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((Can the Oneness doctrine be described through scriptural quotes alone?))

"...There is one God..." -1 Timothy 2:5.

"God is a Spirit..." -John 4:24.

"There is... one Spirit..." -Ephesians 4:4.

"...One and the selfsame Spirit..." 1 Corinthians 12:11.

"Now the Lord is that Spirit..." -2 Corinthians 3:17.

"There is...one Lord..." -Ephesians 4:4-5.

"...Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all)" -Acts 10:36.

"THE FIRST OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS IS, Hear, O Israel; THE LORD (JESUS) OUR GOD IS ONE LORD..." -Mark 12:29.

"...Believe me, and understand that I am He: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour... Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel... I AM THE LORD, YOUR HOLY ONE, the creator of Israel, your King" -Isaiah 43:10-15.

"David speaketh concerning Him (Jesus of Nazareth),... thine HOLY ONE..." -Acts 2:25-27.

1 Corinthians 12:4 "NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT. 5 AND THERE ARE DIFFERENCES OF ADMINISTRATIONS, BUT THE SAME LORD. 6 AND THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF OPERATIONS, BUT IT IS THE SAME GOD WHICH WORKETH ALL IN ALL... 11 But ALL THESE WORKETH THAT ONE AND THE SELFSAME SPIRIT, dividing to every man severally as he will."

"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root (Father) and the offspring (Son) of David" -Revelations 22:16.

"For unto us a child is born, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and HIS NAME SHALL BE called Wonderful, Counsellor, THE mighty God, THE everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" -Isaiah 9:6

For "God is one" -Galatians 3:20

And "...Christ is all..." -Colossians 3:11.

"And ye are complete in Him..." -Colossians 2:10.

((Do Trinitarians preach "another Christ"?))

Following is a passage I wrote during some correspondence I had with a man named B. J. O'ropeza from the Christian Research Institute. Rather than answer my questions for himself from the quoted scripture, as I had requested of him, he provided me with some writings by an author named Robert M. Bowman Jr.. I actually picked up another very strong weapon against the Trinity doctrine from those correspondences, BY THEIR VERY OWN WORDS!

Let me show you what I mean-

(( That's not hard to accept, is it? but read my reply quoting and responding to other of his statements-

((COMPARE-

CHRIST'S DEFINITION OF HIMSELF- "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty... I am He that liveth, and was dead" -Rev. 1:8,18. "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the FIRST and the LAST... I Jesus..." -Revelation 22:13-16. What He who is the First and Last said of Himself in the Old Testament- "Thus saith the Lord... I am the First, and I am the Last; and BESIDE ME THERE IS NO GOD... Is there a God beside me?... there is no God; I know not any" -Isaiah 44:6-8.

BOWMAN'S REDEFINITION OF CHRIST "...What the Bible means... when the Bible says that Jesus is God, it means that He exists eternally as a divine person in relationship with the Father... IT MEANS THAT HE IS THE SECOND PERSON OF A TRIUNE GOD" -Bowman.

DEFINED- "I am... the FIRST AND THE LAST... I Jesus..." -Revelation 22:13-16.

REDEFINED- "He is the second person of a triune God" -Bowman.))>

See what I mean- "HERETICS OF ALL KINDS HAVE SIMPLY REDEFINED THE MEANING OF THE TERM SON..." Those are their very words, and then they go and redefine Jesus! It's amazing how obvious errors are to those who have and love the truth!

In fact, Mr. Bowman made quite a few scriptural blunders in his defense of the Trinity doctrine, as for instance, another passage I wrote to CRI relates-

"In contrast to the entirely Biblically defined and stated doctrine presented above, we have been told by Trinitarian authors, such as Bowman, to believe instead on the TRINITY- Do Trinitarians rely on scripture alone to define their doctrine? "The doctrine of the Trinity was concisely stated by the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647)..." -Bowman. Are Trinitarians able to rely on scriptural terminology alone to defend their beliefs? "The Trinity... doctrine employs nonbiblical terminology (Trinity, persons, etc.)... this is true..."-Bowman. Do Trinitarians rely solely on explicitly stated scripture in deriving their doctrine? "...Jesus... IMPLIED that He and the Father were two persons..."-Bowman."

By the way, in his article on Oneness vs. Trinity, under his heading of "Definition" Bowman did NOT QUOTE OR REFER TO EVEN ONE VERSE OF SCRIPTURE. Yet he has the audacity to accuse "Oneness Pentecostals" of redefining the Godhead. Incredulous!

So who do you believe- Jesus, or the Trinitarian "scholars"? "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." -Joshua 24:15. So, prove to me that you aren't "redefining" Jesus (and thus a heretic) by quoting the scriptures that specifically define Him as being a Trinity of Persons!

Sincerely In Jesus' Name

by TomR.

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