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Godhead Questions and Answers

Daniel Scarone

Godhead Questions and Answers- Part 1

Godhead Questions and Answers- Part 2

Pioneers and the Trinity- Part 2

What we were doing in the afternoon is do a kind of Q&A regarding the topic of the Godhead in the Bible.

So today in the morning I received 1 question, but if you have any other for tomorrow, it's going to help me to build up the topics.

Anyhow, I'm going to share some of the questions I already received from several other places in which we were visiting regarding the topic of the Trinity.

There is in this moment 1 critical issue that is affecting the Church.

In the morning we are talking about the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and their position regarding the evolving, I will say, criteria regarding the Trinity or the Godhead.

And in the afternoon, we are going to be working a little bit about question and answers.

And we'll have a couple of pastors today, and I will request Pastor Richardson to do the prayer for us.

We pray in the name of the Father, Father in heaven, We thank You so much for letting us come together today to say Your Word and get questions and answers answered.

And I thank You for each 1 of us that are here today.

So bless us, draw us close to you and each other, and give us the understanding of your Word.

Okay, 1 of the questions that normally comes is regarding the word Trinity.

And today I receive 1 of these questions and the word Trinity was also says used by pagans in the Trinity of Isis, Horace, and Seth.

And what is here is this monogram, the IHS, and in a circle.

By the way, This is not regarding the Trinity.

Normally, this is a supply of the X of Jesus.

And by the way, in the time in which I used to be altar boy, when I was a kid, it was printed by seal in the wafer in the Catholic Mass in those days, you know.

So the meaning was that in the moment that the person is receiving the communion, is receiving the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus in that instant moment of taking it.

So I do have a very serious observation regarding the topic because the Catholicism in general sustains that in the moment in which the priest finish the prayer of the consecration of the warfare, at that moment, that piece, a small piece of bread, stopped being that to begin to be the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus.

That is a transformation in the nature of the wafer.

So we don't believe that, and that is not a normal practice or understanding inside our child.

But all the wafers, they do have this, in seal, you know, it is imprinted very clearly.

So let me explore, and I guess that with 1 of you today, I share 1 view regarding the Trinity.

Somebody made a comment regarding my book and this is in this magazine coming from general conference.

By the way, let me stop here for a moment.

I'm not used to do that, but it's good to do it from time to time.

This magazine, if you are a student, university or so, you might be able to receive it.

And everybody sometimes is interested in receiving something for free, you know?

And He was doing some kind of critique of the book, and he says, this is a book, this is about this book, This is a book about the Trinity, though it is not obvious in the title.

And by the way, it's true, when you go inside the book, you are going to see that we were discussing with Pacific Press about how we are going to call, because my personal preference at the beginning was to use Godhead regarding the topic.

Because it is very clear and neat in the New Testament.

The Apostle Paul is referring to give a name of the entire divinity.

And it's involving all the persons in the divinity, so I've been inclined to.

But when you are writing a book and you are using sometimes the term several times, you need to look for an alternative.

So he says, 2 chapters use the term triunity, common among, and he's bilingual, so he says, English language others.

And like to say, it doesn't refer to us guys who are in the other part of the world.

Such avoidance of the term Trinity owes much to the fact that the oneness of God is so clear in the Bible that some people cringe at the sight of the term that suggests trinits, trinitas in the Latin, they do not need to be worried.

It means that there is something three-like about God, not that God is 3.

By the way, when we use the concept idea of the Trinity we are not believing that in 3 gods we are believing in 1 God.

And I'm going to, if you need, I'm going to give some examples about that.

Can I ask questions thereafter, or can I ask questions during?

If, let me, Lina, could you share this with everybody?

If you have any questions, tomorrow I'm going to take some time also for doing some.

Yes, I am answering this question that I received today in the morning.

No, tomorrow I'm going to answer your question.

I know you understand, but if you don't mind, I'm going to explain anyhow.

I do prefer to get the question in written because I do have a proof of the question.

And having the text as a proof, I'm going to deal with the question in your text.

And I'm working with a program regarding question and answers and sometimes I use it in in that context and so I suppose that you have good question like everybody.

It means that there is something three-like about God.

And in the Bible, you are going to find out that when the Apostle Paul is finishing, for example, the Epistle to the Corinthians, he's talking about 1 God.

And at the end, he says, and mention the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

But when you go to verse 11, and finish in verse 13, you are going to see that he is referring to the same topic.

When we speak about the unity of something, that thing is usually not really 1, the unity of the nation, for example.

The unity of the Church or anything else composed of more than 1 subject, but that in some respects is or should be like 1.

That is part of the problem that I discuss in 1 of the topics that I present in the book.

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