However you express it, it is in fact a Trinity. To oppose it is to enter into a marginalized group that has a very weak and temporal history. The doctrine the Church Fathers sought to found the Church upon required belief in the Trinity in order to distinguish between the various roles each Person plays in the one God. You can never just have God as Jesus. He will always be above man even while He reveals Himself in Christ.
Dear Randy Kluth,
Here is the true meaning of the story of the woman taken in adultery:
John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
In this story of the “Woman taken in Adultery”, the woman represents the Elect who will become the Bride of Christ as presented in the marriage analogy used in scripture.
This scripture applies:
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Adam is the “wife of youth” and is a type for the Elect.
In the scripture above, the phrase “called thee as a woman forsaken” is speaking of the time when the woman (who has been forsaken since being cast out of the Garden of Eden) is given the Early Rain of the Spirit and is called out from the world.
The phrase “wife of youth when thou was refused” is referring to the time when the woman (Adam) lost her marriage relationship with Christ in the Garden of Eden. The marriage ended when the woman (Adam) committed adultery with Satan (believing Satan over Christ).
Ever since that time, Christ has been preparing for the day when He will restore His marriage relationship with His forsaken wife. As verse 7 says, He will do so with “great mercies”. These “great mercies” are manifested in the New Covenant of Grace through Faith.
At the time of the Early Rain of the Spirit, the woman will be made into a
chaste virgin and will become espoused to Christ.
2Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
After the engagement takes place, Christ (the Bridegroom) will leave to “prepare a place” for his chaste virgin.
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
To be a chaste virgin, the woman must come to Christ by faith alone. However, shortly after receiving the Early Rain of the Spirit, Satan will come to the woman masquerading as Christ and he will feed her his leavened bread (
Mat 13:33). Since the leaven is
hidden in the bread, she will not be aware that the bread contains the lies of Satan. Satan is able to deceive the woman because her
spiritually blindness remained after she received the Early Rain of the Spirit.
Because the woman is now following the ways of Satan instead of the ways of Christ, she will
fall away from faith. She is guilty of mixing in Satan’s doctrine of works (religion, Old Covenant of Law) into the New Covenant of Grace through Faith. When the woman commits this sin of adding “works” to faith, she is
fornicating with Satan. This is the sin that leads to death and is the same sin that ended the original marriage in the Garden of Eden. As a result, the woman is no longer a chaste virgin. She will remain under the Law of Sin and Death.
To correct the woman’s fallen away spiritual condition, it is necessary for Christ to come to her a second time and give her the Latter Rain of the Spirit. With the Latter Rain of the Spirit, her spiritual blindness will be healed and she will come out from under Satan’s deceptions. When she does, she will be made into a chaste virgin again and will be ready for the marriage ceremony.
After the marriage ceremony takes place, she will be
gathered together with Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven; the home of her Husband.
This verse applies:
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Now, let’s apply the truths I presented above from the marriage analogy to the story of the “Woman taken in Adultery”.
John 8:3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
In the first three verses of the story, a woman is said to have been caught in the act of adultery. This event typed when Adam was caught in the act of adultery in the Garden of Eden.
The woman was then delivered to the Pharisees who were responsible for the administration of the Law. The Law says that the penalty for her adultery is death. When Adam committed adultery in the Garden of Eden, he too, was judged by the Law and he was given the penalty of death (both spiritual and physical).
However, since Christ is now ready to restore his marriage relationship with the woman, he will gather her with “great mercies”:
John 8:6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Christ’s act of writing in the ground represents Him pouring out the
Early Rain of the Spirit on the woman. By doing this, He is writing His Law of the Spirit in her heart.
This verse applies:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
The verse above is referring to the New Covenant of Grace through Faith which is Christ’s spiritual covenant. Under the New Covenant, Christ will perform all the necessary “works” to restore the woman to himself. And since it is a spiritual covenant, He will write his Law of the Spirit in the heart of the woman.
John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
After Christ first writes in the earth, the Pharisees continue to accuse the woman. They do this because the woman still remains under the Law after having received the Early Rain of the Spirit. She remains under the Law because the Early Rain is not sufficient to stop her from committing adultery with Satan. In other words, she does not have the ability to approach Christ strictly by faith alone yet. She is still compelled by her carnal nature and the deceptions of Satan to mix in her own “works” with faith. She tries to serve two masters, both Satan and Christ (
Mat 6:24).
By continuing in her adultery, she falls away from faith and remains under the Law. For this reason, the Pharisees do
not drop their stones but continue to accuse her.
John 8: 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
In verse 8, Christ stoops down a second time and writes His Law of the Spirit in the heart of the woman again. This act represents the
Latter Rain of the Spirit.
It is at this point that Christ heals the woman’s spiritual blindness and she comes out from Satan’s deceptions. At this time, she begins to walk by faith alone and as a result,
the Law can no longer accuse her. After this change from the Old Covenant of Law to the New Covenant of Grace through Faith,
the Pharisees drop their stones and leave.
The woman (the Elect) has now been made into a Chaste Virgin again and is ready for the wedding to take place. After the wedding takes place, the woman’s marriage relationship with Christ is restored.
Joe