The Holy Trinity
HERE IS WHERE FALSE PREACHERS ARE GOOD AT – ADDING TO THE WORDS OF GOD WHICH QUALIFIES THEM AS LIARS (PROVERBS 30:6). THERE IS NO WORD “EQUAL” IN HEBREWS 1:8 “BUT UNTO THE SON HE SAITH, THY THRONE, O GOD, IS FOR EVER AND EVER: A SCEPTRE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTRE OF THY KINGDOM.” BUT WHEN SPLENDOR1618 CONCLUDED, HE ADDED THE WORD “EQUAL”. THE FATHER AND THE SON ARE BOTH GOD BUT THEY ARE NOT EQUAL BECAUSE THE FATHER IS GREATER THAN THE SON. SPLENDOR1618’S EXPLANATION IS FALLACIOUS. NOT BECAUSE THE FATHER SAID THAT THE SON IS GOD IT WOULD MEAN THAT THEY ARE EQUAL. TWO MEN CAN BE BOTH POLICEMEN BUT ONE MAYBE HIGHER THAN THE OTHER; ONE MAYBE SPO1 AND ONE MAYBE SPO4.
1. There is but one GOD………………Ex 3:14, *Deut 6:4, Jn 17:3
2. There are no other gods…………….Isa 43:10,44:6-8, 1Cor 8:4-6
3. GOD is the creator……………….
4. The Father is GOD…………………1C
5. The Father is Lord………………….
6. The Son is GOD…………………..
7. The Son is Lord………………….
8. The Holy Spirit is GOD…………..Job 33:4, Act 5:3-4
9. The Holy Spirit is Lord……………2Cor 3:17
10. Three persons in one GOD……….Gen 1:26, Mt 28:19, 2Cor 13:14
11. Father, Son, Holy Spirit………..Mt 3:16-17, Mk 1:9-11, Jn 14:26, 1Cor 12:4-6
12. False gods will perish……………….J
Jesus said “a tree is recognized by its fruit” (Matthew 12:33). When looking for “fruit,” here are three specific tests to apply to any teacher to determine the accuracy of his or her teaching:
who will secretly bring in destructive heresies (‘sects of perdition’ in the DRB, ‘damnable heresies’ in the KJ),
even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.”Elucidation:
‘Destructive heresies’, ‘sects of perdition’, ‘damnable heresies’???
If you are not familiar with the word ‘perdition’, please Google it or consult a dictionary. It is scary.
These are very strong words from Holy Scripture to say the least. Never should anyone elide them.
Isn’t dividing the Body of Christ into tens of thousands of pieces* destructive?
What ever happened to another verse, elided by those that split the Body of Christ, where He
prayed to the Father that they be one?
For those who are the …authors of those divisions, do you think that they ever read the last
five words of 2Peter 2:1?
*There are over 40,000 individual sects that call themselves Christian at the time of this writing.
World Christian Encyclopedia, a Protestant publication.
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2Peter 2:2, “And many will follow their licentiousness, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.
Elucidation:
This is a very interesting verse. Did you know that the early followers of Jesus Christ were called
“The Way” before they were called Christian?
See these verses: Mk 1:3, 12:14, Lk 3:4,20:21, Jn 1:23,14:4-5,*14:6, Acts 9:2,16:17,18:25-26,*19:9,2
2Peter 2:2 also said “the way”, and not “the ways”, since there can be only one way of truth.
“The way of truth will be reviled” is certainly true even to this day what with all of the
never ending attacks against the only Church that Jesus Christ founded.
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2Peter 2:12, “But these men, like irrational animals created by nature for capture and destruction,
deride what they do not understand, and will perish in their own corruption…”.
Elucidation:
Here is a quote from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) which fits perfectly with this verse:
“There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church,
but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church.”
How many to this day “deride what they do not understand” about the Catholic Church?
They do so because of what they believe in what they are taught by false teachers, rather than
by going to the source, the Catholic Church, for the truth of what it teaches.
Read about how I got started in apologetics whereas to know what non-Catholics were taught,
I did not listen to them but went directly to their sources for the truth of what they were taught.
I obtained their own teaching materials, and saw for myself the misconceptions they had
regarding the Catholic Church.
Here is what is said about 2Peter 2:12 from the Haydock Bible commentary:
Ver. 12. But these men, &c. These infamous heretics of whom he speaks, like brutes, void of reason, naturally
following the disorderly inclinations of their nature corrupted by sin, tend, or run headlong into the snares of the devil,
to their own destruction and perdition, blaspheming against the mysteries of religion, and against what they do not understand. (Witham)
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2Peter 3:16, “In these epistles there are certain things difficult to understand,
which the unlearned and unstable distort, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures also,
to their own destruction.”
Elucidation:
Again we see a verse that reverts back to:
2Peter 1:20, “…no prophecy of Scripture is made by private interpretation.”
Essentially it is the same instruction but using different wording.
Why does a person repeat himself? It is to add emphasis to the lesson because of its importance.
If anyone sees himself or herself imbedded in this verse, please do not avoid the last four words.
which the unlearned and unstable distort, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures also,
to their own destruction.”Elucidation:
Again we see a verse that reverts back to:
2Peter 1:20, “…no prophecy of Scripture is made by private interpretation.”
Essentially it is the same instruction but using different wording.
Why does a person repeat himself? It is to add emphasis to the lesson because of its importance.
If anyone sees himself or herself imbedded in this verse, please do not avoid the last four words.
May God enlightens you….
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John 1:14 RSV)
Jesus after healing a man on the Sabbath made the Jews quite angry and very disturbed. The Jews got mad when they heard Jesus making Himself equal to God. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working still, and I am working.” (John 5:17-18 RSV) This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.
Jesus again was about to be stoned when he called God His Father. ”I and the Father are one.” The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” (John 10:30-33 RSV)
Also, when Thomas saw the resurrected Jesus he plainly called Christ God. Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28 RSV)
Which one would I believe Erick, you or Jesus himself? Do you think scriptures will lie? or your personal and private opinion are heretical and erroneous?…God Bless!