Chapter 10: The False Trinity Doctrine
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Indeed, the Bible is not a book about Jesus Christ as many postulate.
Instead, the Bible is a book about God Almighty Himself. A God so loving that He would give us a second chance with a more excellent opportunity for eternal life [success] through the shed blood of His only begotten Son Jesus.
Did Jesus alter the unchanging character of God? What about God’s requirement of repentance as a condition of eternal life? Do you know that this requirement is in both the Old and New Testaments? Do you know that repentance before God is evidence of your spiritual rebirth? The proof of
being born again? Did Jesus bring us help in the form of God’s Spirit of truth to those who believe he was God’s Son in the flesh? Is God’s Spirit of truth or “Baptism of Fire” that Jesus gives us something different from prior salvations through repentance alone? Why?
Ask yourself this question. Did salvation exist in the Old Testament? What about deliverers? Did they exist in the Old Testament? How about people who came and spoke exactly what God told them to say. Did they exist in the Old Testament? If you believe that Jesus was the first savior sent
by God to His people, you are wrong. If you believe that salvation did not exist prior to Jesus, you are wrong. If you believe that only Jesus spoke for God, you are wrong again. Think about these matters for a while. Study!
In Jesus’ time, I believe that many people lost their faith in God Almighty and whether God actually existed. Their individual behavior demonstrated unbelief and exactly what was in their hearts, licentiousness. After all, if you really believe in God, you always want to be on your best
behavior, don’t you? Behavior is the precursor of our eternal destination and it betrays our deeply held beliefs, whether we like it or not. If it was difficult for people to believe that God existed, can you imagine the trouble they had believing that Jesus was God’s Son? Do you think that God
presented an easier proposition to mankind in terms of ease of belief? In the former situation, you were asked to believe in a God. Now, with Jesus, you are not only asked to believe that God exists, you are also being asked to believe that God’s Word was manifested physically in the person of Jesus
Christ. In a way, Jesus was “in your face” detailed instructions from God.
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