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NASB | James 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:19 You believe that God is one; you do well [to believe that]. The demons also believe [that], and shudder and bristle [in awe-filled terror--they have seen His wrath]! [Deut 6:4; 11:13-21; Mark 12:29] |
Subject: Is God ONE or is God THREE? |
Bible Note: Dear "Pastor", First, I do not wish to be offensive, but it appears that you came on to this site to start this "debate", and I am proud of my "Trinitarian" brothers who have stood with me against this heresy. We have pointed out scripture after scripture that disproves this "Oneness" heresy, but it is obvious that you are not listening. I will try one more. How about quoting some of the early Fathers of the church? In the third century, Sabellius, a Libyan priest who was staying at Rome, invented a new heresy. He claimed there is only one person in the Godhead, so that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all one person with different "offices", rather than three persons. He was quickly excommunicated. This heresy is referenced three ways, Sabellianism, its founder, Modalism, the "modes", and Patripassianism, after its implication that the Father suffered on the cross, (huh?). As you well know, it quickly died out, but has been revived, now in the Age of Apostasy, as "Oneness Penetecostalism", or "Jesus Only" theology. It presents Jesus as the only person in the Godhead, and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, are offices, or modes of Jesus. You are in the United Pentecostal Church, or "apostolics", are you not?; (I've been reading about them). I too watch a very popular television broadcast network, where this "Word Of Faith" movement has been popularized, (Hosea 4:6). Or rather, I used to. Now, some quotes: 1. Tertullian, (A.D. 216) "; "This is especially so in the case of the present heresy, [Sabellianism], which considers itself to have the pure truth when it supposes that one cannot believe in the one only God in any way other than by saying that Father, Son, and Spirit are the selfsame person. As if one were not all...through the unity of substance". 2.Pope Dionysius, (A.D.262); "But some treat the Holy Trinity in an awful manner, when they confidently assert that there are not three persons, and introduce (the idea of) a person devoid of subsistence. Wherefore we clear ourselves of Sabellius, who says that the Father and the Son are the same....We forswear this..." 3. Athanasius, (A.D.360); "They, [the Father and the Son], are one, not as one thing now divided into two, but really constituting only one, nor as one thing twice named, so that the same becomes at one time the Father and at another his own Son. The latter is what Sabellius held, and he was judged a heretic." I could go on, but I think you get the idea. My Lord and Saviour, the Prince of Peace, the mighty Counsellor, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, has a FATHER! He SENT us the COMFORTER, to guide us into all truth... What is it? Why are you "apostolics" so afraid of the truth? I believe that you, and your followers, need a constant dose of "demonstration" of God's power. His infallible Word, His work on the cross, His promise of salvation, does not get it done for "Jesus Only" folowers. They require constant "proof", (slain in the spirit, healings, etc.). They are blinded to the truth by their "pastors". They hide behind the cloke of "rightly dividing", and "accuse the brethren". "Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a FALSE vision and DIVINATION, and a thing of NOUGHT, and the DECEIT of THEIR heart".; [Jeremiah 14:14]. "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord."; [Jeremiah 23:1]. God Bless, and may you come to the Light of the Truth....believer57 |