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Hi David,

I hope you made it safely to Kingsland, today!

I had a thought about the controversial view of the Trinity, which you published in your book.

I think that in the spiritual experience of some Catholics, what you surmise may be true. However, in an absolute universal theological sense, that it is not. I.e., that in terms of theology, the Trinity really is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, while in some Catholics’ spirituality, ‘Mary’ has usurped the office of the Paraclete.

I know that Muslims are taught that the Holy Ghost equals ‘Mary.’

This topic that you’ve published is very subtle and sensitive, and I hope you weigh your semantics carefully.

God’s love,

 

 

Hi ______,
Thank you for your concern for me. I agree about Mary as another paraclete. There is a real psychology behind it all. That psychology is encapsulated in John 3:36. “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” When the wrath of God, His chastisement of our peace, His Spirit of truth abides on a conscience, it’s because that soul needs to humble itself under the mighty hand of God. That person needs to submit himself to the righteousness of God. When he does, God the Schoolmaster, brings him to Christ to be justified. Having surrendered to the justice of God in condemning him of his sins, and repenting of his sins, God can be just to justify him. Now God can rejoice in him because God destroyed his sin without having to destroy him. So, He sends to that son of Adam the blessedness He bestowed upon Abraham (Gal. 3:14), the “Spirit of His Son” (Gal. 4:6). A soul is reborn in God’s image, a new creation walks in His Spirit. His sins are blotted out. His heart is “sprinkled from an evil conscience, and [his body] washed with pure water.” (Heb. 10:22). There is “no more conscience of sins.” (Heb. 10:2). Life-giving, health-giving peace with God replaces the life-destroying, health-destroying separation from God.

But, if the condemned soul refuses to bow before the mighty power of God’s condemnation of sin, then the wrath of God continues. Most of the world suffers under this terrible mental condition. We both have experienced it. For everyone it can last a long time while they “pine away in their iniquity...and also in the iniquities of their fathers.” (Lev. 26:39). They refuse to surrender to the condemnation of God, therefore they cannot be brought to Jesus to receive the gift of God. And the wrath of God continues to abide on them. “Whosoever shall fall on this Stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever It shall fall, It will grind him to powder.” (Matt. 21:44).

In the horrible grinding we seek some other way of escape beside surrendering to the righteousness of God. Seeing our dishonesty with the Spirit of truth, Satan comes to offer his substitute system to relieve the guilt and condemnation. Satan’s absolution always gets the conscience to go to sleep--either through a chemical substance, or a religious doctrine, or a psychic experience. I see that, from the beginning, Satan has pawned off the 3rd person of a trinity as a religious doctrine and even a psychic experience. The damnation of Babylon has been, from the earliest times, the wine of her fornication. Her fornication was her false doctrines, her smooth religious repetitive mantras, and her hypnotic and redundant sacraments. Today her Catholic spiritual exercises, which brings the mind of the votive in direct contact with her devils purporting to be God, is spreading all over the Evangelical denominations. And that mystery of iniquity, under the same name of Spiritual Formation, is starting to enter the Adventist church.

There has never been redemption through anything that Catholicism ever offered, any more than what Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism, etc. ever offered. The worshipers have only a mental flush and an empty emotional feeling. They offer no power to have victory over sin. God’s truth or condemnation of sin are never permitted to enter those religions or worship practices, and those religions know nothing about the Son of God who is a Saviour and a Prince, the Prince of peace and the Man of war. I see the 3rd person of the Trinity as a competitor who substitutes himself for the 2nd Person. The 3rd person has grace and only grace. That in itself should stand out with red flags all over the place. Neither God nor His Son have ever offered grace and only grace. Both God and His Son are for both justice and mercy, truth and grace. Never one with the other: never justice/truth without mercy/grace, and never mercy/grace without justice/truth. But Astoreth, Astarte, Artemis, Diana, Venus, Mary, Isis, and the other chief female gods offered only grace. And the people flocked to them. Today the whole Christian world worships, prays to, and thereby subtly exalts the Holy Spirit above the Father and Son.

“Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And the whole city was filled with confusion.” (Acts 19:26-29).

Demetrius was speaking the pure truth about the Holy Spirit, “whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.” The church turned away from the Father and Son during the first three centuries, and lost the gift of Their holy Spirit. They lost the experience in the things of God, and that is when God’s holy gift of His Spirit became mental assent to some fictional person in the Godhead. The great apostasy and mystery of iniquity involved the bringing of the greatest of all blasphemies into Christian doctrine when the church completely bowed to Satan in the late AD 300’s. Sunday was willingly welcomed in by the sin-loving multitudes, and then on the heels of apostasy came another blasphemy—Mary and the Holy Spirit, as alternative intercessors who were trusted in to be gracious more than Jesus. That was grace without ever having submitted to the righteousness of God and been made guilty and humbled before Him.

We have only one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus (1Tim. 2:5). We have one Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous (1Jn. 2:1). He is our only Intercessor, and ever lives to make intercession for us (Heb. 7:25). Should the one biblical, divine Mediator need another divine Mediator? Should the 2nd Person of the Godhead need an intercessor in a 3rd person? Or, can our Intercessor and Mediator not handle the job of reconciling us to God and God to us? Romans 5:10 says that Christ reconciled us to God by His death. 2 Corinthians 5:18,19 say the same thing. Does Jesus have all power (authority) to save the world as He said He did?

The Spirit is “the Spirit of God”, “the Spirit which is of God”, “His Spirit”, “the Spirit of your Father”, and “the Spirit of His Son”, “the Spirit of Christ”, “the Spirit of Jesus Christ”, “My Spirit”, “the Spirit of the Lord” that give life—“the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus”. “This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (1Jn. 5:11,12). The Spirit is the Son’s kiss of life/breath of life into our spirit, and our acceptance of the Son’s kiss.

_______, I didn’t mean to overwhelm you with all this. I know that all of my persuasiveness has never changed anyone’s mind about anything. But, I feel it my privilege and duty to warn others of a doctrine that is probably the greatest and final error of Rome to be renounced and protested before Jesus returns in power. Anti-trinitarianism is not a new idea for me, but it began to come together more and more as I studied Revelation, beginning with Rev. 5:6. I have woven anti-trinitarianism throughout my book, and it may be the reason my book doesn’t sell. It could also result in tribulation for me. I have never spoken ill about any other religion than Catholicism, but the issue against the Trinity could give me a world of trouble, because all religions have a trinity.

Thank you again for your concern for my eternal welfare. You are a true brother.
David