Question:  1) one true God 2) that God is triune 3) Jesus is  God 4)  Jesus IS the triune God! What about the holy spirit  and  the Father?  are they God's too? Are they also triune so  that there are 9 persons in your godhead?

 

Answer:

ONE GOD

 

One true God:

God is a perfectly unique being (no other  like Him  exists). He is infinite (always was and always will be).  He is called Yahweh in the Old Testament, and who reveals Himself in the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the New Testament; thus excluding polytheism (belief in many gods),  tritheism (belief in three gods), and subordinationism (in which Christ is a lesser god subordinate to the Almighty).

a. Only one God:

"Hear, O  Israel: The LORD our God [is] one  LORD:" (Deuteronomy 6:4)

" Ye  [are]  my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant  whom  I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me." (Isaiah 43:10)

"Thus  saith  the LORD the King of Israel, and his  redeemer  the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and  beside me [there is] no God." (Isaiah 44:6)

"Fear  ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from  that time,  and  have declared [it]? ye [are] even  my  witnesses.  Is there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not  [any]." (Isaiah 44:8)

"I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is]  no  God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that [there  is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and [there is]  none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things]." (Isaiah 45:5-7)

"Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yea, let them  take  counsel together:  who hath declared this from ancient time?  [who]  hath told it from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is] no God  else  beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there  is]  none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else." (Isaiah 45:21,22)

"And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one." (Zechariah 14:9)

"As concerning therefore the eating of those things  that  are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is]  nothing  in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth,  (as  there be gods many, and lords many,) But  to  us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we  in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all  things, and we by him." (1 Corinthians 8:5,6)

"Now  a  mediator  is not [a mediator] of one, but  God  is  one." (Galatians 3:20)

"One  Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and  Father  of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all." (Ephesians 4:5,6)

"For  [there is] one God, and one mediator between God  and  men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5)

"Thou  believest  that  there is one God; thou  doest  well:  the devils also believe, and tremble." (James 2:19)

b) All other "gods" are only "so-called,"

"As concerning therefore the eating of those things  that  are offered  in  sacrifice  unto idols, we know  that  an  idol  [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in  earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)But to  us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we  in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all  things, and we by him." (1 Corinthians 8:4-6)

"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called  God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." (2 Thessalonians 2:4)

c) Moses was "as God," not God or divine

"And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall  be, [even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt  be to him instead of God." (Exodus 4:16)

"And  the  LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a  god  to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet." (Exodus 7:1)

d) Satan, idols, and the belly are all false gods.

"For the LORD [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be  feared  above all gods. For all the gods  of  the  nations [are] idols: but the LORD made the heavens." (Psalms 96:4-5)

e) Wicked judges called "gods" in irony, not to discribe nature.

"A  Psalm  of  Asaph. God standeth in  the  congregation  of  the mighty; he judgeth among the gods." (Psalms 82:1)

"I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High." (Psalms 82:6)

"Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I  said, Ye  are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the  word  of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of  him,

whom  the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the  world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?" (John 10:34-36)

f) Yahweh is Elohim.

"These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they  were created, in the day that the LORD God made  the  earth and the heavens," (Genesis 2:4)

"Unto  thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the  LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him." (Deuteronomy 4:35)

"Know therefore this day, and consider [it] in thine heart,  that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath:[there is] none else." (Deuteronomy 4:39)

"Know  ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath  made us,  and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep  of his pasture." (Psalms 100:3)

(thus excluding the view of Mormonism that Jehovah and Elohim are distinct beings)

g) Implied by the doctrines of self-existence, transcendence, and omnipotence.

2)That God is triune

a)The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God

"But  ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so  be  that the  Spirit  of  God dwell in you. Now if any man  have  not  the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." (Romans 8:9)

This verse explains that the Holy Spirit (always written with a captial "S") is not only the Spirit of God but also the Spirit of Christ  and  that believers are in the Spirit, because they  are also the body of Christ, His Church, His bride and literally  His hands, feet, mouth, and etc..

b) The Spirit of (the) living God.

"[Forasmuch  as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle  of Christ ministered by us (Jesus' Apostles), written not with  ink, but  with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of  stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart." (2 Corinthians 3:3)

c) The Spirit of our God.

"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and  by the Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:11)

d) The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit,

"And  grieve  not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye  are  sealed unto the day of redemption." (Ephesians 4:30)

e)  The Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the  dead  (i.e., God)

"But  if  the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus  from  the  dead dwell  in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall  also quicken  your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth  in  you." (Romans 8:11)

f) The Spirit of your Father,

"For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." (Matthew 10:20)

g) The Spirit of His Son

"And  because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of  his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (Galatians 4:6)

h) The Spirit of Jesus Christ

"For  I  know that this shall turn to my salvation  through  your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ," (Philippians 1:19)

i) In the Old Testament the Spirit of the Lord came upon  prophets, outwardly (after Jesus resurrected the Holy Spirit controls believers by residing in their hearts). An example is:

"And  the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son  of  Jehoiada the  priest,  which stood above the people, and said  unto  them, Thus  saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the  LORD, that  ye  cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the  LORD,  he hath also forsaken you." (2 Chronicles 24:20)

3) The Son

a) "The Word was God (the question that follows this one would be: "who is the Word?")

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,  and the  Word was God. The same was in the beginning with  God. All  things were made by him; and without him was not  any  thing

made that was made." (John 1:1-3)

b) The Word was made flesh

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we  beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (John 1:14)

c) No man has seen the Father

"No  man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,  which is  in  the bosom of the Father, he hath  declared  [him]."  (John 1:18)

(Note - p.1315 KJV): In  the Greek NT, this verse begins with the word  "God"  (Theon [2316], without the definite article. It therefore refers to  God in His essense as Spirit. John is declaring that no created being has ever seen God in His essence as Spirit. This first statement is  to bne connected with verse one, which also speaks  of  Jesus Christ  in His self-existence as an eternal and infinite  Spirit.

Then,  to  show the very special relationship of the Son  to  the Father,  He  is called monogenes (3439). The word  is  translated "only begotten," this giving the false idea that, in His  eternal state,  He was generated by the Father. The second part of  verse eighteen declares that this unique Son, or "unique God" (as  some manuscripts  have it), who has always been in the bossom  of  the Father,  manifested  the Godhead and made  Him  understood.  This

second  declaration of verse eighteen agrees with verse  fourteen which speaks of the incarnation of the Lo'gos, the "Word."

d) Jesus Christ, the image of the invisible God

"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:  16  For by him were all things created, that  are  in heaven,  and  that are in earth, visible and  invisible, whether [they  be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities,  or  powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the  dead;  that in all [things] he might have  the  preeminence." (Colossians 1:15-18)

(Note - p.1479 KJV): In the first verse of this passage, Jesus Christ is  presented as the image of God, the invisible One in John 1:18.  Eikon (1504)"image," always assumes a prototype (the  original  form from  which it is drawn), not merely a thing it resembles  (e.g., the reflection  of the sun in the water is an eikon).  Paul  was telling the Colossians here that Jesus Christ has a  "prototype," God the Father who is invisible. The relationship between Christ and the Father is not coincidental)

e) Jesus thought himself to be equal with God

"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery  to  be equal  with God: But made himself of no reputation,  and  took upon  him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness  of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled  himself, and  became obedient unto death, even the death  of  the  cross." (Philippians 2:6-8)

(Note - p.1474 KJV):  This passage deals with the deity of Jesus  Christ  which was  evidenced pior to His incarnation and continued through  His death on the cross.

In  comparing verse six of this passage with John 10:30, one  can note  that  Christ is equal to God in addition to this  fact,  He proved  in His incarnation and death that He was still deity.  In other  words becoming a human being, Christ did not  become  less than deity. In speaking to His disciples, Jesus said, "My Father, which  gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is  able to  pluck [them] out of my Father's hand. I and [my]  Father  are one." (John 10:29,30) Because Christ is equal with God, those who would  seek to "snatch" His followers out of His hand would  also have to remove them out of God's hand as well.

Therefore,  Paul  states  in Philippians 2:6,7  that  Christ  ".. thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself  of no  reputation.. " What is to be understood here is that He  was deity. Prior to His death, He asked the Father to glorify Him  in a  position next to God with the glory which He had  even  before the  world was created: "And now, O Father, glorify thou me  with thine  own self with the glory which I had with thee  before  the

world  was." (John 17:5) If Christ had come to the earth with  an emphasis  on  His equality with God and all  that  entailed,  the world  would have only wondered at Him, and not received Him  as Savior. The Lord lacked recognition and glory by men while He was on  earth as the Incarnate God. However, as far as God  was  concerned, Christ never lost His position before God.)

4) Who is the Word?

a) His name is called "The Word of God"

Speaking of the Second Coming of Christ Jesus: "And  I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse;  and  he that  sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in  righteousness  he doth judge and make war. His eyes [were]  as  a flame  of fire, and on his head [were] many crowns; and he had  a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And  he  [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:  and  his name is called The Word of God. (Revelation 19:11-13)

b) The Word has to abide in you

"And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath  sent, him ye believe not." (John 5:38)

(Note - Without the Holy Spirit, who is also named the Spirit  of truth,  in our hearts we cannot receive the Word. One can  deduct from this Scripture also that the Holy Spirit is the Word. There is Scripture which confirms it)

"By the word of truth (Spirit of truth), by the power of God,  by the  armour of righteousness (Jesus Christ is our  righteousness)on the right hand and on the left," (2 Corinthians 6:7)

c) The word of the Lord endureth forever

"But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (1 Peter 1:25)

d) There are three that bear witness.. and the three are one

"Who  is he that overcometh the world, but he  that  believeth that  Jesus is the Son of God? This 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. For there are three that  bear  record  in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are  one. And there are three that bear witness in earth,  the Spirit,  and the water, and the blood: and these three  agree  in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God  is greater:  for this is the witness of God which he hath  testified of  his Son. He that believeth on the Son of  God  hath  the witness  in  himself: he that believeth not God hath made  him  a liar;  because he believeth not the record that God gave  of  his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us  eternal  life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the  Son hath  life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not  life. (1 John 5:5-12)

(Note: From  the previous Scriptures you should be able to  deduce  that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three persons because they all three speak but they are ONE God which we cannot comprehend. The  concept  is not physical but spiritual and of  the  next dimension. God lives outside of this universe that we know it.

The Bible is written by applying concepts that we can  interpret  so that we can get some kind of understanding of what God is  trying to communicate to us. We are left with just believing what He tells us because He is God and not a liar.

e) The three Gods are not each a triune  God

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are ONE TRIUNE GOD: GOD THE SPIRIT, GOD THE BODY, AND GOD who is PART  OF  THE HEART AND MIND OF HUMAN BEINGS, THE HOLY SPIRIT. Believers  are  in the Holy Spirit, in Christ. Christ is  in  His Father, God.

4) Where does the concept of nine persons come from:

When  you  study symbolism, such as the pentagram,  the  star  of David and the ninepointed star one begins to understand where the confusion comes from which comes teachers like Benny Hinn,  Freemasonry,  Islam, Bahai and others. I wasn't aware  that  the  Jehovah's Witnesses use this nine pointed symbol. The founder of Jehovah's Witnesses was a Freemason which is confirmed with our newsletter showing his grave to be a pyramid with a Masonic Symbol.

The triangle  in  occult teachings  represents  a human being: body, mind  and  soul.  

The Pentagram  pointing  up also represents man in  five  dimensions, supposedly the highest achieveable realm from a human standpoint. Taking  that a step further, in Freemasonry the compass  and  the square (their insignia) makes into five pointed star which represents a sexual act between a man and a woman literally. Masons believe in the physical  evolution by their progeny and believe that sexual  energies mingled with good deeds will ultimately gain them heaven.

This  same  concept  applies to "star of  David"  which  has  six points. In it we have two triangles of the opposite sex.

Nine  is  a sacred number and the number  of  perfection. It depicts a Mystic ladder  to heaven with nine rungs.

Egyptians arranged their  deities  in Triads: the Father ("G" Generative Power), the Mother (Matter)  and  the Son (Product) and the three were  underworld  gods: Osiris, Isis, and Horus. Triads of the same kind are found in the Kabalah (p. 87 Morals and Dogma).

The triple triangle in  Masonic writings of Albert Pike, 33 degree Mason, is peculiarly sacred, having ever been among all nations a symbol of Deity (God) (p.826 Morals  and  Dogma). A nine-pointed star  in  essence  represents three  separate  individuals). It is not  surprising that  Satan wishes to keep Masons and those lost in darkness in the dark about God and who He really is.

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