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There
is but ONE God, by whom and out of whom all things have been
created, and in whose immensity-filling Spirit all things
subsist; that He who is thus the Father of all dwells in unapproachable
light, styled in the Scriptures, "heaven, His dwelling
place." He and the Spirit are one, but only in the sense
in which the sun in the heavens and the light of the day are
one. Jesus is His manifestation by the Spirit (this proposition
strikes at the root of the popular doctrine of the trinity,1
which confuses the revealed relations of the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit).
Hear,
O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: (Deuteronomy 6:4).
I
am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside
Me(Isaiah 45:5).
And
Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is,
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is One Lord: (Mark 12:29).
And
this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17:3).
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. (1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6)
For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5).
The
blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of
lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which
no man can approach unto (1 Timothy 6:16).
Hear
thou in heaven thy dwelling place (1 Kings 8:30).
Our
Father which art in heaven (Matthew 6:9).
Unto
thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
(Psalm 123:1).
1
The only passage in the Bible that "affirms" the
doctrine of the trinity is the following: For there are three
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (1 John 5:7). This text
is well known to be spurious and is omitted in the Revised
Version of 1881 without note or comment.
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