Sabbath 4/11/36/120A

Dear Friends,

This week we will reissue the Gender of the Holy Spirit paper and update the aspects regarding the Generation of the Holy Spirit as the power of God in the Creation.

The Churches of God in the Twentieth Century were almost completely absorbed in heresy either Ditheism or Binitarianism.  It is because of the one great lie that there were two coeternal and coexistent beings from the Beginning that actually came from the worship of the god Attis in Rome that saw Binitarianism enter the Christian Church at the last half of the Second Century CE.

This as we know led to the formulation of Trinitarianism by 381 CE and ultimately led to the corruption of what became known as mainstream Sunday worshipping Christianity. In order to establish the Binitarianism of Attis it became necessary to elevate Christ above the other elohim or sons of God and establish him as a co-functionary in the creation. How this was done is explained in the sections on the Binitarian and Trinitarian Misuse of the Early Theology of the Godhead (No.  127B).

Part of this fraud was the misuse of Scripture regarding the function of the Holy Spirit.  The major aspect of the explanation of the understanding of the way in which we become sons of God was through the function of the Holy Spirit.  The basic significance of the Holy Spirit was as the power of God that enables all of the Heavenly Host and the Human Host to function as the image of God. In other words, to become elohim as sons of God; and as an extended being functioning as God. For this reason the Holy Spirit as the Wisdom of God referred to in Proverbs 8 had to be misrepresented as the action of Christ, which it was not.  

Christ was made in the image of God as were all the elohim as sons of God. For this reason the text in Philippians 2:5-8 had to be mistranslated in the Receptus to disguise the obedience of Christ in not seizing equality with God and attempt at his elevation. Their capacity to exist as elohim was through the Holy Spirit which conferred the wisdom of God on all the elohim Host. Thus the first element of the creation had to be the Holy Spirit as an extension of the Wisdom of God in order for the sons of God to exist as one with God as Ha Elohim or The Elohim as an extended being of Elohim in which God was to become all in all. It follows as a matter of logic that if wisdom was not instantiated in the Divine Essence then it is not obvious how God could have created that capacity.  The capacity of Wisdom to exist with God was with the act of the creation of the Holy Spirit as an extended power so that such wisdom could be extended to the elohim Host.  It is not the counsellor of God but rather the power by which they become one with God in relative wisdom and power. We now know that the Wisdom of God was relative in the angelic or elohim Host of the sons of God.  God has chosen to limit their knowledge and reveal His Plan through humans as prophets so that by that fact the Host exercise loyalty and faith.  Christ in that way also had to exercise loyalty and faith.  Up until his resurrection and acceptance as the Wave Sheaf offering the Holy Spirit was confined to the willing self revelation of God.  Even after his resurrection and ascent into heaven God withheld some understanding from Christ also as we see from the Revelation of God to Jesus Christ that was then conveyed to John as the final work of the NT. The Heavenly Host long to look into the things God reveals through us (1Pet. 1:12). 

It was not until after 381 that the Trinitarians saw the need to misrepresent the texts more generally and to elevate Christ as a Binitarian and then Trinitarian entity. They had to misrepresent the texts that could be rendered as being contrary to the elevation of Christ.  A major thing they did was disguise the other sons of God as being products of the activity of Christ under direction of God. To do that, they had to misapply Proverbs 8 to Christ in their teachings.  Then they had to misapply the text in Romans 8:9 where Paul is held to say the Spirit is proper to the son which it does not say at all.

The full text in Roman 8:9-17 shows the proper understanding of the text.  The first element of the text in verse 9 is used to claim that the Spirit is proper to the Son as it proceeds from the Son using the text in John 20:22. The two texts were used to develop the "filioque" clause developed by the Trinitarian Catholics in the Seventh Century and then attributed to the so-called Arians in Spain which is not true.     

[9] But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

The full text shows the intent.  The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father as the One True God who sent Christ (Jn. 17:3) and exists in the elect through Christ and the elect are required to develop the character of Christ as prospective sons of God. It is plain that the Spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead is to dwell in us. At no stage does it imply that the Spirit is one of three entities and nor does this text elevate Christ as is claimed.  It is clear that all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. This refers to the One True God and not to Christ as a third member of a Triune God.

[10] But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive because of righteousness. [11] If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you. [12] So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh --  [13] for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. [14] For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. [15] For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba! Father!" [16] it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, [17] and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

How can we be sons of God through the Spirit of God and be coheirs with Christ who is also a son of God sent by God to save us. Coheirs means we inherit exactly the same thing.

John 20:22 does not imply that the Spirit emanates from Christ.  It shows simply that he had been accepted as the Wave Sheaf and was then given permission to extend the Holy Spirit to the church which was done at Pentecost in the same Third year of the Sabbath Cycle, which is when all major activities of change in the structure of the people of God and as the church occurs.

The argument is then advanced by a false premise claiming that the son will instruct the Holy Spirit in guiding the elect into all truth which is not what is said. The Holy Spirit of God is sent and draws all people to the faith and God gives them to Christ and through the power of God in the Holy Spirit reveals all truth to them. In no text in the Bible is it ever suggested that Christ as a son of God, or any other son of God, is ontologically prior to the Spirit.

Ephesians 4:4-6 is likewise used to claim the Trinitarian unity of the three completely contrary to what it actually says.

[4] There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, [5] one Lord, one faith, one baptism, [6] one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.

It is obvious that what is being asserted is that there is one Body and one Spirit which we have seen emanated from the Father who is the One True God who sent Jesus Christ. The Body is of Christ who is the head of the church which is led by the spirit of God.  The key point of the text is that there is ONE God and Father of us all who is above all and through all and in all.  There are not three Gods. That body of Christ consists of one Lord, one faith and one baptism, all to the service of the One True God who sent Christ, and on that understanding rests eternal life (Jn 17:3).  The Trinitarians then claim that by dividing them we assert three spirits, which is absurd.

Texts used in support of the absurdity are often:
John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.  
This text means what it says and that God is the object of worship.  It says nothing about worshipping a three headed God and nowhere in the text does Christ imply that he is part of that God as the object of worship.

Romans 8:9 refers to the fact that we are not in the flesh but in the spirit if the Spirit of God dwells in us. It says nothing about the Spirit of a Triune God as advanced by the Trinitarians.

2 Corinthians 13:14 is also used in support of Triune God which is not what it says.

It has even been asserted by a Trinitarian grasping at straws that the reference in Deuteronomy 10:17 to the fact that the Lord our God is God ('elohe) of Gods ('elohim) and Lord of Lords (adonai, adonim), a great God (El) actually refers to the Triune God as three elements of a great God.  Such writers never draw attention to the object of worship being Eloah, which is singular and admits of no plurality whatsoever and is the object of worship and the source of the law (Ezra 4:23-7:26) and is the Father by His direct statement through Proverbs 30:4-5.

Romans 1:1-6 is used to assert that the text saying we are the called of Jesus Christ has some Trinitarian meaning when that is completely contrary to the text in Romans and of Paul elsewhere.  Paul states in 1:16-17 that salvation is by faith through God's power in providing righteousness.  It not a Triune system and Paul can never be imputed to refer to a triune system. Romans 1:7 addressed to all the church in Rome beloved of God and called to be saints, makes clear distinction between God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  We have dealt with the misuse of John 1:1 elsewhere. John 1:18 often ignores the monogenese theos in the translation of the text. John 20:28 is often used as a Trinitarian text referring to the Deity of Christ but completely ignores the references to Psalm 45:6-7 which is repeated as referring to Christ in Hebrews 1:8-9 and the fact that Thomas was also probably referring to Psalm 86:15, which in the LXX reads Kurie ho Theos, claiming forgiveness for his unbelief referring to Exodus 34:6 to which the psalm refers.  However, nowhere does that text imply that there were three elements to God and the references to which he probably refers are clearly subordinationist which Trinitarians choose to ignore.

Acts 5:3-4 is sometimes used to claim that the Holy Spirit is referred to as being lied to and hence God is being lied to and hence the Trinity might be inferred. Such an assertion completely ignores the fact that God communicates with us through the Holy Spirit and  overlooks the myriad texts that make the Spirit the power of God through which we all become sons of God and coheirs with Christ.  It cannot logically imply a distinct being.

The fact that the Spirit searches the deep things of God (1Cor. 2:10) can in no way be used to assert that it is a separate being other than the power of God.  The text in John 14:16-23 far from supporting the Triune God shows absolutely that Christ had to ask the Father as God to send the Holy Spirit and that he had no power over the despatch of the Spirit except by request of the Father who controlled it.

The Trinity is an invention of the Cappadocians to reconcile the Spirit to the Binitarian god Attis and the worship of the Sun Cults, and thus confine God to a Triune being as understood from Rome.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General