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son,Ck>dtheHolyGhostisaperson. Buteachoneofthemisatriunebeing byHimself. IfIcanshockyou-andmaybeIshould-there'snineofthem Huh, what did you say? Let me explain: God the Father, ladies and gentle men, is a person with his own personal spirit, with his own personalsoul,
and his own personal spirit body. Yousay. Huh, I never heard that. Well you think you're in this church to hear things you've heard for the last 50years? You can't eu'gue with the Word, can you? It's all in the Word." (Hanegraaff, 123-124)
This kind of Trinitarian and tritheistic inventing of gods is not new, but has been in the so-called church since the first century. We must be strong defenders of the oneness Biblical theology. (See Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:39; Mark 12:29-30, II Corinthians 11:1-4 and Isaiah 43:10-12; 44:8,24.)
The creative word of God cannot exist apart from God. God's manifesta tion cannot be known without His word. There is no creation without His word. GodisoneandHeisSpiritandWord.WhenHemadeHisWord flesh, God, who is a Spirit, put on flesh and blood. With out having dif ferent subsistence apart from the Father. Therefore, God is now God-Man
Oohn 6:57,10:30,12:44-45; Matthew 1:20-23; Isaiah 7:13-14,9:6).
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Word Emanated from God
God, in the beginning, created the heaven and the earth by His word (Genesis 1:1).
God said, "Let there be light, and there was Light" (Genesis 1:3).
God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let
it divide the waters from the waters" (Genesis 1:6,7).
God said, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear and it was so" (Genesis 1:9).
In this manner God created everything that was created: "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth" (Psalm 33:6).
Adam and Eve "heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the gar den in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden" (Genesis3:8). ThepresenceofGodwasknowntoHiscreationbythe
voice of the Lord that walked amongst them
"In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word"
(Psedm 56:10). The fathers and prophets of the Old Testament venerat ed the W ord of the Lord.
"For as the rain cometh down... So shall my word be that goeth forth
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