Confusion of the 'Trinity'

I have a few notes today on how the erroneous ‘trinity’ doctrine has confused the truth of the new birth experience. Among those who actually believe in the baptism of the holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking with other tongues, it is widely upheld that a person “gets saved” upon their initial faith in Jesus, usually by means of what is said to be “accepting Christ as your personal savior.” Well, it is certainly true that there has to be a beginning of active faith toward Jesus as the Lord and savior before anything can take place and be experienced by a believer. However it is NOT true that this modern Christian ideology of being born again is in the Bible. You can search for it as long as you like, but it just isn’t there. And that misunderstanding is due to the widely believed 'trinity’ doctrine that divides God into three persons. Actually the scripture is clear about how many persons there are, but let’s just look at one example: “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him” (I Cor. 8:6). So why isn’t the holy Ghost mentioned there? Let’s look at something else now for the answer: “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us… And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one” (Jn. 17:21-23). There is still no mention of the holy Ghost in this prayer of Jesus where he asked the Father to make believers 'one’ in the same way that he and his Father are 'one.’ The reason that the Spirit is not mentioned is because the Spirit is NOT a 'third person,’ but rather it is the divine life that makes the Father and the Son 'one.’ The scripture also tells us that when we are “baptized into Christ [we] have PUT ON Christ” (Gal. 3:27). That is most assuredly speaking of the holy Ghost baptism because the scripture also tells us, “Now the Lord IS that Spirit” (II Cor. 3:17). So as Jesus said in John 17:21-23, we are made 'one’ by him being in us and us being in him; and subsequently we are also in the Father, because they are also 'in one another’ as he stated, both in Jn. 17:23, as well as other places (Jn. 10:38; Jn. 14:10,11,20).

The 'glory’ that Jesus has given believers is in fact the holy Ghost, because Romans 6:4 along with I Peter 3:18 says that it was both “the glory of the Father,” and also “the Spirit” that raised Jesus from the dead. Jesus wasn’t raised from the dead by two different means, but rather by the power of the Spirit, which the apostle Paul also stated in Colossians 2:12 where the word 'operation’ was substituted for the word 'power’ by the King James translators. Romans 8:2 calls the holy Ghost “the Spirit of LIFE which is IN Christ Jesus,” and that is the same DIVINE life that the Father gave to be in the Son, which is the “life… more abundantly” that Jesus said he had come to give to us (Jn. 5:26; Jn. 10:10). So when we are BAPTIZED into Christ BY THE SPIRIT, as 1 Corinthians 12:13 states, we have been made 'one’ with Jesus and the Father because we are IN THEM, and they in us. That is what Jesus prayed for, and that is how it takes place, because without refute the scripture clearly and repeatedly says that the Spirit baptism is what puts us INTO Christ (Rom. 6:3,4; I Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:27; Col. 2:12). So the problem that the 'trinity’ doctrine has brought about is that it has people thinking that they have to first receive Christ, and then afterward they can receive the holy Ghost; because the trinity has everyone thinking that the Spirit is a separate person from Jesus Christ, which IT IS NOT! The Spirit is not a person at all, and the scripture says “the Lord IS THAT SPIRIT” because the holy Ghost is the ONLY representation of Jesus Christ or his Father in this world; being the eternal life substance of them both. Jesus clearly said during one sermon that the Spirit would be sent back “in [his] name,” which is to say in his stead, when he went back to heaven; and he also referred to the holy Ghost as himself, and as his Father AND himself (Jn. 14:18-23,26). If the Spirit were a separate person from Jesus, the scripture would be erroneous that says “the Lord IS that Spirit.” Actually the scripture says the same thing about the Father, when Jesus said “God is a Spirit” (Jn. 4:24). That certainly means that ‘God is that Spirit’ as well, meaning the holy Spirit of course. Jesus also said that those who believe on him would receive the Spirit, and Peter said that God gives the Spirit to everyone who obeys him, meaning those who repent from sin and believe on his Son (Jn. 7:38,39; Acts 5:32).

There is no separating receiving Jesus and receiving the holy Ghost, which is to say be baptized with the holy Ghost with the accompanying sign of “speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance” (Acts 2:4). The initial faith in Christ that one exercises always produces some kind of spiritual experience that changes something in their life for the better, and sometimes initial faith results in being baptized with the holy Ghost. But we are not born again, nor do we have remission of our sins UNTIL we are baptized with the Spirit, because it is the Spirit that “washes, and sanctifies, and justifies” us as the scripture states (Rom. 15:6; I Cor. 6:11; Tit. 3:5). We have seen plainly from the Bible here that we cannot 'receive Christ’ unless and until we have received the Spirit, and the scripture says that our redemption [from sin] is 'in Christ’ (Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14). Any experience that we have by faith in Jesus before being baptized with the Spirit constitutes a 'conceived’ spiritual state, even as a life is conceived in the womb of a woman before birth can take place. The Bible tells us that the mysteries of God’s truths can be seen through the creation, and the new birth is no exception to that rule. Jesus also likened his followers while he was here, both as conceived children, and also as the expectant mother (Jn. 16:21). That was true for them because they actually became the body of Christ on the day of Pentecost when he sent the Spirit back from heaven to sanctify them in holiness. The mother, which is the body of Christ worldwide, is now in place; and everyone who begins their faith in Christ now are conceived in the womb of the mother, preparing to be born. When they are born, it is by and through receiving that same divine “Spirit of life” that is in the Father and the Son; which life Jesus came to give “more abundantly,” and was first poured out on the day of Pentecost when the body of Christ was born. The way to be born into the kingdom of God has never changed my friend, and neither has the way to receive Jesus Christ, which are the same thing. We have seen clearly by the scriptures that this is done by means of the baptism that Jesus suffered, died, and rose again to baptize us with (Mk. 1:7,8; Acts 1:4,5; I Pet. 3:21). I wouldn’t have it any other way myself, because that is GOD’S way. Amen.