Defense for Biblical Trinity Theology and the Doctrine of Holiness

By Samuel R. Siders

Theology and Christology are intense biblical discussions, as well as the doctrine of holiness, which I have been involved in as an apologist, "Defense of the Scriptures and the kingdom of God" (Jude 1:3), for over a decade on social media, among other intense topics with Muslims, Israelis, atheists, Gnostics, false cults, and a myriad of various denominations that call themselves Christians, because not everyone agrees on what the Bible teaches about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Most of what will be shared in the first section of this book will be in defense of who Jesus is in His fullness—His Christology—which includes the biblical fact that Jesus is both deity through heredity in spirit and soul like His Father Almighty God is deity and as eternal as His Father Almighty God.The second section of this book will provide the information that proves obedience to God's moral ethical laws is required to receive eternal life after receiving Jesus' atonement (grace) through faith for sin to be cleansed and forgiven. Obedience is not an option to be ignored but a required effort to be made and improved upon, and God has given His Holy Spirit to teach us how to perfectly obey Him and the help to succeed. Nowhere does the Bible teach that obedience to God's moral ethical laws atone for sin, nowhere; but the Bible does teach obedience—making the conscious effort to go onto perfection with our physical body (flesh)—is required to receive eternal life. God uses obedience to render our physical body righteous. This book will share in greater detail about the topic of faith, grace (atonement), and obedience; all three are required to receive eternal life, not atonement (grace through faith) only.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098060879

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Defense for Biblical Trinity Theology and the Doctrine of Holiness

Samuel R. Siders

Copyright © 2020 by Samuel R. Siders

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Table of Contents

Defense for Biblical Trinity Theology

Defense for the Doctrine of Holiness

Preface

Theology and Christology are intense biblical discussions, which I have been involved in as an apologist, Defense of the scriptures and the kingdom of God (Jude 1:3), for over a decade on social media, among other intense topics with Muslims, Israelis, atheists, Gnostics, false cults, and a myriad of various denominations that call themselves Christians, because not everyone agrees on what the Bible teaches about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Most of what will be shared in the first section of this book will be in defense of who Jesus is in His fullness—His Christology—which includes the biblical fact that Jesus is both deity through heredity like His Father Almighty God is deity and as eternal as His Father Almighty God. Jesus’ eternal union (hypostasis [substance]) with His Father explains why Jesus shares many of His Father’s titles throughout the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. The Union of Jesus’ preexistence was and remains in Almighty God’s innermost being which Apostle John called bosom (Greek—kolpos) in John 1:18.

The second section of this book will provide the information that proves obedience to God’s moral ethical laws is required to receive eternal life after receiving Jesus’ atonement (grace) through faith for sin to be cleansed and forgiven. Obedience is not an option to be ignored but a required effort to be made and improved upon, and God has given His Holy Spirit to teach us how to perfectly obey Him and to help us to succeed. Nowhere does the Bible teach that obedience to God’s moral ethical laws atone for sin, nowhere; but the Bible does teach obedience—making the conscious effort to go onto perfection (Philippians 2:12 and 3:12–16; Hebrews 6:1–2) with our physical body—is required to receive eternal life. In the first book I published, The Seven Churches of Asia Revelation 2–3, what Jesus said to those churches primarily had to do with their works; this book will share in greater detail about the topic of faith, grace (atonement), and obedience; all three are required to receive eternal life, not atonement (grace through faith) only.

Chapter 1

Defense for Biblical Trinity Theology

The root word for theology is the Greek word theos, translated God in all English translations and various renderings notwithstanding, the same for the Hebrew word, elohiym. When translated for deity, an uppercase " G is used for the Hebrew word, elohiym, and the Greek word theos, when translated for anyone who is not deity, a lowercase g is used. None of us who are born again by God’s Spirit are called God," uppercase G in the Bible because we are not deity and do not become deity when we receive God’s new birth and the baptism with God’s Spirit. Peter called us anagennao , begotten again, in 1 Peter 1:3. We are adopted heirs, but Apostle John calls Jesus monogenes as in John 3:16. Jesus is the only direct heir ( only begotten), there is a difference that many I have shared with over the years are oblivious to.

There is only one correct interpretation of the scriptures, but learning it is where the divisions lie. It is clear to me as written in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 that God is well aware errors in doctrine and theology would exist. Obviously, God has His reason for letting there be, and it is for this reason that depending on the severity of those errors, He will not let that prevent Him from working in the lives of those who are unknowingly deceived, if they have a heart that, in truth and sincerity, seek after Him to know Him more intimately. There are believers who can easily accept that Jesus preexisted His physical body and rightly so because Jesus clearly tells us He did in John 17:5, and they use Genesis 1:26 to validate God was talking to Jesus when He said, Let us, which is translated this way because of the plural elohiym, but refuse to believe Jesus is as eternal as His Father Almighty God, and by denying Jesus is as eternal also deny Jesus is deity. There are those who believe Jesus was the first thing God created which is totally false, because the Greek words logos, monogenes, and hypostasis do not agree with that conclusion; only Jesus’ physical body was created, not His spirit and soul.

And now, O Father, glorify me with Your own self with the glory which I had with You before the world was. (John 17:5)

I Teach What I Call Biblical Trinity Theology

It is a common historical teaching that history in the scriptures was first passed orally until a form of writing was created to begin writing the oral transmission. The first known alphabet is cuneiform symbols. Science dates the oldest discovered cuneiform tablet to 3500 BC, which, as of 2020, makes the tablet 5,520 years old. The Jewish calendar dates Adam’s creation having happened 5,780 years ago; based on the two dates, Adam would have been 260 years old when the oldest known cuneiform table was written.

There obviously is no proof, but I am inclined to believe Adam created the cuneiform alphabet and that Moses’ historical account for the beginning of creation as recorded in Genesis was the result of what Adam knew and wrote or some of his offspring who may have heard the history from Adam. Noah’s flood did not destroy any antediluvian cuneiform tablets. Nonetheless, there are multiple examples provided for what the cuneiform symbols mean, the evolution and changes of those symbols, and to, eventually, become letters depending on the cultures where writing was adopted like, for example, the Hebrew alphabet.

Knowing that cuneiform symbols depict words, I was interested to know what the symbol for El—the Hebrew word translated God into English—looked like. I was astonished with what I found; the symbol that depicts El (God) is a Trinity. There is a Trinity taught in both canons of the Bible—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. How to define their relevance and relationship to each other is where the division lies; are all of them Almighty God, or are they separate identities who are deity like Almighty God is?

Here is the web link to where I found the El symbol and what the symbol looks like: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/12096/index.htm. There appears to be nothing to support the symbol is the actual symbol Adam had, but the symbol pictured below is called a Last Resort Font created by an expert in writing systems named Michael Everson. Last Resort Fonts are created to fill in gaps were fonts are missing, in this case, cuneiform. A synoptic bio can be found for Michael Everson in this link: http://www.evertype.com/misc/bio.html.

In the beginning God [elohiym] created the universe and the Earth. The Earth was chaos and vacancy; darkness was over the surface of the deep places, and the Spirit of God was vibrating over the surface of the waters. Then God said, Let there be light, and there was light. (Genesis 1:1–3 Interlinear Hebrew)

There is some information the Hebrew gives for Genesis 1:1–3 that needs to be used for clarity because of the false claim of a contradiction between the first day of creation and the fourth and to share a possible theory a Scientist suggested; I assume a Christian. Based on Genesis 1:2, nothing but water existed on the Earth, and it is from water that God created the atmosphere. On the second day of creation, God commanded dry land to be exposed out from under the water. The third day God terraformed the land, and on the fourth day, God created other planets and the stars (suns), for which time and seasons would be provided and to provide light upon the Earth—day and night.

It is obvious to me Moses used what we have written in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 today to give us more detail or clarity about the history which both chapters contain. There exists some Jewish myths and false conclusions (cult deceptions) that still exist today which corrupt the literal meaning of the two chapters to suggest what they do not tell us, which I will not share, but there are many; except, for example, two creations of male and female, and Adam had two wives which are false and nowhere taught in the Bible. Interpreting the scriptures as all metaphor or allegory or the over use thereof has led to the multiple cults and myths that exist today and, thereby, causing dissention and thousands of denominations calling themselves Christians.

God did not need six days to create the Earth everything therein and the cosmos, but it is obvious six literal twenty-four-hour days are taught in Genesis when Moses wrote the evening and the morning, and no scientist should argue 3,400 years ago when Moses lived that a day was twenty-four hours. God purposefully used six days to give us a seventh day to rest from our employment and business. Obviously, our physical body was created to need rest; Exodus 23:12 is one of many references to validate this. There are liberals who misuse Scripture to teach the seventh Day of Rest is only required of Israelis, but Apostle Paul taught this Day of Rest, which I call the First Labor Law, is for all the people of God as recorded in Hebrews 4:9–10.

It is obvious when including Hebrews 4:3–4 that part of the chapter’s context is referring to the Sabbath (Day of Rest) Law, not just the rest (peace) God gives our spirit and soul through the new birth and the afterlife. Under the New Covenant, all the people of God are those who receive Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life, not biological Israelis only. The Greek word for works in Hebrews 4:9–10 is ergon which, by definition using context, is about employment, and both Paul and Moses used the same example of what God did on the seventh day of creation to teach the rest (Exodus 20:10–11 and Hebrews 4:10) that REMAINS for the people of God is referring to our employment and business activities; more will be shared about the Sabbath Law in the section The Doctrine of Holiness.

Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. (Exodus 23:12)

But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God: in it you shall neither do any work, nor your son, daughter, manservant, maidservant, cattle, or the stranger that is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:10–11)

There remains therefore a rest (Greek—sabbatismos) to the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works (ergon) as God did from His. (Hebrews 4:9–10)

God could easily have just said the word, and what happened in six days would have happened instantly; therefore, atheist science’s (scientism) millions and billions of years conclusion is a fallacy that in itself is called falsifiable theory (true until proven false), which those who truly have God’s new birth know is false. Nonetheless, there are those who believe there is a contradiction between Genesis 1:3 and 1:14 when both verses mention the word light and day and night in Genesis 1 and 2. It is obvious to me that some information in both chapters are not in exact chronological order of what is written; God is omniscient and thereby has foreknowledge of all things, even before the first day of creation. God’s foreknowledge will be shared about in the section The Doctrine of Holiness. There is a difference between when God said, Let there be light, and what occurred on the fourth day of creation.

When God said, Let there be light, the Hebrew word, ore, has more than one definition, and one of those is God’s light; therefore, it can be concluded that God’s light lit up the entire universe on the first day of creation, but the light (luminaries) of the stars (suns) could not, which is obvious today. Revelation 21:23 gives evidence for me that as it was on the first day of creation for this Earth, it will be for the New Earth, no sun or moon will be necessary, at least for the New Jerusalem; God’s Light will be the illumination of it. I choose to believe God’s light applies to all of the new heavens and new Earth as well. A person could ask, "Why did God’s Spirit vibrate over the surface of the water? There are theories for why the vibrate happened; but one theory I read was interesting and could just as easily have been why. The theory for vibrate" is that of a scientist who believes the Holy Spirit did this to cause the Earth to rotate; I think that is as valid a reason as anyone else could conclude, but Genesis does not tell us why.

Years ago, I read a science article about inferred light in the universe, and the CMB or CMBR cosmic microwave background radiation included in atheist science’s big bang theory—atheist scientism’s origin of the cosmos. Having read the article about CMB, this statement stood out to me, Penzias and Wilson theorized that if the big bang theory was correct, the universe would be filled with background radiation left over from the creation event. It takes special instruments to detect the radiation which the article mentions and it is radiation that fills the universe being detected in every direction. Since the CMB article is atheist science theory about the creation of the universe and all that is in it, I decided to take advantage of what is the CBM and the infrared spectrum of light called CIRB (cosmic infrared