If There Was No Book of Matthew, What Would You Do?

On the subject of water baptism, the Trinitarian immediately runs to the book of Matthew to prove his point on the trinity baptism. I have even heard it said, “I would rather believe Jesus than Peter”. I will deal with that statement a little later.

My dear reader, what would you do if there was no book of Matthew? What scripture would you use to prove your Trinitarian baptism? You know that you couldn’t go to Acts because there in Acts it clearly states that all the converts were baptized in Jesus name.

In my Dake Bible it states that Matthew was actually written in 37 AD. Other Bible historians say that Matthew was written as far out as 70 to 90 AD! Let us use the shorter time period in our discussion. If Matthew was written in 37 AD, what did all the believers use for baptismal proof for those 37 years? If the church was baptizing in the triune formula during those 37 years what were they using to substantiate their position on water baptism?

It would seem to make sense that because the history of the book Acts is not even 37 years old, we would need to go to Acts to find out how the church at that time was baptizing.

From the death and resurrection of Jesus to at least 37 full years passed, no one could turn to Matthew 28:19 and try to prove their Trinitarian baptism! There was no book of Matthew! There was no reference for the “trinity” baptism. If you did not have that passage in Matthew, what honestly would you do? How would you baptize or how would you be baptized?

Can you imagine tens of thousands of new believers and they had no scripture to turn to that they could use for their baptism. What did they do? Who did they listen to? How were they baptized?

Acts 2:37-38
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

This passage of scripture is the first mention of water baptism after Jesus’ final words to his disciples before his ascension. As you can see, the first mention of water baptism is by Peter and his command is that water baptism is to be done in the name of “Jesus”. In reading this chapter you will find the 120 people that were in the upper room were baptized in Jesus name. Later that same day 3,000 more people totalling 3,120 new believers were baptized in the name of Jesus, just 50 day after Jesus’ ascension!

When Peter made this command of baptism in Jesus’ name on that day of Pentecost in Acts two, where was Matthew? Was Matthew there? Was Matthew with the other Apostles and the crowd listening to Peter that day? There is no doubt in my mind that Mathew was right by Peter’s side as he preached that everyone should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins! Is there any record of Mathew standing up and interrupting Peter and saying “No, stop! Baptism should be done in the trinity formula! Water baptism should be done in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit!” My friend, there is no record of anything like that happening. Matthew was there and was in full agreement with Peter and the rest of the Apostles that water baptism should be administered in the name of Jesus.

By studying history on the subject, you will see that the triune baptism did not even exist until over 200 years after the death of Jesus. It was in 325 AD at the Nicene counsel that the trinity baptism was made dogma by the Catholic Church and by Pope Constantine.

The fact about Matthew is that he by every indication was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins along with all of the other Apostles.

If you are going to do it, do it Biblically! Water baptism is not an option. It was commanded by Jesus, and his Apostles throughout the book of Acts also commanded water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ.  The Apostle Paul went as far as re-baptizing twelve believers in Acts 19:5. In that passage you will learn that the timing was about 20 years after Jesus’ death and Paul commands that these believers converted under John the Baptist be re-baptized! What would you do, get mad or would you obey and be re-baptized in the name of Jesus Christ? Do you get it? There was no trinity baptism yet, it did not exist. Matthew had not written the book of Matthew and the Bible does NOT give us one person that was baptized in the trinity formula, not one. There is no mention in the Bible of one preacher that baptized using the titles Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Here is the reference of Paul re-baptizing the twelve believers.

Acts 19:1, 3-5
19:1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

My dear reader, don’t follow tradition, don’t follow the crowds. Don’t follow the Popes of Rome. Find an Apostolic church and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins!

        

Three Persons, Three Lords and Three Gods

The reason people continue to insist upon three people in the Godhead is that they do not understand the dual nature of Christ. On this blog you can find one of my studies entitled “the dual nature of Christ”.

It amazes me that people choose to run with the Popes of Rome of whom never had a revelation of God and were never born again. These same preachers and believers believe that God is three persons as the Roman Catholic church has taught for 1,800 years. What most people don’t know, it was a Pope from Rome who changed the water baptism in the 3rd century from “in the name of Jesus Christ” to “in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit”.

It was at the Nicene Counsel of the Roman Catholic church in 325 AD that the teaching of the trinity came about. In the first two centuries after Jesus ascension you cannot find any teachings of Jehovah God as being a trinity. The teaching came about by a backslidden church that began to compromise with the local pagans to bring about religious harmony. The local pagans worshiped multiple Gods by many names. For an example, the mother and child worship (Mary and Jesus) is centuries older than Mary herself. Look in your history and you will see pictures of statues that have been excavated of a woman holding a child. These are much older than 2,000 years! Again the pagans and backslid church of the day both compromised there standards. Of course the pagans were already lost so there compromise did not hurt them any worse. The sad part is that the church was falling further and further from many truths originally held by the early church. This falling away was spoken of by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:3

2 Thess 2:3
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
KJV

This falling away of the church was yet to happen and as we can see the Apostle Paul had revelation of it. Much of the church forsook the teaching of the “oneness” of God and water baptism “in the name of Jesus Christ” in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Do a google search “Nicene Counsel 325 AD”. You can read all about it.

Let me show you why this teaching is so wrong…
The Trinity in a nutshell is “God in three separate persons, all three are Lord and all three are God”.
If the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are three separate persons than…
The Father, Son and Holy Ghost are three separate Lords and
The Father, Son and Holy Ghost are three separate Gods!
The end result of this pagan teaching is that God is three separate persons, three separate Lords and three separate Gods. This is complete heresy!

Everything that I have written here is documented history. The Roman Catholic church admits to having changed the teachings of baptism and the Oneness of God. They admit it and it is in their encyclopedias! They know they did it and don’t deny it. The secular encyclopedias also verify that truth.

Rev 18:4
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.KJV

Part of chapters 17 & 18 in Revelation is about the coming Roman Catholic church. God is saying “come out of her my people”. Look in your history and you will find where the church of Rome has murdered an estimated 68 million Christians that believed in the oneness of God and were baptized in Jesus name. Google it, it’s their!

The Pope in 1962 at the Vatican Counsel said “we the Mother church are opening our arms for all of our daughters to return home”. Every person that has been baptized in the triune formula is part of the the Roman catholic church. The Pope claims you. You came out of the Catholic church by means of the Reformation. The only church the Popes will not claim is the church that baptizes in Jesus name and believes in the oneness of God.

The true Apostolic church did not come out of the reformation but existed even before the catholic church. The true Apostolic church was founded by the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Come out of the Trinitarian teachings, forsake them and cleave only to the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ and his twelve apostles.

        

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In this lesson you will hear teaching on the very important subject of the oneness of God. The Bible is very clear on who God is.

Listen and be blessed!

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In this short teaching you will some very important points of the oneness of God.

You will see plainly in the Bible that Jesus is Jehovah God manifest in the flesh.

        

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Listen to this teaching, it will challenge you to study the Bible!

In this teaching and preaching you will hear a detailed account of the New Birth. The teaching of how to be born of the water and Spirit as taught by the twelve Apostles.

        

Three Persons at Jesus’ Baptism

The Trinitarians teach that the baptism of Jesus proves three separate persons of God. If one wants to see three persons in God then of course no one can stop him. If we take a look at what the Bible really says about Jesus’ baptism I believe we can easily see the oneness of God and not three persons.

Let us look at the passages…

Matt 3:16-17
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Luke 3:21-23
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

The theory of the trinity is that we have all three persons here together at one location at one time.

1) Jesus in the water
2) Voice from Heaven
3) Spirit descending

Who was the voice from Heaven and who was the Spirit descending? Was the voice from Heaven, God the Father? I say that it was. The Trinitarian teaching is that the Holy Ghost is a separate person from God the Father.

I have two questions for you that believe God is a trinity / three seperate persons.
Is God the Father a spirit? Yes or No?
Is the Holy Spirit a spirit? Yes or No?

If you answered yes to these questions, you have two spirits of God! This theory boldly contradicts the Bible. God is not two spirits. If you say that God is three persons, than don't change it when we get to the Spirit of God and say that He is one!

Eph 4:4
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

John 4:24
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

As you can see, the Bible is very plain that God is one spirit and not two. Is God holy? Is God a spirit? Yes to both questions! Because God is a spirit and he is holy then we have proof that God is the Holy Spirit. God is not separate from the Holy Spirit, He is the Holy Spirit. God is the Holy Spirit!

If you are to insist that God and the Holy Spirit are separate spirits than what are you going to do with those verses that says he is one spirit. The triune teaching is that the three persons are “separate” from each other. If God is a spirit and the Holy Ghost is a spirit and they are separate, then we have two separate spirits of God!

2 Cor 3:17
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Who is the Lord? Is he Jesus? Is Jesus the Lord? Ephesians 4:3 says we have one Lord and Deut. 4:2 says there is one Lord. Who then is that one Lord? Is it the first, second or third person? None! Jesus the one person of God is the Lord. The verse above says that the Lord is that Spirit. Yes, Jesus is the Holy Spirit. Jesus is God manifest in the flesh making him the Holy Spirit in human visible form!

The Bible plainly teaches that God is everywhere! God cannot be confined to space or time, He is everywhere at the same time.

At the baptism of Jesus we do see three manifestations of God but not three persons. The one Spirit of God manifested himself in the form of a dove and spoke from Heaven at the same time. Can God do that? Can the almighty God do more than one thing at a time? The answer is a definite yes!

1 Tim 3:16-4:1
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

The man Jesus, the Son of God, was Jehovah God himself, revealed in the flesh! So in the baptism we have three manifestations of the one God. One manifestation was physical and the other two were of the Spirit of the Almighty.

You might argue that the voice from Heaven proves a separate person from the Son of God. If the voice from Heaven proves a separate person than what are you going to do with the voice from the bush and that of the donkey?

Ex 3:2
2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Num 22:28
28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

Do the donkey and the bush become separate persons of God because a voice came out from them?

If these are manifestations and not persons as I say, what then was God trying to prove? Why would the Holy Ghost take on a bodily shape of a dove? Why then would God do this? Be sure to read “The dual nature of Christ” here on this blog.

The answer to these questions is found in the Bible. The Bible explains clearly why God manifested himself in this way.

Look at:

John 1:32-34
32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

The Holy Spirit descending like a dove was a direct sign to John the Baptist that this indeed was the Son of God. John had not yet had a confirmation that Jesus was the Messiah. This was it, this was the sign.

If a manifestation to you is the same as a person let us take that as a real example. I will use myself as an example. I the editor of this blog am a man, father, son, husband, brother, brother in law, son in law, friend, enemy, salesman, Pastor, editor, neighbor and much more! I have many manifestations and titles but I am ONE person. I am one person as God is ONE person. I have many titles and manifestations but I am one person. I am made in the image of God.

Wow, I almost forgot a very important point about the baptism of Jesus. Did you notice in the scriptural references above that God said “in” and not “with”?

“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”
“Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased”

If you are pleased about your son’s good grades might you say to him…?
1) I am pleased with you
Or
2) I am pleased in you

Most people agree that “with” is more appropriate to say. God did not say “with”, He said “in”. What? What is the big deal with that? Let us take a look at another verse with “in”.

2 Cor 5:19
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

John 14:10-11
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

God was INSIDE of Christ. The Spirit in the flesh;  Divinity in humanity; The Father in the Son; God in man, making Jesus, Jehovah, the Almighty God of the universe!

Rev 1:8
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

        

Without understanding the dual nature of Christ you may believe that God is two, three or more. If one does not get a clear revelation of the dual nature of the Lord Jesus Christ then he/she may not see how that God is ONE in number, ONE in person.

To understand Christ's dual nature, first you must STOP trying to prove what you believe!

If a man for the first time heard of God and seen a Bible what would he believe? With no preconceived ideas or religious teaching he must be open minded for truth or he will never receive it. The Bible says that "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him".

Christ while on earth had two natures. The first was a human nature and number two a divine nature.

He did many things as a man and he did many things as God. Sometimes the Bible refers to him as human but other times it refers to him as God. What you must do is understand which nature is being referred to. If a nature to you is a person then you will have at least two persons of God. In doing this you also will make yourself two persons! If you have the Holy Ghost then you have a divine nature but at the same time you are reminded daily that you have a human nature.

Here are a fews things Jesus did as a man.

1. He was born
2. He slept in a boat
3. He ate
4. He wept
5. He died
6. He was buried

 

Here are a few things Christ did as God.

1. He spoke to the storm and it stopped
2. He multiplied the fish
3. He raised Lazarus from the dead
4. He made the blind to see
5. He walked on water
6. He raised himself from the dead

The examples can go on and on but I think you get the point. We also received a "divine nature" the Bible says. So when you "walk" in the Spirit as Paul taught, you are walking in that divine nature. In that divine nature miracles are bound to happen! As Jesus did miracles as a man through his divine nature we also can do miracles through that divine nature dwelling in us. As Jesus was the son of God here on earth, we also are sons and daughters of God in this world, we are the physical body of Christ in this world today. 

Notice the terminology the Bible uses about Jesus. There are terms for the human nature and terms for the divine nature.

Terms for the human nature.

• flesh
• lamb
• son
• man

Terms for the divine nature

• Spirit
• God 
• Holy Ghost
• Father

The terms "flesh, lamb, son and man" point to Jesus' humanity.

The terms "God, Spirit, Holy Ghost and Father" point to Jesus' deity.

Jesus said in John "the works I do I do not of myself, it is the Father that dwelleth in me , he doeth the works." Understand that your flesh cannot do a miracle. Jesus was saying that even about himself. It was the Father in him doing the miracles. Jesus said "the flesh profiteth nothing, it is the Spirit that quickeneth." The two natures fused into one person. Jesus said in John 3, he that is born of the Spirit is Spirit and he that is born of the flesh is flesh".

We at some point get born again and we immediately have two natures. We are born with the nature of flesh but the new birth gives us that divine nature!

John 4:24 tells us that "God is a Spirit". That Spirit (God) spoke a seed into the womb of Mary and this baby to be born was the son of God. When this baby was born, he was born with two natures. He did not have to be born again. Yes, Jesus was born with a human nature and a God nature. 1 Timothy 3:16 says that "God was manifest in the flesh". Who was manifest in the flesh? Jehovah God was! God was revealed in a human body! The invisible Jehovah God was made known to us as a man and we call him the Son of God! This Son of God was Jehovah God of the Old Testament revealed in human form!

Jesus the man was at the same time Jehovah God! Jesus had two natures, one was divine and the other was human. One nature was temporal and the other was eternal. One nature was Spirit and the other was flesh!

If you would like to speak with me on this subject call 1-219-763-2909. Pastor Charles A. Rhodus

        

Right Hand of God

Our trinitatian friends pose a fair question. "If God is only one then how do you explain Jesus being on the right hand of the Father"?

This term the “right hand” goes back to ancient Bible times. It was and still is a figure of speech. Today the term is used as such, “John is my right hand man”. That statement today simply means that John is his good friend and someone that can be counted on. The point is that the term “right hand” is a figurative term. Another figure of speech is that “it is raining cats and dogs”. We know that cats and dogs are not coming down from the sky!

The Bible is full of such figurative terms, parables and typology that in some cases we must know a little of the Eastern customs to understand what is being implied and taught in the Bible passage.

The trinitarians look at this term and teach that it proves that two sit on the throne of God.

Let us look at some scriptures using this term “right hand”.

Ex 15:6
6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

Ex 15:12
12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

In the two previous verses we can see that the right hand is not referring to position or location but the power and authority of God. When similar terms are used we find that the Bible never uses God’s left hand to describe His power and strength. Again the term has nothing to do with position or location but the very power and might of the almighty God!

Isa 63:12
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

Here was another very good example of how the term “right hand” is used to describe power. This time it is used in reference to Moses and how God used him in delivering the children of Israel from Egypt. It says “That led them by the right hand of Moses”. Does this mean that Moses literally took his “right hand’ and led out 3 million Jews? Of course not! It simply means that God used Moses and demonstrated his power through him in that great deliverance. No, it is not about location or position, it is about the power of God in operation.

How many sit on the throne of almighty God?

Rev 4:2
2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
According to what John saw only one sits on the throne. If one sits on the throne, who is it? Is it the Father, Son or Holy Spirit?

In the following passages let us remember what we have just learned about the “right hand”. The right hand does not refer to position or location but of power and authority.

Heb 10:12
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Heb 1:3
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

By looking at these verses in a natural sense we then see two on the throne. What did John see? He saw only one! We must know that the Bible always agrees with itself. There is no contradiction in scripture.
Should we look at one verse and make a decision on what God is saying? Should we not look at the Bible as a whole?

Now let us look at the phrase “sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high” . Who is Jesus sitting next to here? How can one sit next to “Majesty on high”?

Mark 14:62
62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

How can one sit next to “the right hand of power”? The fact is Jesus sat down forever as God with all power and authority. Remember, it is not about location or position.

Isa 66:1
66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

If God is omnipresent how then can you sit down on His right side? If God is a Spirit how then can one sit down on the right side of Him? If it possible to sit on the right side of God as a position then we must say that God is not everywhere but that He is limited to space, that He is confined to a certain amount of height and depth. Is God limited to a certain amount of height and depth? I say not!

Because God is an omnipresent Spirit He does not “sit” as we do on a physical throne. The Heaven is His throne. In other words in the universe He sits and reigns, there is no place where He isn’t.

Jesus Christ sat down with all power as Almighty God on the throne by Himself.

The term “sat down” leads us to more understanding of these passages. In understanding the sacrificing of the priests they were not allowed at any time to sit in the Holy place where the sacrificing was done. There was no place to sit. The reason for this is that their sacrificing was never finished. The sins of the people were only pushed ahead another year. When Jesus became our final sacrifice, He at the same time being the high priest, forever sat down as God ending all sacrifices!

So we see the subject is not about how many are sitting on the throne of God but about Jesus sitting down as the almighty God after the final sacrifice!

The term “the almighty” is used 44 times in the Bible. The last verse referring to the almighty is Jesus claiming to be the almighty. How many almighties do we have? Only one and He Jesus, sits on the throne alone!

Rev 1:8
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Luke 11:20
20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

The term “ the finger of God” can be taken literally but again God wants us to understand His great power and authority. Do you think Jesus reached into people’s lives and literally pluck out demons with His finger? A more clear understanding is that God doesn’t even need a whole hand to cast out demons. In a figurative way of speaking God only needs a finger to cast out the devil! The devil is no match for God!

I recommend books you can purchase from your local Christian book store that will help you understand eastern customs. With our western way of thinking sometimes we take the Bible too physical not understanding the intent behind the eastern mind.

        

Hopefully your Pastor baptized by immersion. That is not where my study is going, so if he does not immerse in his baptisms I suggest you do a quick study on that.

What does your Pastor speak over the baptizee in the baptism ceremony? Does he do it like Peter, Paul or the Pope?

How did Peter baptize?

Acts 2:38
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 10:46-48
46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

It is evident by these two passages that Peter baptized in Jesus name.

How did Paul baptize?

I have heard some refer to a passage in 1 Corinthians and say that Paul only baptized two or three people in his ministry. They forgot to read the book of Acts. In that passage in Corinthians Paul was speaking to the Corinthian church that he had only baptized a few of them. He was not referring to his entire ministry.

Acts 19:4-5
4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Paul thought it so necessary to be baptized in Jesus name that he had these twelve believers get rebaptized in Jesus name!

Is there anyone in the Bible that baptized like the Pope? NO! Not one single person. Was there anyone in the Bible that was baptized in the titles? No!

A number of years ago I was studying with a trinity Pentecostal Pastor in Illinois. We were studying about baptism. During the study this Pastor told me that he was baptizing "in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Jesus name" and what did I think about it? I told him that the titles needed to be left out because we have no example for it in the Bible! That the Bible teaches that we need two or three witnesses for a doctrine. He had no Bible witness of the baptism that he was administering.

He agreed with me and I baptized him that week in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. That really took some humility to obey that as a Pastor and then change his way of baptizing! About a month after this event he came to my church with about 25 of his members and baptized them in the name of Jesus!

His statement to me was that "the Word of God is like a lion and it will fight for itself".

Don't hang on to the "Mother Harlot" doctrines of Rome! Come out of her my people God says! Revelation 18:4

Visit the World of Pentecost Ministries in N.W. Indiana.

        

I did a search in my computer Bible for certain terms. Look at the results.

• "God is one" found 3 times
• "One God" found 8 times
• "God is three" found 0 times
• "Three is God" found 0 times
• "Trinity" found 0 times
• "God the son" found 0 times
• "Eternal son" found 0 times
• "God the Holy Spirit" found 0 times 

What if the church world stopped using words and terms not found in the Bible, that are currently being used to refer to God? How then would they explain God?

What is God?
John 4:24
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Num 23:19
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Conclusion: God is a Spirit. God is not a man.

Where is God?
1 Kings 8:27
27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

Ps 139:8
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Conclusion: The heaven of heavens cannot contain God. God cannot be not contained in a building. In heaven and hell, there is God. God is everywhere. God is omnipresent. God is not limited to time or space. God is everywhere at the same time.

What is God's name?
Zech 14:9
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

The Lord's name is one. The Lord has one name.

Acts 4:12
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Jesus is the only name man can be saved by.

Phil 2:9
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

The name Jesus is exalted above every name.

Facts
God's name "Jehovah" is not used one time in the New Testament.
The name Jesus means "Jehovah has become our salvation".
The following verses are more proof that God changed His name to Jesus when He came in flesh.

Rev 3:12
12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Matt 1:21
21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matt 1:23
23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Jesus is the new name of God. Jesus is the name that we should call upon for salvation, healing and deliverance.

The oneness of God is not a great mystery. It is actually very easy to understand. God the creator came to earth through the natural means of a birth. God took on Himself a human nature. We call Him the son of God because He was born and had no earthly father.

The son of God was crucified for the world's sins and raised Himself up on the third day. He ascended to Heaven and sat down as God forever on the throne.