AnnaGrace

Beautifully written. Thanks for sharing.

No need for your defensiveness, George. I know Jesus was present at creation. He was the one whom all of the earth was created! The image of the invisible God and the firstborn of ALL creation.

Do you believe Jesus was present at creation?

Furthermore, I never told Raymond to come to me for my teaching, now did I? I told him exactly where he needed to go and it wasn’t to Annagrace.

You must not be too familiar with the one unpardonable sin.

I would lovingly warn anyone who handles the word of God in any sort of “teaching” capacity to refrain from thinking they will be given any room for leniency by God with regards to how they handled His word (and the accurate or inaccurate way in which they communicated it to others). God freely gives knowledge & wisdom to all who ask and does so without reproach; so if greater wisdom and knowledge is what you’re seeking, please seek Him and Him alone. Not mortal men on a forum. Anyone who makes it through the gates heaven will already intimately know the Lord Jesus; they wont have any uncertainties regarding who He is and who He tells everyone He is in His word.

Correct.

The word theophany doesn’t appear in scripture is a concept/phenomenon made through/by the finite knowledge of mortal man, not God. If it was the sound knowledge of God, he’d have included the word in His living word as well as defined it/made it clear for all to understand. He is not a God of confusion. His word is transparent and speaks for itself. The distortion and perversion of scripture occurs when man thinks it’s his place to expound on/interpret the word using words, concepts, and knowledge that aren’t found in the Bible (but in commentaries of man, words of a pastor or theologian, etc.).

What’s far more important than anything is that we understand the three man camaraderie of the world, flesh and devil. The devil, also known as satan, uses the world to tempt the flesh (man’s sinful nature) and succeeds more often than not because man, in and of himself, is far weaker than he wishes to believe he is. Many men are unwilling to come to terms with the inherent weakness & utter dependence they were created to have on something higher than he (God). Satan’s top priority in the world today is to keep people “in” the world (and consequently, out of the word) as much as possible so that people remain in a state of blind delusion. Satan hopes to keep people properly distracted/consumed with the affairs and activities of this life so that he can prevent them from adequately thinking about the fate that awaits them in the next. Any man who serves the world and has any portion in this life, will assuredly be told to depart from the Lord when He returns. As far as the word goes, satan will try to prevent you from reading it; if you’re reading it, he’ll try to keep you from truly believing it; If you’re believing it, he’ll try to keep you from obedience. These powers are lethal, and man is feeble, not equal; thats why we are to pray that the LORD GOD delivers us from evil.

Thanks for clarifying.

I see.

When you direct quote a specific place in the word of God; such as when you say Hebrews 12:11 in this post, I ask that you please handle the word of the living God with full transparency (trust me, the truth is not something you want to be found guilty of suppressing) To provide Hebrews 12:11 in its entirety, it states, "All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness" the key word there is fruit the fruit of righteousness This is a fruit of the spirit. Of what spirit? The spirit of Christ. Those who are in Christ will bear the fruit of righteousness; you will know them by their fruit.

Concluding that Melchizedek is the establishment of righteousness and peace is a misinterpretation of scripture & perhaps most alarmingly, encourages the blatant falsehood that anyone other than JESUS CHRIST could’ve ever established righteousness and peace on earth. Jesus Christ was and is and always will be the ONLY living being who holds the power to establish righteousness and peace in the earth. NO MERE HUMAN, FLESH AND BLOOD, COULD HAVE DONE THIS! NOT EVEN ONE AS RIGHTEOUS AS FATHER ABRAHAM! (hence why Abraham exhibits such reverence to the figure of Melchizedek in the Genesis ch 14 account.) Moreover, Melchizedek is referred to as the priest of the “most high” GOD. It’s no mere coincidence that Jesus is referred to as the great high priest in Hebrews chapter 5. He was and is and always will be the one and only great high priest of God! Why? Because He IS THE LIVING GOD!

Thank you for drawing the correlation between the fourth most terrifying beast being Islam (and stating that they have yet to come to their full power); I wholeheartedly agree with this interpretation and feel it to be the most spiritually sound prediction of the fourth beast and who it represents. I’m so glad to have stumbled upon these entries of yours. They’re incredibly helpful. Sending you all love & peace provided in Christ Jesus, from me in the u.s to you, my new-found sister in Christ in Australia, Annagrace

All 7 letters contain important messages from God to His people—all His people throughout all ages. These letters were never intended to be conceptualized in a merely historic way or in a way that exclusively applied to literal, physical congregations... “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” They were written to be understood spiritually & personally by each and every believer. No official congregation necessary for those who are in Christ.

Your entire post is composed of outright lies and demonstrate a sinister twisting of scripture. “I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” Romans 16:17-20

1+1+1=3

“I and the father are one” John 10:30

I hold no doctrine that is not explicitly stated in scripture (or those not revealed to me by the Spirit of He that leads me). I also believe scripture speaks for itself and cannot be correctly understood apart from Him. Colossians 2:8 says, “see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.” All theology is rooted in philosophy; and the trinity is at the center of all “Christian” theology. The trinity is mortal man’s attempt to try and comprehend a completely immortal, eternal, incomprehensible, righteous, holy, and sovereign God.

Thank you brother.

Also, the God of the OT is the same God of the NT. Jesus is LORD of all.

The idea of the Trinity came from the Roman Catholic Church, a completely God-less institution. Also, I don't know about you, but I don't feel I was called to "live at peace" with everyone in this sinful, fallen world. I was called to speak the truth of Christ at the cost of everything; including my own life. Jesus didn't come tickling ears with what people wanted to hear and neither will I.

Christ Jesus is the one and only God, He is the Holy One of Israel, Redeemer, Creator, and Savior. He is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. __________ Consider the following verses in Isaiah: Isaiah 41:4 Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. Isaiah 43:10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. Isaiah 43:25 “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Isaiah 46:4 even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save. Isaiah 48:12 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last." _________ The body (flesh) of Jesus Christ was and will always be a Holy temple. Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again". And indeed He did. After the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, He spent a period of 40 days with His disciples. During this time Jesus said to them, “Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” Luke 24:39 The body of Christ wasn't a tent which faded away with use. His body was an eternal temple that always was and always will be. _______ Respectfully, there is nothing "simply revealed" by the trinity. I've been in Christ for as far back as I can remember but wasn't introduced to the "trinity" until I made the mistake of stepping foot into a denominational church at the age of 20. I can assure you that it causes far more confusion than it does clarity. You say, "the trinity reveals simply the relationship between Father and Son and Holy Spirit" but the truth is that the wondrous, indescribably majestic complexity of God simply cannot be understood apart from His Spirit (which is not "the third person of the trinity" but is simply HIS SPIRIT; which is Holy because it belongs to He who is Holy). The trinity might succeed in revealing some foreign (fake) god unbeknownst to me, but it certainly doesn't reveal the one true God. He will always reveal Himself to His children and won't ever need the help of a man-made equation called the trinity to do so.

Nor the word “trinity” or the concept of such appears in any of scripture. Trinitarians make the assertion that said God is one, but in three persons. Basic math tells us that 1+1+1= 3 not 1. The theologians who teach this false doctrine use it as a mean of complicating something that Jesus demonstrated wasn’t complicated at all. Man complicates and confuses; God doesn’t. Remember, Jesus told His disciples that unless they changed and humbled themselves like the little children, they wouldn’t enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matt 18:1-4) God dwelt among, us in the flesh, in the person of Jesus Christ, who, as scriptures teach, was God in the flesh (hence why Jesus is the perfect Lamb OF God). Take a look at the very first thing Jesus says in response to the question of what the most important commandment was: 28And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”29Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Mark 12:28-29 He began His response with that sentence for a very important and specific purpose (as He did with everything else He said). Jesus, being God, knew a time would come when people wouldn’t endure sound teaching but would trade the purity & simplicity of God’s truth in for a corrupted lie made by man. Don’t be deceived my friend, God didn’t create the trinity - man did.

Respectfully, I believe it means what it says. The doctrine of the trinity is not biblical; the LORD GOD is one.