CHAPTER 13 FAQ - DOCTRINE, DENOMINATION AND RELIGION
QUESTION 383 : Does it matter what one believes, so long as he is sincere? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 384 :
Isn’t laying on
of hands speaking of healing, but how comes you said it
represents the baptism of the Holy Ghost from Hebrew 6:1?
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The Answer]
QUESTION 385 : Easy Believism - What is it? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 386 : How did so many doctrines come about? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 387 :
This is "Oneness"
doctrine arose about the third century AD as the result
of the teachings of a man named Sabellius... Isn’t that
clear to you also?
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The Answer]
QUESTION 388 : Teachings such as this (Oneness) and others that attacked the Trinity, like that of Arius, motivated the early church to define Biblical teaching through the use of creeds. Trinitarianism didn't pop up all of a sudden at the time these creeds were written, but were in existence the whole time - the true church of Christ had always held to this teaching. There are the Nicene, the Apostle's and the Athanasian creeds, to name a few. These are not held as Scripture but were written simply to lay down the truths of Scripture clearly. Isn’t that clear? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 389 : We are striving for doctrinal unity in the Christian faith. Since that perfect unity is obviously not yet obtained, change is in order. Some teach that unity can only come if we all learn to compromise and accept each other’s doctrines. Does Jesus expect us to compromise His words for the sake of unity? Or does He warn us against allowing compromisers to have their place in the church? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 390 : The Bible teaches that we are not to judge. For this reason there are many who teach that we don't have the right to correct others who claim to be Christians, even if their doctrines are totally contrary to scripture. Should Christians allow compromise against scriptural authority and commandment to discern, rebuke, and withdraw from false teachers? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 391 : Some teach that it is not right to name out those who are teaching false doctrines. But did Jesus, Paul, or other Apostles (our examples of true Christianity) ever expose false teachers by name? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 392 : I am a Pastor and I still cannot concede to this teaching (Acts 2:38), why? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 393 : What is a “wind of doctrine”? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 394 : Is the doctrine that God is one or one ‘person’ pagan or Biblical? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 395 : With the allege pagan origins of the Trinity, could it be that God's deity was revealed to the pagans by some means? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 396 : "How does one explain, or even understand the doctrine of the Trinity?" “Is it of Pagan Origin?” [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 397 : Is 'persons' a biblical word, that is, applied to the persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? If so, does it mean three beings or persons of the Trinity? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 398 : Are we suppose to think of God as some have term him, with “subsistences, hypostases, and personas to describe the manifestations that make up the ontological nature, the being called God?” [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 399 : Is God looking like Seraphim with more than one face, or three as it pertain to the trinity? Are we not made in his image and we don’t have three faces, so really, does archaic scriptural research proves that God has more than one literal face?[Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 400 : From your book, “The Voice…”, it is said that the doctrine of the Trinity develop, but so did the doctrine of One God or oneness. Isn’t that so? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 401 : Is The Trinity Compatible with the nature of God, self-existent? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 402 : The Nicea council said that the three were consubstantial, from the word substance. In other words, one substance but exists in three consubstance, so the consubstance make up the substance of the Trinity. If so and the son is begotten, what was God before? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 403 : What is Neo-Trinitarianism, what do they teach and what are the implications? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 404 : “The ‘Jesus Only’ Pentecostals, baptize ‘in the name of Jesus’. As a result, the baptisms of these groups are invalid; thus, they are not Christian, but pseudo-Christian” (Catholic Answers, 2020 Gillespie Way, El Cajon, CA 92020 USA, www.catholic.com). Isn’t that so? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 405 : Is what this book preaching “Patripassianism after its claim that the Person of the Father (Patri-) suffered (-passion) on the cross when Jesus died?” [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 406 : Apostolics keeping speaking of this two nature doctrine, can nature speak to themselves. of course not, explain it if you can? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 407 : What is the “eternal generation” or “eternal Sonship” or ‘God the Son’ and can it explain Jesus’ true deity, trinity or any Christology? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 408 : What is Christology and is it a key to understanding who God is? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 409 : Please explain Deuteronomy 6:4 because both Trinitarians and non-Trinitarians use it? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 410 : Since God is a person, would not these titles (Matt 28:19) also be persons, therefore making them three persons? When each appears in Scripture they are a person, yet they insist that when all three are together, none of them are different persons, but only one person. But when they appear one at a time, they are one person also. Help? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 411 : Is it true that persons who are Anti-Trinitarian are so because they don’t understand the Conciliar Proclamations (creeds, Ecumenical Council etc.)? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 412 : One person had quoted Frank where he said he got a new doctrine, following the Pentecostal experience of Azusa 1906. He was a stalwart with R. E McAlister, G.T. Haywood and Glenn Cook from the 1913 camp meeting that followed; “Frank Ewart stated of this message, “the shot had been fired, and its sound was destined to be heard around the world, as Christendom would soon be shaken by this new doctrine (p.106).” Does that mean his doctrine was new? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 413 : 'His Own Did Not Know Him' (John 1:11), Does this means that the Jews didn’t understand the Trinity - 1. John 1:5, 2. John 1:10, 3. 1 Cor. 2:14? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 414 : Does the example of the “Body of Christ” prove the trinity; one body, comprise of believers? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 415 : I have listed A-G on why we accept and baptize saying what was said in Matthew 28:19 baptismal formula, any objections; of course, they can’t be any? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 416 : I have listed A-F on why we abhor this apostolic doctrine you preach in this book, any objections; of course, they can’t be any? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 417 : I have listed 1 to 3 points and briefly examine some of the New Testament evidences for our important doctrine of the Trinity, any objections; of course, they can’t be any? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 418 : Oneness writers claim that Col. 2:9 proves that Jesus is God the Father and Holy Spirit. Since Colossians 2:9 says that the fullness of "the Godhead" dwells in Jesus, Oneness writers have argued that the Godhead is in Jesus, not Jesus in the Godhead. This either/or approach, however, causes the oneness interpretation of Colossians 2:9 to contradict their interpretation of John 10:38 where Jesus states, "the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father." Since "the Father" in oneness theology is "the Godhead," John 10:38 in their terms would mean that the Godhead is in Jesus, and Jesus is in the Godhead. When Oneness believers deny that "Jesus is in the Godhead," what they mean to deny is that Jesus is one [of the] person in a triune Godhead. Colossians 2:9, though, does not rule out that possibility. What it affirms is that Jesus is no less than the full and complete revelation of God's nature ('theotetos', "deity") in the flesh. While not all three persons of God are incarnate in Jesus, all of God's essence is incarnate in Jesus (Pastor Roger Griffith of Bosque Farms Assembly of God, joywell.org). Isn’t that so? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 419 : “When pressed to explain Jesus’ prayers, some ‘Oneness’ Pentecostals assert that He prayed for our benefit, for show not in earnest: to set an example. Those who heard Him, they say, were watching someone pretend to carry on a telephone conversation with the button pressed down. Hearing Him cry: “O my Father,” they make the astonishing claim that God is a ‘hypocrite’, in other words a stage actor, who puts on various masks and disguises and pretends to carry on conversation. But would it not be hypocritical for God to condemn people for hypocrisy if He’s actually in that same line of work Himself?” In other words, was Jesus play acting? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 420 : What is referred to as Baptismal regeneration and what does it do? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 421 : You often say that our mediator is a man, pointing to the verse 1 Tim 2:5, “the man Christ Jesus.” However, we see the Holy Spirit, not a man, is also the advocator (mediator) in the use of the Greek word parakletos. Doesn’t that make two persons our advocator or the doctrine that a man (Jesus) is our advocator erroneous? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 422 : When presented with the salutation of “father and Jesus Christ” in most epistles, some oneness point out the fact that other verses say “God and father” (one), saying we are to think of the two persons here (father and Jesus Christ) as one person. Is that so? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 423 : "But you, do not be called 'Rabbi'; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your *Teacher, the Christ" (Matthew 23:8-10). On its face, this passage explicitly forbids the common 'Oneness' Pentecostal practice of calling Jesus 'Father', because Jesus, on earth, speaking to His disciples, told them not to call "anyone on earth" Father. Isn’t that So? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 424 : In the Greek, tou ("the") is used for each title, and each is separated by kai ("and"). This helps support the view that in this text three distinct individual persons are being spoken of: ...in the name of the (tou) Father and the (kai tou) Son, and the (kai tou) Holy Spirit. If the Greek text had been referring to only one person, it would have most likely read: ...in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. or, ...in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (bible.ca). Wouldn’t it? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 425 : If Modalism was the doctrine of the apostles, then why was it condemned universally by early church Fathers and at ecclesiastical councils? (Department of Christian Defense) [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 426 : What is Perichoresis and how does it help in Christological development? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 427 : Doesn't 2 Sam 23:13-17 proves the Trinity and supports the doctrine of Perichoresis, as it uses analogy to speak of the three shedding their blood through Christ? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 428 : Did a so-called "Ecumenical Council" outlawed baptism calling on Lord Jesus Christ? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 429 : Thomas Weisser adds, "The Logos of John 1 was simply the concept in the Father's mind. Not a separate person!" But Robert Brent Graves muddies the water even more by stating, "Only when we begin to take John at his word that God "became flesh" can we begin to understand the power and the authority of Jesus Christ." Hence, one group of Oneness exponents seem to be saying that the Word was the Father Himself, but manifested in the flesh (Paterson and possibly Graves) while others see the Word as simply the plan of God put into place at the opportune time. Is that so? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 430 : Are Apostolics, or commonly called "Oneness Pentecostals," apologists? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 431 : Trinitarians often ask us, "Who ever heard of a Son who was his own Father?" [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 432 : Annunciation, Assumption, Immaculate Conception, Virgin Birth: What’s the difference? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 433 : Who Are the Very Elect? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 434 : What is the church? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 435 : I’m an “officer” in another Christian persuasion, it’s hard for me to turn around now; why or how can I change now? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 436 : Why don’t all Theologians/Christian understand this truth that embodies this book? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 437 : Even after all this evidence is clearly presented, there will be many who will reject the great truth of the oneness of God. How can this be possible? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 438 : But how can so many people be wrong? [Click Here For The Answer]