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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
You certainly don’t. Unless your a polytheist, the scriptures clearly teach that Jesus Christ is God. Ignatius was calling Jesus God before the end of the 1st century, as he had learned it from the Apostles directly before his death. It is no invention of the Catholics hundreds of years later.

May I suggest actually reading the articles and information I've linked instead of making assumptions? :-)

Of course Jesus Christ is God. Of course Jesus Christ is divine. Of course Jesus Christ is part of the Godhead. That's what I believe and that's a fundamental belief of UCG because scripture bears it out multiple times.

What scripture doesn't bear out is the idea that holy spirit is part of the Godhead IN HEAVEN. Every glimpse of the Godhead shows the father and son, but never an entity called the holy spirit.

For example:

Dan 7:13 "I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him.
Dan 7:14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

In Revelation there are multiple glimpses of the Godhead. For example:

Rev_3:21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

No throne for anything called "the holy spirit"...ever. It's because the holy spirit IS the spirit of the Lord on our earth. But it's not a separate person in the Godhead in heaven. This notion was created and evolved centuries after the death of Christ.

81 posted on 04/09/2013 1:36:59 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

“Every glimpse of the Godhead shows the father and son, but never an entity called the holy spirit.

For example:”


For example:

Isa_48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

Mat_12:31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

Mat_28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

If the Holy Spirit does not exist “in heaven,” He would not be side by side the Father and the Son in the baptismal formula, who are both “in heaven”. Blasphemy against Him would not be unforgivable. He would not be involved in cooperation with the Father and the Son separately in the salvation of men. He and the Father would not be sending the Son separately in Isaiah.

“This notion”


Your notion has no basis in the scripture.


83 posted on 04/09/2013 2:06:09 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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