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1) How God is viewed will indeed affect all other aspects of personal life, because by “beholding...the Lord, [you] are changed into the same image” (2 Corinthians 3:18). This means that if you should hold an incorrect belief about God, then your whole life will be affected by this falsehood.

2) Can we depend alone upon the knowledge and wisdom from earthly sources? No, because we would become the enemies of God by doing so (see James 4:4). Can we then depend alone upon the knowledge and wisdom from other men? No, because if we depend on the words of other men -- be they pope or priest, pastor or minister, elder or teacher, then we will be cursed (see Jeremiah 17:5). Can we then depend alone on our own wisdom? No, because that is foolishness (see 1 Corinthians 1:19-20, 3:19). So then the knowledge and wisdom that we need to understand about God must be from God Himself, and He mercifully promises to grant us all the knowledge and wisdom we need to understand His truth (see James 1:5; John 7:17, 14:26). The wisdom and knowledge which comes from God, as is found in His inspired word, must be our ONLY foundation and dependence in trying to understand the truth on this important subject.

"To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20.

"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15.

3) It is only “the truth [that] shall make you free” (John 8:32), because Jesus is the truth. Thus if you should knowingly believe error or falsehoods, then you are not free at all, but are in bondage to the originator of all error and falsehood – which is Satan. And if the truth of God’s word is in your heart, then you will not be led to sin against Him (Psalms 119:11).

4) The Trinity is defined as:

"The state or character of being three."

"Any union of three parts or elements in one..."

"A threefold consubstantial (sharing the same substance) personality existing in one Divine Being or substance."

"The union of one God of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three infinite persons." Webster's and Funk and Wagnalls Dictionaries.

5) The ancient Babylonians believed that in the very beginning, before man, the earth, the planets, the stars, and anything else was created, there existed nothing else but a primordial celestial ocean or cosmic body of water of chaos and complete darkness from which all things were created. At some point in time a god manifested himself within this celestial body of water, then another god emerged and still another until this celestial body of water became comprised of three different gods named Apsu, Tiamat and Mummu.

Apsu made up all the fresh sweet water and was male in gender; Tiamat composed all the salty water and was female in gender; and Mummu was ungenderd and composed “the deep” itself (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia, under Mummu, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummu, accessed 6-25-12), as well as “the waves” upon its surface (Babylonian Mythology, at http://library.thinkquest.org/25535/Babylonian.htm, accessed 6-25-12), and all the mist or watery vapor “rising from the two bodies of water and hovering over them” (The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of the Creation, p 3, by Alexander Heidel, 2nd edition, volume 133 of Phoenix Books under Archaeology, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1951).

Apsu was the oldest of these three deities. This means that Apsu was the first god to be manifested, and then out of himself he brought forth the female goddess Tiamat, and then together they “conceived” and brought forth their offspring god Mummu (Babylonian Mythology, at http://library.thinkquest.org/25535/Babylonian.htm, accessed 6-25-12; Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia, under Mummu, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummu, accessed 6-25-12; also Ancient/Classical History - Babylonian Gods and Goddesses, by N.S. Gill, at http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/egypt/a/babygodsindex.htm, accessed 6-25-12).

As each the three gods were just a different manifestation of this cosmic water, and all three gods combined together made up this celestial body itself, then this indicates that this celestial water was itself a single supreme and universal divine being or god, which then decided to manifest and divide itself in succession into a “trinity” of gods (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia, under Mummu, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummu, accessed 6-25-12).

So the Babylonians, whose religious beliefs began along with the formation of the tower of Babel just after the flood, developed and believed the doctrine of the Trinity – that there is a single supreme god of the universe who is manifested in three different divine persons or beings, and that these three divine beings together make up this only one supreme god!

6) “In like manner also the three days which were before the luminaries, are types of the Trinity, of God, and His Word, and His wisdom.” Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, Book II, Chapter 15, written about 181 A.D., Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 2, p 100-101, at http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02042.htm, accessed 1-24-13).

7) “In the course of time, then, the Father forsooth was born, and the Father suffered, God Himself, the Lord Almighty, whom in their preaching they declare to be Jesus Christ. We, however, as we indeed always have done...believe that there is one only God, but under the following dispensation...that this one only God has also a Son, His Word, who proceeded from Himself, by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made....[There is] “one only God...in that All are of One, by unity (that is) of substance; while the mystery of the dispensation is still guarded, which distributes the Unity into a Trinity, placing in their order the three Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: three, however, not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (Tertullian, in Against Praxaes, Chapter II – The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity and Unity, Sometimes Called the Divine Economy, or Dispensation of the Personal Relations of the Godhead, written about 213 A.D., at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.v.ix.ii.html, accessed 1-24-13).

8) Then in the First Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. (see Wikipedia, online Encyclopedia, under First Council of Nicea, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea, accessed 1-24-13), as well as in Council of Constantinople in 360 A.D., the doctrine of the Trinity became established as the one true belief for all Christian believers. The resulting Creed stated in part:

“We believe in one God the Father Almighty, of whom are all things. And in the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of God before all ages, and before every beginning; through whom all things visible and invisible were made: who is the only-begotten born of the Father, the only of the only, God of God, like to the Father who begat him, according to the Scriptures, and whose generation no one knows but the Father only that begat him....[We believe] also in the Holy Spirit...Let therefore all heresies which have been already condemned, or may have arisen of late, which are opposed to this exploitation of the faith, be anathema.” (Wikipedia, online Encyclopedia, under Council fo Constantinople, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Constantinople_(360), accessed 1-24-13.)

9) “The [Catholic] Church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen.” Paschale Gaudium article, by William L. Gildea, published in The Catholic World (a Roman Catholic weekly magazine), vol 58, March, 1894, p 809.

10) “Christians are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: not in their names, for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity....

“The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the ‘consubstantial Trinity’.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition, Part One, Section Two, Chapter One, Article One, #233 and #253, at http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p2.htm, accessed 1-24-13).

11) the Catholic church believes that “the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the ‘hierarchy of the truths of faith’.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition, Part One, Section Two, Chapter One, Article One, #234, at http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p2.htm, accessed 1-24-13).

“The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of Catholic faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings of the Church.” Handbook For Today's Catholics, p 11.

12) In February of 380 AD, the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great “issued a decree...in favor of the faith of St. Peter and Pope Damasus of Rome...to be the true catholic faith” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol 23, p 259, under Theodosius, editor Thoman Spencer Baynes, C. Scribner's sons publishers, 1888). Once the faith of the Pope of Rome was declared to be the true catholic faith, he thus became the guardian of this one true faith, and all rivals had to capitulate to his authority. And after obtaining control over all the major nations of Europe by 538 A.D., this Catholic faith was the only state approved religious belief throughout all of Christendom for nearly the next 1200 years!

13) The World Council of Churches, including all the churches who are connected with the WCC, believes:

“The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” So much in Common, p 33 (written by the World Council of Churches and the Seventh-day Adventist church). (In fact no church can be admitted into the WCC without first embracing the Trinity doctrine!)

The Seventh-day Adventist Church believes:

“2. The Trinity.

“There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal persons.” 1986 SDA Church Manual, Chapter 2, p 23 (see also Seventh-day Adventists Believe...27 Fundamental Beliefs, p 16, 22).


	"LET THERE BE LIGHT" Ministries home \| Sermon Quotes THE TRINITY quotes 1) How God is viewed will indeed affect all other aspects of personal life, because by “beholding...the Lord, [you] are changed into the same image” (2 Corinthians 3:18). This means that if you should hold an incorrect belief about God, then your whole life will be affected by this falsehood. 2) Can we depend alone upon the knowledge and wisdom from earthly sources? No, because we would become the enemies of God by doing so (see James 4:4). Can we then depend alone upon the knowledge and wisdom from other men? No, because if we depend on the words of other men -- be they pope or priest, pastor or minister, elder or teacher, then we will be cursed (see Jeremiah 17:5). Can we then depend alone on our own wisdom? No, because that is foolishness (see 1 Corinthians 1:19-20, 3:19). So then the knowledge and wisdom that we need to understand about God must be from God Himself, and He mercifully promises to grant us all the knowledge and wisdom we need to understand His truth (see James 1:5; John 7:17, 14:26). The wisdom and knowledge which comes from God, as is found in His inspired word, must be our ONLY foundation and dependence in trying to understand the truth on this important subject. "To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20. "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15. 3) It is only “the truth [that] shall make you free” (John 8:32), because Jesus is the truth. Thus if you should knowingly believe error or falsehoods, then you are not free at all, but are in bondage to the originator of all error and falsehood – which is Satan. And if the truth of God’s word is in your heart, then you will not be led to sin against Him (Psalms 119:11). 4) The Trinity is defined as: "The state or character of being three." "Any union of three parts or elements in one..." "A threefold consubstantial (sharing the same substance) personality existing in one Divine Being or substance." "The union of one God of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three infinite persons." Webster's and Funk and Wagnalls Dictionaries. 5) The ancient Babylonians believed that in the very beginning, before man, the earth, the planets, the stars, and anything else was created, there existed nothing else but a primordial celestial ocean or cosmic body of water of chaos and complete darkness from which all things were created. At some point in time a god manifested himself within this celestial body of water, then another god emerged and still another until this celestial body of water became comprised of three different gods named Apsu, Tiamat and Mummu. Apsu made up all the fresh sweet water and was male in gender; Tiamat composed all the salty water and was female in gender; and Mummu was ungenderd and composed “the deep” itself (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia, under Mummu, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummu, accessed 6-25-12), as well as “the waves” upon its surface (Babylonian Mythology, at http://library.thinkquest.org/25535/Babylonian.htm, accessed 6-25-12), and all the mist or watery vapor “rising from the two bodies of water and hovering over them” (The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of the Creation, p 3, by Alexander Heidel, 2nd edition, volume 133 of Phoenix Books under Archaeology, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1951). Apsu was the oldest of these three deities. This means that Apsu was the first god to be manifested, and then out of himself he brought forth the female goddess Tiamat, and then together they “conceived” and brought forth their offspring god Mummu (Babylonian Mythology, at http://library.thinkquest.org/25535/Babylonian.htm, accessed 6-25-12; Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia, under Mummu, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummu, accessed 6-25-12; also Ancient/Classical History - Babylonian Gods and Goddesses, by N.S. Gill, at http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/egypt/a/babygodsindex.htm, accessed 6-25-12). As each the three gods were just a different manifestation of this cosmic water, and all three gods combined together made up this celestial body itself, then this indicates that this celestial water was itself a single supreme and universal divine being or god, which then decided to manifest and divide itself in succession into a “trinity” of gods (Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia, under Mummu, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummu, accessed 6-25-12). So the Babylonians, whose religious beliefs began along with the formation of the tower of Babel just after the flood, developed and believed the doctrine of the Trinity – that there is a single supreme god of the universe who is manifested in three different divine persons or beings, and that these three divine beings together make up this only one supreme god! 6) “In like manner also the three days which were before the luminaries, are types of the Trinity, of God, and His Word, and His wisdom.” Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, Book II, Chapter 15, written about 181 A.D., Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 2, p 100-101, at http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02042.htm, accessed 1-24-13). 7) “In the course of time, then, the Father forsooth was born, and the Father suffered, God Himself, the Lord Almighty, whom in their preaching they declare to be Jesus Christ. We, however, as we indeed always have done...believe that there is one only God, but under the following dispensation...that this one only God has also a Son, His Word, who proceeded from Himself, by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made....[There is] “one only God...in that All are of One, by unity (that is) of substance; while the mystery of the dispensation is still guarded, which distributes the Unity into a Trinity, placing in their order the three Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: three, however, not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (Tertullian, in Against Praxaes, Chapter II – The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity and Unity, Sometimes Called the Divine Economy, or Dispensation of the Personal Relations of the Godhead, written about 213 A.D., at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.v.ix.ii.html, accessed 1-24-13). 8) Then in the First Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. (see Wikipedia, online Encyclopedia, under First Council of Nicea, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea, accessed 1-24-13), as well as in Council of Constantinople in 360 A.D., the doctrine of the Trinity became established as the one true belief for all Christian believers. The resulting Creed stated in part: “We believe in one God the Father Almighty, of whom are all things. And in the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of God before all ages, and before every beginning; through whom all things visible and invisible were made: who is the only-begotten born of the Father, the only of the only, God of God, like to the Father who begat him, according to the Scriptures, and whose generation no one knows but the Father only that begat him....[We believe] also in the Holy Spirit...Let therefore all heresies which have been already condemned, or may have arisen of late, which are opposed to this exploitation of the faith, be anathema.” (Wikipedia, online Encyclopedia, under Council fo Constantinople, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Constantinople_(360), accessed 1-24-13.) 9) “The [Catholic] Church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen.” Paschale Gaudium article, by William L. Gildea, published in The Catholic World (a Roman Catholic weekly magazine), vol 58, March, 1894, p 809. 10) “Christians are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: not in their names, for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity.... “The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the ‘consubstantial Trinity’.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition, Part One, Section Two, Chapter One, Article One, #233 and #253, at http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p2.htm, accessed 1-24-13). 11) the Catholic church believes that “the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the ‘hierarchy of the truths of faith’.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition, Part One, Section Two, Chapter One, Article One, #234, at http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p2.htm, accessed 1-24-13). “The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of Catholic faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings of the Church.” Handbook For Today's Catholics, p 11. 12) In February of 380 AD, the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great “issued a decree...in favor of the faith of St. Peter and Pope Damasus of Rome...to be the true catholic faith” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol 23, p 259, under Theodosius, editor Thoman Spencer Baynes, C. Scribner's sons publishers, 1888). Once the faith of the Pope of Rome was declared to be the true catholic faith, he thus became the guardian of this one true faith, and all rivals had to capitulate to his authority. And after obtaining control over all the major nations of Europe by 538 A.D., this Catholic faith was the only state approved religious belief throughout all of Christendom for nearly the next 1200 years! 13) The World Council of Churches, including all the churches who are connected with the WCC, believes: “The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” So much in Common, p 33 (written by the World Council of Churches and the Seventh-day Adventist church). (In fact no church can be admitted into the WCC without first embracing the Trinity doctrine!) The Seventh-day Adventist Church believes: “2. The Trinity. “There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal persons.” 1986 SDA Church Manual, Chapter 2, p 23 (see also Seventh-day Adventists Believe...27 Fundamental Beliefs, p 16, 22).