Is it a sin to watch the Super Bowl on the LORD's Day?
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Yet you are bouncing around from a strict seventh-day Sabbatarian to a zeal for the Reformed side. The Reformed Protestants did assimilate much of the erroneous Catholic doctrine. If you shelve some of your zeal, you might just find Christ somewhere in between the extremes you identify with.
While I allow the trinity belief, I still find it an oversimplification. I find all the labels we assign God lacking and limiting and don't use them. So I am not trinity, oneness, or dualism. I just leave the labels off. When someone can explain how the HS is everywhere at once, I might listen to that.
I am with Noose on this topic. I allow that Christ is fully God but a separate being from the Father. While the Holy Spirit is not separate from either the Father or Jesus. In fact, that Spirit is what makes them God and gives them that unity. I feel we can't define the HS with our finite minds and I will not call It/He a person. The good news is we have a seeding of that same Spirit that will lead us to life everlasting. Praise Him, for He is worthy!
While I allow the trinity belief, I still find it an oversimplification. I find all the labels we assign God lacking and limiting and don't use them. So I am not trinity, oneness, or dualism. I just leave the labels off. When someone can explain how the HS is everywhere at once, I might listen to that.
I am with Noose on this topic. I allow that Christ is fully God but a separate being from the Father. While the Holy Spirit is not separate from either the Father or Jesus. In fact, that Spirit is what makes them God and gives them that unity. I feel we can't define the HS with our finite minds and I will not call It/He a person. The good news is we have a seeding of that same Spirit that will lead us to life everlasting. Praise Him, for He is worthy!
My wife and I will be leaving for church soon to praise and worship the Lord and fellowship with other believers and later today, we will be watching the Super Bowl with family and friends. Go Chiefs!
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My wife and I will be leaving for church soon to praise and worship the Lord and fellowship with other believers and later today, we will be watching the Super Bowl with family and friends. Go Chiefs!
AND GUESS WHAT......IT IS MONDAY IN AUSTRALIA so.....contrary to the OP.....I did not watch the game on SUNDAY.....not that it would matter
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You are non-Trinitarian, then, and a polytheist.
The belief in two or more god beings is polytheism.
I would also define it as semi-Arian, or I'm guessing that is what it is. It is a belief that Jesus and the Father are composed of similar substance, but they do not share the same essence.
In other words, homoiousious and not homoousious.
Christianity believes that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the same substance; they are coessential.
All of these "definitions" are necessary because the beliefs of these various groups degrade from a correct understanding of God, which is Scripturally observable.
For instance, John 14-17 teaches that the Holy Spirit is a person who will lead the Christians into truth, and he is like Jesus, being a paraklete, but he is not Jesus. However, he mediates the presence of Jesus in the believer.
By the way, your view is similar to the cult that I was raised in. Their teaching was, in essence, that the Holy Spirit is a force and not a person. They also had an anthropomorphic view of God, viewing him as "composed" of the Holy Spirit, rather than being a spirit. They certainly did not understand concepts like union with Christ because of their poor understanding of God's nature.
When a thing is "composed" of something, that implies the substance comprising it existed before the thing. The Holy Spirit is God and has eternally existed, just like the Father and the Son.
John 14:25-26 25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
(ESV)
Concerning Reformed theology, it is the most biblically accurate view, in my estimation. Perhaps you'd like to identify your affiliation, and I can likely tell you the problems I would have with it. Certainly if you claim that the Father and the Son are two separate beings, I would not hold your views because they are pagan polytheism. There is only one God, which is taught continually throughout the Bible. Also, it is plain that the Holy Spirit is a distinct Person, despite the claims of cultists.
The belief in two or more god beings is polytheism.
I would also define it as semi-Arian, or I'm guessing that is what it is. It is a belief that Jesus and the Father are composed of similar substance, but they do not share the same essence.
In other words, homoiousious and not homoousious.
Christianity believes that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the same substance; they are coessential.
All of these "definitions" are necessary because the beliefs of these various groups degrade from a correct understanding of God, which is Scripturally observable.
For instance, John 14-17 teaches that the Holy Spirit is a person who will lead the Christians into truth, and he is like Jesus, being a paraklete, but he is not Jesus. However, he mediates the presence of Jesus in the believer.
By the way, your view is similar to the cult that I was raised in. Their teaching was, in essence, that the Holy Spirit is a force and not a person. They also had an anthropomorphic view of God, viewing him as "composed" of the Holy Spirit, rather than being a spirit. They certainly did not understand concepts like union with Christ because of their poor understanding of God's nature.
When a thing is "composed" of something, that implies the substance comprising it existed before the thing. The Holy Spirit is God and has eternally existed, just like the Father and the Son.
John 14:25-26 25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
(ESV)
Concerning Reformed theology, it is the most biblically accurate view, in my estimation. Perhaps you'd like to identify your affiliation, and I can likely tell you the problems I would have with it. Certainly if you claim that the Father and the Son are two separate beings, I would not hold your views because they are pagan polytheism. There is only one God, which is taught continually throughout the Bible. Also, it is plain that the Holy Spirit is a distinct Person, despite the claims of cultists.
No, they never did introduce this typology of Christ being the spiritual rest of believers.
I am pretty sure Seventh Day Adventists do understand this typology, but they downplay it, because they would use this as a reason to observe the Sabbath, rather than to depart from it.
However, many Sabbatarians will deny that "Jesus is our Sabbath" because they think that this would lead people to view the typology as being fulfilled, and not applicable.
Funny thing is that Jesus was not exalted by them, and in fact they made fun of Protestant organizations that focused too much on Jesus and not enough on the Father. I don't think that any of the evangelical churches I have been involved with do that, though.
For instance, they would mock how certain groups say the word "Jesus". There was an "evangelist" for the Church who was particularly fond of ridiculing other Christians and their adoration of Christ. At the same time, though, some members didn't care for his attitude, but I am guessing many members thought it was humorous (including me in my earlier, ignorant years).
I am pretty sure Seventh Day Adventists do understand this typology, but they downplay it, because they would use this as a reason to observe the Sabbath, rather than to depart from it.
However, many Sabbatarians will deny that "Jesus is our Sabbath" because they think that this would lead people to view the typology as being fulfilled, and not applicable.
Funny thing is that Jesus was not exalted by them, and in fact they made fun of Protestant organizations that focused too much on Jesus and not enough on the Father. I don't think that any of the evangelical churches I have been involved with do that, though.
For instance, they would mock how certain groups say the word "Jesus". There was an "evangelist" for the Church who was particularly fond of ridiculing other Christians and their adoration of Christ. At the same time, though, some members didn't care for his attitude, but I am guessing many members thought it was humorous (including me in my earlier, ignorant years).
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The Chiefs are Super Bowl champions!!! What a great come back win from behind! BELIEVE!!!
What a great come back win from behind! BELIEVE!!!
I am really happy for the Chiefs!!!
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