John Public
Evangelist, author, muscian. Meek servant.
Hello again. Grace to all the saints in Christ Jesus.
As I was pondering a blog post by a oneness pentacostal reviewing a Cambridge University Press (CUP) King James Bible, it was very disturbing to read his other posts proving, in his estimation, oneness. What is oneness? The 1828 Noah Webster dictionary defines it as:
The 1677 Keach's Catechism opens with Q. 1. What is the first & best of beings? A. God is the first & best of beings. (Isaiah 44:6, Psalm 8.1, 97:9)
So God is, hosanna!
Question 2. What is the one cheif end of man?
A. Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever (1 Corinthians 10:31; Psalm 73:25-26)
I'll give you that Paul proclaimed, One Lord, one faith, one baptism. There is a wholeness to the faith. Thank God it is so!
Q. 9. Are there more gods than one?
A. There is but one only, the living & true God.
(Deut. 6:4; Jeremiah 10:10)
Therefore, all gods among the myriad are false, and glory be to the King the Lord God of Israel, his saints per Galatians 3.28-29 in the new testament, as he has revealed Himself to His creation.
However, I cannot grant God just stopped there. It would be a lie; Thou shalt not bear false witness.
Q. 10. How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A. There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one God, the same in essence, power, & glory.
(1 Cor. 8.6; John 10:30; John 14.9; Acts 5:3,4; Matt. 28.19; 2 Cor. 13:14)
That is seven whole scriptures to examine. Let us look at a few, three to four. I pray we would all examine these completely.
Acts 5:3,4
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
If God is just one, why did Peter fail to differentiate here, especially being the stone upon which Jesus built the church, John 1.42? In the same passage as he said "Holy Ghost" said he "God", so there is no error; the Holy Ghost is God!
To Jewish chagrin, being exposed for their disbelief on Him, Jesus proclaimed in John 10.30, I & my Father are one. Does this need to be explained?! Jesus makes equal expressions or has witness made of Him in John 1.1-14, 18, as well as 5.16-18.
Finally, let us look at 14.9, Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
As lagniappe, let us also consider at Genesis 1, and 1 John 5.7-8. If God created the heaven & earth, he did not read, "In the beginning, the Father", but "God".
The Spirit sat over the void, formless earth awaiting commands from the other two members of the Godhead to form the earth. Guess Moses, God's friend whom personally saw his face and wrote his law must not have
seen a reason to differentiate either between the Father, Son, as well as the holy Spirit.
In the as it is sometimes called Johanine comma, it reads, including verses five plus six for context, 5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?6This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.8And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Frankly, I do not want just a single witness in heaven, one in earth. Eyewitness (except divine) testimony is profoundly unreliable; it is not admissible in court because of such in the US. However, the Spirit bears witness of Jesus, and those he has saved from damnation. At the same time does he bear witness with the Word, and the Father. As Cyprian or Tetrullian likwise in the first two centuries AD bear witness, the apostle John did not bear any separation either.
What are yout thoughts? Is God just one, or triune?
As I was pondering a blog post by a oneness pentacostal reviewing a Cambridge University Press (CUP) King James Bible, it was very disturbing to read his other posts proving, in his estimation, oneness. What is oneness? The 1828 Noah Webster dictionary defines it as:
The 1677 Keach's Catechism opens with Q. 1. What is the first & best of beings? A. God is the first & best of beings. (Isaiah 44:6, Psalm 8.1, 97:9)
So God is, hosanna!
Question 2. What is the one cheif end of man?
A. Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever (1 Corinthians 10:31; Psalm 73:25-26)
I'll give you that Paul proclaimed, One Lord, one faith, one baptism. There is a wholeness to the faith. Thank God it is so!
Q. 9. Are there more gods than one?
A. There is but one only, the living & true God.
(Deut. 6:4; Jeremiah 10:10)
Therefore, all gods among the myriad are false, and glory be to the King the Lord God of Israel, his saints per Galatians 3.28-29 in the new testament, as he has revealed Himself to His creation.
However, I cannot grant God just stopped there. It would be a lie; Thou shalt not bear false witness.
Q. 10. How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A. There are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one God, the same in essence, power, & glory.
(1 Cor. 8.6; John 10:30; John 14.9; Acts 5:3,4; Matt. 28.19; 2 Cor. 13:14)
That is seven whole scriptures to examine. Let us look at a few, three to four. I pray we would all examine these completely.
Acts 5:3,4
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
If God is just one, why did Peter fail to differentiate here, especially being the stone upon which Jesus built the church, John 1.42? In the same passage as he said "Holy Ghost" said he "God", so there is no error; the Holy Ghost is God!
To Jewish chagrin, being exposed for their disbelief on Him, Jesus proclaimed in John 10.30, I & my Father are one. Does this need to be explained?! Jesus makes equal expressions or has witness made of Him in John 1.1-14, 18, as well as 5.16-18.
Finally, let us look at 14.9, Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
As lagniappe, let us also consider at Genesis 1, and 1 John 5.7-8. If God created the heaven & earth, he did not read, "In the beginning, the Father", but "God".
The Spirit sat over the void, formless earth awaiting commands from the other two members of the Godhead to form the earth. Guess Moses, God's friend whom personally saw his face and wrote his law must not have
seen a reason to differentiate either between the Father, Son, as well as the holy Spirit.
In the as it is sometimes called Johanine comma, it reads, including verses five plus six for context, 5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?6This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.8And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Frankly, I do not want just a single witness in heaven, one in earth. Eyewitness (except divine) testimony is profoundly unreliable; it is not admissible in court because of such in the US. However, the Spirit bears witness of Jesus, and those he has saved from damnation. At the same time does he bear witness with the Word, and the Father. As Cyprian or Tetrullian likwise in the first two centuries AD bear witness, the apostle John did not bear any separation either.
What are yout thoughts? Is God just one, or triune?
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