Divinity and Trinity: FROM GOD OR MAN? Examine The Evidence, And Come Up With The Verdict

By Rev. Henry Idonije

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rustik Haws LLC
• Release date: Apr 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952617348

Rev. Henry Idonije

I was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Iovbeguai Idonije on January 19th 1946 in the capital city of Lagos, Nigeria. I had my elementary and secondary education in Nigeria. I was good in athletics, math, bible knowledge and geography. I attended Christ for the Nations Dallas, Texas in 1974 and Winnipeg Bible College and Seminary 1974-1987 where I received a Bachelor and Master's degree. I served under the Church of God Mission from 1976 to 1983 as a pastor. I served under the Christian Enrichment Family Camp in 1986-1987. I served under the Brandon Police Service as a Chaplain for seven years. Founded the Street Love Ministry Inc. in 1988 for 22 years, and received the distinguished Order of Manitoba from the Governor General of Manitoba. I served under the Street Love Ministry caring for the homeless and street people. I retired in 2010 and moved on to different services of writing books, counselling, teaching and writing articles for my internet audience. I am serving at the present as an associate pastor under the Glory and Peace Church. And also taking care of our grandchildren.

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Acknowledgements

My gratitude goes first to the Father of Mercy and the God of all grace, kindness and goodness, who in mercy created me for His pleasure and glory. I owe Him all of my life in existence here below.

Secondly, I owed Jesus Christ my Lord and Redeemer gratitude for His compassion and dedication to the course of His Father here on the Planet Earth, particularly when the powers of hell converged on Him before the cross at the Garden of Olives. Regardless of His weakness, fear and sorrow when He faced death, He trusted the Father and willed for His will.

I thank God for my Wife, Choice and my children: Praise, Israel, Emmanuel, and Rhema as well as my granddaughters Otito Edefuna, Akaose Ohioze, Nmachi Oiseomaoje and Ojeikhoba Zozo Okwumabua for the supports and encouragements. When all is said and done, the family is all that you have still standing with you.

Finally, I take off my hat for the great men and women of God who dare to say that God is One and not three. God had a Son and He gave Him His Spirit to accomplish all that He did on planet earth.

Preface

All of us, children of God, His saints, ministers of the Gospel of the Kingdom and those who loved Him have been sold a bill of falsehood that God had not ordered. This came to us because of the insecurity of man and a need to straighten out the word of God and make it reads smoothly, thus we received the error which had its roots in the 3rd Century.

We have imbibed, received and accepted the fallacy of dividing God into three equal and pre-existent Beings, thus having the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. We have done a disservice to the Being of God and shredded His Personhood. This has become a mistake and error of many centuries from the 3rd century to our times today. The Holy Spirit has no name, but He is the self same God, our Father.

God and His Spirit cannot be divided and as Rev. Jack Hayford has succinctly put it, The Holy Spirit is the same as God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ in his song: Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place." Rev. Jack called the Holy Spirit, the Omnipotent Father of Mercy and Grace, thus saying that the Spirit of God is God Himself. (1Cor.2:11) That means God and His Spirit are the same Being and they are indivisible and inseparable.

This Trinitarian view of God came down to us in the 3rd Century and it began by a heated contention between Deacon Arius and Bishop of Alexander in 318 AD. The argument got hotter and the Emperor, Constantine stepped in. At the inception of a new Bishop called Athenasius, the debate on the trinity continued. In 451 AD, the Pope and the ungodly Bishops with the deacons gave the world the Trinitarian Doctrine of the God of heaven. This was a joke and it came out of the insecurity of men to dominate their fellow human beings.

This book is an attempt to bring the saints of God back to the Father, who had a Son, and gave Him all of His Spirit without measure, but actually pointing the saints, the Church and the ministers of God to the Being, who created us in His own Image and Likeness, the Son being a replica of Him.

This book points and takes all of God’s children back to the beginning and that we should take a hard and long look at the Scriptures of old in order to have a sense of His Omnipotence, and thereby follow in His steps by His Spirit that has been given to Christ for the purpose of redemption. And for us too, so that we can carry on where He left, having asked the Father for His Spirit upon our lives as He did for Christ.

May the God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, grant you an understanding heart as you read along with the Author. Amen!

Rev. Henry Aikondion Idonije

May 2019, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

Dedication

To the only wise God, immortal, invisible, that had revealed Himself as One Being. To Him who had a Son, called the Word then, but for the purpose of the redemption of mankind, He was called Jesus Christ by the angel Gabriel according to the command of God.

To Him be the glory, honor, power and majesty forever and ever. To the Almighty God, who by His Spirit had created all things, visible and invisible, animate and inanimate and who had not hidden Himself from mankind, but made Himself known through His Son, Jesus Christ by His Spirit.

To the God, who in mercy, love, grace, might, wisdom and compassion had turned mankind to Himself through Jesus Christ, forgave our sins and had made an eternal home in the new earth and heaven for us His saints who loved Him.

To Christ Jesus, His only begotten Son, by His Spirit and who has become our Elder Brother, and the propitiation for our sins, and has been designated as King of kings and Lord of lords by His Father, the I AM THAT I AM, who had no beginning nor ending of days.

To all the Redeemed and the Saints of God in both the OT and NT who had been advocating that the Lord our God is One God and not three Gods in One! To the home of the Redeemed made by God and His Christ in the heaven called New Jerusalem and to our God, the Father all of flesh be praise, dominion and thanksgiving both now and forever. Amen!

Introduction

This is the age of God and by implication of His Spirit and all things started on earth by the Spirit of God, Christ, mankind and the saints. God is all in all by His Spirit. It will be so at the end of this age and the beginning of our lives beyond here.

God had a Son and sent Him to bring humanity home to the Father’s Palace for eternity. He gave Him His Spirit to accomplish the redemption of mankind on the earth. His Spirit goes by different designations: The Finger of God, The power of the Highest and The Spirit of God.

God existed before the creation of the heavenly bodies, the angels, the galaxies, the milky ways, the solar system, the worlds of the Spirits, mankind and the universe. He is the embodiment of all that is good, righteous, holy, benevolent, loving and just. Christ in antiquity functioned not as Christ, but the Word of God before all things and became Christ who was used by the Spirit of God to bring redemption to humanity at the command of God, His Father. (Lk.1:35) The Word was the agency of creation then and He had to work with the Spirit of God.

God enjoyed relationship and interaction with His creation of angels, spirits, unseen and seen worlds. He kept intimate company with the Word by His Spirit. In the pre-adamic era, the whole worlds were void of evil as the spirits trafficked it by the direct rule of God. Evil has affected the human race. If Lucifer had never sinned or erred, thus committing blasphemy, there would not have been a need of creating mankind. Angels outnumbered humanity 1-1,000,000 as everyone who comes into this world by birth is assigned one guardian angel. If the world is 7.5 billion plus today, angels will be that number multiplied by 1,000,000.

Mankind was created to reveal the wisdom of God as He will eradicate Satan and put rebellion down once and for all eternity. The man Christ Jesus fulfilled that and so in Him shall the saints and the redeemed fulfill the termination of evil, the influence of Satan and his demons by the power of the Spirit of the Living God. Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and all the saints of God from the OT to the NT will enjoy the presence of God for all eternity, having spoiled principalities and power even by the Spirit of the Lord.

Today is the day of salvation and the age of God’s grace, mercy, forgiveness and love and it will reign until evil and all that bears the image and likeness of Satan and the power of darkness will be eradicated forever through the angels, the saints and by the Spirit of God, the Son being the Captain of the army of God.

God is indivisible and mankind cannot dissect Him into three to have God, the Father, God, the Son and God, the Spirit. The word of God echoed through the universe and declaring, Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is One God. (Deut.6:4)

The first Century saints knew no such division of God into three equal individual Beings. As 1Cor.11:3 says, But I will have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of every woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. And when one declares that the indivisible God has come to be three by the making of man, it borders on the verge of blasphemy and it is punishable by death here and here after. The confusion of mankind and the wanting in knowledge and wisdom created three Gods out of One God.

There are scriptures that the Church fathers and translators of the ancient text have mangled in order to make the word of God read smoothly. From the third century onward, man has wrestled with these scriptures as they were helping God to make His word read clearly and thus produced Trinitarian doctrine. They should have left the scriptures as they were and not have tampered with them. They left us a distorted version of the God who is indivisible.

Beginning from the third Century to this day, they have caused a disharmony in the scriptures and plunged the entire world into chaos as to the nature of God. We are still wrestling with it today and trying to make sense with three Gods in One. This was an error, a mistake and a fallacy! God had a Son and He gave Him His Spirit for the purpose of redeeming mankind to Himself. You know the rest of the story. Jesus died for our sins in order to bring us to God, His Father and all who will acknowledge Him as such, will have everlasting life. (Jn.3:16)

There were some saints from the beginning of the 3rd Century who just could not accept that God could place His Spirit upon the prophets, Christ, the Apostles, Moses, the seventy Elders and all the saints who have asked for the Spirit of God, without reducing His Being. We have all forgotten that He is God Almighty and that there is nothing too hard for Him. He could raise up stones and turned them to worshippers. (Gen.18:14)

The scripture that these translators have turned around are very few and they cannot stand on their feet to continue this fallacy that God is three and not One. They are Matt.28:19, 1Cor.12:1-11, 1Jn.5:7-9, 2Cor.13:14, Matt.3:16-17 and 1Thess.5:23. Such scriptures that misrepresented the word of God are men’s error in order to make the scriptures sound better and cohesive. No one can divide man’s Spirit, let alone the Spirit of God. (1Cor.2:9-12) These scriptures will be treated in more detailed examination as the reader comes along with the author.

God had His Spirit ever before time was and even before the universe, the milky ways, the solar systems and the worlds of Spirits and mankind. He manifested Himself in giving us His Son, Jesus Christ, to redeem the children of Adam. He did all by providing and giving of His Son. (Isa.59:16-19) The redeemed will not see three Gods in heaven, but One God and Jesus Christ, whom they knew on the earth, by the Spirit of God. It takes spirits to know and see spirits, and God dwells in the light unapproachable to mortal men. The Spirit of God will be forever with us. (Jn.14:16, 1Tim.6:16, Jn.4:24)

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1

Wrong Concept of the Spirit of God

Chapter 2

Miracles, Signs and Wonders by the Spirit

Chapter 3

The History of the Doctrine of Trinity

Chapter 4

The Pre-Adamic Race

Chapter 5

God is Spirit

Chapter 6

The All-SeeingSpirit of God

Chapter 7

Is God One or Three?

Chapter 8

Spirit of God

Chapter 9

Receiving theSpirit of God

Chapter 10

God Shared hisSpirit with his Son

Chapter 11

Greetings in the Epistles

Chapter 12

God’s DNA in you

Chapter 13

The Father’sSpirit is Holy

Chapter 14

Some Difficult Scriptures

Chapter 15

Christ came by the Spirit of God

Chapter 16

His Spirit Controlled Christ’s Temptation

Chapter 17

The Miracles of Christ by his Spirit

Chapter 18

The Acts of theSpirit of God

Chapter 19

His Spirit: An Antidote for Sickness of Sin

Chapter 20

His Spirit Wrought Miracles in Acts of the Apostles

Chapter 21

His ChurchThrough his Spirit

Chapter 22

The Proclamation of the Gospel Through the Spirit of God

Chapter 23

God’s High Valueof Man

Chapter 24

God is theValue of Man

Chapter 25

We Have Receivedof His Fullness

Chapter 26

You are like God Through His Spirit

Chapter 27

You are Sent hereby God

Chapter 28

God Made us a Promise

Chapter 29

Hell’s for Satan,Not Human

Chapter 30

God’s Essence: Sacrifice

Chapter 31

Resurrection:Christ & Saints,by the Spirit of God

Chapter 32

One God, Who has a Son, and Moved through Him byHis Spirit.

Chapter 33

The Breath of God

Chapter 34

The Spirit of God isThe Power of God

Chapter 35

The Spirit is Shared Between Godand Christ

Chapter 36

The Spirit isGod Himself

Chapter 37

The Charge Before God and The Salutations of Paul, the Apostle.

Chapter 38

Conclusion

Chapter 39

Author’s Biography

Chapter 1

Wrong Concept of the Spirit of God

The word Spirit in reference to divinity has been confused in Christendom. Whenever the word ‘Spirit’ is used, it has a connotation to the Father and Christ, who shared the same Spirit with each other.

Whether the Spirit, or the adjective prefixing the word Spirit is used, it has affinity to the Spirit of God, who is Spirit. The Spirit is never used alone, and cannot stand on its own. When therefore, the Spirit is used, standing alone, it means nothing. But when it is used in connection to God, it means the Spirit of God, having the origin or the source of it.

You can search hard and long, but this independence of the Spirit will never be found between the Father and His Son, for the Spirit is common to them, and by application, it is also common to us too, as we shared of the Spirit of the Father, that is holy, hence the Holy Spirit.

The word says, The Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (2Cor.3:17) Note the interplay of the Spirit and the Lord in the above scripture. The scripture says, The Lord is that Spirit, and the Spirit is the Lord. Therefore, it follows that the Spirit and the Lord are the same. (vv.17-18)

The above clearly indicates that the Father and His Son have a common Spirit. The Spirit of the Father is the Spirit of His Son, Jesus Christ. The Spirit cannot stand by itself. He is not a being like God and the Son, but the energy, force, power, and the finger of God.

In continuation with how humanity understands the Spirit of God, the author has the following to say. How do the saints and the godless see and understand the Spirit of God, particularly if they cannot see ‘Him’? What shape does the Spirit have? Is it fire, dove, wind or the force of a gale? Does He have a beginning, and was He created? Can He take any form or shape He desires? Can He eat food and drink as humans? Is He corporeal, and separated from God? (1Cor.2:9-13) The answer to all the questions is no.

The Spirit of God cannot be spoken of without God, and He does not have validity without God, the Father. The Spirit of God is like the human body, and He does not live or have form apart from God who has the Spirit. The scripture says, God is Spirit, but spirits are not God. (Jn.4:24) The Spirit of God is the force of God. It is like wind, tornado, mighty water, energy, creative healing power, or a moving storm that has no equal on the planet earth. (Jn.3:8)

In Matt.1:23, the scripture says, A virgin shall be with a child, and shall bring forth a Son. They shall call His name Emmanuel, and by interpretation, God with us". How will Mary conceive a child in her womb, knowing no man? Is it possible amongst humans? No! It’s an impossibility in humanity, but this is possible in God. The things that are humanly impossible are gloriously possible in God. (Lk.18:27) Nothing is too hard or difficult with Him. (Jer.32:17, 27)

God who is Spirit will possess Mary’s body, and His