Tseleng Ya Godimo-TYG

TO THE TRINITARIAN

THERE ARE 3 PERSONS OF THE GODHEAD. THAT'S VERIFIED.

BUT WHY DOES THE BIBLE, ESPECIALLY THE NEW TESTAMENT CLEARLY STATE THAT THE FATHER IS "the only true God" THAT "BUT TO US THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FATHER of whom are all things, and we in Him" 1 COR 8:6

THE TRINITARIAN WILL STATE THAT JESUS IS ALSO GOD, THAT TRUE, YES, AND THAT THE WORD LORD USED TO FOR JESUS AS IN 1 COR 8:6 ALSO SHOWS HIM AS GOD.

BUT WHY DID THE APOSTLE MAKE THIS APPARENT DISTINCTION AND IN SO MANY SEVERAL PASSAGES. ONE GOD, THE FATHER AND ONE LORD, JESUS and not that only... Paul goes further to impress the reader with the validity of the distinction

1Co 8:6 KJV But to us there is but one God, the Father, OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND WE IN HIM, AND ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND WE BY HIM.."

THE DISTINCTION IS UNDENIABLY CLEAR. BUT WHY OR HOW? AGAIN WE TURN TO THE REDEMPTION PLAN.

" The Godhead was stirred with pity for the race, and the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit gave Themselves to the working out of the plan of redemption CH 222.2

OF THE THREE MEMBERS OF THE GODHEAD, THE FATHER, IS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID NOT CHANGE IN FORM WHEN THE PLAN WAS STARTED. JESUS, WAS BEGOTTEN AND THE OTHER MEMBER BECAME WHAT YOU CAN CALL "A PURE SPIRIT" WITHOUT BODY OR PARTS (Luke 24:39)

THIS IS WHAT MAKES THE FATHER THE ONLY TRUE GOD OR THE ONE GOD OF THE BIBLE...CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE BIBLE DO NOT APPEAR AS GOD, THOUGH THEY ARE EACH GOD/DIVINE.

THEY, 3, WERE VERY GOD IN FORM, AND BECAUSE OF THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION, THEY HAD TO CHANGE TO CARRY THE FUNCTIONS ALLOTTED THEM.

AS THE FATHER DID NOT CHANGE IN FORM HE HAD HIS FORM OR PERSON VEILED SO AS TO BE INVISIBLE TO THE CREATURES THEY WERE ABOUT TO CREATE.

Christ is the only being in all the universe that could enter in to this light or rather into the purposes of God. The Father being invisible needed a mediator between god God and His creatures and in this case it was Michael, the mediator and the angels, the creatures.
The Holy Spirit is excluded among BEINGS as He is an intangible, formless person or being.

See quotes below
Christ As the Son of God, the word of God, the image of God "is truly God in infinity but not in personality"

When He became the Son he was no longer truly God. We can still call Him God, the Godhead/ divinity was still His own yet He was not God entirely.....Just like when He became man.

The Holy Spirit is has no FORM at all, His nature is a mystery and yet He as DIVINE AS GOD AND IS CALLED GOD.

AS THE BIBLE SAYS, THE FATHER IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD (JOHN 17:3) because of these reasons.

See also 1SP 45.1

TO THE NON-TRINITARIAN

GOD IS WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS. HE HAS LIFE UNDERIVED UNBORROWED AND ORIGINAL TO HIMSELF. IF CHRIST IS GOD THEN HE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS.

BUT THE NON-TRINITARIAN STATES THAT CHRIST WAS IN THE FATHER BEFORE HE WAS BORN JUST LIKE LEVI WAS IN THE LOINS OF ABRAHAM (HEB 7:5)

IF THIS IS THE CASE THEN CHRIST POSSESSES IMMORTALITY, WHICH IS THE LIFE OF GOD, BY VIRTUE OF THE FATHER, IT IS NOT ORIGINAL TO HIM. HE HAS IT AS DERIVED LIFE. THERE IS NO ESCAPING THIS.

THE FAMOUS VERSE FOR THE NON-TRINITARIAN IS JOHN 5:26 "For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself" THIS HERE IS THE VERSE USED BY THE NON-TRINITARIAN TO SHOW THAT CHRIST IN HIMSELF, OR AS HIS OWN RIGHT, POSSESSES IMMORTALITY, THE LIFE OF GOD. BUT HIS ARGUMENT FALLS IN THAT THE VERSE PIN POINTS THAT THIS LIFE CHRIST RECEIVED OR WAS GIVEN BY THE FATHER TO HAVE IN HIMSELF. SO HE HAS IT BY VIRTUE OF THE FATHER, HENCE IT IS DERIVED AND ALSO NOT HIS TO BEGIN WITH. IT IS NOT LIFE, ORIGINAL.

In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived DA 530.3...THIS CLEARLY INDICATES THAT CHRIST IS GOD, IN CLEAR UNEQUIVOCAL TERMS. HE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING OF DAYS.

WHAT'S MY POINT? JOHN 5:26 EXPLAINS OR SHOWS A BEGINNING OF DAYS. THE NON-TRINITARIAN IS SPOT ON. CHRIST HAD A BEGINNING OF DAYS IN ETERNITY PAST AS THE SON OF GOD, AS MICHAEL, BEARING THE FORM OR APPEARANCE OF ANGELS. HE WAS STILL GOD BUT NOT IN FORM.

HE WAS BEGOTTEN TO BE, AS
Col 1:15 SAYS "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature"

HE WAS GOD (JOHN 1:1) STILL. YET HE WAS THE WORD OF GOD, THE REVELATION OF GOD, THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF GOD.

BEFORE THIS BEGINNING, HE WAS VERY GOD IN FORM, AND WAS INVOLVED IN THE PLANS OF CREATION AND THAT OF REDEMPTION WHICH BROUGHT A CHANGE IN THE GODHEAD'S FORMS. (1SM 250.1) HE WAS TRULY GOD IN INFINITY. BUT THEN HE gave Himself to the working out of the plan of redemption (CH 222.2) WHICH NECESSITATED A CHANGE IN FORM IN ORDER TO ACT THE ROLE OF THE SON OF GOD.

Below is an interesting read by one of our later pioneers showing the belief that Christ took the form of an angel SIGNS OF THE TIMES dated JULY 12, 1912