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The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, or Jesus Only

Matthew 28:18, 19; Matthew 17:1-8

There is in the land today a teaching denying the trinity of the Godhead, advancing the theory that Jesus is all.  The teaching is that one and the same God has manifest himself to man in three phases, that Christ is that one God, “For in Christ dwelled all the fullness of the godhead bodily.  Colossians 2:9

There are some things about the word of God that are hard for many to understand while dwelling in the physical flesh, but will be completely understood when we see him in his glory.  The thought of God being one, and the thought of God being three in one is one of these mystery things. Deuteronomy 29:29. 

But I believe there is in the Word enough light for us to understand this matter.  However, if we are willing to have an open mind about it.  The simple truth is that they are one in spirit, will, desire, aim, purpose, duration, and are three in individuality, mind, and body; that is, in the sense that spirits have bodies (Beings)

The Oneness of God

Here are scriptures that shows us the oneness of the Godhead in the scriptures John 10:30; 38b; 17:11b; 17:22; 12:44, 45; 14:8,9: Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:1-3; and Isaiah 9:6.

Here are scriptures that show us the threefold, individual personalities of the eternal Godhead.

·        Genesis 1:26.  This verse gives us God’s own words, using the plural pronoun “us” and “our”.  Someone was there beside himself.  Who was there?  The Spirit. Genesis 1:2 and the Word (Christ) John 1:1-3,14.  We have here one who begot (God the Father) and one who was begotten (the Son), that adds up to two and the Spirit moving on the face of the water, that was three.  Genesis 1:2

·        Luke 1:30-35.  Here the Holy Ghost is added to the scene making three individual personalities brought into view.  The angel tells us that Mary, she shall be the mother of God’s son.  The Holy Ghost was seed bearer from God the Father to Mary the mother.  Note: Any denials of these facts will leave us denying them with a common man, a bastard at that.

·        Luke 3:21, 22. Shows us what and who compose the Godhead.  Here we see three.  The one speaking (The Father) claiming Jesus as His Son, and the Holy Ghost also appears in a bodily shape form as a (dove), and of course Jesus the one who is being baptized.  Note: Let us point out that two of these three was in visible bodies and the voice of the third being audible from Heaven.  Jesus denied being his won father.  John 14:10; Jon 1:18.  What did He mean? He meant that there wan another God beside himself that no one had seen.  He meant the Father.

·        John 17:4,5.  The two mentioned here being together before this old world was created, and Jesus Christ was not a hypocrite praying to himself as some would suppose.

·        Matthew 26:39.  Here we see the difference in the desires of two separate personalities with one yielding to the other.  We see Jesus on the cross, in agony and pain, with His back beaten with the scourge, nails in his hands and feet, forsaken of followers and friends, forsaken even by that, that Father it seemed (not himself), and we hear those pitiful plaintive words “My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?”  Note: While this doctrine of the God head seems obscured to most people, there are many who have accepted it as truth.

·        Acts 7:51, 54-56.  There you see three, The Holy Ghost in Stephen, and Jesus is standing at God’s right hand.  The “oneness” doctrine is that we all shall see only one, when we get to heaven – Jesus Only.  See the falsity of this doctrine.  Conclusion:  Revelation 22:18-20.