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The doctrine of the Trinity, which originated at the Council of Nice in 324 AD, thus referred to as the Nicene Creed, teaches that God, Christ and the Holy Ghost are one in substance. I submit that this was a compromise between the Christian, Jewish and Pagan constituency of the Emperor
Constantine and is certainly contrary to the Lord's own declaration that he
is the Son of God, the Father. This is true in two ways. The most obvious is that Jesus is the Only Begotten of God the Father as his spirit entered into the mortal body born of the virgin Mary. The other way is that Jesus
was "...the firstborn of every creature." (Colossians 1:15). The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8:16-17) Christ was, in other words, the eldest of all of the
spirit children of the "...Father of spirits" (Hebrews 12:9) , our Father in Heaven and Jesus' Father in Heaven. That is why he told Mary he had not yet
ascended to His Father, to her Father, to his God and to her God.
Then in Jesus' prayer the evening before his crucifixion, he said, "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." (John 17:4-5) Jesus
then goes on in that same chapter to clarify the oneness of the Father and
the Son where he prays concerning his disciples, "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be
one, as we are...(John 17:11). In the same chapter, he goes on to pray, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they
may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known
thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." (John 17:20 - 26)
God, our Heavenly Father, is the Father of Jesus Christ, both as a spirit before the world was created and then of the Only Begotten Son of God on
earth.
It is true.
Donny
Sincerely,
Donny Osmond
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