HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN The biggest difference between the Oneness Doctrine and the doctrine of The Trinity is the discrepancy over who was manifested in flesh and dwelt among men. Those who hold to the doctrine of The Trinity (the belief in One God existing eternally, simultaneously, and equally in three separate persons) deny it was God the Father who appeared in human flesh. Instead they insist that the second person, God the Son, is the one who was manifested in flesh. Proponents of the Oneness Doctrine believe that it was the One and only God - the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Our Heavenly Father) who was manifested in flesh and born in Bethlehem. What I find especially interesting is Johns description of this manifestation in John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. I ask these questions to my Trinitarian friends: When did Israel even know God the Son? When did God the Son ever even speak to Israel? When did God the Son ever claim Israel as His own? No legitimate Trinitarian scholar will tell you that Israel ever knew of this second person, God the Son. They admit that He was unknown to the Jewish nation until His birth. And as a side note, the Bible never claims that Jesus is God the Son. So I ask you this: If HE came unto HIS OWN, who could this possibly be speaking of, if not God the Father? The Old Testament is full of scriptures where the Father is claiming Israel as His own. It tells us that He is a jealous God, that He will not share His glory with another, and that the Jewish nation should teach their children that the LORD is One: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord : (Deuteronomy 6:4 KJV) Malachi reminds them that there is One God , The Father: Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?...( Malachi 2:10 KJV) Malachi also reminds Israel that they shall be HIS: And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. (Malachi 3:17 KJV) He did not send a separate person, or just a third of Himself. The one God who created this world stepped into the world He created. His name was Jesus. His purpose was to redeem fallen mankind. Thank God for the revelation of The Mighty God in Christ! He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto HIS OWN, and HIS OWN received him not. (John 1:10, 11 KJV) We make no apologies for our Oneness theology. We make no additions to the meaning of the word, God, in scripture. As a matter of fact, every time the Bible mentions God, it is speaking of The Father. God the Father and only true God ever known to Israel, was made flesh and dwelt among men. Let the controversy be settled: And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16 KJV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:1, 14 KJV) Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (John 14:8, 9 KJV) @Back on Track Bible Studies- Rick Flores 2014
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