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see stars millions of light years
away-but
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cannot act on them. But
God can project His Spirit from
where He is in Person to any and
every point in the vastness of the
universe-and more, HE CAN ACT ON
ALL SUCH THJNGS!
Now once again to Genesis 1: 1:
" ln the beginning God...." This
originally was written by Moses as
God inspired him. Moses wrote in
Hebrew. The Hebrew word trans–
lated God is
Elohim-a
uniplural
noun or name.
lt
is the same sort of
uniplural word as
fami/y, church,
group-one
family consisting of two
or more members--one church com–
posed of many members--one group
of severa! persons.
lt
is referring to precisely the same
"Persons," making up or composing
the one God, as we found in John
1:1- the Word and God-and each
of those TWO Persons is GoE>.
IN OTHER woRos, Goo IS A FAMI–
LY of Persons, composed so far of
only the Two-God the Father and
Christ the Son. But IF the Holy Spirit
of God dwells in one, and he is being
led by God's Spirit, then (Romans
8:14) he is a begotten son of God.
But, at the time of Christ's return to
earth in supreme power and glory to
set up the KINGDOM OF Goo,
restoring the GovERNMENT OF Goo
abolished by Lucifer, then all being
filled and led by God's Spirit shall
become BORN Sons of God. The Goo
fAMILY will then RULE ALL NATIONS
with the GovERNMENT OF Goo
RESTOREO!
The "Trinity" doctrine
/imits
God
to a supposed three Persons.
It
DESTROYS the very Gospel of Jesus
Christ! His Gospel is the good news
of the now soon-coming KINGDOM OF
Goo- the 'only hope of this world
and its mixed-up mankind!
The "Trinity" doctrine, by con–
trast, is the doctrine of the great false
church called in Revelation
L
7:5:
"Mystery, Babylon the great, the
mother of harlots and abominations
of the earth."
By that doctrine, along with
others, Satan has DECEIYED all tradi–
tional Christianity.
The Trlnlty Doctrine
The generally accepted teaching of
traditional Christianity is that God is
a "Trinity"- God in three Persons-
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Father, Son and Holy Spirit (which
they call a "Ghost").
How did this "Trinity" doctrine
enter traditional Christianity?
It
most emphatically did not come
from the Bible. I have quoted Reve–
lation 12:9 saying that all nation·s
have been deceived by Satan the
devil. How, then, did the wily Satan
introduce this doctrine into " Chris–
tianity"?
The history of this question is
interesting. It seems incredible that a
being like Satan not only could have
deceived the whole world, but also
"Christianity"-the very religion
bearing Christ's name and supposed
to be His true religion. Yet, paradox–
ically, Satan did!
He did it through his great false
church, started A.D. 33 by Simon the
Sorcerer, described in the 8th chap–
ter of the book of Acts as the leader
of the Babylonian mystery religion.
It is recorded in
11
Kings 17:23-24
that Snalmaneser, King of Assyria,
who had invaded and conquered the
northern Kingdom- the Kingdom of
Israel-moved the people out of their
land of Samaria, north of Jerusalem,
and moved into that land people of
the Babylonish mystery religion from
the provinces of Babylon. They were,
of course, gentiles. They inhabited
this area of northern Palestine in the
time of Christ. The Jews of Judea in
Christ's time would have nothing to
do with them, calling them contemp–
tuously "dogs." They still adhered to
this pagan Babylonish mystery reli–
gion in the first century.
In A.D. 33, two years after Jesus
Christ from heaven founded the
Church of God on that day of Pente–
cost, the deacon Philip, who later
became an evangelist, went down to
Samaria and preached Christ's Gos–
pel. This Simon the Sorcerer carne
with the crowd to hear him.
Simon had bewitched the people of
that country, and they follówed him
as their leader in the Babylonian
mystery religion "from the least to
the greatest, saying, This man is the
great power of God" (Acts 8:10).
When the people believed Philip,
preaching the Kingdom of God, they
were baptized, and this Simon with
them.
Then Simon carne to the apostles
Peter and John, offering money as a
bribe, asking them to give him the
Holy Spirit. Peter rebuked him
strongly. But Simon proclaimed him–
self a Christian apostle, nevertheless,
and called the pagan Babylonian
mystery religion "Christianity." He
accepted the doctrine of "grace" for
the forgiveness of sin (which the
pagan religions had never had), but
turned grace into license to disobey
God (Jude 4). He aspired to turn his
pagan religion, under the name
"Christianity," into a universal reli–
gion, to gain thereby the political
rule of the world.
Simon, the "Pater" (Peter) of bis
counterfeit religion, did not accom–
plish this in bis lifetime. But succeed–
ing leaders, with the headquarters
moved to Rome, did, later, gain
political control over the Roman
Empire and its medieval successor,
called "The Holy Roman Empire."
This empire is in process of again
being resurrected in Europe now!
By the 6th decade of the first
century, much of the Middle East
had turned from the true Gospel to a
counterfeit (Galatians 1:6-7). As late
as the 90s, A.D. the apostle John was
still living. He wrote the book of
Revelation on the Isle of Patmos.
A little later the church started by
Simon in A.o. 33 was trying to turn
the true Christian Passover (Christ
had changed its form from that of
Old Testament Israel) into the Baby–
lonian Easter-named after the god–
dess Astarte or Ishtar (pronounced
"Easter").
After the death of the apostle
John, a disciple of his, Polycarp,
waged a controversy over the Pass–
over-Easter question with the bishop
of Rome, by then leader of the
church started by Simon.
Still later, another disciple of
Christ's true Christianity, Polyc–
rates, waged a still hotter controversy
over the same Passover-Easter ques–
tion with a later bishop of Rome.
This theological battle was called the
Quartodeciman Controversy. Polyc–
rates contended, as Jesus and the
original apostles taught, that the
Passover should be observed in the
new Christian form introduced by
Jesus and by the apostle Paul
(I
Co–
rinthians 11 ) , using unleavened
bread and wine instead of sacrificing
a lamb, on the eve of the 14th Nisan
(first month in the sacred calendar,
occurring in the spring). But the
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