A CULT Christmas Gift for All Trinitarians

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All over the world today people are celebrating the birth of Christ, Savior of the World and ironic title in some ways because so many of His followers only see Him as Savior of the faithfilled.

But that is for another time.

We celebrate his birth because it marks the beginning of the reconciliation of God to the Fallen world because of His sacrifice for sin, making the payment of it all through His death, and overcoming it through His resurrection.

This victory was made possible in and through sacrifice – the sacrifice of God in giving His only begotten to the World and the sacrifice of the only begotten giving His life for us.

All around town, the state, country and world are scenes depicting the manger where the Baby Savior lays, surrounded by lowing animals and wisemen offering gifts under a silver star shining down on Mary and Joseph.

Millions of people take the time to read from the first chapters of Luke and rejoice singing wonderful songs like

O Come O Come Emmanual
Heark the Herald Angels sing,
O Little Town of Bethlehem
and Silent Night.

I love the music. I love the season. My heart swells over the birth, the life, the sacrifice and the victory . . . but as typical, I have questions and I want to know more.

So I want to honor God and His Son by talking openly about the Sacrifice of God and His Son because it is in the spirit of their “selfless sacrifice” that gifts are exchanged all over the world.

Giving gifts is a form of sacrifice. It requires offering up something precious in our sight which in most cases means something that has required our time and devotion to obtain and the willingness to donate them for the betterment of others.

Understanding this concept, we work hours at our jobs to make money that we could otherwise use to bless ourselves but in the spirit of sacrifice we instead choose to use the money on others.

Churches love this time of year because many people who have otherwise been absent throughout the year flow into their doors and in the spirit of the giving season, sacrifice some of their annual income to them.

Sacrifice. The giving up of something we value, something that is ours – time, money, talents, labors – for the benefit of others. Of course, the scripture speaks volumes about sacrifice.

Normally and of late on Sundays we are working verse by verse through the Old Testament together and even though we are only in Genesis we have already started to read about men offering sacrifices to God.

By the time we get to Leviticus, the notion of sacrifices becomes a REALLY big theme, with all sorts of instructions given for what they needed to sacrifice to please God, and how they were to do it. There is tremendous focus on the hows and whats of material sacrifice there.

But as we move through the text and the years of that Nation unfold we get to some later writings and will begin to read about sacrifices that people of the Nation would make that sound like they actually annoy God.

The offerings in terms of what and how are in order according to Leviticus but something is off or missing. And we then start to read things like

Ps 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

What happened? It seems that the people figured out that the physical act of offering sacrifices was really quite easy if all that was required to please God and that materially giving in the way He prescribed had become, empty, rote and perfunctory.

When we get to Proverbs 21:27 and read, The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it (the sacrifice) with a wicked mind?

From here we begin to see God’s desire in the Old Testament sacrifices was for people from their heart to offer Him sacrifices according to the law, and not just run the motions because it was prescribed.

Along the way God gives the Nation specific insights into giving and sacrifices and says things like

“To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.” Proverbs 21:3

In other words, dedicate yourselves to me from the heart and live for me in truth and don’t just use sacrifice to justify your evil. By the time we get to Isaiah we read

Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

When we get to Micah 6:6 the minor prophets asks:

Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Then in my preparations, I thought of Hosea 6:6 which for me brought the entire subject into one as it fittingly has the living God say

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The knowledge of God MORE that burnt offerings. More than offerings, sacrifices, and presents.

“The knowledge of God,” I thought, “sacrifice,” I bemused, “Christmas,” I pondered. And then I went to work.
This was four weeks ago.

See, the living God desires for his children “a knowledge of Him” MORE than burnt offerings. Truly worshipping Him in spirit and truth far more than donations, far more than Christmas presents, more than rivers of oil, songs of praise from our lips, and of rote religion.

Realizing this I thought, “this Christmas I am going to do somethings I have never done before. I am going to personally pursue and challenge my knowledge of Him and I am going to test two thousands years of Christian history and tradition and I am going to honestly test and challenge my own views of my knowledge of Him by reading and studying every single passage in the Apostolic Record that uses His name “theos,” which is translated to God.

And I dug in and did a search and discovered that there are 1197 passages of scripture that all include the Greek word, “theos” in the apostolic record.

And I made a running list of them in Chronological order and started addressing them one by one seeking to increase my knowledge of him while removing all the falsehoods my mind had embraced over the years.

Why do this in the face of Christmas? I’ve never understood something about God and His sacrifice for the world (in giving us His Son) and because this is the time of year we celebrate this, I wanted to see, in trying to better understand Him, if I could get an answer.

See, I realized that in order to really understand the sacrifice God made for us in giving His Son, and the sacrifice the Son gave in giving Himself, I had to get a better knowledge of them. We have to have a better true knowledge of them.

I looked online and watched a half dozen believers criticize my view on my knowledge of God, and I listened to people I know and love say publicly that they know God and that their views of Him were different than mine.

And I had to ask, perhaps I have been wrong? Wrong is not good about the knowledge of God. Wrong inhibits maturation. This is supremely important to me as a believer because to know Him is what He desires, and according to Jesus, is life eternal.

To KNOW, Jesus said, “thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent is life eternal.”

So, I passed over, went in and went through the 1197 passages prayerfully seeking to genuinely challenge my stance of God.

As a result I want to offer you a gift today. It’s from me and it cost me three weeks, and almost 90 hours of my life. I crafted it from my heart and mind and offer it to you as it is from the scripture.

Take it for what it’s worth, regift it, throw it away or cherish it but it is a very general summary of what I found.

For starters, and right out the gate, there are unquestionably three expressions of God in scripture and all three are collectively presented in nine singular passages.

Here they are:
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Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of GOD, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 1

Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; 2

1st Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 3

2Co 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of GOD, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen. 4

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 5

1Jo 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God 6

1st John 5:6-7 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 7

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 8

1st Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

The first thing to notice is in the first six of these nine, Jesus or Christ, the Holy Spirit or Spirit are mentioned but God is distinctly mentioned apart from them.

Let me read them to you.

(Read 1-6)

The second thing to note is that passages number 7 – 8 are historically suspect. Passage 7 is known as the Johannine Comma and is considered a manipulation by eager scribes wanting to promote the cause of the Trinity with the end result being the most egregiously “on the nose” passage in the sacred text.

The there is Matthew 28:19, known as the Great Commission, but this is also suspect because the very advice of Jesus to His apostles is NEVER EVER recorded as happening!

If it was so vital why did His own apostles fail to follow His direct advice?

This leaves one passage in all of the Apostolic record that lists the three in one passage including God the Father, the Spirit and Jesus Christ, and its

1st Peter 1:2 which says, “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”

Of course, the mere mention of God the Father in this passage could be saying, God, who is the Father, or the Father who is God, and then Jesus Christ and the Spirit – but we will leave this passage as our only singular-passage depiction of Father, Son and Holy Spirit in scripture.

The second thing I noticed in my survey of the 1197 passages is that Jesus of Nazareth or even Jesus Christ had a God.

Have you ever thought of that? Now, I am not going to introduce any sort of division in Him to make this palatable and say things like “well, these passages are speaking to His human side.” I just want to take the passages that speak to Jesus having a God and present them to you as they are.

Here are a few of the more emphatic expressions. To the church of Philadelphia, Jesus, who had already ascended to the right hand of God, said in Revelation 3:12

“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”

Four times in this passage Jesus speaks to the believers at Philadephia, post His death and resurrection, and at the right had of His Father, addressed Him as “my God.”

Again, I know the man-made rationale for this, but when I just consider the scripture, without all the massaging, I see the fairly reasonable fact before me – Jesus Christ had a God.

Folks say, that Jesus Christ was God from all eternity but a direct reading of the scripture tends continually distinguish between Him and His God.

Now some people will jump to John 1:1 and say that this proves that Jesus Christ is God from the beginning. They will also use it as evidence of the Trinity.

We know that it says, right, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”

But we know literally that this speaks of God’s logos or word, and that later it speaks of that word becoming flesh and dwelling among us AS JESUS of Nazareth!

We also are astute enough to see that this passage in no way establishes the man-made three persons making one God Being of the Trinity because there is no mention of the Holy Spirit.

So, moving back to the first chapter of Revelation we read:

Re 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which GOD gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.

It seems to me that if Jesus was truly “God the Son” from all eternity, and to define God as the one who gave Him the Revelation, some wires are being crossed. It seems.

People call these things “mysterious” but I call it unreasonable and far from a straight reading of the scripture.

Then we read in 1st John 4:12 No man hath seen GOD at any time. If we love one another, GOD dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”

Remember this important aspect of how God works and relates to the human world – he enters us, his children, our flesh, and He dwells witin us. Remember this model. We will come back to it.

Now going back to Jesus day, to see Jesus with literal eyes, the Jewish man, was NOT to see God. For “No Man has seen God” at anytime, and “God is spirit,” and “God is not a man.”

To see God in Jesus with spiritual eyes was to recognize Him as the Messiah and that was the way people could see God because just as God dwells in us, God dwelled in Him while remaining invisible to those without eyes to see.

Then we read in 1st Peter 3:18

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to GOD, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Was He bringing us to Himself and to the two other persons co equal and co eternal or was Jesus bringing us to His God, His Father?

Hebrews 1:6 says something easy to overlook. It reads

“And again, when he (God) bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of GOD worship him.

Notice that the angels of God worshipped this begotten son “when God bringeth THE FIRST BEGOTTEN into the world!”

This strongly underscores the notion that no God the Son was worshipped by the angels before his birth! Only WHEN GOD brought forth the first begotten into the world did the angels worship Him NOT TO MENTION that the reference to Him being “God only begotten can only be assigned to Him after His resurrection! (According to Acts 13:33)

Are your eyes opening to the scripture? Are your ears beginning to hear? Now consider 1st Timothy 3:16 where Paul writes

“And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness: GOD was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”

Now, I understand fully how we can train our minds to read this, and that we can say, “that’s right, God the Son was manifest in the flesh,” or even, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit” were manifest in the flesh, but notice, that is not what the passage says.

In fact, that man-made idea of God the Son or God the Holy Spirit as PERSONS is never ever used in describing “theos.”

Finally, as a sample, consider Colossians 3:1 where Paul writes:

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of . . . GOD.”

All through the AR Jesus is said to be placed, sitting, standing at the right hand of God. Are you tempted to play games with this to explain it or are you willing to read what it says and accept it?

Understand, this is not to deny that Jesus was God with us (as Matthew makes clear) nor is it to deny that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God (which Acts makes clear), but it is to absolutely aimed at trying to get you to see that there is one God, that He is not a compositional God of three persons, and that He was Jesus’s God beginning even to the very end as Revelation proves.

This view is underscored strongly when Paul says in 1st Corinthians 15:28

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

There is one throne in the throne room folks – not two, not three – one. And the God who is all in all sits there according to Paul and John.

We also recall Jesus on the cross calling out to His God and saying,

“My God, My God why have you forsaken me.”

And then after His death and resurrection we remember reading that Jesus says to Mary

John 20:17 “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”

I don’t want to have to do mental gymnastics pushed upon me to ascertain scriptural truths. I want the scripture to speak for themselves NO MATTER WHAT men have concluded and thus Far we can see that Jesus of Nazareth had a God and if Jesus made up His God, we have what I see as an inconsistency in thought.

Finally, relative to Jesus God, And then also Luke writes Luke 4:41

And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of GOD. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was . . . “Christ.”

(Wouldn’t the demons, who are spirit better know the best way to identify Jesus and if so why don’t they ever call him, God the Son?

So from the mouth of Peter, Mary, Martha and every demon Jesus ever cast out or confronted “all of them only and always identified him only as the Son of God and never ever God the Son.

Finally, from Jesus own mouth we read in John 8:42

If GOD were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from GOD; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

The Greek term translated, “CAME FORTH FROM God” exercomahee we get origin of Jesus and the Spirit as both are said to come out from the One God. All glory to Him.

Leaving Jesus God behind . . .

We also see that Paul had a God. We learn a lot about God and His make up from writers like John the Beloved too, and even Peter, but Paul brings some things to the table that are game changers.

Interestingly, who I call, “Paul’s God” does not ever seem to align with the typical Christian construction of the Trinity. I mean EVER.

Instead, in the scripture composed by Paul, His God appears to be a singular entity of Almighty Oneness who rules and reigns benevolently over His creation.

Paul never ever thanks or recognizes God the Spirit, the Holy Spirit or the person of the Spirit in ANY of the invocations or benedictions of his letters – and He only ever refers to God as the Father AND the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

We gain some tremendous insight into Paul’s God when we read in 2nd Timothy 1:3 where he writes

I thank GOD, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

The RSV reads

2Ti 1:3 (RSV) I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers.

In this passage from the King James, when Paul says that he has “served God from his forefathers,” which seems to refer to when he was a devout Pharisaical Jew who followed in line with the strict Hebrew monothesist view of God.

We can match this statement with Acts 24:14 where Paul says

“But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets.”

The point is Paul never changes the focus of his worship or his thoughts about his God when He became a Christian but maintained the views that he held about God as a Jew – which were certainly abd absolutely not Trinitarian.

Do not overlook the fact that he calls the one that He served as a Jew, “GOD” and often in all of His writings he ties this God to the Father alone, always and only referring to Jesus His Son in connection to this God as Lord and/or Savior.

Of course, Paul was converted to Christ on the road to Emmaus – so much so that He was called, taught and trained by Yeshua the Promised Messiah, but even in this He does not ever include Jesus in the naming or make up of the one he consistently called “my God.”

(Beat) Ever.

Later in 1st Timothy 3:16 Paul writes,

“And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness: (and says) “GOD was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”

This description from Paul not only makes great contextual sense but it is in complete harmony with the nature of genuine reasoned sacrifice – that the “very God” was manifest in the flesh of a man who He called His Son, and that in and through this God’s only Human Son God Himself would bring that Son (by His indwelling logos) to a place of unbridled obedience – to the point of His being willing to even offer His own mortal life up!

For me, if the doctrine of the Trinity is true, and there are three separate co-equal, co-eternal persons that make up the one True God, then the person of God the Son is the one who made the sacrifice by both condescending below all things, becoming incarnate, choosing to take on the sins of the world, suffering an incomprehensible death and being raised to the right side of a separate Father figure.

But if it was Paul’s “God Almighty,” meaning His very Word that became flesh and dwelled in the only human son God would ever have, then God truly did “so love the world” when He gave us His only Son to DIE and all glory would and should go to the Father.

This glory would then be immediately followed up with incomprehensible gratitude for Jesus of Nazareth, who, unlike any other human being allowed God in Him to reign over and direct Him to death.

There is no mistake that in the Book of Revelation, John, having the ability to call Jesus anything he wanted at that point in the biblical narrative, writes:

Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called “The Word of GOD.”

I humbly suggest that the doctrine of the Trinity inadvertently ignores this important element of supreme sacrifice on first on the part of the Father by creating a premortal Father/Son/spirit trio where in the end, both God and His only begotten Son lose ground on what they actually sacrificed for the world.

Think of it this way – in the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are separate co-equal and co eternal persons that are apparently in perfect relationship with each other making the ONE God.

In the minds of those who embrace it, the person of God the Father sends ther person of God the Son to earth to condescend below all things, and the person of God the Son takes on flesh and chooses to suffer for the World.

For the person of “God the Father,” who knows all things – there is no mystery as to whether God the Son will succeed.

Wherein lies the sacrifice? And who really made it of the three persons?

Herein lies my dilemma – of the three “persons “ that the doctrine of the Trinity creates and imposes upon us, which of the three persons truly sacrificed?

Not the person of God the Father. And not the person of God the Holy Spirit.

No, the Trinity makes it very apparent that the person of God the Son, sent or not of the Father, was the person who did the sacrificing – both in condescending to each and taking on flesh, but then also in suffering in that flesh incomprehensibly only to then return to the place that he apparently originated from.

In this view the Father merely sent the person of the Son to a world (that they as One God-Being “all loved”) to do the dirty work – especially in light of His apparent omniscience.

In this way, the Son’s offering actually trumps that of the Father because Man has made them co-equal uncreated utterly distinct persons from the start!

But we can’t stop there. We also have our view of God the Son’s sacrificial offering ALSO being summarily diminished in light of Trinitarian doctrine because if we see Jesus of Nazareth as a preincarnate “God the Son” who came from a premortal state (as a co-equal person with the Father and Spirit) most will automatically fail to recognize the totality of the sacrifice that Jesus of Nazareth, born of a woman, born under the law, really made for the world out of love for His Father.

In light of these errors most believers cannot help but see Jesus as “a fully God person,” wandering around in what might for Him have been an uncomfortable suit of flesh but operating strongly by an inner superhero person which enabled Him to avoid sin and do
what we could not do ourselves.

This view directly diminishes the sacrifice of the Lord on our behalf because we compromise His struggles by the rationalization of Him being “God the Son” because He bore otherworldly strengths, capacities and abilities instead of truly being a human being that had God indwelling Him and moving Him toward the arduous choice of selflessness and suffering.

In other words, in making Jesus of Nazareth God the Son, we fail to comprehend the reality that He was truly like us, human flesh, made of a woman who LIKE US chose to submit His will to that which was in Him – the very God.

In this way we see a perfect reflection of what God does in ALL who receive Him by faith!

And from this view of Him we find the template scripture places before every person fitting as we too are born of flesh, born of a woman, but then once born from above and having God indwelling in us (by His Spirit) we too are likewise empowered to become sons and daughters like Jesus was born to be from His conception.

To see Jesus of Nazareth as God’s only HUMAN SON and that this is when God Himself offered Him to the world takes both the offering of the Father and the offering of Jesus and elevates their respective sacrifices up to where they belong! Incomprehensibly selfless, sacrificial and insufferable – which embody the very essence of love.

To see Jesus as a “co-equal, co-eternal God the Son person” diminishes both the Father’s sacrifice of Him to save the world while also diminishing Jesus supreme willingness to totally submit His flesh to the will of the One God in Him!

On this day that people call Christmas we rejoice and celebrate the birth of Jesus but make the mistake in thinking that God the Son was laying in that manger when it was in fact the Word of God indwelling a child that was destined to die for you and I.

In this view, both God our Father, the only True God both Jesus and Paul identify in scripture truly and ultimately sacrificed His ONLY human Son and then His ONLY HUMAN SON truly sacrificed . . . Himself.

Herein is where I rejoice at Christmas, giving all glory to the One God and placing all faith and hope and gratitude on the very Son whom He gave.

This view helps us understand passages that follow like:

Philippians 2:9 Wherefore GOD also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:)

AND

And Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of GOD by faith in Christ Jesus.

Let me end this message today by wrapping colorful scriptural paper around this “gift” God gave to the world in the following passages, praying to God that His spirit will enlighten your hearts as we seek to know Him and His only begotten Son. Consider . . .

2nd Corinthians 1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is GOD;

AND 2nd Corinthians 1:2 Grace be to you and peace from GOD our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

AND
2nd Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be GOD, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the GOD of all comfort;)

1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

And of course this description of Paul’s God where he writes

1st Corinthians 8:6 But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him

And Romans 15:6

That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify GOD, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And

Ro 7:25 I thank GOD through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of GOD; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Or how about the straight up facts –

2nd Corinthians 5:19 where Paul succinctly writes

“To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Or Peters words in Acts 10:38 when he said

“How GOD anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for GOD was with him.

Or Acts 7:55 where Luke writes

“But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of GOD, and Jesus standing on the right hand of GOD.”

Merry Christmas.

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