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FAQ # 189
QUESTION 189 : And what about places in which these three elements seem to
be acting independently, such as at Jesus' baptism (Matthew 3:16,17)?
Now, was Jesus seeing and hearing Himself? Was He referring to Himself
as His own son? And was he well pleased with himself?
Is God not a Spirit that fills heaven
and earth? Is it not the same God who touches a heart with His Spirit
in deepest Africa, and at the same moment in time is there to impart a
living soul when a child is born in the frigid Arctic? Are those separate
persons? Does God have to be a Separate Person to be, to act, or to do
in more than one place at a time? Certainly NOT!
Jer 23:23 Am I a God at hand, saith the
LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places
that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth?
saith the LORD.
To use this event to prove separate persons,
you would have to prove that each separate person of God can only do one
thing at a time per person. And again, the bible itself does not SAY these
were examples of separate persons. Nor do the apostles anywhere say they
understood this event to be evidence of separate persons.
Let me ask you this- can a man love his
own flesh? The Bible says he can- Ephesians 5:28 "So ought men to
love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For NO MAN EVER YET HATED HIS OWN FLESH; BUT NOURISHETH AND CHERISHETH
IT, even as the Lord the church..."
So why should it not be possible for God
the everlasting Spirit to love (cherish) the Son of God in the flesh,
who is His own body?
You see- If we use scripture to define
the differences, we come up with "differences of administrations"
and "diversities of operations" yet- "ONE AND THE SELFSAME
SPIRIT."
{Source: Tom
R.}
[In addition, not all things were
meant to be clear to everyone; as stated plainly in scripture some things
were in parables purposely, “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because
they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing
ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and
shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their
ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any
time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal
them. But blessed are your eyes” (Matt 13:13-16). Hence, another reason
for citing ‘differences of administration’.]
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