HOLY SPIRIT So powerful has the belief in the Trinity become that it is the litmus test for whether or not a person is considered to be orthodox. According to The Watchmen Foundation, the acceptance or rejection of the Trinity idea tops their list as to what they consider to be a cult. If a group does not believe in the Trinity, they are considered a cult. Trinity was created in Nacene by the Roman emperor Constantine, since then Satan managed to give his counterfeit doctrine a hat, which is Trinity, but true doctrine contain Godhead. It is also true that there were ancient pagan trinities, and those concepts were undoubtedly drawn upon by those who forced this doctrine upon the church. However, these change agents still had to deal with the Bible, and so ways had to be devised to make this pagan doctrine appear to agree with it. They have done this by elevating the Holy Spirit to divine status as a personality, just like the Father and the Son. They label it co-equal and eternal with them, and at the same time they make the three also to be one. The result is this incomprehensible mixture—a mystery—that a true child of God, one who believes the Bible, cannot accept. God sends His Spirit forth and creation takes place. If whatever He sends His Spirit into has already been created, then transformation takes place. From what to what? Transformation takes place from a state of destruction to a state of purity, cleanness, construction, and order—from confusion to order. This was what happened in Genesis 1. The Spirit of God brooded over the face of the deep, looking down on the earths state of confusion, and then God sent forth His Spirit. Out of that confusion came order, beauty, and life. When God sent forth His Spirit to us, what kind of condition were we in? We were in Babylon—just as confused as everybody else. We were headed for the grave. We were in varying degrees of destruction and disorder. When He sent forth His Spirit, transformation began. God was creating! How much participation did we have in that? Why is the Spirit given to us? So that God can create. So often, we emphasize what we do with the Holy Spirit, but what we do with the Holy Spirit is tiny and insignificant compared to what God does. Could the creation in Genesis 1 have regenerated itself, transformed itself, recouped itself, from its state of destruction? No. In like manner, neither could we. What is the Holy Spirit? It is the essence of Gods mind. Is that not simple? It is the essence of the mind of the Father and of the Son. Jesus said, The Father and I are one, because their minds are so much alike. The Holy Spirit is power that issues from them, and when we accept it, what does it issue from us as? What is its fruit? Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, meekness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. The Holy Spirit emanates directly from them for the express purpose of influencing us directly and personally, which is why we can be called the called, the chosen, the elect—for of all the people in this world, God chose directly to influence us. Ephesians 2:2 says that Satan indirectly affects everyone on earth with his spirit. He broadcasts it; it goes out in a general manner to all the worlds people. But our relationship with God is direct and personal. His Spirit does not go to everybody. It came directly to us. He sends His Spirit purposefully. He is thinking about us individually, and He is determining what we can become, where we can fit in His Kingdom, and what He needs to do to prepare us for it. He was thinking about us before He ever let us know, and when the time came that it was right, He sent forth His Spirit and began to create us spiritually. He sent forth His mind and began to interface with us personally. Such is the difference between Gods approach and Satans approach. Once we understand this, we can begin to understand the errors in Trinity Doctrine. Spirit indicates an invisible, immaterial, internal, activating dimension, agent, or power. We have been taught that the Holy Spirit is the power of God, which is correct but incomplete because it is too narrow. The Holy Spirit indeed does empower, but so does mans spirit. The difference between the two lies in the quality of what they empower us to do. Spirit is unseen. It is like the wind, as Jesus explains in John 3. Wind is composed of air, which we cannot see. What we do see is what air moves, like tree limbs or a weather vane, or carries, like smog, dust, or ash. We do not really see the wind moving these things, only the object flying through the air. Like the invisible wind, unseen spirit causes other things to happen. In reference to a person, spirit activates, motivates, inspires, generates, initiates, begins, begets, impels, spurs, encourages, provokes, triggers, influences, originates, produces, spawns, creates, and fathers what we literally see in the way of conduct and attitudes on the outside. This applies even to God. Three major differences exist between Gods Spirit and our spirit. The first and most obvious is that Gods is holy, and holy means different. But as holy is used throughout the Bible, it becomes clear that its real application is not merely different, but peculiar, a cut above. So Gods Spirit is transcendentally pure and infinitely good in all that it motivates and energizes. Is Satans spirit that way? Is mans? Not at all. The second difference concerns the amount of knowledge that it is capable of transmitting and using, and for Gods Spirit, it is virtually infinite. The third difference is that God, unlike man, is infinitely wise and mature, and therein lies His morality, His character, which He transmits through His Spirit. Thus, Gods Spirit possesses three kinds of power: purity, knowledge, and character.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:33:38 +0000
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