![]() In (John 10:25) Jesus tells us how the Spirit bears witness: “I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.” (John 10:36) Christ bore witness when he said, “Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest because I said, I am the Son of God?” The Father witnessed that Jesus was the Son of God at his baptism when he spoke from heaven: “This is my beloved Son.” (Matthew 3:17) You have to apply the same logic as you do to 1 John 5:7 as you do with 1 John 5:8.īut how have they borne witness that Jesus is the Son of God? Are the three on earth a Trinity because they are mentioned in the same breath or agree as one? By the same reasoning we would have to conclude that the Father, the Word, and the Spirit are not necessarily a Trinity simply because they bear a united witness in heaven or because they are mentioned at the same time.On the earth there are three–the water, the spirit, and the blood. Ø In heaven, God bears witness to the truth and so do Christ and the Holy Spirit! In heaven there are three avenues of witness–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (See John 17:22.) Not that we might become one human but simply that we might be in perfect harmony, even as he and his Father are in perfect harmony. Ø Jesus explained what this oneness means when he prayed that we all might be one as he and his Father are one. It does not mean that they are one person, one being, or one God. These witnesses are one because they bear a united witness. Ø Why then should we insist that because the spirit bears witness in heaven it must be a separate individual? There are three ways in which witness is borne to the truth in heaven. The water bears witness and the blood bears witness, yet no one would suggest that the water and blood are persons or much less a trinity. Ø In verse 8 we are told that there are “three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, the water, and the blood and that these three agree in one.” That is, they bear a united witness. Whatever interpretation we take from these verses, it must be in harmony with that obvious purpose of his writing. That would most certainly be wresting the scriptures. V Should we take an interpretation of this text which teaches the very opposite of the whole reason he tells us that he is writing the book and all of his books? ![]() V Should we then take an interpretation of this text which teaches the very opposite of the immediate context, as well as the context of the whole book? (John 20:31) But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name. This theme is what we find summarized in John’s Gospel in the following verse: (1 John 5:1) Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. (1 John 4:14, 15) And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. (1 John 4:9) In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. ![]() You cannot read more than a few verses without coming back to the theme that Jesus is the Son of God. The rest of First John, as well as the Gospel of John, bears indisputable proof that Jesus is the Son of God. This testimony is diametrically opposed to the theory of the Trinity doctrine. ![]() The immediate context is clearly speaking of testifying that Jesus is the Son of God. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.” “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
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