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Well, that's not the first heresy I've heard on this forum; I doubt it will be the last.

Online "christian forums" are a gateway drug for every heretic who can type a keyboard.

Mormons, come on in here.
Mary Cult.....come on, tell us all aout your goddess and water baptism and the Rosary.
JW's... lets hear from You.
Bible haters........this is YOUR PLACE to Land.
Atheists......feel free to spit on Jesus and God, we'll provide you with a special forum section.

Do you want to blame God for everything that is horrible in this world???? then come to a "chritian forum" as we will let you do it.
WE might even let you be a "special mod".

Do you love Abortion rights and Gay Sex Lifestyle??? Gay Adoption ??? "Castrating Teens with Chemicals????.......then get on in here and show us your HEART, as we want to hear from you., as its EXCITING.

Do you want to become a deceived Calvinist? A TULIP Head, so that you can later stand up and tell everyone you are a Calvinist and deny The Cross ?
Then come to any "christian forum" as they all have this Heresy up and running and often it controls the forum, itself.


And then when a Real Christians pushed back hard... really hard, then : "ban that one, as they are not showing the Heretics '"enough LOVE".
 
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Most of the groups i listed are Calvinists to some degree as that Devil's doctrine is always built right regarding a "christian cult'.

I will now add that Devil's theology to my list...

-Thx

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I can see you have a special calling to categorise, to determine and to give unsolicited advice to all and any.....a calling you deem straight from the throne of God!
 

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I can see you have a special calling to categorise, to determine and to give unsolicited advice to all and any.....a calling you deem straight from the throne of God!

Spiritual Discernment, is the God given spiritual abilty to perceive distinctions where the natural mind can't.

The Ministry i was given is also to teach the NT......specifically Paul's doctrine. So. to do this, you have to have strong spiritual discernment, or what Paul defines as "as many as be perfect".

The Bible is God's word of progressive revelation and to teach the NT Doctrine (Paul's) correctly you have to see it as God wrote it as Paul teaches it.
Its all spiritual and can only be accessed with "Spiritual eyes".

See everything with Christianity is Spiritual.

"God is A Spirit"
"Jesus is THAT Spirit".
Christians are to "walk in the Spirit".
The bible is 'spiritually discerned"
"he that is spiritual discerns all things" (and that is a Teacher, that is me.)
Christians are "born again Spiritually"
The words in the bible are "Spirit and Truth".
Christians are led of the Holy "Spirit".
Christianity is empowered "by my Spirit, sayeth the Lord".

So, you only deem this from the carnal minded religous perspective, so, you can only see it as "categories" @quietthinker
 

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Spiritual Discernment, is the God given spiritual abilty to perceive distinctions where the natural mind can't.

The Ministry i was given is also to teach the NT......specifically Paul's doctrine. So. to do this, you have to have strong spiritual discernment, or what Paul defines as "as many as be perfect".

The Bible is God's word of progressive revelation and to teach the NT Doctrine (Paul's) correctly you have to see it as God wrote it as Paul teaches it.
Its all spiritual and can only be accessed with "Spiritual eyes".

See everything with Christianity is Spiritual.

"God is A Spirit"
"Jesus is THAT Spirit".
Christians are to "walk in the Spirit".
The bible is 'spiritually discerned"
"he that is spiritual discerns all things" (and that is a Teacher, that is me.)
Christians are "born again Spiritually"
The words in the bible are "Spirit and Truth".
Christians are led of the Holy "Spirit".
Christianity is empowered "by my Spirit, sayeth the Lord".

So, you only deem this from the carnal minded religous perspective, so, you can only see it as "categories" @quietthinker
The witness to yourself speaks volumes!
 

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

The Johannine Comma Addition 1st John 5:7-8 (Latin: Comma Johanneum) is an interpolated phrase (comma) in verses 5:7–8 of the First Epistle of John.[1] The text (with the comma in italics and enclosed by brackets) in the King James Version of the Bible reads:

7For there are three that beare record [in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.] 8[And there are three that beare witnesse in earth], the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood, and these three agree in one.
— King James Version (1611)
In the Greek Textus Receptus (TR), the verse reads thus:[2]

ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες εν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ πατήρ, ὁ λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἕν εἰσι.
It became a touchpoint for the Christian theological debate over the doctrine of the Trinity from the early church councils to the Catholic and Protestant disputes in the early modern period.[3]

It may first be noted that the words "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one" (KJV) found in older translations at 1 John 5:7 are thought by some to be spurious additions to the original text. A footnote in the Jerusalem Bible, a Catholic translation, says that these words are "not in any of the early Greek MSS [manuscripts], or any of the early translations, or in the best MSS of the Vulg[ate] itself." In A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Bruce Metzger (1975, pp. 716–718) traces in detail the history of the passage, asserting its first mention in the 4th-century treatise Liber Apologeticus, and that it appears in Vetus Latina and Vulgate manuscripts beginning in the 6th century. Modern translations as a whole (both Catholic and Protestant, such as the Revised Standard Version, New English Bible, and New American Bible) do not include them in the main body of the text due to their ostensibly spurious nature.

The comma is mainly only attested in the Latin manuscripts of the New Testament, being absent from the vast majority of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, the earliest Greek manuscript being 14th century. It is also totally absent in the Geʽez, Coptic, Syriac, Georgian, Arabic and from the early pre-12th century Armenian witnesses to the New Testament. Despite its absence from these manuscripts, it was contained in many printed editions of the New Testament in the past, including the Complutensian Polyglot (1517ad), the different editions of the Textus Receptus (1516-1894ad), the London Polyglot (1655) and the Patriarchal text (1904ad). And it is contained in many Reformation-era vernacular translations of the Bible due to the inclusion of the verse within the Textus Receptus. In spite of its late date, members of the King James Only movement and those who advocate for the superiority for the Textus Receptus have argued for its authenticity.

The Comma Johanneum is among the most noteworthy variants found within the Textus Receptus in addition to the confession of the Ethiopian eunuch, the long ending of Mark, the Pericope Adulterae, the reading "God" in 1 Timothy 3:16 and the "Book of Life" in Book of Revelation 22:19.

The McKenzie Bible Dictionary explains it this way.... “The Trinity of God is defined by the Church as the belief that in God there are three persons who subsist in one nature. The belief as so defined was reached only in the 4th and 5th centuries AD and hence is not explicitly or formally a biblical belief.” Which hold true to the fact that the word Trinity does not occur in the Holy Bible.

The short history of the Trinity.
The word Trinity was coined by writers in post biblical times more than once between the 1st century and 4th century. But never defined as three persons in one God….not three anything in one.

The first time that the three in one formula for the Trinity was formulated was during the Ecumenical Councils. The reasons why the Catholic Church enforced this belief by execution or excommunication or withholding salvation is the tell all to why it is false. (The Catholic Church believed it had control of salvation.)