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The Doctrine of God pt 2

There is only one God. The Trinity is Heresy.

1. The Trinitarian con­cept that Jehovah God of the Old Tes­tament consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is wrong.

•  Book 2, p. 99 - The P.A.S.T.O.R.S. Course: Theology - "It has been stated by some that lord, or Jehovah in the Old Testament, is inclusive of three personalities (Father, Son, Holy Ghost). This concept should be avoided for two reasons. First, because scripture plainly declares 'to us there is one Lord... Jesus Christ' (I Cor. 8:6).... Secondly... when scripture speaks of 'one Lord,' it so obviously means a mathematical one."

Again, the confusion arises over the defini­tions of personhood and nature. The exis­tence of more than one person in the Godhead is arrived at by examining the revelation of God in the Bible and allow­ing it to speak for itself without having to find an analogy or similar situation in the creation. As a rule, if the Bible teaches something, even if we can't comprehend it, (understand it), we must apprehend it, (accept it). Because God is other than His creation, there are many things about Him that we quite simply don't have a point of reference to provide a comparison point in the human experience.

2. The doctrine of the Trinity is unbiblical and inevitably leads to tritheism (belief in three Gods).

•  Book 2, p. 110 - The P.A.S.T.O.R.S. Course: Theology - "The doctrine of the Trinity is not a New Testament formulated doctrine."

•  p. 58 - Meet the United Pentecostal Church Inter­national - "Neither testament uses the word trinity or associates the word three or the word per­sons with God in any significant way."

•  Volume 1, p. 288 - The Oneness of God: Series in Pentecostal Theology - "Despite the protests of trinitarians, their doctrine inevitably leads to a practical form of tritheism."

Again, the confusion arises over the defini­tions of personhood and nature. The exis­tence of more than one person in the Godhead is arrived at by examining the revelation of God in the Bible and allow­ing it to speak for itself without having to find an analogy or similar situation in the creation. As a rule, if the Bible teaches something, even if we can't comprehend it, (understand it), we must apprehend it, (accept it). Because God is other than His creation, there are many things about Him that we quite simply don't have a point of reference to provide a comparison point in the human experience.

3. The 20th-century Pentecostal revival that gave birth to the UPC restored truths that were previously hidden. These truths, regarding the name and nature of Jesus Christ, are now taught in the UPC. The UPC also teaches that One­ness theology was taught by the early church until cor­rupt Christendom eventually repressed the teach­ing and "misplaced" (deliberately destroyed) the doc­umentation that would prove that church fathers taught Oneness theology.

•  pp. 62, 63 - Highlights in Church History - "With the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Word of the Lord became a new book. Truths which had been hidden for many years were made clear. In the year 1914 came the revelation on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.... God marvelously confirmed our message as the gospel was preached in its fulness. The power which was hidden in the name of Jesus began to be revealed"

•  p. 6 - The Views of Church History Within the United Pentecostal Church International - "... very little is known about these groups [oneness and other groups deemed heretical] of people. Suppressed, ostra­cized and persecuted greatly, the things they stood for have been, as a whole, con­veniently 'misplaced."

In spite of the fact that Jesus taught that heaven and earth would pass away but not His words;" And that "the gates of hell wouldn't prevail against the church," Modern Day Modalists contend that some­how God allowed His truth and his church to fail. It is a very low view of God's ability to maintain His truth and therefore an insult to God to hold this position. Jude 3 says that "the faith" was "once for all delivered to the saints." This means that God deliv­ered all the essentials of the one true faith to His church at one time and that neither they nor His church would fail, be misplaced, or replaced. The idea that there are missing history and/or documents that would prove their case is the same is an illogical argument from silence made by all cultists seeking to alter God's truth and institute their own. Those who accept the Word of God as the final court of arbitration for any and all truth accept the "witness of God" over and above any "witness of men" in accordance with I John 5.