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Two Gods or three Gods?
The belief in two Gods is called Arianism, Bitheism, or Gnostic Dualism. The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Sir Anthony Buzzard embrace these teachings. It is also taught as so-called “Unitary Monotheism”. In the Unitary Monotheism theory, Jesus is just a mere human, a man that coexists with a distinct God the Father. This theory and different versions of it came from the pagan/apostate Gnostic men Pantaenus, Clement, Origen, Philo, and Arius all from the Pagan academy in Alexandria Egypt. None of these men obeyed Acts 2:38. They taught that the “Logos” or “Son” was a different God or lesser god, or a mere man that coexist with the Father God. God sent this messenger boy of the gods to the earth because He is too big to get involved in little human affairs.
Dr. William Robinson Evangelical Quarterly 1933: “The Apologists of the second century were more familiar with [Pagan Gnostic Greek] Platonic cosmology than they were with biblical soteriology, [In more simple terms they were more into Pagan Greek philosophy than Bible teachings] and hence stretched the Christian doctrine to fit a philosophical procrustean mold. They conceived God as above and beyond all essence, ineffable, incommunicable, impassible, exalted beyond any commerce with matter, time, or space. This Platonic God put forth the Word [or the pagan Greek Logos] by an act of His will to be His intermediary [or His go between and messenger boy much like Hermes was to Zeus or Mercury to Jupiter] for creation, revelation, and redemption. The doctrine construes the Son as preexistent.”
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson, 1957, Vol. IX, page, 91. “The doctrines of the Logos and the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who ... were much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the (Pagan) Platonic philosophy ... That errors and corruptions crept into the Church from this (Pagan) source can not be denied.”
McClintock and Strong Article “Trinity,” Vol. 10, page 553. “Toward the end of the 16th century, and during the 2nd, many learned men [Pagan Philosophers] came over both from Judaism and paganism to [Catholic] Christianity. These brought with them into the [Catholic] Christian schools of theology their *Platonic ideas and phraseology.”
Thirteen Lessons on Church History By Morris Womack, 1990, pages 38-39: “Basically, Gnosticism is dualism...Gnosticism permeated the early (Catholic) Church. It was a mixture of Greek philosophy and Christian teaching. They were ingeniously combined to form a confused and dangerous threat to Christianity. Gnosticism is derived from the Greek word gnosis, which means “knowledge.”...beliefs of the Gnostics:...There is not one, but two gods; a lower and a higher god. This is known as dualism.”
Justin's First Apology “There is a second God after the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."
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