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Jehovah's Witnesses a replica of the Roman Catholic church! Jehovah's Witnesses share exactly these same qualities with the Roman Catholic Church Centralized World-wide church government from which all official doctrine comes. The Pope and the Governing body. ... A simple definition of both is as follows: "Definition of a Catholic/Jw: 'Someone who accepts Rome/Brooklyn as God's visible spirit-directed theocratic organization upon the earth. Both have official yearly meetings of the world leaders. The official doctrines that have changed dramatically over time. Both claim "new light" or progressive revelation to explain doctrinal changes. Both teach the ... Both have an official clergy system with special privileges and rights the common member does not have. Priests and the Governing body. Both have system of monasteries where "most holy and dedicated" ... and does not dependent upon any earthly human origination. Click to View We speak the truth in Love... Click to View Go back to Main Jehovah's Witness Index Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... https://www.bible.ca/Jw-catholic.htm

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Encyclopædia Britannica Some believe that it was an astute stroke of policy, designed to win the support of the Christians, or a wise act of statesmanship aimed at buttressing the decaying fabric of the empire with the strength of the Christian church. Neither view is very likely (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1971, Constantine, Vol. 6, p. 386) The Watchtower portrays Constantine as a pagan sun worshipper who had no faith in Christ and was practically the sole author of the Nicene creed. ... the Old Testament; (2) as the Lord who, in the figure of Jesus Christ, lived among men and was present in their midst as the "Resurrected One"; and (3) as the Holy Spirit, whom they experienced as the power of the new life, the miraculous potency of the Kingdom of God. ... It was therefore with dismay that he discovered that the eastern churches were divided by a much more widespread dispute, the doctrinal controversy between Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, and one of his priests, Arius (see ARIUS; ARIANISM). Not understanding the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Britannica.htm

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Official creed of Assemblies of God Official creed of Assemblies of God The General Council of the Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths ARTICLE V--CONSTITUTION (Revised 1983 General Council) The Bible is our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice. This Statement of Fundamental Truths is intended simply as a basis of ... Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life (Luke 24:47; John 3:3; Rom. 10: 13-15; Eph. 2:8; Titus 2:11; 3:5-7). (b) The Evidences of Salvation: The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit (Romans 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness (Eph. 4:24; Titus 2:12). 6. Ordinances of the Church (a) Baptism in Water The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded in the Scriptures. All who repent and believe on ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-assemblies-of-god.htm

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The office of Elders, pastors and bishops Christ is the head of every local church. There is no human head of the church. The Bible is the only written creed for each local church, rather than a man-made written creed. Each local church is autonomous and self-governing. No outside interference from others. No organizational tie between local churches. No ... This is seen in the organization of the Roman Catholics and many protestant churches. B. Some believers reject that there is a formal office of overseer. They view him as being on the same authority level as the rest of the Christians in the local church. This is false. C. "Office of Overseer": The Bible not only calls them "overseers" but also states it is a formal office and tells us their function is to "rule"! "It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do." 1 Timothy 3:1 "Be on guard for yourselves and for ALL THE FLOCK, AMONG WHICH the Holy Spirit has made you OVERSEERS, to SHEPHERD the church of God ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ntx-elders-pastors-bishops.htm

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What Early Christians believed about BAPTISM ... Onward even to the passion does the witness of baptism last: while He is being surrendered to the cross, water intervenes; witness Pilate's hands: when He is wounded, forth from His side bursts water; witness the soldier's lance!... True and stable ... For these are the deliberate judgments of Christ, 'loving the Church,' who 'hath delivered Himself up for her, that He may sanctify her (purifying her utterly by the laver of water) in the word, that He may present the Church to Himself glorious, ... Referring to Jesus, John said, "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His ... Mysteries 4:20). 381 AD Council of Constantinople I "We believe . . . in one baptism for the remission of sins" (Nicene Creed). 382 AD Gregory of Nyssa "[In] the birth by water and the Spirit, [Jesus] himself led the way in this birth, drawing ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-baptism.htm

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Encyclopedia Americana ... The watchtower deliberately and knowingly misrepresents Americana to say the opposite, namely that trinity is not Bible based but of pagan. But it gets even worse! Americana plainly states that the apostolic church believed in the deity of Christ! ... TRINITY, The central and characteristic Christian doctrine of God is that He exists in Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. ("Holy Ghost" is the traditional English translation of Sanctus Spiritus and means the same as "Holy Spirit.") ... theological, that is, metaphysical or philosophical, but they clearly point the direction in which Christian thought was inevitably moving." ... "The Athanasian Creed was the most explicit of the creedal statements of the doctrine of the Trinity. ... The classical exposition is found in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose views on this subject have dominated most of later Christian theology, both Roman Catholic and Protestant. (Encyclopedia Americana, Trinity, p116) Go To Alphabetical Index ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Americana.htm

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Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion or better yet: "Theologians agree that the Bible also does not contain any organization larger than the local church! (are you listening Brooklyn?)" Jw's use this quote to create a false dilemma: They think that this quote proves trinity wrong. ... The doctrine of the Trinity is the summary of Christian faith in God, who out of love creates humanity for union with God, who through Jesus Christ redeems the world, and in the power of the Holy Spirit transforms and divinizes (2 Cor. 3:18). The heart ... Although one most guard against reducing the mystery of God to a set of formal statements, precise distinctions are useful insofar as they refine theological vocabulary or protect against distortions ("heresy"). Still, doctrinal statements are ... of Western theology, namely, pneumatology. Third, the filioque ("and from the Son") clause, inserted into the Western creed in the sixth century but denounced by the Orthodox church, remains a serious obstacle to reunion between East and West. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Eliade.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) All Christians knew that, but to make it a little different, and perhaps to add charm, the Adventist view came to mean anyone who worshiped on Sunday (Catholic or Protestant); anyone who smoked, chewed, drank, wenched, went to shows, or wore or ate ... It proved also that justice (as defined by the leaders), not mercy, was still the theme of the church. In the end, after a lot of finger-play and charades, Ford was sacked? The outcome had never really been in doubt. So it was no surprise when the "good old" Review trumpeted: "Overview of a historic meeting: the Sanctuary Review Committee, characterized by unity and controlled by the Holy Spirit, finds strong support for the church's historic position." 8 Those hinges on that closed door had ... not see: that is, if that shut door is ever opened, the Adventist heaven and ghetto is desecrated by being made available to all, regardless of race, creed, or color, and the Adventist church and system will have lost forever its heavenly franchise. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-CH2-shut-door.htm

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TRINITY: Christology: Diety and Humanity of our Savour! Eternally pre-existent b. Creator not a creature: Rom 1:25 c. God, but distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit d. In heaven, Jesus was omnipresent (everywhere), omniscient (all knowing) and ... It dates to about AD 105 when 1st, 2nd and 3rd John were written b. The Gnostics viewed spirit as good and flesh as evil. c. They taught that Jesus was uncreated God d. The Gnostics taught that Jesus ... This is the deceiver and the antichrist." (2 John 7) f. This proves that the apostolic view of the first century church was that Jesus was eternal, creator God become flesh in the incarnation. 3. During the Nicene era (AD 325) the great battle between those who believed Jesus was creator God, vs. Arius who taught that Jesus was a mere creature man. a. The Nicene creed was written but it contains a ... not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, and because He did not need anyone to bear witness concerning man for He Himself knew what was in man. 2. Mark 2:5-8 And immediately Jesus, aware ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-deity-of-christ.htm

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Arian (Jehovah's Witness) Subordination Refuted They reason it is impossible for God to serve, and if He does, he ceases being God. Click to View "Dogwoman" copyright Paula Rego Are Jehovah's Witness females sub-human? When a female Jehovah's Witness tells you Christ is a lower "life form" than the God because He submits to the ... Wives must submit to their husbands (1 Peter 3:1; Eph 5:22;33) and are not permitted to teach men or hold oversight positions over men in the church. (1 Tim 2:11-12). Yet men are commanded to "grant her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be ... Her rank is lower, but she is made of the identical stuff as the man! Arians don't understand that many Trinitarians openly teach the subordination of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to the Father. Biblical Trinitarians teach that the Divine, eternally pre-existent Jesus, is subordinate to the Father. The Athanasius creed is nothing more than human attempts to describe the raw Biblical data of the trinity, namely the deity of Christ ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-subordination-arian-refuted.htm

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Early Christian faith on Trinity, deity of Christ, personality ... ... Heresies, chapter xix.2) 180 AD Irenaeus "For the Church, although dispersed throughout the whole world even to the ends of the Earth, has received from the apostles and from their disciples the faith in one God, Father Almighty, the creator of heaven and Earth and sea and all that is in them; and in one Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who became flesh for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who announced through the prophets the dispensations and the comings, and the birth from a Virgin, and the passion, ... As if one were not all . . . through the unity of substance" (Against Praxeas 2:3-4) 200 AD Tertullian "Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are ... light, true God of true God, born, not made. One in being with the Father. Through him all things were made . ." (The Creed of Nicaea). 325 AD Council of Nicaea I "But those who say, 'There was a time when he [the Son] did not exist,' and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/H-trinity.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) ... Hopkins, in a treatise on the millennium, says: "There is no reason to consider the antichristian spirit and practices confined to that which is now called the Church of Rome. The Protestant churches have much of antichrist m them, and are far from being wholly reformed from her corruptions and wickedness." ... Their only relief, so far as ascertaining their true position was concerned, was the light which directed their minds to the sanctuary above. Some renounced their faith in their former reckoning of the prophetic periods and ascribed to human or satanic agencies the powerful influence of the Holy Spirit which had attended the advent movement. [206] This church was about to ... Are we not living her life over again? And what do we see just ahead? Another general council! A world's convention! Evangelical alliance, and universal creed"-Sermon on "The Bible a Sufficient Creed," delivered at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Feb. 22, 1846. [246] Rev. Charles Beecher, in his sermon at the dedication ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-exhibits-Great-Contro.htm

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Is Scientology A Religion? YES! Alan Black ... as the conversion of Paul on the road to Damascus, the experience of ecstasy associated with shamanism in central and northern regions of Asia, and the phenomenon of spirit possession in parts of Eurasia, Africa and the Pacific. ... Even within the same broad religious tradition, such as Christianity, there may be more than one model of religious organization - ranging, for example, from the formalized and hierarchical system of the Church of Rome to the more egalitarian and informal system in some Protestant churches. Many, but ... There are religious movements or manifestations where one or other of the dimensions is so weak as to be virtually absent: nonliterate small-scale societies do not have much means of expressing the doctrinal dimension; Buddhist ... The Creed of the Church of Scientology twice refers to God. After reciting various inalienable rights of all persons, the Creed declares that "no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or ... ... https://www.bible.ca/scientology-is-a-religion-black.htm

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Is the Catholic church an infallible interpreter of scripture ... ... Please notice the following: "How can you get the true meaning of the Bible? You can get it only from God's official interpreter, the Catholic Church. 'This, then, you must understand first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is made by private ... of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." (Catholic Edition, Revised Standard Version). ... It is very evident and has long been recognized by all and proclaimed everywhere that some revision and reformation of Canon Law is necessary and very urgent. For, owing to the changes that have taken place in society, many laws have become useless ... The following Catholic officials argue that private interpretation of the Scriptures causes division. "Must it not be evident to the thoughtful reader of these lines, whether he be Protestant or Catholic, that the estrangement of such a vast number ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-bible-church-interpreter.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) ... Too much is being identified from the places where she had shopped. As McAdams wrote in his Spectrum article: About the time the White Estate was responding to the evidence that Ellen White had borrowed extensively from the Protestant historians m the preparation of The Great Controversy, another researcher was bringing to their attention evidence that she ... I would like to remind you, however, that you can search the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find a single text marking out theologians as having the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Scriptures indicate, however, that prophets have a gift of the holy Spirit. Ellen White had that gift and she was canonical insofar as doctrinal interpretation authority is concerned [italics added].42 Inasmuch as Delafield, now retired, was writing his reply on official General Conference stationery and invoking the name of the head divine of the church, Neal C. Wilson, as his authority for writing, it would seem that "the church" had ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-CH6-Ellens-sources.htm

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Bible Quiz: 100's of questions for Outdoor Fairs & Home Shows ... Which of the following ways to salvation are in the Bible? (Acts 2:38) × Infant Baptism and church attendance as an adult. × Invite Jesus into your heart with the "Sinner's Prayer". × Believe in Jesus and be immersed in water to forgive your ... Him and you will be saved." (Rom 10:9) ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ × The Samaritans believed and were baptized, but didn't have the Holy Spirit. (Acts 8:16) ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ × Paul believed, fasted for three days and was baptized. (Acts 22:16) ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ × "The ... WHEN IS GOSPEL PREACHED TO WHOLE WORLD? When are Jesus' words fulfilled: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come."? (Mt 24:14; Col 1:23) 1. With the aid of ... All's well that ends well. An idle mind is the devil's workshop. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, Apostles' Creed As the twig is bent, so shall the tree grow" As you make your bed, you must lie in it. Beauty is only skin deep. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-fairs-home-shows.htm

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The Dugger-Porter Debate on Sunday as the Lord's Day For eighteen years Editor of the Bible Advocate and now Business Overseer of the Church of God (Seventh Day) W. CURTIS PORTER, MONETTE, ARKANSAS Associate Editor of the Bible Banner and Evangelist of the Church of Christ Covering two questions The ... And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God" (Act 13:42, 44). This was about 52 A.D. At a still later date when the Holy Spirit recorded the event, we were informed that the day these Jews met on was the Sabbath. ... Or, "Thou shalt not commit adultery throughout your generations"? Did God say, "Thou shalt not covet, steal, bear false witness, and so on, throughout your generations"? No, but he did say to "keep the Sabbath throughout your generations." This ... They are attacked by many modern modernists, and church prelates who want their own erroneous creeds supported, and doctrinal errors which crept in through Catholic propaganda centuries ago, defended. I simply showed to you people the facts that ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-debate-porter-dugger.htm

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mormon church: Critical Essay written in 1832 AD ... The false Messiahs which have afflicted the Jews since the rejection of Jesus of Nazareth, have more than verified all the predictions of the Faithful and True Witness. No less than TWENTY-FOUR ... Numerous have been the imposters among christians since the great apostacy began; especially since, and at the time of the Reformation. Munzer, Stubner and Stork, where conspicuous in the beginning of the 16th century.' These men taught that among christians, who had the precepts of the Gospel to guide them, and the spirit of God to direct them, the office of magistracy was not only ... we detail the history of Miss Campbell, who in Good Old Scotland a year or two since came back from the dead and had the gift of tongues, who was believed in by several ministers of the Scotch Church. ... By divine revelation Nephi constructed a ship, and although opposed by his unbelieving brethren, being greatly assisted by the Holy Spirit, he succeeded in launching her safely, and got all his tribe, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-1831-review-campbell.htm

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SUMMARY: PROOF that TRINITY is NOT of PAGAN origin! Arians (Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Unitarians, The Way International) Modalists (United Pentecostal Church, UPCI) Muslims (Islamic) Jews (Note: No encyclopedia says Trinity is of pagan origin!) "The fact that the church fathers never ... Sources, authorities and "historical experts" quoted by anti-Trinitarians are invalid! In fact, they often quote themselves as their own expert! Kind of like calling yourself as a witness to your own trial! Jehovah's Witnesses, for example have ... Because the author is an atheist and a Bible hater who not only claims that trinity is pagan, but the whole of Christianity is pagan as well! Read this quote from the Watchtower magazine: "The evidence of the holy spirit in the quality and content of the ... quotes, irresponsibly portrays Constantine as a faithless sun-god pagan idol worshipper with no understanding of Christianity who single-handedly introduces trinity to Christianity from the pagans and is almost the author of the Nicene creed. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-not-pagan-reasons.htm

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Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert ... ... Many of these early texts themselves became the source for nearly two millennia of commentary by Jewish, Catholic and, eventually, Protestant theologians and scholars. At the same time, interest in the land of Palestine as the locus of the Bible cyclically waxed and waned. Byzantines under Constantine explored Christian and Jewish holy places and so did Europeans during the Crusades. Napoleon's ... This book seeks to demonstrate that archaeological data provides a strong and independent witness to the religious practices of Canaanites and Israelites in the second to mid-first millennia B.C.E. ... Those of us raised with a constitutional commitment to the separation of church and state must remember that this modern societal construction bears no resemblance to ancient society. In antiquity, ... In the sacrifice called fanurukan, pigs are used to "establish a relationship of contiguity between the human and spirit worlds" (Gibson 1986: 182). As part of this ritual, the sharing of a sacral ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-archaeology-and-the-religions-of-Canaan-and-israel-beth-alpert-nakhai.htm

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Religious attributions pertaining to the causes and cures of ... ... School of Psychology & Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Abstract In this Australian study, 126 Protestant Christian participants, 52 females and 74 males, were assessed for their beliefs about the importance of 26 causal ... This paper focuses primarily on the Christian religion, which is uniquely based upon a religious text called the Bible. The Christian faith centres around God, his son Jesus Christ and the internal work of the Holy Spirit (Favier, O'Brien, & Ingersoll, ... General attribution theory provides a widely applied theoretical explanation for how individuals come to terms with illness. It begins with the assumption that people seek to make sense of their own experiences, and the events they witness, in an ... The participants were drawn from the following Protestant Christian Church denominations: Baptist, Reformed, Wesleyan Methodist, Uniting, Anglican, Brethren, Churches of Christ, Presbyterian, Christian Life Centre, Assemblies of God, Evangelical ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-atheistic-anti-christian-religious-attributions-pertaining-to-causes-cures-mental-illness-hartog-2005ad.htm

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Weigall, Arthur: The Paganism in Our Christianity ... They key is that the argument that Weigall uses throughout his book , IS THE SAME for trinity and the virgin birth etc. Jehovah's Witnesses must either accept or reject the entire book as a whole. All any honest Jehovah's Witness needs to be shown to trash the entire booklet's ("Should you believe in the Trinity?") credibility is this ... They paid their devotions to God the Father and to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and they recognized the mysterious and undefined existence of the Holy Spirit; but there was no thought of these three being an actual Trinity, co-equal and united in One, and the Apostles' Creed, which is the earliest of the formulated articles of Christian faith, does not mention it." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, 1928, p182) The "Lord's Day" (Sunday) is of Pagan Origin: "The Hebrew Sabbath having been abolished by Christians, the Church made a sacred clay of Sunday, partly because it was the day of the resurrection, but largely because it was the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Weigall.htm

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REFUTED: Full-Preterist, "Realized Eschatology", "AD 70 doctrine ... Today, Christians await the second coming of Christ: 1. The future second coming is the END 2. The dead will be raised immortal spirit bodies 3. The living will be changed into immortal spirit bodies ... who set the date of the rapture on Pentecost AD 66 (22nd June). 2. Full-Preterists make easy prey of denominationalists but informed members of the Church of Christ can easily refute them: a. ... It is exactly like a Seventh-day Adventist who knocks on the door of a Catholic and asks him, "Do you keep the ten commandments and the Sabbath holy. The Catholic, knowing nothing of scripture, ... John 18:37 echoes Isaiah 43:15 (King) c. Acts 4:12 echoes Zechariah 14:9 (only name) d. John 8:18 echoes 1 Samuel 12:5 (witness) e. Mark 14:61-64 echoes Isaiah 19:1 (coming) f. John 6 echoes Exodus ... Temple of Jerusalem would be destroyed. 2. Our modern thinking makes us want to approach the New Testament as a creed book, nicely indexing theology with precise chronology and accurate geography. a. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/revelation/Refuted-Full-Preterism-Realized-eschatology-debunked-exposed-second-coming-Parousia-rapture-destruction-Jerusalem-70AD-Doctrine-Revelation-Commentary.htm

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Global statistics for all religions: 2001 AD ... Lutheran/Reformed united church or joint mission 10800 15,041,000 24 22 Lutheran 81,900 60,696,000 253 122 Mennonite Anabaptist-(Left Wing or Radical Reformation) 9,500 2,009,000 128 59 Methodist (mainline Methodist United Methodist) 89,500 ... Old Believer, Old Ritualist 3,300 1,957,000 25 19 Old Catholic 1,100 886,000 26 19 Old Calendarist Authentic Orthodox 300 261,000 8 4 schism from Orthodoxy, in Protestant direction 300 95.000 28 6 Orthodox sect/sectarian 900 139.000 30 3 ... Christadelphian 1,200 71,000 21 20 Apocalyptic, eschatological 1 1,000 1 1 Divine Science 20 1000 1 1 Gnostic, esoteric, anthroposophical 200 70,000 5 3 Holy Spirit Assoc. for Unification of World Christianity 900 926,000 9 8 Jehovah's Witnesses ... Metaphysical science, Divine Science, Religious Science 3,600 1,097,000 59 55 Spiritualist, Spiritist, (thaumaturgical) psychic, occult 1.100 145,000 20 10 Swedenborgian (Church of the New Jerusalem; Spiritualistic) 300 31,000 18 15 Theosophist, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/global-religion-statistics-world-christian-encyclopedia.htm

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Seventh Day Adventist Church controversy: The Arrest and Trial ... ... Wood's Spiritual Gifts 2 testimonial appears on page 117 of E.S. Ballenger's unfinished manuscript entitled "Early History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church": "In a private letter dated May 16, ... James Ayer, Jr: "Dammon said he had a spiritual wife and he was glad of it." [The witty negative response alleged by EGW is not in the record, and is ruled out by the testimony of defense witness ... We were satisfied of their object. They entered and rushed past me to Elder Damman [sic]. The Spirit of the Lord rested upon him, and his strength was taken away, and he fell to the floor helpless. ... It is a part of our faith to kiss each other--brothers kiss sisters and sisters kiss brothers, I think we have Bible authority for that. [Note: The Bible certainly does tell of the holy kiss. But it ... Reside in Exeter, prisoner's character is as good as any man in Exeter. He has a small farm, and small family. He is a reformation preacher--reformation has followed his preaching. GARDNER FARMER, ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-arrest-trial-israel-dammon.htm

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creed and beliefs of Baha'i Faith: A brief history & notes on ... ... - Baha'u'llah 3. Obedience to the laws of God 4. Pray - one of three daily obligatory prayers 5. Noon day Prayer 6. I bear witness Oh my God that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. 7. I testify at this moment to my powerlessness and to Thy ... Within 50 years of this prophecy Jerusalem was destroyed and the people of Israel scattered. By the second century AD the Christian church was composed almost entirely of Gentiles. The people of Israel had failed to meet the terms of the covenant established by God with Isaac and were therefore no longer permitted to occupy the holy land. This does not mean that God failed to keep his promise to Abraham. Aside from the covenant established with Isaac, God ... Three times Christ went away to be with his Father and three times he returned, only to find his followers asleep. "Simon... are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing but the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/creed-bahai-beliefs.htm

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Why I left the Roman Catholic church! (personal testimony) ... I hope and pray that these things will be of some benefit to those who are making an honest inquiry regarding truth. I beseech and invite all my Catholic friends and relatives to examine these things in the light of God's holy Word. May God be with you in your endeavors to serve Him. Click to View Find the true church ... Yet in the Bible, whether Catholic or not, we read, "The word of God is living and powerful [quick and active], and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, ... who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection." ... Protestant youth understand that there is one mediator, Jesus Christ, and that He is truly omnipresent and, hence, they are not concerned about the feigned mediation of one who, like themselves, has feet of clay. Catholicism ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-why-I-left.htm

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Death of the Anti-Black Doctrine, Salt Lake City Messenger, December ... ... The Mormon people apparently realized the deep doctrinal implications this change involved, and therefore they associated it with death or disaster. IF THEY WERE REALLY PLEASED WITH THE CHANGE, WHY DID THEY NOT RELATE IT WITH A HAPPY EVENT LIKE ... that the long-promised day has come when every faithful, worthy man in the church may receive the holy priesthood, with power to exercise its divine authority, and enjoy with his loved ones every blessing that flows therefrom, including the blessings of the temple. ... To accept the anti-Negro doctrine is to deny the spirit of revelation. If we allow others to do our thinking on this vital issue it could lead to violence or bloodshed. Be cause we felt that it was not right to put our trust in man, we ... "Marchant was suing President Kimball for not appearing as a witness in a case currently pending against Marchant....Marchant was suing the Mormon Church president for $100 for not appearing after being subpoenaed to testify in the case. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-blacks-racism.htm

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Comparison list of 14 Moses/Constantine the Great Shadows, Types ... ... Constantine made Christmas a national Christian holiday because the 5 metropolitan church leaders requested it. 4. In AD 325, Eusebius saw Constantine a type of Moses (Eusebius Life of Constantine ... The council created the Nicene Creed which condemned the heresy of the Arians who taught that Jesus was not God but was instead, a mere creature. It was in fact the antitrinitarian Arian bishop ... For if he had not been baptized at the Council of Nicaea, he could not have taken the holy sacraments nor joined in the prayers of the holy Fathers, something that is most absurd both to say and to ... as he was did not share the manner of life of the ungodly: for from that early period his noble nature, under the leading of the Divine Spirit, inclined him to piety and a life acceptable to God. ... He determined, therefore, that such persons should be removed altogether from the imperial court, while, on the other hand, declaring that those men who, in bearing witness for the truth, had proved ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Messianic-prophecy-Moses-Constantine-the-Great-Jesus-Christ-types-shadows-antitypes-similarities-comparisons-1446BC-AD313.htm

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Nimrod and the Archaeology of the Tower of Babel by Steven Rudd ... ... Confess to others that you believe Jesus is the Son of God. Be immersed in water for the remission of your sins. Then: Attend a Bible Believing church every Sunday. Map of Nimrod's kingdom in 3200 BC "The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, Calneh, ... All subsequent unnamed descendants were Babel Baby Boomers born into divided world. 1. Gen 10-11 is specifically designed by the Holy Spirit in order to create a time marker for the tower of Babel by listing 2 generations of descendants of Ham and Japheth who were eyewitnesses of the great division of the tower of Babel, then stop. a. Gen 10-11 functions as a "marker indicating a qualitative difference between" those alive who personally witness the tower of Babel, ... Unitarian Christian groups shaped their entire doctrinal system by initially rejecting the Bible teaching on hell, saying, "Eternal conscious torment is cruel and unjust and contrary to the nature of God." 6. What you read in the Book you find in the ground: a. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/nimrod/welcome.htm

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The Myth Of Psychotherapy, Thomas Szasz, 1979 AD ... Madness is a disease of the reason . .. [which] originated from the passions within the soul. . . . In madness the spirit is fettered and man, just as in passion (both being indissolubly linked), is unfree and unhappy." It is this rhetoric that ushers in and justifies the psychiatric holy wars for making men free by constraint and happy by torture. Although Heinroth ... The first man may be free-spoken enough about gods, sacrifices, and oaths, and perhaps, if he does not meet with his deserts, his mockery may make converts of others. But the second, who holds the same creed ... Freud's references to Jewishness, his own or his interlocutor's, figure prominently in much of his correspondence. An often- quoted example of it is his famous letter to the Protestant pastor Oskar Pfister, ... To my youthful mind Hannibal and Rome symbolized the conflict between the tenacity of Jewry and the organization of the Catholic church. And the increasing importance of the effects of the anti-Semitic ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-myth-of-psychotherapy-thomas-szasz-1979ad.htm

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Historical overview of Psychiatry: 1550 BC - 2010 AD ... He shows how insanity affects those with bad conscience because of sinful conduct and how a Christian is better equipped to work through common problems without become mad. This is the comfort of a holy man, that though he be troubled with himself, yet by reason of the spirit in him which is his better self, he works out by degrees, what ever is contrary . . . Hee that is at peace in himself, will be peaceable to others, peaceable in his family, peaceable in the Church, peaceable in the State; The soul of a ... There are certain tenets held by several protestant sects of Christians which predispose the mind to derangement". In a section called, "Remedies of Mania" he spells out his cures and controls for the insane including his famous tranquillzer ... Vickery the cutter [butcher], has it in his power to defraud the patients in many instances...". Metcalf stands as the final witness that helped forever change the kinds of brutal physical torture and neglect that existed in the largest ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-overview.htm

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Comparison list of 26 Moses/Paul Shadows, Types, Antitypes and ... Click to View List of 14 similarities of Joshua as a type of Christ Click to View List of 13 similarities the Jewish temple was a type of the Church Click to View List of 15 similarities of Abraham as ... Sinai to fulfill the antitype of Moses as the primary lawgiver of the New Testament who would go on to write 14 of the 27 books that contain the majority of theological and doctrinal instruction. Just ... Paul removed the "mystery veil" of Moses by teaching about the glory of Jesus Christ Ex 34:33-35 2 Cor 3:12-18; Eph 3:1-6; Rom 16:25-27; Col 2:1-3 22. Writing on stone vs. spirit Ex 24:12; 2 Cor 3:7 2 ... By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy ... The parallels are so striking and so dramatic that they just pop out at you! b. This is a powerful witness of Christ in the Old Testament. c. There are most certainly more echoes we have missed. 4. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/prophecy/Messianic-prophecy-Moses-Apostle-Paul-Christ-types-shadows-antitypes-similarities-comparisons-1446BC-AD36.htm

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The Exodus Route: A scriptural proof, with the witness of history ... ... full immersion as a believer in order to be saved? Take this interactive online Bible study to learn about water baptism! Why not attend a good Bible believing local church in your own home town this Sunday that believes the exodus is real history. ... Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put within them his holy spirit, who caused his glorious arm to march at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for ... Classical and Early Cartographically related traditions, Barry J. Beitzel, NEAS annual meeting, p1, 2016 AD) Indian Ocean: "That Cyrus's empire was the greatest and most glorious of all the kingdoms in Asia-of that it may be its own witness. ... Heinrich Bunting Hem of Germany (1585 AD) drew a rough version of the gulf of Aqaba, but most did not. Heinrich Bunting Hem, lived in Germany during the Renaissance, in the 16th century. This is the century the Protestant revolution took place in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-route.htm

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Lovesick, a romantic novel. Commentary on Song of Solomon, Canticles ... ... To fulfill 2 Sam 7:14-15, the Holy Spirit had Solomon write Song of Songs as a form of redemptive self-rebuke after falling from grace by marrying rich and famous foreign wives who turned his heart from God to idols. Given his many foreign pagan wives, ... The proverb does not mean God has chosen one prudent woman "just for you", rather it instructs a man to limit his search for a God-fearing sister in the church who attend all church services of her own free will, is active when she needs to be and ... the Lady of the Canticle; Humanizing the Sublime Song; Catholic Views of Canticles as Songs of Human Love; A French Protestant View: Sacred and Sexual; The Song of Songs and Women's Liberation; Love and Death" (AYB, SONG OF SOLOMON, index, 2008 ... So this joy of mine has been made full." (John 3:29) This verse specifically speaks of when the marriage would be consummated and the witness of the groom, standing outside the bedroom listening for the confirmation from the groom, that she was a ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-maps-timeline-chronology-song-of-solomon-song-canticles-abishag-shepherd-boy-love-triangle-960bc.htm

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The Samaritan Pentateuch (SP) Bible manuscript: Oldest and only ... ... If you are a Samaritan, click here to find a good church for you to attend, learn about your saviour Jesus Christ and be immersed in water in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins. Steve ... AD at Zippori. 8. The Samaritan Pentateuch is an equal witness to the autograph word of God as the Septuagint (LXX) than the Masoretic text. (MT). 9. The Samaritan Pentateuch's reading at Deut 27:4 that Joshua's Altar was build on Mt. Gerizim is the original reading. The text was changed to read "on Mt. Ebal" by Ezra to counter Samaritan claims that Gerizim, not Jerusalem was God's holy Mountain. ... On the contrary, the late use of this terminology would rather point to the fact that Samaritanism, due to the time of its origin, did not follow the specific developments of the Jewish creed which, ... to repudiate the prophets, on the ground that they had not spoken under inspiration of the Holy Spirit." (Tertullian, Adv. omn. haer. 1, 200 AD) e. "Nay, he who carefully considers (the famous ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/Samaritan-Pentateuch-SP-Bible-manuscripts-Old-Testament-Torah-Paleo-Hebrew-1362AD.htm

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Textbook of Disturbances of Mental Life, Johann Christian August ... ... Heinroth does not believe church preachers should be involved in curing insanity. His logic is this. Since insanity is a states of "unfreedom" the "talking cures" preachers provide are of no use. This ... This is not supported by and does not exist within itself, in isolation, and is even less determined and bound by the influence of the outer world but clings to the inexpressible, holy, eternal Being, Who fills it and enchants it. This ever-flowing spring is its only source of nourishment and provides it with strength and light and love: strength for the will, light for the spirit, and love for ... The feeling is the intermediary, the link joining body and soul, the witness to the unity of body and soul - one being, divided only in the double existence of unconscious natural necessity and ... We must also include daemonomania sagarum, which was so common in the past, before and after the Reformation. 3. Melancholia metamorphosis (Willis), zoanthropica (Sauvages), with their varieties of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/textbook-of-disturbances-of-mental-life-or-the-disturbances-of-the-soul-and-their-treatment-johann-christian-august-heinroth-1818ad.htm

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Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD ... Though Bucke himself was always anti-clerical and, as an adult, had never embraced orthodox Christianity, he had gone to church sporadically, more as a social custom, while practising in Sarnia. He recognized the need for an orthodox religious focus at the asylum, and Sunday morning services were held by rotation of Protestant clergymen of various denominations." (R.M. Bucke, Journey to Cosmic ... There was further opposition the following year when Dr. Clarke, the superintendent of the Kingston Asylum and with whom Bucke had acted as expert witness in the Shortis case, wrote to the inspector ... And I know that the Spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own; And that all the men ever born are also my brothers; And the women my sisters and lovers; And that a Kelson of the creation is love." ... in the substance (that is, the soul of man) which gives life and reality to the shadowy phantom which plain folk call their creed, and which metaphysicians call the philosophy of the absolute. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm

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Sola Scriptura: Doctrinal development is condemned! Sola Scriptura: The Bible alone is enough! Sola Scriptura: Doctrinal development is condemned! Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Doctrinal development is condemned: "But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!" Galatians 1:6-9 "that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come." 2 Thessalonians 2:2 by Steve Rudd Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-doctrinal-development.htm

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Sola Scriptura was not impeded by a 10% of people could read ... Extra-Biblical Oral Tradition Arguments Refuted: Click to View "Sola Scriptura is impossible since only 10% of people could read in 100 AD" False arguments that Catholics and Orthodox use to prove oral extra-scriptural church tradition are refuted. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View More Pro-Oral Church tradition arguments refuted! Click to View "Sola Scriptura is impossible since only 10% of people could read in 100 AD" Even a Protestant author admits sola Scriptura was impossible in the first century! "Literacy in the Roman empire, by very rough estimate, did not exceed 10 percent on average." (Wayne Meeks, The Moral World of the First Christians, 1986). Click to View Refutation of the false Catholic & Orthodox tradition argument: "Sola Scriptura is impossible since only 10% of people could read in 100 AD" Literacy rates are irrelevant: Scriptures were easily accessible to all from Moses to 1436 AD. Sola Scriptura means you follow the Bible only apart from tradition ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-pro-tradition-illiteracy-rate.htm

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Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... In this column down to the bottom, we will expose the satanic quoting practices of the Watchtower. If you can get a Jehovah's Witness to merely read our document, they will leave the organization. Begin booklet text below Begin our comments below What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus? If people were to read the Bible from cover to cover without any preconceived idea of a Trinity, would they arrive at such a concept on their own? Not at all. This is false! A simple reading of these verses would convince anyone of Trinity! John 1:1 and John 20:28, where Thomas said to Jesus, "My Lord and My God" where Jesus is called God and Mt 28:18-19 where we are commanded to be baptized in the name of three different persons. Although these verses do not teach the developed 4th century trinity doctrine, they more than teach the deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit. God Is One, Not Three THE Bible teaching that God is one is called monotheism. And L. L. Paine, professor of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm

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sola-scriptura-pro-tradition-few-bibles-until-printing-press ... Extra-Biblical Oral Tradition Arguments Refuted: Click to View "Sola Scriptura is impossible because there were so few Bibles in circulation until the printing press was invented in the 16th century." False arguments that Catholics and Orthodox use to prove oral extra-scriptural church tradition are refuted. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View More Pro-Oral Church tradition arguments refuted! Click to View "Sola Scriptura is impossible because there were so few Bibles in circulation until the printing press was invented in the 16th century." Even a Protestant author admits sola Scriptura was impossible in the first century! "Literacy in the Roman empire, by very rough estimate, did not exceed 10 percent [10%] on average." (Wayne Meeks, The Moral World of the First Christians, 1986). Click to View Refutation of the false Catholic & Orthodox tradition argument: "Sola Scriptura is impossible because there were so few Bibles in circulation until the printing press was ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-pro-tradition-few-bibles-until-printing-press-1436ad.htm

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Sola Scriptura: Paul did not commanded extra-biblical oral traditions ... Extra-Biblical Oral Tradition Arguments Refuted: Click to View "Paul commanded oral tradition to be followed in 2 Thess 2:15." False arguments that Catholics and Orthodox use to prove oral extra-scriptural church tradition are refuted. Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View More Pro-Oral Church tradition arguments refuted! Click to View "Paul commanded oral tradition to be followed in 2 Thessalonians 2:15" If the written word completely supplants oral tradition as Evangelicals argue, then why did Paul tell the Thessalonians to maintain oral tradition? (THE WAY: What Every Protestant Should Know About the Orthodox Church, Clark Carlton, 1997, p 141) Click to View Refutation of the false Catholic & Orthodox tradition argument: "Paul commanded oral tradition to be followed in 2 Thessalonians 2:15" Sola Scriptura: Paul did not commanded extra-biblical oral traditions to be followed in 2 Thessalonians 2:15. The oral tradition being spoken about in 2 Thess 2:15 came directly ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-pro-tradition-2-thessalonians-2-15.htm

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Official creed of the Foursquare Gospel church (4-sqauare) International 4 Square (The Foursquare Gospel Church) The Holy Scriptures We believe the Bible is God-inspired (2 Timothy 3:16,17). The Eternal Godhead We believe God is Triune: Father, Son and Holy Ghost (2 Corinthians 13:14). The Fall Of Man We believe that man was created in the image of God, but that by voluntary disobedience he fell from perfection (Romans 5:12). The Plan Of Salvation We believe that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, signing the pardon of all who believe on Him ... We believe that baptism by immersion is an outward sign of an inward work (Matt. 28:19). We believe in the commemoration of the Lord's Supper by the symbolic use of the bread and juice of the vine (I Corinthians 11:24, 25). Baptism With The Holy Spirit We believe that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit is to endue the believer with power; and that His incoming is after the same manner as in Bible days (Acts 2:4). The Spirit-Filled Life We believe that it is the will of God that we walk in the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-4square.htm

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Why I left the Pentecostal church Click to View 20th Century Tongues... Faith or Fake? Click to View Why I Left The Pentecostal Church Click to View The Indwelling Of The Holy Spirit Click to View The Promise Of The Holy Spirit Click to View Speaking In Tongues Click to View Work Of The Holy Spirit Click to View Tongues have ceased! Click to View Click to View Click to View Click to View "WHY I LEFT THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH" (2 Tim 3:14) Paul could have been thinking of me when he wrote this verse to a young man named Timothy. I was born ... B. Of course .. all believers receive the Holy Spirit! 1. The Holy Spirit is received "because ye are sons" (Gal 4:6) ... not to become sons! 2. The Holy Spirit does not come upon one to save him .. but comes as a promised blessing to those who have been saved. 3. The Holy Spirit leads sons by "the law of the Spirit" (Rom 8:1-14) .. producing the "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal 5:16-25). 4. The Holy Spirit will resurrect the sons of God. (Rom 8:11-25) 5. The Holy Spirit bears witness with ... ... https://www.bible.ca/t-why-I-left-pentecostalism.htm

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Official creed of First Evangelical Free Church First Evangelical Free Church We believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God, which reveals to us God's plan of salvation for mankind and is the basis of our faith and the only infallible guide for Christian living (2 Timothy 3:16,17). We believe the entire Bible to be God's written Word, and while we by no intent undervalue or set aside any portion of the Holy Scripture, we believe there are certain fundamental truths, the knowledge of and belief in, we deem necessary for sound doctrine and requisite for Christian fellowship. These fundamentals are set forth in the following Statements of Faith: Statement 1: Holy Scripture We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are the supreme and final authority on faith and life. (2 Timothy 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:20,21) Statement 2: Godhead We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-Evang-First.htm

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The Bible defends itself against those who think it is an incomplete ... Anti-Sola Scriptura Arguments Refuted! Click to View Roman Catholic and Orthodox "oral tradition" defenders attack the Bible and we defeat them with the sword of the Spirit! Click to View Pro-Tradition arguments refuted! Click to View Sola Scriptura home page Click to View A list of Sola Scriptura texts in the Bible: Sola Scriptura proof texts Anti-Sola Scriptura Arguments Refuted: Typical Arguments that Catholics & Orthodox use to trash Sola Scriptura are refuted. Click to View "Sola Scriptura not taught in the ... "Luther and Calvin contradicted themselves because they claimed to use the Bible only, then went on to write creeds in addition to the Bible." Click to View CLICK HERE Click to View "Sola Scriptura advocates hypocritically deny the authority of the Catholic and Orthodox church organizations, then claim their own church's organization has authority." Click to View CLICK HERE Click to View See Also: Pro-Oral Church tradition arguments refuted! Click to View Click to View A ... ... https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-defended.htm

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Trinity proof texts: Mark 2:7 ... The literal Greek reads: "their sins have [already] been forgiven them". In other words, when the apostles proclaim that someone is forgiven of sins, based upon the inspiration of the Holy Spirit which was just "breathed on them", God has already forgiven their sins before this! The verse is not saying that "God forgives sins, the moment the apostles proclaim it" but rather, when the Holy Spirit leads them to proclaim forgiveness of sins, God has already previously forgiven them. First they are forgiven in God's mind (true divine absolution) then the apostles proclaim it. Click here to see commentaries that explain this truth in more detail. Does the watchtower organization teach that it has the power of "absolution of sins"? Jehovah's Witnesses should be ashamed at making an argument they don't even believe is true! This is the identical approach that the Roman Catholics take to prove that the "church organization" can forgive personal sin independent of the mind of God. Such a view ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-mark2-7.htm

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Official creed of Worldwide Church of God (Plain Truth Magazine ... The Worldwide Church of God, with its administrative center in Pasadena, California, has members in 120 countries and territories. The mission of the Church is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world and to help members grow spiritually (Matthew 28:19-20). As a Spirit-led body of believers, the Church is exhorted," Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). The Spirit of God leads the Church into all truth (John 16:13). Accordingly, this Statement of Beliefs does not constitute a closed creed. The Church constantly renews its commitment to truth and deeper understanding and responds to God's guidance in its beliefs and practices. God God, by the testimony of Scripture, is one divine Being in three eternal, co-essential, yet distinct Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is the one true God, eternal, immutable, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. He is Creator of heaven and earth, Sustainer of the universe, and Source of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-PainTruth.htm

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Divine Titles, Functions and Character Qualities ascribed to ... Click to View PERSONALITY and character ascribed to the Holy Spirit. Click to View Irrefutable logic: Game Over for Arians! Trinitarians do not need to prove God is "three in one" or defend the developed doctrines of the Nicene creed in 325 AD. Trinitarians need only prove only one of the following to refute Watchtower theology: that Jesus is not a creature. the Holy Spirit is a person. Divine Titles Jesus Shares with the Father "God, YHWH, I am, King of Kings, First and Last" Click to View We all know the Father is God, but the key focus here is that the Son is ... Jn 15:13; Eph 5: 25 Rom 15:30 Grace Ps 84:11; 1 Pet 5:10 Rom 16:20; 1 Thess 5:28 Zech 12:10; Heb 10:29 Who Gives the Christian the Words to Speak? Mt 10:17-20 Lk 21:12-15 Lk 12:11-12 Lied to Hosea 11:12 Jn 8:55 Acts 5:3 Bears witness: Phil 1:8 Rev 1:5; 3:14 Acts 5:32 Compassionate, Comforts, kind Deut 4:31; 2 Chron 30:9; Ps 103:8-9; 116:5; Rom 11:22; 2 Cor 1:3; 2 Thess 2:16 Mk 6:34; 2 Cor 1:5; 2 Thess 2:16 Acts 9:31 Grieves ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-definition-god-divine-qualities-ascribed.htm

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