Three Agree As One

'There is in the first Epistle of John an interpolation which John did not write, but which those who hold to papal trinitarianism grasp as evidence of the Trinity. In I John 5:7-8, the words beginning with "in heaven" in verse 7, and ending with "in earth" in verse 8 appear in NO GREEK MANUSCRIPT the New Testament prior to the 11th Century. These words were first found in a Latin treatise of the 4th Century, and inserted into the Sacred Scriptures during the noonday of the Papacy.

The verses should read:       "For there are three that bare record, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."'

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Why is this important? Because it is TRUTH.

Let's look at how it was changed-

1Jn 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

1Jn 5:8  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

The 11th century the 1000's, a thousand years after Christ came to earth and brought His TRUTH.  A thousand years after the words were spoken they were twisted. When we can find truth we are accountable to that truth.

Three that bare record.

The Spirit.

The Water.

The Blood.

These three AGREE in one.

Why would more be added? Why would they say these three are one when it is never said?

Is there a difference in believing there are three that are one and three that agree as one?

Three are one- leave you to believe that somehow the three are not separate. People claim monotheism- believing in one God, and they do this because they refuse to believe there are truly THREE GODS. Three separate GODS. These THREE SEPARATE GODS  AGREE AS ONE.  This is Tritheism, and so many have convinced the masses that this is wrong, but it's TRUTH!

We are talking of the HOLY SPIRIT as being one of three GODS. This is TRUTH. The Holy Spirit is REAL, the Holy Spirit is a GOD. The Holy Spirit is not a lesser deity, He is not lower on the totem pole, He is not an underling, a lower God. The Holy Spirit is EQUAL with God.

Let's continue on with the study-

'The book of Revelation while using symbolic language adds much to our understanding of the Holy Spirit.

When the door was opened in heaven, and John was asked to enter, he saw a throne on which sat the Eternal One - He "which is, and which was, and which is to come."

Before the throne were seven lamps of fire which are stated to be "the seven Spirits of God." (4:5)

Then John beheld "a Lamb as it had been slain" with seven horns and seven eyes.

These horns and eyes are declared to be the same "seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." (5:6)

With the fulness of omnipotence, and the completeness of omnipresence, the Holy Spirit is sent forth into "all the earth."

But the symbolism indicates that when the "Lamb" as the sacrifice appeared, the Spirit of God was so closely identified with the "Lamb" so as to be even as the horns and eyes are to an animal.

(((Imagine it… The horns and the eyes of an animal.  You take away the horns, you take away the eyes and the animal still lives, yet without the horns and the eyes a special part of the animal is missing.  Just like the analogy of a body making up the church, not all being the hands, not all being the feet, but all parts are necessary for a full-ness, a closeness.))))

This Spirit speaks to the seven churches. (Rev. 2:7, 17) Yet the messages are declared to be coming from Christ to the same seven churches. (Rev. 2:1, 8, etc.)

There is one voice.

The voice of the Spirit is also heard speaking of those who have heeded the Three Angels' Messages. (Rev. 14:13)

First John hears "a voice from heaven" pronouncing a blessing; then comes the voice of the Spirit which was sent forth into all the earth - the same area to be covered by the angel messages. (Rev. 14:6)

The same Person who directed the Church in its beginning as revealed in the Book of Acts also directs the giving of the final messages of God to earth's inhabitants.

In fact, the New Testament presents the Holy Spirit as the new commander of the "ministering spirits" in the warfare between good and evil till earth's last hour, when Jesus himself shall return as Lord of lords and King of kings.

There is one final picture in the book of Revelation: - "The Spirit and the bride say, "Come."

 (Rev. 22:17)

Even as Revelation pictures Jesus and the Spirit speaking as one voice so also does the bride of Christ and the Spirit speak ultimately as one voice.

A question:  Is this symbolism suggesting that even as the Holy Spirit consummated the Incarnation so that He might be one flesh with us, so also the same Spirit effects the "bride" of Christ so that she might be one spirit with Him?

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You have to wonder. The roles are there, the declared roles and all in those roles agree as one.

This brings back to my mind the idea of evening and morning being one day, and a man and woman being one in marriage yet two.  We can comprehend this, but Satan would rather we not trouble ourselves with having to think about any of this at all.  How many people will never read this, never bother looking into all this but take what they are being spoon fed and believe it rather than searching for themselves and wrestling with the truths before them. We cannot allow ourselves too be fed by anyone else, we must feed ourselves and pray that the Holy Spirit guide all our spiritual feasting so we get truth and only the truth.

Remember Paul? He was Saul of Tarsus, he was a Jew of the highest order, he thought it truth and righteous, he thought He was obeying God as he persecuted the new, strange sect of believers in a Son of God- a Son who died and the rose again, a Son who claimed to know God, to have been with God, to have existed before Abraham. Saul of Tarsus loved God and God knew this, but God also knew the TRUTH. God needed Saul to see this truth and live the truth and so He showed Him the truth.  Before you start saying you need the same experience as Saul called Paul, the chances are that will never happen. All those Paul encountered along his journey of evangelism were called to believe just as we are called to believe. They weren't given experiences such as Paul had any more than we are given those experiences.  Yet we are all called to believe the TRUTH, to seek the TRUTH.

As we study of the Holy Spirit we NEED the Holy Spirit to enlighten us, to help us, to open our eyes, our hearts to all truth and only truth.

Please FATHER, please bless us. Please HOLY SPIRIT, please bless us. Please SAVIOR, please bless us.  We need YOU THREE who AGREE AS ONE to bless us so we can be in agreement as one with all of YOU!

All by YOUR love, YOUR grace!

Amen!