cōgĭtātĭo a thinking, considering,
deliberating; thought, reflection, meditation
a thought, opinion, judgment;
a resolution, design. plan, project
Things Unseen: Churches of Christ C.Leonard Allen
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE God, and one mediator between God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus;
THERE IS NO SCRIPTURE WHICH MAKES FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT THREE GOD PERSONS.
ALL Scripture defines ONE GOD THE FATHER and the MAN Jesus.
Spirit in no language has been or can be the name of a person.,
Leonard Allen rejects the universally accepted Scriptures defining the Last Will and Testament of Jesus and verified as APOSTOLIC for anything being The Assembly or School of Christ.
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FIRST: THE LIPSCOMB-ALLEN SUBSTITUTE FOR HOLY SCRIPTURE SUDDENLY OUT DATED.
Lipscomb University Preaching 2008 From Denominational Imagination!
"This conference proposes that WE allow the worlds imagined
in the essential biblical narratives [stories but not commandments]
to dramatically shape our PREACHING and lives.
We believe that preaching REconstitutes biblical paradigms when it engages Scripture’s vision
PREACHING IS LIMITED TO THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGOM. Romans asks: How can they PREACH unless they are SENT. Otherwise proven by the latest spawn of preachers trained by theology which is defined as MYTH and in the texts points to Apollyon.
- by REpresenting what is absent
- and making present what is inaccessible
- to the end that followers of God will live into a God-shaped reality.
kērux generally, public messenger, envoy,SECOND: THEISIS is Spiritual Formation. By the use of human imagination, brainwashing, walking the SERPENT spiral A Spirit with--necessarily SPEAK to you--letting you ignore the Holy Scriptures
“k., Dios aggeloi ēde kai andrōn” 1.334; theōn k., of [2]
Zēus”,[preacher of] ploutou, Semitic Baalim, [preacher of]. Beelbōsōros, .[preacher of] Ōromasdēs, [preacher of] Dios astēr the planet Jupiter [preacher of] Ploutōn A. Pluto, god of the nether world,rom ploutos) the wealth-giver, a name of Hades, Eur. Alc. 360, Soph. Ich. 273 theōn k., of Hermes, “k., Dios aggeloi
[preacher as] “kērukōn, hoi dēmioergoi
a skilled workman, handicraftsman,
peithous dēmiourgos hē rhētorikē
from presbeis, as being messengers between nations at war
used interchangeably with apostolos,
[preacher of] 2. crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc.
[Minister of] mustēs , ou, ho, (mueō) A.one initiated
“ta mustōn orgia”[WRATH] (Prob. cogn. with erdō, rhezō, cf. ergon, orgeōn.）
orgeōnII. of men, like sphrigaō, swell with lust, wax wanton, be rampant
to be in heat, desire sexual intercourse
AS Leonard Allen's way to Reject Holy Scripture:
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helix “hai kinēseis kai helikes tou ouranou” Arist.Metaph.998a5;
4. coil of a serpent, E.HF399(lyr.)
when you trill the lyrehelix Used with Kineo set in motion, age kinēsas, of Hermes leading the souls, Od.24.5; simply, move, “oude ti kinēsai meleōn ēn” 8.298;
Elelizô --2. Med. and Pass., move in coils or spires, of a SERPENT, “tēn d' elelixamenos pterugos laben” Il.2.316; ep' autou (sc. telamōnos）“ elelikto drakōn” 11.39, cf. A.R.4.143; “speiras opheōn elelizomenē” Ar.Fr. 500. Rev 13
Contemplative spirituality has taken the church by storm. This issue is no longer relegated to the fringe elements of Christianity. No denomination is immune to its effects, despite the fact that it is the legacy of Roman Catholic monks who merged Eastern spirituality with Christianity. We will consider several of the most prominent practices of this “Christian” mysticism, such as contemplative prayer, the prayer labyrinth, yoga, lectio divinaEur. Her. 399 Chorus And he came to those MINSTREL maids, [395] to their orchard in the west,
to pluck from golden leaves the apple-bearing fruit, [music-induced lust for breasts]
when he had slain the tawny dragon,
whose terrible coils were twined all round to guard it;
[400] and he made his way into ocean's lairs,
bringing calm to men that use the oar.
NEVERTHELESS, LEONARD ALLEN LIFTS ISOLATED VERSES FROM THE OLDEN BIBLE TO PROVE THAT HIS TEACHING IS THAT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Jesus said that trinitarians are BLASPHEMERS
John said that trinitarians are ANTICHRISTS.
Holy Spirit is never a proper nown: if Holy Spirit was a person using THE Holy Spirit would belittle "him."
SPIRIT is a stumbling block to theologians (rejecting the Word): it is figurative or a PARABLE meaning that God put's His WORD into the MOUTH of Jesus of Nazareth for the last time.
In this review I will try to let C. Leonard Allen do more speaking. A longer list of Scripture refuting the trinity is still located here.
http://www.pineycom.com/Trinity.Leonard.Allen.html
All Theology Usurps Scripture: "Theology" is used only of the study of the pagan (world view) gods such as Apollo-Abaddon-Apollyon. The One God Almighty lies BEYOND theos-Logos. God is the Word, Logos or Regulative Principle. The commands to the "straight" race are to READ or SPEAK that which is written for our learning. That explains why theologians Jesus called Doctorsof the Law "take away the key to knowledge." That is their job: Scripture says that they were PREdestined and PRErecorded and are OF the World, Kosmos or the Ecumenical
by C. Leonard Allen
May - August, 2004http://www.wineskins.org/filter.asp?SID=2&fi_key=294&co_key=798
Russ McCullough
Luke 10:21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced IN spirit, and said,
C. Leonard Allen: For more than two centuries Christian faith has been on the defensive
against the steady encroachment of the secular and scientific worldview.
Christian intellectuals and apologists have,
to varying degrees, sought to accommodate that WORLD view.
I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that thou hast HID these things from the WISE [Sophos] and PRUDENT,
and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
God HIDES g613. apokrupto, ap-ok-roop´-to; from 575 and 2928; to conceal away (i.e. fully); figuratively, to keep secret: — hide.
From the Wise:
Leonard Allen is not a Bible Student but a Theologian. Theology is defined as MYTHOLOGY and is used of Apollyon and other pagan gods.
Christ's School of His Word, a kingdom withing a tiny group is NOT available to the WISE OR SOPHISTS.
Sophis-tēs , ou, ho, A. master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, Hdt.2.49; of poets, “meletan sophistais prosbalon” Pi.I.5(4).28, cf. Cratin.2; of musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” [turtle harp]A.Fr.314, cf. Eup.447, Pl.Com. 140; sophistē Thrēki (sc. Thamyris) E.Rh.924, cf. Ath.14.632c: with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn” (religious melody) “Apollōnidē sophistē”
Leonard Allen's new enlightenment or illumination does not comprehend Holy Scripture or the Historic Church Scholars. Theologians reject Father and Son and claim that A Holy Spirit God is now their source. Nether God, Jesus, The Apostles or Holy Scripture is not authentic and he is left with a SPIRIT which must either SPEAK or SHOW Himself.
Magga^n-eia , hē, A. trickery, esp. of magical arts, Pl.Lg.908d; magganeiai kai epōdai ib.933a; “periapta kai m.” Ph.2.267, Gal.11.792; “tēs Kirkēs hē m.”
Proof of being a CHURCH [Kirkēs] in violent opposition to an EKKLESIA.
Hes. Th. 957 And Perseis, the daughter of Ocean, bore to unwearying Helios Circe and Aeetes the king. And Aeetes, the son of Helios who shows light to men, [960] took to wife fair-cheeked Idyia, daughter of Ocean the perfect stream, by the will of the gods: and she was subject to him in love through golden Aphrodite and bore him neat-ankled Medea.
Epōdē , Ion. and poet. epa^oidē , hē,A. song sung to or over: hence, enchantment, [burden] spell, “epaoidē d' haima..eskhethon” Od.19.457, cf. Pi.P.4.217 ; “ou pros iatrou sophou thrēnein epōdas pros tomōnti pēmati” S.Aj. 582 ; of the Magi, Hdt.1.132 ; “meliglōssois peithous epaoidaisin” A.Pr. 174, cf. S.OC1194 ; “epōdas epadein” X.Mem.2.6.10 sq.; “epōdais haliskesthai” Anaxandr.33.13; “oute pharmaka..oud' au epōdai” Pl.R. 426b ; thusiai kai e. ib.364b ; “tas thusias kai teletas kai tas e.” Id.Smp.202e, etc.: c. gen. obj., charm for or against.., “toutōn epōdas ouk epoiēsen patēr” A.Eu.649.II.apptly., = epōdos 11,
Pharma^kon “paiōnia” A.Ag.848; “khrēsimon” cf. Apoc.9.21.
Manti^s , Sibulla:— diviner, seer, prophet, of Apollo and Cassandra, of the Pythian priestess
The craftsmen, singers and instrument players are MUSES or LOCUSTS led by Apollyon
Rev. 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Rev. 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries [Pharma^kon] , nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.WORSHIP is individual who bows low before God or His WORD, Logos or Regulative Principle. Most often WORSHIP is something one does when he falls on his face in reverence and godly fear--AND humility.
Therefore, Holy Scripture never defines a person WORSHIPING by preaching or teaching, listening, singing, playing instruments or PAY TO PLAY.
John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
BY DEFINITION OF THE WORLD VIEW OF THEOLOGIANS HAS NEVER CHANGED. People are in a frenzy demonstrated by religionists
I have a digital library of about 4000 documents beginning with clay tablets. The original Babylonian Mother of Harlots is prophesied to rise again at the end times.
-Plato Laws 10 [885d] that before threatening us harshly, you should first try to convince and teach us, by producing adequate proofs, that gods exist, and that they are too good to be wheedled by gifts and turned aside from justice. For as it is, this and such as this is the account of them we hear from those who are reputed the best of poets -[poiētōn], orators[rhētorōn], seers -[manteōn], oida], priests [hiereōn], and thousands upon thousands of others; and consequently most of us,
instead of seeking to avoid wrong-doing,
do the wrong and then try to make it good.
-manti^s pl. mantides Suid.s.v. Sibulla:— diviner, seer, prophet,. of Apollo and Cassandra, Id.Ag.1275; of the Pythian priestess, II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa
-10.[909a] shall hold intercourse with them, save only those who take part in the nocturnal assembly, and they shall company with them to minister to their souls' salvation by admonition; and when the period of their incarceration has expired, if any of them seems to be reformed, he shall dwell with those who are reformed, but if not, and if he be convicted again on a like charge, he shall be punished by death. But as to all those who have become like ravening beasts, and who, besides holding that the gods are negligent
[909b] or open to bribes, despise men, charming the souls of many of the living, and claiming that they charm the souls of the dead, and promising to persuade the gods by bewitching them, as it were, with sacrifices, prayers and incantations,1 and who try thus to wreck utterly not only individuals, but whole families [Oikia household] and States for the sake of money
BY DEFINITION, THE RARELY SEEN OR HEARD SCHOOL OF CHRIST HAS HAD THE ONLY VIEW TO BE A CHRISTIAN
John 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you:
but he that sent me is true;
and I SPEAK to the world those things which I have HEARD of him.
John 8:27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,
When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
then shall ye know that I am he,
and that I do nothing of myself;
but as my Father hath taught me,
I speak these things.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me:
the Father hath not left me alone;
for I DO always those things that PLEASE him.
John 8:30 As he spake these WORDS, many believed on him.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
IF ye continue in my WORD, THEN are ye my disciples indeed;HOWEVER, LEONARD ALLEN AND ALL HISTORICAL THEOLOGIANS CLAIM THAT JESUS WAS LYING WHEN HE APPLIED PROPHECIES TO HIMSELF.
C. Leonard Allen: But now, with the decline of the MODERN worldview,
believers can embrace more easily the full WEALTH
of historic Christian convictions,
some of which were readily sacrificed or compromised to accommodate modernity.
Your godly mother believed that Holy Scripture as Word or Logos was Regulative Principle. It outlaws rhetoric, jestures, personal IMAGINATION, personal experiences, any poetic style, singing, playing an instrument all intended to "make the lambs dumb before the slaughter.
Plat. Laws 908d For whereas the one class will be quite frank in its language about the gods and about sacrifices and oaths, and by ridiculing other people will probably convert others to its views, unless it meets with punishment,
the other class, while holding the same opinions as the former,
yet being specially “gifted by nature'' and being full of craft and guile,
is the class out of which are manufactured many diviners and experts in all manner of jugglery;
and from it, too, there spring sometimes tyrants and DEMAGOGUE and generals, and those who plot by means of peculiar
mystic rites of their own, and the devices of those who are called “sophists.” Of these there may be many kinds;
Theologians love to say that God was to ignorant to be able to transmit his SPIRIT or MIND to men who left us a Memory of the teachings of Christ.
Dêmagôgeô , to be a leader of the people, kalôs d. Isoc.2.16 ; têi men exousiai turannôn, tais d' euergesiais dêmagôgôn Id.10.37 ; cf. dêmagôgei: stratêgei, Hsch.: usu. in bad
Turanneuô: to be a turannos, an absolute sovereign or despot, and in aor. to become such, Hdt., etc.: to be a prince or princess, Eur.
The dêmagôgeô continued: 2. c. acc. pers., d. andras [MALES] curry favour with, X.An.7.6.4 , cf. Arist.Pol. 1305b26, al.:--Pass., to be won over, conciliated by popular arts, J.AJ 16.2.5.
b. = psuchagôgeô, ton pothon, of a work of art, Him.Ecl.31.6; to theatron,X.An.7.6.4 [4] When the Lacedaemonians asked what sort of a man Xenophon was, he replied that he was not a bad fellow on the whole, but he was a friend of the soldiers, and on that account things went the worse for him. And they said: "He plays the demagogue, you mean, with the men?" "Exactly that," said Heracleides. [5] "Well," said they, "he won't go so far, will he, as to oppose us in the matter of taking away the army?" "Why," said Heracleides, "if you gather the men together and promise them their pay, they will hurry after you, paying scant heed to him."
The dêmagôgeô continued: 3. c. acc. rei, introduce measures so as to win popularity, ta pros hêdonên tôi plêthei D.H.Dem. 17 ; boulas d. LXX1 Es.5.70(73) .
Hêdonê , Dor. hadona (or in Trag. chorus hêdona S.OT1339), hê, ( [hêdomai] ) enjoyment, pleasure, first in Simon.71, S.l.c., Hdt.1.24, al.; prop. of sensual pleasure.
3. Pl., desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23, Ep.Tit.3.3, al.II. in causal sense, d. tina make him popular, App.BC5.53, Pun.133.
He uses spectacle of sight, sound and emotion to dominate: theater.
-Theatron [theaomai]
1. a place for seeing, esp. a theatre, Hdt., Thuc., etc.
2. collective for hoi theatai, the people in the theatre, the spectators, "the house, "
3. = theama, a show, spectacle, th. genêthênai, theatrizesthai, NTest.
-Theatrizô 1 2 [theatron] to bring on the stage:-- Pass. to be made a show of, a gazing-stock, NTest. held up to shame-Theama [theaomai] that which is seen, a sight, show, spectacle, Trag., Thuc., etc. the seven wonders of the world, Kosmos of a sight which gives pleasure, “theamata kai akroamata hēdista parekheis” X.Smp.2.2, cf. 7.5; “orkhēseis kai theamata”
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In addition, the purpose of this nostalgic journey
is the REHABILITATION of the SPIRITUAL sense of Scripture
or theological hermeneutics.
The READER is not passive but is the means by which God opens up NEW meaning
so that a kind of “this is that” appears “when ’that’ is something new
and apparently far removed from the original ‘this’” (217).
Theologians want to open up new meaning so that they can ignore Scripture and remove reading or speaking from individuals.
Theological hermeneutics
believing readers co-create meaning with the text
(1) within liturgical life of the church,
(2) in the confidence of the sacramental function of Scripture,
(3) the transformative presence of the Holy Spirit.
CONTRARY TO FALSE "QUOTATIONS" THERE IS NO HISTORIC SCHOLAR OR FOUNDER OF DENOMINATION WHICH DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE UNCHANGEABLE PATTERN AS APOSTOLIC. The only resurce for Teaching is the Words of Christ recorded by the Apostles and Prophets.
-Thei-azō , (theios A) A.to be inspired, frenzied, hoposoi autous theiasantes epēlpisan as many as made them hope by divinations Th.8.1; , hoposoi teletais etheiazon obtained inspiration through RITUAL, Philostr.Her.5.3.
II.worship as divine, Id.59.27; “Puthagoran kai Platōna” [“logos epi tē teleutē tou Alexandrou etheiasthē” Arr.An.7.18.6; “
Thuc. 8.1 with the soothsayers, [Miriam and Levites] and prophets, and all who by the influence of religion had at the time inspired them with the belief that they would conquer Sicily
khrēsmologois te kai mantesiIt is a STRONG DELUSION that God ever commanded a DAY for worship.
It is the DEFINITION of a CULT to operate a center of SANCTITY with command authority, controlling the member's life several days during the week.
It is a STRONG DELUSION that God ever commanded any action by the hands of men as worship.
It is a STRONG DELUSION to claim that Jesus died in vain unable to "supply all that applies to life and godliness."
It is a STRONG DELUSION that God ever authorized ANY FUNDING for any funded STAFF to ride on the backs of widows
It is a STRONG DELUSION to claim that God commanded SINGING with or without a Mechanical Device.
It is a STRONG DELUSION and a LIE that there is a Law of Tithing or a Law of Giving
Strong Delusions Lying Wonders
PAGAN THESIS SPIRIT IS PERSON USE MUSIC TO INDUCE KOMA TO FORCE THEM TO WORSHIP THE DEVIL
spīrĭtus
II. Trop. Sing.: “quoslibet occupat artus Spiritus,” Ov. M. 15, 167; Tac. A. 16, 34: spiritum Phoebus [Apollo, Apollon] mihi, Phoebus artem Carminis dedit, poetic spirit or inspiration Camenae Parca [a goddess of Fate “iniquae CALVINISM]
non mendax dedi the desiring, coveting soul
“majoris operis [Lying Wonders] ac spiritū
operis “musis operas reddere,” to do service to, to serve, “sermoni, Professional Preachers who ignore the WORD and produce Worship Operations for a paying audience “theatrales,” parties for the purpose of applauding, theatrical factions, “VETERES A SCENA, [outlawed in Romans 15] . feigned, spurious, id. 2, 2, 10: “sermones,” i. e. low, vulgar, Sid. Ep. 3, 13 fin.: “omnes (montes) theatrali modo inflexi,” in the form of a theatre saltare ad tibicinis modos, to the music or sound of the flute, Liv. 7, 2: “nectere canorisJohn.Mark.Hicks.Keith.Stanglin.Letter.and.Spirit.html
THE TINY FLOCK OF LOST SONS OF GOD JESUS WAS SENT TO RESCUE ARE COMMANDED.
2Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren,
by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him,
2Thessalonians 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Mŏvĕo , I. To move, stir, set in motion; to shake, disturb, remove,
A. Lit.: “movit et ad certos nescia membra modos,” “ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus,” to dance, Hor. A. P. 232: by dancing (gesticulating), “et fila sonantia movit,” struck, Ov. M. 10, 89: “citharam cum voce,” id.“tympana,” id. H. 4, 48; to disturb: “novis Helicona cantibus,” Manil. Astron. 1, 4: “signum movere loco,” to move from the place,
Ov. Met. 10.89MARK OF SATAN MOVING MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST
Sumtime a boay beloved of the God that with a string
Dooth arme his bow, and with a string in tune his Violl bring.
For hallowed to the Nymphes that in the feeldes of Carthye were
There was a goodly myghty Stag whose homes such bredth did beare,
As that they shadowed all his head. His homes of gold did shyne,
And downe his brest hung from his necke, a cheyne with jewels fyne.
Amid his frunt with prettie strings a tablet beeing tyde,
Did waver as he went: and from his eares on eyther syde
movit et ad certos nescia membra modos,”
1 Certus purpose driven, resolved, deliberate,
2 Nescĭus an unknown thing, a piece of ignorance unknowing, ignorant, unaware, not understanding, unable II. An epithet of all those objects whose existence or reality is fixed, determined (hence in connection with definitus, Quint. 7, 10, 7; “with praefinitus,” Suet. Galb. 14)
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;3 Membrum includes: A Member Of the Church of Christ: “singuli autem alter alterius membra,” Vulg. Rom. 12, 5; cf. “the context: membra sumus corporis ejus,” i. e. Christ's, id. Eph. 5, 30.
Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries WERE all nations deceived.
4 Mŏdus , Musical Melody: you have to cut the word Limb from Limb to make melody
2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: “vocum,” Cic. Div. 2, 3, 9: “musici,” Quint. 1, 10, 14: “lyrici,” Ov. H. 15, 6: “fidibus Latinis Thebanos aptare modos,” Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 12: Bacchico exsultas (i. e. exsultans) modo, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 214 P. (Trag. v. 152 Vahl.): “flebilibus modis concinere,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: saltare ad tibicinis modos, to the music or sound of the flute, Liv. 7, 2: “nectere canoris Eloquium vocale modis,” Juv. 7, 19.—Fig.: “verae numerosque modosque ediscere vitae,” moral harmonies,
Citharam 1.the cithara, cithern, guitar, or lute
II. Meton., the music of the cithara, or, in gen., of a stringed instrument, the art of playing on the cithara,
The Modern Worldview is the historic Biblical absolute that to be CHRISTIAN the only resource for faith and practice is PROPHESIED both inclusively and exclusively. Holy
Scripture is defined as the PROPHECIES CONCERNING ME. The Apostles were eye-- and ear-- witnesses of god working through Jesus CERTIFYING this as the Las Will and Testament. No one alters any dying will.
There is no Bible Scholar for several centuries who defends Leonard Allens POSTMODERN world view. The WORLD is the Kosmos, the Ecumenical or the Kingdom of the Devil makiing war against the Kingdom of the ONE LORD GOD, not so weak that He needs other gods to communicate with His Creatures into who God BREATH the Life and ability to understand BLACK text on BROWN paper.
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is GIVEN unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name [SINGULAR] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
All pagans made of dust or ABORIGINALS believed that the gods were a family: new gods disposing of old Gods. These were always father, mother (spirit) and bad son. Here is a picture of the original Babylonian mother of harlots (anyone sell "god" stuff)
Rev. 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH
Rev. 18:14 And the fruits [CATAMITES]that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Rev. 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Rev. 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Rev. 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
POSTMODERNISTS SAY THAT THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES HAD A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the END of the world. Amen.
JESUS IS THE ONLY TEACHER WHEN ELDERS TEACH THAT WHICH HAS BEEN COMMANDED.
World is Aion or the Messianic Age.
"Theology" in the Greek world view is the study of Apollon-Abaddon. By definition a Christian is a student of God's revelation in the Prophets and Apostles. Those who have moved into a MODERN WORLDVIEW are defined as the Kosmos, Ecumenical kingdom of the Devil.
A post Christian Post-modernist
Believes in the absolute reality of facts, observation and logic
Believes that facts and truth are tainted by the observer
Trusts absolute truth John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Reject absolute truth and points out the assumptions that truths are based on
Is a Biblical monotheist and believes in one absolute truth 1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
Is a spiritual pluralist and believes all religions require assumptive reasoning and are therefore equal
Has a relationship with reality based on attempting to discern the absolutes
Has a relationship with the group whose view of reality benefits him/her the most
Has faith in a doctrines of absolutism and bases beliefs, values and hope on a revealed doctrine
Is a moral relativist and bases beliefs, values and hope on an agreed upon doctrine
Seeks objective knowledge (religious, mathematical, historical record, etc.) that supports their absolutist doctrine-LOGOS or rational discord of God made audible and capable of being recorded. The ONE God always had His Word and Reason with Him.
Seeks objective knowledge and reworks doctrines to include or ignore said knowledge
Wants society to follow Biblical or cultural standards which are considered inherently correct
Wants to set their own standards and values and believes that society should grant as much right to this as possible
Believes that sexual guidelines and boundaries are fixed by absolutist doctrine
Believes that humans are free to choose their own sexuality and identity.
Judges right and wrong by absolute standards
Judges right and wrong upon agreed standards but recognizes that those standards may change
Favors favors a Newtonian view of the universe
Favors an Einsteinian view of the universe
Emphasizes creed or logical proposition
Emphasizes story, personal discovery, journey...
Desires to see all embrace the absolutist doctrine
Celebrates a diversity of post-modern spirituality.
Sees that Biblical evangelism makes sense
Sees that Biblical truth is relative and dismisses whatever doesn’t feel compatible with personal journey
Believes that contact with "other gods" is forbidden and that promised personal peace and oneness can only come through Christ.
Believes that other gods and cultures can produce ultimate peace and oneness to their believers.
There is no Biblical or historical convictions of a trinity consisting of God, Jesus and a holy spirit person. Father-Son-Spirit are never names of "persons". God repudiated the always-pagan triads by IMAGING this world view as ONE visible-audible human person Who as ONE fulfilled all of the roles the pagans distributed among a family of gods.
C. Leonard Allen: By far the most important RECOVERY of neglected Christian practice
a truth that this change of ERAS making possible is
a practical or functional doctrine of the Trinity.THIS NEW ERA REJECTS THE WORD OR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE WHICH HAS ALWAYS OUTLAWED ANY THING BEYOND READING THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING. HISTORIC THEOLOGIANS REALLY CLAIM SUPERIORITY TOG GOD AND STAND IN YOUR HOLY PLACES.
THE TRUMP CARD: both male and female are commanded to be reverent and silent when the PATTERN of PREACHING the Word by READING the Word can take place.
Tim. 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority;
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty.
1Tim. 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, [Kept safe from rhetoric, singing, playing, acting, making noise]
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. [The one piece pattern]
1Tim. 2:5 For [enim: what I Mean is that] there is ONE GOD
and ONE mediator between God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus;
1Tim. 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all,
to be testified in due time.
This is Jesus Last Will in Testament: Nothing can be added to the Testated Will!
1Tim. 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.
A Christian Preacher is limited to The Word, Gospel of the Kingdom
[1] therapontes” [preacher of]
kērux generally, public messenger, envoy,
“k., Dios aggeloi ēde kai andrōn” 1.334; theōn k., of [2]
Zēus”,[preacher of] ploutou, Semitic Baalim, [preacher of]. Beelbōsōros, .[preacher of] Ōromasdēs, [preacher of] Dios astēr the planet Jupiter [preacher of] Ploutōn A.Pluto, god of the nether world,rom ploutos) the wealth-giver, a name of Hades, Eur. Alc. 360, Soph. Ich. 273Eur. Alc. 360 If I had the voice and music of Orpheus so that I could charm Demeter's daughter or her husband with song and fetch you from Hades, [360] I would have gone down to the Underworld, and neither Pluto's hound nor Charon the ferryman of souls standing at the oar would have kept me from bringing you back to the light alive.Soph. Ich. 273 Zeus came secretly to Atlas's house ... to the deep-girdled goddess 1 ... and in a cave begot a single son [Hermes, Kairos]He has a hidden machine that makes the sound you're asking about, that so surprised you. It's a box full of pleasure that he made in just one day from a dead animal [A Turtle] he found, and he's down there shaking it.[preacher as] “kērukōn, hoi dēmioergoi
a skilled workman, handicraftsman,
peithous dēmiourgos hē rhētorikē
from presbeis, as being messengers between nations at war
used interchangeably with apostolos,
[preacher of] 2. crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc.
[Minister of] mustēs , ou, ho, (mueō) A.one initiated
“ta mustōn orgia”[WRATH] (Prob. cogn. with erdō, rhezō, cf. ergon, orgeōn.）
orgeōnII. of men, like sphrigaō, swell with lust, wax wanton, be rampant
to be in heat, desire sexual intercourseInstrumental Idolatry: Children pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Deuteronomy.18.Abomination.Of.Those.Nations.html
Deut. 18:1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi,This was outlawed for the Church of Christ (the Rock) in the wilderness
shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel:
they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
Deut. 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deut. 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
hărĭŏlus soothsayer, prophet, prophetessDeut. 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer
somnĭo , to dream; to dream of or see in a dream, to dream, i. e. to think idly or vainly, to talk foolishly:
psaltrĭa , ae, f., = psaltria, . a female player on the cithara, a lutist, “ineptias,” Col. 1, 8, 2: “ah stulte! tu de Psaltriā me somnias Agere,” Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 6; Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 5.—Absol.: “vigilans somniat
“portenta non disserentium philosophorum sed somniantium,” Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18.
A Charmer is an Abomination
incantātor , ōris, m. incanto, I. an enchanter, wizard (post-class.), Tert. Idol. 9; Isid. 8, 9, 15; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 1, 2.
consŭlo (a). In the lang. of religion, to consult a deity, an oracle, omens, etc.: “Apollinem de re,” Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 40: “deum consuluit auguriis, quae suscipienda essent,” Liv. 1, 20, 7: “deos hominum fibris,” Tac. A. 14, 30 fin.: “Phoebi oracula,” Ov. M. 3, 9; Suet. Vesp. 5: “Tiresiam conjectorem,” Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 76:
B. An incantation, charm, magic song, etc.: cantusque artesque magorum.
“cantus e curru Lunam deducere tentat,”
2. With instruments, a playing, music: “in nervorum vocumque cantibus,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “citharae,” Hor. C. 3, 1, 20: “horribili stridebat tibia cantu,” Cat. 64, 264: “querulae tibiae,”
These ăb-ōmĭnor are always MARKED “semimares,” Liv. 31, 12, 8
Signs or wonders " Liv. 31, 12, 8 Along with "plundering" the temples, among the Sabines, a child of uncertain sex was born, while another was found whose sex, at the age of sixteen, could not be determined. All these disgusting and monstrous creatures seemed to be signs that nature was confusing species; but beyond all else the hermaphrodites caused terror,... In addition, they directed that a hymn be sung throughout the city by thrice nine maidens, and that an offering be made to Queen Juno.
Galli A form gallantes, as if from gallare, "to rave like a priest of Cybelé," is cited from Varro (ap. Non. p. 119Non., 5). In their wild, enthusiastic, and boisterous rites the Galli recalled the legends of the Corybantes (q.v.). According to an ancient custom, they were always castrated (spadones, semimares, semiviri, nec viri nec feminae), and it would seem that, impelled by religious enthusiasm, they performed this operation on themselves... Other names, however, are of distinctly Semitic affinities; Rhea perhaps=the Babylonian Ri (Mulita or Mylitta), and Nana more certainly=the Babylonian Nana, modern Syrian Nani. Nana motherof Attis
Paul hoped that the concision's knife slipped.
Paizo, 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. 5. play amorously, “pros allēlous” X.Smp.9.2
Kairos Churches ANTI-Logos: Instrumental and Trinitarian Idolatry at Mount Sinai was the first defined Abomination.Is instrumental music the abomination of desolation? Daniel 3: 5 bow to the phallic pillar when you hear the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick.SPIRIT is figurative or a parable word to HIDE from the wise or Sophists meaning speakers, singers or instrument players. THIS ERA defines the SPIRITUS of Apollo or Apollyon.
ALL pagans were trinitarian consisting of father, mother (spirit, dove) and infant and evil son. Scripture is ANTITHETICAL: God says throughout the Allen-Ignored Scripture that He is ALONE and there is no other Lord-God or Jehovah-Elohim. Allen THINKS that being History-Literate endorses his neo-trinity of three separate gods who are persons or people.
Strong.Delusions.Lying.Wonders.html
Keith.Stanglins.Letter.and.the.Spirit.of.Biblical.Interpretation.html
Max Lucado Selling Water to the Thirsty
Max Lucado and Anathema
Max Lucado on Antichrist
Max Lucado A Christian?
Max Lucado Instrumental Music in Worship is idolatry
Max Lucado on the Mark of the Beast
C. Leonard Allen says that GOD CAME IN THE FLESH and is therefore AGAINST THE MAN JESUS. WORD IS A PERSON ONLY IN THE HERMES SENSE ABOVE. The Word or Logos MARKS C. Leonard Allen who does not know that Logos was a word to MARK AND AVOID things which are NOT possible in a Church of Christ.
In His function of communicating and building God is WORD. Word is never a person but what god SPEAKS. Jesus made the Word or Logos AUDIBLE and IMAGED when He spoke only what god the Father put in His MOUTH.
Logos computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,
Opposite to epithumia
A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder, 3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident, Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired, “phusis” Pl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose, OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE emmetra Modus 2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode:Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,
Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT. If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.
mousikos kai melōn poētēs” 2. generally, votary of the Muses, The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses
http://www.pineycom.com/DocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots] Theoc.2.15
The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.Trinity or polytheism and instrumental music "making the lambs dumb before the slaughter" are based on the original Babylon mother of harlots. ISIS is the mother at Mount Sinai and mounts the SAME attack on true Christians.
Jesus commanded that the Word be preached and that HE would be with them and us until He returns again in the flesh. The Word of God is commanded to be PREACHED by being READ on each REST DAY. Therefore, it has no statute of limitations and the uncertainty of subatomic particles does not make the Word impossible to grasp.
Theologians replace the Word of God used historically as the only source of faith and practices. Paul warned that God sends strong delusions to those who do not love the Word. Lying Wonders are religious observations--to which the kingdom does not come--identified in the NEW PARADIGM churches is all of they hypocriitic roles of rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or acting CLAIMING that they were worshiping God and even leading you into god's presence. The language of postmodern proves that rather than a CHANGE IN THE LAWS of God the "changelings" boast that their words are worthy of a wage for which there is no Scriptural or historical funding.
Practical and functional are legal or utilitarian concepts: The recovery of the always-pagan trinity of father, spirit (mother, Dove) and depraved son was practiced under the term PLAY as the always-musical women continued the worship of the Egyptian trinity made visible by the golden calf or calves.
C. Leonard Allen: This claim may sound odd to many Christians, and perhaps even unintelligible at first—which may in itself be a sign of the problem we face.
No historic trinitarian ever taught that God was three persons with their own centers of consciousness (John Mark Hicks). The MODERN view was articulated in the 19th century and Paul Tillich called it heresy.
C. Leonard Allen: The doctrine of the Trinity has been in steady recession in the modern period, and this eclipse stands behind the rise of modern unitarian, rationalistic, Christological, and other heresies.
There is no Biblical or early church history to PROP UP the LU invention in 1938 and published in 1942 by H.Leo Boles.
Because there was never any Biblical foundation for the neo-trinity, and the liberation of people to read the Word for themselves, the psychological violence of "you just have to understand that which cannot be understood." The rise of education of the masses cause ALL institutional or clergy roles to be driven out by shame.
C. Leonard Allen:The reasons for the decline are at least two. First, the traditional Western Trinitarian doctrine was increasingly judged to be an inherited dogma that was dense, arcane, and of little relevance to Christians and to the modern world. It was viewed as remote from the actual needs and concerns of believers. Some Christian leaders thus became hostile to the doctrine and many became indifferent.
There is no Historic notion or TRIAS which is remotely similar to that taught by Allen.
C. Leonard Allen: Second, the traditional doctrine did not fare well against the criterion of “reasonableness” that became ever more dominant in the Enlightenment.
The Deists and other proponents of “natural religion” found the doctrine an offense to reason and simply lopped it off. Most others did not reject the doctrine outright, but it became functionally peripheral to a Christian faith increasingly measured and limited by the canons of human reason.
This more subtle form of eclipse can be seen in the
line of “supernatural rationalism”
that runs from the Christian philosopher
John Locke down through Alexander Campbell
and other progressive Christian thinkers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.i
In Robert W. Jenson’s judgment, “the inherited doctrine of the Trinity was by the opening of the nineteenth century nearly defunct in all those parts of the church open to modernity.”ii To put the matter over simply, God’s relationality was overshadowed by mechanism. Mystery was eclipsed by method.
It is a safe bet that all of the NEW ERA theologians denounce reason do not know that the LOGOS defines God's rational principle. Nor have they ever read Locke since theologians. God's SPIRIT or MIND is never a person: it is to slander God to say that He ignorant when He defines His inspirit BREATH as WIND never more and never less bleed off other book writers.
If you deny that Jesus commanded that evangelists GO and teach that which HE has commanded to be taught then you CANNOT be a Christian: to SELL your own delusions under the name of Jesus Christ is proof of being abandoned. God is Word or LOGOS or the RATIONAL Regulative Principle of the whole universe.
SPIRIT in Hebrew. Holy just means WHOLLY with no flesh, bones, or blood.
SPIRIT in Greek. Spirit can NEVER define a PERSON but only the Mental Disposition or MIND OF That person
H7306 rûach roo'-akh A primitive root;
properly to blow, that is, BREATHE;
only (literally) to smell or
(by IMPLICATION perceive
(figuratively to anticipate, enjoy):—
accept, smell, X touch,
make OF quick understanding.
nephesh From H5314 ; properly a BREATHING creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) VITALITY; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): MIND
G5594 psuchō psoo'-kho A primary verb; to BREATHE (voluntarily but gently; thus differing on the one hand from G4154 , which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of G109 , which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), that is, (by implication of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively):—wax cold.
G5590 psuchē psoo-khay' From G5594 ; BREATH, that is, (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151 PNENUMA, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222 , which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew [ H5315 ], [ H7307 ] and [ H2416 :—heart life, mind, soul, + us, + you.
H7307 RUACH 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):—
air, anger, blast, BREATHE, X cool, courage, mind,
tempest, X vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).
G4151 PNENUM Apnyoo'-mah From G4154 ;
A CURRENT OF AIR
that is, BREATH (blast) or a breeze;
by analogy or figuratively a spirit,
that is, (human) the rational soul,
(by implication) vital principle,
mental disposition,
OR (superhuman) an angel, DAEMON, or
(divine) God, [God IS Spirit or Mind]
Christ’s spirit, the Holy spirit:—ghost, life,
spirit (-ual, -ually), mind. Compare G5590
G4154 pneō pneh'-o A primary word; to BREATHE hard,
that is, breeze:—blow. Compare G5594
-Spiritus 2. BREATHThe of a god, inspiration: by a divine inspiration
Ventus , i, BLOW; vatas, wind; Gr. root aw-, aō, aēmi,
to blow; whence aēr, aura, etc.; Goth,
to breathe; vinds, wind,
B. Plur., PERSONIFIED as deities, the winds: te, APOLLON sancte, fer opem; teque, omnipotens NEPTUNE, invoco;
i. e. of the plans, designs, id. Fam. 2, 6, 4: loqui est coeptusGod made Jesus TO BE both Lord and Christ so that He said My WORDS are SPIRIT. He made the prophecies more certain and the inspired writers left us a memory or THEIR PART.
Peter said this eye-- and ear-- witnessed record is NOT subject to private interpretation or further expounding.
Peter said that the MARK of a false teacher is one who does not speak that which is written for our LEARNING.
spīrĭtus , spiro, a breathing or gentle blowing of air, a breath, breeze (syn.: aura, flatus).
1. The air: imber et ignis, spiritus et gravis terra,
2. An exhalation, smell, odor:
3. Breathed air, a breath: “quojus tu legiones difflavisti spiritu,”
C.1. In abstr., a breathing:
C.2 The breath of a god, inspiration: “
3 The breath of life, life:
II. A. (Class.) A haughty spirit, haughtiness, pride, arrogance; also, spirit, high spirit, energy, courage
spiritum Phoebus [Apollon] mihi, Phoebus artem Carminis [singing and playing] dedit, poetic spirit or inspiration
2. The Spirit OF God.
OF is a preposition: the Spirit OF God is God's own Spirit. The Spirit OF Christ is Christ's own Spirit. Jesus said MY WORDS are SPIRIT and they are LIFE because WORDS are the God-created way to COMMUNICATE His "mental disposition."
Father.Son.Holy.Spirit.Trinity.html
IRRATIONAL IS THE OPPOSITE OF RATIONAL: God IS REASON: Spiritual is REASONABLE pertaining to the MInd. To be ANTI-Logos is to be ANTI-CHRIST
Everyone plagiarizes the First Liar about Locke The Reasonableness of Christianity.
238. Though the works of nature, in every part of them, sufficiently evidence a Deity; yet the world made so little use of their reason, that they saw him not, where, even by the impressions of himself, he was easy to be found.Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. Romans 1:19
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:22
Sense and lust blinded their minds in some, and a careless inadvertency in others, and fearful apprehensions in most (who either believed there were, or could not but suspect there might be, superior unknown beings) gave them up into the hands of their priests to fill their heads with false notions of the deity, and their worship with foolish rites, as they pleased;
and what dread or craft once began, devotion soon made sacred, and religion immutable.
They kept this truth locked up in their own breasts as a secret, nor ever durst venture it amongst the people, much less the priests, those wary guardians of their own creeds and profitable inventions.Hence we see that reason, speaking never so clearly to the wise and virtuous, had ever authority enough to prevail on the multitude, and to persuade the societies of men, that there was but one God, that alone was to be owned and worshipped.
Locke is aware that only the Jews worshiped One God which was the "core" of true religion from the very beginning and defended by Jesus Christ. However, in all of Paganism there was a triad of gods and Locke knew that this had degenerated from the views of the early church Fathers into the Trinity of father, mother and son. The triad of three separated "persons" or deities was never the view of the fathers or Restoration leaders.
The belief and worship of one God, was the national religion of the Israelites alone; and, if we will consider it,
it was introduced and supported amongst that people by revelation.
They were in Goshen, and had light, whilst the rest of the world were in almost Egyptian darkness, without God in the world.There was no part of mankind, who had quicker parts, or improved them more; that had a greater light of reason, or followed it farther in all sorts of speculations, than the Athenians,
See the Regulative Principle and Churches of Christ
- and yet we find but one Socrates amongst them,
- that opposed and laughed at their polytheisms,
- and wrong opinions of the deity;
- and we see how they rewarded him for it.
It is true that the Campbells learned about the Regulative Principle by reading John Calvin. However, it is bad news when people do not grasp that the LOGOS is the Regulative Principle. The Greeks would think of Hermes or Mercury as the LOGOS but of musical worship, homosexuality, the messenger of the Olympus gods and the chief of liars. God made Jesus to be both Lord and Christ and Word and Grace: HE is the one mediator between God and man which defines why both male and female are to be silent in church so that everyone can be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.
The Word or LOGOS is the Rational or Regulating principle of God: all things are governed by the Laws of God. People who deny being rational received the NEW HERMENEUTICS for some place.
Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1102b.1 But there also appears to be another element in the soul,
which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. [ logō]
In self-restrained and unrestrained people we approve their principle, or the rational part of their souls,
because it urges them in the right way and exhorts them to the best course;
but their nature seems also to contain another element
beside that of rational principle,
which combats and resists that principle.
[16] Exactly the same thing may take place in the soul as occurs with the body in a case of paralysis:
when the patient wills to move his limbs to the right
Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1102b.20 they swerve to the left; and similarly in unrestrained persons their impulses run counter to their principle. But whereas in the body we see the erratic member, in the case of the soul we do not see it; nevertheless it cannot be doubted that in the soul also there is an element beside that of principle, which opposes and runs counter to principle （though in what sense the two are distinct does not concern us here） [17]
But this second element also seems, as we said, to participate in rational principle [logon]; at least in the self-restrained man it obeys the behest of principle—and no doubt in the temperate and brave man it is still more amenable, for all parts of his nature are in harmony with principle.
Note: 1 According to the psychology here expounded, the intellect ‘has a plan or principle,’ in the sense of understanding principle, and being able to reason and make a plan: in other words, it is fully rational. The part of man's nature ‘has a plan or principle’ in so far as it is capable of following or obeying a principle. It happens that this relationship of following or obeying can itself be expressed by the words to have logos’ in another sense of that phrase, viz. ‘to take account of, pay heed to.’
To be precise the writer should say that the part logon ekhei tou logou ‘has logos （takes account） of the logos.’ The phrase has yet a third sense in mathematics, where “to have logos” （ratio） means ‘to be rational’ in the sense of commensurable.
C. Leonard Allen: What has emerged from these efforts is a recovery of God’s relationality—or what is sometimes called the social Trinity (see John 17:20-26).
All Believers AND God are ONE: but not ONE PERSON!!!. The context should prove that Jesus is teaching only what the ONE GOD THE FATHER breathed (spirit is not a people) into Him.
John 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me through their WORD;
[Word, Logos outlaws personal opinions or personal experiences, preaching, singing, playing instruments'
Gen. 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
mălĭtĭa ,ill-will, spite, maliceGod hides from the WISE or SOPHISTS:
Cunning, artfulness: “muliebris malitia adhibenda est mihi,” Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 23.—
sophos Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians,
en kithara s. E.IT1238
Eur. IT 1238
Chorus
Lovely is the son of Leto, [1235] whom she, the Delian, once bore in the fruitful valleys, golden-haired, skilled at the lyre; and also the one who glories in her well-aimed arrows. [1240] For the mother, leaving the famous birth-place, brought him from the ridges of the sea to the heights of Parnassus, with its gushing waters, which celebrate the revels for Dionysus. Here the dark-faced serpent [1245] with brightly colored back, his scales of bronze in the leaf-shaded laurel, huge monster of the earth, guarded Earth's prophetic shrine. You killed him, o Phoebus [APOLLYON], while still a baby, [1250] still leaping in the arms of your dear mother, and you entered the holy shrine, and sit on the golden tripod, on your truthful throne [1255] distributing prophecies from the gods to mortals, up from the sanctuary, neighbor of Castalia's streams, as you dwell in the middle of the earth.
John 17:21 That they all may be ONE; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
ALL believers are ONE in the same sense that Father and So are One. They are not one PERSON but they are
-UNUM 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. uno ore, with one voice, all together, unanimously:
John 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one:
John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
God is the WORD or the Regulative, Rational Principle. Notice that the WORD means WORDS which one SPEAKS they are SPIRIT or the "Mental Disposition" of God. They are LIFE because obeying the WORDS of God is the only way to being spiritually alive. They are then ONE with the One God and Father and One Lord, the Man Jesus Christ. Jesus was sent to seek and save LOST SPIRITS: the One Piece Pattern is to send out the invitation and those who CAN receive the invitation want to be baptized: that is the only proof that one is a sheep and not a GOAT.
John 17:6 I have manifested thy name
unto the men which thou gavest me
OUT of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me;
and they have kept thy WORD.
John 17:8 For I have given unto them the WORDS which thou gavest me;
and they have received them,
and have known surely that I came out from thee,
and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John 17:14 I have given them thy WORD; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life;
and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
John 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
The MARK of a SON is that they SPEAK only what Jesus has revealed to them about His and OUR father.
C. Leonard Allen: In this view God is understood as a community of persons rather than as three modes of being. God is not a solitary, domineering individual who rules through arbitrary exercise of power but rather the perfect model of loving community—becoming vulnerable, entering into partnership, sharing the divine life, loving like a parent.
1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
and one mediator between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;
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.
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;
I will SPEAK in the anguish of my SPIRIT;
I will COMPLAIN in the bitterness of my SOULD.
Job 15:13 That thou turnest THY SPIRITagainst God,
and lettest such WORDS go out of thy MOUTH?
Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the BOOK of the LORD, and READ:
no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate:
for my MOUTH it hath commanded,
and his SPIRIT it hath gathered them.
Isaiah 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 seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.God the Father COMMUNICATES with Jesus the Son by His Spirit or Breath.
2Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord [Kurios] Jesus Christ,
and the love of God [Theos],
and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
John 20:22 And when he had said this,
he BREATHED on them, and saith unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
One receives the Holy Spirit when the Man Jesus BREATHES: Jesus is the SOURCE and His WORDS are Spirit and Life.
commūnĭcātĭo II. In rhet., a figure of speech, = anakoinōsis, in accordance with which one turns to his hearers, and, as it were, allows them to take part in the inquiry, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204; Quint. 9, 1, 30; 9, 2, 20 and 23. consilii,” id. Fam. 5, 19, 2: “sermonis,” id. Att. 1, 17, 6:
commūnĭo , I.a communion, mutual participation (several times in Cicero, elsewhere rare). “litterarum et vocum,” id. Tusc. 5, 2, 5: sermonis, * Suet. Aug. 74: “parietum,” Tac. A. 15, 43:
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.
Jesus returned in His Glorified state as HOLY SPIRIT:
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
C. Leonard Allen etal CLAIM that they have received some kind of COMMUNICATION which told them that the Holy Scriptures no longer WORK after they got their Phd.
Jesus is the King on His Throne, the only High Priest and therefore the ONLY mediator-intercessor until He returns.
Theologians really believe by predestination according to Jude who identifies the mark that THEY are partners with God. Why would God be DOMINEERING and ARBITRARY if He Guides His Childeren into the NARROW ROAD or the WAY that is called a SECT.
C. Leonard Allen: As a contemporary spiritual writer has put it:
God is not a solitary.
That is why He is not alone.
Jehovah-Elohim or Lord-God IS the solitary GOD but He is not alone. That would slander God as standing in need of a brother God.
Deut. 32:12 So the LORD ALONE did lead him,
and there was no strange god with HIM.
2Kings 19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel,
which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art THE God,
even thou ALONE, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Psa. 86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God ALONE.
Is. 37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art the God, even thou ALONE, of all the kingdoms of the earth:
thou hast made heaven and earth.
Is. 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts;
I am the first, and I am the last; and BESIDE me there is no God.
Is. 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,
and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses.
Is there a God beside me?
yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Is. 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else,
there is no God BESIDE me:
I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Is. 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near;
yea, let them take counsel together:
who hath declared this from ancient time?
who hath told it from that time? have not I THE LORD?
and there is no God else BESIDE me;
A just God and a Saviour; there is NONE beside me.
Hos. 13:4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt,
and thou shalt know no god but me:
for there is no saviour BESIDE me.
Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by HIMSELF, saith the LORD the God of hosts,
I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces:
therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
C. Leonard Allen: He is a Trinity.
HE is singular!
THE INVENTOR OF THE TRIAS CONCEPT UNDERSTOOD JESUS IN THE BOOK OF JOHN.
The ONE GOD THE FATHER conceives and regulates: He is termed LOGOS
The ONE GOD THE FATHER breathes (not a spirit person) to send forth information.
Jesus as the SON articulated the spirit or breath without measure (Meter)C. Leonard Allen: If He were ONLY unity, He would be a solitary. But, being love, He is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Spirit.
The Father is life, and He is the source of all things;
the Son is the image of the Father, and He is light;
the Holy Spirit is the love which unites them, and He is a divine person.
John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
John 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
BECAUSE HE IS THE SON OF MAN
God the Father delivers the Word to Jesus the Son by "breathing" inspiration which is not another GOD person. This would wish to claim that God the Father cannot communicate with His son without another GOD PERSON:
Matt. 11:27 All things are delivered unto me OF my Father:
and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father;
neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him
Allen defines God and tells Him what He MUST BE.
C. Leonard Allen: God, being love, is communication. . . .
The love of the Trinity is the NEW kind of love proposed to man.
John 3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth;
and no man receiveth his testimony.
John 3:33 He that hath RECEIVED his testimony
hath set to his seal that God is true.
John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent
SPEAKETH the words of God:
for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Jesus always SPEAKS the word God put into His mouth without metron or MUSICAL METER. This is the only way to separate the TRUE LOGOS as the ANTITHESIS of Mercury, Hermes or Kairos
There is no Scripture where God's separated people ever WORSHIPPED by singing, playing, speaking, listening or PAY FOR PLAY.
John 3:35 The Father loveth the Son,
and hath given all things into his hand.
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life;
but the wrath of God abideth on him
2Pet. 1:3 According as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
1 Corinthians 13:14, KJV "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen."
God COMMUNICATES and not in a human-like Love relationship
Turn you at my reproof: behold,
I will pour out my spirit unto you,
I will make known my words unto you. Proverbs 1:23
Commūnĭcātĭo , I. a making common, imparting, communicating
II. in rhet., a figure of speech, = anakoinōsis, in accordance with which one turns to his hearers, and, as it were, allows them to take part in the inquiry, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204; Quint. 9, 1, 30; 9, 2, 20 and 23.
C. Leonard Allen:
But it is impossible to live it without the Trinity within us.
That is why the Christian is ‘inhabited.’
He is ‘inhabited’ by the Trinity.
1John 4:9 In this was manifested the LOVE OF GOD toward us,
because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through HIM.
Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions,
I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing,
seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, t
hough he be not far from every one of us:
Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being;
as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
“Anyone who loves me will be true to my WORD, and my Father will love him; we will come to him and make our dwelling place with him” (John 14:23).v
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another Comforter, [Paraclete]
that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:17 Even the Spirit OF truth; [mental disposition of truth or the Word: Regulative Princile]
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 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE COMFORT IN PURE SPIRIT FORM?
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 [Paraclete] 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.
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
HOW DOES THE LOVE OF GOD INHABIT THE DISCIPLE?
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.C. Leonard Allen: In this view God is essentially dynamic, relational, and ecstatic (going outside oneself).
Philo "developed a doctrine of ecstasy or ek-stasis, which means sstanding outside oneself.' This is the highest form of piety which lies beyond faith. This mysticism unites prophetic ecstasy with 'enthusiasm', a word which comes from en-theos-mania, meaning to possess the divine. From this there comes finally the fully developed mystical system of the Neo-Platonists, for example, of Dionysus the Areopagite.
In this mystical system the ecstasy of the individual person leads to a union with the One, with the Absolute, with God." (Tillich, Paul, A History of Christian Thought, Touchstone, p. 13)
Interestingly, Philo defines a form of responsive music where male and female monastic sectarian Jews studied all day and played all night. The effect of women was evident on the form of music which is often confused as Christian responsive singing.
"The survival of these ideals in a particular late-twentieth-century Southern Baptist culture suggests a complex picture of gender and acceptable ways of being manly or womanly, masculine or feminine.
This complexity of gender relations and the old-fashionedness of the hymns within this cultural community has been ignored,
and perhaps even deliberately concealed, by an official culture that dismisses all sentimental hymnody as vaguely effeminate.
"The notion of music as a tool or technology with a clearly defined purpose is very prevalent in the East. In the West that view is held by some,
but others believe that music is entertainment or art and nothing more.
(Greek: ekstasis, "to stand outside of or transcend [oneself ]"), in mysticism, the experience of an inner vision of God or of one's relation to or union with the divine. Various methods have been used to achieve ecstasy, which is a primary goal in most forms of religious mysticism. The most typical consists of four stages:
(1) purgation (of bodily desire);
(2) purification (of the will);
(3) illumination (of the mind); and
(4) unification (of one's being or will with the divine).Other methods are: dancing (as used by the Mawlawiyah, or whirling dervishes, a Muslim Sufi sect); the use of sedatives and stimulants (as utilized in some Hellenistic mystery religions); and the use of certain drugs, such as peyote, mescaline, hashish, LSD, and similar products (in certain Islamic sects and modern experimental religious groups).
Most mystics, both in the East and in the West, frown on the use of drugs because no permanent change in the personality (in the mystical sense) has been known to occur.
In certain ancient Israelite prophetic groups, music was used to achieve the ecstatic state, in which the participants, in their accompanying dancing, were believed to have been seized by the hand of Yahweh, the God of Israel, as in the case of Saul, the 11th-century-bc king of Israel. OF APOLLYON:
The Pythia (priestess) of the Greek oracle at Delphi often went into an ecstatic state during which she uttered sounds revealed to her by the python (the snake, the symbol of resurrection), after drinking water from a certain spring.
Her "words" were then interpreted by a priest to help a suppliant find a way to avoid calamities, especially death. In primitive religions, ecstasy was a technique highly developed by shamans, religious personages with healing and psychic-transformation powers, in their "soul," or "spirit," flights. (See Delphic oracle.) "ecstasy" Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
"Knowing for the Gnostic went beyond mental recall; it meant active reunion with one's divine source through all kinds of ecstatic experience--dreams, visions, speaking in tongues, etc. In this return to the divine source, one is liberated from the bodily prison." (Roetzel, Calvin J., The Letters of Paul, John Knox Press, Atlanta, p. 83
Dynamic (of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress."a dynamic economy"Heb. 13:8 Jesus Christ the SAME yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Heb. 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.
For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace;
not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein
Mal. 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
h8138. shanah, shaw-naw´; a primitive root; to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive):—do (speak, strike) again, alter, double, (be given to) change, disguise, (be) diverse, pervert, prefer, repeat, return, do the second time.There is ONE GOD THE FATHER of all who become sons by being baptized INTO Christ to put on Christ. God is not RELATED to the Wise or Sophists: sellers of speech, writing, rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or acting.
The ONE GOD is the Father of Jesus Christ: He acknowledged Jesus only after He was baptized.
God is not RELATIONAL in the sense that Godhead is three, separate Divine Beings.
God is NOT MAD C. Leonard Allen also DEFINES God rather than let God Define Himself.
Eksta^sis , eōs, hē, (existēmi)A. displacement, “arthrōn” Hp.Art.56 ; “pasa kinēsis e. esti tou kinoumenou” Arist.de An.406b13 : hence, change, “eis antikeimena” Id.GA768a27 ;
antikeimena” of antitithēmi:—to be set over against,“hai kakiai e.” Id.Ph.247a3 ; “e. estin en tē genesei to para phusin tou kata phusin” Id.Cael.286a19 ; “e. tēs phuseōs” degeneracy, Thphr.CP3.1.6 ; opp. stasis, Plot.6.3.2 ; movement outwards, “e. apo tou paragontos” Dam.Pr.97 bis ; e. eis to exō ib.401 ; “sōma en ekstasei labon tēn hupostasin” Porph.Sent.36 ; differentiation, “e. kai piēthos” Plot.6.7.17 ; “hai eis plēthos e.” Procl.in Ti.2.203 D.
2. to be opposed, in various ways, Cat.11b17, Metaph.1055a38, al.; in Logic,II. standing aside, Arist.Rh.1361a37 (pl.). prostration and giving place,
2. distraction of mind, from terror, astonishment, anger, etc., Hp.Aph.7.5, PA chill supervening on a sweat is not good. Dysentery, or dropsy, or ecstacy coming on madness is good.
C. Leonard Allen says that God is MAD.
ma^nia (A), Ion. -iē, hē, (mainomai) II. enthusiasm, inspired frenzy, “m. Dionusou para” E.Ba.305; “apo Mousōn katokōkhē te kai m.rorrh.2.9 ; “e. sigōsa” Id.Coac.65 ; “e. manikē” Arist.Cat.10a1 ; “e. tōn logismōn” Plu.Sol.8 ; “nou” Plot.5.3.7 ; “ta mēde prosdokōmen' ekstasin pherei” Men.149, cf. Epit.472, Epicur.Fr.113 ; “eis e. agein” Longin.1.4.
Opposite. sōphrosunē III. passion, “erōtikē m. [caused by love, orgē, lupē, Th] ” Id.Phdr.265b; “maniēn maneis aristēn”
Plat. Phaedrus 265b Socrates
And we made four divisions of the divine madness, ascribing them to four gods, saying that prophecy was inspired by Apollo, the mystic madness by Dionysus, the poetic by the Muses, and the madness of love, inspired by Aphrodite and Eros, we said was the best. We described the passion of love in some sort of figurative manner, expressing some truth, perhaps, and perhaps being led away in another direction, and after composing a somewhat
[265c] plausible discourse, we chanted a sportive and mythic hymn in meet and pious strain to the honor of your lord and mine, Phaedrus, Love, the guardian of beautiful boys.
3. entrancement, astonishment, Ev.Luc.5.26, Ev.Marc.5.42.b. drunken excitement,
ki_neō
2. remove a thing from its place, “andrianta” Hdt.1.183; “gēs horia” Pl.Lg. 842e; k. ti tōn akinētōn meddle with things sacred, Hdt.6.134, cf. S. Ant.1061
.; hōsper khordai en lura sumpathōs kinētheisai vibrating in unison, Plot.4.4.8.
2. of persons, to be moved, stirred, ho kekinēmenos one who is agitated, excited,
C. Leonard Allen: God is the very paragon of love in relationship, of living in intimate community and submissive freedom—the God who loved Israel like Hosea loved Gomer and who so loved the world that he sent his only Son. And God invites human beings, his creatures, to share the rich life and fellowship of the divine community, and through partaking of that life to become like his Son.vi
1 Cor. 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called
unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Is. 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD,
and my servant whom I have chosen:
that ye may know and believe me,
and understand that I am HE
BEFORE me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be AFTER me.
Is. 43:11 I, even I, am the LORD;
and BESIDE me there is no saviour.
Is. 43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed,h1107 biladey without, besides:—beside, not (in), save, without.
when there was NO STRANGE god among you:
therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
2114. zuwr, zoor; a primitive root; to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery:—(come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).Is. 43:13 Yea, before the day was I am HE;
and there is NONE that can deliver out of my hand:
I will work, and who shall let it?
But the Lord (Jehovah) is the
[1] true (Elohim) God, he is the
[2] living God (Elohim) , and an
[3] everlasting king (ascends the throne):at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Jer 10:10
Declare what is to be, present it--let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past?
Was it not I, the LORD? (Jehovah)
And there is no God (Elohim) apart from me,
a righteous (1) God (Elohim)
and a (2) Savior;
C. Leonard Allen: Though the majority have affirmed the Father, Son, and Spirit, modern churches have had a functionally weak doctrine of the Trinity. This may at first appear to be an odd, even outlandish, claim. “Of course we believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three in one, one in three.
1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD
and one mediator between God and men,
the MAN Christ Jesus;
1Tim. 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another Comforter [paraclete], [In the STATE of Holy Spirit]
that he may abide with you for ever;
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 [paraclete] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:Not a god person named "The Holy Spirit'
John 14:17 Even the Spirit OF truth; [Mental disposition toward TRUTH]
whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:
but ye know him; for he [Jesus] dwelleth with you, and shall be IN you.
John 14:1 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
That is a false surmise
What’s the problem?” The problem is not believing in the Father, Son, and Spirit, of course; any serious biblicist does that.
The problem is a Trinitarian theology and practice,
a functional doctrine of the Trinity that centers and deeply shapes
not only one’s theology but especially one’s worship.
There is a large difference between affirming a doctrine of the Trinity and being Trinitarian.
As I have stressed over and over to theology students over the years, the doctrine of the Trinity is not about some strange heavenly arithmetic that theologians like to play with. It is rather a kind of
shorthand for referring to what we know of God
now that Jesus has come
and the Spirit has been poured out.
THIS HAPPENED ONLY ONCE WHEN JESUS RETURNED TO THE UPPER ROOM:
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven
as of a rushing mighty wind, [spīrĭtus a breathing or gentle blowing of air, a breath, breeze ]
and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
The LITERAL Latin Spiritus: spiritum Phoebus [Apollyon] mihi, Phoebus artem Carminis poetic spirit or inspiration “qualis Pindarico spiritus ore tonat,” Prop. 3, 17 (
the desiring, coveting soul), Of God's Spirit it is a PERSONIFICATIONActs 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,
In His glorified STATE Jesus is Holy Spirit. Jesus defined spirit as "not having flesh and bones as ye see me have." Jesus is still the HEAD and only Teacher over His small Flock. Leonard Allen and other FOREORDAINED according to Jude reject the ONCE DELIVERED truth or WORD. Because the Law of Liberty removes all CLERGY roles, makes people prove that they are MY (Jesus') Disciples by continuing in MY WORD. Jesus is God's SINGULAR image of Himself to debunk the father, spirit (mother) and little son of all pagans.
Jesus was given the OFFICE of THE HOLY SPIRIT [Pure Breath]
Epagg-eliaA. command, summons, Plb.9.38.2.[Example: s sent an ambassador to your town]b. announcement, notice
3. offer, promise, profession, undertaking, D.21.14; “tas huperbolas tōn e.
2. as law-term, dokimasias) summons to ATTEND a dokimasia tōn rhētorōJesus as Holy Spirit has the SOLE role in Church
doki^m-a^sia1. of magistrates after election, to see if they fulfil the legal requirements of legitimacy, full citizenship, “tōn hiereōn” Pl.Lg.759d;
4. d. tōn rhētorōn a judicial process to determine the right of a man to speak in the ekklēsia
5. examination of recruits, PLond.3.982.6 (iv A. D.).6. generally, TEST, make full trial of, Is.7.34 (but, receive assurance o
Promissione “provinciae office, duty, pursuit, charge, i. e. were given into his charge, were assigned to him to be subdued,
HE [Jesus] hath SHED forth this, which ye now SEE and HEAR.
ef-fundo “procellam eloquentiae, “tales voces,” epos , generally, that which is uttered in words, speech, tale,epic poetry, opp. melē (lyric 4. word of a deity, oracle, Od.12.266, Hdt.1.13, etc. to call, invite, exhort, summon, urge,
Opposite: Melos . esp. musical member, phrase: hence, song, strain, first in h.Hom.19.16 (pl.) , lyric poetry, choral songs, opp. Epic or Dramatic verse,2. music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14;HOLY SCRIPTURE SPEAKS OF ANY GODLY WORSHIP SERVICES OR DAYS OF WORSHIP OR STAFF DEFINED AS PARASITES.
FROM ACU AGENDA: Carroll D. Osburn: Trainers use Prophetic roles to Channel and Facilitate the method of subverting the 'hierarchial" views of Jesus and Paul. the end-time subversion is the beginninng-time version which is "Feminist hermeneutics stands over against patriarchal hermeneutics" its goal achieved "by small, often unnoticed acts of SUBVERSION. Numerous such incremental changes, like EROSION, will eventually bring down the FORTRESS " (IN THE CHURCH: Reclaiming the Ideal p. 32).
C,. Leonard. Allen Lipscomb Theology.
THEOLOGY IS ALWAYS THE MARK OF THE "GODS" USED IN SCRIPTURE TO IDENTIFY THE DEVIL OR HIS AGENTS.
Theolog-os A.one who discourses of the gods, of poets such as Hesiod and Orpheus [one of the sects silenced in Rome] Arist.Metaph.1000a9, cosmologists
“theologoi kai poiētai” [poet, singers you make yourself] of diviners and prophets, “th. kai manties” Philol.14; hoi Delphōn th
This speaks of the Mad of Corinth well documented.
Arist.Metaph.1000a9, The school of Hesiod, and all the cosmologists, considered only what was convincing to themselves, and gave no consideration to us. For they make the first principles Gods or generated from Gods, and say that whatever did not taste of the nectar and ambrosia became mortal—clearly using these terms in a sense significant to themselves; but as regards the actual applications of these causes their statements are beyond our comprehensionTheolog-eō ,
manti^s female witchcraft of Spiritual Formation. ho mantis mantin ekpraxas eme, of Apollo and Cassandra,
“ho Thrēxi m.” E.Hec.1267 (of Dionysus), That Thracian or Threskia as IMPURE religion. 2. metaph., presager, foreboder,
II. a kind of grasshopper, the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa, Theoc.10.18,
Delphoi , ōn, hoi, A.Delphi, “Delphōn es piona dēmon sacrificial meat. [Paul cast out the Delphian spirit who used music]
A.discourse on the gods and cosmology, Arist. Metaph.983b29; “peri tinōn”c.; Dia auton ton Phaethonta [Jupiter, son of Apollon] zōogonon theologousi call him Zeus z. Antig.Mir. 10b:—Pass., ta theologoumena discourses about the gods,, Suet. Aug.94; “treis hai Moirai theologountai” Theol.Ar.16.2. refer to a divine influence, tous tokous Sch.Ptol.Tetr.103.
zōogonos2 zōē zōē
Zoe is EVE or Evah in feminine or effeminate worship so they have to slander Paul. Evah means an abomination because she is the MEDIATRIX as the dirty Muses were called the SHEPHERDS. There is a mother behind every progressive.
tēn zoēn poieesthai or katastēsasthai apo or ek . . to get one's living by .
II. zōē,= “graus” 11, the scum on milk,
zôos alive, living, Homer, Hdt., etc.; zôon helein [heresy or sectarianism] tina to TAKE PRISONER,
Though a deep mystery, the Trinity is a crucially practical doctrine—practical in the sense that it fundamentally shapes our practices. For the way we understand God’s way of loving and relating to people sets the pattern for how his followers conduct their life together and carry out their ministry to the world.
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The Trinity provides our pattern or exemplar for unity and fellowship. God leads a relational life as Father, Son, and Spirit
That life is characterized by submissive love,
as each member of the Trinity pours his life into the other.
How could the MAN Jesus pour life into the ONE AND ONLY GOD?
In God’s own self there is an abundant outpouring of LIFE, so abundant that it overflows and creates community with God’s creatures—those outside the relationship within God.
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing:
the WORDS that I speak unto you, they are SPIRIT, and they are life.
Matt. 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
ALL power is GIVEN unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name [singular] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt. 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo,
I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world [Aion Messianic age]. Amen
Through the sending of the Son and the outpouring of the Spirit, God pours this rich LIFE into his creatures. As Diogenes Allen puts it: “The life of the Trinity is a perfect community and it is the kind of community for which we long; it satisfies our craving to be loved perfectly and to be attached to others properly.”vii
You cannot POUR a god person: Pour and similar words speak of pouring the WORD.
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The SON can do nothing of himself,
but what he seeth the Father do:
for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
John 5:20 For the Father loveth the Son,
and SHEWETH him all things that himself doeth:
and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
John 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the DEAD, and quickeneth them;
even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
John 5:26 For as the Father hath LIFE in himself;
so hath he GIVEN to the Son to have life in himself;
John 5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
because he is the SON OF MAN
2Cor. 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2Cor. 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
2Cor. 6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
2Cor. 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2Cor. 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2Cor. 6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
2Cor. 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
2Cor. 6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
2Cor. 6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
2Cor. 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
We partake of the Trinitarian life in several ways: sacramentally through observing Christ’s ordinances, doxologically as we draw near to God and God to us, charismatically (another very awkward word) through divine gifts of grace, and pneumatologically through the mystery of the indwelling Spirit.
The Trinity is the doctrinal center and fulcrum of the Christian faith. To change the metaphor, it is the prism through which all other doctrinal features of the faith are lighted and put in perspective. Indeed, the Trinitarian doctrine encapsulates and preserves the uniquely Christian view of God’s relational character.
When this doctrine functionally recedes, as it has done in the modern period, there are many, often subtle, consequences. One easily falls prey to sectarianism or overly narrow views of God’s Kingdom; to various forms of legalism, all of which misconstrue the nature of God’s relationality; to authoritarianism, which misconstrues the character of Christ’s exercise of authority; to spiritual triumphalism, which downplays the cruciform nature of discipleship; to spiritual elitism, which distorts the purpose of the Spirit’s power and gifts; to constricted or mechanical understandings of the ordinances or sacraments in Christian life; and other assorted ills, heresies, and disruptions in the life of the church.
One challenge in today’s emergent churches is for Christians to recover a discipleship rooted in a Trinitarian pneumatology. Christian discipleship involves following the risen Lord, in the power of the Spirit, to the glory of God the Father
--pneuma , atos, to, (pneō)
II. breathed air, breath, salpinx broteiou pneumatos plêroumenê
III. divine inspiration, agria . . pneumata theuphoriês AP6.220.4 (Diosc.); ei mê ti theion . . enên p. têi psuchêi Pl.Ax.370c ; to hieron kai daimonion en mousais .
- Latin flatus, a blowing, breathing, snorting (sc. tibiae II.Transf., a pipe, flute (orig. made of bone; Cano. fistula):), , Carbasa mota sonant, so of the wind, a breaking wind,
B. Transf., concr., the breath of life, the soul,
A. A breath, breeze (the fig. being taken from wind): cum prospero flatu fortunae utimur, ad exitus pervehimur optatos, Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19 : ad id, unde aliquis flatus ostenditur, vela do, id. de Or. 2, 44, 187 . --
B. Pride, haughtiness (mostly in plur.):psuchogon-imos , on, producing life or spirit, stoicheia Ph.2.96 (Sup.).
--pneuma-ikos ,of wind or air, “kinēseis p. [organon] a machine moved by wind, p. organon] a machine moved by wind, Vitr.10.1.1; “mēkhanēma”
The --Organon includes a musical instrument as a machine for doing hard work mostly in making war or in creating the ECSTASY used to fleece the lambs.
2. of the nature of wind or air, taa dry vapour, [HOT AIR]
b. of subtle substance, to p. Str.1.3.5 ;
3. inflated, distended with air, husterai Arist.HA584b22 .
4. Act. (= --“pneumatōdēs” 1.3), causing flatulence, “oinos”
5. breathing, exhaling
II. of the breath or breathing, to p. morion, ho p. topos,
III. of spirit, spiritual, interpol. in Plu.2.129c; opp. sarkikos, psukhikos, Ep.Rom.15.27, 1 Ep.Cor.2.13, e
- -apoteinô --stretch out, extend, dianoian c.esp. of speeches, “logon” Id.Grg.466a; a. makrous logous to make long speeches, Id.Prt.335c, al.; “sukhnon logon” Id.Grg.465e; “makran rhēsin a.” Id.R.605d; of brazen vessels, makron ēkhei kai a. tēn ēkhēn] Id.Prt.329a; “phōnē salpiggos oxun a. phthoggon”
--Pneumatophôs , phôtos, ho, epith. of a daimôn, shining spirit, PMag.Par.1.593.
- --daimôn , onos, voc. daimôn S.OC1480 (lyr.), daimon Theoc.2.11 , ho, hê, god, goddess, of individual gods or goddesses,
II. daimones, hoi, souls of men of the golden age, acting as tutelary deities, Hes.Op. 122, Thgn.1348, Phoc.15, Emp.115.5, etc.; “theōn, d., hērōōn, tōn en Haidou”
2. generally, spiritual or semi-divine being inferior to the Gods, ekballousa daimonas PMag.Par.1227 .
3. agathos d. the Good Genius to whom a toast was drunk after dinner,B. = daêmôn, knowing, d. machês skilled in fight, More probably the Root of daimôn (deity) is daiô to distribute destinies;; cf. Alcm.48.)
- Spirita-lis or spi-ri(tu(a-lis (the MSS. vary between the two forms), e, adj. [spiritus] .
I. Of or belonging to breathing, to wind, or to air (post-Aug.): machinarum genus spiritale, a kind of wind-instrument,
II. Of or belonging to spirit, spiritual (eccl. Lat.):
--Pneumato-poios , on, producing flatulence, Apollon.Mir.46.
II. producing breath or spirit,
phusi-zôios , on, producing life, Diônusos IGRom.4.360.15 (Pergam., ii A. D.) (elsewh. as f.l. for foreg.).
elp-istikos , ê, on, producing expectation, Arist.Mem.449b12.II. hoi e. a sect who made hope the only stay of life, Plu.2.668e.
phusi-zoos , on, as epith. of earth, prob. producing zea, but reinterpreted as from zôê ( [zoê] producing life, phusizoou . . genos
zôogon-os , on, producing animals, generative, name of Apollo, producing life,
rhoizêma , atos, to, rushing, whirring noise or motion, as of birds, ; of the planetary spheres, I
tragik-os , ( [tragos] ) of or like a goat, goatish, in this sense first in later authors,in a double sense, to pseudes trachu kai t.goatlike and tragic, Pl.Cra.408c .
Pl.Cra.408c . Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman
Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman
Socrates
You know that speech makes all things (pan) known and always makes them circulate and move about, and is twofold, true and false.Hermogenes
Certainly.Socrates
Well, the true part is smooth and divine and dwells aloft among the gods, but falsehood dwells below among common men, is rough and like the tragic goat ; for tales and falsehoods are most at home there, in the tragic life.Hermogenes
Certainly.Socrates
Then Pan, who declares and always moves (aei polôn) all, is rightly called goat-herd (aipolos),1 The chorus of the primitive performances from which tragedy developed appeared as satyrs, clad in goat-skins. Hence the name tragôidia (goat-song). The adjective tragikos may mean either "goat-like" or "tragic." In this passage it has both meanings.
The she goat was called CAPELLA.
2Th. 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,In the Trinitarian economy the present work of the Spirit is primarily eschatological. That is, the Spirit, using means that are finite and contingent, anticipates and makes real the life to come in the present life of the Christian community.
Full and faithful discipleship, then, is supernatural or Spirit empowered; the believer walks in a way and engages in practices that are humanly impossible but that in the power of the Spirit become possible. When discipleship is not rooted in the Spirit’s power it gets tamed or toned down to what seems humanly possible, simply reasonable, and culturally appropriate.
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Gordon Fee, gathering up the fruit of his extensive exegesis of all the Spirit texts in Paul, has put this recovery in terms that can resonate with contemporary churches in emergent culture: “a genuine recapturing of the Pauline perspective will cause the church to be more vitally Trinitarian, not only in its theology, but in its life and Spirituality as well. This will mean not the exaltation of the Spirit, but the exaltation of God; and it will mean not focus on the Spirit as such, but on the Son, crucified and risen, Savior and Lord of all.”viii After modernity, such recovery has become more possible.
Paul never once used "spirit" in the sense of "another god person." The Spirit OF Christ is the spirit or mind which belongs TO ChriST
In fact, it is well recognized that Paul never uses the word "spirit" to speak of a third member of a trinity: it is the Spirit OF Christ or the Spirit OF God which is the same thing: the MIND of God. The flesh versus spirit is PAUL'S own spirit in conflict with his human nature.
Gordon Fee from the Assemblies of God argues against the immediate baptism of the Holy Spirit and for a life guided by the Spirit
Fee answers the question in two ways. First, he says that the “time frame” attached to subsequent Spirit baptism is, for all practical purposes, irrelevant. What is, in fact, relevant is that Christians experience the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit throughout their entire life. This is th heart of the New Testament Christian. Fee says that “to early believers, getting saved, which included repentance and forgivenessobviously, meant especially to be filled with the Spirit.” The second way he responds to the question is to speak to the idea of Spirit empowerment for the contemporary believer. And the Pentecostal, says Fee, has attempted to recapture for the church an empowering dimension of life immersed in the Spirit-
This excerpt of Leonard Allen’s new book, Things Unseen: Churches of Christ in (and after) the Modern Age, used by permission. To order, go to Leafwood Publishers.-
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i John Locke’s The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures (1695), towers over this lineage.
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iiRobert W. Jenson, Christian Dogmatics (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984), 1:150.
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iiiSee for example C. F. D. Moule, The Holy Spirit (Oxford: Mowbray, 1978), 43-51. This form of eclipse has a few proponents among Church of Christ scholars.
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ivParticularly noteworthy are Jurgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981); Karl Rahner, The Trinity, trans. Joseph Donceel (London: Burns and Oats, 1970); Eberhard Jungel, The Doctrine of the Trinity, trans. Horton Harris (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1976); John D. Zizioulas, Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (London: Dartman, Longman, and Todd, 1985); and Robert W. Jenson, The Triune Identity (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982). Noteworthy works focusing particularly on the practicality of the Trinitarian doctrine include Catherine M. LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and the Christian Life (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1991), and L. Gregory Jones, Transformed Judgment: Toward a Trinitarian Account of the Moral Life (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1993).
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vCarlo Carretto, The God Who Comes (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1974), 79, 83.
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viRecent advocates of the social Trinity include Colin Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991); Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology, trans. Geoffrey Bromiley (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1991), 1:259-336; LaCugna, God for Us; Ted Peters, God as Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1993; Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom, esp. 171-76; and Pinnock, Flame of Love, 21-48.
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viiDiogenes Allen, The Path of Perfect Love (Cambridge, MA: Cowley, 1992), 52. This is one of the best discussions of God’s relational life and how that life creates community with human beings. See pp. 39-59.
viiiFee, God’s Empowering Presence, 902. See also his more popular treatment of Trinitarian pneumatology in Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996), 36-48.
2Th. 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
ŏpĕrātĭo , a working, work, labor, operation A religious performance, service, or solemnity, a bringing of offerings: operationes Lying Wonders incluses all of the performing roles claiming to worship God.
A lying wonder is: Spectācŭlum I. a show, sight, spectacle, A. Lit., in the theatre, circus, etc., a public sight or show, a stageplay, spectacle,
A lying wonder is: Scaena , [outlawed as SELF-pleasure in Romans 15 to ENABLE teaching that which is WRITTEN. 2. (Post-Aug.) Of the schools of rhetoric, as scenes for the display of eloquence in scaenas scholasticorum, qui rhetores [meaning of hypocrite] vocantur,
A lying wonder is: The-ama , A. sight, spectacle, ei tis orchoit' eu, theam' ên Pl.Com.130 ;
And Theama is Opposite to mathêma, of a sight which gives pleasure,X.Smp.2.2 , ; orchêseis kai theamata
3.24.22 24 3.28.22 24
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