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Lohse, Bernard: A Short History of Christian Doctrine Second, the Watchtower, through a series of deceptive 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. Lohse, Bernard: A Short History of Christian Doctrine Click to View A Short History of Christian Doctrine by Bernard Lohse quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower ... At the same time, however, there are in the New Testament the rudiments of a concept of God that was susceptible of further development and clarification, along doctrinal lines. ... Speaking first of the person of Jesus Christ ... In other passages of the ... So the fact that Lohse says Constantine had little understanding and that Trinity is not found in the Bible projects the false impression that such facts refute the fact that Jesus is divine and the Holy Spirit is a person not a thing! Full Text: First, it ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Lohse.htm

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SUMMARY: PROOF that TRINITY is NOT of PAGAN origin! ... distinct Persons, each partaking of the divine nature. The suggestion that Christianity began with a kind of unitarianism and proceeded through "binitarianism" to trinitarianism is false. (Harold Brown, Heresies, p. 113) Paganism did indeed believe in triadic deities, these were always three separate god's who were often the three most eminent god's at the top of a pantheon of other lesser god's (as in Polytheism). "The Ontological Doctrine: There is no reason to seek for sources or types of the doctrine of the Trinity outside of Christianity or of the Bible, though in the eighteenth century efforts were made to derive the Christian dogma from Plato, and later from Brahmanism and Parseeism, or, later still, from a Babylonian triad. Even were the resemblance between the Christian Trinity and the pagan triads far greater than it is, there could be no serious question of borrowing. The development, of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is historically clear, and its motives are ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-not-pagan-reasons.htm

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Encyclopedia Americana XXVII, p. 294L., is deceptive because it projects the false impression that early Christian teaching" was not Trinitarian. "For the early Christian belief that Jesus was divine, the Son of God, and that ... Triune Hindu godhead, c. 7th century C.E. Throughout the ancient world, as far back as Babylonia, the worship of pagan gods grouped in threes, or triads, was common. (The Encyclopedia Americana, quoted ... The earliest development of the doctrine may in fact be viewed its an attempt to preserve the balance between the various statements of Scripture, or their implications, without yielding to views which, though logical enough, would have destroyed or abandoned important areas of Christian belief. The simplest affirmation is that God is "Three in One, and One in Three," without making ... God is Father, and the Father is God; God is Son, and the Son is God; God is Spirit, and the Spirit is God. (Encyclopedia Americana, Trinity, p116) Wow, Exactly the opposite of what American say! ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Americana.htm

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Chadwick, Henry: The Early Church "Constantine, like his father, worshipped the Unconquered Sun; ... his conversion should not be interpreted as an inward experience of grace ... It was a military matter. His comprehension of Christian doctrine was never very clear, but he was sure that victory in battle lay in the gift of the God of the Christians." (The Early Church, Henry Chadwick, quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication) "What role did this unbaptized emperor ... The Watchtower quote, leaves the false impression that Chadwick is saying Constantine worshipped the sun as a pagan, at Nicea in 325 AD, even up to the end of his life. In other words, Jehovah's Witnesses are deceived by their own "god directed organization" into ... "The conversion of Constantine marks a turning-point in the history of the Church and of Europe. It meant much more than the end of persecution. The sovereign autocrat was inevitably and immediately involved in the development of the church, and conversely the Church ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Chadwick.htm

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Divine Titles, Functions and Character Qualities ascribed to ... ... the Trinity true, we need merely show that the Holy Spirit is a person. Because no one disputes that the Father and the Son are persons, we place all our focus on proving the personality of the Holy Spirit. The chart below is absolutely devastating to Arians like Jehovah's Witnesses and Christadelphians. Character Qualities of the Holy Spirit The Father The Son The Holy Spirit Inspires Scripture, Speaks, has a mind, a will and makes management decisions directing others for divine purpose ... Deut 7:7-8; Jer 31:3; Jn 3:16; 1 Cor 13:11; Eph 2:4-5; Heb 12:6; 1 Jn 4:8,16 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 ... Peace 1 Cor 14:33; Rom 15:33; 16:20; 2 Cor 13:11; Phil 4:9; 1 Thess 5:23; Heb 13:20 1 Cor 1:3; 2 Cor 1:2; Gal 1:3; Eph 2:14 Rom 8:6; 14:17; Gal 5:22; Eph 4:3 Intercedes like a lawyer to God - 1 Jn 2:1 Rom 8:26; John 14:16,17,26; 16:7 By Steve Rudd ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-definition-god-divine-qualities-ascribed.htm

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Part 2: Bible Section: Trinity Watchtower BOOKLET: Should You ... Jehovah's Witnesses use it door to door to convert people to their false doctrine. Click to View Scroll Down in this frame to view You are in Part 2: Bible section refuted of the Watchtower's "Should your believe in the Trinity?" booklet. See also Part 1: Trinity is pagan section Direct your friends who are being preyed upon by JW cult members to this page, but do not ... 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 ... Trinity doctrine is considered by scholars to be monotheistic. Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, differentiating the Bible ... How satanic they fail to tell the reader this! Joseph Henry Thayer, a theologian and scholar who worked on the American Standard Version, stated simply: "The Logos was divine, not the divine Being ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-JW-SYBTT-Watchtower-BOOKLET-Should-You-Believe-the-Trinity-EXPOSED-REFUTED-bible-section.htm

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Trinity Attackers refuted! (Watchtower's: Should You Believe ... Jehovah's Witnesses use it door to door to convert people to their false doctrine. Click to View Scroll Down in this frame to view You are in Part 2: Bible section refuted of the Watchtower's "Should your believe in the Trinity?" booklet. See also Part 1: Trinity is pagan section Direct your friends who are being preyed upon by JW cult members to this page, but do not ... 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 ... Trinity doctrine is considered by scholars to be monotheistic. Paine was a Bible trasher who said of the Bible: "Its presuppositions of a divine miraculous origin and character, differentiating the Bible ... How satanic they fail to tell the reader this! Joseph Henry Thayer, a theologian and scholar who worked on the American Standard Version, stated simply: "The Logos was divine, not the divine Being ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-frames-start-page-SYBTT-bible-section.htm

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Boer, Harry R.: A Short History of the Early Church Deceptive quote: Trinitarian Leaves out the comment that JW's theology is of pagan origin. Boer, Harry R.: A Short History of the Early Church Click to View Harry R. Boer, A Short History of the Early Church quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication Watchtower Deception exposed: But why? Certainly not because of any Biblical conviction. "Constantine had basically no understanding whatsoever of the questions that were being asked in Greek theology," says A Short History of Christian Doctrine. The first emperor to become a Christian, Constantine had basically no ... "Justin [Martyr] taught that before the creation of the world God was alone and that there was no Son. ... When God desired to create the world, . . . he begot another divine being to create the world ... In this chapter we are concerned with the first group of questions. VARIOUS ANSWERS: The matter is put quite clearly in the first chapter of the Gospel of John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Boer.htm

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Watchtower Deceptions: Confusing Modalism as if it were trinity ... Defeating the trinity view by refuting arguments used by Modalists Misrepresenting the Trinitarian view as if it were Modalism. Refuting Modalism position Confusing Modalism as if it were trinity doctrine Refuting Modalism Doctrine by calling Here is a perfect example of their deceptive and unscholarly argument: Click to View Modalism and Trinity deliberately confused in "Should you believe the Trinity?", Watchtower publication. Here is what the booklet says: "AT JOHN 1:1 the King James ... What the average Jw's doesn't understand, is that Trinitarians apply the identical logic to refute Modalism. Here is something that is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for the JW to understand. When a born again Christian points to Scriptures that demonstrate Jesus ... The article begins with the WT again trying to define the doctrine of the Trinity: Definition: The central doctrine of religions of Christendom. According to the Athanasian Creed, there are three divine Persons (the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit), ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-deceptions-modalism.htm

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The Top 10 List: "Worst of the worst" of Watchtower satanic quoting Had the Watchtower told you that these eight men also said that the entirety of Christianity was of pagan origin, we would withdraw our criticism! But the Watchtower makes it appear that these are eight men reject Trinity as pagan ... Quoted by Watchtower Click to View Look at the rest of the sentence: "The beginning of the doctrine of the Trinity appears already in John " (c. 100). To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown" So while Hopkins believes Jesus and Paul rejected trinity, he says one ... In this way the spiritual force of Egyptian religion shows a direct link with Christian theology" Quoted by Watchtower Click to View Look at the sentence in red below that they left out. In a most perplexing paradox, Morenz, who ... Will Durant: The Story of Civilization Durant is a Christianity Trasher! "Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. . . . From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity." Quoted by Watchtower Click to View Look at the full ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-deceptions-top-ten-list-start.htm

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Jehovah's Witnesses abuse the divine name YHWH of my God ... Perhaps the word trinity was also used in Matthew 28:18-19, but it too was deleted! A lost Hebrew Matthew that used YHWH contradicts Jesus Statement that scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35) and that the word of God is both incorruptible and imperishable. (1 Peter 1:23-25) For JW's to affirm that YHWH was once in ... For example, in the "Should you believe in the Trinity" booklet, JW's reference several "scholars" who come right out and say, "Trinity was a pagan origin doctrine". But what the "door to door class" of Jehovah's Witnesses doesn't know, is that all the scholars who say trinity is pagan in that booklet are themselves Bible trashers who reject the virgin birth and the resurrection of Christ and the inspiration of the Bible. Click here for specifics on this. So as we will see, the JW charge that the Bibles that Christian commonly use, removes the divine name from the Old Testament is false. We accept that Hebrew was the language of the Jewish Synagogue in the first ... ... https://www.bible.ca/jw-YHWH.htm

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Dunn, James D. G.: Christology in the Making, 2nd edition, 1989 What Anti-Trinitarians quote: A wide variety of quotes are used by anti-Trinitarians that are supposed to prove trinity is a false doctrine What they fail to tell the same article also says: Dunn rejects the deity of Christ: "So too the argument that Jesus is divine because he forgave sins ..." (Christology in the Making, James D. G. Dunn, 2nd edition, 1989, foreword, xxi) The first great Christological battle of the Christian period was not over docetism (Ignatius) or modalism (Tertullian); it was over monotheism. ... That ... In contrast, the too quick resort to the 'obvious' or 'plain' meaning actually becomes in some cases a resort to a form of bitheism or tritheism. So, for example, the assumption that the Logos of John 1. 1 can be substituted by ... 1989, foreword, xxxii) "The charge is (in Hurtado's terms) that I arbitrarily and incorrectly ignored the pagan religious traditions of the Greco-Roman period, a charge to which I am vulnerable particularly because I dated ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Dunn.htm

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Eliade, Mircea: Encyclopedia of Religion ... Even worse for Jw's who use this article in The Encyclopedia of Religion, is that the "Logos-Theology" was connected with Greek Philosophy and is seen as an intermediate stage of development between the original apostolic view of God and the full subordinationism (Jesus is a creature) of the Arians in 300 AD! This is exactly what Arians today charge about the trinity Doctrine being identified with neo-Platonic Philosophy! Full texts: "TRINITY. Trinitarian doctrine touches on virtually every aspect of Christian ... The language of the Bible, of early Christian creeds, and of Greek and Latin theology prior to the fourth century is "economic" (oikonomia, divine management of earthly affairs). It is oriented to the concrete history of creation and ... The speculatively gifted Cappadocians made a clear distinction between hupostasis and ousia (roughly equivalent to particular and universal), thereby establishing orthodox trinitarian vocabulary. At the close of the patristic period John ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Eliade.htm

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Grant, Robert M.: Gods and the One God The Son is always subordinate to the Father, who is the one God of the Old Testament. . . . What we find in these early authors, then, is not a doctrine of the Trinity . . . Before Nicaea, Christian theology was almost universally subordinationist." (Gods and the One God, Robert M. Grant, as quoted by Anti-Trinitarians) In any event, the passage [Phil 2:6-8] makes it plain that before Christ Jesus emptied himself he was not human but divine." (Gods and the One God, ... In Philo a Logos doctrine had bridged the gap between his transcendent, abstract God and the world. It also explained how theophanies could be included in the Old Testament revelation. The point was picked up in John 1: 18: "No one has ever seen God; the ... Even if this could be viewed as a correct picture of the earliest stages of doctrinal development, the meaning of the doctrine was not necessarily-or one might say '.necessarily not"-expressed in its initial stages. We cannot apply some sort of cultural ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Grant.htm

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The Error of the Catholic Nicene Trinity ... To study the gradual transition from an unformulated Biblical witness to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to a dogmatic formulation of a doctrine of the Triune God, we look first to the Eastern Church where most of this development took place. The Apostolic Fathers were witnesses to the Biblical data and the traditional faith rather than theologians, but they furnished useful insights into the lines along which the ... It offers no room for a statement of the relations of Father, Son, and Spirit which would imply that one of them is more or less properly on the divine level of being than another. (Dictionary of the Bible, John L. McKenzie, Trinity, p899) "Because the Trinity is such an important part of later Christian doctrine, it is striking that the term does not appear in the New Testament. Likewise, the developed concept of three coequal partners in the Godhead found in later creedal formulations cannot be clearly detected within the confines of the canon. Since the Christians have ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-catholic-nicene.htm

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Durant, Will: The Story of Civilization Satanic Quote: Christianity Trasher Trashes whole of Christianity and actually accuses the apostles of borrowing their doctrine from Paganism! Durant, Will: The Story of Civilization Click to View ... What else did they fail to quote from this source? Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it ... From Egypt came the ideas of a divine trinity, the Last Judgment, and ... reward and punishment ... of the Mass that Christian fathers charged the Devil with inventing these similarities to mislead frail minds." (The Story of Civilization, Caesar and Christ, Will Durant, Part III, 1944, p. 595) Mithraism, Neoplatonism, Stoicism, Cynicism, and the local cults of municipal or rustic gods... these mystic ideas left their mark on the apostles Paul and John (Will Durant, The Story of ... One could no more discover when myth was originally invented(Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, The Age Of Faith, ch 1, page 16) "Christianity was the last great creation of the ancient pagan ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Durant.htm

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Hopkins, E. Washburn: Origin and Evolution of Religion What the fail to tell you that Hopkins also said: "The beginning of the doctrine of the Trinity appears already in John " (c. 100). "To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . . they say nothing about it." (Origin and Evolution of Religion, E. W. Hopkins, p 336) "The ... p. 336) "But the first Christian theology was given in the words 'I and my Father are one' and the plain faith of the early church members who were not doctrinaires was just this and nothing more. Jesus is God. So proclaimed the first hymns, sung by the early Church." (Origin and Evolution of Religion, E. W. Hopkins, p 338). "Christianity, though built upon the rock of Peter, utilized for the construction of its church much pagan material, some of which had ... into a sun-myth, so Jesus Christ has been explained as cosmic truth in legendary form, a Gilgamesh or other divine hero. The wisdom of Buddha has been referred to Zoroaster and to Moses; that of Jesus to Seneca and Epictetus. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Hopkins.htm

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Origin of Jewish/Christian holy days: Old Testament, Christmas ... A. Today we have four basic type* of holy days: 1. Those of divine origin: a. every Sunday: 1 Cor 16:2; Acts 20:7 b. Sunday is not called a holy day but is the day Christians assemble c. There are no other holy days revealed in the NT for us to keep. 2. Those whose origin in from the OT: Sabbath day, Pentecost 3. Origin is manmade but based upon NT meanings: Palm Sunday, Trinity Sunday 4. Origin is a combination of man-made Christian ideas & pagan sources: a. Christmas, Easter, Halloween B. So called "Christian" holy days fall into 2 ... We must have authority from Christ for all we do (Colossians 3:17) . The authority of Christ is expressed in His Word, not in the traditions of men (John 12:48-49; Matthew 15:1-9). How, then, did the observance of December ... Eating this meat socially was also a liberty (1 Corinthians 11:23,25,27) . These three passages (1 Corinthians 8; 10:14-22; and 10:23-33) apply important principles of the doctrine of Christ to three situations which we also ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/t-holy-days-origin-christmas-easter-halloween.htm

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Footnoting Policy of Watchtower, and actual footnotes to their ... This means that it is the single most important anti-trinitarian document that the JW's use in their efforts to teach the public door to door that Trinity is of pagan origin. But it is all ... XIV, p. 304. 20. "The Catholic Encyclopedia," 1912, Vol. xv, p. 47. 21. "Trinitas: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Holy Trinity", by Michael O'Carroll, 1987, p. 208. 22. "The Encyclopedia of ... Micropaedia, (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, IL) p. 928. 28. "A Short History of Christian Doctrine" by Bernhard Lohse, 1966, (Fortress Press, Philadelphia, PA) p. 38. 29. "The New International ... Section 4: How Did the Trinity Doctrine Develop? 43. "Babylon the Great Has Fallen!", Watchtower Society, 1963, p. 477. 44. "The Early Church," by Henry Chadwick, 1967, (Penguin Books Ltd., ... B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI) pp. 738, 740. Section 6: God Always Superior to Jesus 76." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library." Manchester, England, 196768, Vol. 50, (The John ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-jw-anti-trinity-booklet-footnotes.htm

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Scholars on the Personality of the Holy Spirit ... speaks of the Spirit as a divine energy or power particularly in the heart of man. ... This divine Spirit is clearly distinguished from the Spirit or conscience of man (Rom. viii 16), and the ... The persons of the Trinity are further mentioned together by St. Paul (2 Cor. 13:13) and by St. Peter (I Ep. i. 1-2). Considering the strict Monotheism of the NT.,-such language implies the divinity, as well as the personality, of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and they are sufficient warrant for refusing to believe that N.T. writers did not know the doctrine, because they did not, like St. John, state it explicitly. ... ... At most points, however, context approves and the analogy of the NT strongly suggests that the ruah YHWH is the Holy Spirit, "in the fullest Christian sense" (Theological Workbook of the Old ... his conception of a third One from Moses, and that the pagan custom of erecting statues of Kore at springs was inspired by the Scriptural picture of the Spirit moving upon the waters. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-quotes-personality-of-holy-spirit.htm

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One verse refution of Transubstantiation ... (John 6:41), "I am the vine," (John 15:5), "I am the door," (John 10:7,9), "I am the good shepherd,"(John 10:11,12), "You are the world the salt, (Matthew 5:13), "You are the light of the world the salt, ... C. Transubstantiation is unorthodox and violates Apostolic tradition: Roman Catholics and Orthodox misrepresent the historical development of Transubstantiation, since its invention was no sooner than the third ... is foreshadowed and proclaimed in all the types and declarations of Scripture." (Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, book 4, ch 21, quoting Cyprian) The same situation prevails in the writings of Tertullian and ... Hippolytus speaking of the Lord's Supper as an antitype based upon Prov 9:1: "And she hath furnished her table: "that denotes the promised knowledge of the Holy Trinity; it also refers to His honoured and undefiled body and blood, which day by day are administered and offered sacrificially at the spiritual divine table, as a memorial of that first and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/ntx-communion-transubstantiation.htm

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Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament, Hugh Farmer, 1775 ... and demons to be caused by physical diseases like epilepsy or flu viruses. Farmer said, "the New Testament doth not countenance the doctrine of real possessions." ... and John Monro, who took the same view. What is important to point out, is that he correctly rejected the idea that insanity was caused by supernatural demon possession. In this regard, he was orthodox among his fellow church preachers. Supernatural demon possession is real, but it has never been the cause of insanity. (Essay on ... not supernatural, origin; commissioners seek to measure mental status, not divine possession" (Diagnosis, Guardianship, and Residential Care of the Mentally Ill ... Such views naturally acted as a brake on the development of a rational attitude to the insane and the medical study of insanity. Farmer was not the first theologian ... to his final conclusion 'confirmed by the view given us of the demoniacs in the Christian church', that they 'were all either mad, melancholy, or epileptic persons'. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/essay-on-the-demoniacs-of-the-new-testament-hugh-farmer-1775ad.htm

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Commentary on what the early Christians believed about the Trinity ... As he often confessed Christ to be His God, he was but following the Apostolic example seen in Thomas (John 20:28), John (John 1:1), Paul (Titus 2:13) and Peter (2 Peter 1:1). No amount of misrepresentation can hide the truth of the ... all eternity." (J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, p 107) Justin Martyr Boer, therefore is saying that the faith of Justin Martyr that Jesus is a "created divine being" originated with Greek mythology and not the New Testament! In other words, Boer is saying that Justin's view of Jesus being a created agent to do God's work was of pagan origin! We believe that Subordinationism is taught in the New Testament. Interesting that Boer also claims that Constantine's son, Constantius, used his role as emperor to enforce Arianism, to exile pro-Nicene opponents and influence theology towards Arius. Hence the argument that Constantine is the catalyst of trinity doctrine is no stronger than the argument that Constantius is the catalyst of Arian doctrine. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-history-apostolic-fathers.htm

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Trinity Proof Texts: 58 Triadic Bible Texts ... The Jews simply had no way to explain how both the sender and the one sent (ME) could both be YHWH. This is a good example of doctrinal development between the Old and New Testament. Christians can easily make sense of the passage! So Isa 48:16 has YHWH sending another ... The argument you make from these triadic passages is non-existent, just as nothing special can be concluded about the Peter, James and John passages." (by an Anti-Trinitarian) Anti-Trinitarian rebuttal #1 refuted: We openly admit that the underlying assumption when reading the New Testament, is the doctrine of the trinity. Your underlying assumption when you read the Bible is Arian. Logically, you are correct in recognizing my bias and assumption. But ... When you see an elephant in the clouds it is merely a co-incidence, but 58 elephants in the clouds at the same time chained together trunk to tail, is a divine pattern! It is all about the clear and unmistakable pattern. It is the 8 fold pattern of the PJJ verses and the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-text-triadic.htm

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Interactive Bible Home Page www.bible.ca Click Your Choice The Interactive Bible: THE INTERACTIVE BIBLE WEBSITE: March 2020 AD True Bible Doctrine and Morals: 1. How to Be Saved You need the blood of Christ! Here is how to apply it to your ... Historical documentation of what early Christians believed 8. The Origin of Synagogues as a model for the Christian church 9. Septuagint and Bible manuscript variants in the Old Testament 10. Nimrod and ... Unitarians and Anti-Trinitarians refuted: 1. Satanic and deceptive quoting practices in Watchtower by Jehovah's Witnesses 2. Anti trinity proof texts refuted 3. Trinity is not of pagan origin Noah's Ark 1. Noah's Ark 2. ... REFUTED 16. The Origin of Rapture Doctrine in 1830 AD (Inventor: John Darby) False doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses Refuted: 1. Start here 2. Questions Jehovah's Witnesses don't like to be asked 3. History of Jehovah's Witnesses 4. Inspiration of the Watchtower 5. Jehovah's Witnesses abuse the divine name Jehovah or YHWH 6. Jehovah's Witnesses closet of skeletons ... ... https://www.bible.ca/

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Start here: Introduction and Overview to Sola Scriptura ... Any church that believes in Evangelicals, Baptists All Reform churches, (Dutch Reformed, Christian Reformed, Classical Reformed) because they not only believe in personal illumination of the Holy Spirit, but also accept the Nicene creed as inspired. All Calvinist churches that adhere to John Calvin. (personal illumination of the Holy Spirit) H. Various ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour." (Henry Edward Manning, The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost: Or Reason and Revelation, 1865, p 227-228) "The idea that the Scriptures are self-interpreting is patently absurd. It assumes a degree of absolute objectivity that would make the most ardent positivist cringe with embarrassment. ... this is exactly what the doctrine of sola ... Unaided Personal Interpretation? Bible All-Sufficient? Bible Corrupted? Continuing revelation? Doctrinal Development? Written Extra-biblical Authority? Unwritten Extra-biblical Authority? ... ... https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-start.htm

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RaPseudo-Ephraem does not teach the Rapture! ... [during the tribulation] people shall not be buried, neither Christian, nor heretic, neither Jew, nor pagan, because of fear and dread there is not one who buries them; because all people, while they are fleeing, ... It may have been written much later! 3. False teachers of the Rapture will have to keep looking for any scrap of evidence that any Christian believed this heresy before it was invented by John Darby in 1830 AD. 4. See: The origin of Rapture doctrine: John Darby 1830 AD Below are the full texts of Latin and Syriac version of ... The text is based on two manuscripts: (1) Codex Vaticanus Sir. 566, and (2) Codex Dublinensis (Trinity College) B 5.19. Editio princeps: Thomas Josephus Lamy, ed., Sancti Ephraem Syri Hymni et Sermones (4 ... They look toward heaven And call on the name of God, That the Lord send His sign From within His heaven of glory And the Divine Voice Summon them who are by those gates; So that they suddenly break down and collapse At ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/rapture-pseudo-ephraem-latin-syraic-texts.htm

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Werner, Martin: The Formation of Christian Dogma ... It is evident that from time to time in the Early Church the fact that the Prologue to the Johannine Gospel said nothing of the pre-existent divine Logos-Son's being generated was regarded as a problem. In that Prologue the Logos-Son is represented ... in the great Gnostic systems, as later in Neoplatonism, the Nous held the place within the Church in its doctrine assigned to the Logos. ... Sometimes Philo is clearly the source of inspiration, sometimes Prov. viii, 22 ff., sometimes it is a question of an attempt at a compromise between this key passage of the Old Testament and John i, I. (The Formation of Christian Dogma, An Historical Study of its Problems; Martin Werner, p 226) With Justin and Irenaeus the process of ... He gives a clear exposition of the basic characteristics of this vital historical development, backed by an exhaustive study of the source material." (The Formation of Christian Dogma, An Historical Study of its Problems; Martin Werner, back cover) In ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Werner.htm

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Apostate church organization: 588 - 606 AD: The final dog fight ... ... Click to View Find a local congregation of the New Testament church that is organized exactly as the Bible says The Historical Development of the Papal and ... himself as being God." (2 Thess 2:3-4) What is most important here, is that when John IV, Patriarch of Constantinople, started calling himself the "Universal Bishop" ... the height we have above described. It was not a divine institution, unchangeably fixed from the beginning for all times, like a Biblical article of faith; but the result of a long process of history, a human ecclesiastical institution" (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, book 3, chapter 5) "And such universal ... If you call me universal pope, you thereby own yourself to be no pope. Let no such titles be mentioned or ever heard among us." (Henry Wace, A Dictionary of Christian ... E. Gregory's Territory and the development of Cardinal Bishops: "He [Gregory, 590 AD] was bishop of the city of Rome, metropolitan over the seven suffragan ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-588-606AD.htm

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A Short History of the Watchtower Organization ... They will often respond that theirs is the most ancient religious group, older than Catholic and Protestant churches. In fact, their book Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose asserts that ... His earlier mentor Nelson H. Barbour was a Trinitarian, as was The Herald of the Morning's other assistant editor John H. Paton who joined Russell in leaving Barbour to start Zion's Watch Tower. ... It was only after Paton broke with him in 1882, and ceased to be listed on the masthead, that Russell began writing against the doctrine of the Trinity. By the time of his death , Charles Taze Russell had ... Followers had been taught that Russell himself was the "faithful and wise servant" of Matthew 24:45 and "the Laodicean Messenger," God's seventh and final spokesman to the Christian church. But he ... Meanwhile, he shifted the sect's emphasis from the individual "character development" Russell had stressed to vigorous public witnessing work, distributing the Society's literature from house to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/jw-history.htm

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"The Sensational speech of Bishop Joseph Georg Strossmayer in ... ... Turning it over in my mind, I said to myself, If Peter had been elected Pope, would his colleagues have been permitted to send him with St. John to Samaria to announce the gospel of the Son of God? ... Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles, would have forgotten the first of these offices, the papacy, if the papacy had been of divine institution? The forgetfulness appeared to me to be as ... He would have written a long letter on this all-important subject. Then, as he has actually done, when the edifice of the Christian doctrine is erected, would the foundation, the key of the arch, be ... If this were true, the dispute would be at an end; but our forefathers - and they certainly knew something - did not think of it as we do. St. Cyril in his fourth book on the Trinity, says, 'I ... Scene 9: Papal Sins And Excesses "I go on. The learned Cardinal Baronius, speaking of the papal court, says (give attention, my venerable brethren, to these words), 'What did the Roman church ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-joseph-georg-strossmayer.htm

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Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying) ... Said the angel to John, "Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife." Rev. xxi, 9. Did the angel show John the church? Let John testify. "And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that Great city, the holy ... The next phase presented by Rome after the Pagan form was the Papal. Rome Papal succeeded Rome Pagan. The dragon gave his seat, power, and great authority to the beast. Hence the beast can represent none other but Papal Rome. [242] This is further shown by the ... church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin."-Henry Tuberville, An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, page 58. [449] But Christians of past generations observed the Sunday, supposing that in so doing they were keeping the Bible Sabbath; and there are now true Christians in every church, not excepting the Roman Catholic communion, who honestly believe that Sunday is the Sabbath of divine appointment. [449] The most fearful threatening ever addressed ... ... https://www.bible.ca/7-WL-exhibits-Great-Contro.htm

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Official creed of the Presbyterian Church Of the New Testament Matthew Ephesians Hebrews Mark Philippians James Luke Colossians I Peter John I Thessalonians II Peter Acts of the Apostles II Thessalonians I ... All which are given by inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life. [6.003] 3.The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no ... the Holy Scripture; and the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the ... actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be ... Chapter II Of God, and of the Holy Trinity [6.011] 1. There is but one only living ahd true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, ... the mutual help of husband and wife; for the safeguarding, undergirding, and development of their moral and spiritual character; for the propagation of children and ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-presby-west.htm

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The false doctrine of Roman Catholic apostolic succession! ... We must abide in the doctrine of Christ or we don't have God (2 John 9). We must not take from, add to, or pervert the gospel of Christ because doing so causes the curse of God to come upon us (Rev. 22:18-19; Gal. 1:6-9). Thus, if Catholics are to sustain their doctrine that the authority of the apostles was transmitted to authorized successors, they must produce the passages which openly and plainly reveal it. This they have not done. Please notice the following from a Catholic source: "...The Christian faith has been taught, and was intended by its Divine founder to be taught, in all ages on the same plan that ... "A priest is addressed 'Father.' "He (the Pope, D.R.) is formally addressed as 'Your Holiness.' "A cardinal is addressed 'Your Eminence.' "Arch bishops and bishops are entitled 'Most ... "We need not shrink from admitting that candles, like incense and lustral water, were commonly employed in pagan worship and the rites paid to the dead. But the Church from a very early ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-apostolic-succession.htm

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Sola Scriptura: The failure of extra-biblical oral church traditions ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour." (Henry Edward Manning, The Temporal Mission ... The written Word of God must remain the unique norm." (The Shape Of Sola Scriptura, Keith A. Mathison, Reformed Protestant, 2001, p 179) Click to View Doctrinal development is ... Tradition #4: Uninspired creeds "Rule of Faith". (1 Cor 15:3-6; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Timothy 2:8) Click to View Tradition #5: False doctrine tradition. (Mk 7:7-9; Col 2:8; 2 Tim ... "Paul commanded oral tradition to be followed in 2 Thessalonians 2:15" Click to View CLICK HERE Click to View "John 20:30 clearly tells us that the Bible lacks many things Jesus ... "Widespread malnutrition of the first three centuries crippled the thinking ability of the average Christian to engage in Bible study." Click to View CLICK HERE Click to View See ... ... https://www.bible.ca/sola-scriptura-tradition.htm

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Trinity proof texts: Revelation 22:3 Trinity Proof Texts Click to View Revelation 21:22; 22:1-5 "I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple." ... "Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of ... Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His [Christ's] bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His [Christ's] bond-servant John, Revelation 2:20 'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel , who calls herself a ... In a bizarre twist, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses actually share the same theological argument in allowing worship of creatures. "Mariolatry" is derived from two words: "Mariam" [Mary], and latria or latreuo [divine worship]. Both latria or latreuo are different forms of the same Greek word and they are ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-revelation22-3.htm

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Christianity Wasn't Influenced by Pagan Religions! ... This religious ecstasy was supposed to lead them to think they were experiencing the beginning of a new life. (4) The mysteries had little or no use for doctrine and correct belief. They were ... The pagan rite could not possibly have been the source for Paul's teaching in Romans 6. Only near the end of the fourth century A.D. did the ritual add the notion of rebirth. Several important scholars see a Christian influence at work in this later development.[7] It is clear, then, that the chronological development of the rite makes it impossible for it to have influenced first-century Christianity. The New ... of purification found in the Old Testament and in the Jewish practice of baptizing proselytes, the latter being the most likely source for the baptistic practices of John the Baptist. ... and Greek Religion, 2d ed. (London: Methuen, 1952), 268. 16 See A. D. Nock, "Early Gentile Christianity and Its Hellenistic Background," in Essays on the Trinity and the Incarnation, ed. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-pagan-christianity.htm

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Trinity Proof Texts: Genesis 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8 Trinity Proof Texts: Genesis 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Isa 6:8 Click to View Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let US make man in OUR image, according to Our likeness" I. Plural pronouns used of God proving the ... Jesus, being God, is the creator of all things: "All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. " John 1:3 IV. Christ cannot be the angel Michael the arch-angel: Jehovah's Witnesses are taught through their Watchtower, that Jesus is the created arch-angel named Michael. This is false doctrine and heresy. Hebrews 1:5 proves ... For I would not say that the dogma of that heresy which is said to be among you (The Jews had their own heresies which supplied many things to the Christian heresies) is true, or that the teachers of it ... Father is One, the Son Another.) Constitutions of the Holy Apostles: "the divine Scripture testifies that God said to Christ, His only-begotten, "Let us make man after our image, and after our likeness. ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-genesis1-26.htm

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Haruskah Anda Percaya Kepada Watchtower??? ... themselves." ... "It is not possible for the human intellect to comprehend fully the divine nature. The Bible represents God to us as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. ... The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. (Encyclopedia Britannica, Trinity, Vol. X, pz.126, 1979) Terjemahan Kata ... It was a military matter. His comprehension of Christian doctrine was never very clear, but he was sure that victory in battle lay in the gift of the God of the Christians....He was not baptized until he lay dying in 337, but this implies no doubt about his Christian belief. It was common at this time (and continued so until about ... official or 'established' religion of the empire." (The Early Church, Chadwick, Henry. p 122,125,127) Terjemahan: Ketika ia [Constantius] meninggal di York tanggal 25 ... them for quarreling about minute distinctions, as he believed them to be, about the nature of Christ, and urging them to agree to differ, as did pagan philosophers. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-indonesian-watchtower-booklet-haruskah-anda-percaya.htm

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BEWARE: Arian Biased Translations Jehovah's Witnesses habitually quote faithless men like this to trash the trinity. ("The origin of the [Trinity] is entirely pagan." (The Paganism in Our Christianity, Arthur Weigall, quoted in "Should you believe in the Trinity, Watchtower Publication) Johannes Greber: is ... Wilson denied the personal pre-existence of Christ before his birth, the entire incarnation doctrine, being anti-trinitarians himself. It is used widely by Jehovah's Witnesses ... Nestorius, who was condemned by the third Council of Ephesus in A.D. 431, taught that Jesus had two persons in one body, one human and one divine. Lamsa said: "the Eastern ... The fact that the word "Christian" is found 32 times in these Bibles, when in fact it is only found three times in the Greek is proof enough that it is unreliable as a literal ... Overall, the translation bears the stamp of modernism. If they can get big simple stuff wrong, we certainly cannot trust them in John 8:58. Jehovah's Witnesses highlight the ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-translations.htm

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Life of Mrs. E.G. White - Her Claims Refuted, by D.M. Canright ... ... But, knowing the errors and deceptions which have been connected with Mrs. White and her work, he has felt it a duty which he owed to the Christian world to state the facts. ... All this is done to hinder the influence of my books. I now reaffirm all that I have written in my books and tracts against that doctrine. Several Adventist ministers have rendered valuable aid in preparing these pages. Once they were believers in Mrs. White's divine inspiration, but plain facts finally ... every spirit, but try the spirits: . . .because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (1 John 4:1). In every generation many have arisen claiming to be prophets. ... According to her own testimony, she had to be healed over and over often; but she had no power to heal others. Her oldest son, Henry, a strong, healthy boy of sixteen, was ... Spirit from God himself.Occasionally a college student is detected in the appropriation from some author of an essay which he submits to his teacher as his own production. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Life-of-White-her-claims-refuted-canright.htm

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Death of the Anti-Black Doctrine, Salt Lake City Messenger, December ... ... to the First President told SEATTLE during his recent visit here. 'Throughout the history of the original Christian church, the Negro never held the priesthood. ... in my lifetime.'... "In trying to explain how they reacted to the news, 14 persons compared its impact with that of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. ... "However, in a broad general sense, caste systems have their root and origin in the gospel itself, and when they operate according to the divine decree, the resultant ... people with whom the other descendants of Adam should not intermarry." (Mormon Doctrine, 1979, page 114) EXISTENCE OF NEW REVELATION QUESTIONED In The July 1978 issue ... good deal of time in the temple alone, praying for guidance, and there was a gradual and general development of the whole program, in connection with the Apostles.'" ... The papyrus was in reality a copy of the Egyptian Book of Breathings, a pagan text that had absolutely nothing to do with Abraham or his religion. Since the Book of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/mor-blacks-racism.htm

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The Septuagint, LXX, origin, textual transmission 282 BC ... Sinai writes book of Law in Hieroglyphic Hebrew alphabet script 1340 BC: Danites setup pagan altar at Dan 1094 BC: Shiloh Destroyed by Philistines. Tabernacle tent moved to Nob. ... Trust your Bible because Scripture cannot be broken! The 66 books of the Jewish/Christian bible are the most historically accurate ancient manuscripts of all books on earth. ... In fact, if you took every verse out the bible that had a variant reading it would make zero difference in any Bible doctrine or change any Bible story. This is what Jesus meant when he said, "Scripture cannot be broken" (John 10:35) When you open your Bible you notice that verses ... For example, Koran 5:116 incorrectly represents the trinity as Father, Mary, Jesus based upon the fact that heretical sects of Christians living in Arabia worshipped Mary AND the ... So the "Miracle of the perfect Quran" was achieved through the sword rather than Divine inspiration. It is almost certain that complete variant manuscripts of the Koran have been ... ... https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/septuagint.htm

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Christians can eat test tube meat and genetically modified foods Test tube meat production, genetically modified foods, soya beans, corn, chicken, pork, beef, soya oils. click to view EARLY LIGHT ON A MODERN DEVELOPMENT Introduction: This paper will show that there is nothing sinful for Christians to ... Post biblical reflections. The church father Origen commented that uncleanness or divine prohibition on eating particular meats is without foundation in the objective reality of God's will. Origen believed a person might regard as ... The prohibition was still very much alive in the last book of the Bible (Revelation 2.14 and 20). Post biblical reflections. Around A.D. 125 in addressing a pagan audience, Christian philosopher Aristides of Athens wrote of his coreligionists: "of the ... 1 Samuel 9.24. [xii] Clement of Alexandria Stromata 3.6(52). [xiii] Clement of Alexandria Stromata 3.7(60) trans. John Ernest Leonard Oulton and Henry Chadwick Alexandrian Christianity: Selected Translations (London: SCM; Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1954) p. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/s-christians-can-eat-genetically-modified-food.htm

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Ralph P. Martin: The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians fast.'"" (As quoted in, Should you believe the Trinity?, Watchtower publication, John 10:30; p 416-423) Comments: Although Martin says that "to hold fast" is ... Being in very nature God looks back to our Lord's pre-temporal existence as the second person of the trinity. The verbal form translated being, [hyparchon] need not ... At this point he made his pre-incarnate choice. He considered the appropriation of divine honour in this way a temptation to be resisted, and chose rather to be ... of these verses is attempted by the author in the Tyndale Lecture, An Early Christian Confession: Philippians ii. 5-11 in recent interpretation (Tyndale, 196o), and ... phrase which has given its name to the so-called 'kenosis' theory of the incarnation (See Beare's commentary for kenoticism, pp. 159-174 (E. R. Fairweather's essay). ... The doctrine of the heavenly man has been traced elsewhere in Paul's writings (e.g. i Cor. 15:45ff .), but not convincingly. Bruce sees a parallel in verse 8 to ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-Martin.htm

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Official creed of the Shakers: Compendium (1859) Mother Ann Lee ... CHAPTER XI. - Ann Lee CHAPTER XII. - William Lee CHAPTER XIII. - James Whittaker CHAPTER XIV. - John Hocknell CHAPTER XV. - Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright Click to ... The Divine revelations of former Dispensations were limited and molded by the knowledge of this natural world of the mediums and people of those times. "Moses was ... ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY. 1. SHAKERISM is claimed, by its advocates, to be the ultimate, or second Christian church - the Millennium. 2. The inquiry naturally arises, ... on a low or high plane, or small or large scale, has its point of highest development: first, of the physical; devoted to the supply of the mere animal or bodily ... All the consecrated property of the Society is held in trust by trustees belonging to each community. 5. As industry, temperance, and frugality are cardinal virtues, ... PART III. GOD DUAL - FATHER AND MOTHER 25. An all-important, sublime, and foundational doctrine of the Shakers is the Existence of an Eternal Father and an Eternal ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cr-shakers.htm

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Anti-Trinity Proof Texts Refuted: Galatians 4:14 Anti-Trinity Proof Texts Refuted Click to View Galatians 4:13-14 "you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time; 14 and that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition you did not despise or loathe, but you received me as an angel of ... BAGD uses 1 Cor 3:1 as an example parallel in use to Gal 4:14. (BAGD; A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich, HOS, p 906, section III) Therefore, Anti-Trinitarian argument #2 refuted There are three different definition uses ... Because Gal 4:14 indicates that Jesus functioned as an angel, HE IS AN ANGEL, a and therefore creature. Anti-Trinitarian argument #3 refuted If Jesus merely functioned as a "messenger" the word SENT in the gospel of John is more powerful than Gal 4:14. Anti-Trinitarian faulty argument #4 Gal 4:14 shows Paul, angels and Jesus all functioned as divine messengers. The Father never functions as a divine messenger. Divine ... ... https://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-texts-galatians4-14.htm

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The Myth Of Psychotherapy, Thomas Szasz, 1979 AD ... secondly by the retribution of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment.45 Here, 1,300 years before the birth of institutional psychiatry, and 1,500 years before ... Familiarity with Jung's writings is, however, indispensable for understanding the development of the pseudoreligion we now call "psychotherapy." II Jung was born in the village of Kesswil, Switzerland, in ... A few years later, Jung underwent another profound experience, which he does not connect with his later psychiatric ideas and practices; but I do. It is a test that countless young persons in Christian countries face, but which few meet with the courage and honesty that Jung exhibited when he was fifteen. The matter concerned Jung's understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity and ... For example, in an essay in 1932, he criticizes Freud for maintaining a medical perspective on mental diseases: "Freud always remained a physician. For all his interest in other fields, he constantly had ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-myth-of-psychotherapy-thomas-szasz-1979ad.htm

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Personal Evangelism 101 ... They are highly recommended. SMALL GROUP BIBLE STUDIES (First Principle discussions designed for non-Christian visitors) MONDAY: 6:30 pm - 7703 Leon Ave. Tel: 988-8936, MONDAY: 7:15 pm - ... are similar to a "blank page" in that you can teach them right from the start instead of having to do so much "unteaching" before you are able to get them to see Divine truth clearly. ... Explain terms by referring to Bible passages: liberal (going beyond the doctrine of Christ, failure to adhere strictly to a standard - 2 John 9; Jude 3), institutional (adding new works and levels of organization to the church - 1 Timothy 3:14-15; ... Because this is a "one lesson approach" some special comments need to be made concerning one lesson approaches. It is scriptural (Acts 16:33). The jailor was a raw pagan and knew nothing ... The Church of England (1534) (Also known as the Anglican or Episcopalian Church) Henry VIII, a member of the Catholic Church (just like almost everybody else at the time), was married to ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/evangelism/e-brent-hunters-evangelism-101.htm

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Is the RC church infallible and unable to make errors? Thus, in this work we will examine the truthfulness of their claim. All scriptural quotations in this essay are from authorized Catholic translations (from the ... If a person is something religiously about which nothing is said in the New Testament, some doctrine has been planted besides the pure and simple Word of God. Taking ... The relationship that the church sustains to Christ is the same as that of the individual Christian. As long as the individual abides in the Word of the Lord, he will ... And I give them everlasting life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand." (John 10:27-28). Did Jesus mean "once saved, always ... the truth" to prove that the church is invested with authority to legislate in divine matters. (See Father Smith Instructs Jackson, p. 35; The Question Box, p. 96). ... Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Ind., 1938. The Faith of Our Fathers, James Cardinal Gibbons, John Murphy Co., Baltimore, Md., 1917. CATHOLIC TRANSLATIONS ... ... https://www.bible.ca/cath-church-infallible.htm

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