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If you have the true Christ, you would agree with the Church throughout history and not be labeled a heretic by them and the AOG who threw you out of their Church in the 1900s.Nope.
Not necessarily.If you have the true Christ, you would agree with the Church throughout history and not be labeled a heretic by them and the AOG who threw you out of their Church in the 1900s.
If it were so easy why did the early church call it a mystery? If it were so easy to understand why could not anyone express it in any way they themselves could understand, or teach it to others in any way any one else could understand?
Non Trinity is a different god.The apostle John I thought was able to define who we need to believe in quite adequately. I think if we followed his lead, we can't go wrong.
KJV 1 John 1
3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
KJV 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.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
KJV 1 John 3
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
KJV 1 John 4
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
KJV 1 John 5
16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
I see nothing in the above that says we should believe in some formula devised by the church to describe or define the Godhead.
I easy term, not definition.If it were so easy why did the early church call it a mystery? If it were so easy to understand why could not anyone express it in any way they themselves could understand, or teach it to others in any way any one else could understand?
But you do not worship the same Christ as Paul, or the Church which is his body.Not necessarily.
Did Paul the apostle have the true Christ?
Yet, he was labeled as a heretic by people who claimed to have faith in the Lord God (Acts 24:14 (kjv)).
People in church history who have labeled similar doctrine to what I believe as heresy were not necessarily true Christians. They were in charge of what was at that time the Catholic Church; and this speaks volumes about whether they were truly born again or not.
I do indeed worship the Christ that is testified to in the Holy Bible; and therefore the Christ which is worshiped by His true church. Definitely the same Christ as who Paul the apostle worshiped.But you do not worship the same Christ as Paul, or the Church which is his body.
Jesus is not God.
Jesus didn't know the divine mystery. If Jesus had been God, John 4:22 would have been a lie, and God can not lie.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
The trinity doctrine contradicts those verses.
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
You can check for yourself: everything God does, He does by speaking it. So verse 1 has no confusion until trinity believers inject it there.
What is a word? We have the spoken word, but that is not God. We have the written word, but that is not God. We have the word made flesh, so by what authority do you take that word out of context and declare that is God when the other two are not?