The Trinity
Allan Svensson
The Trinity
The Bible teaches plainly that the Father is a person, and the Son Jesus
Christ is a person, and that the Holy Spirit is a person. Please read
John 6th, 8th, 10th, 14th, 15th and 16th Chapter. Jesus speaks there
about the Father and about himself.
John 16:13-14 shows plainly that the Holy Spirit is a person. "Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:
for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall
he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me:
for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you."
There is no reason to make a separate doctrine of this, named "the
doctrine of the trinity". But men have done such a doctrine, and in
that way caused a problem entirely unnecessarily.
This is a worry for many Christians. The word "trinity" does not
occur in the Bible, and how to think about this? We do not need to
take any notice of "the doctrine of the trinity". This doctrine is only
a figment. We can ignore this doctrine and read God's word just as
it is written in the Bible.
God has not given us any problem with the trinity. Nevertheless,
when people manipulate with God's word and make their own theories
and doctrines, then problems appear. Instead of reading God's word
as it is written, they have made a doctrine about what the Bible teaches.
They have a doctrine about the doctrine.
They also have made a doctrine about what the Bible teaches about
the Assembly of God, and a doctrine about what the Bible teaches
about the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Consequently, they have not
preached the truth of the Assembly of God, and not the truth of the
baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Every church and every denomination have its own assembly doctrine,
but they have one sake in common. They are religious black buildings
and are not founded on God's word.
"Jehovah's Witnesses" deny God's trinity and say that Jesus is not
God, and that the Holy Spirit is no person, but it is clear from many
places in the Bible that Jesus existed before he was born as a man.
Jesus himself says in John 17:5, "And now, O Father, glorify thou me
with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before
the world was." In Col. 1:14-17 we see that Jesus is the first-born,
and all things were created through him and for him.
Other, who also deny God's trinity, mean that the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit are the same person. This doctrine has been spread
out of William M. Branham.
Jesus says to his disciples, "...baptizing them into the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," Matt. 28:19. Observe.
This is not a doctrine of the Church, but words of Jesus. The Churches
have mixed God's word with their own doctrine, and therefore, when
we reject the false doctrine of the Church, then we must be careful so
that we do not also reject God's word.
In John 14:16-17 Jesus says, "And I will pray the Father, and he shall
give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you. " In verse 26, "But the Comforter,
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you." If now the Father and the Holy Spirit
and Jesus himself is the same person, then it implies that Jesus will
pray to himself that he will send himself to his disciples. Does it not
seem strange?
In verse 23 Jesus says, "If a man love me, he will keep my words:
and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make
our abode with him."(KJV) Why does Jesus say "we" and "our" if
he comes alone? Jesus says in John 5:19 that he can do nothing by
himself. He can do only what he sees his Father doing. The Father
had sent Jesus and he came to do his Father's will. John 6:38.
Jesus does not say to Philip that he is the Father. He says, "Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that
I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth
in me, he doeth the works." John 14:10. We can read from Luke
22:41-42, "And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast,
and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if thou be willing,
remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine,
be done." To whom did Jesus pray? Did he pray to himself?
The Lord's Prayer in John 17th chapter, is it a monologue where he
tells with himself? "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be
one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be
one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And
the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they
may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
Verses 20-23.
The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are the same God,
perfectly united to one, but it does not imply that they are the same
person. Jesus wants that the same unity may be among his people.
"And God said, Let US make man in OUR image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. " Gen.1:26. The man is
also a trinity and consists of spirit, soul and body, and is created in
the triune God's image. But a man is only one person.
Allan Svensson
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