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From the book:
GREAT TRAGEDY book, pg
50. Written by Rev. E.Frank |
The Main Criteria
Wherein lies the difference between the correct and the wrong
teaching? How do we
recognise what is being done correctly and what is not? What
do the Holy Scriptures
say on this matter ? We may as well keep our own opinions to
ourselves, as they have
no value in the Kingdom of God.
The statements of faith of the church fathers deviate from the
fundamental scriptural
doctrines. Their religious teachings about Godhead, Baptism
etc. do not agree with the
apostles. Unaware of that fact, the majority remains in the
traditional falsified
Christendom, in spite of the many blessings. That is the
tragic account at the end of
the time of grace. God-sent prophets, apostles and teachers,
for instance, only knew
one true God , not a tri-une one.
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They also did not know a
“Jesus Only”-doctrine. They
knew God in the manifold ways in which He manifested Himself.
The Trinity doctrine
about the three equal persons of God, who are supposed to
exist from eternity, is
unscriptural and a very old heathen concept, that still exists
in Buddhism today.
The development of the New Testament Church has a great
similarity with Israel.
“And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out
of the mount, the
people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto
him, Up, make us gods,
which shall go before us ...” (Ex. 32: 1). He consented and
made a golden calf, because
in Egypt they were worshipping the bull. And then it is also
written, “... and they
said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out
of the land of Egypt.” (v.
4). One must picture the scene: The God of Israel descended on
the mountain, speaking
to Moses, “And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the
Lord thy God, who have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. Thou shalt have no
other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image ...” (Ex. 20:
1-4) — at the same time Aaron, together with the people,
practised well-meant
idolatry and called a calf “god”.
Since our Lord lingered with His promised return, the church
fathers did the same:
They formed and formulated a three-headed, three-shaped God,
according to the
heathen pattern and said, “That is your God, Christianity.”
Whoever touches this
image is being treated as having insulted their Holiest of
Holy. Which is the right
belief then? The Apostle Paul greatly emphasises the correct
doctrine, urging, “... seeing
it is one God ...” (Rom. 3: 30) and also stating, “Now a
mediator is not a mediator of
one, but God is one.” (Gal. 3: 20). In the Holy Scriptures,
not one single time can we
find the term “triune God” or “trinity”, and never “heavenly”
or “eternal Son”. The
God that was “formed” this way is not known in the Old or the
New Testament. He is
completely foreign to the prophets and apostles. Someone with
a clear mind can never
face God’s Word with the belief, that there are three who
reign in heaven and that
these three persons are in agreement and form a trinity. If
there truly was a Trinity in
Heaven, it would be clearly documented in the Bible. Since it
is nowhere to be found
in the Bible, it subsequently cannot exist in Heaven.
Some even exaggerate the whole matter, shouting, “Now we
invite the Holy Trinity!”
The announcer then invites the Father, and all clap their
hands in excitement. Then he
invites the Son, and all are taken up with enthusiasm. Finally,
the Holy Spirit is also
invited into their midst: The whole congregation gives
applause. Does someone
sincerely believe, that there are three eternal, three who are
omnipotent and three who
are omnipresent? Then it is obviously no longer the one and
only God the Bible testifies
about. Three individual persons are three gods, not one God,
for words to make any
sense. Therein we see the great falling away, that was
predicted by the Apostle Paul.
It happened when Christianity left the Jewish ground of
revelation.
In the Old Testament the falling away always signifies the
turning away from the
ONE TRUE GOD to other gods. In the New Testament Church, the
turning away
from the ONE TRUE GOD to a Trinity-Godhead was the beginning
of the “great
falling away”. Paul writes to the Galatians, “I marvel that ye
are so soon removed
from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another
gospel ...” (Gal. 1: 6). In
the same chapter he speaks a curse over those, who preach
another Gospel. Later on he
asks the question, “... who hath bewitched you ...” (3: 1).
All who use the triune formula for baptism have to submit to
the same accusation.
Since the New Testament Church was founded, all believers were baptised in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ, as Peter declared in his first
sermon, under the guidance of
the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2: 38). Many
agree with church
tradition, but not with the Word of God.
The same people, who use the name of Jesus so mightily,
categorically reject to be
baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the way Peter,
Paul and the other
apostles, who heard the commission from the Lord Himself,
commanded and did. But
that alone does not satisfy them: They even declare the true
baptism in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, as documented in the Bible, to be heresy.
And they do so in speeches
and publications. It would be worthwhile to ponder on about
these things. Those who
preach heresy today, insinuate therewith that Peter, who had
the keys to the Kingdom
of Heaven, and Paul, who had Divine authority because of the
direct commission,
were teaching and baptising incorrectly and therefore had
deceived the first believers in
the original Christianity. They themselves do not act
according to the commission our
Lord gave, as the apostles did, they simply repeat Mt. 28: 19
as if it was a magic
formula. Is it not commonly known, what is being done by the
use of these “three high
titles” on the entire old “Christian” continent? Magic spells,
sorcery, spiritism, table
turning, palm reading, fortune telling, every kind of hocus
pocus and occultism are
practised with that formula.
The critical research of the Bible contends, that the text in
Mt. 28: 19 in the earliest,
hand-written manuscripts was as follows, “en to onomati mou” —
“in-to My name ”,
as also the church father Eusebius confirms. According to the
writings of church
historians, the Baptism in the first centuries was
administered in the name of Jesus
Christ. The change came about only after men brought in their
own tri-une ideas. In
some of the translations, like the King James Bible, which is
being read on every
continent, the unbelievable supplement verse is still found in
1 Jn. 5: 7: “For there are
three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and
the Holy Spirit ...” Every
Bible student of the first semester knows, that this verse
does not at all exist in the
original manuscripts. It is also not found in the Hebrew text,
not in the Greek
interlinear nor in the German Luther translation or any other
German Bible edition,
not in the Zurich edition, which dates back to Zwingli, not in
the French one of J. N.
Darby, not in the Lamsa, neither in the many others. It is not
found in the German
Scofield Bible, and the English Scofield carries the footnote,
“It is generally agreed
that this verse has no ms. authority and has been inserted.”
But because of inherited
tradition, it is left there, against better knowledge, and
pastors even preach about it.
The apocryphs also don’t belong into the Bible. As already
previously stated, not only
the Saviour, but also God’s Word fell into men’s hands — what
a tragedy! For some
time now, the doxology has been added to the Lord’s Prayer,
and recently even the
formula, “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy
Ghost” is being recited
after it. The differences in the Bible translations in the
various languages are also
grave in some parts, for instance with the Lord’s prayer. The
original Arameic version
states, “… and lead us that we do not fall into temptation …”
God does not lead us
into temptation (Jas. 1: 13) like we usually pray.
These things have to be said for once, so that the original
Truth will prevail. All brutal
crusades, all witch trials, stakes, the whole inquisition, all
the persecutions, the
murdering of the Jews and other believers were done with the
blessing of the clergy: “In
the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.” Also for
the slaughtering of the
thirty thousand Hugenottes in France, the Trinitarian
“blessing” was given to the
culprits from the pulpits. Up till today, all who enter a
certain order must recite their
vow in the Name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
— even Jews who
join as members in a free-mason’s lodge. All who belonged to
the inner circle of Hitler’s
Waffen-SS (wearing a black uniform and a tattoo on their right
arm, showing on the
buckle of their belts the inscription “Blut und Ehre” = “Blood
and Honour” and on
their caps a scull) had to swear an oath upon “Reich und
Fuehrer” in the Name of God
the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In the course of
church history, millions upon
millions were slaughtered, sometimes tortured in the cruellest
way, under this formula.
Jews who survived Auschwitz told me personally, as I was
visiting the former death
camp, and also testified publicly in TV-interviews on the
“Holocaust Memorial Day”,
that those slaughterers wearing the black uniform were
regularly attending the catholic
mass in the camp chapel. While the smoke of those put to death
in the gas chambers
was ascending to the sky, the incense in the chapel also rose
towards the ceiling and
the prayers were recited in the Name of the Father, Son and
the Holy Ghost.
Whoever is familiar with the international church history, has
knowledge of the fact
that the Trinity idea and the triune formula was first
introduced in the third century
A.D. Polycarp and Ireneus did not know of any debate
concerning Christ. They knew
Christ as the apostles had preached Him. These doctrinal
debates became an issue only
in the Nicene Council (325) and then continued and were
formulated in the Council of
Chalcedon in the year 381. Their general validity as church
doctrine was first
proclaimed in the year 441 by Pope Leo I!
Whether there were 50 or even 60 millions, who died the
martyr’s death by the Trinity
mother church, the writers of history cannot agree on. But it
is well known, that the
ultimatum given to those, who believed differently and
especially to the Jews, who
were denounced as “murderers of Christ and rejected by God”,
was that they had to
accept the faith in the triune God and be baptised in the
triune baptism. Especially for
any orthodox Jew this was not an option, for it meant the
price of his soul, because
thereby he would have overstepped the first and most holy
commandment God Himself
had given, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord!” (Dt.
6: 4). The souls of
these martyrs call for revenge, according to Rev. 6: 9-10.
“And when he had opened the
fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were
slain for the word of God,
and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a
loud voice, saying, How
long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that
dwell on the earth?” Now we need to ask who this institution
is, that shall be called
upon by God to give account. Who could be meant with the
following Scripture
references,
“For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets ...” (Rev.
16: 6).
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and
with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus ...” (Rev. 17: 6).
“And the woman whom thou sawest is that great city, which
reigneth over the kings of
the earth.” (Rev. 17: 18).
“And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints,
and of all that were slain
upon the earth.” (Rev. 18: 24).
The hour of truth has come. Everything — all teachings, all
practices, the entire belief,
all must be examined in the light of the Word. From now on,
you have knowledge
about this complex theme. Can anybody escape the final
judgement without being held
accountable? Must we not ask ourselves, whether we belong
spiritually and
doctrinally to the blood-bought Church of Christ, the Church
of the first-born (Heb. 12:
22-23), or to the blood-stained church, which is referred to
as mother in reference to
daughter churches and is called “Mystery Babylon, the Great” (Rev.
17: 1-6)? Everyone
can now recognise, where he or she stands.
Since the spiritual breakthrough of the Reformation, the Lord
calls His people step by
step back out of all that is unscriptural, until His Church is
completely restored to the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being
the chief corner stone
(Eph. 2: 20).
Preachers, brethren, do you not realise where the journey of
mainstream Christianity is
leading to? Some of you have established Bible seminars, you
are teaching others, but
do you accept God’s teachings yourself? Do you not recognise,
that the one true God
has revealed Himself for our Salvation in the New Testament,
as our Father in
Heaven, in the Son on Earth and in His Church by the Holy
Spirit? This has happened
in the one, unique New Testament covenant name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, in Whom
alone is all Divine Salvation, into which believers are baptised.
In the Old Testament, nobody prayed to a “Father in Heaven”,
but to the Lord GOD.
This terminology is found therein 6,700 times. No prophet has
ever known anything
about or has called unto an “eternal Son in Heaven”. That is
the new
incomprehensible, unexplainable mystery, which was predicted
and promised in the Old
Testament: it is the revelation of God in Christ (2 Cor. 4: 6;
Col. 2: 2-3; 1 Tim. 3: 16 a.
o.). Whoever does not have this revelation, will misunderstand,
misinterpret and
misplace the Word. The Name (singular) of the Father, Son and
Holy Ghost, into
which we were commissioned to baptise, is indeed the Lord
Jesus Christ. The Hebrew
word Yashua means “Yahweh-Saviour”, as Immanuel means “God
with us”. The
Lord/Yahweh of the Old Testament is the Lord Jesus in the New
Testament. That is
the Divine Truth. The name of the Father is also the name of
the Son (Ps. 22: 23), in
Whom He has manifested Himself. All preachers, evangelists,
charismatic personalities
and all believers are herewith challenged to admit that in the
apostolic days and in the
following 200 years no scriptural act or prayer was ever done
in a triune formula.
Peter, the man of the first hour, obeyed precisely what the
risen Lord had commissioned
His disciples to do, “... teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have
commanded you ...” (Mt. 28: 20). For forty days after the
resurrection, our Lord spoke
to His disciples about the Kingdom of God, He taught them
personally (Acts 1: 1-3). It
was then, that He gave the great commission, which was carried
out precisely. The
teaching of Christ was and still is God’s teaching. “Jesus
answered them, and said,
My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will
do his will, he shall
know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak
of myself.” (Jn. 7:
16-17). And the teaching of the apostles was the teaching of
Christ. “Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath
not God. He that abideth
in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the
Son. If there come any unto
you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your
house, neither bid him
Godspeed; for he that biddeth him Godspeed is partaker of his
evil deeds.” (2 Jn. 9-11).
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