My friend, there are many that have tried to disprove the word of God by their human philosophy, but the word of God continues to endure. In the centuries after Christ ascended to heaven, the church of Rome locked up the Scriptures from the people, keeping it away from them and in a language that only the learned could understand. It held that the church was the only authority that could read and interpret the Scriptures.
Today the word of God has been loosed from its prison and is available to all that would study and read for themselves, yet there are still so many that are ignorant of the truths held within them. Along with that there have come numerous translations that have obscured the truth that the errors that are taught in the churches may be upheld.
Though the Bible is available to all, the church of Rome still holds that she is the only authority that can interpret its meaning, claiming that by the Scriptures and by traditions that have been handed down through the centuries, the word of God can be understood.
The sophistry that the church of Rome has exercised upon the Christian world is at work in the Seventh-day Adventist church today. Not withstanding their claim of sola scriptura (the Bible and the Bible alone), the leaders of the church claim the authority to interpret the Scriptures. They have done this through the enforcement of the fundamental beliefs of the church. Those who do not agree with these beliefs, though they can show that they are not in line with the Scriptures, are ridiculed, derided, and eventually disfellowed from the church.
The fundamental belief of the church has been elevated above the Bible and has become a tool to silence all that would speak against it. Though the scriptural evidence to support the belief are vague, they claim that the churches interpretation is above question. As such the majority of the congregation are ignorant to the truth while they believe that they are have great light.
My friend, the word of God is clear that there is only one true God and He is revealed to us by His Son. The Spirit of God is not a separate being from Himself, but is His Spirit that lives within the Son as well. Jesus prayed saying "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3). In comforting His disciples, He told them that He would be with them always saying "I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." (Matthew 28:20).
How could Jesus be with them always if He being in the form of man was performing the work of sanctification in the heavenly sanctuary? The answer is found in John 14:16-18 saying "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
The Comforter that was to be sent, was not another being, but another of the same. He was using the illustration of the Comforter to show that He would come to them in another form, by His Spirit. Notice that He says that the Comforter is the Spirit of Truth, and just before that He said in verse 6 "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." He also said that the Comforter "dwelleth with you" present tense, "and shall be in you", future tense. Then in verse 18 He declares that this Comforter to come is Himself for He said "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
This very passage above is interpreted by the church as evidence that the Holy Spirit is a separate being form the Father and the Son, but the passage itself denies this claim, yet so many in the church today are deceived by it.
My friend, it is time for us to study the Scriptures for ourselves that we may know the truth. We cannot hold a thus sayeth the church above a thus sayeth the Lord, lest we place our eternal salvation in the hands of men.
God bless,
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