Trinity DebateIs the Holy Spirit the 3rd person of the Trinity?I asked you a series of questions, which you have either ignored or decided not to answer and by avoiding those questions you show you would rather defend a doctrine than discuss those Scriptures that call your doctrine into question. Why should I accept a doctrine developed by men who also teach purgatory, the Marian doctrines, communicating with the dead, and a long list of other traditions that ignore those books they think they approved as the NT canon. Would God let his Church fall to heresy and let heresy pollute the world? No, but He has allowed men to fall into apostasy and fall away from His truth as Jesus, Paul, and John prophesied. Matthew 24:4-14 4 And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you. 5 "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many. 6 "And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. 8 "But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. 9 "Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of My name. 10 "And at that time many will fall away and will deliver up one another and hate one another. 11 "And many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many. 12 "And because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold. 13 "But the one who endures to the end, he shall be saved. 14 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come. NAS 1 Timothy 4:1-5 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, 3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude; 5 for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer. NAS 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 2:1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you may not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. NAS 1 John 2:18-23 18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, in order that it might be shown that they all are not of us. 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. NAS Since you want to agree with Alexandrian Jews, then why not accept Philo of Alexandria's concept of logos? It is a bit hypocritical to appeal to one set of Alexandrian Jews while at the same time rejecting the writings of another Alexandrian Jew. The main theme of Wisdom is so Gnostic it is ludicrous to believe it was inspired by God and the fact the full name of the book is the Wisdom of Solomon and we know Solomon did not write the book is reason enough to reject it. The history of the Catholic Church is filled with lies, murder, political intrigue, the promotion of idolatry, and other doctrines that deny its right to be called Christian. Now, I am going to use my authority on this message board and delete any of your posts that do not address the questions I have asked and you have avoided answering. |
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