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“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?” (Matthew 16:13-15) (1)The question of the Deity of Christ is debated by many. The atheist denies the existence of God. The Jehovah’s Witnesses claim Christ was a created being. The Mormon believes Christ was a man who became a god. Muslims declare Christ...

There is only one God, but He consists of three distinct persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The word “trinity” is not found in Scripture. It is a word used by Christians to express the doctrine of the unity of God as consisting of three distinct Persons. This word is derived from the Greek word trias, first used by Theophilus (A.D. 168-183), or from the Latin trinitas, first used by Tertullian (A.D. 220), to express this doctrine. The propositions involved in the doctrine are these: 1.That God is one, and that there is but one God (Deut. 6:4; 1 Kings...

The prophets of the Old Testament did not have to speculate about the nature of God. They saw and conversed him face to face, and some of them have left descriptions of his appearance. New Testament accounts confirm the ancient understanding of God, but disputes about his nature arose in Christianity during the second century AD. The problem arose because the Christians, while accepting a Godhead comprising Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, claimed to be monotheists like the Jews from whom they sprang. The argument did not set well with the rabbis and others, who argued that three persons make...

Messiah--the Middle Pillar of the GodheadThe Ketuvim NetzarimNow the ancient Nazarenes actually believed the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) to be a Supernal Mother. These ancient Nazarenes used an apocryphal Gospel called THE GOODNEWS ACCORDING TO THE HEBREWS which taught this very idea. While this apocryphal Gospel is now lost, several quotes from it have survived in the writings on the ancient "Church Fathers." One of these quotes, found in Jerome's commentary on Isaiah, tells the story of Yeshua's immersion (baptism) this way: And it came to pass when the Lord was come up out of the water, the whole fount  of the Holy Spirit descended...

Are Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism the same? The word Filioque if Latin for and from the Son. (The word, by the way, is usually pronounced, "Fili-o-kway.") Several centuries before the Great Schism some parts of the Western Church inserted this word into the Latin translation of the Nicene Creed, in the section dealing with the Holy Spirit, thus teaching that the Holy Spirit proceeds both from the Father and from the Son. The Pope of Rome at first refused to approve an official addition of the Filioque, though it was tolerated in some areas formally under his jurisdiction. Pope...