The Father and The Son
The doctrine of the nature of God , His Son and the holy Spirit has become a standard for Christian orthodoxy. Trinitarianism is required by virtually all of Christianity. Yet the Bible makes many statements that contradict this belief.
More than that, hidden within the prophecies of the Old Testament and the revelation in the New Testament scriptures, is a love story between the Father and His Son, a love revealed by the sending of the Son to redeem men from their sins and giving of the holy Spirit to men.
In the video available at right, Pastor John Clark, Sr. reads the tract "Is Jesus God?" Not only does he read the tract but there is much other good understanding to be received from this reading. We hope you are blessed by what you can learn in this video and from the rest of this topical study page.
Thought for Today
Mar. 09
SEVEN LIES THAT THE CHILDREN OF GOD BELIEVE, PART FIVE
As I was in prayer early Sunday morning, February 13, 2000, the Lord put it in my heart to write about the seven lies His people believe. I had no idea when I began to write what even the second lie would be, much less the third or fourth. I just knew they would come to me as I went along if it was indeed the Spirit of God that prompted me to begin writing. And they did. Here is the fifth of the seven principal lies that Christian ministers have persuaded God's children to believe.God's Spirit is not a person; it is exactly what the Bible says it is: God's Spirit. Every time, without one exception, that the apostles referred to the Spirit of God, they referred to it as "it", not as "him" or "he". The evidence for this is clear and indisputable. Your Bibles will have "he" and "him" in many places instead of "it" because Christian translators believe that to call the Spirit "it' is disrespectful to their imagined "third person of the Trinity". None of the apostles felt that way. If you would like to see the proof of this, you can either read the Greek New Testament for yourself, or you can look at my on-line Bible study, "The Influence of Trinitarian Doctrine on Translations of the Bible". In this work, I examine every time in the New Testament that the Spirit of God is mentioned. This study proves beyond any doubt to any reasonable person that the apostles referred to the Spirit as anything but "it".
It may be difficult to believe, but Christian translators have repeatedly and knowingly mistranslated the apostles' references to the holy Spirit, changing the "it" the apostles wrote to "he" or "him"-for no other purpose but to promote their own Trinitarian faith. Undoubtedly, their intentions were to do good, but without the guidance of the Spirit of truth, all that any of us can do is evil. And this is a prime example of it.
The Father is a person with His own body. The Son is a person with his own body. Jesus taught us that the Spirit is life (Jn. 6:63; Rom. 8:10). This is true with both God and men. The life inside our bodies is our spirit. The eternal life that is in the Father, He gave to the Son (Jn 5:26), and that is what the Bible calls the holy Spirit. The Father is greater than the Son (Jn. 14:28), and the Son fears and obeys the Father (Heb. 5:7; Jn. 15:10). The Father and the Son can look at each other, speak to each other, and do any other ordinary act that two persons may do with each other. Clearly, there are two persons in heaven to be reverenced: the Father and the Son. A "third person of the holy Trinity" does not exists.
Do not fear men. You can understand the simple truth of Jesus. Love the truth, and it will exalt you. Embrace it and it will bring to you crowns of lasting glory. Why will you pursue the vain admiration of men? Even books written by Christian scholars admit that no one can either explain or understand the doctrine of the Trinity; still, many insist (as did my Systematic Theology professor in the seminary) that all who truly believe in Jesus will embrace the doctrine of the Trinity and support those who teach it. That was a lie. It was intended to pressure us young men into confessing something about God that we could not otherwise believe and that was not true.
That God is a Trinity of three persons is the Fifth Lie God's children believe.
For more information, check our web site for these two tracts: #11, "Is Jesus God?" and #58, "The Father and the Son".
Also, you will want to read Broadcaster #81, "Trinity or Travesty?" and #102, "The Third Throne"