That you haven't studied is obvious and this is at the core of why you are wrong. Even Satan can give people a burning in their bosom. The Bible itself does not even state to pray it, or any other religious book, as to whether or not it is true. In fact, this is what the Bible does state:
2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (KJV)
But it is your opinion. And much of it is wrong because you haven't studied.
Well, it is interesting you know so much about me to say that I have not studied.
If Satan could burn your bosom you would be sad, angry, proud, miserable, negative, in fear. You see, there is no joy or truth in him, he can't fake happiness. He is the complete opposite of Jesus Christ. Where there is joy in Christ, there is sadness in Satan. Where there is truth and life in Christ, there is lies and death in Satan.
So if you pray to the Father in the name of Christ, there is no way that Satan will answer in His instead. He can try to preventing you from praying, but he cannot take the place of our Father. That line of communication is direct with the Father. And you cannot be tempted more than you can bear.
The way truths are confirmed in your bosom is through an extreme inner
happiness that is sweet and inexpressible in words. A
certitude that cannot be denied. Whereas if were Satan answering you would be
unhappy, in doubt and in fear of being wrong.
The Father gives you peace to your heart, Satan gives anxiety and fear.
It is definitely NOT through prayer that Satan will deceive you, unless you pray to him.
Actually, the most common way that Satan uses to deceive people is
by keeping people from praying. He knows that if you don't pray you don't have a connection with the Father, and thus, Satan, can keep you ignorant. And when you read the bible he can whisper false concept into you ears and your heart.
More than you realize, Satan utilize truths to deceive people. Except, he doesn't say all the truth, he says some of it and mix the rest with falsehood.
And he prefers to talk indirectly to you. If he appeared to people and tried to deceive, most people would reject him because there is no light in him even (if he appeared as an angel of light), because you can feel his anger. So he needs two things:
1) partial truths mixed with false concepts and doctrines,
2) someone to teach that truth mixed with false concepts.
Guess who are the people he tries to enlist to teach half truths and falsehoods combined?
He encourages preachers, leaders and people in position of influence to teach some of the truths of the bible mixed with their own opinion or interpretation. So the people that follow them will be in the wrong path. That way they keep them from the whole truth. Plus they rarely tell you to ask Father in Heaven about what they preach. Why? Because they are not certain themselves.
That is why you need to pray constantly to God lest you fall into the temptation of believing in your own interpretation. If you pray you are not deceived by man, or Satan. And as you pray humbly your pride don't deceive you either. Satan loves proud people because they think they have all the truth but they don't. That way they are also kept from the truth.
Guess who are the most proud? The learned people, the scholar people. They are proud of their accomplishments, so they think they know everything because of their own abilities. They even think they know God. Therefore, they are also kept from the whole truth.
Anyone that discourages people to pray is doing the work of darkness.
Bringing people to the true Christ is at least a part of these forums.
Isn't bringing souls to Christ the first and foremost important thing to do?
You are not refuting them because you can't. I need not ask God whether polytheism is true or not because he explicitly says he is the only One. I do not need to pray about that.
What you are teaching is anti-biblical and false. Please deal with the Scriptures I posted showing that there is only one God. There never has been and never will be another, including you.
I don't need to refute, nor I want to. It has never being my intention to debate or refute peoples beliefs. Instead I am expound the scriptures and giving my witness of what I have learned so people can shed the false concepts and enlarge the truth in them. And the only way to do that is by praying to Father in Heaven as He is the source of truth.
Please read what I wrote:
"first begotten" or "firstborn" does not mean "the first born of all creatures."
That is to say, first begotten is firstborn, they are two different translations of the same word and mean the same thing. What it does not mean is that Jesus is "the first born of all creatures."
The word firstborn itself has different meanings and does not necessarily even refer to one who has been born.
Yes any word in the bible or in any book can be taken literally or figuratively. No doubt about it, this is nothing new.
However, you are making the arbitrary decision of telling others that this "firstborn" should be taken figuratively, but the other "firstborn" should be taken literally. How do you know that? Did the Father revealed it to you?
I don't need to be a prophet since the Bible makes this abundantly clear. Again, I posted passages of Scripture showing that Jesus could not have been born but were completely passed over by yourself and others. But I will post them again so that you are without excuse:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (ESV)
Clearly, the only logical conclusion that can be reached is that the Word (Christ) was not made, otherwise verse three is false.
Yes you don't need to be a prophet, but not because you have the bible. But you need to be like a prophet, because prophets pray to God constantly, how do you think they teach the truth?
Logical conclusion. Here is again your opinion. Your interpretation. I would have to take your word for that. Hence, the need to pray to Father in Heaven.
Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Again, if Jesus can be said to have created all things, which means everything that has ever been created, as rest of the verse and John 1:3 state, and he can be said to be before all things, then clearly, the only logical conclusion is that he is not to be counted among the things, he is uncreated.
This, too, we have been over before. I realize this is a difficult topic but it isn't that difficult. Three Persons in the one Being that is God, is not the equivalent of saying three Gods are the One God, nor that the three Persons are one Person.
I explicitly stated that the language is as precise as we can make it and was chosen specifically to avoid such statements. Please don't make these arguments again.
Colossians 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Need I say more. I don't need to add anything to this it is so clear a baby can understand.
But, you read this and will say, this firstborn in not firstborn (because the pastor told us that Jesus is not a creature).
Se how you need to add things?
So do you believe your pastor, minister what have you, or do you believe in God first? Ask God if what you are reading in this scripture is true. That is simple as to look at the "snake in the stick."
The doctrine of the Trinity explicitly states that there is only one God.But you have previously stated more than once that there is more than one God. Here is yet another Scripture that proves your position wrong.
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The problem with trinity is simple:
1- A whole that is made up of three has three 1/3 parts. You cannot have 1/3 of a God.
2- Trinity, to make them perfectly coequal, it needs to make Jesus, the Son, a Father like God the Father.
#1 is obvious.
#2 you have three Gods because you eliminate the Father-Son relationship, as you made them coequal Gods. Worshiping three equal Gods makes you are a polytheist. The only way for you to escape the polytheism is to concoct the mysterious and inexplicable oneness of the trinity and ask people to believe you. They would have to believe in something they have no idea what it is, because even the ones that invented trinity don't know.
3 is not equal to 1.
If you want to know the thruth you need to go to the source of the truth.
You need to ask this to yourself:
Did God came out of the bible or is it the bible that came out of God.
Believing in trinity is to believe in a God that came out of the Bible.
Have a great day,
mamre
