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Brother L. Harrell
"I and my Father are one." (John 10:30) It is important that we know who Jesus and God really are. One of the reasons that it’s important we comprehend who Jesus really is, is so we can follow the correct "plan of salvation" and can easily see the error of the majority of churches "plan of salvation." We are commanded to "preach repentance and remission of sins in Jesus’ name" (Luke 24:47). The vast majority of churches do not obey this commandment. Most churches baptize followers "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost". This is done in part because of the ignorance of who Jesus is. Apostle Peter is recorded baptizing in Jesus’ name (Acts 2:38 & Acts 10:48). Philip in Acts 8:16, and Paul in Acts 19:5 baptize in Jesus’ name. Nowhere in the bible is anyone recorded baptizing in any other name than in Jesus’ name. "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:" (Mark 12:29)Trinitarian is a follower or believer in the doctrine of the trinity ; belief in a union of three divine persons / three beings in one nature or essence. Monotheism is the belief or doctrine that there is just one God. Many religious institutions claim to believe in and worship one God, but at the same time they label "Jesus only" followers, who worship the one living God, as heretic or a religious cult. They claim that the one God is a triune God (despite God telling us otherwise). Mark 12:29 (listed above) states God is one Lord. One of the reasons many churches error when baptizing and praying is because of distorted understandings of who Jesus is. Many Trinitarians pray to the "triune", often leaving out the name of Jesus all together (despite God telling us otherwise [Col. 3:17]). Church members are baptized without using the name of Jesus. This is a critical mistake. (There in not power in the title "Son", but there is power in the name "Jesus"). It is widely taught that God is "triune" (three separate distinct persons). The doctrine of the "trinity" not in the bible. The bible does not tell us that God is three separate distinct persons. Numerous times, God tells us that there is one God. Additionally the bible tells us: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)Jesus tells us in John 14:9 "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father". The Father is Jesus. Jesus tells us: "I am come in my Father's name" (John 5:43)Jesus is "God", the "Father", and the "Son": "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)
There is one Spirit (Ephesians 4:6 [Read Below]). There is one Lord. (Ephesians 4:5 [Read Below]). There is one God. (Ephesians 4:6 [Read Below]). "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Ephesians 4:4-6)Jesus is God, Jesus is Lord, and Jesus is the Spirit. Jesus is the Holy Ghost. Jesus is the Comforter: "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever" (John 14:16) "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." (John 14:18)Jesus will manifest himself as the Holy Ghost: "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." John 14:21The name of the Holy Ghost is Jesus: "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (John 14:26)The Father and Jesus will reside in the believer as the Holy Ghost (one God ; one Spirit). This is not three people residing: "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." (John 14:23)Jesus lets us know in John 14:23 that the Holy Ghost, the Father & Jesus will abide with the believer. Remember in Ephesians 4:6, there is just one Spirit. There is one God. Jesus is the name of God. Jesus is the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The bible tells us Jesus is above all: "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" (Colossians 2:9-10)And the bible tells us that the God, the Father is above all: "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Ephesians 4:4-6)Jesus and the Father can not both be above all, unless they are the same person / spirit. Ephesians 4:6 states that the Father is through all, and in you all. The Father is the Holy Ghost. The bible tells us the Father, The Word, and the Holy Ghost prove Jesus is the Son of God. And there is one God. (And Ephesians 4:5 tells us there is one Lord) "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (I John 5:7)All things were made by Jesus: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:1-3)If Jesus was not God, how could he make all things. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)Jesus is God. God created heaven and earth. Jesus created heaven and earth. "Two persons" did not create the earth. It was done alone, by the one living God: "Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself" (Isaiah 44:24)Jesus is the first and the last: "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Revelation 1:17-18) |