Tom said: July 15, 2008 4:49 pm PST
To the Teachers: The spirit cannot be God
If your congregation is singing praises to the holy spirit, you are doing something that not found in the N T. Let us speak where the Bible speaks, and silent where it's silent. Also, are you robbing the Father of His glory of being the only true God?
Christ said, I will speak plainly of the Father. Jn 16:25-30 The Jews understood, he knows all things because he is from God. v 30 Christ then follows with Jn 17:3, 3:16
Christ went far above the heavens to be with the "one God and Father of us all. " Eph 4:5,8 Christ is the Son of this God when both are in heaven. I Thess 1:9 Rev 3:12 I Cor 15:24,28 Who is the God of our fathers? ACT 3:13
Christ also said, "I speak the things that I have seen with my Father... I told you the truth which I heard from God....If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came forth from God; for neither did I come of myself, but He sent me." Jn 8:28,38-42 6:57 Christ teaches us that he was God's Son before coming to earth, and that truth comes from the God who sent him, the God of Jews. Look up the word "sent" as used in John, like Jn 7:16,17.