Subject: Is Belief in the Trinity Required? |
Bible Note: The Holy Spirit is a spirit, not a person. In fact, the Holy Spirit is a spirit OF a person. Have you not read this? Mar_13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. Those delivered up at this time will not be speaking themselves for it shall be the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit) which speaks through them. In another Gospel we are told more information: Mat_10:20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. The Holy Spirit is "the Spirit of your Father". All people (persons) have a spirit within them. Shall I consider my own spirit a separate person from myself? Of course not so why should we consider the Spirit of the Father a separate person? Considering et Holy Spirit a separate person was never taught by anyone in the bible nor the early church. It was inserted by others later and made official but it is not scriptural. I believe in the original concept of "Trinity" which is a word that means "three". Trinity means "three" and is a term to describe how God interacts with Man as in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Those three is what the "Trinity" term refers to. Those three are found in many places together as well as separately in scripture. Here are some: Matthew 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway outof the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he sawthe Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: Matthew 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my belovedSon, in whom I am well pleased. Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: |