Logic and Common Sense (Trinitarian and Oneness Doctrine)

The bible says in Matthew 12:32:

“Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”

Trinitarian and Oneness doctrine says that Jesus is God and the holy Spirit is God (though their explanation varies). If Jesus is God and the holy Spirit is God, why is speaking against Jesus, who they say is God, a sin that can be forgiven, but speaking against the holy Spirit, who they say is God, is a sin that can never be forgiven?

If we are to believe the Trinity and Oneness teaching, it actually should read, “If we blaspheme God it is a forgivable sin, but if we blaspheme God is not forgivable.”

The way Oneness and Trinitarians explain their doctrine - that if this were to be explained to the average person on the street - they would say these people are ripe for the insane asylum. Only when conversing about “theology” do people get away with talking like they are insane, with “nonsensical language” that defies what God has given us – that is - the capability to exercise logic and reasoning that most professed Christians hope we would abandon!

“God is not the author of confusion…” (1 Cor. 14:33).

Let me give one more of MANY examples.  In Acts 10:38 it says:

"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, he went around doing good and healing everyone who was oppressed by the devil."

Oneness and Trinitarians would have:

• God anointing himself, 
• by himself, 
• who is himself!

In other words, have "faith" in the Trinitarian and Oneness advocates and never mind using our common sense!

I just has a brother (Frank Licary) write to me saying:

In fact, the Athanasian [Creed] paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities… With such persons gullibility (which they call faith) takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

 I believe that was quoting Thomas Jefferson.  And what is interesting is why go through all the headache of trying to explain something they call "incomprehensible," trying to get people to "understand" what they say no human mind can comprehend? Like Frank says, one must "surrender his reason" and just accept what they say is true, something they can't even comprehend themselves and yet try to explain it??

What is the Law of Christ?

Paul told the Christians in Galatia to carry each other's burdens, and in doing so they would fulfill the law of Christ. (Gal. 6:2)

In Acts 3:22 Peter told the people concerning Jesus the Messiah and what Moses said:

 "For Moses said, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you."  (See Duet. 18:15, 18)

What is the law of Christ? 

The Future as Jesus Saw It in Matthew 24, Mark 13

From Focus on the Kingdom
Vol. 12 No. 12 Anthony Buzzard, editor September, 2010

Many people are rightly concerned with the future, theirs and that of society. The internet is teeming with attempts to tell us what Jesus foretells for the future of our world. Matthew 24, the long Olivet Discourse, is properly the center of attention, since in that marvelous, if alarming, chapter the Lord Messiah answered the crucial question posed by his devoted students.

Supposing you, the reader, to be one such dedicated student of Jesus, you will want to present at that momentous teaching session. We can all chime in with their initial inquiry: “When will these things be and what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?”

The disciples were not fools! They had been well instructed, and they asked the right question. Jesus had just spoken of desolation in the temple building. Because the disciples and Jesus knew the book of Daniel well, they assume that trouble in the temple will be connected directly with the “coming” (Parousia) of the Messiah and “the end of the age” (misleadingly mistranslated in the KJV as “end of the world”).

Preterism: The Doctrine of Hymeneus

If there is one thing I dislike, are people who hold to a false doctrine such as Preteristism (which means “past fulfillment”), who claim the magic year everything fulfilled was in 70 A.D., which wipes out dozens of prophecies that were not yet fulfilled.

They want you to prove from scripture that what they believe is false.  The request to “discuss scripture” may sound sincere, but the tactic ends up with spiritualizing many passages of scripture and having to redefine theological terms and accept their redefinitions.  They come up with scripture that seems to be persuasive to their position, and if you decide not to engage in the conversation, then you are considered, “not on board,” because you refuse to take their bait.

Are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Alive or Dead?

Question: "How can you say the dead are not really alive? Jesus says that God is not the God of the dead but of the living."

Answer: The Sadducees, who were opposed to a resurrection, asked Jesus a question. (See Luke 20:27-33)

Jesus went on to answer:

And answering, Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry and are given in marriage. But those counted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. For they are not able to die any more; they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses pointed out at the Bush, when he calls the Lord "the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. But He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to Him. (Luke 20:34-38)

Look at it this way. God is not the God of the dead, but "of the resurrected.” Look at the context. Even though "living" is present participle, it does not necessarily indicate present time. The participle is used as a noun. It’s not saying they are living now or living in the future, or lived in the past. "The living" simply names a class of people. We have to determine from the context to know when they are living. The context is “in the resurrection.”

"...and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage."

The context does take us to a time in the future… Jesus is talking about "in the resurrection."

It Wasn't Just Jesus' Body That Was Dead

We can thank Plato for the unbiblical idea that when a person dies, the “soul” would still survive, thus immortal soul.  We have been programmed to think that the body is distinct from the person's  identity, i.e., individual personality - physical life. But to the Hebrew mindset the body or flesh, the person, were all one being.  When God breathed into the nostrils of Adam the breath of life, it says he became  “a living soul.”  Not that Adam had a soul implanted in him.  And people may not be aware, but animals are called “souls” as well.  We don’t have a soul, we are a soul.

We are not just a body.  We are a whole human being that is able to think, reason, communicate, and have emotions.  These are not separate from our body.   

What About the Person Who Has Never Heard the Gospel?

I saw a video clip where Oprah Winfrey asked one of the people in her audience about the Jungle man who has never heard the gospel.  She could not believe that God would condemn someone to hell if they never heard the gospel.  I will have to say, it was a good question.  I believe Romans 2:14 is the answer.

“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:”

They do by nature the things contained in the law.  There is a moral law within all of us. We know that when we do something that is not right; our conscience will condemn us. God gives man a conscience to know the difference between good and evil, and the choice to choose what path we will follow (Exodus 20:6, Micah 6:8; Isa. 55:7; Psalm 50:23, 97:11, 103:17-18, Prov 28:18; Acts 17:26-27; Acts 10:34-35, Romans 2:14-15, ).