Post by ResLight on Sept 30, 2014 11:54:11 GMT -5
It is often claimed that if one denies the trinity, that such a person is carnal, and that such person is not saved. The trinitarian usually claims that God has revealed to the trinitarian that God is a trinity. And yet, in all that God has revealed in the Bible, he never reveals Himself to be three persons. One has to think beyond what God has revealed in order to "see" trinity in the Bible. Actually, as I will show, it is the trinitarian who is being carnal.
While one does not have to be a trinitarian to have a carnal mind, many trinitarians, by their claim that one has to be believe in (in effect, bow down before the self-proclaimed "orthodox" views of men) their added-on trinity dogma, or else one is not saved, are very sectarian in their belief. Regarding such sectarianism, Paul spoke of such to the Corinthian believers: "Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ." (1 Corinthians 3:1, World English) Paul did not say that these were not children of God, but he pointed out that they are yet "babes in Christ" due to their sectarian attitude. Such sectarianism, however, is not limited to trinitarians.
Of course, there are many tares amonst the believers who have not at all been regenerated through the blood of Jesus; these also have contributed greatly to the sad sectarian state that exists amongst Christians.
Paul wrote, however:
Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. -- 1 Corinthians 4:6, World English.
It is this thinking "beyond the things which are written", and seeking to bind fellow-believers to those thoughts, that leads to the carnal sectarianism that Paul wrote of to the Corinthian believers. The trinity dogma (as well as any dogma that declares Jesus to be the God of Abraham spoken of in Exodus 3:14,15), not being found anywhere in the Bible, has indeed come about by thinking beyond what is written, and then declaring all who do not agree with this thinking as being either heretical or unsaved, etc.
See my study on sectarianism at:
rlbible.com/?page_id=454
While one does not have to be a trinitarian to have a carnal mind, many trinitarians, by their claim that one has to be believe in (in effect, bow down before the self-proclaimed "orthodox" views of men) their added-on trinity dogma, or else one is not saved, are very sectarian in their belief. Regarding such sectarianism, Paul spoke of such to the Corinthian believers: "Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ." (1 Corinthians 3:1, World English) Paul did not say that these were not children of God, but he pointed out that they are yet "babes in Christ" due to their sectarian attitude. Such sectarianism, however, is not limited to trinitarians.
Of course, there are many tares amonst the believers who have not at all been regenerated through the blood of Jesus; these also have contributed greatly to the sad sectarian state that exists amongst Christians.
Paul wrote, however:
Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another. -- 1 Corinthians 4:6, World English.
It is this thinking "beyond the things which are written", and seeking to bind fellow-believers to those thoughts, that leads to the carnal sectarianism that Paul wrote of to the Corinthian believers. The trinity dogma (as well as any dogma that declares Jesus to be the God of Abraham spoken of in Exodus 3:14,15), not being found anywhere in the Bible, has indeed come about by thinking beyond what is written, and then declaring all who do not agree with this thinking as being either heretical or unsaved, etc.
See my study on sectarianism at:
rlbible.com/?page_id=454
