JESUS CHRIST IS THE GOD BLESSED FOR EVER

Romans 9: 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (King James Version).

Romans 9:5 de quienes son los padres, y de los cuales vino Cristo según la carne, el cual es Dios sobre todas las cosas, bendito por siempre. Amén.  (Spanish Reina Valera 2004)

Romans 9:5 quorum patres et ex quibus Christus secundum carnem qui est super omnia Deus benedictus in saecula amen

(Latin Vulgata)

Romans 9:5 Na sa kanila ang mga magulang, at sa kanila mula ang Cristo ayon sa laman, na siyang lalo sa lahat, Dios na maluwalhati magpakailan man. Siya nawa. (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Romans 9:5 Na sa kanila ang mga ama, at mula sa kanila tungkol sa laman ay dumating si Kristo, na siyang higit sa lahat ay, Diyos na pinagpala magpakailan man. Amen.

(ABFKJV)

Romans 9:5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

(Green’s Literal Translation)

^9:5 whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen. (Revised YLT)

^{Romans 9:5}  Of whome are the fathers, and of whome concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Amen. (Geneva 1599)

^{Romans 9:5}  whose also are the fathers and they of whome (as concernynge the flesshe) Christ came which is God over all thinges blessed for ever Amen. (Tyndale)

Romans 9:5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.  (YLT)

^{Romans 9: 5}  ων ³⁷³⁹ οι ³⁵⁸⁸ πατερες ³⁹⁶² και ²⁵³² εξ ¹⁵³⁷ ων ³⁷³⁹ ο ³⁵⁸⁸ χριστος ⁵⁵⁴⁷ το ³⁵⁸⁸ κατα ²⁵⁹⁶ σαρκα ⁴⁵⁶¹ ο ³⁵⁸⁸ ων ^{1510, 5723} επι ¹⁹⁰⁹ παντων ³⁹⁵⁶ θεος ²³¹⁶ ευλογητος ²¹²⁸ εις ¹⁵¹⁹ τους ³⁵⁸⁸ αιωνας ¹⁶⁵ αμην²⁸¹

    ōn oi pateres kai ex ōn o khristos to kata sarka o ōn epi pantōn theos eulogētos eis tous aiōnas amen (Textus Receptus)

^{Romans 9:5}  Whose [are] the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (Websters)

^{Romans 9:5}  To them the Patriarchs belong, and from them in respect of His human lineage came the Christ, who is exalted above all, God blessed throughout the Ages. Amen.   ^(Weymouth)

^{Romans 9:5}  Whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ — according to the flesh — he who is over all, God, blessed unto the ages. Amen.

 ^(Rotherham)

The Scriptures above are from different Bible versions of Romans 9:5. These readings from different versions are proofs that JESUS CHRIST is our LORD GOD Almigthy, who is over all GOD BLESSED FOR EVER.

I hate doing this. I hate using different Bible versions to prove the truth of God’s doctrine because I am a King James Bible believer. I just want to show that even non-KJV versions are saying the same thing that JESUS CHRIST is THE GOD BLESSED FOR EVER!

Yes, I used also Latin and Greek to show to the deniers of Christ’s absolute deity that they are wrong, absolutely wrong!

IN that single verse (Romans 9:5) we can see the two natures of our Lord Jesus Christ:

1. His human nature.  “Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the FLESH Christ came…”

2. His divine nature. “…who is over all, GOD blessed for ever. Amen.”

Romans 9: 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (King James Version).

These anti-deity of Jesus Christ say that there is a punctuation mark, after “over all” and say that the “God blessed for ever” is not Jesus Christ. But despite the comma, the flow of the sentence shows that Jesus Christ is the “God blessed for ever”. It says after “Christ came”   WHO IS over all….and continues “GOD BLESSED FOR EVER”.

The Scriptures are very clear. They understand that unless they don’t want to accept the truth. They will just naturally pervert the truth of the gospel.

These people have no hope of salvation for they reject the One who provided it for men by his sacrificial death as a Man. 

This verse coupled with Romans 5:8 and 1 Timothy 3:16 is the gospel of salvation.

         

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Jesus Christ existed before becoming a man in eternity. He existed as God, not God the Son equal with God the Father (the Roman Catholic Trinity doctrine); not as a lesser God that was created as first creature (the Jehovah’s witnesses doctrine). It is not true that Jesus Christ existed only when he was born.  No! Jesus Christ has existed even from eternity as the Eternal Great Spirit. God is a Spirit (John 4:24) and the Lord is that Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17).

He is not the Eternal Son of God for he became a Son only when he was born as a Man. His sonship has a beginning.  For his sonship was his human nature.  His sonship began and ended in his humanity. But even before he was born as the Son, he existed for ever as the Lord God Almighty “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8).

Jesus Christ is God himself yesterday, today and for ever. He never changes. He is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, immutable and immortal.  The only thing that changed was his “form”, from “the form of God” (Phil. 2:6) unto “the form of a servant” (Phil. 2:7) being found in “fashion as a man” (Phil. 2:7). He did not cease being God but remained as God “in human flesh”.  Therefore having two natures: as God and as Man in one.  He just added humanity to his Godhood because of his redemptive purposes.

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).  Man sinned against the holy God. And God as just and righteous demands that sin must be punished.  The wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). Therefore all men who have sinned must receive the payment of sin which is death. In order to save mankind, there must be a blood shed “and without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22). But how can man be saved if there is “none righteous”?  (Rom. 3:10)

So it means mankind has no hope for salvation.  God is the only hope of their salvation. Their repentance, religiosity and good works of righteousness will never ever change the situation. Whatever they do are just “filthy rags” (Isa. 64:6).  Their damnation is sure and they will never escape the wrath of a holy God!

Now, it is now all up to God’s decision and plan to save mankind. In his mind in eternity he made a plan. And so he put flesh into that plan and accomplished it in the fullness of time. His plan is that someone must be a sacrifice for the sins of mankind and be their substitute to die for them and as them. That Saviour must be a man who had never ever sinned as a “Lamb without blemish” (1 Pet. 1:19). So how did God accomplish it?  He must have thought to himself “I will create a sinless man who will never sin and he will be my Son that I will sacrifice for the redemption of my people”.  That’s what these deniers of Christ’s deity think.  They think that God would just create a Saviour like himself to save mankind. But that is a foolish thinking! What kind of God is that? That is not the God of love!  He will save himself from risking his own life and make a man in his “look-a-like” and his “clone” to suffer and die as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind? That is not the God of the Bible!

The God of the Bible is this:  a God who will “save his people from their sins”  (Mat. 1:21).  And a God who will himself save by his own hands his people whom he love so much.

Isaiah 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

Isaiah 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

Isaiah 43:10 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.

 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

It is very clear that God himself  is the one who saves. He doesn’t need a “clone” or a “look-a-like”  to execute his plan.  According to what Abraham said in Genesis 22: 8 “God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering”.  Yes, God will provide HIMSELF a lamb. He doesn’t need another, a creature, a man or an angel to be the sacrificial lamb. HE himself will provide HIMSELF as the Lamb to be sacrificed. Through that God showed the sincerity and nobility of his love to mankind – and that is a “selfless” love.  A God who just uses another or make a “clone” Saviour just to save mankind is a “selfish” and “unfair” kind of God. Well, that is not what God did! Rather “God was manifest in the flesh” (1 Tim. 3:16). God became a man by being born as a Son of a woman under the law (Gal. 4:4). God who was “the Word” in the beginning “was made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). He was named as “JESUS” for he shall save his people from their sins (Mat. 1:21).

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

That son who was to be born would be called “EMMANUEL” which means “GOD WITH US”. Yes, literally “in that flesh” God was with mankind.  He made his tabernacle among men. (Rev. 21:3).

God loves mankind so much that he was willing to give his life for them as a sacrifice.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Read John 3:16 with 1 John 3:16 in order to see the whole picture.  God himself  laid down his life for us as the Son. Yes, God cannot and does not die, but he chose to die as a Man.

How did God show his love toward us mankind?

Romans 5: 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

God showed his love toward us – mankind -  in that, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  The words God and Christ are used interchangeably. That is a parallel. God is Christ.  God commended his love toward us as Christ who died for us.

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

God -  the Holy Ghost – the Eternal Spirit himself purchased his people with HIS OWN BLOOD. We all know that it was Christ who redeemed us by his blood (Eph. 1:7). God is a Spirit. As a Spirit he cannot die. And as a Spirit he has no blood. But he became a man by preparing a body (Heb. 10:5) of “flesh and blood” (Heb. 2:14) in which he would dwell in all the fullness of his Godhead (Col. 2:9). Now as a Man, with “flesh and blood”, he can die and shed his precious blood as propitiation for sins (Rom. 3:25).

NO one can save mankind unless he is both God and Man. And because no one can do it, God himself did it. A man cannot save other men because he is also a sinner.  And God also cannot save man because he is God. A magic word or a snap cannot do it.  He must fulfill his righteousness.  So what did he do?  He himself did it! God was manifest in the flesh. He became a man, born as Son though remaining as God. He had to feel and experience the feelings and experiences of a human being. A mediator between God and men must be both God and Man. So God became Man called Emmanuel  (God with us) “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree”  (1 Pet. 2: 24).  “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit” (1 Pet. 3:18).

When God became a Man, the Son, did he cease being as God? No! He remained as God – being immortal, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-present. When he was on earth, simultaneously he was in heaven.

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

When he said those words he was on earth but he said he the Son of man was also in heaven.  How did that happen?  Remember, he did not stop being God.  He was God clothed in “human flesh”, having the human feelings, thoughts, experiences, circumstances, pain, infirmities and weaknesses but at the same time thinking and feeling as God. He was the “Unlimited” God who chose to be in a “limited” body.

Deniers of Christ’s deity always ask this question repetitively, just like a man who has “unlimited text” for texting his messages: “If Jesus was God then, why was he praying?  To whom was he praying, to himself?”  This question has been answered also with “unlimited text”. Remember, that Jesus Christ was a Man who humbled himself. Therefore he had to do his functions as a man who fulfills all righteousness. As a righteous man, he must have a God and he must pray to this God. He “made himself of no reputation”. When he was a Man, he was always pointing towards God the Father in heaven as “the One God” who alone is “Good” (Mk. 10:18). As the Son of God, he had a Father and that is in heaven. IS that himself?  Yes. His body was a dwelling place of the Spirit which was not only in heaven and earth but was/is everywhere. Does it mean there are three persons or three Gods:  God the Son on earth, God  Father in heaven and God the Holy Spirit everywhere?  NO! But they were three manifestations of the One God. That Father-Son relationship was only a temporary set up for redemptive purposes.

God is a Spirit, and he is Holy, that’s why he is Holy Spirit/ Holy Ghost. It is the Spirit that is immortal, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God. He cannot be limited and he has no form. But in beginning for creation purposes, he had the form of God and made all things as the Word. He became the Father when he made Adam his son. And as the Father he was remaining in heaven.

For redemptive purposes, in the fullness of time, this immortal Eternal Spirit prepared a body of flesh and blood, and he conceived a “holy thing” in the womb of a virgin named Mary (Mat. 1:20; Luk. 1:35). So the only begotten Son of God was born. It was the Spirit God himself that was in that “holy thing” called the Son of God. The Son of God was his humanity. He was still the same God but in human flesh.  Now, we can see two offices: first, as the Holy Ghost who is immortal and eternal; second, as the Son who is mortal and temporal. As the Spirit, he was God who receives worship and prayers. As the Son, he was a man praying. As God he was sending. As Man he was sent. When he as the Son was praying, he was praying not to himself, the Son, but he (as the Son) was talking to God the Father . (I and the Father are One, says Jesus Christ).

God is One. So God is “Himself” One.  Only One. But this One being was at that time having two natures:  as the Spirit, God and as the Son, Man. His name is Jesus Christ.  If we can understand his name Jesus Christ, then we will also understand his two natures.

Two different natures in One. Spirit and flesh. God and Man. His name is Jesus Christ. Yes, his name is Jesus. Christ is a title. But later on this title is glued to his name and it became part of the name. So we call him Jesus Christ. If we know the meaning of Jesus and Christ then we will understand his two natures.

Jesus means “Je the Saviour”.  It was IESHO in Hebrew.  IESOUS in Greek. IESUS in Latin.  From the verb “to save” which is ‘ISHO” in Hebrew and “SOZO” in Greek. IE part of the introduction of God to Moses in Exodus 3:14 as “I AM THAT I AM” which in Hebrew is AEIE ASHAR AEIE.  “IE” is short of AEIE  (I AM).  It is transliterated as JE. So JE is “I AM” which is also “HE IS”, therefore “HE WHO CAUSES TO BE and TO EXIST”.  In other words, we call that as GOD. Therefore JE means GOD. JE plus ISHO will produce the name JE-ISHO or JE-SHO which means “”GOD SAVES’ or “GOD THE SAVIOUR”. This name is transliterated in Greek as IESOUS (IHSOYS) pronounced as EE-EE-SOOS and now in English as JESUS. That is why the name JESUS is not the name of a man but the name of God himself. His name JESUS represents his “Godhood”.

Christ means “anointed one”. It was MASHIH in Hebrew. CRISTOS in Greek. CHRISTUS in Latin. Transliterated as CHRIST or MESSIAH in English. Christ is the anointed of God.  As God’s anointed, he was the anointed prophet, priest and king for only these three kinds of men were the ones anointed by God in the Scriptures. He was the anointed one to be the Saviour of the world. This name Christ represents his “Sonship” and “humanity”.

So if we understand his name Jesus Christ then we will understand his two natures.

1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

We can see the parallel in 1 John 2:22. Those who DENY that JESUS is the CHRIST are those that DENY the FATHER and the SON.  Jesus Christ is the Father and the Son.  A man who denies this truth is declared “AN ANTICHRIST”.  The parallel is this:  JESUS (Father) and CHRIST (Son).  The Father and the Son in ONE NAME: JESUS CHRIST.

So are there two persons? No! Are there two Gods? No! Are there two Spirits? No!  But there are two natures: God and Man. Spirit and Flesh. Father and Son. Two Saviours? No! Only One Saviour: JESUS CHRIST.

So this Spirit God became Man in order to save you and me. He died for us. And he wants to save us to the uttermost.  What then must be our response to this selfless love of God who paid the penalty of our sins by his giving of himself as sacrifice for us?  We must believe on his name – the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 16:31). If we don’t believe that he is the Lord God Almighty, then we don’t really believe in his name and our faith is in vain.

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt CONFESS with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt BELIEVE in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

13 For whosoever shall CALL upon the NAME of the LORD shall be SAVED.

Romans 10:9 shows also what we must believe about Jesus Christ:

1.    That he is THE LORD JESUS or JESUS THE LORD.  Confession of faith in his absolute deity as the Lord God Almighty.

2.    That GOD RAISED him from the DEAD. Confession of faith in his substitutionary work as a man Christ who died for us and was raised by God from the dead.

So these were his two natures as God and Man. This Jesus Christ is the LORD and whosoever shall call upon the name of this Lord shall be saved.  So that is his Godhood. This Jesus Christ is also a Man who died for us and was raised again by God (by himself as God) from the dead.

Back to Romans 9:5 we conclude that this Lord Jesus Christ is THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD BLESSED FOREVER but came in THE FLESH as CHRIST. GOD was manifest in the FLESH.  And GOD and MAN are ONE IN JESUS CHRIST. 

JESUS CHRIST IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, who was, who is and is to come.

All praises be to our LORD JESUS CHRIST! Allelujesus!

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Marthy Abbakoum Austria,  Kalubusan Bishop

THE ALLEGED TRINITY VERSES IN THE SCRIPTURES

There are a lot of supposed Trinity verses in the Scriptures. These are the verses used both by Trinitarians and by the deniers of the deity of Christ, who profess that Jesus Christ is different from God. Trinitarians may say that Jesus Christ is God but say on the other hand that Jesus Christ is different from God. They say that the Father is God and the Son Jesus is God. They call Jesus Christ as God the Son. They profess that God the Father is God but he is not Jesus Christ. They believe that Jesus Christ is God but he is different from God the Father.  They continue by saying that there is One God but in three persons. No wonder why the believers of this belief are so much confused and non-Christian religions accuse Christians of worshipping three Gods.

Others of the “Christian” faith don’t believe in the Trinity doctrine but they insist that there are three different individuals called God the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. These people believe that there is only one God, which is true and we don’t deny that. But they go on to say that Jesus Christ is only a human being, created by God or simply a very special creature, created for a special purpose of being God’s dummy or robot. They don’t believe that Jesus Christ is God himself who was manifest in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16 KJV). They believe that God created somebody who looks like him exactly – a human form – for him to dwell in, or let me say for him to “possess”.  And he gave this dummy a special job of “saving” and doing “miraculous works” which God alone can do. 

Remember that God said that he alone is “The Saviour”  Isaiah 43:11 “I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”

The Bible also says that Jesus Christ is “the Saviour”

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

But how can they explain that? God is the only Saviour, but Jesus Christ is also Saviour. Will God contradict his words? If the Bible says that God is the only Saviour and beside him there is no Saviour, it means that he is the only Saviour!  And if Christ is also the Saviour, then he is the God himself!  Or else there are two Saviours!  But that doctrine is outside of the Scriptural truths.

These deniers of Christ’s deity teach that this Christ is just a “human” being created to “save” people. So he is just a substitute Saviour in this sense or a deputy Saviour.  But if this is the case, that kind of God is a weak God and a coward God who has no real and sincere care and compassion for the people he wanted to save. If God is really serious in saving people he loves the most, he will not use other beings, his angels  or his “creatures” to do it but he himself will do it! The truth of the Scriptures is that, GOD HIMSELF SAVED HIS PEOPLE.  It was God himself who became Man and as a Man carried the cross and died for his people!  Is it impossible for God to do it? NO!

I will give some of the verses, though not all, that Trinitarians and the deniers of Christ’s deity use to prove their views whether Trinitarianism,  Unitarianism or whatever form it is.   We will use mostly from the New Testament Scriptures:

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:

This is one of the greatest verses used to prove the Trinity doctrine.  They say that these are three persons of the “one God”; that God is One but he exists eternally in three divine persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.  But careful investigation of this verse leads us to the truth of “One God”.  Father, Son and Holy Ghost are not “three” eternal persons of One God. Take note that it says “baptizing them in THE NAME”.  That name is not “names”.  It is very clear unless you have crossed-eyes! If you have crossed-eyes, you will see “name” as two names!   This command to the apostles in “baptizing them IN THE NAME”.  How many names?   ONLY “ONE” NAME!    Name of whom?   Name of “The Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”.  So it is evident that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost has only ONE NAME!  So they are not three different persons or three different individuals, but three offices, functions and manifestations of that ONE NAME. What is that NAME then?  Though it is redundantly heard, but I will use it also:  Read Acts 2:38 and there you will see what is that NAME (not NAMES) that they were to be baptized in. And that name is the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST!

They say that we must follow the command of Matthew 28:19 than Acts 2:38 because Jesus Christ was the one who commanded the former and that the latter is just a word of Peter and not authoritative. But let us remember that Peter and his company when they spoke these words were “filled” with the Holy Ghost (Acts 4:8). So it is not Jesus versus Peter. It is not Matthew 28:19 versus Acts 2:38. The truth is the apostles baptized in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost which the book of Acts proved as THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, the name that alone saves (Acts 4:12), the name that is above every name (Phil. 2:10).

The ONE NAME of the FATHER, of the SON and of the HOLY GHOST is JESUS CHRIST.  JESUS CHRIST is THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST!

2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

Reading this verse shallowly and not carefully will lead one to conclude that there are three “identities” or three “individuals” in the Godhead. But if we carefully examine this verse, it does not say that.  It rather teaches the ONE GOD truth expressed in his threefold expression as grace, love and communion.  Brother @Romee Abueg has a great exposition about that.

This ONE GOD manifested himself in three ways:  First, as the Lord Jesus Christ (the Son) – grace. Grace is unmerited favour. God gives us what we don’t deserve through Jesus Christ. Someone gave “grace” a meaning in acronym G.R.A.C.E.  -  God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense. It means that God gave his riches of salvation to people by having Christ suffer in return as “the propitiation” and “sacrificial Lamb”. Apostle Paul said that “the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men” (Titus 2:11).  Jesus Christ is this grace! Apostle John said that “the only begotten Son… hath declared him [the Father]” (John 1:18).  Yes, the Son is the “declaration” of God. The Son is how God showed his amazing grace to the people. It is through the Son that we are redeemed. 

Second, as God the Father – love. Apostle John said that “God is love” (1 John 4:7). Love is God’s nature and God’s character. The greatest love that he showed to the world is this: “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”. (1 John 3:16).  God himself LAID DOWN HIS LIFE for us!  So God’s love, like grace is JESUS CHRIST.   So it is God the Father himself that died on the cross as the Son (Man).

Third, as the Holy Ghost – communion.  Another word for “communion” is “fellowship”. It means “being one with another”; “union with”. The communion/fellowship of the Spirit is being one with God.  God as the Father and as the Son makes his abode with us (John 14:23) through the Holy Ghost  (2 Tim. 1:14) The Holy Ghost is the Sanctifier (1 Cor. 6:11), the Sealer (Eph. 1:13) and the Baptizer (1 Cor. 12:13) into “ONE BODY”.  Communion is about being one.  “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?” (1 Corinthians 10:16). It is the “fellowship of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 1:9). The “communion of the Holy Ghost” is the same as the “fellowship of our Lord Jesus Christ” because our Lord Jesus Christ is the Spirit himself . “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Cor. 3:17).

This verse 2 Corinthians 13:14 is not a proof of three persons but of One God who works in three manifestations.  Using this verse and others like this to prove Trinity is useless and illogical.  Just because you see  Christ, God and Holy Ghost there, that you conclude that there are three different persons? So how about this?

Colosssians 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

If we follow their pattern,  it goes something like this:  there are three persons or individuals:  First, God. Second, the Father. Third, Christ. So they will call them as God the God, God the Father and God the Christ. Ridiculous!  No! These are not that! But God, the Father and Christ are just different manifestations or functions of the ONE GOD named JESUS CHRIST.

1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

This verse does not prove that there are three different individuals but rather the contrary. God is One! God is the one who works it all:  First, as God the Father, his work of “foreknowledge”. Second, as the Spirit, his work of sanctification. And third, as Jesus Christ, his work of sprinkling (and shedding of blood).

Jude 1:1 shows God as the Sanctifier.  Acts 20:28 shows God as the one who purchased his church with his own blood.  So what does it show to us? God and Christ are only one and the same.  God and the Spirit are only one and the same. Christ is God and the Spirit.

This verse and others used to prove the trinity doctrine are verses that prove not the trinity but the threefold work and function of God for the redemption of man.

Matthew 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Both Trinitarians and Unitarians use these verses above to show that there are three different persons or identities, namely the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That’s what will come out by interpreting a verse without further investigation. Just because they see the words “voice from heaven”, they conclude that it is the person of God the Father; “Spirit of God”, that it is a different person or entity; and “Jesus”, that he is a separate individual.  But if we look at these verses carefully, we’ll see “Jesus” (the Messias) was baptized in water, and the “Spirit of God” was descending like a dove, and lighting UPON him; and “a voice from heaven” was speaking “this is my beloved Son”.   Yes, they are different from one another, but not different persons, but different manifestations of God in “symbolic form”. That event – the baptism of Jesus – is a very important event in showing to the world who is the Messias, a.k.a. the Christ, the anointed one of God.  The Spirit of God is God himself. He is the Lord Christ himself.  But here in this event, as Jesus (as the Son or as a Man) was baptized “as us”, the Spirit of God or God himself was descending UPON him - the anointing upon – the unction of God – like a dove.   The dove is a symbol of purity and gracefulness. It means that the Man Christ is God’s anointed and upon him God’s favor rests.  It is simply a confirmation that this Man was God’s anointed prophet, priest and king as only these three kinds of people were anointed in the Scriptures. Jesus got it all – as prophet, priest and king. That’s why he is called CHRIST – anointed.  Next, a “VOICE FROM HEAVEN” was speaking “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”.   Another confirmation is “THE VOICE”. The voice of God himself.  It is said as “a voice FROM HEAVEN”, from God’s throne itself.  This is the WORD OF A KING! “Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?” (Eccles. 8:4). This is a ROYAL DECLARATION to the WORLD who REIGNS! Psalms 29 shows God’s voice as his power and majesty in his creation. The same with the descend of the Spirit as a dove, the voice from heaven is a divine declaration pointing to the Man Christ Jesus as the Messias, the Saviour of the world!

Jesus would never convince people by saying, “Hey men! I am God! I am here as a Man having God’s anointing! Listen to me. Look to me and be saved!” No! No! That’s not what he did. Instead, his deity and his being the anointed one was proved by these two confirmations or witnesses by the Spirit and by the voice from heaven which if we join together are God himself!  The descriptions of the Biblical writers must not be interpreted in a wooden interpretation that the Spirit looks like a dove, and that the voice is a different person speaking. 

What happened at Jesus’ baptism was the TWO NATURES of JESUS Christ giving confirmation to his Deity and being Christ.  The Spirit descending like a dove and the voice from heaven are the divine side and Jesus in physical flesh being baptized in water was the human side. That’s why the Man Christ Jesus is said as the “ONE MEDIATOR” between “GOD and MEN”. (1 Tim. 2:5).  GOD and MEN “became one” in Christ, because Jesus Christ was GOD and MAN in “ONE” and “IN HIM”  in that body “DWELLETH ALL THE FULLNESS” of “THE GODHEAD” (Col. 2:9). In that body flows “THE BLOOD” of “GOD” and dwells “THE SPIRIT OF GOD”. That body was the BODY  “PREPARED” by God to be his “TABERNACLE”.

Prophecy was fulfilled in the “INCARNATION” of JESUS CHRIST. “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” (Rev. 21:3). Futurists and end-time fanatics place this prophecy into the far future but the Bible declares that it is a “PAST FULFILLMENT” when God himself became Man named EMMANUEL. Ask brother @Tim Liwanag. “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” (Matthew 1:23) Yes! When Jesus Christ came in the flesh (1 John 4:2) or when God was manifest in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16 KJV), the TABERNACLE OF GOD was WITH MEN, and GOD “DWELT” with them and became THEIR GOD. When God became flesh, the tabernacle of God was no more that place in the temple of Jerusalem but it was THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST himself who was GOD IN THE FLESH! As Apostle Paul said “GOD WAS IN CHRIST” (2 Cor. 5:19). It doesn’t mean that Christ is not God, but that God whose name is JESUS CHRIST dwelt in the human body of the Son (who is Jesus himself in the flesh) and in that body dwelt ALL THE FULNESS of THE GODHEAD. 

Deniers of Christ’s deity say that Jesus Christ was only a created being.  In a sense, that is true, but that is only half of the truth.  Jesus Christ had two natures: the DIVINE and the HUMAN.  As a human, he was created, made, born. It means he had a beginning, a birth.  But as God, he is from everlasting; he is eternal, no beginning and no ending.  As a man, he could die and so he died. But as God, he is immortal and has the power to raise himself from death! Jesus Christ is both the CREATOR and the CREATURE; both God and Man; both King and Prince; both Shepherd and Lamb; both Spirit and flesh; both the Father and the Son; both Infinite and Finite; both Unlimited and Limited; both the Priest and the Sacrifice; both God and Mediator to God; both King and Servant; both God and the Image of God.  Why? Because “CHRIST IS ALL and IN ALL” (Col. 3:11).

1 John 5:7 KJV For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

This Scripture verse above is one of the most abused verses used for trinity. I was one of those men who used this verse to prove the trinity doctrine together with Matt. 28:19 and 2 Cor. 13:14. I did those things because that was what was taught to me. Of course, a student follows his master.  That’s what I was doing. I was a Trinitarian Pentecostal then so I was one of the defenders of that doctrine.  And one more thing, I was a King James Version believer (even until now I am and proud to be one, yes, standing with Brother @Rey Halili Dungca, a real Ruckmanite).

I learned that the corrupt Bible versions don’t have this verse 1 John 5:7 because their translators believe that this is not in the original manuscript.  But we have it in the King James Bible and in the Textus Receptus Bibles. Many KJV believers are Trinitarians and so they say that the KJV proves that the trinity is a biblical doctrine.  That was my stand but I have changed my view, no not the KJV view but the trinity view on 1 John 5:7.

1 John 5:7 does not teach “THREE PERSONS IN ONE GOD”.  Let us analyze.

There are THREE that BEAR RECORD “IN HEAVEN”. Does it say that there are “THREE PERSONS” bearing record in heaven? No! What does it say then if it does not say three persons?  It says that “THERE ARE THREE”. Three what? Three that “BEAR RECORD”.  What does bear record mean?  Another words for bear record is “Witness” and “Testify”.  There are THREE that WITNESS in HEAVEN.   Therefore, it is not THREE PERSONS but THREE WITNESSES.

Where are the THREE WITNESSES?  There are three that bear record IN HEAVEN.  What is HEAVEN? Heaven is God’s throne (Psalm 11:4) God’s throne is everlasting.  Heaven is also synonymous with “eternity” as God is “eternity” and inhabits “eternity” and is from everlasting to everlasting. (Isa. 57:15; Psalm 90:2; 93:2).

Heaven is “eternity” and “infinity”. It transcends time and space. It is not limited by time and space. Heaven is past, present and future. So heaven is God’s essence.

What are the THREE  WITNESSES IN HEAVEN?  They are THE FATHER, THE WORD and THE HOLY GHOST.  They are not three persons but three witnesses rather.  They are THREE WITNESSES IN HEAVEN – IN ETERNITY.  Are these the same as The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost? Not exactly. Because, in the list here are the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost and NOT The Father, the SON and the Holy Ghost. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are God’s three MANIFESTATIONS within that redemptive history (New Testament times).  But 1 John 5:7 tells a different thing.  These are not three MANIFESTATIONS but God’s three ETERNAL NATURES of JESUS AS GOD. IN eternity God is the FATHER (the originator and the source of everything). In eternity God is the WORD (his revelation of himself). In eternity God is the HOLY GHOST (life-giving, quickening, inspiration, empowerment, strengthening, and enlightenment).

Are the THREE WITNESSES really three?  The verse ends with this:  “AND THESE THREE ARE ONE”.  The three witnesses are THREE as witnesses but these three are ONE, not “became One” or “united in one” but “ARE ONE”. That’s an ABSOLUTE ONE!  GOD IS ONE (Gal. 3:20).  And this ONE GOD  bears  record IN HEAVEN (eternity) as THE FATHER, THE WORD and THE HOLY GHOST.  

If you can follow this thought, you now understand the truth that there is only ONE GOD, who is in eternity FATHER, WORD and HOLY GHOST and was manifested in the FLESH as THE SON (temporarily) to “DECLARE GOD” to men and to be the “MEDIATOR between GOD and MEN” by his FINISHED WORK OF REDEMPTION through HIS BLOOD.

These are some of the Scripture verses used by Trinitarians and even the deniers of Christ’s deity to prove that the Father and Jesus are different entities. But we have shown and proved that the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost are not three different persons of Godhead but are MANIFESTATIONS of GOD who is IN HEAVEN or ETERNITY,  THE FATHER, THE WORD and THE HOLY GHOST whose name is JESUS CHRIST. 

To God Jesus Christ alone be all the glory!

   amorilp Pliroma Revelation Bible Ministry