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@secondson saidYes and apparently he has three persons in him!
Have you not read that there's only one God?
Title:
The Error of Insisting on Three “Persons” as a Litmus Test of Orthodoxy
Summary:
While it is common (and not wrong) to refer to the Three of the Divine Trinity as three “persons,” the term persons is problematic because it can lead to misunderstanding. This article examines whether Norman Geisler was justified in criticizing a statement of faith in the journal Affirmation & Critique because it did not explicitly use the word persons in its definition of the Trinity.
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Norman Geisler, in a letter to Ron Kangas, A&C‘s Editor-in-Chief, called these statements concerning the Trinity unorthodox, stating:
First, if you desired to be considered orthodox in your “Statement of Faith,” then why did you leave out the word “person” of the three members of the Trinity. To be orthodox you should have said “three [persons] being distinct” and “we confess the third [person] of the Trinity.”2
Thus, to Geisler any statement speaking of the three of the Divine Trinity that does not use the word “persons” is unorthodox. Furthermore, Geisler, in an article co-signed by Ron Rhodes, denounce the teaching of Witness Lee and the local churches as heresy based on the following statement made by Witness Lee:
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not three separate persons or three Gods; they are one God, one reality, one person.3
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Augustus H. Strong, whom Geisler and Rhodes referred to as “the noted Baptist theologian,” said:
The term ‘person’ only approximately represents the truth. Although this word, more nearly than any other single word, expressed the conception which the Scriptures give us of the relation between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, it is not itself used in this connection in Scriptures, and we employ it in a qualified sense, not in the ordinary sense in which we apply the word ‘person’ to Peter, Paul, and John.6
J. Scott Horrell, Professor of Theological Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, notes:
If the term nature is difficult when we speak of God, the term person is all the more complex. Theologians such as Tertullian, the Cappadocians, Augustine, and Aquinas differ in their concept of person, even if modern and postmodern conceptions vary considerably more.7
“Slink away”
Let's see if Divegeester has the guts to tell the world who are the believers he has come together with. Or will we be treated to a barrage of excuses for his concealment.
@sonship saidIs there any chance at all of you addressing the OP, of are you going to continue to avoid the simple question in it to you like some sort of plague?
Here are the websites of four congregations I have met with for an accumulated over 40 years from 1974. Usually Statements of Faith and Testimonies can be examined.
The church in New York City
http://churchinnyc.org
The church in Newton, Mass.
https://www.localchurches.org/churches/newton-ma-usa/
The church in Boston, Mass
http://ch ...[text shortened]... gations to the light may invite the charge of "cult" or "sect" ?
Are you ashamed of something ?
Is there any chance at all of you addressing the OP, of are you going to continue to avoid the simple question in it to you like some sort of plague?
@sonship saidStop ranting and feel free to start a thread on whatever topic you wish to discuss.
@divegeesterIs there any chance at all of you addressing the OP, of are you going to continue to avoid the simple question in it to you like some sort of plague?
STRICT AS ALL GET OUT with everyone else.
MERCIFUL, ACCOMMODATING, and LENIENT, on YOURSELF.
We've got it. By not admitting to any group of peo ...[text shortened]... hered.
SHOW US a "In Order To Be Saved" statement under which YOU have gathered.
GO!
@divegeester saidNo. This thread is about you, what you think about others, about how much bile a troll like you can heap on anyone that dares to oppose your unbiblical version of God.
Stop ranting and feel free to start a thread on whatever topic you wish to discuss.
This thread is about my OP, it's about why you are so furtive about your strange beliefs and it's about error, your error, like the one in the OP written by your own church leaders.
@secondson saidThis is a discussion forum and sonship’s strange beleifs and his furtiveness when asked about them is a legitimate topic.
No. This thread is about you, what you think about others, about how much bile a troll like you can heap on anyone that dares to oppose your unbiblical version of God.
@divegeester saidThis "error" you mean ?
Stop ranting and feel free to start a thread on whatever topic you wish to discuss.
This thread is about my OP, it's about why you are so furtive about your strange beliefs and it's about error, your error, like the one in the OP written by your own church leaders.
In order to be saved, one must have a living contact with Jesus Christ. Therefore, in bringing unbelievers to salvation, we emphasize prayer and calling on the name of the Lord. According to Romans 10:9 and 10, if a man is to be saved, he must believe in his heart and confess with his mouth.
Once a person has been saved, he may have both the assurance of salvation and the security of salvation. Once we are saved, we are saved forever.
@sonship saidNo, not what you have written in your post as a deflection (tut-tut); as you well know I’m referring to the error lifted from the statement of belief written by the the leaders of your Local Church group and which is written in the OP of this thread and many times afterwards and which you have been refusing to say whether you agree with it or not.
This "error" you mean ?
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[quote] In order to be saved, one must have a living contact with Jesus Christ. Therefore, in bringing unbelievers to salvation, we emphasize prayer and calling on the name of the Lord. According to Romans 10:9 and 10, if a man is to be saved, he must believe in his heart and confess with his mouth.
Once a person h ...[text shortened]... urself with any congregation on earth.
You're the one acting like you're trying to conceal errors.