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Old 08-07-2020, 09:10 AM   #94
Boxjobox
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Default Re: The Trinity Thread (To be a merged thread)

WL used 1Cor to establish a number of practices such as calling on the Lord, prophesying, Lords table. But he did not establish what Paul taught in chapter 8 that there is but one God, the Father.
Here are supporting verses from 1Cor

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body [g]and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God,

But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all

Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise.

But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all

These are but a few, but I think they well represent Paul’s thinking and teaching. He does not speak of a triune God, but specifically references God, God our Father. He does not put Jesus in the place of God. God is God and Christ Jesus is Christ Jesus. To create a trinity, 3 people god, or to substitute Jesus for God is to alter the meaning and teaching Paul presents.

Had WL the same thinking as Paul, his bible teaching would have brought the believers to have such a great appreciation of God, our Father. It would have rightened a jumbled understanding that resulted from 4th century trinitarianism. The church contents and practice would have been prayers, thanksgiving, worship, to God, God our Father. The perspective would have been operational according to that which was taught by Paul and the scripture. The church would have commenced the house of God. The name of our Father would have been “hallowed”. Instead, WL filled the believers with an unscriptural concept of a processed triune god.
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