by Elder Lloyd T. Lockett

The Apostolic Note

Jesus was never a part of a triune entity that made up the totality of one complete deity, giving us the trinity. To this I must add, that true Christology in it’s sum is the study of the relationship between both full Deity and full humanity simultaneously. In other words infinite and finite, giving us the two nature in one man Jesus. Paul gave us this truth by letter, he states in 1^st Timothy.3:16 “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh….”. God who’s Omnipresence, Omniscience and Omni-potency took on humanity in its fullness. Therefore what best defines God as complete Deity,  His infinite Power, Presence and Knowledge, manifest itself as flesh and not in flesh, as if Deity lived in a body opposed to Deity becoming a body. Reader note that God Became a man in 1^st Timothy.3: 16 and was “justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory” THIS TO ME DOSE NOT IN ANY WAY SOUND LIKE THE TRINITARIAN FORMULA TERTULLIAN  USED FROM THE LATIN ROOT THAT IT BRANCHED FROM.  No one can find trinity in the wording of Paul. The Trias is the word used to translate the Latin word Trinitas and is first found in Theophilus of Antioch unscriptural Translation, about 180ad. Tertullian's Trinitarian formula “una substantia et tres personae” meaning  (three persons in one substance) would be a total and absolute extrabibical term. Paul in all his letters define the Oneness of God and not a plurality of persons. God is not divided. He is truly the God of Oneness, the Modalistic Monarchia of old and exist only in one in numerical value. Lets note that Paul’s letter to Timothy stated that “Great is the mystery of godliness” and not great is the mystery of the Trias, the three in one, nor dose it say god was manifested in plural form, father, son, and holy ghost, but indeed says “God was manifested in the flesh”. God became a man and he cried, felt pain and agony-Luke.22:44, was hungry-Matthew.4:2, he had to sleep-Matthew.8:24, became wearied through overexertion-John.4:6, increased in wisdom and stature-Luke.2:52, and then Christ died-1^stCor.15:3.If this defines the Patripassians, then let it be so. For the Oneness doctrine is rooted in the fact that Jesus is all of God without fragmentations nor parts and this is the Oneness stand of faith and I for one will die holding on to this truth in Jesus name — A MAN

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