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Understanding the Oneness of God

By

Dr. T.B. Neil Ph.D., D.D., RFM, CFLE

Genesis Institute P.O. Box 5634, Fort McMurray, AB T9H 3G6Phone: (780) 743-8648 Fax: (780) 743-8647

E-mail: [email protected]


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Copyright 2002, Dr. T.B. Neil, Alberta, Canada

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE............................... ................................. ................................ ............ iv

REVELATION OF HIS NAMEChapter one ................................. .................................. ................................... . 1

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WATER BAPTISMChapter two ................................. .................................. .................................. 13

SIGNIFICANCE OF TONGUESChapter three............................... .................................. .................................. 47

THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORDChapter Four.......................... .................................. ................................... ..... 75

HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRINITY DOCTRINEChapter five ................................ ................................. ................................. ... 95

THE SHEMAChapter Six ............................. ................................. ................................ ...... 115

BIBLIOGRAPHY.................................. ................................. ............................ 150


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PREFACE

God of Monotheistic Theology

Theos means God, logos means Word, the theology of God is Monotheism. Godis the word and the word is God and was manifested in flesh. God spoke to

Adam face to face; to Moses He showed his backside; Israel viewed Him througha vail; and the church sees Him through a glass darkly. Revelation is a disclosureGod gives Himself. In Genesis 1:1 the compendium statement is bothintroductory and conclusive as it introduces God it denies: Oneness, for He is alone and without equal or companion Agnosticism, for the heavens declare him alone Atheism, for the Godhead is clearly seen in Him Materialism, seeing God is a Spirit Pantheism, seeing He was before all things and by Him all things consist Fatalism, seeing His eternal purpose stands Polytheism for God is One and His omniscience knows no of other gods Evolutionism, seeing that God created all things for his own pleasure He alone is uncreated

The compendium statement of Genesis 1:1 demands a deity or first cause; themonotheistic God, Jesus is the cause in Genesis 1:2

Cosmological ValidationFor every cause there must be a corresponding effect (Ro 1:20)

Teleological Validation

For every design, a designer is demanded (Ps 19:1-3)

Ontological ValidationThe cosmopolitan concept of worship demands an object for worship (Ro 1:19;Co 2:8-10)

Moral ConsequencesThe condemnation by guilt demands a conscience representing higher lawsbased on rationale rather than instinct (Ro 1:14-18).

The incarnation did not occur so as to justify existence of God that is invisible. Itseternal purpose was to provide a sacrifice for Adams first sin. The immaculate,

Holy God alone was capable to do that job for the book of Job said not evenangels are pure in His sight or credible to appease Gods demand for reparation.The response to the need was the incarnation. The Lord Himself became our Christ.


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The Relationship of the Name

Monotheistic and Oneness proponents use the name of God correctly in the NewTestament plan (Ac 2:38; 4:12). Revelation of the name was progressive. FirstGod told Abram His name was Almighty, which was given to meet Sarahswombs need. Then God gave the name, I AM, followed by YHWH to Moses andIsrael to meet the Old Covenant and Testament relationship between Himself and the newly found nation of priests. Jews modified the Tetragrammaton YHWHconsonant name to a vowel sounding name by addition of A (from Adonai or Lord) and E (from Elohim) to get YAHWEH. El in Elohim means strength andohim means faithfulness . Therefore, this monotheistic God called, YAHWEH, or Jehovah is strong, faithful, and a covenant God. He is alone. Usage of the name,Elohim, always has the usual Hebrew ending for all masculine nouns in the pluraland accompanied by the verb and adjective in the singular.

Oneness may be mistaken to be trinity in attributes or misconstrued to berepresentative of collectivism. Monotheism does not have this defect or lend itself to speculative conjecturing. The verb tense I AM is singular in Exodus 3:14. Theplurality Trinitarian resorts to in Elohim linguistically conforms to verb andadjective in the singular, which is referring to two credible usage of the plurality,alluded to in the following:

Plurality in majesty or the royal We (Jn 14:23; Ge 1:26)Plurality in intensity or force and power (Ge 33:20)

Consistency in arithmetical agreement is maintained in:

Isaiah 44:24 Elohim alone

Isaiah 44:6, 8 No Elohim like me1 Corinthians 8:4-6 None, but one Elohim

Begging the Question

Why do Trinitarians stop at three persons? Why does Oneness stop at threemodes of manifestations? One claims there are three persons in the Godhead,the other claims that there are three modes of manifestation of one person. Bothignore the fact that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not manifestations, but areoffices and improper names or titles of the same identical person, who is withoutdistinction and not persons. Tritheism makes distinction between persons asfollows:

Father is the first person Son is the second person Holy Spirit is the third person


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Synthetic oneness makes distinctions of modes: the Father mode, the Son mode,and the Holy Ghost mode, but the Apostle John said that these three are one, notmeaning three distinct entities, but meaning one person who at all timessimultaneously is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. One word covers all three, Christfor Father is the spirit of Christ, Son is the flesh of Christ, and Holy Spirit is theSpirit of Christ. That gives us Jesus alone. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost areinterstitially integrated, ionically and covalently. Ezekiel called it the wheel withinthe wheel. They are inseparable. He that hath the Son has both the Father andthe Son. If modality is correct, then it is logistically attainable to have one modepresent in the absence of the others. The same is reasoning for the persons'concept. However, monotheism says no. Jesus said that if I do not go away, thecomforter cannot come. He said this because He is the comforter. This does notmean that his presence does not hinder another person from coming. He thathath the Son hath the Father and the Holy Ghost simultaneously. Wherever Jesus is simultaneously He is Father, he is Son, and He is Holy Spirit.

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are telescopic in that He goes in and out of Himself.

He exalts and humbles Himself. He hides Himself and makes Himself visiblewhen He chooses. He is Son over His own house. He never says, My Father and I, but I and My Father are one. Monotheism says Amen. The vernacular and nomenclature of Oneness is flawed and the synthetic thinking of Trinitarianism isarithmetically and logistically flawed. Only monotheism is mathematically,theologically, and logistically sound and tenable.

The "Oneness" name has its origin in 1901 and 1910 in the USA. Trinitarianismhas its origin in the 2 nd Century AD with Tertullian, but Monotheism started fromthe declaration of God, which is not argumentative or suggestive, but declarative.So Oneness arrived at the right conclusion of Jesus being the Almighty God, butby process whose origin is linked with the Trinitarian's process (ie, modalism).

That is why we are losing many of our many ministers to Trinitarianism becausethey are confused between the difference. Monotheism is immiscible anddistinguishable from all other doctrines.

6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I amthe first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

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 spreadethabroad the earth by myself;

5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee,though thou hast not known me:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is nonebeside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. See Isa 44

The Lord our God is One.


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