The Far-Reaching Significance of False Doctrine

By C.L. Bruton

This is a high level deconstruction of Orthodoxy.  We are warned countless times of the danger of both false docrtine as well as false teachers.  This book explores the low hanging fruit of the idol plantation of our lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.L. Bruton
• Release date: Jun 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393502944

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Far-Reaching Significance of False Doctrine

As Horace Greeley said, It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading people.  Bible believers will NEVER fit in with a Luciferian New World Order since Christ is our King and the Bible our only creed.  In order to inoculate deceived Catholics from receiving the gospel, high level papists devise a number of mind control techniques including the use of propaganda...

Just as Christians are working out their salvation, the damned are working out their damnation telling and believing lies.  We fear not at a disobedient, rebellious, lawless, crooked generation.  God sees it all.  He formed the eye and planted the ear. He sees and hears IT ALL.  We commit ourselves to Him and occupy until He comes.  At the great judgment day all that is done in darkness shall be exposed to the light.  Hell bounds who are reading this, you need to get right with God...

The Catholic religion calls herself Mother Church.  She’s a mother alright, but she ain’t the mother of Christ’s church.  By calling herself mother she is telling on herself.  She is THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (Rev. 17:5)! Notice the Catholic religion calls herself a woman.  And what a GREAT WHORE she is committing spiritual fornication with the kings and rulers of the earth.  She’s DRUKEN with the blood of the saints–study the Inquisitions and read Revelation 17 in light of that knowledge.  Oh, even the antichrist is naked in light of God’s word.[i]

9 And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent being called the devil, and, Satan; he deceiving the whole inhabitable world was cast out onto the earth, and his cherubs were cast out with him. ° Revelation 12:9HRB

12 And there is salvation in no other man, for neither is there any other name under Heaven having been given among men by which we must be saved†.  Acts 4:12HRB

What is the program of the evil one?  His program is deceiving the world save a man.  He has but one agenda, to derail or otherwise impede our path to salvation or away from salvation.  Why?  His sole ambition is kingship over which he does battle with YHWH to cannibalize YHWH’s formed for his own kingdom.  What is the single solitary ordnance in his arsenal?  The evil one has artillery with varying ranges all of which were conceived in deception.  Those which are armor piercing have a coating of secrecy.  They are forged in secret truth that which beckoned Eve, the bedrock substructure of Gnosticism, the axis of convergence in Free Masonry even Shriners. 

We must step back and survey the landscape of the evangelical.  What is the origin of Protestantism?  The ‘Mother Church’ the Holy Roman Empire that marriage of politic and religion, the one world religion was the most powerful principality to ever exist even after having lost 2/3’s by the hand of Elohim it still persists today in Catholicism.  Protestantism is the illegitimate daughter of the Holy Roman Empire.  We must first acknowledge from where we have come the one world religion in which Constantine enveloped all religions pagan, Christian, and Judaism.  Is it possible that Protestantism could be free of its pagan roots? 

The Beast is the antichrist observed as Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, Babylon,

It is not a person but a principality, a figure of an empire, a false religious power.  In II Thessalonians 2 it is depicted as a political power rising out of the Roman Empire and the Church whose purpose is to control the minds and economies of men.  The Beast derived its power from the devil through worship.  Paul writes of the beast which at his writing was the 4th that of the Roman Empire which was being held back preventing the coming of the Antichrist as it would rise up out of the shattered Roman Empire only to be revealed.  The Antichrist is about the business of exalting himself above all that is called Elohim that is worshipped making himself Elohim that sits in the temple of Elohim.  This is to say that the Antichrist will rise up out of the church which is the true Temple from the time of the coming of the Holy Spirit.  The Antichrist presumptuously claims for himself without just cause the power of the Roman Empire while masquerading as the Lamb sitting in the church.  The wicked is to be revealed after the departure of the Roman Empire. 

The Image of the Beast

The picture in the 13th chapter of Revelation is one of a pseudo religious-political organization restoring power to the Roman Empire. Historically such events as are pictured did occur. We have noted above the land grants of Pepin and Charlemagne and the usurpation of the Roman senate by the Vatican. At the conclusion of this period, in the year 800 Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans. This act produced the image of the Empire called the Holy Roman Empire. It became the political framework which would be handed down for over 1000 years. It would dominate European politics and economy until its dissolution under Napoleon. The actual end of the Holy Roman Empire came, in 1804, ironically in Napoleon's assumption of the title of Emperor, without the authority of the Pope. The legal dissolution came in 1806 when the hereditary possessor of the title, Frances II of Austria, (who called Napoleon the new Odoacer) abdicated from the office of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This officially ended the entity.

Of this entity, the most well known history was compiled by James Bryce, Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford, first published in 1864, and republished in numberless editions for use in colleges and universities as a standard text. (That is, until our existential age, when the past has no relevance to the moment of existence. Hopefully that nonsense will soon pass). Bryce documents the list and history of the Emperors from Charlemagne to Frances II, all of whom were crowned or confirmed by Papal authority, most in Rome, though they were most often German or French kings. In his introduction to the eighth edition Bryce gives an analysis of the meaning connected with the announcement of the abdication of Frances II in London newspapers, in 1806.

Of those , in 1806, who read in English newspapers that the Emperor Frances II had announced to the Diet his resignation of the imperial crown, there were probably few who reflected that the oldest political institution in the world had come to an end. Yet it was so. The empire...extinguished, was the same which the crafty nephew of Julius [Caesar] had won for himself against the powers of the East, beneath the cliffs of Actium; and which had preserved almost unaltered, through eighteen centuries of time, and through the greatest changes in extent, in power, in character, a title and pretentions from which all meaning had long since departed. Nothing else so directly linked the old world to the new... From the days of Constantine untill late into the middle ages it was, conjointly with the Papacy, the recognized center and head of Christendom, exercising over the minds of men an influence such as its material strength could never have commanded... Strictly speaking, it is from the year 800 A.D. when a king of the Franks was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III that the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire must be dated.[ii]

Bryce continues, noting that there is nothing isolated in history, and the Holy Roman Empire harks back to the Empire before its fall. As he has stated above, the power that dissolved in 1806 is that which was begun by Augustus in 35 B.C. at Actium.

The history of the power of a wounded and seemingly dead Roman Empire being assumed and arrogated to the Papal system, and the Papal system in the name of Rome creating an image to that first political system, called the Holy Roman Empire, is so clearly outlined in history, and then is so clearly outlined in Revelation the thirteenth chapter as to give no room for other application.

It seems strange to me that evangelical Christians have abandoned leaders who have for many centuries outlined these prophecies in more detail and greater precision than we do here. That they would cast away their prophetic heritage for the fantasies that are currently being harked in the name of prophetic fulfillment is frustrating and shocking! Why, when they are so clearly fulfilled, does anyone look for a future fulfillment? Antichrist has long since come. His reign of 1260 years is long since over. He has suffered most of the blows aimed to bring him from his place of arbitrary control of the physical and spiritual lives of men. He has but little time left.

Is it right to call the Papacy a power with the mouth of the Devil? Believe me, dear reader, when I tell you it gives me no joy to do so! Is it right to call the Papal system a whore who rides the power of the Roman Empire? Believe me, dear reader, I cringe at those words as much as you do. I would like to submit the following outline of historical events, that again give me no pleasure, but that enumerate some of wilful sins of those in the list of successors of St. Peter:

The Darkest Period of the Papacy

Adrian II, John VIII, Marinus, 867-884. These popes begin the darkest period of the papacy. 870-1050, called by historians the midnight of the dark Ages. Bribery, corruption, immorality, and bloodshed, make it the darkest period in the church's history.

Sergius III, 904-911 A.D., had a mistress, Marosia. She and her mother Theodora, and her sister, filled the papal chair with their paramours and bastard sons, and turned the papal palace into a den of robbers. This is known in history as the Pornocracy or Rule of Harlots

. John X, 914-928, was brought from Ravenna to Rome and made pope by Theodora (who had also other paramours) for the more convenient gratification of her passions. He was smothered to death by Marosia, who then raised to the papacy her creatures.

Leo VI, 928-9, Stephen VII 929-31, John XI 931 - 936 her own illegitimate son. Another of her sons appointed the four next popes.

John XII, 955-963: a grandson of Morosia was guilty of almost every crime; violated virgins and widows, lived with his father's mistress; made the papal palace a brothel; was killed in the act of adultery by the woman's enraged husband.

The Depths of Papal Degradation

The next six popes, 963-984: (Average 3 1/2 years per pope).

Boniface VII, 984-985, murdered pope John XIV, and maintained himself on the bloodstained Papal throne by distribution of stolen money. The bishop of Orleans referring to Boniface VII and his immediate predecessors called them monsters of guilt reeking in blood and filth; Antichrist sitting in the Temple of God.

Benedict VIII, 1012-1024, bought the office of pope with open bribery or Simony as it was called—after Simon the sorcerer.

John XIX, 1024-1033, bought the papacy; he passed through all the clerical degrees in one day.

Benedict IX, 1033-1045, was made pope as a boy of twelve with money and a powerful family. Surpassed John XII in wickedness; committed murders and adulteries in broad daylight; robbed pilgrims on the graves of martyrs; a hideous criminal, the people drove him out of Rome.

Gregory VI, 1045-1046, had two rival popes: Benedict IX, and Sylvester III. Rome swarmed with hired assassins; the virtue of pilgrims was violated; the churches desecrated with bloodshed.

Clement II, 1046-1047, was appointed pope by Holy Roman Emperor, Henry III because no Roman clergyman could be found who was free from bribery and fornication.

Damascus II, 1048: protests at the continued filth, called for reform and found a leader in the following pope:

Hildebrand or Gregory VII, 1073-1085: although moral reforms were effected, the consolidation of power under Hildebrand was so strong that the next two hundred years are marked by a new evil—that of going to war by papal armies. Armed force maintained several of the popes. Many of the next popes would be driven into exile by armies when they found their own forces overcome! In the previous period one would be justified in calling the Papacy a whore. In this period, 1073 and the next 200 years, the most evident characteristics of the two horned beast using the image of the beast are so evident as to be unmistakable.

Following that period, the Inquisition would follow as the Papal instrument of political power and many poor souls of simple believers would die under this inhuman instrument of the vicar of Christ.[Halley, Henry H.; Pocket Bible Handbook Pub. by Halley, Chicago, eighteenth edition, 1948. Above is a condensation of material found on pgs. 683-685.]

The above scheme copied from H.H. Halley an evangelical, could be reproduced from the pages of Roman historians as well. The Papacy is not ignorant of this history. Malachi Martin, who is still a member of the Roman church, was a member of the Vatican under John XXIII. He is more than a priest. In his book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, he gives similar history with greater detail. He calls Morosia, The Nymph who made popes. [See Martin, Malachi; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church; Pub. Putnam, 1981, in hard cover and by Bantam, 1983, in mass market paper. The book is now out of print and none are available from either publisher, even though I was told there was still demand for the book. Another book by the same author, The Final Conclave, is a historical novel predicting a scenario in which a conclave of Cardinals will fail to produce a pope. It is recommended reading.]

This same history of moral and political corruption is more briefly but accurately recorded by Butler, another Roman author, who wrote an account of the Vatican Council 1869 - 1870. This book has an Imprimateur and a Nihil Obstat which means that Roman authorities had declared the book has no doctrinal errors.

He says: In 1044 the condition of the Papacy had become so scandalous that the emperor Henry III intervened...[to lift the Papacy] out of its state of prostration and degradation in which it had lain for well nigh two hundred years. [Butler, Dom Cuthbert; The Vatican Council 1869 - 1870; Newman Press, Maryland, 1962. pg. 12.]

Butler also gives the history of the Donation of Constantine, a fraudulent set of decrees which were knowing used by the Papacy to justify holding temporal power. Butler says:

it was believed that the first Christian emperor had, in the plenitude of his power, handed over to the Pope...the power to rule over Italy, the Islands, and in a vague way all the West. It was on the strength of the Donation that the Popes gave authority for the Norman invasions of England and of Ireland, and many similar assignments of territory. [Ibid. pg. 17.]

It gives me no pleasure to have to call these events from the past. But the Papal system has not repented. There are still the same stains of blood, money manipulation, alleged assassinations, and political intrigue which causes the sufferings of countless victims, done in the name of Christ. Yes, it is historically right to call the Papal system a whore. Yes, it is historically correct to see the Papal system as a political power that looks like Jesus and talks like the devil. At least one Papal insider sees the same thing.[iii]

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The Number 666

The number 666 obviously refers to the name Roman. The text says so. It is the name of the beast.

But why is the beast named in a mystery code? Answer: The Roman Empire fulfilled the prophecies concerning its persecution of the woman, (Rev. 12), and, make war with the saints and overcome them, (Rev.13:7). The Roman Empire waged ten official persecutions against the church for almost 300 years. These were legally sanctioned by the senate and carried out under the Roman legal system. The Christians were tortured, whipped, burned, torn apart, beheaded, thrown to lions, and crucified by official Roman authority according to law, for three centuries. Pastors were killed, Bibles confiscated and burned, church buildings destroyed, and the flocks scattered.

How much worse might the Roman persecutors have been if they found their nation named by name as a beast in the Holy writings of those they persecuted? The conditions were bad enough without adding more fuel to the fire. So God couched the name in a mystery. He called the fourth beast 666, so no one could know it except the mind that has wisdom. The first three beasts of Daniel are named by name in the Bible. The fourth beast of Daniel ought to be named in the Bible. He is; his (It would would be more accurate to refer to the beast as It or She since in Greek, the word beast is a neuter gender noun, while in Hebrew the word beast is a femine gender noun) name is 666. Did the early Christians so understand it? They should have. They read the book of Daniel and could count and know that Rome was the fourth Empire to come on the earth. They could see in Daniel that it would pass away by being divided into ten kingdoms and Antichrist would rise among the ten kingdoms of a divided Roman Empire. See this understanding in II Thess. 2, which is commonly understood to refer to the same Antichrist as the other passages. In this passage Paul is correcting an impression that the second coming of Christ was imminent. It was not imminent, and he was telling them why. First, though, he says that the source of the misunderstanding is not from him:

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II Thessalonians Chapter 2

(1) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (2) That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Paul says, no word, letter, nor inference came from him that the second coming was imminent. In fact, he says, it is not. Something that they know about has to happen first:

(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, This is often, but erroneously, taken to mean that the church must fall away first. But that cannot be so. Paul says below this that the man of sin will come after the falling away. In verse 6 he says, and now you know what holds him back. In verse 7 Paul says, that which is now holding back Antichrist will continue to do so until it be taken out of the way. Paul states here that something that now exists in his time, that they knew about, which when I was yet with you I told you these things, was holding back Antichrist.

If Paul had told them about the fourth beast of Daniel, he would have told them that as long as the Roman empire stands the Antichrist will not come, because it will rise up out of a shattered Roman Empire and then that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, He is to arise out of the church which is the true Temple from the time of the coming of the Holy Spirit to this day; ...shewing himself that he is God. This is the same description as the little horn of Daniel and the lamb-like beast of Rev. 13. He arrogates to himself the power of the Roman Empire but masquerades as the Lamb sitting in the church!

Paul reminds them that he told them and that they know what it is that holds back Antichrist. (5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? He does not tell them plainly by name who or what it is even though it is something they both know. (6) And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. He further states that the kind of thing Antichrist will bring is already at work. (7) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: He then repeats that the entity that they both knew about, which they had talked about while he was with them would continue to restrain the coming of Antichrist until he or it was taken away: only he who now restrains will restrain, until he be taken out of the way. Thus Paul knowing the book of Daniel would say: "then after the departure of the Roman Empire, as we all know from Daniel; (8) then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.

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Early Christian Writers

Would it not be interesting to know what early Christians thought about these passages? Writers whose lives overlap the lives of apostles are called Apostolic Fathers. Their writings are fragmentary and few have been preserved. Christian writers who were born after the death of the apostles but before 325 A.D. are called Ante-Nicene Fathers. They wrote before the council of Nicea which marked the triumph of the Christian religion in the empire. Ancient writers who lived after the council of Nicea are called Post-Nicene Fathers. There are many writings which have survived and been preserved from these times.

Irenaeus

Would it not be interesting to see what someone thought about these passages hardly fifty years after they were written, and before they were fulfilled? It is easier to interpret prophecy after its fulfillment. Let us see how Irenaeus did before the fulfillment. We can sympathize with him if he doesn't get it completely right due to not being able to parallel the prophecy with the events of history. But the incredible thing is that the fathers knew the general outline of future events. They, therefore, were not in ignorance, that that day would overtake them as a thief.

(I Thess 5:4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Why were they not in darkness? Because they knew that as long as the Roman Empire had not fallen the second coming was not imminent.

Irenaeus was born about 135 and lived into the next century. He wrote a commentary on portions of Daniel and Revelation, especially of the thirteenth chapter and the seventh chapter of Daniel. The epitome of the chapter (XX1) on the Antichrist in his writings begins:

John and Daniel have predicted the dissolution and desolation of the Roman Empire, which shall precede the end of the world,... [See Schaff, Philip, editor; Ante-Nicene Fathers, Pub. Erdmans, Grand Rapids. 1971 The Ante-Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers are considered in the same way as the classical writers. The have been published numberless times. Erdmans has published a multi-volume set well edited. Irenaeus; Against Heresies XXVI,1]

Irenaeus had no difficulty in interpreting Daniel: concerning the ten kings who shall then arise, among whom the empire that now rules the earth shall be partitioned.[Irenaeus, ibid.]

He believed the Roman Empire would pass away and be divided into ten kingdoms, and so it did happen in his future. There was no way for him to know that except through the prophecies. The opinion of those living in the empire was that it would last forever—they called it eternal Rome. But seeing that John and Daniel had predicted the decline and dissolution of the empire into ten kingdoms is not all that Irenaeus saw. He said, It is manifest that he that shall come, he means the little horn, shall slay three of the 10 horns, and subject the remainder to his power. He believed that the coming entity would overcome three and then dominate the other seven states left to a divided Roman Empire.

He calls the power that would rise in the place of the Roman Empire an apostasy, and warns that God, has prepared eternal fire for every kind of apostasy. In quoting Justin Martyr, who lived before Irenaeus, he considers that Satan is the author of apostasy and eternal fire is reserved for all apostasy. This is a remarkable passage in that Irenaeus foresees the division of the Roman Empire as yet to come and sees the Antichrist power rising out of the church, for that is the meaning of apostasy. It refers to an enemy, not from without but one who rises up from within.

A few paragraphs further Irenaeus makes the first known attempt to interpret the number 666. Remember that this is only a short time after Revelation was written. It was also at the time that the Roman Empire was at its zenith—the most peaceful, successful time of the empire. It is the period of the Five Good Emperors or the Pax Romana, when there was no war within the empire and no unsuccessful military action outside the empire for a hundred years.

Irenaeus reminds us that since 666—the name—has not been fulfilled as yet in a coming power, (which he, as most others of the period, thought to be a single man), then it is wise to be cautious in looking around for the right name. These interpreters living before the fall of the Roman empire did not see the anti-christian power that would rise up and persecute true believers for centuries—they understood everything else but the time frame. But they did know that he would rise up in a shattered Roman Empire. They did not have the hindsight we have to see that an anti-christian kingdom did rise up out of the Christian religion and seize the authority of God and man; and with the falsely assumed authority of God and the sword of man, attempt to dominate, and actually dominate, European and world politics for almost 1300 years. [ibid.]

Jerome

Jerome, the translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible, upon which version all later Roman Catholic vernacular translations would be based, including the English Douay version, was born about 340 and died in 420. He lived well into the first of the Barbarian invasions and actually saw his home town on the border of Dalmatia destroyed by the marauding Goths. He, as those preceding, sees the fall of Rome as necessary to the coming of the Antichrist. The events of his later life would have anticipated the event of the fall, and those living just a few years longer, would have seen the fall of the Roman Empire. Of II Thess. he says:

that antichrist shall sit in the temple of God, either at Jerusalem (as some imagine) or in the church (as we more truly judge) showing himself that he is Christ, and the son of God: and unless the Roman Empire be first desolated, and antichrist precede, Christ shall not come. [Newton, Thomas; Dissertations on the Prophecies; in two volumes, tenth edition, London 1804; Vol. II, pgs. 115, 116.]

Just as Chrysostom, others knew the Roman Empire would fall and on its ruins out of the church of Christ, one would rise who would feign himself to be Christ, and seize the power of God and man. What power was it that actually did step into the vacuum of power left by fallen Rome and with the name Roman sit in the church, seize the authority of God and man, then arrogate three states to itself, and dominate the other seven, for hundreds of years? Does the reader need a clearer picture of the past to name the Antichrist? These brethren of the past gave us this clear picture before it happened!

So the obvious question lingers having endured for more than a millennia and a half.  The Beast derives its power from satan as it worships the evil one, the great deceiver.  How is it that we can observe the egregious wickedness of the Papacy from the persecution of the saints to the insurrection even modern day pedophilia and still we turn a blind eye to Catholicism as well as the progeny of Protestantism?

What is our only hope?  The name of YHSWH is the hope of our salvation and there is no other name under heaven by which we might be saved.  Ours is to receive the Word by its daily examination if we are to beat back the myriad of deceptions, the throng of false doctrines, if we are to stave off our destruction, our devouring by the roaring lion we must persist as seekers.  Moreover, we must be idol hunters if we are to be good kings.   

We know both the agenda of satan as well as his solitary method of achieving that agenda.  Knowing this gives we followers a colossal advantage.  When we espouse this knowledge with historical observation we can de-cloak the covert, unhide the hidden, and reveal the concealed.  If we take this approach we assume that when the government any government opens its proverbial mouth they do so to lie as they will invariably do the opposite of what they say.  The same is true of satan as the government is the antithesis of YHWH just as satan.  We know as a result that any celebration, feast, or festivals will be represented by a counterfeit better known as an idol.  Ours is to be about ferreting out the TRUTH if we are going to be able with any level of confidence determine if what we know as christ-mas, easter, st. valentine’s day, good Friday, mardi gras, st. patrick’s day, Halloween, to name a few are counterfeits or holy days established by YHWH. 

There is a most reliable indicator or sign that provides compelling even trustworthy evidence that we have encountered a deception.  I refer to it as the rule or law of the consensus.  This is a natural law or precept that is authenticated by our very lives.  This law is easily corroborated with scripture such as those describing the gate as wide.  What is even more convincing is the solidarity of scripture where we can observe the interaction of Elohim with man over and over again only to conclude that YHWH is never found within the consensus.  If you find yourself standing in a throng of theology, doctrine, or dogma, run for your life, literally. 

If satan can substitute his name for that of YHWH or YHSWH then we are serving him whether we know it or not, which is the nature of deception.  The name of YHWH, the name of YHSWH is the apex of this war of deception all other false doctrine is little more than cannon fodder a ruse of distraction while the counterfeit naming conventions pass by unnoticed and take hold. 

11 And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the Word with all readiness, daily examining the Scriptures if these things are so.  Acts 17:11HRB

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.  ~John Wesley

All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that God is love. But they seem not to notice that the words 'God is love' have no real meaning unless God contains at least two persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love.  ~C.S. Lewis

Anti-Trinity doctrine

Nontrinitarianism is a belief system within the evangelical which rejects the mainstream doctrine of the Trinity.  This doctrine dates back to the 4th century.  This group is rather small including Mormons of whose designation of ‘Christian’ is debatable.  Then there are the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Iglesia Ni Cristo and some Pentecostals among other small denominations.  There are many questions we must ask if we are to arrive or encounter TRUTH.  Are there things we can say about the Father that we cannot say about the Son?  What does YHWH say about Himself?  Are there things we can say about the Son that we cannot about the Father?  Do they ever occupy the same stage in the theater of scripture?  Are there distinctions that can be made about the Holy Spirit especially pertaining to His role in the redemption process?  What or how did the 1st and 2nd century church have to say about this?  How to nontrinitarianists respond or handle obvious narratives in Old as well as the New Testaments? 

26 And Elohim said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;† and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. °  Genesis 1:26HRB

Gregory Nyssen has very properly observed that the superiority of man to all other parts of creation is seen in this, that all other creatures are represented as the effect of God’s word, but man is represented as the work of God, according to plan and consideration: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. See his Works, vol. i., p. 52, c. 3.[iv]

The plurality we encounter in scripture when YHWH speaks of Himself is observed in the phrases ‘let Us’ and ‘Our image’ must be addressed.  Scripture reveals YHWH’s affinity to numbers as we observe the number 3 and its symbolism.  The #3 is the symbol of the cube the simplest form of a solid figure (x³).  Therefore, the #3 stands for that which is solid, real, substantial, complete, and entire.[v]  We have attributed omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence as the 3 attributes of YHWH.  The great divisions of time: present, past, future.  There are 3 persons of expression in grammar encompassing all relationships.  The human capacity can be expressed in word, thought, and deed.  Matter in our world can be observed in 3 kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal.  In scripture the completion designated by the #3 becomes Divine or perfection.  The Godhead is described by the complete perfection of the #3 in the 3 persons of Elohim.  There are 3 Seraphim in the throne room of YHWH who sing Holy, Holy, Holy. 

23 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, In this way you shall bless the sons of Israel, saying to them:

24 YAHWEH bless you and keep you;

25 YAHWEH cause His face to shine on you, and be gracious to you;

26 YAHWEH lift up His face to you, and give you peace.  Numbers 6:23-26HRB

The word fullness only occurs 3 times in connection to the Persons of the Trinity.

19 and to know the surpassing knowledge and love of Messiah, that you may be filled to all the fullness of Elohim.  Ephesians 3:19HRB

13 until we all may come to the unity of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Messiah, Ephesians 4:13HRB

9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of divinity bodily; Colossians 2:9HRB

1 And YAHWEH visually appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And hewas sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day. 2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked; and, behold, three men were standing by him.  And he saw, and he ran to meet them from the entrance of the tent.  And he bowed to the ground. † Genesis 18:1-2HRB

6 And Abraham ran into the tent to Sarah and said, Hurry, prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it and make cakes.  Genesis 18:6HRB

10 And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb, daughter of a year, without blemish, and three tenth parts of flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.  Leviticus 14:10HRB

33 He spoke another parable to them, The kingdom of Heaven is compared to leaven, which taking, a woman hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.  Matthew 13:33HRB

The three measures of meal represent the perfections of YHSWH and the purity of His Gospel.  The leaven on the other hand represents the man’s corruption of the TRUTH in the 1st century.  It was a violation to make an offering or sacrifice by fire to YHWH with any meal containing leaven.  Consider the feasts of Passover, wave-sheaf of first-fruits, Pentecost the 3rd feast not burnt on the alter due to leaven.  YHSWH is our Passover sacrifice.  YHSWH was raised from the dead to become the first-fruits for in Him there was no sin (leaven).  50 days later on the Feast of Pentecost came the oblation of the first-fruits in the descent of the Holy Spirit as a wave-offering before YHWH.  The doctrine of the ‘church’ or of ‘man’ is represented by leavened meal.  The #3 should be understood as Divine fullness whereby the Holy Spirit takes things of YHSWH and makes them real.  The 3rd book in the Bible that introduces true worship to the most minute detail.  Genesis presents us with the Sovereign giving life, YHWH the genesis of all things.  In Exodus we encounter the oppressor and Deliverer, YHSWH presenting redemption.  Leviticus reveals the Holy Spirit Who prescribes, orders and empowers His people for Divine worship.  The #3 is the number of resurrection where we observe YHWH on the 3rd day of creation causing the earth to rise up out of the water.  The earth rose up out of the water on day 3 of creation just as YHSWH rose up out of the earth on the 3rd day after having been crucified on a torture stick at the 3rd hour shrouded in darkness for 3 hours. 

YHSWH was tempted 3 times to which His response was predicated on, it is written.  YHSWH raised 3 persons from the dead.  On the stauros there was an inscription in 3 languages completing the total rejection of man.  YHSWH was a Prophet, Priest, and King.  YHSWH was the Good Shepherd in death.

14 I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those that are Mine, and I am known by the ones that are Mine†.  John 10:14HRB

YHSWH was the Great Shepherd in resurrection.

20 May the Elohim of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the flock, by the blood of the everlasting covenant, namely Yahshua the Messiah, our Master, Hebrews 13:20HRB

YHSWH was the Chief Shepherd in glory.

5 who will give account to Elohim, who is to judge the living and dead.  1Peter 4:5HRB

YHSWH will appear 3 times:  in the end of the age to put away and bear the sins of many; in the presence of YHWH He ascended; shall appear a 2nd time. 

26 otherwise He would have been obliged to have suffered many times from the foundation of the world. But now once for all, at the completion of the ages, He did offer Himself to abolish sin.  Hebrews 9:26HRB

24 For Messiah did not enter into the Holy of Holies made by hands, which is a symbol of the true one, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of YAHWEH on our behalf Hebrews 9:24HRB

28 so Messiah having been once offered to bear the sins of many, Messiah shall appear a second time without our sins for the salvation of those who are waiting for Him†. ° Hebrews 9:28HRB

The #3 is all over the Abrahamic covenant.  There were 3 animals, 3 years old, plus the 2 birds making the #5 the number of favor, grace, and mercy.  The #3 is as well all over the Temple.  The nature of temptation is revealed in the #3:  lust of the flesh; lust of the eyes; pride of life.  It is curious that scripture, the WORD, is corrupted in a 3-fold manner:  taking from; adding to; and altering.  By taking from Eve diminishes the bounty of YHWH.  By adding to Eve makes YHWH more severe than He is.  By altering Eve weakens the certainty of the Divine threat into a contingency. 

16 And YAHWEH Elohim commanded the man, saying, Eating you may eat of every tree in the garden; [omitted ‘freely’] Genesis 2:16HRB

3 but of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, Elohim has said, You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.  [added nor shall you touch it] Genesis 3:3HRB

Eve altered ‘for in the day that you eat of it, surely you shall die.’ To lest ye die. 

Finally, we encounter man’s 3 great enemies:  the world, the flesh, and the devil.

15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that which is in the world: The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  1John 2:15-16HRB

17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed to one another; so you are not able to do as you desire.  Galatians 5:17HRB

1 Then Yahshua was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil.  Matthew 4:1HRB

8 The one practicing sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. For this the Son of YAHWEH was revealed, that He might destroy the works of the devil.  1John 3:8HRB

44 You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it.  John 8:44HRB

But there is hope!  The Divine seal of Revelation observed in chapter 1. 

Divinely

Given

Sent

Signified

1 A Revelation of Yahshua Messiah†, which Elohim gave to Him to show to His slaves things which must shortly come to pass. And He signified by sending through His cherub to His slave, John, Revelation 1:1HRB

John bare record of Divine

Word of Elohim

Witness, testimony of YHSWH

Vision, of all things he saw

2 who testified of the Word of Elohim and the witness of Yahshua Messiah, even as many things as he saw.  Revelation 1:2HRB

The Divine blessing on:

The reader

The hearer

The keeper of this record

3 Blessed is the one reading, and those hearing the words of this prophecy, and keeping the things having been written; for the time is near.  Revelation 1:3HRB

The Divine Being:

Which was

Which is

Which is to come

4 John to the seven congregations in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from the One who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the seven spirits which are before His throne; Revelation 1:4HRB

8 I am the Aleph and the Tav, the Beginning and the Ending, says Adonai YAHWEH, the One who is, and who was, and who is coming, the Almighty. ° Revelation 1:8HRB

The Coming YHSWH is presented as:

Divine Prophet

Divine Priest

Divine King

5 even from Yahshua Messiah the Faithful Witness, the First-born out of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him loving us and washing us from our sins by His blood, Revelation 1:5HRB

His people are Divinely:

Loved

Cleansed

Crowned

5 even from Yahshua Messiah the Faithful Witness, the First-born out of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him loving us and washing us from our sins by His blood, Revelation 1:5HRB

6 and made us kings and priests to YAHWEH, even His Father. To Him is the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen. ° Revelation 1:6HRB

YHSWH is presented as:

The 1st and last

Dead and living One

The omnipotent One

17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet, as dead. And He put His right hand on me, saying to me, Do not fear. I am the First and the Last, 18 and the Living One; and I became dead; and, behold, I am living forever and ever. Amen. And I have the keys of the grave, and of death.† ° Revelation 1:7-8HRB

The Divine Revelation

The things which thou has seen

Which are

Which shall be after these things

19 Then having gone, disciple all nations, baptizing them into the name† of the Father and of the Son, 20 and the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days until the completion of the age. Amen.  Matthew 28:19-20HRB

16 And I will petition the Father, and He will give you another one which will end the curse†, that He may remain with you forever, 17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for it dwells with you and shall be in you.  18 I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.  19 Yet a little while and the world no longer sees Me, but you see Me. Because I live, you also shall live.  20 In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.  21 He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is that one who loves Me; and the one that loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and will reveal Myself to him.  John 14:16-21HRB

23 Yahshua answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word, and My Father shall love him. And We will come to him and will make a dwelling place with him.  24 The one who does not love Me does not keep My Words. And the Word which you hear is not Mine but of the Father who sent Me.  25 I have spoken these things to you, abiding with you; 26 But the Redeemer, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in My name will teach you everything. And it will remind you of everything that I said to you.  John 14:23-26HRB

7 But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I should go; for if I do not go away, the redeemer will not come to you. But if I go, I will send it to you.  8 And having come, that One will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.  9 Concerning sin, because they do not believe into Me; 10 and concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you no longer see Me; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.  12 I have yet many things to tell you, but you are not able to bear now.  13 But when that One comes, the Spirit of Truth, it will guide you into all Truth, for it will not speak from itself, but whatever it hears, it will speak; and it will announce the coming things to you.  14 That One will glorify Me, for He will receive from Mine and will announce to you.  15 All things which the Father has are Mine. For this reason I said that He receives from Mine, and will announce to you.  John 16:7-15HRB

14 The peace of our Master Yahshua Messiah and the love of Elohim and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.  2Corinthians 13:14HRB

4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one YAHWEH (family), one faith, one baptism, 6 one Elohim and Father of all, the One above all and through all and in you all.  Ephesians 4:4-6HRB

In some places God requires newness of heart [Ezek. 18:31]. But elsewhere he testifies that it is given by him [Ezek. 11:19; 36:26]. But what God promises we ourselves do not do through choice or nature; but he himself does through grace.- Augustine

Doctrine of Grace

The doctrine of grace has been the main attraction in the big tent for almost 5 centuries.  The essence of this deliberation is persevered in the subtleties while its emphasis, a bright light shining on Biblical Truths is embraced without injury.  I am a firm believer in grace however; I am a hold out from the nuance of grace that has prevailed in our religious economy since Augustine. 

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...if anyone makes the assistance of grace depend on the humility or obedience of man and does not agree that it is a gift of grace itself that we are obedient and humble, he contradicts the Apostle who says, What have you that you did not receive? (1 Cor. 4:7), and, But by the grace of God I am what I am" (1 Cor. 15:10). (Council of Orange: Canon 6)

To will is of nature, but to will aright is of grace. - Augustine

The nature of the Divine goodness is not only to open to those who knock. but also to cause them to knock and ask.- Augustine

Without the Spirit man's will is not free, since it has been laid under by shackling and conquering desires. - Augustine

There are many things that will never be invited in or otherwise allowed to become a part of this discussion such as the reality of the genesis of Protestantism.  Protestantism was born out of the Holy Roman Empire who refers to itself as mother, one of its illegitimate daughters.  It did not, it could not take the form an innovation nor can it claim the first in order of succession.  A high level cursory observation of the structure of Protestantism will reveal the organizational DNA necessary to validate its progeny.  Most Protestants repose themselves to the notion that Protestantism was conceived in the reformation, which no one will argue.  Most if not all fail to distinguish even say aloud that Protestantism was propagated by a abominably wicked and broken religious system contrived by man, not unlike a crack baby.  No matter how much the Holy Roman Empire was reformed it could never again find its way back to virtue and even at the very pinnacle of hopeful it could only amplify the religious blight that already existed.  The reformation was genetically predisposed to a religious system already riddled with cancer.  In an attempt to save the ecclesiastical the reformation attempted to remove the cancer.  Instead of preserving even safeguarding it they were the instrumental agent of metastasis for which death became imminent.  Until we are honest with ourselves as to the metastasis that occurred as a result of the reformation we will be incapable of advancing. 

The doctrine of grace as we know it today finds its origins in TULIP’s primary tenet of irresistible grace by Calvin, quite possibly its 21st century replacement term.  This among others is one of the doctrines described by soteriological doctrines that came out of the Protestant reformation.  Soteriology is the longitude of study of salvation on the fronts of YHSWH’s death and resurrection, sanctification, propitiation, substitutionary atonement whose business it is to respond to questions such as eternal sanctification, faith or works based salvation all pursued within the framework of Calvinism of which Baptists and Presbyterians are the greater purveyors.  To don Calvin and Arminius as the authors of these concepts at their genesis would be remiss as these tenets can be dated back to the 5th century whereupon Augustine’s defense of these tenets predates Calvin’s position while the tenets of Arminius can be dated to the 3rd or 4th century.  One of the most consequential principal pillars of Calvinism is the inherited sin nature, a subtlety that lurks in the shadows, without which TULIP likely would never have persisted.  One must continue to ask of doctrine, Who does this empower?  Does this empower the clergy?  What is curious about this doctrine is that a fundamentally paramount and integral component is missing, that of consequence that which results from our actions or lack thereof what some would refer to as accountability.  Consequence is a Divine provision unto life that YHWH made as a sign for we the formed not unlike the physical laws of motion, gravity, energy, momentum, relativity, and light all of which are indisputable.  You see consequence is that solitary spiritual law that says we matter, why?  Because what we do matters, what we say matters even what we think matters and if all this matters it does so because we mattered first.  It is nothing short of an awe inspired reality that the world YHWH created gives testimony to we the formed weighing in on our significance to Elohim.  There are other profound residents of scripture that don’t even warrant a banner within this doctrine such as commandment(s) which implies choice and covenant which explicitly declares a two sided contract or pledge both of which are based in oaths.  Their position finds its substructure in the popery, that which we can never question without being labeled a heretic, while their argument is one-sided it conveniently ignores counterevidence leaving only supporting