Nashville School of Preaching and The Holy Spirit
Revised 12.09.19 New Notes moved to the TOP.
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The Holy Spirit goes by
several different names:
5. the
Spirit OF Truth (John 14:16, 17; 15:26) Comforter
and Holy Spirit are used
interchangeably in John 15:26. 7. Helper
or Comforter (John 14:26; 15:26) The
Scriptures used these various terms to refer to the
Holy Spirit; and one may correctly use any one of
these terms to refer to the third person of the
trinity.
OF is a
preposition: the Spirit OF Truth is that spirit
which belongs to truth
1John 4:6 We are OF
God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not
of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we
the spirit of truth, and the spirit OF
error.
And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:16
What is
the NAME of this "fuller" Comforter? The
Paraclete in John is the Paraclete in 1 John:
His name is Jesus Christ.
1Jn.2:1 MY
little children, these things write I unto you,
that ye sin not. And if any man sin,
we have an advocate [Paraklete comforter] with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous:
1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins:
and not for ours only,
but also for
the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him,
if we keep his commandments.
The Comforter,
Spirit OF Truth was Jesus as He made full
deity known to them as a SINGULAR manifestation: this
repudiated the pagan trinities.
Even the Spirit OF truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth HIM not, neither
knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:17
I wonder why verse
18 is NEVER quoted in "holy Spirit books?"
I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you. John
14:18
Yet a little
while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me:
because I live, ye shall live also. John 14:19
At that day ye
shall know that I am IN my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. John 14:20
Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God
exalted,
and having
received of the Father the PROMISE of the Holy
Ghost, {Jesus post-glorification}
HE (Jesus) hath
shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
THE PROMISED MISSION IS
Epagg-elia
, A.
command, summons, profession,
undertaking, public exercise of a
profession
tou agōnos gathering,
assembly, main argument
of a speech (b. Rhet., Opposite
prooimion, epilogos),
Opposite Prooimi-on
A. opening, introduction; in Music,
prelude, overture, Pi.P.1.4;
in Ep. poems, proλm, preamble,
Id.N.2.3,
Ar.Eq.1343;
in speeches, exordium, Critias 43 tit., Arist. Rh.1414b19,
Phld.Rh.1.56S.,
Stoic.2.96,
etc.; prooimiois hēdonēs with prefaces
about pleasure, X.Mem.2.1.27.
II. hymn or short
poem, such as those attributed to Homer, Apollōnos [Apollon,
Abbadon, the "musical" Washer] Th.3.104,
The approved PATTERN for the worship
of the Devil
Thuc.
3.104 For they then came to see
the games, with their wives and children, as
the Ionians do now the games at Ephesus.
[4] There
were likewise matches set of bodily exercise
and of music; and the cities did
severally set forth dances. Which
things to have been so, is principally
declared by Homer in these verses of his hymn
to Apollo:
But thou, Apollo,
takest most delight
In Delos. There assemble in
thy sight
The long-coat Ions, with their children
dear
And venerable bedfellows; and
there
In matches set of buffets, song,
and dance,
Both show thee pastime and thy name
advance.
Opposite
Epilog-os , ho,
II. peroration
of a speech, Arist.Rh.1414b12,
Chrysipp.Stoic.2.96,
Phld.Rh.1.202
S., Longin.12.5, etc.
IV. personified, Agōn, divinity
of the contest, Paus.5.26.3.
Paus.
5.26.3 Among the offerings of Micythus
is Struggle carrying jumping-weights, the shape of
which is as follows. They are half of a circle, not
an exact circle but elliptical, and made so that the
fingers pass through as they do through the handle
of a shield. Such are the fashion of them. By the
statue of Struggle are Dionysus, Orpheus
the Thracian, and an image of Zeus
which I mentioned just now. They are the works of
Dionysius of Argos.
They say that Micythus set up other offerings also
in addition to these, and that they formed part of
the treasures taken away by Nero.
The clear fact of history is that Christ predestinated
or defined the role of Messiah's Rest both inclusively
and exclusively. One of the ANTI-christian concepts
then and now is that rhetoricians, song writers,
singers, instrument players or other works-directed
effort are by Divine Inspiration. The ANTITHESIS
of the commission of Jesus Christ in His ongoing Holy
(wholly) Spirit state is common to all paganism.
III. Divine inspiration,
agria . . pneumata theuphoriēs AP6.220.4 (Diosc.); ei mē ti theion . . enēn p. tē psukhē Pl.Ax.370c; to hieron kai daimonion en mousais p. Plu.2.605a; katharon dikaion . . p. theou sōtēros
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the
head of the wife,
even as
Christ is the head of the church:
and he is
the saviour of the body.
This rejects Apollo and his musical worship
team--the muses or dirty adulteressed--
Sōtēr ,
b. epith. of other gods, as of Apollo,
Id.Ag.512,
etc.; of Hermes, Id.Ch.2;
of Asclepios, IG4.718
(Hermione)
Aesch.
Ag. 488 Now blessings on the land,
blessings on the light of the sun, and
blessed be Zeus, the land's Most High,
and the Pythian lord; [510] and may he launch no
more his shafts against us. Enough of
your hostility did you display by Scamander's
banks; but now, in other mood, be our preserver
and our healer, O lord Apollo. And the
gods gathered here, I greet them all; him, too,
my own patron, [515] Hermes, beloved herald,
of heralds all revered; and the heroes2who
sped us forth
2 The heroes
are the deified spirits of the ancient kings
and other illustrious men. In Aesch.
Supp. 25 they are
included under the nether powers （khthonioi）.
Khthonios
, A. in, under, or beneath
the earth, theos, daimōn,
Hes.Th.
767, A.Th.522
manis khthoniōn Pi.P.4.159,
cf. A.Pers.641
(lyr kh. Hermēs, as
conductor of the dead, A.Ch.1,
S.El.111
Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have
made a covenant with death, and with hell
are we at agreement; when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through, it shall not
come unto us: for we have made lies our
refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves:
Isaiah 28:18 And your covenant with death
shall be disannulled, and your agreement
with hell shall not stand; when the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, then
ye shall be trodden down by it.
Infernus
I.
[select] In partic., underground,
belonging to the Lower Regions, infernal:
rex, Pluto,
Verg. A. 6,
106: Juno,
infernas umbras carminibus elicere, to
raise the dead by magical incantations,
Tac. A. 2,
28: palus,
the
mors ,
1. Mors ,
a goddess, the daughter of Erebus
and Nox, Cic. N.
D. 3, 17, 44; Verg. A.
11, 197; .
D. Esp.
(eccl. Lat.): mors secunda,
the second death, future punishment,
Vulg.
Apoc. 2, 11; 20, 6; 14: mors alone, id. 1 Joh. 5,
16; also spiritual death, that
of a soul under the dominion of sin: stimulus mortis peccatum est, id. 1
Cor. 15, 56; Rom. 8, 6 et
saep.; cf. Lact. 7,
10 fin.
to hieron kai daimonion en mousais p.
daimonion ,
2. evil spirit, d. phaula Chrysipp.Stoic.2.338, cf.
LXXDe.32.17,
To.3.8,
Ev.Matt.7.22,
al., PMag.Lond.1.46.120
(iv A. D.).
Mousa
A. Olumpiades M., Dios aigiokhoio thugateres Il.2.491,
cf. Hes.Th.25,
etc.; nine in number, first in Od.24.60;
named in Hes.Th.75
II. mousa, as Appellat., music,
song, m. stugera A.Eu.308
(anap.); euphamos Id.Supp.695
(lyr.); kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas S.Tr.643
(lyr.); Aiakō moisan pherein Pi.N.3.28;
tis hēde mousa;
Phaulos , ē, on,
3. mean, bad, prēxis Democr.177; logoi E. Andr.870,
psogos Id.Ph.94
(perh. both in signf. 1.1 and in 1.3); ou ph. opsis Pl.R.519a;
ph. doxa D.24.205;
ta pragmat' esti ph. Id.19.30;
phaula diapepragmenos Philem.229; ho phaula prattōn Ev.Jo.3.20;
mēde praxantōn ti agathon ē ph. Ep.Rom.9.11;
to ph. evil, E.IT390;
ta ph., opp. ta agatha, X.Smp.4.47;
tukhē ph., opp. agathē, Arist.Ph. 197a26,
cf. Metaph.1065a35;
tēn polin mēthem ph. pathein OGI765.35
(Priene); komisasthai . . eite agathon eite
praxis
,
praxis , eōs, Ep. and Ion. prēxis , ios, hē : (prassō):
A. doing, transaction, business, [plein kata prēxin on a
trading voyage,
I. doing, tōn agathōn (of persons)
prēxies Thgn.1026; hē tōn agathōn p. Pl.Chrm.163e;
hē p. tōn ergōn Antipho 3.4.9;
achievement, Th.3.114;
p. polemikē, poliētikē, politikē, Pl.R.399a,
Sph.266d,
Men.99b;
action, opp. pathos, Id.Lg.876d;
II. doing,
tōn agathōn (of
persons) prēxies Thgn.1026; hē tōn agathōn p. Pl.Chrm.163e;
hē p. tōn ergōn Antipho 3.4.9;
achievement, Th.3.114;
p. polemikē, poliētikē, politikē, Pl.R.399a,
Sph.266d,
Men.99b;
action, opp. pathos, Id.Lg.876d;
opp. hexis, Id.R.434a;
moral action, opp. poiēsis, tekhnē, Arist.EN
1140a2, 1097a16;
opp. poiotēs, Id.Po.1450a18,
cf. EN1178a35
(pl.); ēthē kai pathē kai p. Id.Po.1447a28;
opp. hoi politikoi logoi, D.61.44;
ergō kai praxesin, oukhi logois Id.6.3;
en tais praxesi onta te kai prattomena
exhibited in actual life, Pl.Phdr.271d;
action in drama, opp. logos, Arist.Po.1454a18;
mia p. holē kai teleia ib. 1459a19,
cf. 1451b33
(pl.).
3. euphem. for sexual intercourse,
Pi. Fr.127,
Aeschin.1.158,
etc.; in full, hē p. hē gennētikē
VIII. discourse, lecture of a
rhetorician or philosopher, Jul.Or.2.59c,
Marin.Procl.22.
poi-ēsis
, eōs, hē,
2.
of Poetry, hē tōn dithurambōn p., tēs tragōdias, tōn epōn, Pherecr.145.10,
Pl.Grg.502a,
502b,
R.
394c: abs., art
of poetry, hoi en p. genomenoi Hdt.2.82,
cf. Ar.Ra.868,
etc.; houtōs . . atalaipōrōs hē p. diekeito Id.Fr.254;
hoi akroi tēs p. hekateras,
i.e. tragedy and comedy, Pl.Tht.152e;
ōdai kai hē allē p. Id.Phdr.245a;
p. psilē ē en ōdē ib. 278c.
II.
= eispoiēsis,
adoption, in pl., Is.7.1,
D.44.7,
al.; kata poiēsin
ibid., Michel836.5
(Didyma, ii B.C.); poiēsei huioi D.H.4.7;
tē par' humōn p. politēs D.20.30.
4.
magical operation, spell,
PMag.Par.1.1227,
al., PMag.Lond.
125.40.
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right
hand of God exalted,
and having received
of the Father the promise [the
thing promised] of the Holy Ghost,
he
hath shed forth this, which ye now see and
hear.
Ekkheō
2. of words, pour forth,
utter, Ar. Th.554;
molpas E.Supp.773;
pollēn glōssan ekkheas matēn S.Fr.929,
cf. A.Ag.1029
(lyr.).
3. pour out like water, squander, waste,
olbon Id.Pers.826;
ta panta Id.Ch.520,
cf. S.El. 1291;
plouton exekheen eis dapanas AP9.367 (Luc.); e. ta te hautou kai heauton Pl.R.553b;
spoil, to pan sophisma S.Ph.13.
Plut.
De Gloria 4 eloquence, gave him this
admonition, that he was no poet, for that he never
composed any fables, which was the chiefest office
of poetry; in regard that strange words, figures,
metaphors, songs, and measures were invented to give
a sweetness to things. Which admonition Pindar
laying up in his mind, wrote a certain ode which
thus begins:
Shall I Ismenus sing,
Or Melia, that from spindles all of gold
Her twisted yarn unwinds,
Or Cadmus, that most ancient king,
Or else the sacred race of Sparti bold,
Or Hercules, that far in strength
transcends.
Which when he showed to Corinna, she with a smile
replied: When you sow, you must scatter the seed
with your hand, not empty the whole sack at once.
And indeed we find that Pindar intermixes in his
poetic numbers a collection of all sorts of fables.
Now that poetry employs itself in mythology is
agreed by Plato likewise. For a fable is the
relation of a false story resembling truth, and
therefore very remote from real actions; for
relation is the image of action, as fable is the
image of relation. And therefore they that feign
actions fall as far behind historians as they that
speak differ from those that act.
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The Nashville School of Preaching follows the Lipscomb-Gospel
Advocate. For the first time in history H. Leo Boles
preached a sermon at Freed Hardeman College in 1938. In
1942 He published a book and in it he makes the Godhead into
three, distinct persons each with their
own skills and powers. John
Mark Hicks defines the Nashville Credo that the
Godhead consists of "three centers of consciousness" and tries to make
Alexander Campbell into a closet trinitarian.
Feel
Free to Comment here.
Brian
Cade claim: What's obvious is that you are
confusing the Trinity with Tri-theism; but
that's understandable coming from a guy whose dates on
the Stone-Campbell movement are off by a hundred years
or more.
Brian, I told you that speaking the Stone-Campbell is a lie. It
is promoted by the NACC and now financed by the Disciples who
are growing closer to the Catholic Mother. Not that they are so
presumptive as to write an Encyclopedia the Disciples of Christ
are HIRING them to write a World
history of the Stone Campbell Movement.
I have proven by REAL TRUE HISTORY that the Stone-Campbell
concept is psychological violence intending to intimidate the
ignorant, southern rednecks.
I was forced to remind them that Christ the Rock defined the
Qahal, Synnagogue or Church of Christ in the Wilderness:
It was INCLUSIVE of REST (from), Reading and rehearsing
the Word of God.
It was EXCLUSIVE of Vocal or instrumental rejoicing: the
Alarm or triump-over word is the Judas Principle of using
elevated form of speech and instrumental music to "make the
lambs dumb before the slaughter." At Pentecost Jesus Christ
returned as THE HOLY SPIRIT (promised to all after death) and
"poured out what you see and hear." The Pouring out of Spirit
was manifest in WORDS since Jesus said my WORDS are SPIRIT and
life.
ANOTHER STUDY BY DONNIE CRUZ:
Statistics
from the Old Testament [KJV]:
- "spirit" --------------------- = 244 times
- "spirit OF"
------------------ = 86 times:
- spirit OF
=
...man...princes...Jacob...Pul...Cyrus...Tilgath...Egypt
- spirit OF
=
...knowledge...wisdom...jealousy...judgment...deep
sleep
- spirit OF
= ...grace...heaviness...whoredoms
- spirit OF
= ...the gods...the holy gods...the kings...the
living creature
- spirit of = ...the beast...the
ruler
- "holy ghost" ----------------- = 0 times
- "spirit OF
God" -------------- = 14 times
- "spirit V the Lord" --------- = 26 times
- "holy spirit" ---------------- = 3 times
Brian, I knew/know
that you believe "that God existed as three persons
from eternity." That's why I wanted you to prove
it from the Old Testament. However, you were not able to
prove it on both counts: (1) explicity and (2)
implicitly.
The Old Testament teachings regarding "the
spirit of the Lord God" match those
from the New Testament [which we are going to study more
later on].
The word "spirit" is an improper or a common noun that
is not a being nor a separate being from another being.
Rather, the word "spirit" or the expression "holy
spirit" is an entity that belongs to or in the
possession of a living being, in this case: the Father
or the Son.
The O.T. expressions:
- ----- "spirit OF God" (14 times);
- ----- "spirit of the Lord (26 times);
- ----- "holy spirit" (3 times) ...
... are used properly
and grammatically correctly in both the Old and New
Testaments. The preposition "OF" indicates in possession
of or as belonging to the Lord God. Please NOTE, Brian,
that the expression "holy spirit" in Psalms and Isaiah
is used in conjunction with the personal pronoun:
- "thy" [the form of the possessive case of the
personal pronoun "you"]; therefore: "thy [your] holy
spirit"; or
- "his" [belonging or pertaining to "him"];
therefore, "his holy spirit."
"Thy holy spirit"
simply means the spirit that is holy [the adjective
"holy" modifies the common noun "spirit"] and it [the
spirit that is holy] belongs to the Lord God -- not to
Brian, not to Donnie.
There is no justification for identifying "the spirit"
as the Lord God. Listen to these expressions, Brian:
- (1) If "the spirit" is God, then, "the spirit
of God" would mean "God of God."
- (2) If "the spirit" is God, then, "the spirit
of the Lord" would mean "God of the Lord."
- (3) If "the spirit" is God, then, "the spirit
of Jesus Christ" would mean "God of Jesus Christ."
No, I'm not with you
so far. There's a lot missing or lacking in your
"progressive" [pun intended] history of the Trinity
dogma.
Donnie
Cruz response to Brian,
There is no confusion here between trinitarianism and
tritheism. There are differences, but there is also
commonness in both doctrines. Both teach that there are
three separate persons or beings. That is not taught in
the Scripture.
We can go for a lengthy discussion of the Trinity
doctrine. But we can start with a simple premise -- by
properly defining the word, the noun, the common/improper
noun called "spirit." Let's expand that a bit to the
expression "holy spirit" as it is commonly claimed that
the "Holy Spirit of God" refers to the third person in the
Trinity doctrine.
Would you be willing to accept the expressions [notice the
capitalization for your benefit]:
(1) "the Spirit" and
(2) "the Holy Spirit" and
(3) "the Spirit OF
God" and
(4) "the Holy Spirit OF
God" and
(5) "the Spirit OF
the Lord" and
(6) "the Spirit OF
the Father" and
(7) "the Spirit OF
Christ" and
(8) "the Spirit OF
our God" and
(9) "the Spirit OF
life in Christ Jesus"
(10) "the Spirit OF
the living God"
(11) "the Spirit OF
His Son"
(12) "the Spirit OF
Jesus Christ"
(13) "the Spirit OF
life from God"
(14) NOTE: The preposition "OF"
denotes that from which anything proceeds or possession or
ownership or "belonging to"
... are synonymous expressions that are commonly
identified by Christendom as referring to the third person
in the Trinity doctrine????
So, some of the simple questions for you at this point are
as follows:
(1) What is the definition of the word "spirit"?
(2) Is "spirit" a noun -- a proper noun or common noun?
(3) Is the word "holy" a proper noun or an adjective in
"holy spirit"?
(4) If Scripture teaches about "the spirit OF
the Father" ...
(5) If Scripture teaches about "the spirit OF
His Son" ...
(6) Does the Scripture teach about "the spirit OF
the Holy Spirit"?
(7) Before we go any further, do you understand the
question listed in items (4), (5) and (6)?
(8) In other words, (a) if the Father has a spirit and (b)
if the Son has a spirit, (c) why would you say or not say
that the Holy Spirit has a spirit?
Finally, in response to your comment about the Movement,
truth is not only that the change agents are off but also
that the change agents are the ones who are rewriting the
history of the Restoration Movement.
Their paper has a
massive lists of "proof text" and I will not attempt to post
the full context of their proofs for the neo-trinity or
tritheism of H. Leo Boles.
Lost Latter Day Saints: A Mormon Blog, "In 1997, the
Worldwide Church of God dropped both its objections to the
doctrine of the Trinity and certain Pelagian
tendencies and was accepted as a member of the National
Association of Evangelicals.
"Many Latter-day Saint Philosophers consider trinity to
be a description of the relationship among the members
of the Godhead.
"Initially, the social analogy might
appear to be no better off than the egg analogy. No
member of a family is itself a family; thus, we seem
to be faced again with the suggestion that no member of
the Trinity is God.
Though
there are three distinct portions of the egg (the shell,
the yolk and the egg white), the unity of God seems to
be lost as each portion of the egg is something entirely
different in composition, form, function, etc.
"B)
Towards
a Uniform Definition
John Mark Hicks
describes the revival of social trinitarianism as
one of the most significant developments in
contemporary theology. Along with this revival has
come a certain amount of confusion concerning what exactly
qualifies as a social model of the trinity.
The word Theology is used in the Greek
Texts only to define the study and worship of Apollon or
Abaddon. You cannot study God: He speaks HIS Word
or Logos and those who do not speak what He spoke is
said by the Spirit OF Christ in Isaiah 8 THERE IS NO LIFE IN THEM.
In
his lucid treatment of the issue, Cornelius Plantinga
sets out the three conditions necessary for a theory to
qualify as social and they bear repeating:
(1) The theory must have Father, Son, and Spirit as distinct
centers of knowledge, will, love, and action.
Since each of these capacities requires consciousness,
it follows that, on this sort of theory, Father, Son, and
Spirit would be viewed as distinct centers of
consciousness or, in short, as persons in some
full sense of that term.
This is radically opposed to all historic scholars and the Bible
defined by Jesus Christ as the SON of a FATHER. Their
understanding of the Father breathing (spirit) and the Son
articulates.
ALL pagans believed in a FAMILY of gods otherwise
THEY would be lonely. Most often they are
father, mother (spirit, dove) and little infant son. The
original Babylon Mother of Harlots is defined on clay tablets
older than Moses.
This story is repeated
by Moses after the fall into instrumental-trinitarian
idolatry at Mount Sinai. Cain is OF that wicked one after
Eve (evah, abomination) claimed that she gotten a man from
GOD. This was the "pattern" for the Egyptian trinity:
after Osiris lost his generator, Isis made a penis for his
dead body and "got a man" named horus. The DOVE is
repudiation of both Semiramis and Isis
This is the "pattern" the Catholic
Churches use so that "Mary is the mother of god."
Here is the trinity worshipped under
the image of the golden calves at Mount Sinai: this was a
sin beyond redemption because they worshipped human images
rather than the ONE GOD THE FATHER Who does not have flesh
and bones. If you construct a verbal-theology image of God
He has turned you over to idolatry.
This Cycle was NEVER broken and is the end-time restoration of
the Babylon Mother of Harlots. She uses "lusted after fruits" as
speakers, singers or instrument players. John called them
sorcerers and says they will be CAST
ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.
THIS WAS THE UNIVERSAL UNDERSTANDING OF A TRINITY OR
FAMILY REQUIRED TO EXIST.
Plut.
De Iside and Osiris Plut. De Iside 12
They say that the Sun, when
lie became aware of Rhea's intercourse [secretly]
with Cronus, invoked a curse upon her that she should not
give birth to a child in any month or any year; but Hermes,
being enamoured of the goddess, consorted with her
Rhea
Rhea, daughter of Uranos [Heaven] and Gaia [Earth], wife of Cronos,
mother of Zeus and the gods,
On the second of these days Arueris
[Horus] was born whom they call Apollo, and
some call him also the elder Horus. On the third day
Typhon was born, but not in due season or manner, but with a
blow he broke through his mother s side and leapt forth.
There is also a tradition that Osiris and Arueris
were sprung from the Sun, Isis from Hermes, and
Typhon and Nephthys from Cronus. For this reason the kings
considered the third of the intercalated days as
inauspicious, and transacted no business on that day, nor
did they give any attention to their bodies until nightfall.
They relate, moreover, that Nephthys became the wife
of Typhon;
but Isis and Osiris were enamoured of
each other and consorted together in [p.
35] the darkness of the womb before their birth.
Some say that Arueris [The elder
Horus] came from this union and was called
the elder Horus by the Egyptians, but Apollo by
the Greeks.
Triad Isis Nephthys Harpocrates
In another version: Osiris represents the
beginning and principle; Isis, that which receives; and Horus,
the compound of both. Horus engendered between them, is not
eternal nor incorruptible, but, being always in generation,
he endeavours by vicissitudes of imitations, and by
periodical passion (yearly re-awakening to life) to continue
always young, as if he should never die.
--Plut.
De Iside 3
Moreover, many writers have
held her [Isis] to be the daughter of Hermes,
and many others the daughter of Prometheus, because of the
belief that Prometheus is the discoverer of wisdom
and forethought,
sophia
, Ion. -iē,
hē,
prop. A.cleverness or skill in
handicraft and art,
in music and singing, tekhnē
kai
s.
h.Merc.483,
cf. 511; in
poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117,
Ar.Ra.882,
X.An.1.2.8,
etc.; in driving, Pl. Thg.123c;
in medicine or surgery, Pi.P.3.54;
in divination, S.OT 502
(lyr.)
also, cunning, shrewdness, craft, Hdt.1.68,
etc.; to
loidorēs
ai
theous
ekhthra
s.
Pi.O. 9.38.
4. among the Jews, arkhē
sophias
phobos
Kuriou
LXX Pr.1.7,
cf. Jb.28.28,
al.; Sophia,
recognized first as an attribute of God, was later
identified with the Spirit of God, cf. LXX Pr.8
with Si.24sq.
and Hermes the inventor of grammar
and music. For
this reason they call the first of the Muses at Hermopolis
Isis as well as Justice : for she is wise, as
I have said, and discloses the divine mysteries to those who
truly and justly have the name of bearers of the sacred
vessels and wearers of the sacred robes.
These are they who within their own soul, as though
within a casket, bear the sacred writings about the
gods clear of all superstition and pedantry ; and they cloak
them with secrecy, thus giving intimations, some dark and
shadowy, some clear and bright, of their concepts about the
gods, intimations of the same sort as are clearly evidenced
in the wearing of the sacred garb.4
For this reason, too, the fact that the deceased votaries of
Isis are decked with these garments is a sign that
these sacred writings accompany them, and that they pass to
the other world possessed of these and of naught else.
It is a fact, dea, that having a beard and wearing a coarse
cloak does not make philosophers, nor does dressing in linen
and shaving the hair make votaries of Isis ; but the true
votary of Isis [p. 13] is he who,
when he has legitimately received what is set forth in the
ceremonies connected with these gods, uses reason in
investigating and in studying the truth contained therein.
THE TRINITY IMAGE OF
JOHN MARK HICKS AND LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY.
Theotokos
(;
Greek: Θεοτόκος, transliterated (Greek) Theotσkos,
translation
(Syriac-Aramaic): ܝܳܠܕܰܬ
ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ, transliterated (Syriac):
Yoldath Alloho) is the Greek title of Mary, the mother of Jesus
used especially in the Eastern Orthodox,
Oriental
Orthodox, and Eastern
Catholic Churches. Its literal English
translations include "God-bearer", "Birth-Giver
of God" and "the one who gives birth to God." Less
literal translations include "Mother of God" (Latin:
Mater Dei). |
Ditto
John Mark Hicks:
Andrei
Rublev painted the Holy
Trinity around 1411. He was beatified by the
Russian Orthodox Church as St. Andrei solely for
the extraordinary intensity and majesty of
this icon. The image embodies the essence
of Trinitarian dogma. The
icon portrays the visit of the angels
to Abraham in Genesis 18 but excludes
Abraham and Sarah from the picture in order to
focus on the dogmatic
meaning of the Trinity. The three
sit around a table with a chalice as
the centerpiece.
Each one is also dressed in
blue to represent their equalitythey are
divine.
The unity and diversity of the triune
life is thus pictured in vivid colors.
Gen. 18:1 And
the Lord [Jehoval] appeared to him in
the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door
of his tent, in the very heat
of the day.
But Latine dŏmĭnus master,
possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor,
BUT:
Gen. 18:2 And when he had lifted up his eyes, there
appeared to him three MEN [h582]
standing near to him: and as soon as he saw
them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent,
and adored down to the ground.
God does not send men wearing the noble dress of men
or the effeminate. These were starving derelicts
and not the wise or sophists from whom God hides.
He saw 3 MEN h582 [frail, feeble,
desperately wicked, sick: Enosh: a mortal and
not the more dignifie h120 ,
Latin vīrus , I.a
slimy liquid, slime. A poisonous
liquid, poison, venom, virus
(syn. venenum). Futtĭlis untrustworthy,
vain, worthless, futile: used
of Eve.
Abraham speaks only to the singular
Lord Gen. 18:3 And said,
My Lord [136.Adonay],
if now I have found favour in thy
sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy
servant:
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Notice that there is no "S" or 's"
distinction in the Bible. Because spirit means WIND
and in a figurative sense the "breath" of man or God.
It identifies God as Holy (Wholly) Spirit which defines that
upon which God stands. Otherwisie spirit speaks of the
Mind or Mental Disposition of that mentioned person: The
Spirit OF Christ is the Mind of Christ and never a required
helper.
Second, almost without exception
writings on The Holy Spirit follow in the steps and quote
other writers and point to a passage such as "Acts 2:38"
presuming that others will follow the lead while always
ignoring the context. If people learn how to
rhetorically assert, based on these heaped-up texts, they
will not be disciples of Christ and may lead people into
being what John called
anti-Christs who
deny the One God in heaven
and One Son as personified Word of God and
thereby His Son
Third, there is no historical promoter of the "trinity"
concept who ever dared to suggest that "Father, Son and Spirit"
are names of three separated persons.
The first person we have found that
made the godhead three persons or people was H. Leo Boles.
This has been the false teaching of the Lipscomb and Gospel
Advocate sect of the church of Christ:
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some reviews of H. Leo Boles.
H. Leo Boles: The Godhead is thus composed of three coeternal and coequal persons;
they are the
same in nature and essence (basic stuff),
but are different, (discrete,
dissimilar, diverse) personalities (selfhood as a human). Boles, H. Leo, The
Holy Spirit, Gospel Advocate, P. 20-21 (Each is
fitted for different roles.)
Their Standing (status or rank)
is always first, second and third. P. 20.
The Divine Family... suggests the close relation that exists between the members of the Godhead,
and also that
they constitute a family (clan, kith,
lineage, race);
it suggest that they are closely related, that they are akin. (relatives, same lineage, same tribe)
This term expresses an interest in each other and a cooperation (teamwork,
collaboration, partnership) in
activities. P. 21
Godhead does not speak of a GOD FAMILY or
a God with three Heads.
1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God,
.....and one mediator
between God and men,
.....the man Christ Jesus;
I think it is dangerous to assert that this is Paul's false
teaching.
Paul said that there is ONE GOD and excludes Jesus as being
ONE of the "godhead" which does not here mean Theos.
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness
of the Godhead bodily.
Jesus was Lord or Kurios. He was not the Almighty
(Theos). However, He was filled with the divine nature
including. Jesus was said to be the SON of God only
after He was baptized: this was to fulfill all righteousneess
because He took on the sins of the world.
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,
SIG867.31 (Ephesus, ii
A.D.),
Plu.2.665a, etc.
2. f.l.for hosiotēs,
Isoc.11.26,
Plu.2.857a, and so prob. in Id.Sull.6.
II. as title of Roman Emperors,
hosi-otēs
,
ētos,
hē,
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.
However, the theory is
younger than this writer.
"It would be sufficient to
anathematize the Arian heresy and confess the faith
confessed by the holy Fathers at Niceae, and to anathematize
also those who say that the Holy Ghost is a creature and separate from the essence of Christ.
(Walker, Winston, A History of the Christian Church, p. 124)
The Spirit OF Christ is the spirit
which BELONGS to Christ. In 1 Corinthians 2 Paul drew an
analago:
The Holy Spirit
Is to God
what our spirit
is to us.
But, says Paul WE have the MIND of Christ.
The Spirit is the Mind is the Heart: neither are persons
inside or outside of the person to whom it belongs.
Augustine
on Faith And Creed proves that no trinitarian
ever believed the H.Leo Boles thesis of three separated
persons.
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. Note that the Holy Spirit was
not part of the Godhead consisting of One God the Father and
one Son "begotten" of the Father. That never means that
Jesus was "birthed" from God but that the WORD of God is the
Son of God vested in Jesus of Nazareth:
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.)]
"The
head of the woman is the man, the Head of the man is
Christ, and the Head of Christ is God," there is no
mention of the Holy Spirit; this they affirm to be
but an application of the principle that, in general,
the
connection itself is not wont to be enumerated among the
things which are connected with each other.
Whence,
also, those who read with closer attention appear to
recognize the express Trinity likewise in that passage in
which it is said, "For of Him, and through
Him, and in Him, are all things." "Of Him," as if
it meant, of that One who owes it to no one that He is:
"through Him," as if the idea were, through a Mediator;
"in Him," as if it were, in that One who holds together,
that is, unites by connecting.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN THE PROPHETS FULLY DEFINED THE SPIRIT AS
THE WORD OF CHRIST
Isa 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from
evil maketh himself a prey.
And the Lord saw
it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Isa 59:16 And he saw that there was no man,
and wondered that
there was no
intercessor:
therefore his arm brought salvation unto him;
and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Isa 59:17 For he put on righteousness as
a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation upon his head;
and he put on the
garments of
vengeance
for clothing,
and was clad with
zeal as a cloak.
2Co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost:
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world
hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light
of the glorious gospel
of
Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
G1504 eikōn i-kone' From
G1503; a likeness, that is, (literally)
statue, profile, or (figuratively)
representation, resemblance:--image.
G1503 eikō
i'-ko Apparently a primary verb (perhaps akin to
G1502 through the idea of faintness as a copy);
to resemble:--be like.
2 Co 4:5 For we preach not
ourselves,
but Christ
Jesus the Lord; and
ourselves your
servants for Jesus' sake.
2Co 4:6 For God, who
commanded
the light to
shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts,
to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ.
2Co 4:7 But we
have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellency
of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Isa 59:18 According
to their deeds,
accordingly he
will repay, fury to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies;
to the islands he
will repay
recompense.
Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west,
and his glory from
the rising of the sun.
When the enemy
shall come in like a flood,
the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a
standard against him.
And the Redeemer shall
come to Zion, and
unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
Isa 59:20
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and
be converted [TURN], that your sins may be blotted out,
when the times of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord;
The word RETURN or
CONVERT is done ONLY at the time and place of baptism in
the New Testament.
Isa 59:21 As for me, this is my
covenant with them, saith the Lord;
My spirit that is upon thee,
and my words which I have put in thy
mouth,
shall not depart
out of thy mouth,
nor out of the
mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the
mouth of thy seeds seed,
saith the Lord, from henceforth and for
ever.
PAUL WAS A DISCIPLE OF THE PROPHETS AND WAS GUIDED INTO ALL
TRUTH BY JESUS
Eph. 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole
armour of God,
that ye may be able to
withstand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand.
Eph. 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about
with truth,
and having on the
breastplate of righteousness;
Eph. 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of
the gospel of peace;
Eph. 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of
faith,
wherewith ye shall be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph. 6:17 And take the helmet
of salvation,
and the sword of the
Spirit,
which is the WORD
of God:
Eph. 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and
supplication in the Spirit,
and watching thereunto
with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
2 The Holy
Spirit
The Divine Nature of the Holy
Spirit
In the Old Testament the Hebrew word
uniformly employed for the Spirit as referring to Gods
Spirit is ruach meaning breath, wind or breeze.
Only WAY DOWN on
the list does either the Hebrew or Greek speak of a person
but the mental disposition of that person.
I will skip all of the views held down
through history. The man who first used the word "trias"
said nothing about there being three persons (people).
The word
Trinity was first used by Theophilus of Antioch to
Autolycus. Trinity meant: God, His Word and His Wisdom (Spirit). It did
not mean the doctrine of the Trinity in the modern sense of
the word. [Tertullian also used the word
It seems to have been
a man named Theophilus of Antioch who first
applied the term trinity to this Biblical concept
as early as 181 A.D. But it was the Anathasian Creed,
completed some time in the fifth century, which
stated it most clearly: "We worship one God in trinity,
and trinity in unity, neither confounding the persons, nor
separating the substance.
For in glory He is incomprehensible, in
greatness unfathomable, in height inconceivable, in power
incomparable, in wisdom unrivalled, in goodness
inimitable, in kindness unutterable.
- For
if I say He is... Light, .........
... I name but ........,,. ........,,....,../. .. His own work;
-
if I call Him ........... Word, ......
..... I name but His ... ......,,... ......,,... sovereignty;
-
if I call Him ........... Mind, .......
..... I speak but of His ...... .......... ,... wisdom;
-
if I say He is ..........Spirit, ........
... I speak of His ....... ........,,..// .,,... breath;
-
if I call Him ........... Wisdom, ..
.... I speak of His ........ ........,.... ,,.... offspring;
-
if I call Him ........... Strength, ...... I
speak of His ....... ........,,...... ,,.. sway;
-
if I call Him ........... Power, .......
... I am mentioning His .............,,... activity;
-
if ........... ........./......Providence,.. I but
mention His ....... ........,,.,,... goodness;
-
if I call Him ........... Kingdom, ...... I but
mention His ... ........,,... .,,... glory;
-
if I call Him ........... Lord, .............. I
mention His being ... ...... .....,... judge;
-
if I call Him .....
..... Judge, ........
.. I speak of Him as .. ........,,... ...,... being just;
-
if I call Him ........... Father, ........... I
speak of all things as being ,. . from Him;
["If ........... .............Father, ........... I say
everything."
if I call Him ........... Fire, ................ I but
mention His ...... ........,,...,,... anger.
Most
excellent is His wisdom.
By His
wisdom God founded the earth;
and by knowledge He prepared
the heavens;
and by understanding were the
fountains of the great deep broken up, and the clouds
poured out their dews.
God,
then, having His own Word internal within His own bowels,
........... begat Him, emitting Him
........... along with His own wisdom before all
things.
He had
this Word as a helper in the things
that were created by Him, and by Him
He made all things.
He is called "governing principle", because He
rules,
and is Lord of all
things fashioned by Him.
He, then, being Spirit of God, and
governing principle, and wisdom,
and power of the
highest,
came down upon the prophets, and through
them spoke of the creation of the world and of all
other things.
(This was the Spirit of Christ, 1 Peter 1:11;
Revelation 19:10)
Tertullian
Against Praxeas c. 213
For before all things
God was alone -- being in Himself and for Himself
universe, and space, and all things.
Moreover, He was alone, because there was nothing external
to Him but Himself.
Yet even not then was
He alone;
for He had with Him
that which He possessed in Himself,
that is to say, His
own Reason.
For God is rational, and Reason
was first in Him; and so all things were from Himself.
This Reason is His own Thought (or Consciousness)
which the Greeks call logos,
by which term we also
designate Word or Discourse
and therefore it is now usual with our people, owing to the
mere simple interpretation of the term,
to say
that the Word was in the beginning with God;
although
it would be more suitable to regard Reason as the more
ancient;
because
God had not Word from the beginning, but He had Reason
even before the beginning;
because
also Word itself consists of Reason,
which it
thus proves to have been the prior existence as being
its own substance.
Not that this distinction is of any practical moment.
For although God had not
yet sent out His Word,
He still had Him within
Himself,
both in company with and
included within His very Reason,
as He silently planned
and arranged within Himself
everything which He was
afterwards about to utter through His Word.
Now, whilst He was thus planning and arranging with
His own Reason,
He was actually causing
that to become Word which He was dealing with
in the way of Word
or Discourse.
Thomas Campbell
Trinity
It appears to be a query with
some who profess to hold this doctrine, whether it be correct
to use the term person when speaking of the above distinct characters in
the divine essence. As to this, let every man be fully persuaded
in his own mind. In the mean time, all that we pretend to say
in favor of this application of the term is,
that although
the term person
(which, in relation to men, signifies a distinct intelligent agency or rational being,
coexisting with others in the same
common nature),
is not
manifestly applied in the Holy Scriptures to any
of the Sacred Three:
nor indeed can be so applied in
strict propriety, according to its literal and obvious
acceptation;
for when applied to God, instead of
meaning a distinct intelligent being
coexisting with others in the
same common nature,
we must mean by it,
if we think and speak correctly,
one and the self-same individual
being so existing as to constitute in and to itself
so many distinct or different, real and relative characters, or subsistences,
each of which
is but another name for the self-same
individual essence or being considered as existing
in the specified relation of Father, Son and Holy
Spirit.
(Note: Character means
an actor representing a distinct group. Thus God reveals
Himself in flesh, soul or life and spirit or mind
eleminating all other roles. Subsistences means the
status of something which exists and proves His total, undivided existence or reality.)
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Personae as Father
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Personae as Son |
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Personae as Spirit
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For if the terms Father, Son and
Spirit, be not declarative of real or
essential relations, that is, of relations that have
their foundation in the
divine nature, and essentially or necessarily belong
to it as such,
Then the only
conclusion left is that:
the
Scriptures do not reveal to us three distinct
characters so related;
but
three
distinct independent divinities or Gods, necessarily
self-existent,
and absolutely independent of each other;
each
and
every one of them possessing the self-same properties,
and of course, each of them so exactly the same in all
respects, as to be absolutely undistinguishable one from
another, by any means, property or attribute whatsoever;
Thomas
Campbell: Direct operation of the Holy Spirit: I
am not to be understood as objecting to the detection and
exposure of a false and unscriptural experience, which, from your words,
appears to be the thing intended; for, in your foot note,
page 141, you assert, that we are taught, that "since
those gifts have ceased, the. Holy Spirit now operates
upon the minds of men only by the word;"and at the close
of said note, you further assert, that "we are positive of
one point," namely, "that the scriptures teach us not
the doctrine of physical operations of the Divine Spirit in
order to faith."
With these declarations as I understand
them, I am quite satisfied; for, since the sacred canon
has been completed, it seems to be the general opinion,
at least of
all the most eminent
Protestant writers that have adverted to this subject,
that we are not to look for any
new revelations of the Spirit;
and that, of course, his saving
operations in the production of faith and repentance,
and of every other gracious effect by
which we are made partakers of a divine nature, (2 Peter
i. 4.)
is by the
word of truth being put into the mind and written
upon the heart, (Heb. viii. 10.)
for this certainly is one of the exceeding great and
precious promises above referred to, (2 Peter i. 4.)
by which the Lord has graciously engaged to save his
people, (Heb. viii. 10.)
As to regeneration itself, or, as it is commonly termed,
the new birth, we are divinely assured, that it is effected
by the word of truth.
(James i. 18.) Of his own will begat he us by
the word of truth; and
(1 Peter i. 23-25.) Being born again not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word
of God, which lives and abides forever.
And this is the
word which by the gospel is preached to you
Eph. 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph. 5:26WEB That he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing
of water
[INTO] the
word, (In Verbo, En, Eis)
Into Converto , epistles of a
writer, to be occupied in, Into
Philo-sophos Love of
educatioon, an academy Philo-mathes or Philo-Logos
OPPOSIITE
of Sophistes A. master of one's craft,
adept, expert, of diviners, musicians
Parapaion Khelon (play the harp, Hieron Melon (Melody
in a religious shrine).
A quibbler, cheate, one who gave lessons FOR MONEY.
Fides (not faithful to the community) but Fides
(faithful to Apollon)
IN VERBUM
Discourse, conversation, Oral by word of mouth urnio plura
verbo quam s
cripturā mandata dedimus, In eccl.
Lat. as a translation of logos,
LOGOS Opposite PATHOS (personal
experiences), Opposite folly, Opposite reasoning,
deliberation,
Logos OPPOSITE to
Epagoge bringing in AIDS,
alurement, enticement, incantations, oppositeof human
reasoning, leading into captivity
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.
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WHATEVER COMES AFTER THAT IS THE INVENTION OF H. LEO
BOLES.
The Holy Spirit goes by several
different names:
5. the Spirit
OF Truth (John 14:16, 17; 15:26) Comforter
and Holy Spirit are used interchangeably
in John 15:26. 7.
Helper or Comforter (John 14:26; 15:26) The
Scriptures used these various terms to refer to the Holy
Spirit; and one may correctly use any one of these terms
to refer to the third person of the trinity.
OF is a
preposition: the Spirit OF Truth is that spirit which
belongs to truth
1John 4:6 We are OF
God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God
heareth not us.
Hereby know we the
spirit of truth, and the spirit OF error.
And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; John
14:16
What is
the NAME of this "fuller" Comforter? The Paraclete
in John is the Paraclete in 1 John: His name is
Jesus Christ.
1Jn.2:1 MY little
children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin
not. And if any man sin,
we have an advocate [Paraklete comforter] with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous:
1John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and
not for ours only,
but also for the
sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if
we keep his commandments.
The Comforter,
Spirit OF Truth was Jesus as He made full deity
known to them as a SINGULAR manifestation: this repudiated
the pagan trinities.
Even the Spirit OF truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth HIM not, neither knoweth
him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you. John
14:17
I wonder
why verse 18 is NEVER quoted in "holy Spirit books?"
I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you. John 14:18
Yet a
little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me:
because I live, ye shall live also. John 14:19
At that day
ye shall know that I am IN my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. John 14:20
Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God
raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right
hand of God exalted,
and having
received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,
{Jesus post-glorification}
he
hath shed forth this, which ye now see
and hear.
There has never been more than ONE GOD the Father in Heaven.
And Jesus of Nazareth whom God made to be both Lord and Christ.
The "Spirit" of God is His "breath" which bears thoughts which
are articulated by Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus was the seed (sperm) of Abraham or David.
Acts 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing
that God had sworn with an oath to him,
that of the fruit of his
loins, according to the flesh,
he would raise up
Christ to sit on his throne;
Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection
of Christ,
that his soul was not
left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are
witnesses.
Notice that Paul made the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth
absolutely clear and no massive accumulation of "spirit" verses
should be allowed to confuse those proposing themselves as
authoratative teachers.
Romans 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,
which was made
of the seed of David according to the flesh;
Romans 1:4 And declared to be
the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit
of holiness, by the resurrection from the
dead:
Jesus in His glorified state is the comforter Jesus
promised when he said I will come to you. In His glorified
state, Jesus was in the STATE of Holy Spirit. Spirit
is never a god or person. Spirit words are Figurative or a
PARABLE to explain how God ALWAYS puts His WORDS into the MOUTH
of a Moses, the Prophets and LASTLY into the mouth of Jesus of
Nazareth. Jesus fulfilled Holy Scripture or all of the
Prophecies "Concerning Me." These prophecies made visible and
audible and left for our memory by Eye and Ear Witnesses are
that upon which the Church is Built or EDUCATED.
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted,
and having received
of the Father the PROMISE of the Holy Ghost,
he hath shed forth this,
which ye now see and hear.
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens:
but he saith himself,
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know
assuredly,
that God hath made that same
Jesus,
whom ye have
crucified, both Lord and Christ
People have always questioned God's Wisdom in selecting a man to
"make more perfect" the prophecies by the Spirit OF
Christ. They have always denied the statement that Jesus
promised to be with the us until the end of the World. He
is King and High priest and Head of His body, the Church. It is
dangerous to teach that the conversation between God and the Man
Jesus of Nazareth needed a THIRD PERSON to mediate. In the text
and historical agreement: the Spirit is that "breath" which
symbolically passes through the Father and a Son.
1Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the
sight of God our Saviour;
1Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge
of the truth.
1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God,
and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be
testified in due time.
1Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher,
and an apostle, (I speak
the truth in Christ, and lie not;)
a teacher of the
Gentiles in faith and verity.
The Salutations over and over speak of these "two actors" only
one of whom is eternal God. John who identified Jesus
Christ as the Holy Spirit Comforter insisted that if you DO NOT
accept this heavenly--earthly connection you are an ANTI-Christ.
That may because you deny that the fulness of the Godhead
dwelled in Jesus of Nazareth as "the body prepared for men."
Father, Spirit and Son or most often Father, Mother and son
define all pagan triads. Jesus defined God as the ANTITHESIS
of paganism. Father, Son and Spirit powers are given to a
SINGULAR person, Jesus of Nazareth. Thomas wanted to SEE
the father which really proves that the prevailing clergy just
continued the worship of the starry host (Acts 7) to which God
abandoned Israel because of the musical worship of the Egyptian
triad. This is Osiris, Isis and Horus. Apis, the golden
calf represented the worship of Osiris and therefore the triad.
| 1John 2:22 Who is a liar but
he that denieth |
that Jesus is the Christ?
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John
14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so
long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me,
Philip? |
| Which
is
the same as: |
Which is the same as: |
| He is ANTICHRIST |
that denieth the
Father [one God]
and
the Son. [one Lord]
|
he thathath seen me hath
seen the Father;
[Christ,
who is the image of God 2 Cor 4:4]
and HOW sayest thou
then, Shew us the Father?
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1
John 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son
hethat acknowledgeth
the Son |
the same hath not the Father:
hath the Father also |
John
14:10
Believest thou not that I am IN the Father, and
the Father IN me? the words that I speak unto
you I speak not of myself: but the Father that
dwelleth IN me, he doeth the works. |
The Scriptures
Attribute Divine Personality to the Holy
Spirit.
1. Eternity (Heb.
9:14) 2. Omniscience (1 Cor. 2:10-11)
3. Omnipotence (Micah 3:8; Rom. 15:19;
Luke 1:35) 4. Omnipresence (Psalm
139:7-10) 5. Holy (100 times in Bible)
6. Sovereign (2 Cor. 3:17,18; Rev. 2:7)
Jesus in His Holy
Spirit State took His blood into the Tabernacle in
Heaven:
Heb 9:13
For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
............ and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
unclean,
............ sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
THE
SPIRITUAL REALITY:
Heb 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ,
............[who through the eternal Spirit] offered himself
without spot to God,
............purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
This was Jesus in His Spiritual State offering HIMSELF.
The Work of the Spirit Reveals His
Divinity
1. creator (Gen.
1:2; Psa. 33:6; 104:30)
|
John
Calvin
"They think that they have
testimony against the Asians, to prove the Deity of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit,
The motive for
adding the violent glosses was not based upon
scholarship but upon the unholy urge to destroy
the argument of others.
"but in the meantime they involve
themselves in the error
of Sabellius,
because Moses afterwards subjoins that the Elohim
had spoken, and that the holy Spirit of the Elohim rested upon the waters.
If we suppose three persons to be here denoted, there will be no distinction between
them. For it will follow,
both that the Son
is begotten by
himself,
and that the Spirit
is not of the
Father, but of
himself.
For me it is sufficient that the
plural number expresses those powers which God exercised in creating
the world.
Moreover I acknowledge that the
Scripture, although it recites many powers
of the Godhead, yet always recalls us to the Father,
and his Word, and spirit, as we shall shortly see.
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Father
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Thought
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| God or
Deity |
Son
|
Word
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| - |
Spirit
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Breath
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But those absurdities, to which I have alluded, forbid us with
subtlety to distort what Moses simply declares
concerning God himself, by
applying it to the separate
Persons of the
Godhead.
This, however, I regard as beyond
controversy, that from the peculiar circumstance of
the passage itself, a title
is here ascribed to God, expressive of that powers which was
previously in some way included in his eternal
essence.
He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his wisdom,
and hath stretched out the heaven by
his understanding. Jer 51:15
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens;
and he causeth the vapours to
ascend from the ends of the earth:
he maketh lightnings with rain,
and bringeth forth the wind out of his
treasures. Jer 51:16
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1. creator (Gen. 1:2;
Psa. 33:6; 104:30)
This passage
absolutely proves that there is one God who has Wisdom,
Spirit, Word within Himself as all classical trinitarians
have taught.
Psa 33:4 For the [1] word of the [3] Lord is right;
and all his [3] works are done in truth.
Psa 33:5 He
loveth righteousness and judgment:
the earth is full of
the goodness of the Lord.
Psa 33:6 By the [1] word [that which the
Lord speaks]
of the [2] Lord were the heavens
made;
and all the host of
them by the [3] breath (spirit) of his mouth.
Psa 33:7 He
gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap:
he layeth up the
depth in storehouses.
Psa 33:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord:
let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psa 33:9 For he spake, and it was done;
he commanded,
and it stood fast.
Psa 33:10 The
Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought:
he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psa 33:11 The
counsel of the Lord standeth for ever,
the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
Psa 33:12 Blessed
is the nation whose God is the
Lord;
and the people whom
he hath
chosen for his own inheritance.
1. creator (Gen. 1:2;
Psa. 33:6; 104:30)
This proves that the agents of God flows out from the One
Universal Spirit
Psa. 104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits;
his ministers
a flaming fire:
Psa. 104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth,
that it should not be
removed for ever.
Psa. 104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep
as with a garment:
the waters stood above
the mountains.
Psa. 104:29 Thou hidest thy face,
they are troubled:
thou takest away their breath,
they die, and
return to their dust.
Psa. 104:30 Thou sendest forth THY spirit,
they are created:
and thou REnewest
the face of the earth.
2.
worked wonders in material universe (Job 26:13; Psalm
104:30)
Notice that
speaking parables to fool the foolish, Job attributes to
the ONE God all of the actions in the physical world:
Reproof, Power, Understanding, Spirit, Hands, Thunder are
not persons or god Beings.
He is God and the
Spirit is the Spirit OF (preposition) God:
Job 26:7 HE stretcheth
out the north over the empty place,
and hangeth the
earth upon nothing.
Job 26:8 HE bindeth
up the waters in his thick clouds;
and the cloud is not
rent under them.
Job 26:9 HE holdeth back
the face of HIS throne,
and spreadeth his cloud
upon it.
Job 26:10 HE hath
compassed the waters with bounds,
until the day and night
come to an end.
Job 26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished
at HIS reproof.
Job 26:12 HE divideth the
sea with his power,
and by HIS understanding he smiteth
through the proud.
Job 26:13 By HIS spirit
he hath garnished the heavens;
HIS HAND
hath formed the crooked serpent.
Job 26:14 Lo, these are parts of HIS
ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
but the thunder of HIS power who can
understand?
Job 27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment;
and the Almighty, who
hath vexed my soul;
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me,
and the spirit
of God is in my nostrils;
3. works
miracles through men (1 Cor. 12:9,11)
1Cor. 12:5 And there are differences of
administrations,
but the same Lord.
1Cor. 12:6 And there are diversities of operations,
but it is the same
God which worketh all in all.
The One God in Heaven and one Jesus Whom God made to be both
Lord and Christ as The Holy Spirit, Priest, King gives the
1Cor. 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to every man to profit withal.
1Cor. 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of
wisdom;
to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit;
1Cor. 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to
another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1Cor. 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another
prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers
kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1Cor. 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame
Spirit,
dividing to every man
severally as he will.
This SPIRIT is Jesus Christ in His changed state.
Ephesians 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who
is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace
according to the measure
of the gift of Christ.
Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith,
When he ascended up on
high, he led captivity captive,
and gave gifts unto
men.
You can be a
false teacher and guide others into blaspheming the Spirit
OF Christ by just listing a basket full of passages all of
which repudiate the thesis.
4. physical life given by the
Holy Spirit (Job 27:3; 33:4) 5.
has foreknowledge (Acts 1:16; 11:27,28) 6.
regenerator (2 Cor. 3:6; Tit. 3:5; Rom. 15:16)
7. able to resurrect (Rom. 8:11; 1 Pet.
3:18,19) 8. revelation and inspiration
(Gal. 1:11-12; 2 Pet. 1:21; 2 Tim. 3:16-17)
9. sanctifying (2 Thess. 2:13)
Again, Job is
using "spirit" in its absolute sense unless
otherwise specified.
Job 27:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my
judgment;
and the Almighty,
who hath vexed my soul; [note
parallelism]
Job 27:3
All the while my
BREATH is in me,
and the SPIRIT
[breath] of God is in my nostrils; [note
parallelism]
Job 27:4 My lips shall not speak
wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Notice in the next "proof text" that OF
is a preposition: the Spirit OF God is the Spirit which
BELONGS to God in this parable.
Job 33:1
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches,
and hearken to all my words.
Job 33:2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my
tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
Job 33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my
heart:
and my lips shall
utter knowledge clearly.
Job 33:4
The Spirit
of God hath made me,
and the breath
of the Almighty hath given me life.
[note parallelism]
Job 33:5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order
before me, stand up.
The Spirit in Relation to the
Godhead
We consider next the Spirit of God in
relation to God Himself in the Old Testament. Here
there are several points to be noted.
The first is that there is no
indication of a belief that the Spirit of God was a
material particle or emanation from God.
Biblical writers retained a very clear distinction between spirit
and flesh or other material forms. Again we observe
in the Old Testament both an identification of God and the
Spirit of God, and also a clear distinction between
them.
Literally Spirit
means WIND: figuratively it means BREATH or that which
inspires. God IS Spirit.
Classical
trinitarians agree: there is a difference between a man
and his breath (spirit) and there is a difference
and separation betwen one's spirit and one's articulated
words. There is a difference betwee ME and MY
spirit or life but WE are not separate people.
In "The Spirit OF
the Lord" of is a preposition. The spirit OF
wisdom is not another being but the spirit or mental
disposition of wisdom. The Spirit or Breath emanates from
the "mouth" of God Who as the Spirit OF Christ speaks ONLY
through the prophets and apostles. Jesus warned that
truth had been hidden in parables from the foundation of
the world.
1Kings 22:22 And the LORD said
unto him, Wherewith?
And he said, I will go
forth, and I will be a LYING spirit in the mouth of
all his prophets.
And he said, Thou
shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
1Pet. 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time
the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of
Christ, and the glory that should follow.
2Chronicles 18:21 And he said, I will
go out,
and be a lying
spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
And the LORD said,
Thou shalt entice him,
and thou shalt also
prevail: go out, and do even so.
2Chronicles 18:22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD
hath put a
lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets,
and the LORD hath
spoken evil against thee
Psa. 104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits;
his ministers
a flaming fire:
2Samuel 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled;
the foundations of
heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
2Samuel 22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and
fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
2Samuel 22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and
darkness was under his feet.
2Samuel 22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
and he was seen upon
the wings of the wind. [spirit]
H7307 rϋach roo'-akh From
H7306 ; wind;
by resemblance
breath, that is, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation;
figuratively
life, anger, unsubstantiality;
by extension
a region of the sky;
by resemblance
spirit, but only of a rational being
(including its expression and
functions):
2Samuel 22:12 And he made darkness
pavilions round about him,
dark waters, and thick
clouds of the skies.
2Samuel 22:13 Through the brightness before him were
coals of fire kindled.
2Samuel 22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven,
and the most
High uttered his voice.
2Samuel 22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
lightning, and
discomfited them.
2Samuel 22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared,
the foundations of the
world were discovered,
at the rebuking of the
LORD,
at the blast of the breath
of his nostrils.
2 Samuel 22.16 et apparuerunt effusiones maris et revelata sunt fundamenta orbis ab increpatione Domini ab inspiratione spiritus furoris eius
The identification
is seen in Ps 139:7 where the omni-presence
of the Spirit is declared, and in Isa 63:10; Jer
31:33; Ezek 36:27.
The spirit OF a Being is not another person.
Psalms 139:7 Whither shall I go from THY
spirit?
or whither shall I flee
from thy presence?
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed HIS holy
Spirit:
therefore he was turned
to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Isaiah 63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses,
and his people,
saying, Where is he that
brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?
where is he that put his
holy Spirit within him?
4 The Holy
Spirit
In a great number
of passages, however, God and the Spirit of God are not
thought of as identical, as in Gen 1:2; 6:3; Neh 9:20;
Ps 51:11; 104:29 f.
Neh 9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten
calf, and said,
This is thy God that
brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great
provocations;
Neh 9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them
not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not
from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the
pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way
wherein they should go.
Neh 9:20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct
them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth,
and gavest them water for their thirst.
"For this reason, the
Holy Spirit has frequently been personified in
Scripture, identifying it with God, and so it is
personified as he.
"However, if the Holy
Spirit were actually a person it should be rendered as he in every place where the word is referred
to; but it is not. It is sometimes rendered in the neuter. In Romans 8:16, Paul
writes: "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit." The neuter, itself is used, and this is in
accord with the Greek text, as any Greek scholar will
acknowledge.
"To personify
inanimate objects is normal in Scripture. Wisdom is represented as a woman (Proverbs 9:1), mammon is described as a friend (Luke 16:9), sin is personified as a slave-owner (Romans 6:16), the Holy Spirit as a comforter (John 14:26), expressing
the spirit of Truth. So Micah declared: "I am full of power
by the spirit of the Lord" (Micah 3:8). The prophets
were moved by the spirit to record the Scriptures
(Nehemiah 9:20; 2 Peter 1:21), and God used the same
means to speak to Israel through His Son
(Hebrews 1: 1). For the rest of the quote Click Here.
"Personification.-- This is a figure of
speech by which inanimate beings are spoken of as animated, or endowed with life and volition; animals are endowed with
feelings akin to those of men.
"This is well suited to
an imaginary condition of mind, and therefore frequently
employed in Hebrew Scriptures. Indeed, it is now a staple
in the market of communication, and we use it so commonly
ourselves that whe have almost ceasted to speak of it as a
figure of speech." (Prof. D. R. Dungan, Hermeneutics, p. 324, Gospel Light
Publishing)
Indeed, there are no Old Testament
passages which compel us to understand the complete New
Testament doctrine of the Trinity and the distinct
personality of the Spirit in the New Testament sense.
There are, however, numerous Old
Testament passages which are in harmony with the Trinitarian
conception and prepare the way for it, such as Ps 139:7;
Isa 63:10; 48:16; Hag 2:5; Zec 4:6. The Spirit is
grieved, vexed, etc., and in other ways is conceived of
personally, but as He is God in action, God exerting power,
this was the natural way for the Old Testament writers to
think of the Spirit.
Note that this is a parallelism: The
Spirit OF God is theJoh or mental disposition of
God.
Ps 139:6 Such knowledge
is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto
it.
Ps 139:7 Whither shall I
go from THY spirit?
or whither shall I
flee from thy presence?
Ps 139:8 If I ascend
up into heaven, thou art there:
if I make my bed in hell,
behold, thou art there.
Isa 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted,
and the angel of his presence saved them:
in his love and in his pity he redeemed
them;
and he bare them, and carried them
all the days of old.
Psa 106:12 Then believed they his words; they sang
his praise Psa 106:12
Isa 63:10 But
they rebelled, and vexed
his holy Spirit:
therefore he was turned to be their enemy,
and he fought
against them.
Psa 106:13 They soon forgat his works; they
waited not for his counsel:
Isa 63:11 Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses, and his people, saying,
Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherd of his
flock?
where is he that put HIS holy
Spirit within him?
1Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same
spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that
followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
As a beast
goeth down into the valley,
the Spirit of the Lord caused him
to rest;
so didst thou lead thy people,
to make thyself a glorious name. Isa
63:14
Doubtless thou art our father,
though Abraham be ignorant of us,
and Israel acknowledge us not: thou,
O Lord, art our father, our redeemer;
thy name is from everlasting. Isa
63:16
Haggai says
nothing about a separated Holy Spirit person
being with Israel.
Haggai 2:5 According to the word that
I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit
remaineth among you: fear ye not.
Daniel 7:15 I Daniel was grieved
in my spirit in the midst of my
body,
and the visions of
my head troubled me.
2Corinthians 2:13 I had no rest in my spirit,
because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave
of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
Colossians 1:8
Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet
am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding
your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in
Christ.
A definition of the Trinity is
not easy to construct. Some are done by stating several
propositions. Others err on the side either of oneness or
threeness. One of the best is Warfields:
John 10:30: I and the Father are
One, beautifully states this balance between the diversity
of the Persons and the unity of the essence.
The context is to
prove to the Jews that Jesus' teachings and the Father's
teachings are UNUS a Ad
unum, all together, unanimously, to a
man, without exception: In unum, into one,
to one place, together: Of that which is
common to several persons or things, one and the same.
A Father AND a
SON can never be numerically the SAME PERSON.
I and the Father clearly
distinguishes two Persons, and the verb, We are,
is also plural. But, said the Lord, We are One, and one
is neuter; that is, one in nature or essence, but not one
Person (which would require masculine form). Thus the Lord
distinguished Himself from the Father and yet claimed unity
and equality with the Father.
All pagan's
believed in a trinity of father, mother (spirit) and
son. God made His nature by placing all authority
under the NAME of the father, spirit and
son. Name is singular.
That's True but
only One is a Divine Being and One
Jesus of Nazareth.
1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God,
and one mediator
between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;
When the One God made Jesus of Nazareth TO BE
both Lord and Christ, the Spirit OF Christ who breathed on the
prophets, Christ came fully in Jesus of Nazareth. If you
deny that the Spirit of the ONE GOD dwelled in or upon the MAN
CHRIST JESUS, John identifies you as an anti-christ.
Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words;
Jesus of Nazareth,
a man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders
and signs,
which God did
BY him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves
also know:
Acts 10:38 How God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power:
who went about doing
good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil;
for God was with
him.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know
assuredly,
that God hath
made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified,
both Lord and
Christ.
Rom. 1:1 Paul,
a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an
apostle,
separated unto the
gospel of God,
Rom. 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in
the holy scriptures,)
Rom. 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,
which was made
of the seed of David according to the flesh;
Rom. 1:4 And declared to
be the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit
OF holiness,
by the resurrection from
the dead:
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Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not:
the works
that I do in my Fathers name,
they bear
witness of me. John 10:25
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But ye believe not, because ye
are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. John 10:26
My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they
follow me: John
10:27
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. John 10:28
My Father,
which gave them me, is GREATER than all;
and no man
is able to pluck them out of my Fathers
hand. John 10:29
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I and my Father are one. John 10:30
If
Jesus does His work in the Father's Name then
they are not ONE person nor are they just on
friendly terms. Jesus as the Son had no
words to speak other that what He heard from the
Father.
Unus adverbal a.
Ad unum, all together, unanimously,
to a man, without exception:
2. Of
that which is common to several persons or things, one
and the same.
uno ore, with one voice, all
together, unanimously:
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John 12:45 And he that seeth me
seeth him that sent me.
John 12:46 I am come a light into the world,
that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in
darkness.
John 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and
believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge
the world, but to save the world.
John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth
not my words,
hath one that
judgeth him: the word that I have spoken,
the same shall judge him
in the last day.
John 12:49 For I have not
spoken of myself;
but the Father
which sent me, he gave me a commandment,
what
I should say, and what I should speak.
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life
everlasting:
whatsoever I speak
therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I
speak.
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The word "trinity" is not found in the
Bible but is certainly a Biblical concept. The word refers
to the concept that God is one in essence or
substance and three in person. God is one but is
known as Father, Son, and Spirit.
Person as
"people" was invented by H. Leo boles. The word is
PERSONAE: God makes his SINGULAR nature made known or view
as one person. Otherwise, we would see a father god, a
spirit god and a son god.
The Trinity
5 The Holy Spirit
The Scriptures teach clearly that God
is one and there is no other:
Deut. 6:4 "the Lord our God is one Lord"
Mark 12:29 "the Lord our God, the Lord is one"
Deut. 4:35,36 "the Lord is God; there is
none else besides him" Isa. 43:10,11
"before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be
after me. I even I, am
Jehovah, and there is no savior."
Isa. 44:6 "I am the first, and I am the
last; and besides me there is no God."
Isa. 45:5 "I am God, and there is none else; besides
me there is no God." 1 Cor. 8:4,6 "there
is no God but one. . .yet to us there is one God."
Rom. 3:30 "God is one."
The terms
"Father, Spirit (mother) and son is common in all pagan
triads. When Jesus declared Himself the Son of God:
John 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew
us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with
you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
he that hath seen
me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then,
Shew us the Father?
Much of the teachings of Jesus are ANTITHETICAL to the pagan
view of God: all pagans believed in triads or families of
triads.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto
them, saying,
All power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the
name [singular] of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 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.
Peter clearly understood that Jesus of Nazareth had been made
BOTH Lord and Christ and been given ALL power on earth. He
and the rest of the Bible and early history understood that to
be:
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
Repent, and be baptized
every one of you
in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins,
and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost.
There is only ONE GOD in Heaven and Jesus of Nazareth whom God
made to be both Lord and Christ: Messiah had to be the Seed of
Abraham to fulfil prophecy.
In what Alexander Campbell and others called the "economic
trinity" Jesus Christ fills all of the anticipated roles in
PERSONS of Father, Son and Spirit.
John 16:3 And these things will they do unto you,
because they have not known the Father, nor me.
John 16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore
said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto
you.
John 16:16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again,
a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the
Father.
John 16:17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves,
What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye
shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see
me: and, Because I go to the Father?
John 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in
my name, he will give it you.
Yet we have just as positive teaching
that the Father is God; the Son is God; and
the Holy Spirit is God.
Father
1 Cor. 8:6 Gal. 1:1 John 6:27 Phil.
2:11 John 20:17 Mark 14:36 John 11:41
This define
clearly the ONE God and ONE Lord.
1Corinthians 8:5 For though
there be that are called gods,
whether in heaven or
in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
1Corinthians 8:6 But to us there is but one God, [Theos] the Father,
of whom are all things, and we in him;
and one Lord [Kurios] Jesus Christ,
by whom are all things, and
we by him.
The MAN
Jesus of Nazareth was NOT either Lord or Christ until God
gave Him those assignments.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all
the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God
hath made that
same Jesus, whom ye have crucified,
both Lord and
Christ.
John identifies as anti-christ those who deny this ONE GOD and
ONE LORD, the man Jesus of Nazareth. It is a denial of the
fullness of Deity which dwelled IN Jesus of Nazareth to make him
part of a family of gods.
Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither
by man,
but by Jesus Christ,
and God the Father,
who raised him from the dead;)
Galatians 1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the
churches of Galatia:
Galatians 1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father,
and from our Lord
Jesus Christ,
Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins,
that he might deliver us
from this present evil world,
according to the will
of God and our Father:
John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say
unto you,
Ye seek me, not because
ye saw the miracles,
but because ye did
eat of the loaves, and were filled.
John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth,
but for that meat which
endureth unto everlasting life,
which the Son of man
shall give unto you:
for him hath
God the Father sealed.
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man
ascend up where he was before?
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 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we
might work the works of God?
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them,
This is the work of God,
that ye believe on
him whom he hath sent.
Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted
him,
and given him a name
which is above every name:
Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth;
Philippians 2:11 And that every tongue should
confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the
Father.
John 20:16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and
saith unto him,
Rabboni; which is to
say, Master.
John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am
not yet ascended to my Father:
but go to my brethren,
and say unto them,
I ascend unto my
Father, and your Father;
and to my God, and
your God.
Mark 14:35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the
ground, and prayed that,
if it were
possible, the hour might pass from him.
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all
things are possible unto thee;
take away this cup
from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou
wilt.
John 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where
the dead was laid.
And Jesus lifted up his
eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast
heard me.
John 11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always:
but because of the
people which stand by I said it,
that they may believe
that thou hast sent me.
Son
Rom. 9:5 Col. 2:9 John 20:28
John 10:30 John 1:1,18 Phil. 2:6
1 John 5:20
Holy Spirit
Acts 5:3,4 Matt. 28:19 2 Cor. 13:14 2
Cor. 3:17,18 1 Cor. 2:10-13 Rom. 8:9,11
YES: I and the Father clearly
distinguishes two Persons,
Yet we have
just as positive teaching that the Father is God;
the Son is God; and the Holy Spirit
is God.
BUT NO: We
are not saying that one God is three Gods;
we are saying that there is but one infinite Spirit Being,
but within that one Spirit essence there are three personal
distinctions,
each of which may be,
and is called God.
Each is capable
of loving and being loved by the
others (John 14:31).
Each has a distinct
part to play in the creation of the universe,
and in the creation
and salvation of mankind.
In this proof
text with no context or connection, Jesus loves the Father
and therefore follows the direction of the Father whose
Mind dwelled in Jesus.
John 14:30
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince
of this world cometh,
and hath nothing
in me.
John 14:31 But that the world may know
that I [Jesus
made to be both lord and Christ]
love the Father;
[The One Universe God]
and as the Father
gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise,
let us go hence.
In Matt. 3:16,17 while Jesus was being
baptized into the Jordan River, the Father spoke from
heaven; and the Holy Spirit descended upon
Jesus in the form of a dove.
John 12:29 The people therefore, that stood by, and
heard it, said that it thundered:
others said, An angel
spake to him.
John 12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not
because of me, but for your sakes.
We are compelled to distinguish each
of these persons. In John 15:26 Jesus said, "But
when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, even the Spirit of truth."
John 15:23
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which
none other man did,
they had not had
sin: but now have they both seen
and hated both
me and my Father.
John 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be
fulfilled that is written in their law,
They hated me
without a cause.
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come,
whom I
will send unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit OF
truth, which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall testify
of me:
John 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness,
because ye
have been with me from the beginning.
THE SAME JOHN WARNED
1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto
you, that ye sin not.
And if any man sin,
we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the
righteous:
1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God,
and one mediator
between God and men,
the man Christ
Jesus;
Jesus as the "another" Comforter different in that He is now The
Holy Spirit and continues the work of Jesus of Nazareth in the
flesh. The Spirit OF Christ does not speak on its own but
the same Jesus communicates in Spirit form.
1John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours
only,
but also for the
sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him,
if we keep
his commandments.
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in
him.
1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are
in him.
Here is the METHOD by
which WE dwell in the FATHER and the FATHER and SON dwells
in us. The only EVIDENCE of that indwelling is:
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall
be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will
manifest myself to him. John 14:21
Judas saith unto him,
not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest
thyself unto us, and not unto the world? John 14:22
Jesus answered and said
unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him,
and make
our abode with him. John 14:23
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send
unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit OF
truth, [of is a preposition]
which proceedeth
from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Again we clearly see distinctions
between the persons of the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Spirit. Other passages which show this distinction:
Matt. 28:19; Acts 7:55; Rom. 11:36; 8:11; Eph. 2:18,21,22;
Gal. 4:6; Heb. 9:14; and Jude 20,21. Eph. 4:4-6 makes it
clear that there is one God and Father, one Lord, and one
Spirit.
These Divine Three are equal.
This does not mean we cannot arrange them with the Father first,
the Son second, and the Spirit third. This
is not a difference in glory, power, or length of
existence, but simply one of order.
6 The Holy Spirit
The concept of the economical Trinity
concerns administration, management, actions of the Persons,
or the opera ad extra (works outside, that is, on the
creation and its creatures).
For the Father this includes
the works of electing (1 Peter 1:2), loving the
world (John 3:16), and giving good gifts (James 1:17).
For the Son it emphasizes His
suffering (Mark 8:31), redeeming (1 Peter 1:18), and
upholding all things (Heb. 1:3).
For the Spirit it focuses on
His particular works of regenerating (Titus 3:5),
energizing (Acts 1:8), and sanctifying (Gal. 5:22-23).
Even with all the discussion and
delineation that we attempt in relation to the Trinity, we
must acknowledge that it is in the final analysis a mystery.
We accept all the data as truth even though they go beyond
our understanding.
7 The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit as a Person
The Scriptures consider the Holy
Spirit as a person, a spirit, and Divine. The Holy Spirit
should never be considered as some kind of "force" or
influence, as if he had no personality.
The Holy Spirit is a Person
He speaks (1 Tim.
4:1) He witnesses (John 15:26)
He teaches (John 14:26; Luke 12:11-12; 1
Cor. 2:13) He guides (John 16:13; Acts
16:6-10) He makes intercession (Rom.
8:26) He possesses a mind (Rom. 8:27)
He has knowledge (1 Cor. 2:11)
He has affections (Rom. 15:30)
He possesses a will (1 Cor. 12:11)
He can be grieved (Eph. 4:30; Isa.
63:10) He can be despised (Heb. 10:29)
He can be resisted (Acts 5:3)
10 The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit and Inspiration
14 The Holy Spirit
Verbal Inspiration
In verbal inspiration, inspired men
"guided by the Holy Spirit" (2 Peter 1:21) did not have to
think of what words that they should speak or write, for it
was given to them "in that hour" what to say or write
(Matthew 10:19). They were told, "Settle it therefore in
your hearts, not to meditate beforehand how to answer" (Luke
21:14). In such situations, they were "not the ones
speaking, but" it was the "Spirit of the Father" speaking
through them (Matthew 10:20). They were "filled with the
Holy Spirit," and on occasion spoke "in other languages, as
the Spirit was inspiring them" (Acts 2:4).
A startling example of verbal
inspiration, "words taught by the Spirit" (1
Corinthians 2:13),
As my spirit
knows the mental condition of my thoughts and intents,
Paul defines God's Spirit in the same sense to instruct
our feeble mind
1Cor. 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS
Spirit:
for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1Cor. 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man,
save the spirit of man
which is in him?
even so the things of God knoweth no man,
but the Spirit
of God.
Jesus in HIS post-glorified state came at Pentecost and
"poured out what you see and hear." He promised as Spirit that
He would guide them into all truth. Paul had to see and
hear the risen Lord to qualify as an apostle. The SPIRIT
LORD appeared to Paul
Acts 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth,
I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew
tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is
hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I
am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet:
for I have appeared
unto thee for this purpose,
to make thee a minister
and a witness both of these things which thou hast
seen,
and of those things in
the which I will appear unto thee;
This has the same meaning as to the Apostles:
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.
1Cor. 2:12 Now we have received,
not the spirit of the
world, but the spirit which is of God;
that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God.
1Cor. 2:13 Which things also we speak,
not in the words which
mans wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Cor. 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
1Cor. 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet
he himself is judged of no man.
1Cor. 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct him?
But we have the MIND of Christ.
15 The Holy
Spirit
In plenary inspiration, inspired men "guided
by the Holy Spirit" (2 Peter 1:21), did think of what
words that they would speak or write. "The words of the
Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem," were not
directly given, but were "pondered and sought out" by
Solomon, with the result that he "set in order many proverbs"
(Ecclesiastes 1:1; 12:9). "The Preacher sought to find out
acceptable words, . . . words of truth" (Ecclesiastes
12:10).
Proverbs 1:23 Turn
you at my reproof: (Convert)
behold, I will pour
out my spirit unto you,
[meaning] I will make known
my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have
stretched out my hand,
SPIRIT NEVER SPEAKS OF A "PEOPLE": ALL OF
THOSE WHO CLAIM GUIDANCE ARE BEING LED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT:
SATAN.
-Spīrĭtus I. fin.; dat. SPIRITO, Inscr. Orell. 3030; gen.,
dat., and abl. plur. only eccl. and late Lat., e.
g. spirituum, Vulg. Marc. 6, 7:
spiritibus, Aug. Serm. 216, 11 fin.;
Vulg. Luc. 8, 2),
m. spiro, a breathing or gentle
blowing of air, a breath, breeze
(syn.: aura, flatus).
2. The breath
of a god, inspiration:
haec fieri non possent, nisi ea uno divino et continuato spiritu continerentur, by a
divine inspiration, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 19;
3, 11, 28; cf.: poλtam quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari, id. Arch. 8, 18.
A. (Class.) A haughty
spirit, haughtiness, pride, arrogance;
also, spirit, high spirit, energy,
courage (esp. freq. in the plur.; syn. animi). longissima est complexio verborum, quae volvi uno spiritu potest, id. de Or. 3, 47, 182:
quos idem Deus de suis spiritibus figuravit,
Figūro , āvi, ātum,
1, v. a. figura,
I.
to form, fashion, shape
(rare but class.).
2. In rhet. lang., to adorn with
figures: tam translatis verbis quam propriis figuratur oratio, Quint. 9, 1, 9:
B. Trop., of speech, figurative
(not in Cic., but very freq. in Quint.): oratio eskhēmatismenē,
Quint.
Inst. 9 1.9 It is best therefore in
dealing with these topics to adopt the generally
accepted terms and to understand the actual
thing, by whatever name it is called. But we must note
the fact that trope figure are
often combined in the expression of the same thought,
since figures are introduced just as much by
the metaphorical as by the literal use of words.
2. Spiritus, personified,
a spirit (late Lat.); so, esp., Spiritus Sanctus or simply Spiritus, the Holy
Ghost, Holy Spirit, Cod.
Just. 1, 1, 1; Aus.
Ephem. 2, 18: jurare per Deum et per Christum et per Spiritum Sanctum, Veg. 2, 5: nocens ille Spiritus, an evil
spirit, Lact. 4, 27, 12:
Spiritus nigri, evil spirits,
Sedul. Carm. 3, 41.
You will notice (most have not) that in the salutations in the
epistles the term "The Holy Spirit" is very rare and two
fold "persons" are defined with naming a spirit which is
that "breath" which flows between Father (thought) and Son
(word).
1Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia,
1Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the
Father,
through sanctification
of the Spirit [his spirit],
unto obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:
Grace unto you, and
peace, be multiplied.
1Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy
hath begotten us again
unto a lively hope by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Peter 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation
of your souls.
1Peter 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have
inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of
the grace that should come unto you:
1Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was
in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings
of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto
themselves,
but unto us they did minister
the things,
which are now reported
unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you
with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to
look into.
Paul defines the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of the Lord
2Corinthians 3:12 Seeing then that we have such
hope, we use great plainness of speech:
2Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail
over his face, that the children of Israel could not
stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
2Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for
until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the
reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in
Christ.
2Corinthians 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is
read, the vail is upon their heart.
2Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord,
the vail shall be taken away.
2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is
that Spirit: and where the
Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the
same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit OF
the Lord.
The Spirit of Christ which guided the Prophets also guided Jesus
of Nazareth to make these prophecies more certain:
Revelation 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed
are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he
said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and
of thy brethren
that have the testimony
of Jesus: worship God:
for the testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy
16 The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit and Conversion I and
II
I will not
address this in this paper since the BURDEN of the whole
Nashville, LU, Boles theology rest on the the thesis that
the Spirit OF Christ is another "person."
17 The Holy
Spirit
When the UNholy
spirits were free of sin they had A Holy
Spirit. The same Peter called it A good
conscience, consciousness or a co-perception of the Word.
Alexander Campbell and others
understand that A holy spirit is OUR unholy
spirit which has been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ
and not His "spirit." "This is...understood
by every attentive reader. The original phrase is hagiasmos
pneumatos, and is found only in II. Thess. ii. 13;
I. Pet. i. 2. In both places it appears to refer to the sanctification
of
the spirit of believers. It is literally
rendered "sanctification [or holiness] of
spirit." There is no article in the original and no
epithet that suggests the Holy Spirit in either
passage.
God has chosen men to
salvation through (or by) holiness of spirit;
not
through the holiness of his Spirit,
but through the
holiness of their spirit.
When Jesus prayed (John xvii.) for the sanctification or holiness
of
his disciples,
it was through
the truth: "Sanctify them through the truth;
thy word is truth."
The belief of the truth is, therefore, by Paul
associated with this holiness or sanctification of
spirit.
The Spirit of God is frequently denominated in these days,
"the Sanctifier." Let it be granted
that it is the Spirit that sanctifies or sets apart men to
God, still it must be argued from the Record
that he sanctifies
them only through the truth or gospel believed.
A sanctified unbeliever is inconceivable;
and, as "without
holiness [or sanctification of spirit] no man can see the
Lord;
so, without faith,
there can be no holiness, and no action acceptable to
God.
All persons sanctified to God to any
high office or function, were anointed, and thus
consecrated to his special service. So all Christians,
being priests,
are anointed or sanctified by the Holy Spirit
[135] through the
obedience of the truth,
and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus,
cleansing their
consciences from dead works to serve the living God."
31 The Holy Spirit
15. That they church or kingdom might
be established. The Holy Spirit came (Acts 2:1-4) upon them
with power; and the kingdom came with power (Mark 9:1;
Acts 1:8).
Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully
come, t
hey
were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven
as of a rushing
mighty wind,
and it filled
all the house where they were sitting.
Pnoe
2.
generally, breath,
Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like
as of fire,
and it sat upon each of
them.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
pneuma , atos, to, (pneō) A. blast,
wind
II. breathed air, breath, the
breath of life,
2. breathing, respiration,
III. divine inspiration, agria . . pneumata theuphoriēs
IV. the spirit of God 2. spirit
of man,
The "breath" of God is that which God "breaths" into selected
prophets and apostles: Peter called it the Spirit OF Christ
which breathed on the Prophets.
This was proof that Jesus had been glorified and given the
promise of A Holy Spirit state and HE returned at Pentecost--as
promised--and poured out that which you SEE and HEAR.
Mark 9:2 And after six days Jesus taketh with him
Peter, and James, and John,
and leadeth them up into
an high mountain apart by themselves:
and he was transfigured
before them.
Metamorph-oō ,
A.
transform,
Gal.19.479;
heauton eis ti
Ael.VH1.1;
disguise,
heauton
App.BC4.41:mostly
in Pass.,
to be transformed, Ep.Rom.12.2,
Plu.2.52d,
Luc.Asin.11;
eis thēriōn idean
D.S.4.81;
eis Apollōna
Ph.2.559;
eis ikhthun
Ath.8.334c;
apo doxēs eis doxan
2 Ep.Cor.3.18;
to be transfigured, Ev.Matt.17.2,
etc.
Candĭdo , āvi, 1,
v. a. candidus,
I.
to make glittering or
bright,
to make white (eccl. Lat.):
vestimenta sua,
Tert. adv. Gnost. 12:
albis vestibus candidari,
Aug. Ep. 168.
P. a.:
candĭdans , antis,
brilliantly white,
Isid. Orig. 14, 8, 21; cf.
1. candidatus, I. A.
Candĭdus , a, um, adj.
candeo, 2. Hence, an epithet of the gods or persons
transformed to gods: Cupido, radiant, Cat. 68, 134: Liber, Tib.
3, 6, 1: Bassareus, Hor. C. 1, 18, 11
(cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 31): Daphnis, Verg. E. 5, 56
Wagn.
16. That they might be inspired. They
spoke as the Spirit gave them utterance. The gospel is
preached through the power of the Holy Spirit sent from
Heaven (1 Pet. 1:12). All Scripture is given by inspiration
(2 Tim. 3:16-17).
1Peter 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets
have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied
of the grace that should come unto you:
1Peter 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the
glory that should follow.
1Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto
themselves, but unto us they did minister the things,
which are now reported
unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto
you
with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look
into.
This Spirit of Christ was vested in Jesus of Nazareth when the
ONE GOD made him to be both Lord and Christ: He returned as The
Holy Spirit and continued the work Jesus had begun on earth.
Jesus would have to be given His Holy Spirit form in order to
guide the scattered evangelists.
Because Christ is The Holy Spirit (1 Jn 1) that which He breaths
out IS Spirit.
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of
man ascend up where he was before?
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 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not.
For Jesus knew from the
beginning who they were that believed not,
and who should betray
him.
The "never musical" passages DEFINE the Spirit of Christ with
the Word of Christ
Plutarch Life of Antony
At any rate, when Antony made his entry into Ephesus,
women arrayed like
Bacchanals,
and men
p189 and boys like
Satyrs and Pans, led the way before him,
and the city was full of ivy and thyrsus-wands
and harps and pipes and flutes, the
people hailing him as Dionysus Giver of Joy and
Beneficent. [in 58bc] For he was such, undoubtedly, to
some; but to the greater part he was Dionysus Carnivorous
and Savage.
For he took their property from well-born men
and bestowed it on
flatterers and scoundrels.
From many, too, who were actually alive,
men got their property
by asking him for it on the plea that the owners were dead.
The house of a man of Magnesia he gave to a cook,
who, as we are told, had
won reputation by a single supper.
But finally, when he was imposing a second contribution on the
cities,
Hybreas, speaking in
behalf of Asia, plucked up courage to say this:
"If thou canst take a
contribution twice in one year,
thou hast power also to
make summer for us twice, and harvest-time twice."
These words were rhetorical, it is true, and agreeable to
Antony's taste;
but the speaker added in
plain and bold words that Asia had given him two hundred
thousand talents;
"If,"
said he, "thou hast not received this money,
demand it from those who took it;
but if thou didst
receive it, and hast it not, we are undone."
This speech made a powerful impression upon Antony; for he was
ignorant of most that was going on,
not so much
because he was of an easy disposition,
as because he was simple
enough to trust those about him.
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COLOSSIANS 3:16-17
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Wherefore be ye not unwise,
BUT understanding
what the WILL of the Lord is. Eph 5:17
AND be not drunk with wine,
ĭn-ēbrĭo
Saturate,
full of TALK
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kat-auleō
, A. charm by flute-playing,
methuōn kai katauloumenos
drinking wine to the strains of the
flute katauloumenon
subdued by a flute accompaniment,
metaph.,
to be piped down, ridiculed, gelōmenoi kai -oumenoi mētrōa melē Metroos
the worship of Cybele,
b. Mētrōa, Mother
goddess: music played in
her honour, Mele Melos
3. melody of an instrument,
phormigx d' [mark of
Apollo] au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos |
WHEREIN is
excess; (Greek: vanity)
The results of
being drunk on wine
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luxŭrĭa
Of style: in qua (oratione), ut
Ov. Fast. 1
dederis in carmina
luxŭrĭo
, wanton, revel, sport,
skip, bound, frisk: Deliciis that
which allures, flatters the senses],
delight, pleasure, charm,
allurement; deliciousness, luxuriousness,
voluptuousness, curiosities of art;
, to make spor .
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BUT, be FILLED with the SPIRIT; Eph 5:18
John 6:63b the WORDS
that I speak unto you, they are SPIRIT,
and they are life.
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Colossians
3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, SEEK
those things which are ABOVE, where Christ
sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians
3:5 Mortify therefore your members
which are upon the EARTH; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence,
and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Phĭlŏsŏphĭa,
doctores săpĭentĭa sermons, interpret, sects Cic.Off.2.2.5
Wisdom, = sophia
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Sophia ,
A. cleverness or skill
in handicraft and art, in music and singing,
poetry, divination
interprĕtor
, ātus (in tmesi interpres, to explain,
expound, interpret, give
expression to, translate; to
understand, conclude, infer.
A. To decide, determine
12, 29:
haec ex Graeco carmine interpretata recitavit, Liv. 23,
11, 4; 45, 29, 3.
Carmen, I.
In gen., a tune, song, air,
lay, strain, note, sound,
both vocal and instrumentalbarbaricum, id. M. 11,
163.With allusion to
playing on the cithara |
Rom 8[13] For if you live after the FLESH, you
must die; but if by the Spirit you put to
death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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pathos emotion,
to create passion, drama
MY experiences Sophia
cleverness or skill
in handicraft and art, in music and singing,
tekhnē kai s, poetry,
in divination pleonexia assumption,
one's own advantage. Financial gain |
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the NEW
MAN
which is RENEWED in
KNOWLEDGE
after the image of him
that created him:
Colossians 3:16
Let the WORD of
Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom;
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SPEAKING to yourselves
in psalms and hymns
and spiritual
songs, [Scripture]
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TEACHING and admonishing one another
in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs,
[Scripture] |
singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord;
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singing with grace
in your hearts to the Lord.
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always giving thanks
to God the Father
for everything,
in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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.
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17. That they might be aided in the
carrying out of the Great Commission. Whatever was required
in the matter of revealing and confirming the great Gospel
of Jesus Christ. He guided them into all the truth
(John 16:13) for all time (Jude 3).
Because the NAME
of the "another" or different in some respects meaning in
Spirit form is Jesus Christ the Righteousness. When
Christ returned--as promised at Pentecost--He began and
continued to guide them into all truth. Paul was
given the same apostolic promises.
Acts 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord?
And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Acts 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet:
for I have appeared
unto thee for this purpose,
to make thee a minister
and a witness both of these things which thou hast
seen,
and of those things in
the which I will appear unto thee;
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t paizō dance
4. play on a musical instrument,
h.Ap.206:
c. acc., Pan ho kalamophthogga paizōn Ar.Ra.230;
dance and sing, Pi. O.1.16.
saltātĭo, David's naked
dance
