth from God, and in that procession He is generated; so that He is the Son of God, and is called God from unity of substance with God. For God, too, is a Spirit. Even when the ray is shot from the sun,.it is still part of the parent mass; the sun will still be in the           ray, because it is a ray of the sun- ..........there is no division of substance,           but merely an extension. Thus Christ is Spirit OF Spirit, and God OF God, as light OF light is kindled. The material matrix remains entire and unimpaired, though you derive from it any number of shoots possessed of its qualities; so, too, that which has come forth out of God is at once God and the Son of God, and the two are one. In this way also, as He is Spirit of Spirit and God of God, He is made a second in manner of existence-in position, not in nature; and He did not withdraw from the original source,  but went forth. This ray of God, then, as it was always foretold in ancient times, descending into a certain virgin, and made flesh in her womb, ..........is in His birth God and man united.

Campbell, Thomas, Trinity The relationship of Word to God was the same as the relationship of a word to a thought. And so this is the most common understanding among the church fathers. The the word is the SON of the speaker as FATHER then there is ot problem trying to sort out how a LITERAL son of god could be equal with the Father or of the same age. 1st. A word is a sign or representative of a thought or an idea,  and is the idea in an audible or visible form. It is the exact image of that invisible thought  which is a perfect secret to all the world until it is expressed. 2d. All men think or form ideas by means of words or images; so that no man can think without words or symbols of some sort. 3d. Hence it follows that the word and the idea which it represents, are co-etaneous, or of the same age or antiquity. ........It is true the word may not be uttered or born          for years or ages after the idea exists, ........but still the word is just as old as the idea. 4th. The idea and the word are nevertheless distinct from each other, though the relation between them is the nearest known on earth. ........An idea cannot exist without a word,          nor a word without an idea. 5th. He that is acquainted with the word, is acquainted with the idea,          for the idea is wholly in the word. By putting together the above remarks on the term word, we have a full view of what John intended to communicate.     As a word is an exact image of an idea,     so is "The Word" an exact image of the invisible God. As a word cannot exist without an idea, nor an idea without a word,    so God never was without "The Word,"     nor "The Word" without God; or as a word is of equal age, or co-etaneous with its idea, so "The Word" and God are co-eternal. And as an idea does not create its word nor a word its idea; so God did not create "The Word," nor the "Word" God.

John Mark Hicks Christian System: First, his essay is thoroughly Trinitarian (though this is rarely recognized), and a Trinitarian and inductive reading of Scripture shapes Campbell’s presentation of the Chris tian system.

Second, within recent years, THEOLOGIANS within Churches of Christ have increasingly called for rooting theology in an explicitly Trinitari an understanding of God.

C. Leonard Allen, Ronald Highfield, Mark Powell, and Kelly Carter, among others, represent this trend.5

Third, Campbell’s approach to the Christian system is catholic, narratival, and biblical, which resonates well with my own theological interests. It is catholic because it locates the Stone-Campbell Movement within the “great tradition” of the Christian faith.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE STONE-CAMPBELL MOVEMENT.  Most churches in Kentucky agreed with Campbell.

  Augustine A Treatise on Fath and the Creed wrote:

"The following text of the Apostles' Creed may be collected from this book of St. Augustin, and was current in North Africa towards the close of the fourth century:

1. I Believe in God the Father Almighty. Chs. 2 and 3.
2. (And) In Jesus Christ,
        the Son of God,
        the Only-Begotten of the Father,
        or, His Only Son, Our Lord. Ch. 3.
3. Who Was Born Through the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary. Ch. 4 (§ 8.)
4. Who Under Pontius Pilate Was Crucified and Buried. Ch. 5 (§ 11.)
5. On the Third Day He Rose Again from the Dead. Ch. 5 (§ 12.)
6. He Ascended into Heaven. Ch. 6 (§ 13.)
7. He Sitteth at the Right Hand of the Father. Ch. 7 (§ 14.)
8. From Thence He Will Come and Judge the Living and the Dead. Ch. 8 (§ 15.)
9. (and I Believe) in the Holy Spirit. Ch. 9 (§ 16--19.)
10. I Believe the Holy Church (Catholic). Ch. 10 (§ 21.)
11. The Forgiveness of Sin. Ch. 10 (§ 23.)
12. The Resurrection of the Body. Ch. 10 (§ 23, 24.)
13. The Life Everlasting. Ch. 10 (§ 24.)]

Austin Graduate School of Theology
  Including Stanglin, Hicks etc, believe that the CHURCH only has the right to read, interpret, speak and MODIFY Scripture.

"But God,
        when He begot the Word,
        begot that which He is Himself.

"Neither out of nothing, nor of any material already made and founded did He then beget;
        but He begot of Himself that which He is Himself.

"God the Father, on the other hand, who possessed both the will and the power to declare Himself with the utmost truth to minds designed to obtain knowledge of Him,
        with the purpose of thus declaring Himself begot this [Word]
        which He Himself is who did beget;
        which [Person] is likewise called His Power and Wisdom,
        inasmuch as it is by Him that He has wrought all things, and in order disposed them;
        of whom these words are for this reason spoken:
        "She (Wisdom) reacheth from one end to another mightily,
        and sweetly doth she order all things. "

John Mark Hicks Christian System: It is narratival because it MIMICS the redemptive narrative of Scripture,
         epitomized in the Apostles’ Creed. [Campbell says that Hicks is Fabricating]
       
When Campbell speaks that which is written for our learning he is not an ACTOR or a HYPOCRITE.

Epictetus Discourse 3:15 Otherwise, take notice, you will behave like children who sometimes play wrestlers, sometimes gladiators; sometimes blow a trumpet, and sometimes act a tragedy, when they happen to have seen and admired these shows. Thus you too will be at one time a wrestler, at another a gladiator; now a philosopher, now an orator; but nothing in earnest. Like an ape you mimic all you see, and one thing after another is sure to please you, but is out of favor as soon as it becomes familiar. For you have never entered upon anything considerately, nor after having surveyed and tested the whole matter; but carelessly, and with a half-way zeal.These things are not consistent. You must be one man either good or bad. You must cultivate either your own Reason or else externals; apply yourself either to things within or without you; that is, be either a philosopher, or one 10f the mob.

When Campbell speaks that which is written for our learning he is not

John Mark Hicks Christian System:

 It is biblical because each chapter is replete with Scripture quotations set against the backdrop of that narrative.
        In this article, I tease out how Campbell’s “Christian System”
        may help orient theological reflection within Churches of Christ in a more Trinitarian form.

Even if you MILK Campbell, you will get splattered in the face of presumption.

Keith Stanglin Austin Campbell does not have a regulated reading in the sense of a Rule of Faith
         external to the text of Scripture,
        but he does read Scripture with a hermeneutic
        regulated by an inductive sense of God’s narrative
        which Campbell thought was helpfully summarized in the Apostles Creed.

 [Theology applies to Apollyon the ANTI-Christ who called the "trinitarians" BLASPHEMERS even as John calls them "ANTICHRIST.'

Christian Union.--No. III. by Christian Union, pp. 189-192.
Alexander.Campbell.Christian.Baptist.Union.and.Creeds.html

I promised, in my last number, to give a short account of the origin of creeds as distinguished from the word of God in the gospel. This I do, the more effectually, to evince the deception that is practised upon the world and the delusion under which it labors on this subject.

The first creed of which we are informed, as distinguished from "THE FAITH
        which was once delivered to the saints,"
        is presented to us under the imposing but false title of "The Apostles Creed,"
        which is so often repeated by the Roman Catholics and the Episcopalians as of divine origin.
 
Christian Union.--No. III. by Christian Union, pp. 189-192.

Christian union can result from nothing short of
        the destruction of creeds and confessions of faith,
        as human creeds and confessions have destroyed christian union.
When ever the setting aside of creeds and confessions shall be attempted,
        christians will give to the world, and to angels and to themselves,
        proof that they do believe in the word of God.

NOTHING can reconcile the different sects in religion
        to relinquish their sectarian names and creeds
        for the name of christian and the word of God,
        but a clear proof that their names and creeds are not only unscriptural,
        but are subversive of the christian character,
        and in their consequences prevent the world believing in Jesus Christ.

In my two former numbers I have shown, in some degree, the truth of these things, and feel sure that every tender-hearted christian cannot fail to feel much affected by the considerations there exhibited.

I promised, in my last number, to give a short account of the origin of creeds as distinguished from the word of God in the gospel. This I do, the more effectually, to evince the deception that is practised upon the world and the delusion under which it labors on this subject.

All sects may have something good among them;
        but that good is common property,
        and ought not to be limited by sectarian barriers or conditions.
God makes it the duty of every Christian to oppose every sectarian name and creed,
        and they have a divine right to do so;
        but none have a right to oppose the name of Christ or his oracles.
He makes it the duty of all who are built upon the Lord Jesus Christ by faith in him,
        for his name's sake to exercise tenderness and forbearance towards
        each other in points of conscientious differences,
        but never to divide or form new SECTS or CREEDS.

Dupin, in his Ecclesiastical History of the first century,
        than whom a more correct and impartial historian has not lived,
        though of Catholic profession,
        makes it abundantly evident that this creed was not composed by the apostles.
Saint Jerome says that the faith of the creed was an apostolic tradition, and was not written on paper by the apostles. "The fathers of the three first ages," Dupin observes, "disputing with heretics, do not pretend to say that the creed was composed by the apostles, but that the doctrine comprised in the creed is that of the apostles." "We find," he farther remarks, "in the second and third ages of the church as many creeds as authors, and the same author sets the creed down after a different manner in several places of his works,
        which plainly shows that there was not then any creed
        that was reputed to be the apostles,
        nor even any reputed or established form of faith
        except that which was written in the word of God.
St. Jerome exhibits two different creeds, and Tertullian made use of three different creeds in three several places; all of which creeds are different from the Vulgate." So much for the origin of the first creed, which is rung upon all the changes so often every Sabbath by Catholics and Episcopalians as apostolic.

http://www.piney.com/Things.Unseen.Churches.of.Christ.C.Leonard.Allen.html

"Theology" in the Greek world view is the study of Apollon-Abaddon. By definition a Christian is a student of God's revelation in the Prophets and Apostles. Those who have moved into a MODERN WORLDVIEW are defined as the Kosmos, Ecumenical kingdom of the Devil.

A post Christian Post-modernist
Believes in the absolute reality of facts, observation and logic	Believes that facts and truth are tainted by the observer
Trusts absolute truth John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.	Reject absolute truth and points out the assumptions that truths are based on
Is a Biblical monotheist and believes in one absolute truth 1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus	Is a spiritual pluralist and believes all religions require assumptive reasoning and are therefore equal
Has a relationship with reality based on attempting to discern the absolutes	Has a relationship with the group whose view of reality benefits him/her the most
Has faith in a doctrines of absolutism and bases beliefs, values and hope on a revealed doctrine	Is a moral relativist and bases beliefs, values and hope on an agreed upon doctrine
Seeks objective knowledge (religious, mathematical, historical record, etc.) that supports their absolutist doctrine-LOGOS or rational discord of God made audible and capable of being recorded. The ONE God always had His Word and Reason with Him.	Seeks objective knowledge and reworks doctrines to include or ignore said knowledge
Wants society to follow Biblical or cultural standards which are considered inherently correct	Wants to set their own standards and values and believes that society should grant as much right to this as possible
Believes that sexual guidelines and boundaries are fixed by absolutist doctrine	Believes that humans are free to choose their own sexuality and identity.
Judges right and wrong by absolute standards	Judges right and wrong upon agreed standards but recognizes that those standards may change
favors a Newtonian view of the universe	Favors <="2"an Einsteinian view of the universe
Emphasizes creed or logical proposition	Emphasizes story, personal discovery, journey...
Desires to see all embrace the absolutist doctrine	Celebrates a diversity of post-modern spirituality.
Sees that Biblical evangelism makes sense	Sees that Biblical truth is relative and dismisses whatever doesn’t feel compatible with personal journey
Believes that contact with "other gods" is forbidden and that promised personal peace and oneness can only come through Christ.	Believes that other gods and cultures can produce ultimate peace and oneness to their believers.

God was not made FLESH: it was Jesus made FLESH and those who reject it are called ANTICHRISTS.  The Spirit is the BREATH which moves between the

Tim. 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

XXIV   II. The true Christian church, or house of God, is composed of all those in every place that do publicly acknowledge Jesus of Nazareth as the true Messiah, and the only Saviour of men; and,
        building themselves upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets,
        associate under the constitution which he himself has granted
        and authorized in the New Testament,
        and are walking in his ordinances and commandments--and of none else.

X. But co-operation itself is one thing, and the manner of co-operation another. Co-operation, as much as the intercommunion of Christians, is a part of the Christian institution. We must "strive together in our prayers" for one another, and for the salvation of men; and this, if there were no scriptural example nor precept on the subject, is enough. To pray for one another as individuals or communities, implies that we shall assist one another in very way [77] for which we pray for one another: otherwise our prayers and thanksgivings for each other are mere hypocrisy. He that would pray for the progress of the truth at home and abroad, having it in his power to contribute a single dollar to that end, and yet withholds it, shows how little value he sets upon his own prayers, and how much upon his money.

THE CHRISTIAN CONFESSION OF FAITH Chapter XVII

 I. The only APOSTOLIC and divine confession of faith
        which God, the Father of all, has laid for the church -
        and that on which Jesus himself said he would build it, is the sublime and supreme proposition:
        THAT JESUS OF NAZARETH IS THE MESSIAH, THE SON /43/OF THE LIVING GOD.

"John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself;
        so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
John 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
        because he is the Son of man.

This is the peculiarity of the Christian system: its specific attribute.
        The antediluvian Abel, Enoch, etc., believed that a son of Eve would bruise Satan's head.
        Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob believed that a peculiar son of theirs would be the child of blessings, t
        he Son of promise to the human race.
        Indeed, Jesse, David, and all the prophets,
                looked for one from the sceptred tribe,
                who would be king of all the earth,
                and a benefactor of humanity.
John the Baptist in his day preached and believed that the Messenger of the covenant of eternal peace was immediately to appear. But the disciples of Jesus, the son of Mary, believed and confessed that he was the identical person. "
        We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and all the prophets did write: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David, the King of Israel."

Rabbi," said Nathaniel, "thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel." But yet it remained for Peter to speak fully and expressly, the very proposition which contains the whole matter. "We believe and are sure that thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God." "On this rock," responded he, with a blessing upon Peter's name and head; "on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it."

Of this foundation Paul has said, "Other foundation can no man lay than that which is already laid, which is Jesus Christ." God himself laid this corner, this tried and precious stone, as the foundation of the temple of grace; and therefore with his own lips pronounced him his beloved Son; and sealed him by the visible descent and impress of his Spirit, as his Messiah, the Messenger of life and peace to a condemned and rebellious world.

 II. This confession of faith has in it two distinct ideas -
        the one concerning the person,
        the other concerning the office, of the Son of Man.
                The one asserts his divine relations,
                the other his official rank and glory.

No one can intelligently believe this proposition, and not turn to God with all his heart: for there is in it a thousand thoughts and motives to bind the soul to God, and melt it into the most affectionate devotion. There is also in it the strongest bond to secure the affections of all Christians to one another. There is no other confession of faith on which the church can be built, on which it can possibly stand one and undivided, but on this one.

With the heart man believes this proposition in order to justification;
        and with his mouth he maketh this confession of it in order to his salvation.
So Paul explains it, Rom. x.: and thus we have one Lord, one faith, and one baptism, among the immutable reasons why Christians should maintain unity of spirit in the bonds of peace. [NOTE: See the Essay on the Foundation of Christian Union and Communion.]

John Mark Hicks Christian System: 26 Campbell, “To Brother Henry Grew,” 155. 27 Campbell, Christian System, 20
http://www.piney.com/AC.Letter.Grew.Trinity.html

The modus of the Divine existence, as well as the modus of the Divine operations in creation, providence, and redemption, is, to our finite minds, the creatures of yesterday, wholly inscrutable and incomprehensible. On both, the Bible is silent. Becomes it us, then, to be dogmatical on such a theme, or to stretch our inquiries beyond the terra firma of revelation?

My principal objection to the popular doctrine of "the Trinity" is not that it is either irrational, or unscriptural, to infer that there are three Divine persons in one Divine nature.

That these three equally have one thought, purpose, will, and operation, and so one God;--or, to use the words of the Westminster Confession, "In the Unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity;"

I say I object not to this doctrine because it is contrary to reason, or revelation,

but because of the metaphysical technicalities,
the unintelligible jargon,
the unmeaning language of the orthodox creeds on this subject,
and the interminable war of words without ideas
to which the word Trinity has given birth. 

For example, in the same section from which I have quoted the above words is found the following jargon: "The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son."

Were any one to ask me, Can there be three distinct persons, or even being, in one God? I would say,
        Reason informs me not,
        and revelation does not assert it.

But if asked, Can there be one, and [99] one three in the same sense?
I reply, Both reason and revelation say No.

But then no Trinitarian or Calvinist affirms that the three are one, and the one three, in the same sense.

Language fails and thought can not reach the relation in which the Father and Son have existed, now exist, and shall forever exist.

But that there is, and was, and evermore will be, society in God himself, a plurality as well as unity in the Divine nature, are inferences which do obtrude themselves on my mind in reflecting upon the divine communications to our race. I will add, that common sense, reason, and revelation, give one and the same testimony, in my ear, upon this subject. 

 The “Father, Son, and Spirit” each have their “own peculiar work and glory in the three great works of Creation, Government, and Redemption.”28

28 Campbell, Christian System, 25.

IV.III. While, then, the phrase "Son of God" denotes a temporal relation,
        the phrase "the WORD of God" denotes an eternal, unoriginated relation.

There was a WORD of God from eternity,
        but the SON OF GOD began to be in the days of Augustus Cesar. "
        Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

He was by his resurrection from the dead declared to be the Son of God
        with a power and evidence extraordinary and divine.

The WORD incarnate or dwelling in human flesh,
        is the person called our Lord and Redeemer,
        Jesus Christ--and while, in the system of grace,
        the Father is the one God,

in all the supremacy of his glory--
        Jesus is the one Lord in all the divine fulness of sovereign, supreme, and universal authority.

The Lord of Shem, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is the God and the Lord of Christians: for "the child" that has been born to us--and "the son" that has been given, according to another prophet, came from eternity.
        "His goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."² S
        uch is the evangelical history of the author of the Christian system as to
        his antecedent nature and relation in the Deity or GODHEAD.

Micah 5:2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
        yet out of thee shall he come forth [egredietu] unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;
        whose goings forth [egressus] have been from of old, from everlasting.

Jesus as RULER came out of Bethlehem: He did not come out of heaven.
His COMING FORTH was from OLD because it was prophesied.
His literal coming forth was from Bethlehem when Mary conceived.
Jesus came out of the family of Judah and not from Heave.

Micah 5:2 BE And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah,
out of YOU one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days. 

[2] et tu Bethleem Ephrata parvulus es in milibus Iuda ex te mihi egredietur qui sit dominator in Israhel et egressus eius ab INITIO initio a diebus aeternitatis

The Life and rulership or anointing was at His baptism which was PROPHESIED but did not happen until it happened: relationem,

ĭnĭtĭo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. initium. I.  To begin, originate (only late Lat.): ver tunc initiatur,  
ĭnĭtĭum because with them everything was begun; hence, the beginning of a reign: “novis initiis et ominibus opus est,” i. e. of a new king, Curt. 5, 9, 4.—[A New Beginning]

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       ¹ The Apostle here used the word Theotees. Col. 2:9, which is but once found in the New Testament. We have, indeed, Theiotees, Rom. i. 20, from the same Apostle, also found but once, translated "Godhead." We have also Theios, Theion, three times; once Acts xvii. 29, translated divinity, and by Peter, (2 Pet. i. 3, 4), twice, once in connexion with power and once with nature. "His divine power"--"a divine nature." "The fulness of the Deity," or Godhead, indicates all divine excellency--all the perfections of God. The term Deity imports the divine nature, state, or being of God. "

If Divine Nature FILLED the Man Jesus of Nazareth then Jesus of Nazareth was not FILLED before He was filled. Godhead or Divinity identifies a person who naturally OBEYS GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.

The fulness" of that divine nature is here contrasted with an empty and deceitful philosophy, (verse 8,) and the term bodily superadded, shows that God is in Christ not as he was in the tabernacle or temple, typically, but substantially, literally, and truly. [22]
      ² Micah v. 2. [23]

Jesus of Nazareth came in the FLESH and was 30 years old before God MADE HIM TO BE both Lord and Christ.  It was after His Baptism that He understood His great Power which He refused to use because He was the SOSN and not the Father. The Form is in Greek. Morph-ē  A.form, shape, twice in Hom. (not in Hes.), soi d' epi men morphē epeōn thou hast comeliness of words, Epos  generally, that which is uttered in words, speech          4. word of a deity, oracle, Od.12.266, Hdt.1.13, etc. 1Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Jesus was made to be the PERSONIFIED WORD of God: The Word or what God speaks was with Him in the Beginning. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. John 1:3 All things were made by him;         and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. Morphe continued: Od.11.367  alla theos morphēn epesi stephei God adds a crown of shapeliness to his words, Od.8.170: freq. later, “morphas duo onomazein LXX To.1.13, Outward form, opp. “eidos, hekaterō tō eideos pollai m.” Philol.5; “allattonta to hautou eidos eis pollas morphas” Pl.R.380d; “m. theōn” X.Mem.4.3.13, cf. Ep.Phil.2.6 3. kind, sort, E. Ion 382, 1068 (lyr.), 3.  A model after which any thing is made, a pattern, stamp Mark 16:11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. Mark 16:12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. TOBIT 1:13 - Then the Most High gave me favor and good appearance in the sight of Shalmaneser, and I was his buyer of provisions. Forma , 3. A model after which any thing is made, a pattern, stamp, last (of a shoemaker), etc.: “utendum plane sermone, ut numo, cui publica forma est,” Quint. 1, 6, 3: 2. An outline, plan, design (of an architect, etc.): “cum formam videro, quale aedificium futurum sit, scire possum,” 4. A mould which gives form to something: b. The grammatical form of a word: “utrum in secunda forma verbum verbum , D. In eccl. Lat. as a translation of logos  Vulg. Joan. 1, 1; id. 1 Joan. 5, 7; id. Apoc. 19, 13. a. Orally, by word of mouth (opp. scripturā):

1. Jesus ALWAYS says that He is the SON of God.

2. The Jews claimed

John 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not;
    but for Blasphemy;
    and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

3. Jesus called those who accused Him with blasphemy, BLASPHEMERS.

John 10:36 Say ye of him,
       WHOM "Whom" is not the "Father."
       the
       Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world,
Thou BLASPHPHEMEST
       because I said, I am the SON OF GOD
John 10:37 If I do NOT the works of my Father, believe me not.

Knowing that He was the Son of God meant that He knew that He was NOT God. We are all sons in the same sense when we obey.
 In the same sense Evangelists are sent into the world because you cannot wrangle people into believing if they do not grasp the gospel.

Godhead does not mean that God has Three heads.  Jesus was FILLED with the Divine nature prove that He could not BE God.

Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
        after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the WORLD, and not after CHRIST.
Col. 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 
        [The Divine nature was in the FLESH of Jesus: Jesus was not God]

John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:
        and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come;
        and even now already is it in the world.
2John 7  For many deceivers are entered into the world,
        who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

There is no exception at the Preacher Level "Godhead" is read as THREE GODS each a HEAD or center of Consciousness:

J.M.Hicks. Verse 10 identifies Jesus as THE HEAD singular of the enemies of His New Creation

Col. 2:10 And ye are complete in HIM, which is THE HEAD of all principality and power:

Theotēs , ētos, hē, A  divinity, divine nature, Ep.Col.2.9, Plu.2.359d, Luc. Icar.9, etc.; dia theotēta for religious reasons
theiotēs , ētos, hē,

A. divine nature, divinity, LXX Wi.18.9 ,Ep.Rom.1.20,  

2. f.l.for hosiotēs, Isoc.11.26, Plu.2.857a, and so prob. in Id.Sull.6.

Hosiotes has the same meaning which is:

Hosi-otēs  A. disposition to observe divine law, piety, Pl.Prt.329c, Euthphr.14d sq., X.Cyr.6.1.47, SIG654B10 (Delph., ii B. C.), etc.; pros theōn ho. piety towards them, Plu.Alc.34 ; “pros tous theous” Id.2.359f; also, like Lat. pietas, “hē pros goneis ho.” D.S.7.4 ; “pros tēn tekousan” Id.31.27.

Peter makes the same statement but we are not another God person.

2Pet. 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
        that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
        having escaped the corruption that is in the WORLD  through lust.

The WORLD Jesus created is spiritual and not the 2 trillion galaxies.

WHAT IS DIVINITY?

Colossians 2:9 [9] quia in ipso inhabitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis corporaliter

dīvīnĭtas , ātis, f. id.,I.  Godhead, divinity.

B  Divine quality, divine nature, excellence; of the orator, Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86 (opp. humanitas); 2, 74; 89; id. Or. 19, 62: “(memoriae),” Quint. 11, 2, 7; Vulg. Rom. 1, 20.—In plur.: “divinitates splendoresque astrorum,” Vitr. 9, 1 med.

dīvīnus  I. of or belonging to a deity, divine “divina studia colere  divina facta, i. e., religious exercise, divine worship, sacrifice, etc

2. The divine, that which comes FROM God, nihil est divino divinius, Sen. Ep. 66, 11.—

3. That which is under the sanction of a god; a. By divine inspiration, prophetically: “plura divine praesensa et praedicta reperiri
Divine stŭdĭum , I.a busying one's self about or application to a thing; assiduity, zeal, eagerness, fondness, inclination, desire, exertion, endeavor, study:

(b). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,” Capitol. M. Aurel. 26; Cod. Th. 14, 9, 3.

John Mark Hicks Christian System: The “Father, Son, and Spirit” each have their “own peculiar work and glory in the three great works of Creation, Government, and Redemption.”28

28 Campbell, Christian System, 25.

IV.III. While, then, the phrase "Son of God" denotes a temporal relation,
        the phrase "the WORD of God" denotes an eternal, unoriginated relation.

There was a WORD of God from eternity,
        but the SON OF GOD began to be in the days of Augustus Cesar. "
        Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

He was by his resurrection from the dead declared to be the Son of God
        with a power and evidence extraordinary and divine.

The WORD incarnate or dwelling in human flesh,
        is the person called our Lord and Redeemer,
        Jesus Christ--and while, in the system of grace,
        the Father is the one God,

in all the supremacy of his glory--
        Jesus is the one Lord in all the divine fulness of sovereign, supreme, and universal authority.

The Lord of Shem, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is the God and the Lord of Christians: for "the child" that has been born to us--and "the son" that has been given, according to another prophet, came from eternity.
        "His goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."² S
        uch is the evangelical history of the author of the Christian system as to
        his antecedent nature and relation in the Deity or GODHEAD.

Micah 5:2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
        yet out of thee shall he come forth [egredietu] unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;
        whose goings forth [egressus] have been from of old, from everlasting.

Jesus as RULER came out of Bethlehem: He did not come out of heaven.
His COMING FORTH was from OLD because it was prophesied.
His literal coming forth was from Bethlehem when Mary conceived.
Jesus came out of the family of Judah and not from Heave.

Micah 5:2 BE And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah,
out of YOU one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days. 

[2] et tu Bethleem Ephrata parvulus es in milibus Iuda ex te mihi egredietur qui sit dominator in Israhel et egressus eius ab INITIO initio a diebus aeternitatis

The Life and rulership or anointing was at His baptism which was PROPHESIED but did not happen until it happened: relationem,

ĭnĭtĭo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. initium. I.  To begin, originate (only late Lat.): ver tunc initiatur,  
ĭnĭtĭum because with them everything was begun; hence, the beginning of a reign: “novis initiis et ominibus opus est,” i. e. of a new king, Curt. 5, 9, 4.—[A New Beginning]

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       ¹ The Apostle here used the word Theotees. Col. 2:9, which is but once found in the New Testament. We have, indeed, Theiotees, Rom. i. 20, from the same Apostle, also found but once, translated "Godhead." We have also Theios, Theion, three times; once Acts xvii. 29, translated divinity, and by Peter, (2 Pet. i. 3, 4), twice, once in connexion with power and once with nature. "His divine power"--"a divine nature." "The fulness of the Deity," or Godhead, indicates all divine excellency--all the perfections of God. The term Deity imports the divine nature, state, or being of God. "

If Divine Nature FILLED the Man Jesus of Nazareth then Jesus of Nazareth was not FILLED before He was filled. Godhead or Divinity identifies a person who naturally OBEYS GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.


The fulness" of that divine nature is here contrasted with an empty and deceitful philosophy, (verse 8,) and the term bodily superadded, shows that God is in Christ not as he was in the tabernacle or temple, typically, but substantially, literally, and truly. [22]
      ² Micah v. 2. [23]

Knowing that He was the Son of God meant that He knew that He was NOT God. We are all sons in the same sense when we obey.

In the same sense Evangelists are sent into the world because you cannot wrangle people into believing if they do not grasp the gospel.

Godhead does not mean that God has Three heads.  Jesus was FILLED with the Divine nature prove that He could not BE God.

Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
        after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the WORLD, and not after CHRIST.
Col. 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 
        [The Divine nature was in the FLESH of Jesus: Jesus was not God]

John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:
        and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come;
        and even now already is it in the world.
2John 7  For many deceivers are entered into the world,
        who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

There is no exception at the Preacher Level "Godhead" is read as THREE GODS each a HEAD or center of Consciousness:

J.M.Hicks. Verse 10 identifies Jesus as THE HEAD singular of the enemies of His New Creation

Col. 2:10 And ye are complete in HIM, which is THE HEAD of all principality and power:

Theotēs , ētos, hē, A  divinity, divine nature, Ep.Col.2.9, Plu.2.359d, Luc. Icar.9, etc.; dia theotēta for religious reasons
theiotēs , ētos, hē,

A. divine nature, divinity, LXX Wi.18.9 ,Ep.Rom.1.20,  

2. f.l.for hosiotēs, Isoc.11.26, Plu.2.857a, and so prob. in Id.Sull.6.

Hosiotes has the same meaning which is:

Hosi-otēs  A. disposition to observe divine law, piety, Pl.Prt.329c, Euthphr.14d sq., X.Cyr.6.1.47, SIG654B10 (Delph., ii B. C.), etc.; pros theōn ho. piety towards them, Plu.Alc.34 ; “pros tous theous” Id.2.359f; also, like Lat. pietas, “hē pros goneis ho.” D.S.7.4 ; “pros tēn tekousan” Id.31.27.

Peter makes the same statement but we are not another God person.

2Pet. 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
        that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
        having escaped the corruption that is in the WORLD  through lust.

The WORLD Jesus created is spiritual and not the 2 trillion galaxies.

WHAT IS DIVINITY?

Colossians 2:9 [9] quia in ipso inhabitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis corporaliter

dīvīnĭtas , ātis, f. id.,I.  Godhead, divinity.

B  Divine quality, divine nature, excellence; of the orator, Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86 (opp. humanitas); 2, 74; 89; id. Or. 19, 62: “(memoriae),” Quint. 11, 2, 7; Vulg. Rom. 1, 20.—In plur.: “divinitates splendoresque astrorum,” Vitr. 9, 1 med.

dīvīnus  I. of or belonging to a deity, divine “divina studia colere  divina facta, i. e., religious exercise, divine worship, sacrifice, etc

2. The divine, that which comes FROM God, nihil est divino divinius, Sen. Ep. 66, 11.—

3. That which is under the sanction of a god; a. By divine inspiration, prophetically: “plura divine praesensa et praedicta reperiri
Divine stŭdĭum , I.a busying one's self about or application to a thing; assiduity, zeal, eagerness, fondness, inclination, desire, exertion, endeavor, study:

(b). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,” Capitol. M. Aurel. 26; Cod. Th. 14, 9, 3.

The “Father, Son, and Spirit” each have their “own peculiar work and glory in the three great works of Creation, Government, and Redemption.”28

28 Campbell, Christian System, 25.

IV.III. While, then, the phrase "Son of God" denotes a temporal relation,
        the phrase "the WORD of God" denotes an eternal, unoriginated relation.

There was a WORD of God from eternity,
        but the SON OF GOD began to be in the days of Augustus Cesar. "
        Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."

He was by his resurrection from the dead declared to be the Son of God
        with a power and evidence extraordinary and divine.

The WORD incarnate or dwelling in human flesh,
        is the person called our Lord and Redeemer,
        Jesus Christ--and while, in the system of grace,
        the Father is the one God,

in all the supremacy of his glory--
        Jesus is the one Lord in all the divine fulness of sovereign, supreme, and universal authority.

The Lord of Shem, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is the God and the Lord of Christians: for "the child" that has been born to us--and "the son" that has been given, according to another prophet, came from eternity.
        "His goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."² S
        uch is the evangelical history of the author of the Christian system as to
        his antecedent nature and relation in the Deity or GODHEAD.

Micah 5:2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
        yet out of thee shall he come forth [egredietu] unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;
        whose goings forth [egressus] have been from of old, from everlasting.

Jesus as RULER came out of Bethlehem: He did not come out of heaven.
His COMING FORTH was from OLD because it was prophesied.
His literal coming forth was from Bethlehem when Mary conceived.
Jesus came out of the family of Judah and not from Heave.

Micah 5:2 BE And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah,
out of YOU one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days. 

[2] et tu Bethleem Ephrata parvulus es in milibus Iuda ex te mihi egredietur qui sit dominator in Israhel et egressus eius ab INITIO initio a diebus aeternitatis

The Life and rulership or anointing was at His baptism which was PROPHESIED but did not happen until it happened: relationem,

ĭnĭtĭo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. initium. I.  To begin, originate (only late Lat.): ver tunc initiatur,  
ĭnĭtĭum because with them everything was begun; hence, the beginning of a reign: “novis initiis et ominibus opus est,” i. e. of a new king, Curt. 5, 9, 4.—[A New Beginning]

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       ¹ The Apostle here used the word Theotees. Col. 2:9, which is but once found in the New Testament. We have, indeed, Theiotees, Rom. i. 20, from the same Apostle, also found but once, translated "Godhead." We have also Theios, Theion, three times; once Acts xvii. 29, translated divinity, and by Peter, (2 Pet. i. 3, 4), twice, once in connexion with power and once with nature. "His divine power"--"a divine nature." "The fulness of the Deity," or Godhead, indicates all divine excellency--all the perfections of God. The term Deity imports the divine nature, state, or being of God. "

If Divine Nature FILLED the Man Jesus of Nazareth then Jesus of Nazareth was not FILLED before He was filled. Godhead or Divinity identifies a person who naturally OBEYS GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.

The fulness" of that divine nature is here contrasted with an empty and deceitful philosophy, (verse 8,) and the term bodily superadded, shows that God is in Christ not as he was in the tabernacle or temple, typically, but substantially, literally, and truly. [22]
      ² Micah v. 2. [23]

Colossians 2:9 [9] quia in ipso inhabitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis corporaliter

dīvīnĭtas , ātis, f. id.,I.  Godhead, divinity.

B  Divine quality, divine nature, excellence; of the orator, Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86 (opp. humanitas); 2, 74; 89; id. Or. 19, 62: “(memoriae),” Quint. 11, 2, 7; Vulg. Rom. 1, 20.—In plur.: “divinitates splendoresque astrorum,” Vitr. 9, 1 med.

dīvīnus  I. of or belonging to a deity, divine “divina studia colere  divina facta, i. e., religious exercise, divine worship, sacrifice, etc

2. The divine, that which comes FROM God, nihil est divino divinius, Sen. Ep. 66, 11.—

3. That which is under the sanction of a god; a. By divine inspiration, prophetically: “plura divine praesensa et praedicta reperiri
Divine stŭdĭum , I.a busying one's self about or application to a thing; assiduity, zeal, eagerness, fondness, inclination, desire, exertion, endeavor, study:

(b). A place for study, a study, school (late Lat.): “philosophum (se egit) in omnibus studiis, templis, locis,” Capitol. M. Aurel. 26; Cod. Th. 14, 9, 3.

John Mark Hicks Christian System

His “Summary of the Christian System of Facts” in chapter twenty-three describes the “peculiar work and glory” of each.29
In the “economy of redemption,” the Son and the Spirit are subordinate, and this is where Jehovah is “revealed in the names of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”30 These “names” represent relations only within the economy of redemption and do not refer to the relations of the three divine partici pants in creation and providence as well as “before time.”31 The names re veal the relation of the Father, Son, and Spirit to each other in terms of their mode of existence and operation within the economy of redemption. In other words, the names Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are redemptive—Christian— terms. The work of creation and providence belongs to the Trinity before the incarnation—God, Word of God, and Spirit of God.

The Babylon Mother of Harlots is a MOTHER: God identified HIMself as a FATHER

In Babylon and in Revelation 17: she uses "lusted after fruits" as clergy: speakers, singers, instrument players	The Egyptian Trinity under the golden Calf: a sin beyond redemption

Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
        All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
        baptizing them in the NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things
        whatsoever I have commanded you:
        and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

John Mark Hicks Christian System 26 Campbell, “To Brother Henry Grew,” 155. 27 Campbell, Christian System, 20

XXIII.I. God alone is self-existent and eternal. Before earth and time were born he operated by his WORD and HIS SPIRIT. [73]

GOD, THE WORD OF GOD, and THE SPIRIT OF GOD, participants of one and the same nature, are the foundations of Nature, Providence, and Redemption.
 In Nature and Providence, it is GOD, the WORD, and the SPIRIT.

In Grace, it is the FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY SPIRIT.
All creations, providences, and remedial arrangements display to us
        the co-operation of THREE DIVINE PARTICIPANTS,
        of one self-existent, independent, incommunicable nature.
These are fundamental conceptions of all the revelations and developments of the Divinity, and necessary to all rational and sanctifying views of religion.
II. In the Law and in the Gospel these sacred and mysterious relations and personal manifestations of God are presupposed and assumed as the basis of the whole procedure. "
        God created [PURCHASED] all things by Jesus Christ, and for him."
        "The Word was in the beginning with God," "before all things,"
        and "by him all things consist." "God created man upright."
Man sinned: all became mortal: our nature became susceptible of evil. It is in this respect fallen and depraved. "There is none righteous--no, not one." God the Father has chosen men in Christ to salvation "through the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus;" and "promised," to such, "eternal life before the foundation of the world."

Emmanuel is an "Elohim. Not Jehovah. God is WITH us all." 

Campbell may have missed the fact that WORD is not a person nor a god.  The pagan THESIS was that the Word or Logos was Hermes: the father of lies and thieves and the intercessor. He is also the father of Hermeneutics.  Theologians do not know that the word means a TRANSLATOR and does not sell Jesus in books.

John Mark Hicks Christian System The whole REDEMPTIVE  story is viewed through the lens of the work of the Father, Son, and Spirit. In the “economy of redemption,” the Son and the Spirit are subordinate, and this is where Jehovah is “revealed in the "names of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”30

NAME is Singular. Neither Jehovah-Elohim nor HIS Breath or Spirit BLEEDS.

Luke 24:21 But we trusted that it had been
        HE which should have REDEEMED Israel:
        and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Gal. 3:13 Christ hath REDEEMED us from the curse of the law,
        being made a curse for us: for it is written,
        Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Gal. 4:5 To  REDEEM them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
 
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of
        the great God
        AND our
        Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 2:14 Who gave HIMSELF for us,
        that he might REDEEM us from all iniquity,
        and purify unto himself a peculiar people,  [Given A holy spirit]
        zealous of good works.
1Pet. 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that
        ye were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, as silver and gold,
        from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1Pet. 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ,
        as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pet. 1:20 Who verily was FOREORDAINED
        before the foundation of the world, [Therefore, did not EXIST]
        but was manifest in these last times for you,
1Pet. 1:21 Who by him do believe in God,
        That raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory;
         that your faith and hope might be in God.
1Pet. 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls
        in obeying the TRUTH through the SPIRIT
        unto unfeigned love of the brethren,
        see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1Pet. 1:23 Being BORN again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
        by the WORD of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Rev. 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast REDEEMED us to God by thy BLOOD out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
 
Rev. 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were REDEEMED Lamb

Jesus was not sanctified at baptism nor SENT until He was baptized.  Jesus came in the FLESH and did not become either Lord or Christ until He was thirty years old.

John Mark Hicks Christian System In the “economy of redemption,” the Son and the Spirit are subordinate, and this is where Jehovah is “revealed in the names of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”30

Williston Walker

"With the early disciples generally baptism was 'in the name of Jesus Christ.'

There is no mention of baptism in the name of the Trinity in the New Testament, except in the command attributed to Christ in Matt. 28:19. That text is early, however. It underlies the Apostles' Creed, and the practice recorded in the Teachings, and by Justin. The Christian leaders of the third century retained the recognition of the earlier form, and, in Rome at least,

baptism in the name of Christ was deemed valid, if irregular, certainly from the time of Bishop Stephen (254-257) Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church, p. 95, (1946)

"To Christian thought at the beginning of the second century the Holy Spirit was differented from Christ, but was classed, like Him, with God. This appears in the Trinitarian baptismal formula, which was displacing the older baptism in the name of Christ. Trinitarian formulae were frequently in use by the close of the first and beginning of the second century." (pg. 58)

Baptismal Formula -- Rejects Trinity of Persons.  Peter and no one else who heard Jesus spoke about a Trinitarian Baptismal Formula

The Jews: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for (in order to) the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38 Discussion of Eis,... Part Two,... Doctor Jack Lewis on Eis or For.

The Samaritans: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Acts 8:16

The Gentiles: And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. Acts 10:48 (not lords)

Rebaptized after Pentecost: When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Acts 19:5

Apostle Paul: And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. Acts 22:16 [This is the clear proof that the "pastor" has no authority to pronounce but Paul was to call on the name consistent with Proselyte baptism]

And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. Ac.22:8

I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Ac.26:9

Romans 6: Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Romans 6:3

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4

Corinthians: Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? 1 Corinthians 1:13

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:11

Galatians: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians 3:27

James: Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? James 2:7

Col. 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Rev. 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

WORDMOUTH

The formula uses NAME (singular) and not Names because Jesus is the only image and voice of the singular Lord-God.

The work of creation and providence belongs to the Trinity before the incarnation—God, Word of God, and Spirit of God.

The NEW Creation is the Church and creation means to PURCHASE or COLLECT.

HASTINGS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION

Christian baptism was administered using the words, "in the name of Jesus." – Vol. 2, pg. 377. Baptism was always in the name of Lord Jesus until time of Justin Martyr when Triune formula used. – Vol. 2, pg. 389.  NAME was an ancient synonym for "person.  Payment was always made in the name of some person referring to ownership. Therefore one being baptized in Jesus’ name became His personal property. "Ye are Christ’s." – Vol. 2, pg. 377 on Acts 2:38.2

 

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