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^ h e Identity of Jestis Christ
ties making up the Godhead. They maintain that the - Only One True God being one consists of three
separate but co-equal divine entities bearing three distinct names. Ba'sed on this conception, they con clude that these persons are one and three at the same time.
Some of them attempt to justify this doctrine by the three beings who appeared to Abraham in Genesis 18. But we learn in Chapter 19 that they were angels. Continuing the story, Genesis 19:1 reads, "Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening," and verse 12 says, "Then the men said to Lot" (NKJV). In verse 13 these angels plainly declared, "And the LORD hath sent us to destroy it." All these texts show that the men who appeared to Abraham were angels. God, on the other hand, appeared to Abraham in a vision in Genesis 18:1.
To avoid the misconception of a plurality in the Godhead, God spoke through Isaiah, "I, even I, am the LORD,, and beside me there is no sav iour" (Isaiah 43:11). And in Isaiah 44:24 He de clared, "Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that
maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.
Therefore, we see that the doctrine of the Trinity is contrary to the Scriptures. The Word of God, which became flesh, is God in revelation and the Spirit, or breath, of God is God in spiritual action. (In both Hebrew and Greek, the same word is used