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返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 Read in English 下一篇 破解十五个拒绝安息日的理由(下) 10. 安息日已被废除了吗？ 第十，安息日是不是已经被废除了？其实，之前我们已经研究过了十条诫命的律法并没有被废除，也不可能被废除。今天我们就要更详细地来探讨安息日是否被废除这一点，特别是搞清楚几段经常被人误解和误用来支持这个假道理的经文。 有许多基督徒相信歌罗西书 2：16，加拉太书 4:10 和 罗马书 14：5 所指的是第七日安息日，也有很多人相信歌罗西书 2：16所指的是十诫，而不是仪文律法。 这些人滥用了这些经文来证明安息日已经被废除。其实，事实是完全相反的。在进入这些经文之前，我们先来简单地谈一谈十条诫命的道德律法和摩西的仪文律法之间的关系。 在上一期我们已经分析过了这两者之间的区别，所以今天我们只稍微谈一谈。当有人犯罪，表示他违背了十诫的道德律法，因为违背律法就是罪。 因此，他必须根据仪文律法来献祭，使他的罪得赦。所以仪文律法提供了献祭的制度，即赎罪的方法。 当以色列人民犯罪时，他们即违背了道德律法。为了获得宽恕，他们必须遵守仪文律法。所以这两套律法是截然不同的。最大的区别就是，仪文律法在耶稣基督被钉的时候就宣告结束了，因为上帝的羔羊耶稣就是古代献祭制度的羔羊所代表的。 但是十条诫命的道德律法是永恒的，是不会改变或结束的。而且仪文律法只给以色列人或犹太人遵守，但上帝的十条诫命是给全人类的，是适用于所有人的。那好，现在我们来看歌罗西书 2：16。 歌罗西书 2：16 所以不拘在饮食上，或节期、月朔、安息日，都不可让人论断你们。 这些反对安息日的人，他们的论点是第四条诫命在十字架上已经从十诫中删除，因为他们误解了第14节所说的话。让我们来看看这一节。 歌罗西书 2：14 14又涂抹了在律例上所写攻击我们有碍于我们的字据，把它撤去，钉在十字架上。 事实上，第14节所说在十字架上被除去的律例并非十条诫命的道德律法，而是摩西的仪文律法。这就是为什么保罗在两节之后说了这段话。 歌罗西书 2：16 所以不拘在饮食上，或节期、月朔、安息日，都不可让人论断你们。 这里他所提到的都是与摩西的仪文律法有关的，而并非十条诫命。我们只要对照英文圣经就一目了然了。第14节的律例在钦定本是读 ordinances。 歌罗西书 2：14 14又涂抹了在律例上所写攻击我们有碍于我们的字据，把它撤去，钉在十字架上。 Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 再看路加福音如何明显地区分commandments，即诫命和ordinances，即礼仪。 路加福音 1：6 他们二人在上帝面前都是义人，遵行主的一切诫命礼仪，没有可指摘的。 Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 希伯来书 9:1也解释说，仪文律法中的礼仪ordinances现在已经消失成为过去了，只剩下十诫永远坚定不移。 希伯来书 9：1 原来前约有礼拜的条例和属世界的圣幕。 Hebrews 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 各位弟兄姐妹，我们必须搞清楚，钉在十架上的是仪文律法的礼仪，但十条诫命律法的一点一画都不能废去。 十条诫命与仪文律法之间的主要区别在于，诫命是由上帝的指头所写的，它刻在石版上，然后放在约柜里面。它是爱的标志，是永恒的，是赐给每一个人的，违背它就是犯罪。 仪文律法是摩西的手写的，写在书卷上，是放在约柜旁边而不是里面的。它不是爱的标志，也不是永恒的，单单为犹太人而设立的，它是因为罪才设立的。 在那个星期五下午，当真正的逾越节羔羊垂头断气时，基督就为我们献上了伟大而完美的祭物。当他呼喊“成了”时，那给人类指向祂的牺牲的古老仪文律法就此被钉在了十字架上。 所以歌罗西书所论到的安息日明显不是指每周第七日的安息日，而是指犹太人年度节期的安息日。比如说逾越节、五旬节、赎罪日、住棚节等等。看到第17节时，这就变得更加明显了。 歌罗西书 2：17 这些原是后事的影儿，那形体却是基督。 这些年度安息日和整个献祭制度都是后事的影儿，给世人指出基督和祂的牺牲来。所以这明显不是论到第四条诫命的安息日，因为那不是任何后事的影儿，而是永不改变的律法，和上帝与人立约的标记。 我们还有一个更强的证据来支持这个道理，就是圣经的另一节与歌罗西书 2：16相似的经文，证明当中的内容是否如我刚才所说的那样，那就是以西结书 45：17 。 你肯定发现以西结书的这段经文论到的是赎罪祭，为以色列家赎罪，因为他们违背了上帝的十诫律法。这就是他们犯了罪之后所要做的。 那好，现在我们来看这两段几乎同样的经文来作个对照。 歌罗西书 2：16 所以不拘在饮食上，或节期、月朔、安息日，都不可让人论断你们。 以西结书 45：17 王的本分，是在节期、月朔、安息日，就是以色列家一切的节期，奉上燔祭、素祭、奠祭。他要预备赎罪祭、素祭、燔祭和平安祭，为以色列家赎罪。” 我把一些重点放进下面的列表中，方便我们对照。 歌罗西书 2：16 以西结书 45：17 饮食 素祭、奠祭 节期 节期 月朔 月朔 安息日 安息日 真相非常清楚了吧，所以大家不要再误解和滥用歌罗西书 2：16来证明第四条诫命的安息日已被废除或不需要遵守了。现在上帝的子民不需要守的是仪文律法包括犹太人的节期。 这就是为什么保罗说了以下这段话。 加拉太书 4：9-10 9 现在你们既然认识上帝，更可说是被上帝所认识的，怎么还要归回那懦弱无用的小学，情愿再给他作奴仆呢？10 你们谨守日子、月份、节期、年份。 保罗的意思不是让我们无视圣经所有相关的日子、月份、节期和年份，而是特别指着一件事而言，那就是包含所有节期的仪文律法。 现在我们来简单地概括一下另一段具争议性的经文，就是罗马书 14：5。 罗马书 14：5 有人看这日比那日强，有人看日日都是一样；只是各人心里要确信不疑。 有人就拿这节经文来狡辩说，我们个人守自己认为正确的日子就行了，何必争论哪一日才是安息日呢？在我们探讨这种论调之前，我们先看完其上下文，以便更了解经文的语境和背景。 罗马书 14：1-5 1 信心软弱的，你们要接纳，但不要辩论所疑惑的事。2 有人信凡物都可吃；但那软弱的，只吃蔬菜。3 吃的人不可轻看不吃的人；不吃的人不可论断吃的人，因为神已经接纳他了。4 你是谁，竟论断别人的仆人呢？他或站住，或跌倒，自有他的主人在；而且他也必要站住，因为上帝能使他站住。5 有人看这日比那日强，有人看日日都是一样；只是各人心里要确信不疑。 首先，我想提出一个明显的事实，就是说，这段经文不曾出现过安息日一词，就连整章都找不到。所以我们可以假定说保罗必定是指着安息日而言吗？绝对不可以。 这是带着偏见来解读圣经。有心人就是故意寻找这些模棱两可，含糊不清的经文来支持他们的假道理，却拿不出任何确凿的证据来推翻安息日的真理。 看看这段经文的开头就有提到： 罗马书 14：1 信心软弱的，你们要接纳，但不要辩论所疑惑的事。 这里他所讨论的是疑惑的事，而不是上帝的十条诫命。上帝神圣的十诫是极其珍贵的，是无比清楚的，是上帝亲手写下的。 事实上，从罗马书14和15章就可以清楚地看出，犹太人和外邦人之间存在着许多与某些习俗相关的误解。这些习俗被一些人看作神圣，却被另一些人所忽视。所以当时备受争议的话题都是围绕着吃肉和守特定日子转的。 他所提到的日子不是十诫的安息日，而是仪文律法的特定节期。犹太人非常注重摩西的律法，所以他们特别谨慎避免吃某些肉，即祭拜过偶像的肉，并且严格遵守节期，但刚归入基督的外邦人就没有重视这些礼仪或规条。 而且不难看出，他们之间充满着无情的指责和论断，并且没有爱弟兄的心和宽容的心。于是保罗鼓励他们，劝他们不要因这些分歧而影响爱上帝的心，也不要叫信心软弱的人跌倒。 虽然保罗没有详细地指出他在这里所论到的肉和守的日子是指什么，但是根据当时的文化背景和保罗其他的著作，我们不难看出他所指的是吃祭偶像之肉和犹太人的禁食日和节期圣日等。 比如说，保罗在哥林多前书 8：4谈到吃祭偶像之肉，并且同样提醒他们不要叫信心软弱的人跌倒。 哥林多前书 8：4 论到吃祭偶像之物，我们知道偶像在世上算不得什么；也知道上帝只有一位，再没有别的上帝。 再看第9-13节。 哥林多前书 8：9-13 9 只是你们要谨慎，恐怕你们这自由竟成了那软弱人的绊脚石。10 若有人见你这有知识的在偶像的庙里坐席，这人的良心若是软弱，岂不放胆去吃那祭偶像之物吗？11 因此，基督为他死的那软弱弟兄，也就因你的知识沉沦了。12 你们这样得罪弟兄们，伤了他们软弱的良心，就是得罪基督。13 所以，食物若叫我弟兄跌倒，我就永远不吃肉，免得叫我弟兄跌倒了。 这里的内容与罗马书的经文非常吻合，显然所提到的肉就是祭偶像的肉。 话说回来，完全没有证据指明罗马书或哥林多前书所论到的信心强大或软弱的人之课题与第七日安息日有任何关联，也不可能扯上十条诫命的道德律法。 上帝不曾说过：“你们有一些人也许看安息日比其他日子强，有些人则看星期日比其他日子强，，或看另一日比较强，甚至是看每一日都一样强，只是各人心里要确信不疑，自己选定自己所看好的日子就够了。” 朋友，上帝并没有交代我们可以随意挑选任何一日作为安息日。祂吩咐我们的是：“当纪念安息日，守为圣日。第七日是向耶和华你上帝当守的安息日。” 如果我们对耶和华上帝的安息日和仪文律法的节期安息日之间还存有什么疑惑不解的话，下面的列表应该可以清楚地为我们除去这些误解。 耶和华的安息日 节期安息日 1 为上帝亲口所说。出埃及记 20：1-22 为摩西所说。出埃及记 24：3 2 为上帝指头所写。出埃及记 31：18 为摩西所写。出埃及记 24：4 3 刻在石版上。出埃及记 31：18 写在书上。出埃及记 24：4 4 存放在约柜中。申命记 10：5 存放在约柜旁。申命记 31：26 5 违犯安息日就是罪。约翰一书 3：4 因为有罪而需要遵守。（见利未记） 6 是爱的诫命。马太福音 22：35-40；以赛亚书 58：13-14 不是爱。歌罗西书 2：14；加拉太书 4：9-10 7 使人自由之律法。雅各书 1：25 （参阅雅各书 2：12） 奴仆的轭。加拉太书 5：1；4：3, 9（看使徒行传 15：10） 8 在人类犯罪之前就设立了。创世纪 2：1-3 犯罪之后才设立。出埃及记 20：24 9 在创世时设立的。创世纪 2：1-3 西奈山之后设立的。出埃及记 20：24 10 给全人类的。马可福音 2：27 单单给以色列民。（旧约圣经） 11 上帝称之为“我的安息日”。出埃及记 31：13；以西结书 20：20 上帝称之为“她［耶路撒冷］的安息日”。何西阿书 2：11；耶利米哀歌 1：7［钦定本］ 12 是永恒的。出埃及记 31：16-17；以赛亚书 66：22-23 在十字架上废除了。歌罗西书 2：14；以弗所书 2：15 希望大家已经清楚明白了这两类安息日的区别。他们是完全不同的，所以我们不能把他们混为一谈，而且我们也必须搞清楚圣经中一些经常被人误解的经文到底是指着哪一类安息日而言。 我们也必须知道以下几个事项。 事项 -我们的耶和华父上帝是全知的上帝。 -祂是满有智慧的上帝。 -上帝就是爱。 -祂的十条诫命或道德律法是爱的律法。 -反之，节期安息日是因人犯了罪才必须遵守的，它并不是爱的标志。 -耶和华的安息日是给我们与创造主上帝共度美好时光之爱的诫命。 那么我们就必须问问自己以下这些问题。 问题 -如果安息日不是永恒的，那为什么我们全知的上帝将祂的安息日放在祂永恒的律法之中呢？ -如果安息日不是爱的律法，那为什么无穷智慧的上帝把祂的安息日放在爱的律法之中？ -如果安息日在十字架上也跟着废除了，那为什么上帝不把祂的安息日和仪文律法的节期安息日放在一起呢？ -如果上帝的安息日是单为犹太人设立的，那为什么上帝不把祂的安息日和犹太人的节期安息日放在一起呢？ 事实上，上帝并没有把祂的安息日与节期安息日放在一起，原因就是因为两者是完全不同的两码事，因为祂永恒的安息日和在十字架上结束的节期安息日简直是天差地别。 节期安息日是单给犹太人守的，而上帝的安息日则是给全人类守的。我们的上帝不是混乱的上帝，祂的所作所为就已经显明了一切，在祂里头并没有矛盾和不一致的元素。 所以我们不能再颠倒是非黑白，把上帝的真理变成谬论，却把撒但的谬论变成真理。 11. 我们不是在律法之下，而是在恩典之下，因此就不必守律法了吗？ 来到了第11点，我们不是在律法之下，而是在恩典之下，因此就不必守律法了吗？ 我相信大家对这种说法不会感到陌生。我也听过不少这样的说法。有些人试图贬低上帝的律法，为了寻找借口以便可以不用守安息日，就说：“我们既然不是在律法之下，而是活在恩典之下，那么我们自然就不必再遵守十条诫命了。 这是一个合理的说法吗？圣经确实说过，我们不是在律法之下，但这是否表示我们就不需要遵守律法了呢？不在律法之下意味着什么呢？我们先来看一段相关的经文。 罗马书 6：14 罪必不能作你们的主，因你们不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。 没错，我们是在恩典之下，而不是在律法之下。所以呢？然后怎么样？人们普遍的观念就是，我们不是在律法之下，而是在恩典之下，所以我们就可以不遵守律法了。 说直白一点，我们可以随意违背律法犯罪了。这真的是保罗的教导吗？我们让他自己来回答，为他自己所说的话做进一步的解释，免得有人误解。 罗马书 6：15 这却怎么样呢？我们在恩典之下，不在律法之下，就可以犯罪吗？断乎不可！ 这也太清楚了，他用最强烈的言词说道，活在恩典之下并没有给我们随意违背律法的犯罪许可证。然而这正是今天数百万人所相信的，他们完全无视保罗的具体警告。 他们只取了保罗的上半段话语，再加上自己扭曲经文的解释，然后避开下一节不看。他们并不是诚心想了解上帝藉着保罗所说的话，而是想断章取义来支持自己的教导。 大多数人都没有意识到和真正明白上帝的恩典。上帝的恩典是我们不配得的恩惠，是在我们犯了罪而还没有真正悔改之前所赐下给我们的宽容。如果没有律法的话，实际上就没有罪人可言了，而我们也就不需要上帝的恩典了。 打个比方，有个罪犯因违背了国家法律而被判死刑。这个等待被处决的罪犯可以说在任何意义上都是处于律法之下的，即处在罪恶感中，在法律之下被定罪，被绑在死刑之下等等。 然而，就在他被处决之前的前一刻，州长审查了被处死的人之案件，并决定赦免他的罪。在特殊的情况之下，州长行使他的特权，对死囚进行全面宽赦。现在他不再是处于律法之下，而是处于恩典之下了。 法律不再定他过去所犯的罪。现今在法律的面前，他被视为完全无辜的自由人。他可以大摇大摆地走出监狱，也没有警察可以对他下手。 但现在他已经是在恩典之下，而不再处于法律之下了，因此，今后他可以自由地违犯律法了吗？当然不可以！这是非常简单的道理。 事实上，他有双重义务去遵守法律，因为他从州长得到了恩典，使得他过去所犯的罪得以赦免。在感激之下，他会非常小心地遵守给予他恩典的国家法律。 这不就是圣经所说关于被宽赦的罪人吗？这不就是我们活在恩典之下的意义吗？我们再来看一段保罗所写的话，以清晰地解决我们眼前的问题。 罗马书 3：31 这样，我们因信废了律法吗？断乎不是！更是坚固律法。 感谢天父，这节经文已经给了我们十分清楚的答案。保罗自问自答地说：“我们是否因信基督的救赎恩典而使律法无效了呢？” 他接着回答说：“不但没有，反而律法在一个蒙恩得救的基督徒生活中更得到确立和加强。” 事实如此简单明了，根本不需要重复，但是那些试图避免顺从律法之人的狡猾推理使得我们有必要进一步地强调这一点。 我再分享一个例子，好让大家看清事实。你有没有曾经因为超速而被交警拦截？这是一种令人尴尬的局面，尤其是当你知道自己已经违规的时候。 假设这位警员大发慈悲，把原来要给你开的罚单撕掉，再给你一次改过的机会。他就会说：“好吧，这次我放过你，但是。。。” 朋友，你认为他所说的“但是”一词是什么意思呢？他的意思肯定是说：“但是你以后就不要再超速了。” 这次的宽恕或恩典是否给了我们不必守律法的许可证呢？ 肯定不是这样。相反的，它还加强了您的决心，叫自己以后不再干犯律法。为什么基督徒硬要不断试图合理化自己不遵守上帝律法的行为呢？ 为什么那么多人完全曲解了活在恩典之下的意义呢？可见仇敌所进行的工作非常成功。然而，最后得胜的一方将会是属于上帝的一方。 我强调，活在恩典之下的人因接受了耶稣救赎的恩典而不受律法的定罪和制裁，但接受了耶稣不代表他从此就可以随意违背律法了，而是更应当遵守律法，行上帝眼中看为正的事。 撒但的谬论虽然荒谬无理，但却极具迷惑性，大家务必要小心谨慎，免得掉进他的陷阱中去。 12. 耶稣是否违犯了安息日？ 我们要探讨的下一个论点就是，耶稣是否违犯了安息日，因此我们也不需要遵守安息日了呢？ 大家不晓得有没有听过这样的说法，就是说耶稣本身都干犯安息日，所以这证明守安息日不是十条诫命的一条，而是属于摩西的仪文律法。 但是这种说法太过牵强了。首先，安息日不是因为人类犯罪才变得有必要遵守的，它在人类犯罪之前就已经被设立了的。 我们在上一期已经谈过十诫的安息日和仪文律法的节期安息日，两者是完全不同的两码事，所以大家不要把它们混淆。 再说，反安息日的人宣称耶稣违犯安息日的事是在祂被钉十字架而结束仪文律法之前发生的。这种说法根本就是无中生有。大家必须记住，约翰一书 3：4说： 约翰一书 3：4 凡犯罪的，就是违背律法；违背律法，就是罪。 既然安息日是律法中的第四条诫命，那么如果耶稣真的违犯安息日的话，那祂就是违犯律法而犯罪了，这样的话，祂就不能成为无罪圣洁的羔羊了。我们也就没有救赎主了。 因此这些宣称耶稣违犯安息日的人显然不知道他们所指控的是什么含义。他们没有仔细思考自己所发表的声明有何意义，就仅仅是为了找个借口来让自己不必遵守安息日罢了。 所以他们就找到了这个非常方便的借口，说耶稣自己也没有守安息日，所以我们身为耶稣的跟从者也自然不需要遵守了。 感恩的是，耶稣并没有违犯安息日，祂只是违犯了法利赛人自定的规则。十诫的两块石版是耶稣亲自颁布给摩西的，但这不代表祂自己就得豁免可以随意杀人或违背十诫中的任何一条。 正如我刚才所说的，若作为一个罪人，耶稣就不能成为完美的赎罪祭了。这项争议的事主要是记载在约翰福音，我们待会儿就会查考一下。 请大家注意，约翰在这节经文中所引用的是法利赛人的话，而不是他个人的观点。我们很快就会看到这方面的证据。 我先说一说，这就是为什么耶稣在马太福音 5：20说了以下这段话。 马太福音 5：20 我告诉你们：你们的义若不胜于文士和法利赛人的义，断不能进天国。” 这些文士和法利赛人也同样将耶稣钉死在十字架上。你认为我们应该听谁的话呢？耶稣的话还是法利赛人的话？现在我们来看一则相关的圣经故事。 约翰福音 5：5-18 5 在那里有一个人，病了三十八年。6 耶稣看见他躺着，知道他病了许久，就问他说：“你要痊愈吗？”7 病人回答说：“先生，水动的时候，没有人把我放在池子里；我正去的时候，就有别人比我先下去。”8 耶稣对他说：“起来，拿你的褥子走吧！”9 那人立刻痊愈，就拿起褥子来走了。 10 那天是安息日，所以犹太人对那医好的人说：“今天是安息日，你拿褥子是不可的。”11 他却回答说：“那使我痊愈的对我说，‘拿你的褥子走吧！’”12 他们问他说：“对你说‘拿褥子走’的是什么人？”13 那医好的人不知道是谁，因为那里的人多，耶稣已经躲开了。14 后来耶稣在殿里遇见他，对他说：“你已经痊愈了，不要再犯罪，恐怕你遭遇的更加厉害。”15 那人就去告诉犹太人，使他痊愈的是耶稣。16 所以犹太人逼迫耶稣，因为他在安息日作了这事。17 耶稣就对他们说：“我父作事直到如今，我也作事。”18 所以犹太人越发想要杀他，因他不但犯了安息日，并且称上帝为他的父，将自己和上帝当作平等。 其实耶稣并没有违犯安息日，在安息日治病和行善是没有错的。只是法利赛人想根据自己的规条来寻找耶稣的错处。另外我们还注意到，法利赛人指责耶稣亵渎上帝，因为祂称自己与天父平等。 那么法利赛人的指控是否正确呢？肯定不正确。他们这项指控不比他们对耶稣违犯安息日的指控来得更正确。 在马太福音中，我们有另一则关于耶稣医治病人的记载，法利赛人再次指控他违犯了安息日。然而，这一次我们有耶稣的话来确定在安息日做善事或绝对必要的事情是否符合上帝的律法。 马太福音 12：10-12 10 那里有一个人枯干了一只手。有人问耶稣说：“安息日治病，可以不可以？”意思是要控告他。11 耶稣说：“你们中间谁有一只羊，当安息日掉在坑里，不把它抓住拉上来呢？12 人比羊何等贵重呢！所以，在安息日作善事是可以的。” 反安息日的人为什么引用法利赛人的话，却忽略了他们自己救主的话呢？他们为什么会相信法利赛人而不相信耶稣基督呢？他们为什么引用约翰福音 5:5-18 却从未提及马太福音 12:10-12的话，说在安息日医治和行善是不违法的呢？ 感恩的是，耶稣并没有犯罪，祂没有违犯任何一条诫命，包括第四条诫命的安息日，正如祂在经文中所阐明的那样，例如治病和救自己的牲畜等等。那些伪基督徒的指控是虚无的，他们的论点也没有任何证据予以支持。 耶稣说了很多遍，祂已经遵守了祂父的诫命。所以请不要扭曲祂的言行。 13. 安息日在新约之下吗？ 我们要讨论的下一个问题就是，安息日是不是在新约之下呢？很多人说，我们现在是活在新约之下，但是安息日和整套律法都是属于旧约的，已经过时了。当我们谈到安息日时，他们甚至激动地说：“你们为什么要把我们带回到旧约之下去呢？我们现在是在新约之下了，已经不必守律法了。” 有些人甚至说，安息日在新约时代下已经从第七日变成了第一日。但是耶稣曾说过，祂来不是要修改律法。上帝的十条律法是永不改变的。我们在上几期视频中已经多次清楚地奠定了这些真理了。 上帝是永不改变的。上帝的律法既是祂旨意的启示，又是祂品德的写真，也就必定存到永远。只要上帝还活着，祂的律法就不会更改或废掉。 上帝与祂的子民所立的新约并不是除去律法，而是将律法写在我们的心上，使我们更加遵守祂的诫命。 希伯来书 8:8-10 8 所以主指责他的百姓说（或作“所以主指前约的缺欠说”）： “日子将到，我要与以色列家和犹大家另立新约，9 不像我拉着他们祖宗的手领他们出埃及的时候，与他们所立的约，因为他们不恒心守我的约，我也不理他们。这是主说的。”10 主又说：“那些日子以后，我与以色列家所立的约乃是这样：我要将我的律法放在他们里面，写在他们心上；我要作他们的上帝，他们要作我的子民。 当你得知在新约圣经的写作期间，整个基督教界都在遵守第七日安息日时，你会感到惊讶吗？然而，有些基督徒错误地声称新约中不存在安息日的诫命，因此不需要再遵守了。 这种逻辑是有致命缺陷的，因为它没有任何明确经文予以支持。任何在旧约和新约之间发生变化的重大事件都清楚地记载在圣经中。如果它是关于上帝的诫命，那么我们需要的就是一个明确无误且极为清楚的指示，告诉我们安息日已被废除或转移到星期日了。 这么重大的事件必须要有确凿的证据予以证明才是，不能任凭你一张嘴说了算，否则的话就不是出于上帝而是从撒但而来的谬论。 我还发现许多基督徒都有这样的心态，即一切都在新约中重新开始。但是同样的，这与事实也相去甚远。是最初的圣经译者而不是上帝将圣经分成两部约，因此除了我们被特别告知的事之外，一切都绝对是从旧约开始一直延续到新约，就如一本未被分割的书一样。 因此，人们不能藉着在新约里寻找，看这诫命是否有被重复宣告，来决定它是否依然有效，而是应该寻找一条明确无误的指示，说明它已经被修改或废除了。 我们的上帝不会以假设来做事的，尤其是像祂的道德律法这样重要的事上，比如祂的安息日。如果上帝的诫命有所变更，那么圣经就会向我们大声疾呼这项消息。 他们假设说，虽然新约没有提到律法已被废除，但是也没有像旧约那样清楚地宣告十条诫命，那么它可能或也许已经被废除了吧。这是无中生有，极其幼稚的想法。这等人没有把信仰建立在经上记着说或耶和华如此说，而是建立在自己的思想上。 有些人还声称，摩西在出埃及记 20 章中首次领受十诫之后，安息日的诫命才开始存在的，因为在此之前没有论到诫命被赐给人的书面记录。这很肯定是一种非常错误的观念。 在出埃及记 16 章中，我们发现上帝在测试以色列，看他们是否会按照祂的诫命在第七天遵守他的安息日。当他们没有这样做时，上帝便指责他们不顺从祂的诫命和律法。 但是，如果在出埃及记 20 章之前从未揭晓诫命的话，他们又怎么会违犯安息日和所有其他诫命呢？圣经也许没有书面记录，但有不可否认的证据表明，他们已经认识并遵守了这些诫命。 该隐和亚伯呢？我们发现上帝在创世记 4:3-7 中对该隐生气，因为他从地里带来了象征因行为称义的祭物，但亚伯带来了头生的羔羊作为赎罪祭，象征因信称义。 要有赎罪祭，就必须有律法。上帝也在第 7 节对该隐说，罪就伏fu2在门口。 约翰一书 3：4告诉我们： 约翰一书 3：4 凡犯罪的，就是违背律法；违背律法，就是罪。 违背了律法就是犯罪，因此才需要献祭。罗马书也叙述了同一个道理。 罗马书 4：15 因为律法是惹动忿怒的（或作“叫人受刑的”），哪里没有律法，那里就没有过犯。 没有律法的话，就没有犯罪，也就不需要赎罪祭了。所以摩西领十诫之前没有十诫的说法是错误的。 尽管十条诫命尚未被写下来，但它们是一直都存在的，而且自从创世以来上帝就已晓瑜了人类的始祖，否则该隐就不会犯谋杀罪了。 那么亚伯拉罕呢？如果在创世记或出埃及记 20 章之前没有给出诫命或律法，那么当上帝在创世记 26:5中说，亚伯拉罕遵守祂的诫命、律例和法度时，究竟是什么诫命呢？ 因此，即使没有任何诫命或律法的书面记录，我们也知道它们是早已存在的，因为有人认识和遵守诫命的证据。同样的情况也存在于新约关于安息日的议题上，一会我们就来看看几个证据。 其实新约充满了信徒们遵守诫命，包括遵守安息日的证据，也一再教导人必须遵守，只是很多人视而不见，不愿意放下偏见来接受事实。 大家必须明白，新约没有以完全相同的字句来记载第四条诫命，这项事实不代表这教导或概念不存在。比如说，新约圣经也没有记载：“除了我以外，你不可有别的神”这句话，即第一条诫命。但是这项事实不代表这条诫命已经被废掉了。 只是作者用了不同的方式和字眼来表达同一个概念，例如：“当拜主你的上帝，单要侍奉他。” 相信大家都明白这一点。安息日的诫命也是一样。事实上，新约圣经里仅仅提到信徒在安息日聚会或敬拜，却从不曾提过有任何信徒在星期日敬拜，因为那是异教拜太阳神的日子，所以不可能为上帝的子民所接受。 我们今天就来探讨几个守安息日的新约证据。 守安息日的新约证据（一） 第一个证据，耶稣在地上与门徒同在的最后一段时间里，祂给他们发出了一道警告，说耶路撒冷城和殿都要遭受毁灭，并嘱咐他们必须在看到预兆时就往山上逃跑，免得一同遭殃。大家可参阅马太福音24章。 我想专注的重点就是耶稣在论到逃难时所说的其中一段话。 马太福音 24：20 你们应当祈求，叫你们逃走的时候，不遇见冬天或是安息日。 明显地，信徒们在耶稣被钉十字架之后还是必须遵守安息日的，没有人能说安息日不存在于新约之下。 有些人却狡辩说，耶稣上述的一番话是对犹太人说的，与其他人无关。这实在是离谱。首先，这里根本就没有这么说，耶稣也没有这样的意思。再说了，这段预言除了在当时已经应验了之外，主要是应用在末时基督第二次降临之前的事上。 那么难道说耶稣只为犹太人回来吗？其他人都不能作耶稣的子民而将会被抛弃吗？ 守安息日的新约证据（二） 第二个显明安息日在新约时代耶稣被钉死之后依然坚定的证据，就是路加的著作。你知不知道路加福音是在耶稣死而复活以后过了几十年才写下来的？注意路加在这么多年以后都写了什么相关的信息。 路加福音 23：56 她们就回去，预备了香料香膏。她们在安息日，便遵着诫命安息了。 路加在此提到了第四条诫命的安息日。在耶稣死而复活之后过了数十年以后，路加依然提及上帝的诫命，并且见证说，信徒们在耶稣死后的安息日那天按照诫命安息了。 除了信徒们守安息日之外，耶稣本身也在坟墓里守了安息日，等到过了安息日，上帝才叫耶稣从死里复活，然后升天。 请注意，路加没有说他们在曾经是第四条诫命的安息日安息了，因为第七日已经不再是安息日了。他也没有说他们在安息日，也就是一周的第一日安息了，因为安息日已经更改了，不再是第七日而是第一日了。 如果安息日已经被废除或更改的话，这绝对是个黄金机会来让路加揭晓这一点。但是这都没有发生，原因可想而知。 所以十条诫命在耶稣死后依然有效，并没有被修改或废除。从亘古直到永远都不会改变。 守安息日的新约证据（三） 第三个证明安息日存在于新约的证据，就是希伯来书 4：9-10。在旧约中我们有出埃及记20：8-11和申命记 5：12-15清楚地叙述安息日的诫命。然而我们在新约中也有一节非常相似的经文，论到安息日诫命的相关内容。 【钦定本】希伯来书 4：9-10 9 因此，必有一个安息为上帝的子民存留。10 因为那进入安息的，乃是歇了自己的工，正如上帝歇了他的工一样。 这里说得非常清楚，安息日必为上帝的子民存留。下一节还说我们进入安息，乃是歇下一切的工，正如上帝用了六日创造后在第七日歇了祂的工一样。这简直就是完全呼应了第四条诫命并创世记有关安息日的记载。 守安息日的新约证据（四） 我们来看第四个铁证，即新约有守安息日的证据。此证据来自这样的一个事实，就是遵守安息日已经融入了整个新约圣经的结构中。因此，我们不断看到经文论到，耶稣遵守了安息日，而且祂是我们完美的榜样。 还有使徒们、保罗、跟整个早期教会都在遵守安息日。新约中所记载的每一位信徒都遵守了第四条诫命的安息日。我们没有任何证据显明任何人遵守了第七日以外的任何一日，就连一节经文都没有。 保罗是法利赛人，他从小就信从犹太人的信仰，并且从来没有改变过。 使徒行传 26：4-5 4 我从起初在本国的民中，并在耶路撒冷，自幼为人如何，犹太人都知道。5 他们若肯作见证就晓得，我从起初是按着我们宗教最严紧的教门作了法利赛人。 现在请注意，在下面的经文中，我们发现这是一个犹太会堂，并记住犹太人在历史上一直都没有改变过，一直在我们所谓的星期六也就是第七日聚集敬拜，就像他们今天仍然做的那样。圣经显示保罗只在安息日这一天在会堂里传道，这是他的习惯，其他日子他都没有这么做。这里以三个连续的安息日为例。 使徒行传 17：1-2 1 他们经过暗妃波里、亚波罗尼亚，来到帖撒罗尼迦，在那里有犹太人的会堂。2 保罗照他的规矩进到他们那里，一连三个安息日，本着经文与他们辩论。 下面的经文揭示了如果安息日真的有更改的话，那么保罗当时有绝佳的机会在一周的第一日即星期天作讲道。但是圣经说保罗做了什么呢？ 使徒行传 13：42 犹太人出会堂的时候，外邦人恳求他们到下安息日再传讲这话给他们听。 保罗刚刚在第七日安息日即星期六讲完道，我们发现外邦人就恳求保罗在下一个安息日也向他们讲道。如果安息日已经改为星期日的话，那保罗大可以在第二天就与他们一同聚集和传道，并且传讲安息日已经改为第一日的课题。 但是他并没有这么做，信耶稣的外邦人也都清楚地知道这一事实，所以直接恳求他在下个安息日继续讲真理给他们听。而且我们看到安息日不仅仅是给犹太人的。凡接受救恩的外邦信徒也都必须遵守。过两节之后，圣经说： 使徒行传 13：44 到下个安息日，全城的人几乎都来聚集，要听上帝的道。 事实上，没有一节经文显示任何信徒在一周的第一日聚集敬拜。若有的话也是其他的聚会或因其它的原因聚集，与安息日和敬拜的日子无关，但却被有心人滥用来支持他们的谬论。 新约圣经实在有太多太多的证据显明新约的安息日，我们今天暂且不看更多。我呼吁大家自行研究，查考所有关于安息日的经文。不要被假道理给迷惑。 14. 大多数人怎么可能对安息日有所误解？ 接下来是第14点，问，大多数人怎么可能对安息日有所误解呢？这是一种非常普遍的论调，宣称大多数人相信的必定是真理。 那么这种说法正确吗？守安息日的人占全球人口的极少数而已，这就表示安息日肯定不是真理吗？今天我们就来探讨一下这个问题。 先说一说为什么大多数人对安息日都有误解。简单的答案是，借着数百万人的死亡，仇敌几乎消灭了第四条诫命。当改革运动开始时，所有改革教派都继续无知地守着星期日。 恢复失去的真理总是一件很艰难的事。当人们不想知道真理时，情况更是如此。他们若接受真理，就会破坏他们教会的信仰或个人的生活习惯。 在基督教界中，大多数人所相信的道理从来都不是真理。启示录警告我们说，上帝会因一个教会堕落成可憎之物而将她摧毁，但大多数人都属于某个教会，他们却未看清事实，还未觉醒以致离开巴比伦。 没错，事实就是，大多数人都错了，因为撒但竭尽所能并且成功地向基督徒隐瞒这个真理。这就是他在基督教界中最大的成就之一。 这些人忙着找借口以维护自己的教导，编造谎言来迷惑他人，却忽略花时间探讨圣经在这课题上的真理。他们就算查考圣经也只是为了寻找证据来支持自己的理论。所找到的，也是自己想要看的，而不是圣经所教导的。 提摩太后书 4：3-4 3 因为时候要到，人必厌烦纯正的道理，耳朵发痒，就随从自己的情欲，增添好些师傅，4 并且掩耳不听真道，偏向荒渺的言语。 很多时候，我们在与他人分享安息日的真理时，绝大多数人都会拒绝考虑这种可能性，坚决宣称大多数人所相信的不可能会错。有的还讽刺说：“少数人怎么可能比多数人更聪明呢？” 很多人简直闭耳不听，完全不想讨论相关课题。这是非常可悲的事实。特别是当你想到上帝创造了我们，然后差遣祂儿子来为我们罪人而死，但是我们却不肯以爱来顺服祂，不肯为祂做出一点点的牺牲。为什么大多数人都属于错误的一方，对我而言，这些都不是什么奥秘了。这些都是圣经早已预言会发生的事，也是这罪恶世界的现实状况。 仇敌促使基督徒继续持守和宣扬他们先前被告知的相同借口。再加上他们不想改变，或者他们不知道历史事实，不晓得撒但如何企图毁掉上帝的律法，也不晓得圣经的真理。 马太福音 7：13-14 13 “你们要进窄门。因为引到灭亡，那门是宽的，路是大的，进去的人也多；14 引到永生，那门是窄的，路是小的，找着的人也少。” 接受真理的人从来都是少数的，最后得救的人也会是占少数的，因为大多数人都会选择容易走的灭亡之路。所以不要以为大多数人相信的道理就肯定是对的。 相反的，大多数人所相信的有很大可能是错的。我要引用著名作家马克吐温所说的一段话，是我非常喜爱的。他说：“当你发现自己站在大多数人的一方时，就必须停下来思考和进行改革了。” 大家可以思考一下，有什么普遍的教义或信仰是大多数教会所相信的？那就是非源自圣经的谬论，而我们就必须拒绝。比方说星期日崇拜、三位一体论、圣诞节、灵魂不死之道、秘密被提、永火的地狱等等。这几个较为常见的谬论，都是从鬼魔而来但却被大多数人所接受的。 另外，启示录也预言了末时作为兽印记的星期日法令大逼迫来到时，会出现什么情况。 启示录 13：3-4 3 我看见兽的七头中，有一个似乎受了死伤，那死伤却医好了。全地的人都希奇跟从那兽，4又拜那龙，因为它将自己的权柄给了兽，也拜兽，说：“谁能比这兽，谁能与它交战呢？” 这里说，全地的人都会跟从那兽，顺从她所制定与敬拜有关的法令，这样做就等于敬拜那龙，就是撒但。 所以肯定的是，全球大多数人都会掉入撒但的网罗，去跟从虚假的道理。朋友们，我们必须纠正这种错谬的概念，不要再误以为多人信的东西就必定是真理。事实往往是倒反过来的。 我们若听见有传道人或任何教会领袖宣称一个道理是大多数人所同意和信奉的，因此肯定是真的，那么我们就可以断定他所说的肯定不是来自圣经的。 圣经里也有好几个例子让我们参考并明白这个概念。比如说，洪水与诺亚方舟的故事、罗得与所多玛城的故事、但以理和他三个伙伴的故事等等，都带出了这个概念。 简单来说，真理从来就不在大多数人中间，而是在少数人中间。 15. 圣经是否记录了安息日改成了星期日的历史事件？ 接下来是我们要回答的最后一个论点，就是，圣经是否记录了安息日改成了星期日的历史事件？其实经过了那么多课的研究，这个问题的答案已经显而易见了。 但是我们还是要探讨一下，並彻底揭穿撒但在这方面的骗局。 启示录 11：19 当时，上帝天上的殿开了，在他殿中现出他的约柜，随后有闪电、声音、雷轰、地震、大雹。 那么上帝有没有更改约翰所看见藏在天上约柜里刻着十条诫命的石版呢？上帝有没有改口说：“当纪念第一日，忘掉先前的第七日吧。” 当然没有。 一个纪念创造的日子是不可能更改的。上帝的律法也是永远长存的。保罗在哥林多前书 7：19 有一段非常重要的话，表明了诫命的重要性。 哥林多前书 7：19 受割礼算不得什么，不受割礼也算不得什么，只要守上帝的诫命就是了。 保罗在这里清楚地表明了十条诫命的道德律法和仪文律法之间的区别以及两者分别的重要性。仪文律法已经废除，不需要再守了。相反的，诫命依然是必须遵守的，它并没有废除或更改。 这些真理在圣经中重复又重复地被提及，然而圣经从未说过安息日改成了星期日。所以我们不能做出任何假设，而是必须拿出真凭实据来支持我们的论点。 我们一再看见使徒们，信徒们，甚至是耶稣自己，也遵守了安息日，从未改变过，即使是在耶稣死后也是如此。别忘记，耶稣还说过以下这段话。 马太福音 5：18 我实在告诉你们，就是到天地都废去了，律法的一点一画也不能废去，都要成全。 律法上的字句，哪怕是一个字，或一个标点符号，都不会改变。当涉及上帝话语的重要性时，我们永远不需要做出假设。如果有任何重大的改变，我们肯定会被告知的。 倘若上帝在诫命中改变了哪怕是最小或最不起眼的内容，祂都必定在祂的话语中明确地阐明，而且还会把重要的话重复好几遍，免得任何人有借口说他不知道这回事。 可惜根本就没有这样的事情，因为律法不像那些人所期望的那样已经改变了，而是永远坚定不移的。现在我们就来看一节经文的假设，看看那些有心人如何用这节经文来争辩说安息日已经改成了星期日。 使徒行传 20：7 七日的第一日，我们聚会擘饼的时候，保罗因为要次日起行，就与他们讲论，直讲到半夜。 这里说七日的第一日，也就是星期日，门徒聚会擘饼。因此，他们宣称这就证明安息日已经转移到了星期日。但是事实真的是如此吗？ 明显不是，他们看到了一点点迹象就急忙断章取义，却没有调查清楚时代的背景和作者的用意。保罗根本不是想表达安息日已经从第七日改变成了第一日。 这里只简单地提到一次的聚会，没有说明是安息日的聚会或崇拜。同一节却有说明，保罗在第二天要启程离开该地方了，所以那是他离别前的一次聚会，可以说是一场送别会。 这与第四条诫命安息日完全扯不上关系。更有意思的是，下面的经文还证明，其实擘饼不仅是在安息日进行的团契聚餐，而是在一周中的每一日都可以进行的。所以当圣经提到人们在某一日聚会擘饼时，这事实上根本证明不了什么，因为这是信徒每一天都做的事，就像我们每天吃饭一样。 使徒行传 2：42 都恒心遵守使徒的教训，彼此交接、擘饼、祈祷。 使徒行传 2：46 他们天天同心合意恒切地在殿里，且在家中擘饼，存着欢喜诚实的心用饭， 再说，使徒行传 20：7 所提到的七日的第一日，其实是指星期六晚间，因为按照圣经的日子定义，一日是从日落到日落的。如果他是指星期日晚上的话，那就不是七日的第一日了，而是七日的第二日了。许多现代圣经版本甚至还把这节中七日的第一日直接翻译成星期六晚间。 所以简单来说，这场聚会其实是结束安息日的黄昏聚会，但由于保罗到天亮就要启程离开了，所以聚会时间便延长了，甚至到了深夜大伙依然难舍难分，意犹未尽，大家都兴致勃勃地坐着听保罗讲圣经的道理。 第9节甚至告诉我们说，有个年轻人因为听道听得太久太累而打盹睡着了，意外从窗台上跌下来。 因此，使徒行传 20：7 不能证明安息日已从第七日转移到了第一日。人们是因为误解了经文并忽视了门徒当代的文化背景而曲解了经文。事实上，圣经并没有明文可用以支持他们的教导。 只要我们找不到一节经文明确地指出：“安息日已经被废除或改成了星期日，” 那么我们就必须接受事实，就是说安息日从未改变，也永远不会改变。 安息日的更改是撒但企图想藉着他的爪牙去完成，但却一直无法成就的事。他企图把上帝的安息日改成崇拜日头或太阳神的日子，即星期日。 我们必须知道，星期日不可能成为安息日。若我们参考圣经中每一日的名称就晓得了。在圣经时代，一周的日子基本上被称为第一日、第二日、第三日、第四日、第五日、预备日和安息日。 如上所述，日子的名称实际上都是围绕着安息日以命名的。一周的第一日，换句话说就是安息日之后的第一日。单单这一点就可以证明安息日不可能是第七日以外的任何一日。 星期日是安息日之后的第一日，所以它永远都不可能成为安息日，这是怎么改都改不了的事实。相信这是一个非常简单明了的道理，连小朋友都能轻易明白。 撒但在面对这个挑战时可能又会给出另一个借口，说：“是的没错，安息日依然是第七日/星期六，但是我们现在改在星期日敬拜！” 这简直是强词夺理。如果把第七日被称为安息日的原因归给另一日的话，那么第七日还能被称为安息日吗？ 很明显那是不可能的。用以敬拜上帝，纪念创造和安息的日子都是同一日，都是分不开的。很多人也许接受了这种荒谬的推理，但是上帝和祂的真子民绝对不会接纳这样的鬼话。 我们开门见山地说，守星期日的教导是非常缺乏证据的，因为他们在圣经里根本找不到一节经文来支持这项非源自圣经的谬论，所以他们才会那么迫切地企图寻找一些能被扭曲以支持他们的经文。 他们所谓的证据来来去去都是那几个，没有什么新鲜的。只要我们熟悉圣经，撒但的谎言就自然不攻自破。 回顾历史，星期日敬拜是什么时候渗入基督教的呢？这就是君士坦丁大帝所干的好事。简单来说，作为一个精明的政治天才，他的计划是将基督教和异教联合起来，以巩固他那正在瓦解的帝国。 君士坦丁知道整个帝国的异教徒在“一周的第一日” 崇拜太阳神。他还发现有基督徒，特别是罗马和亚历山大港的基督徒也因基督在星期日从死里复活而纪念那一日。 所以君士坦丁大帝就制定了一个计划，在守星期日的共同平台上联合两大宗教信仰。在公元 321 年 3 月 7 日，他通过了著名的首个全国星期日法令。我们来看一段论到该历史的引言。 “……在可敬的太阳日，让县长和居住在城市的人们休息，让所有的工作坊关闭。 然而，在乡下，从事农业活动的乡民可以自由合法地继续他们的事业； 因为经常发生这样的情况：另一天不太适合播种或种植葡萄； 以免疏忽了进行此类工作的适当时机而失去上天的恩惠。 （于 3 月 7 号颁布，克里斯普斯和康斯坦丁各人第二次担任领事 ［公元 321 年］。）” 来源：查士丁尼法典。译于：菲利普沙夫著，《基督教会历史》，第 3 卷（第 5 版，1902 年），第 380 页，注 1。 虽然君士坦丁在当时接纳了基督教信仰，并自称为基督徒，但他骨子里仍然是个虔诚的太阳神崇拜者。历史学家宣称，太阳被普遍认为是君士坦丁的无敌向导和保护神。 他甚至还印制了一面印有基督名字，另一面则印有太阳神形象的硬币。从那时起，星期日就被引入了基督教，而所有人都是被强迫遵守那一日的。现今有许多人仍然无知地持守着星期日，却不晓得其背后的历史由来。 顺便一提，星期日被采纳四年之后，星期日的神，那三位一体太阳神也同样被纳入了基督教。这不是巧合，而是撒但的爪牙为方便将来执行兽印记时的全球大逼迫而铺平道路。 在不久的将来，全世界将在星期日敬拜和三位一体敬拜的共同基础上联合起来。他们还要特别逼迫凡遵守安息日和敬拜独一真神的真基督徒。这将会是善恶之争的最后高潮，也是世界末日之前最激烈的一战。 现今整个基督教界中各个基督教派都是在他们敬拜的共同日子上，更是在他们所敬拜的三一神的共同基础上团结一致，携手合作称兄道弟了。我相信星期日法令的推出也会在不久的将来落实。 所有接受星期日法令的人都是拜兽的，兽即罗马天主教，他们彻底拒绝了上帝和祂的权柄。我们必须及时明白这些真理并且选择站在正确的一方，免得陷入万劫不复之地。 在结束前，我们再来看几段引言，以提醒大家一个确凿的事实，那就是星期日崇拜从来都不是圣经所认可的，而是罗马天主教仗着自己的权柄规定的。 “例如，我们在圣经中没有任何一处发现基督或使徒下令将安息日从星期六改为星期日。 我们有上帝颁布给摩西的诫命，吩咐我们遵守安息日，也就是一周的第 7 日，星期六，守为圣日。 今天，大多数基督徒都遵守星期日，因为它是由 ［罗马天主教］教会在圣经之外向我们启示的。” ——《天主教维吉尼亚报》，1947 年 10 月 3 日，第 9 页，“告诉你真相”。 “问：安息日是哪一天？ “答：星期六是安息日。 “问：为什么我们遵守星期日而不是星期六？ “答：我们遵守星期日而不是星期六，因为天主教会在老底嘉会议（公元 364 年）中将安息日的神圣庄严从星期六转移到了星期日。” ——彼得葛依尔曼（Peter Geiermann），《皈依者的天主教要理问答》，第 50 页，第 3 版，1957 年。 “我要好好提醒长老会、浸信会、卫理公会和所有其他基督徒，圣经在任何地方都不能支持他们遵守星期日。 星期日是罗马天主教的制度，遵守这一日的人是在遵守天主教的一条诫命。” ——布雷迪神父，1903 年 3 月 18 日在新泽西州伊丽莎白的新闻报道中发表的讲话。 别忘记，如果我们选择接受虚假的安息日而故意违犯上帝真安息日的诫命的话，那我们就是选择灭亡了。这样我们就不能进入上帝永恒美好的国度了，因为完美的天国容不下任何违背律法的叛逆者。 更何况，我们若爱上帝和祂儿子，就必须遵守祂们的诫命。正如耶稣所说： 约翰福音 14：15 你们若爱我，就必遵守我的命令。 我们不是靠着守律法的行为来得救的，而是因为爱上帝而乐意遵守祂一切的诫命和话语。世界虽然恶人当道，而谬论一方为大众所接受，但是我们必须忠于上帝，不效法世界，不向恶势力低头，不向撒但妥协。务要记住使徒讲过的一句话： 使徒行传 5：29 “顺从上帝，不顺从人，是应当的。” 朋友，我们今天已经完成了全部破解十五个拒绝安息日的理由之圣经研究系列。我们想必已经意识到，十条诫命，包括安息日是永不改变的，它没有被基督的十架所废除，而是立定到永永远远的。 它也没有因着任何理由而变成另一日。它不仅仅是赐给犹太人的安息日，而是赐给全人类的安息日。我们没有任何借口逃避或拒绝安息日。圣经在这个课题上也提供了非常充足的证据，让我们无从抵赖。 仇敌想方设法想利用一些人的推理和逻辑来拒绝安息日，但这些理由一律都没有获得任何经文的支持和认证，因此它们都是鬼魔的谬道，我们必须坚决撇弃之。 这就结束了这一系列的研究，希望这几讲能给大家在安息日的课题上带来一个完整清晰的画面，以奠定安息日真理的每一个要点和基础，并且将撒但拒绝安息日的借口一一识破，让仇敌不再有任何理由说服人们去拒绝遵守安息日。 星期日法令即将到来之际，我们必须以安息日的真理装备好自己，以便能抵抗来势汹汹的魔军。愿每一位上帝的子民都能站稳脚跟，对真神上帝和祂的真儿子并他们的安息圣日至死忠心。愿平安喜乐充满每一位，阿们。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

Back to Contents Previous Download 看中文 Next Sabbath Day Truth What day is the Sabbath Day? One very controversial subject among Christians today is God’s Seventh Day Sabbath. Some Christians are not even aware that the Sabbath is Saturday. The Bible tells us in Daniel that a persecuting power would change God’s laws which it did – the Seventh Day Sabbath became the first day sabbath without God’s approval. The book of Daniel also refers to this change of God’s law by the antichrist power as reaching to the host of heaven and trampling the heavenly sanctuary under foot. We find the same expression used in Hebrews chapter ten in reference to wilful sin. Hebrews 10:26-29 “For if we sin WILFULLY after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, … He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” This passage warns us that there remains no sacrifice to cover wilful sin and to continue in wilful sin is to trample the Son of God under foot and to treat Christ's work on the cross as an unholy thing despite being under grace. This is a warning we should take very seriously. The change to the Sabbath day came about over hundreds of years and by the death of millions of Christians. This is another fact that most Christians are unaware of. Select the following to watch a typical true story of the death of a Sabbath keeper by burning. Why is the Sabbath truth rarely taught? If these points are true, why don’t we hear more pastors teaching them? If the Sabbath is Saturday, then why don’t the majority keep the true Sabbath day? How could the majority be wrong and even more to the point, do we still have to keep the Seventh day Sabbath at all? Revelation 13 tells us that Satan would give position and authority to the persecuting power described in Daniel that changed God’s law. Why do you think Satan did this? This power that persecuted the saints for 1260 dark years murdered anyone found keeping the Seventh day Sabbath according to the Commandment of God. Anyone that had a different view to this persecuting power was considered a heretic and heretics were to be burned. As a result, the Sabbath truth was nearly murdered out of existence and since most Churches originated from this persecuting power, most Churches now ignorantly keep the wrong day they instituted. The final change to the Sabbath day was in the fourth century but note that the change originated from Satanic and pagan sun worship as early as 2000 B.C. Remember that Satan was responsible for all of this and did not go to all this effort for no reason. Since the majority grow up with Sunday worship as their custom, it becomes very much a mind set and people are also very reluctant to accept change or alter their lifestyle. Saturday is also a day that is not convenient for most Christians and so sadly, most would rather not know truth and go into denial. Because of these factors, even when a pastor is presented with the Sabbath truth, it becomes difficult to both accept and see. This instantly gives the enemy the upper hand as he now just whispers in your mind, “the day does not matter. If it mattered everyone would know about it and would be keeping Saturday.” Sadly, all too many listen and never investigate and Satan continues to be victorious in keeping Christians ignorantly breaking one of the Commandments of God. Billy Graham was said to have acknowledged the Sabbath truth but stated, “If I were to teach this truth, I would lose most of my listeners.” Jesus said we are to both obey and teach the law and one cannot sacrifice truth at any cost. The enemy has gone to extreme lengths to make sure the Sabbath truth is not taught or believed and continues to go to extreme lengths and deceptions to keep us ignorant of this truth. Knowing he has done this, Christians should realise that it is very relevant and extremely important we know why. For example, how important is sin to God? Many say the Sabbath was changed to Sunday in honour of the resurrection and others say it was nailed to the cross. Others will tell you any day can be kept as the Sabbath day as long as you keep one. And still others say as long as you do everything to the glory of God the Sabbath is as good as kept. And yet still others will say it is legalism. Worst of all, and this is becoming more popular by the decade, some say the Ten Commandments are gone. Never underestimate the enemy’s ability to slowly and subtly bring heresy into the Church and make those with the most Biblical truth to get labelled falsely as cults or legalists. It should be obvious that Satan will always attack truth the hardest and sadly he has no trouble finding those he can deceive to accomplish his task very convincingly. The fact of the matter is that what is popular is not always truth and what is truth is not always popular. Since the Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments that defines what sin is, why wouldn't Satan attack this one Commandment that is the easiest one to attack and do everything in his power to ensure that it does not get recognized or taught so he can get many to live in lawlessness? If one truly studies this and checks it with unbiased history, you will in fact find that Satan has achieved this goal and because most Christians do not study the Word and tend to rely on what their friends or pastor tells them, the lie continues to be perpetuated. What is the Sabbath Day about? Our Creator God starts off the fourth Commandment with the word “Remember.” This is because He knew it would be lost and forgotten. God asks that we keep the Sabbath set apart for Holy purposes so we can draw nearer to Him. The Fourth Commandment to remember the Sabbath concludes the section of the Ten Commandments that specifically helps define a proper relationship with God, how we are to love, worship and relate to Him. It explains why and when we need to take special time to draw closer to our Creator. It is also a special sign between us and God forever, that it is Him that sanctifies us; Him alone who we belong to and worship. The Sabbath, the Seventh day of the week was set apart by God as a time of rest and spiritual rejuvenation. So why is this Commandment so frequently ignored, attacked and explained away by so many Christians? Could it be because the challenges to the Sabbath Commandment are views generated by the ruler of this present evil world? After all, this being wants us to accept these views because he hates God’s law. He does all he can to influence us to ignore, avoid and reason our way around it. On our calendar the Sabbath begins at sunset Friday evening and ends at sunset Saturday evening. Those that keep the true Sabbath day say that it is a blessing and their favourite day of the week. The Sabbath is quality time with family and relaxing and fellowshipping with God and other Christians. Jesus said we are to not only obey the Ten Commandments but teach them also yet some people are doing the opposite. Why are these people so determined to take this blessing from those who keep the Sabbath properly, and in the way Jesus intended and not like the Pharisees who turned it into a legalistic burden? What spirit is behind this? Why do so many professed Christians try so desperately hard to avoid this special time with their Creator God on His Holy day? The Sabbath should be our favourite day of the week and it is for those who have searched for the truth on the Sabbath and found it. God says we are to find this day a delight and a blessing. God did not say we should call it legalism or a burden! Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a DELIGHT, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shall honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shall you delight thyself in the LORD...” Like all the other nine Commandments, IT IS a Commandment of love and thus loving God with all your heart includes all the first four Commandments. We know this for a fact because right after the second reading of the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy chapter 5, we are shown in Deuteronomy 6:5 that LOVING God with all our heart, might and soul is to keep ALL the Ten Commandments that had just been read in the previous chapter only 17 verses earlier. That of course makes ALL Ten Commandments eternal. Our God is not a God of confusion that mixes a law that defines what love and sin is with something that is not love or not sin. Whether we understand it or not, to try and find reasons as to why the Sabbath is changed or ended is no different from trying to find excuses as to why it is now acceptable to worship idols or commit murder etc. There is another law found in the Old Testament that was only for the Jews and had ceremonial sabbaths but God did not place His Sabbath in this law. He placed it in the Ten Commandments because that is where it belongs. The Ten Commandments were written in stone while the ceremonial law was written in a book and hence it was also called the “Book of the Covenant.” Have you ever heard the expression “it is not written in stone?” Written in stone means forever. On paper and in a book is temporary. So basically God had two specific laws. One was temporary, written in a book, was not love, only for the Jews, practised because of sin before Christ and why it was nailed to the cross. The other was eternal, written in stone, was love, for everyone, was sin to break and hence was NOT nailed to the cross. Now consider this question very carefully. If the Sabbath of the Lord was temporary and only for the Jews, which law would you place it in? In the temporary law or the eternal law? And is that where God placed His Sabbath? No! God placed His Sabbath exactly where it belonged. He placed it in the law that was love and eternal and for everyone along with the other Nine Commandments that obviously will never and can never end. Since God is not a fool or the author of confusion, then this alone reveals the truth. God makes a distinction between the ceremonial sabbaths and His Sabbath found in the Ten Commandments by exhorting, “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God:” (Exodus 20:10, Deuteronomy 5:14). It is the Lord’s Sabbath! It did not belong to Israel. God further clarifies this by calling His Sabbath, “My Sabbaths,” as in His weekly Sabbaths, (Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:20) while calling the ceremonial sabbaths that were only for Israel, “Her Sabbaths.” Her as in Israel. (Hosea 2:11, Lamentations 1:7) If God sent an Angel to tell you that He loves you and sent His only Son to die for you and that He wants you to spend quality time with Him on a specific day that He blessed and sanctified, would you send the Angel back to God with the message, “sorry God, that day is not convenient for me” or “no God, I can't spend that time with you on your Holy day, that's legalism” or even, “tell God that it does not have to be on His Holy day and I will spend time with Him on that day that was used for sun worship that He detested instead.” Is that what we would really say? Why is it so hard for us to rest and worship Him on His Holy day? Many believe that there are only one or two denominations or groups that keep the true Sabbath day when there are in fact over five hundred different denominations of Sabbath keeping Churches that that keep the true 7th day Sabbath and the count is growing. Whole chains of Churches are changing back after attending Prophecy seminars run by people that have not been deceived by Satan's attempt to keep Christians in the dark on the Sabbath truth or Bible prophecy believing it cannot be understood. Do these hundreds of different Church denominations with millions and millions of members know something that we don’t? Why is the Sabbath important to God? We have already noted that God intended the Sabbath to be a blessing to us and has asked us to call His Sabbath a DELIGHT, but what else makes the Sabbath so important to God? Most people understand that it is morally wrong to lie, steal, murder and to worship idols or take the Lord's name in vain etc, but the reason Satan is so successful in keeping so many from the Sabbath truth is because it is easy for him to convince the multitudes it is not important. Sadly, most do not see the Sabbath as important as on the surface breaking the Sabbath does not appear to be morally wrong. The question is; does God see the Sabbath day as being important? If it is important to God then it has to be important to us. Since God made His Sabbath part of the Ten Commandments, it becomes sin to break the Sabbath as sin is breaking any of the Ten Commandments. Sin is the reason Jesus died on the cross for us and it does not get more serious than that. We should know how much God detests sin but what are some other reasons that make the Sabbath so significant? Exodus 31:13-17 “Speak you also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a SIGN between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD that does SANCTIFY you. … 15 Six days may work be done; but in the Seventh is the Sabbath of rest, Holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a PERPETUAL covenant. 17 It is a SIGN between me and the children of Israel FOR EVER: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the Seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” Ezekiel 20:20 “And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a SIGN between me and you, that you may know that I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.” The Sabbath is a special SIGN that defines that we are God’s children and He is our God that sanctifies us and makes us Holy. It also defines therefore that it is God who we worship and love and give our allegiance to. It is not a SIGN when we keep a secular day and profane God’s Sabbath. There is a lot more that could be cited but this should be enough to help you understand why this day is important to God and why it is a sin against God for us to not keep His Sabbath day Holy. Is there anyone who does not want to be part of this SIGN? Some will say that this perpetual covenant that is a SIGN forever, (Exodus 31:13-17) applies only to the Israel of God and this is correct. The question is; who is the Israel of God? Today there is an Israel of the flesh (1 Corinthians 10:18) and an Israel of God, Galatians 6:16. The Israel of the flesh consists of those who are Jews by birth. The Israel of God is anyone who belongs to Christ and is under the New Covenant. Many do not understand that if we are Christ’s then we are spiritual Jews and the Israel of God. If we reject this truth then we cannot be under the New Covenant. Observe who the New Covenant was ONLY made with. This came into effect when the Jews rejected God’s message from Stephen (Acts 6:8-7:60) and stoned him. See also Romans 2:28-29, Romans 9:6-8 and Galatians 3:28-29. See also Daniel's 70 weeks and 2300 days. Hebrews 8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the HOUSE OF ISRAEL after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:” Since the Sabbath is a SIGN that we are God's children, if we reject His Sabbath, then aren’t we rejecting God as our Father? And since the Sabbath is a SIGN that it is God that sanctifies us, if we reject His Sabbath, then aren’t we also rejecting His sanctification? All God asks from us is one single solitary day in seven. We still have the other six secular days to do as we please. Is one day an unreasonable request from our Creator God? Christians claim to love God with all their heart, might and soul, yet how do most respond? The number seven represents completion and perfection to God and this is the only reason we do have a seven day week. If not for this very special Sabbath day God has given us, we would only have a six day week. If we do not use this Seventh day Sabbath which God blessed and sanctified for this one and only use, what point is there in having this Seventh day of the week? God added this one and only day with this one and only purpose, so we could spend Holy time with our Holy God that is a most beautiful SIGN that He is our God and we are His children. Again, despite this blessing, how do most respond? Believe it or not, I have had enough excuses now to fill an entire book. An appropriate name for this book would be, “The book of excuses for not having to spend time with your Creator God on His Holy day.” How God must grieve every time someone chooses one of these 1001 excuses. Does God know our heart? If we use one of these excuses will God know? Does God know if we don’t want the truth about His day because it would be an inconvenience to us? If we use one of these 1001 excuses, can we truly say we love God with all our heart, might and soul? If we do not love God with all our heart, will God accept us into His kingdom? What are the consequences for not keeping the Sabbath? The book of James tells us if we break one Commandment we have broken them all. So if the Sabbath is Saturday and if we are supposed to be keeping the true Sabbath day then most Christians are guilty of breaking God’s law. The Bible tells us that only a few will find the straight and narrow gate. Was this referring to Christians specifically? Noah preached for 120 years that a great flood was coming and only 8 were saved. Jesus said that at the time of His second coming it is going to be like in the days of Noah. Why do we only acknowledge what we want to see? God pleads with us as to why we would perish. Hosea prophesied that God’s people would perish for a lack of knowledge which does not sound fair but then he explains it is because they would reject knowledge in regards to the Commandments of God, so He in return would reject them. Considering how many people have rejected knowledge on the Sabbath Commandment, this sadly makes perfect sense. Hebrews 10:26-29 says there is no sacrifice to cover wilful sin and it is to trample the Son of God underfoot and count the blood of the New Covenant as an unholy thing despite being under God’s grace. Jesus says to those who practice lawlessness, He will deny access to the kingdom. So if we are supposed to keep the Sabbath day and are ignorant of this fact, how will we be judged? Would God burn someone in Hell for being ignorant? What about denial? It appears that everyone has different ideas about the Seventh day Sabbath. When there is so much confusion and conflicting information you know that deception reigns and one seriously needs to investigate to find what the truth really is and especially when the consequences for deliberate sin is to be left out of the kingdom. Are the Ten Commandments still relevant today? If something as important as the Ten Commandments were to change by even the smallest amount we would be told with crystal clear scriptures. Most Christians will not debate that nine of the Ten Commandments need to be obeyed but so many freely sweep one under the carpet that becomes too much of an effort for them. Denial of truth of any of the Ten Commandments has only one outcome as far as God is concerned and we do not want that path. Unless black and white scriptures can be produced that says the day has changed or been abolished, then the Sabbath is just as valid as the other nine Commandments and the consequences are the same for deliberately breaking any one of them. Does anyone believe they can freely murder as they please and still enter the kingdom of God? So do all the Ten Commandments still stand or does the Bible indicate that we can live in wilful deliberate sin? We certainly are saved by God’s Grace through faith in Christ, but is this a license to continue in sin? Did Jesus die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin or so we could go on living in sin? What does the only source of truth that we can trust have to say on this very important topic that nailed our loving Saviour to the cross? Here are the answers put simply by scripture alone while covering the main areas of confusion. What is the Bible definition of sin? 1 John 3:4. So where there is sin, there has to be a law. Romans 4:15. If there is no law then there can be no sin and if there is no sin then there is no need for a Saviour. Did Paul say we can sin now that we are under Grace which would therefore show the law had ended? Romans 6:1-2, Romans 6:14-15. Paul taught on the law and Galatians in chapters 2, 3 and 4 and Romans 3 that no flesh is justified by the works of the law and that righteousness comes by FAITH. Does this therefore mean that the Ten Commandments are made null and void through FAITH? Romans 3:31. So who is justified before God? Romans 2:13. Did Jesus say He came to do away with the law? Matthew 5:17. Did Jesus say He was going to change the law by even so much as one single letter? Matthew 5:18, Luke 16:17. Did Jesus say we have to teach the law as well as obey it? Matthew 5:19. Does Jesus say that those who practise lawlessness, which is the breaking of the Ten Commandments, will enter the kingdom? Matthew 7:21-23, 1 John 2:4. So what does Jesus say that one has to do to inherit eternal life? Matthew 19:16-19. Can we keep just nine of the Ten Commandments and are we judged by obedience to the law? James 2:10-12, Matthew 5:18, Luke 16:17. So what are the consequences for wilful sin, which is wilfully disobeying even ONE of the Ten Commandments? Hebrews 10:26-29, Ephesians 5:3, 5. What are the blessings for not living in wilful sin, which is obeying the Ten Commandments in loving obedience? Revelation 22:14. The passage in Matthew chapter 5 alone proves that not one letter of the law has changed which means that all scriptures used as arguments for ending or changing the Sabbath are being abused or misunderstood. The answers are indisputable and any other arguments would be in total contradiction to the words of Jesus, Paul and James just to name a few. I think Solomon summed it up well with his final conclusion in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. Did Jesus and the early Church keep the Sabbath? If the Sabbath is an unchanged Commandment, then we should find Paul and the early Church keeping the Seventh day Sabbath. If this can be demonstrated, this would also prove that the Sabbath was not changed or abolished. So can we demonstrate this? We can of course and do in fact find Paul keeping the Sabbath as his CUSTOM was since childhood in a Jewish Synagogue. A custom is something you do religiously and without failure. What was Paul’s CUSTOM and EXAMPLE while establishing the early Christian Church? Notice in the following verse that this is a Jewish synagogue and that Jews have all through history, without change, worshipped on Saturday as they still do today. Acts 17:1-2. The Jews and Pharisees which Paul was since CHILDHOOD have ALWAYS kept Saturday as the Sabbath. Acts 26:4-5. This is proof conclusive of Saturday Sabbath keeping AFTER the cross and undoubtedly applies to both Jews and Gentiles if wondering. Acts 13:42-44; Acts 18:4. It was not only Paul’s custom and example but that of Jesus also and He is our perfect example. Luke 4:16. And unless Jesus is into making meaningless and nonsensical statements, He also clarified beyond all doubt that the Sabbath would definitely NOT end at the cross by His reference to the future destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, when he said, “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath” Matthew 24:20. See also Sabbath in the New Testament. What day is the Sabbath Day according to the Bible? Below are statements from the Roman Catholic Church which give the simple answer as to why most Churches now keep Sunday as the Sabbath. Most Christians have no idea that this even happened or how it happened. Revelation 13 tells us that Satan gave his power and authority to the Catholic Church. Why? It was Satan's plan to have this Church change the Sabbath to Sunday. Why did Satan do this? The Sabbath is about who we give our allegiance to. If we obey God and keep His Sabbath day Holy, we give our allegiance to God. If we obey the Commandment of the Catholic Church and keep their day Holy, who do we give our allegiance to then? The Catholic Church answers this question below with two of their quotes. But looking deeper, who gave this Church power so God’s true day of worship could be changed? Read Catholic Church Statements about the Sabbath or Roman Catholic Church Seventh Day Sabbath Quotes for more. Does the Bible support the change to Sunday? “Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” Rome’s Challenge www.immaculateheart.com/maryonline Dec 2003 “For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible.” Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article “To Tell You the Truth.” Who Made Sunday Holy? “Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The day of the Lord’ was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the (Catholic) Church’s sense of its own power...People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.” St. Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995. “Question - Which is the Sabbath day? “Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day. “Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? “Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957. Whose Day of Worship is Sunday? “They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so. They have no other reason...The observance of Sunday thus comes to be an ecclesiastical law entirely distinct from the divine law of Sabbath observance...The author of the Sunday law...is the Catholic Church.” Ecclesiastical Review, February 1914. “It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903. Who Do We Reverence by Keeping Sunday Holy? “It was the Catholic church which...has transferred this rest to Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Therefore the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) church.” Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, p. 213. “I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says: ‘No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.’ And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church.” father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, February 18, 1884, printed in History of the Sabbath, p. 802. Hover here for a document clip< or select for full original image. Who really changed the Sabbath? We know the final change to the Sabbath was by the Roman Catholic Church, but who was really responsible and why? Many of you have probably already worked this out but let’s go through it anyway. Beginning with the early Church, Satan failed in his attempt at stopping the Son of God so he turned his attention to the Church. He initially tried to destroy the Church by having all Christians killed, but martyrdom just made the Church grow faster and stronger. Satan soon realised that he could do more damage from within the Church, so he gave the Papacy its power, seat and position. Even though most Christians do not know the importance of the Sabbath day, Satan knows the Sabbath truth all too well and he also knew that it was the easiest of the Ten Commandments to attack, and so put his long term plan into effect. How successful was his plan and who is responsible for his success? Satan fell from his position because of pride and because he wanted to be worshipped as God. Since no one in their right mind would worship Satan, he knew he could only obtain this worship from within the Church. The Seventh day Sabbath is about whom we worship and it is not a sign that we worship God or belong to Him when we keep the wrong day. Satan’s goal was therefore to have his own day of worship instituted in place of God’s and while achieving the primary goal of getting Christians away from a very significant Commandment and living in lawlessness. Using the Papacy as his agent, Satan changed God’s Seventh day Sabbath to a day in honour of pagan sun worship, hence the pagan name Sunday. Satan also knew that sun worship was something that God detested and was one of the reasons why God allowed His people to fall into the hands of the Babylonians. Satan no doubt had great pleasure in this accomplishment as he would have Christians breaking God’s law and not fulfilling the sign of the Sabbath, as well as further upsetting God by taking away His day of worship in place of Satan’s and in favour of sun worship which is idolatry. How Satan must clap his hands in glee over this victory that so many have given him. Christians now assume that Sunday is the correct day and it becomes a mind set as this is what their custom was growing up, and anything different does not feel right and seems foreign. This was Satan’s plan from the beginning and sadly, he has been very successful. Today the ruler of this world works very hard at feeding our minds with thoughts that this Commandment is insignificant and Christians who are not wanting to be inconvenienced by change are all too happy to listen. It’s time for Christians to stop being deceived and wake up to the fact that Satan was responsible and return to all Ten Commandments of God and this precious SIGN that we are His children and it is our Creator God that we worship. Jesus laid down His life for you, how much of a sacrifice is it for you to change your day of worship? For a very detailed account of the Sabbath to Sunday change, and how it actually begun 2000 years B.C. with the worship of Satan and the sun, and involves the origin of that mysterious number 666, see who changed the Sabbath to Sunday. The Sabbath kept from creation to eternity The Sabbath has existed since creation when God added the Seventh day to the week with the one and only purpose of a Sabbath rest. This is the only reason we have a seven day week today. God also blessed and sanctified this day for Holy use. This was done before sin had entered the World and was part of God’s perfect plan. Most Christians do not know that the word translated “rested” in our English Bibles in Genesis 2:3 is actually “shabath” in the Hebrew and means Sabbath. Here is the word Sabbath right at creation. In reference to the future destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, Jesus states in Matthew 24:20, “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.” This ONE statement alone PROVES that Jesus expected the Sabbath to be kept subsequent to His death. The gospel of Luke states in Luke 23:56 that when the body of Christ was being prepared, “they rested the Sabbath day according to the Commandment.” Luke’s gospel was written 30 to 50 years after the cross and Luke still shows that the Commandment is unchanged. If it were changed, Luke would have undoubtedly told us since it is one of the Commandments. Isaiah also prophesied in Isaiah 66:22-23 that, “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make … and from one Sabbath to another, shall ALL flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.” In Genesis 4:3-7, Cain brought an offering from the ground which represents righteousness by works and so God was angry with him but Abel brought the firstborn of his flock as a sin offering which represents righteousness by faith. You cannot have a sin offering unless there is a law. (1 John 3:4) In verse 7, we also see God speak to Cain about sin lying at the door. The Bible also says where there is no law there is no transgression (Romans 4:15) so the Commandments although not yet codified had to exist from the very beginning or Cain could also not have been guilty of murder. See also Genesis 26:5. Besides the Seventh day being called the Sabbath in the Hebrew in Genesis 2:3, God also said the Sabbath “is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever” because “in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” Exodus 31:17. Here God further confirms that the Sabbath existed from the beginning when it was added as the Seventh day of the week at creation. For even more proof, we also know that the Sabbath existed back in Genesis chapter 11. In over 105 languages in the world where the Sabbath has not taken on the Pagan name Saturday, it is still called the Sabbath in each of these languages as it was named at creation. This proves that when these 105 languages originated at Babel in Genesis 11, Saturday was recognized as the Sabbath day and was incorporated into the very name of the day. Since the Sabbath was sanctified and made Holy before sin at creation and the Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments which is also seen being kept before the giving of the Commandments, it had to be kept by Adam and Eve. It was also kept by Abraham, it was kept in the exodus from Egypt before the Ten Commandments were given when God tested His children to see if they would keep THE Seventh day as per the Commandment. It was kept by the Jews, it was kept by Jesus, it was kept by Paul, it was kept by the Apostles, it was kept by the early Church by both Jews and Gentiles, and this is also verified by Jesus who showed it would be kept in 70 AD when the temple was destroyed. History also further proves this by the fact that reliable unbiased history sources show that it was still being kept until around 90-120 AD where some Christians first changed to Sunday to avoid persecution for Judaism. History shows that the final part of the day change began with Constantine in 321 AD in favour of sun worship, and was made law by the Catholic Church around 363-364 AD. The Sabbath was almost murdered out of existence through the dark ages when the Roman Catholic Church ruled as Church and state for those terrible 1260 dark years, and Revelation 12:17 speaks of a remnant of God’s original Church that would arise after these dark ages that Satan would hate and make war with because it would start keeping all of the Ten Commandments of God once again. To finish this all off, God showed Isaiah that we will still be keeping the Sabbath in the new Heaven and the New Earth. Here is the Sabbath being kept from creation beginning and throughout all eternity. The Sabbath is eternal as the other nine. We should desire the Sabbath truth Would it surprise you to know that Jesus never once even mentioned the first day of the week? As Christians, we should always be seeking after the truth, as Jesus is the truth. If we really love Jesus with all our heart, soul and might, we will always strive to find what the truth is at absolutely any cost. However, with so many people saying so many different things, how can we possibly know what the truth really is? There is only one guaranteed way, and that is the inspired Word of God – The Holy Bible. The Bible is and should always be our final authority and not the advice of our Pastor or our most trusted friend. If we can find unbiased information on man’s knowledge of History on the Seventh day Sabbath, that can also be used to help us determine the truth but ultimately, we need to go by the Word of God. The intention of this web site was not to cover all the excuses and truth about the Sabbath but to point you to a choice of sites that will help you find more on what the truth really is. In the top left column and at the bottom of this page, you will find links to many good web sites, not only on the Sabbath, but also on other topics that relate to the Sabbath day such as the ceremonial law and the Ten Commandments. For all the facts on the Sabbath, please read Sabbath and Antichrist truth and who is the real Antichrist for the Biblical and historical truth on Antichrist. For real eye-opening information that reveals that sun worship started with Satan worship, see the history of Sun-Day worship and how it entered the Church. Previous Back to Contents Next Top

返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 Read in English 下一篇 根据圣经只有两位实体生物而不是三位 根据圣经只有两位实体生物而不是三位 箴言 30:4 “ 谁升天又降下来？谁聚风在掌中？谁包水在衣服里？谁立定地的四极？他名叫什么？他儿子叫名叫什么？你知道吗？” 只有两位生物 哥林多前书 8:6 “ 然而我们只有一位上帝，就是父，万物都本于他，我们也归于他；并有一位主，就是耶稣基督，万物都是藉着他有的，我们也是藉着他有的。” 只有两位生物 马太福音 27:46 “ 约在申初，耶稣大声喊着说：“以利，以利！拉马撒巴各大尼？”就是说：“我的上帝，我的上帝！为什么离弃我？” 只有两位生物 马可福音 13:32/ 马太福音 24 ： 36 “ 但那日子、那时辰，没有人知道，连天上的使者也不知道，子也不知道，惟有父知道。” 只有两位生物 哥林多前书 1:9“ 上帝是信实的，你们原是被他所召，好与他儿子我们的主耶稣基督一同得份。” 只有两位生物 哥林多前书 11:3“ 我愿意你们知道，基督是各人的头，男人是女人的头，上帝是基督的头。” 只有两位生物 哥林多后书 5:19“ 这就是上帝在基督里叫世人与自己和好，不将他们的过犯归到他们身上，并且将这和好的道理托付了我们。” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 1:14 ， 18 14 “ 道成了肉身，住在我们中间，充充满满地有恩典，有真理。我们也见过他的荣光，正是父独生子的荣光。 18 从来没有人看见上帝，只有在父怀里的独生子将他表明出来。” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 3:16 ， 18 16 “ 上帝爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。 18 信他的人，不被定罪；不信的人，罪已经定了，因为他不信上帝独生子的名。” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 5:26 “ 因为父怎样在自己有生命，就赐给他儿子也照样在自己有生命；” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 8:16, 28, 42 16“ 就是判断人，我的判断也是真的，因为不是我独自在这里，还有差我来的父与我同在。” 28 所以耶稣说：“你们举起人子以后，必知道我是基督，并且知道我没有一件事是凭着自己作的。我说这些话，乃是照着父所教训我的。 42 耶稣说：“倘若上帝是你们的父，你们就必爱我；因为我本是出于上帝，也是从上帝而来，并不是由着自己来，乃是他差我来。只有两位生物 约翰福音 12:44-45 ， 49 44 “ 耶稣大声说：“信我的，不是信我，乃是信那差我来的。 45 人看见我，就是看见那差我来的。 49 因为我没有凭着自己讲，惟有差我来的父已经给我命令，叫我说什么，讲什么。” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 14 ： 10 ， 20 ， 23 ， 24 10 “ 我在父里面，父在我里面，你不信吗？我对你们所说的话，不是凭着自己说的，乃是住在我里面的父作他自己的事。 20 到那日你们就知道我在父里面，你们在我里面，我也在你们里面。 23 耶稣回答说：“人若爱我，就必遵守我的道，我父也必爱他，并且我们要到他那里去，与他同住。 24 不爱我的人就不遵守我的道；你们所听见的道不是我的，乃是差我来之父的道。” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 17:3 “ 认识你独一的真神，并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生。” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 17:8 “ 因为你所赐给我的道，我已经赐给他们。他们也领受了，又确实知道，我是从你出来的，并且信你差了我来。” 只有两位生物 约翰福音 20:17 “ 耶稣说：“不要摸我，因为我还没有升上去见我的父。你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说：我要升上去见我的父，也是你们的父；见我上帝，也是你们的上帝。” 只有两位生物 罗马书 8:3 “ 。。。上帝就差遣自己的儿子成为罪身的形状。。。” 只有两位生物 约翰一书 1:3 “ 我们将所看见、所听见的传给你们，使你们与我们相交。我们乃是与父并他儿子耶稣基督相交的。” 只有两位生物 约翰一书 2:22 ， 23 22 “ 谁是说谎话的呢？不是那不认耶稣为基督的吗？不认父与子的，这就是敌基督的。 23 凡不认子的，就没有父；认子的，连父也有了。” 只有两位生物 约翰一书 5:10 ， 11 10 “ 信上帝儿子的，就有这见证在他心里；不信上帝的，就是将上帝当作说谎的，因不信上帝为他儿子作的见证。 11 这见证就是上帝赐给我们永生，这永生也是在他儿子里面。” 只有两位神性生物 【钦定本】以弗所书 3:9 “ 又使众人都明白，这从世界的起头以来，隐藏在借着耶稣基督创造万物之神里的奥秘，是如何安排的。” 只有两位生物 希伯来书 1:1-2 上帝既在古时藉着众先知多次多方地晓谕列祖； 2 就在这末世藉着他儿子晓谕我们，又早已立他为承受万有的；也曾藉着他创造诸世界。” 只有两位生物 这就是为什么约翰福音 1:3 说： “万物是藉着他造的；凡被造的，没有一样不是藉着他造的。”其他版本说：“万物是藉着耶稣基督被造的”，因为“上帝藉着祂创造万物”。 只有两位生物 彼得前书 3:18“ 因基督也曾一次为罪受苦（“受苦”有古卷作“受死”），就是义的代替不义的，为要引我们到上帝面前。按着肉体说，他被治死；按着灵性说，他复活了。” 只有两位生物 启示录 1:1“ 耶稣基督的启示，就是上帝赐给他，叫他将必要成的事指示他的仆人。他就差遣使者晓谕他的仆人约翰。” 只有两位生物 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

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All trinity studies Previous Download Next EGW Quotes on Holy Spirit Who or What is the Holy Spirit? “The HOLY SPIRIT is the SPIRIT of CHRIST, which is sent to all men to give them sufficiency,” — (E.G. White, 14MR 84.3) “We want the HOLY SPIRIT, which is JESUS CHRIST.” — (E.G. White, Lt66, April 10, 1894) “but it is the leaven of the SPIRIT of JESUS CHRIST, which is sent down from heaven, called the HOLY GHOST,” — (E.G. White, Ms36-1891) There is no mistaking that Ellen White says the HOLY SPIRIT is the SPIRIT OF CHRIST. What many fail to understand is that the “Spirit of Christ” can function like a person separate to Himself so it is like it is “another” person, though not a literal person of course. So we do have a heavenly Trio, but NOT a heavenly Trinity! That is twice we have just proven that Ellen White said the SPIRIT OF CHRIST is the third in the Heavenly Trio with unmistakable confirmation. But let's prove it three more times, not that it should be necessary. Ellen White also wrote in the quote, “The COMFORTER that CHRIST PROMISED TO SEND after He ascended to heaven.” The COMFORTER of course is the HOLY SPIRIT which is third in the Heavenly Trio. So whose Spirit does Ellen White say Christ sent? “We cannot be with CHRIST in person, as were His first disciples, but HE HAS SENT HIS HOLY SPIRIT to guide us into all truth, [John 16:13 quoted]” — (E.G. White, Ms30, June 18, 1900) One more time: “CHRIST came to our world, but the world could not endure His purity. He has gone to His Father, but HE HAS SENT HIS HOLY SPIRIT to REPRESENT HIM in the world till He shall come again.” — (E.G. White, Ms1, Jan 11, 1897) Thus Christ sent HIS SPIRIT. It was not Christ physically but HIS Spirit which can function like a person though is not a literal person of course. So His Spirit is like “ANOTHER” person and why she wrote Heavenly Trio! Therefore, it should also require no explanation that the Comforter is not Christ physically but His Spirit. “This refers to the omnipresence of the SPIRIT OF CHRIST, called the COMFORTER.” — (E.G. White, 14MR 179.2) So the Spirit that was sent to be our Comforter and is the third in Heavenly Trio is the SPIRIT OF CHRIST. Why would we expect anything else since she wrote: “We want the HOLY SPIRIT, which is JESUS CHRIST.” — (E.G. White, Lt66, April 10, 1894) And last, Ellen white wrote “THREE GREAT POWERS—the FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.” We know the Father and Son are great powers, and since Ellen White wrote the HOLY SPIRIT is the SPIRIT OF CHRIST, who do you think the third great power is? There is only one possible answer. “CHRIST has given HIS SPIRIT as a divine POWER.” — (E.G. White, RH, Nov 19, 1908) Trinitarians conclude that the third power is another being. But there is NO other POWER in you apart from CHRIST ABIDING IN YOUR HEART by His Holy Spirit in you! “There is NO POWER in you APART from CHRIST, but it is your privilege to have CHRIST ABIDING IN YOUR HEART by faith, and He can overcome sin in you,” — (E.G. White, OHC, 76.5) How easily we can be deceived if we do not let SOP explain SOP and just assume with a Trinitarian mindset as so many do. So she was not saying that there is a third god as per the satanic doctrine of the Trinity at all. NOTE: God raised the Adventist Church as non-Trinitarian. The Trinity doctrine was slowly brought into the Adventist Church long AFTER the death of Ellen White and the pioneers by a suspected Jesuit who is also a known Freemason. The idea of the Holy Spirit as another being was Satan's idea so he could get worship for his creation. The real truth is that the “Holy Spirit” is the power and presence of God and of Christ which can function independently of themselves like a third (but not a literal third) and is how “They” represent “Themselves” where they are not personally present. Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

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返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 下一篇 耶稣是保惠师（启示录3章20节 -在门外叩门） 耶稣是保惠师（启示录3章20节 -在门外叩门） 启示录3：20 看哪，我站在门外叩门，若有听见我声音就开门的，我要进到他那里去，我与他，他与我，一同坐席。 要常常喜乐。不可忘记你有一位保惠师，就是基督所差来的圣灵。你永不会孤单。你若听受那现在向你说话的声音，你若毫不迟疑地应答那敲你心门的声音，说：“主耶稣啊，请进来，让我与祢祢与我一同坐席。”那位自天而来的贵宾就必进来。当这全能神圣的质素与你同在时，就有平安与安息。复临信徒家庭 350.3 "众教会为何如此软弱多病甚至濒临崩溃的原因，在于仇敌带进了令人沮丧的影响，加在颤抖的生灵身上。他（撒但）企图掩盖真理，不让他们看见耶稣就是保惠师，是那责备人，警戒人，和劝勉人说"这是正路，要行在其间"的一位。" （评论与通讯，1890年8月26日，第10段） "你们要时时儆醒，常常祈求，使你们能逃避這一切要来的事，得以站立在人子面前。"（路21:36）各人都需要渴慕生命之粮和生命之水。这个时候，是我们该在上帝面前谦卑心灵，并恳切寻求祂的时候。许多人正期待基督实现成为他们个人救主的愿望。基督正在叩门，在他们的心门外叩门。他们是否愿意让祂进来作尊贵的嘉宾，还是要被日常琐碎事务所缠累，而让神所赋予他们的思维变得肤浅和狭隘呢？他们是否会让自己因过度饮食，醉酒，和今生的思虑而被压倒，变得精疲力尽呢？"--（怀爱伦著，圣经回响，1896年5月4日） 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 Read in English 下一篇 三位一体论的真相 [ trinitytruth.org ] 27-42 (共42部份) （27）父是否比耶稣大？ 鉴于保罗曾说耶稣与上帝同等，那么当耶稣说“父是比我大的”，祂的意思又是什么呢？《圣经》始终是没有矛盾的，那么我们应当如何核对以下这几节经文呢？ “你们听见我对你们说了，我去还要到你们这里来。你们若爱我，因我到父那里去，就必喜乐，因为【我】父是比我大的。” （约14:28） “我愿意你们知道，基督是各人的头，男人是女人的头，上帝是基督的头。” （林前11:3） “他本有上帝的形像，不以自己与上帝同等为强夺的” （腓2:6） 歌罗西书2:9中所用的希腊词theotes是指神性或神的本性。因此神本性一切的丰盛都住在祂儿子耶稣基督里面。而腓立比书2:6中的“形象”一词是指“形状或本性”，所以保罗的意思是说，基督与祂父亲同等的方式是在于祂的“本性”，这是祂作为上帝的儿子所承受的。 约翰福音14:28 “父是比我大的”其中的“大”字是指地位更高，就好比人类父子以及夫妻之间的关系一样。哥林多前书11:3说明女人的头是男人。但这是否意味着男人比女人在品质上更优秀呢？答案显然是否定的。女人和男人一样都是属于人类，因此男女在本性上是相等的。男人比女人大，只是在地位上而已。这种意义也应用在父子身上。 父亲比儿子大，是因为先有父后有子，同样的道理也应用于我们的天父和祂儿子身上。父神在地位上比较大，因为祂是首先有的，但在本性上或腓立比书2:6所指的形象上，父就不比儿子大了。 供復临信徒参考： “父是比儿子大的，因为父是首先的。” （怀雅各著，《评论与通讯》1881年1月4日）“父子虽然有相同的本性，但父在时间上是首先有的。祂也是比较大的，因为祂没有开始，而基督的位格是有开始的。” （瓦格纳著，《时兆报刊》，1889年4月8日） 上面我们也观察到在本性上相等的相同概念，但基督甘心顺服祂父亲，因为父比祂大，毕竟先有祂父亲然后才有祂。我们在这些经文中发现上帝所设立的领头与顺服的原则，展现于神圣父子之间，也同样展现于婚姻制度之中。这些原则也启示上帝与基督是实际的父与子。如復临先锋瓦格纳、怀雅各、以及《圣经》所启示的，基督作为儿子是在父之后才有的。 然而，我们也发现，父“赐给”祂儿子所有的权柄能力，并将万物交在祂手里。这样，基督受赐予“一个崇高的地位”，并在权柄能力上获得祂父亲册封为同等的。不过虽然说父已册封祂儿子为同等的，但是祂父亲仍然是比祂大的，而祂依然顺服祂父亲。 “天上地下所有的权柄，都赐给我了。”（马太福音28:18）约翰又写道：“父爱子，已将万有交在他手里。”（约翰3:35） 给复临信徒参考： “上帝是基督的父亲；基督是上帝的儿子。基督已受赐予一个崇高的地位。祂已被册封为与父同等的。”——怀爱伦著，《教会证言卷八》原文第268页，第3段 三位一体论声称父子圣灵是三位同等并同永恒的神。但是怀爱论说，基督是被祂父册封为与祂父同等的，正如《圣经》也是这么启示的，这再次证明这理论是从撒但来的谎言。 亚当和夏娃（男人和女人）其实是圣父和圣子的一个微型例子。想想哥林多前书11:3（“男人是女人的头，上帝是基督的头”）和以下关于领头的经文：“你们作妻子的，当顺服自己的丈夫，如同顺服主。因为丈夫是妻子的头，如同基督是教会的头，他又是教会全体的救主。教会怎样顺服基督，妻子也要怎样凡事顺服丈夫。”（以弗所书5:22-24） 圣经式的领头人 父亲 —— 儿子 丈夫 —— 妻子 基督 —— 教会 牧者（男人）—— 教会 圣父和圣子所定义的圣经式领头人之神圣楷模启示了重要的原则。比如说，上帝怎样是基督的头，丈夫怎样是他妻子的头，照样，基督也是教会的头。亚当是用地上的尘土造的，而夏娃则是从亚当的一根肋骨出来的。上帝这么做，只有一个逻辑的理由，就是要示范给我们看，一个生物是可以从另一个生物出来的，而仍然有着同样的本性。故此，这个例子已赐下给我们，显示基督是如何从父出来的，并且有着祂父一样的神性。 这也启示了为什么按立女牧者是不合宜的。举个例子，三位一体论声称有三位同等的生物，而三位的任何一位都有可能扮演儿子的角色并为我们而死。那么三位一体论容许互相转换角色，而按照这个原则，任何一位都可以改换角色。因此，男人和女人在领导教会上互换角色的错误，就好比基督顺服教会或丈夫顺服妻子，甚至或上帝的儿子作祂父的头一样的荒谬。这所有的例子都违背了上帝所立下的神圣楷模。上述任何角色的颠倒能改变上帝在父子的例子中所设立的次序。这么说，三位一体论不按照那神圣的楷模和属天的例子，并存在着诸多弊病。比如说，如果圣灵是第三位生物的话，那么他又如何融入上帝的神圣楷模呢？二不等于三，三也不等于一。 圣子从父出来（约8:42；箴8:22-30）＜——＞女人从男人出来（创2:21-23） 父是基督的头（林前11:3）＜——＞男人是女人的头（林前11:3） 圣子跟圣父的名＜——＞夏娃由亚当命名 圣子从父出来，所以借着遗传有着父相同的性质（神性）＜——＞夏娃从亚当出来，所以借着遗传有着亚当一样的性质（人性） 圣子借着遗传被称为神。基督被称为神但不是祂出自的那位神＜——＞夏娃借着遗传被称为人。夏娃是人但不是她出自的那个人。 父子因关系而平等（一个灵）＜——＞亚当夏娃因关系而平等（一个肉体） 万物都是借着基督而被造的（弗3:9）＜——＞全人类都是借着夏娃而来的（创3:20） 圣父是天上家庭的头＜——＞亚当是地上家庭的头 （28）耶稣在世时是否全知全能？ 在约翰福音21:17中，彼得对基督说：“主啊，你是无所不知的。” 那么我们又该如何理解耶稣这句话：“但那日子，那时辰，没有人知道，连天上的使者也不知道，子也不知道，惟有父知道。” （马可福音13:32）这里似乎有个矛盾，因为耶稣承认自己不知道一件事。《圣经》也说：“耶稣的智慧和身量（或作：年纪），并神和人喜爱他的心，都一齐增长。” （路加福音2:52）如果你已知道一切事，你又如何增长智慧呢？又说：“他虽然为儿子，还是因所受的苦难学了顺从。“ （希伯来书5:8）耶稣是否因那所为祂预备的身体而受到限制呢？祂是否像我们一样不得不学习各样事情呢？那彼得的话是什么意思呢？他说得对吗？因为耶稣并没有驳斥他。或许耶稣有一定的方法能有效的知道任何祂所需要知道的事？ 我们在许多《圣经》章节中找到了答案，例如约翰福音14:26，说：“...父因我的名所要差来的圣灵，他要将一切的事，指教你们，” 这句话是否意味着我们可以真的知道一切的事？人类的脑袋是否真的可以装得下上帝一切无限的智慧呢？这里所要申明的重点是，没有任何事是上帝的灵所无法向我们或向祂儿子指教或启示的。父知道一切的事，那么基督也可以透过圣灵的能力来知道祂所需要知道的任何事，不论是别人的想法，或者是按上帝的旨意所需的任何知识都好。 这不止涉及上帝圣灵的全知，也包含了祂的全能在内。在马太福音12:22-32中，耶稣赶走了魔鬼。法利赛人就告祂借着魔鬼的力量赶鬼。但耶稣由于是个百分百的人，就告诉他们说，祂是靠着上帝的灵赶鬼的。然后祂又告诉他们说，他们可以说话干犯人子而获得赦免，但亵渎圣灵总不得赦免。为什么呢？因为第28节说祂是靠着上帝的灵赶鬼的。别忘记，耶稣道成肉身，是百分百的人类。法利赛人所亵渎的不是人子，而是上帝的灵，因为那鬼是靠着上帝之灵的能力被赶走的。他们把圣灵的工作归因于撒但，因而亵渎了圣灵。无论如何，耶稣若不是暂时放下了祂的全能，就不会靠着圣灵的能力赶鬼了。耶稣说：“我凭着自己不能作什么。” （约翰福音5:30） 注意，马太福音12:22-32透露，那不得赦免的罪和亵渎圣灵，就是把圣灵的工作归因于撒但。有些三位一体论信徒不明白这一点，便结论说亵渎圣灵就是分享反三位一体论的课题。这是明显不对的。那主张三位一体论又如何呢？他们是否有可能实际上犯了亵渎圣灵的罪呢？如果“上帝的灵”是真的“上帝的灵”，就如《圣经》所说，而不是《圣经》从来没有用过的什么“圣灵上帝”呢？如果三位一体论是错的话，那么他们口中的圣灵就确实是撒但的创作，而不是父和子的灵。如果这是撒但的杰作，那么信三位一体论的人便是将圣灵的工作归因于谁呢？他们将无意间把上帝之灵的工作归因于撒但，这才是不得赦免的罪！你千万不能弄错这一点。 给复临信徒参考： “是什么构成干犯圣灵的罪？是将圣灵的工作刻意归因于撒但。” （怀爱伦著，《教会证言卷五》第634页，第1段，1889年） “干犯圣灵最常见的方式是执着不断的轻视上天请人悔改的邀请。拒绝基督的每一步骤，就是朝向拒绝救恩和干犯圣灵的一个步骤。” （怀爱伦著，《历代愿望》第324页，第2段）“犹太民族因拒绝基督而犯下了那不得赦免的罪。我们也可能因拒绝接受救恩的邀请而犯同样的错误。” （《历代愿望》第324页，第3段） 据《圣经》若干次披露，基督在世所行的神迹都是祂在天上的父行的。约翰福音11:40-41显示，拉撒路的复活是借着祂父亲所行的。耶稣所行过的每一件大神迹也都是由祂的门徒或旧约的众先知以类似的方式施行的，包括在水面上行走和叫死人复活。（太14:29 ；约14:12；徒20:9-10；王上17:22）这并非说明他们是万能的，而是说明上帝与他们同在，正如祂与祂儿子同在一样。耶稣医好了那瘫子后，“众人看见都惊奇，就归荣耀与神，因为他将这样的权柄赐给人。” （马太福音9:8）彼得解释说：“上帝怎样以圣灵和能力，膏拿撒勒人耶稣，这都是你们知道的，他周流四方行善事，医好凡被魔鬼压制的人，因为神与他同在。” （使徒行传10:38）耶稣也解释说：“...住在我里面的父作他自己的事。” （约翰福音14:10） 给复临信徒参考： “基督为有病和痛苦的人所行的所有神迹都是本着上帝的能力，因着众天使的服侍而行的。” （怀爱伦著，《评论与通讯》1873年1月21日） 据《圣经》透露，基督所知道的事，就只有祂成为人之后所学习的事，还有祂父亲借着祂的灵向祂启示的事。既然我们在天上的父知道万事，那么基督也可以有效的知道万事，“如果”上帝的灵向祂启示。这样说来，如果耶稣不知道祂复临的日子时辰，那只能是因为祂父亲没有向祂启示这一点，而我们没有被告知其背后的理由。《圣经》显示耶稣知道别人心里所想的，但为了使这事与其他经文保持一致起见，耶稣这种洞察人心的能力必然是透过圣灵而得的。彼得、以利沙和但以理也都是借着上帝的启示而能知道别人心里所想的。（徒5:1-4；王下5:25-27；但2:28-30） 有些人会回应说，耶稣的人性不知道，但祂的神性知道，这是因为三位一体论教导说，耶稣一个人但祂以两种性质存活。耶稣不可能有两个心，一个知道，另一个不知道。当然，除非你要说身体与心灵是没有联系的荒唐论调。 为什么有些人难以接受和明白门徒还有其他先知都是本着圣灵的能力去行耶稣所行的所有相同神迹呢（罗15:9）？所以当耶稣成为人来到世间时，祂也以同样的方式行神迹。这也不明白吗？很多人似乎拒绝接受他们的主和救主成为人的时候放弃了许多事。他们似乎不能相信耶稣暂时放下了祂的全在、全知和全能。虽然很多人能接受耶稣放下了祂的全在功能，但那是因为他们没有办法避免这个事实。 然而，有多少人停下来想想他们救主那难以置信的爱，因祂暂时放下这些事而得以作出了远远更大的牺牲，还要冒着巨大失败的可能。耶稣甚至放下自己的尊严而经历了婴儿尿床的时期。只要我们接受《圣经》所记载的史实，就不需要到处去寻找策略来解释其他指出错误的经文。我们需要能够让所有经文和谐一致，并意识到当我们开始尝试把四方形的钉子或橛子硬塞进一个圆形的洞子里，那我们就会一事无成。 保罗在腓立比书2:5-9谈到基督的牺牲与谦卑时说，祂来世上时舍去了许多事，以至于死，而我们应当有祂这种心志和态度。希腊原文说祂本有上帝的形象或性情，但祂反倒虚己，意味着祂放下了那些使祂不能像我们一样活着和死亡的神性特性。如果祂保留着与上帝同样的形象和性情，那祂就不可能会感到困倦或遭受痛楚和人类所经历的各样事。耶稣本有一切包括不死的身体，但是祂却乐意为我们放弃一切，牺牲所有。可是到最后祂还做了一个更大的牺牲，祂放弃了不死的特性，以人类的身份而死，而且还死得异常痛苦且漫长。有些人不愿意承认基督所放弃的一切，那么他们也是不承认祂为了我们所付出的牺牲的程度与深度，及其如何彰显祂与祂父亲对我们那不可估量的爱。 那当耶稣回到天上祂父亲的身边时，祂得回了什么？事实上我们没有被告知具体的情况。但是我们知道祂得回了祂的全在特性，就是透过作我们的保惠师圣灵。比如耶稣说过：“我就常与你们同在，直到世界的末了。” （马太福音28:20）我们也知道，耶稣保留着祂手脚和肋旁上的伤痕（约20:25-27）。我们设想祂得回了一切，但我们还必须等到我们见到祂的时候才能知道祂与祂父亲为了我们究竟付出了多大的牺牲。 还有一个例子可供我们参考的，这也是很多人略过不看的地方。启示录1:1 说：“耶稣基督的启示，就是神赐给他，叫他将必要快成的事指示他的众仆人，他就差遣使者，晓谕他的仆人约翰。” 这启示是上帝赐给耶稣基督的。如果耶稣知道所有事的话，那祂怎么还需要祂父亲给祂启示这些事呢？ 这也说明耶稣不可能是那独一真神父上帝，或与父平行同等同永恒，如三位一体论所声称的那样。 （29）耶稣是否从古直到永远都不能死？ 三位一体论教导说，耶稣基督与父上帝全方位同等。所以他们声称既然父不能死，那么子也不能死。但是《圣经》说，只有一位不能死的，祂就是父上帝。《圣经》说，当耶稣显现时，祂就必将“那可称颂独有权能的，万王之王，万主之主，就是那独一不死，住在人不能靠近的光里，是人未曾看见，也是不能看见的，... 显明出来。但愿尊贵和永远的权能，都归给他。” （提摩太前书6:15-16）这只可能是我们的天父，因祂是那“从来没有人看见”（约翰1:18）的一位。父是“那独一不死”的。但我们知道有朝一日，我们也将“要变成不死的。” （哥林多前书15:53） 那么当《圣经》说父是“那独一不死”的，它的意思想必是在一种绝对与没有局限之意义上的不死。《圣经》透露说，父是唯一在任何情况下都不能死的一位。耶稣备受死亡的影响，并且“为我们的罪死了。” （哥林多前书15:3）人类是能死的，“惟有犯罪的，他必死亡。” （以西结书18:20）天使也是能死的，因有“永火”是“为魔鬼和他的使者所预备的。”（马太福音25:41）上帝对撒但说：“我使火从你中间发出，烧灭你，使你在所有观看的人眼前，变为地上的炉灰。... 你令人惊恐，不再存留于世，直到永远。”（以西结书28:18, 19）所以确实唯有父上帝在任何情况下都不能死，这就排除了祂儿子，因耶稣“为人人尝了死味。” （希伯来书2:9）所以说，耶稣在世时不是不能死的，而祂成为人的最主要原因就是让祂能够为我们的罪而死。上帝的儿子为我们的罪经历了真实的死亡。（以赛亚书53:6；约翰一书2:2） 另有一些人声称，基督从天上下来，住在人体中，而只有这个人体死亡，而那从天而来的神性生物则依然活着。如果是这样的话，那我们便必须结论说，那为我们的救赎所作出的牺牲，只是一个人类的牺牲罢了。然而，若说一个人类的牺牲就足以救赎人类，或说基督只死了一半的话，那是不符合《圣经》的。如果基督只不过装死的话，那祂就不必成为人了，因为不成为人也能装死。希伯来书的作者说， 耶稣“成为比天使小一点... ；为［了］受死的苦... ” （希伯来书2:9）基督亲自向约翰明白地说祂曾死过。 “又是那存活的；我曾死过，现在又活了，直活到永永远远；并且拿着死亡和阴间的钥匙。” （启示录1:18） “基督［真的］照圣经所说：为我们的罪死了。” （哥林多前书:15:3） 给复临信徒参考： “祂［基督］谦卑自己，并取了能死的本性。作为人类家庭的一份子，祂是能死的。” （怀爱伦著，《评论与通讯》1900年9月4日） （30）谁能为罪人而死？ 父不能死的原因： 1）父是一切生命的本源（林前8:6 “然而我们只有一位上帝，就是父，万物都本于他；我们也归于他”）。祂死了，全宇宙众生都会死。所以祂是独一不死的（提前6:16）。 2）父上帝是赐律法者。律法代表上帝的品格。有上帝就有律法，没有上帝就没有律法。没有律法就没有罪，没有罪也就没有死亡的必要。 3）父上帝与律法是相等的，所以祂不受自己律法的约束。祂是至高无上的，不敬拜也不服从任何生物。律法要求罪人的死，但祂不可能成全自己律法的要求。 上帝不能死，律法也不能废。律法要罪人的命，罪人必须死，除非有配得上律法的人来代替罪人而死。 上帝的儿子配得上为罪人而死，原因是: （1）在神性、品格、价值上，基督与上帝同等，因为祂是上帝所生的儿子，是上帝本体与品德的真像（来1:3 “他是上帝荣耀所发的光辉，是上帝本体的真像，常用他权能的命令托住万有”）。上帝一切的丰盛都住在基督里面（西2:9 “因为上帝本性一切的丰盛，都有形有体的居住在基督里面”）。儿子自然继承父的一切。由于祂是独生子，所以全宇宙也只有祂一位是与上帝同等的。因为律法与上帝同样神圣，所以只有与上帝同样神圣或同等的生物才能满足律法的要求，配得上为罪人而死。天使也不配为人类而死，因为只有那创造人类的主才能救赎人类，而人类就是借着基督而受造的。 基督作为上帝的亲生儿子，祂的生命比人类的生命更高贵，甚至比未堕落前的亚当还高贵。祂完美的品格和祂在天庭的权威远远超越了第一个亚当。所以祂的死就比任何人的死更有价值。就因如此，启5:9 说只有那被杀的羔羊配拿书卷，配揭开七印。（启示录:5:9 “他们唱新歌，说：你配拿书卷，配揭开七印；因为你曾被杀，用自己的血从各族、各方、各民、各国中买了人来，叫他们归于上帝”） “违犯上帝的律法原要以犯法者的生命作为抵偿。在全宇宙之中，只有一位能代替人类来满足这律法的要求。上帝的律法既与上帝自己同样神圣，所以只有那与上帝同等的一位才能为违犯律法的人类赎罪。除了基督之外，没有人能救赎堕落的人类脱离律法的咒诅，并使他们重新与上天和谐。基督愿意把犯罪的疚责和耻辱归到自己身上---这罪在圣洁的上帝看来是那么可憎，甚至圣父与圣子必须分离。基督愿意下到祸患的深渊来拯救败亡的人类。”（怀爱伦著，《奇异的神恩》，第42页） （2）上帝儿子的权威仅次于上帝的权威（林前15:28 “万物既服了他，那时，子也要自己服那叫万物服他的，叫上帝在万物之上，为万物之主”）。所以基督是受上帝律法之约束的。祂敬拜祂父为祂的神（约20:17 “耶稣说：不要摸我，因我还没有升上去见我的父，你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说：我要升上去，见我的父，也是你们的父，见我的神，也是你们的神”）。祂父是祂独一的真神（约17:3 “认识你独一的真神，并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生”），祂没有别的神（第一条诫命：出20:3 “除了我以外，你不可有别的神”）。以祂的神性品格，祂完美地遵守了祂父的律法（约15:10 “你们若遵守我的命令，就常在我的爱里，正如我遵守了我父的命令，常在他的爱里”）。祂圣洁无罪的生活满足了律法神圣的要求（来4:15 “因我们的大祭司，并非不能体恤我们的软弱，他也曾凡事受过试探，与我们一样，只是他没有犯罪”）。只有一个无瑕疵的祭品才能代替罪人。（彼前1:18,19 “知道你们得赎，脱去你们祖宗所传流虚妄的行为，不是凭着能坏的金银等物，乃是凭着基督的宝血，如同无瑕疵、无玷污的羔羊之血。”） （3）基督与父不同，祂有能力放下祂永恒的生命（约10:18 “没有人夺我的命去，是我自己舍的。我有权柄舍了，也有权柄取回来，这是我从我父所受的命令”）。祂的死不会影响宇宙万物的生存。还有父维持万物的生命。父是生命的本源。基督从父那里得到了永生的权能（约5:26 “因为父怎样在自己有生命，就赐给他儿子也照样在自己有生命”），作为渠道祂把父的生命赐给众生（约5:21 “父怎样叫死人起来，使他们活着，子也照样随自己的意思使人活着”）。 总结：三位一体论说圣父圣子圣灵三位全方位同等。假如耶稣与圣父全面同等的话，那祂也就不能死，也不必顺从父的旨意，不必守律法，也就不必牺牲自己作无瑕疵的祭品了。这样的话，人类就没有了救主，没有了得永生的盼望。只有基督才配得上成为人，代替罪人而死，作为一个没有瑕疵的牺牲。这就足以推翻三位一体论了。 （31）基督是不是父上帝？ 耶稣说过80多次祂不是父上帝。耶稣与父虽然保持着意志上的合一，但祂们明显是两个分开不同的生物，我们之前也看过了这一点。父在超过一次的场合上从天上对耶稣说话。（马太福音3:17）“从天上有声音说：这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的。” 要么耶稣与父是两个不同的生物，要么耶稣是一个专业的腹语术表演者。 给复临信徒参考： “基督本体的神性没有变为人性，而人子的人性也没有变成神性，而两者是在人类的救主身上神秘地混合在一起的。祂不是父，但神本性一切的丰盛都有形有体的居住在祂里面。” （怀爱伦著，《信函8a》1890年7月7日） “人子耶稣基督不是主神全能者，然而基督与父原为一。” （怀爱伦著，《文稿140号》1903年） “基督与祂门徒之间所存在的合一没有毁灭他们双方的位格。他们在意志、思想、品格上合而为一，但在本体位格上他们是分开的。上帝与基督也是这样合而为一的。” （怀爱伦著，《教会证言卷八》原文第269页第4段，1904年） （32）耶稣是不是永在的父？ “因有一婴孩为我们而生，有一子赐给我们，政权必担在他的肩头上，他名称为奇妙，策士，全能的神，永在的父，和平的君。”（以赛亚书 9:6） 答案在于希伯来文本的正确翻译。巴恩斯（Albert Barnes）的《圣经注释》（Notes on the Bible ）解释说：“《迦勒底文本圣经》（The Chaldee）把这词翻译成‘永存者’。《通俗拉丁文本圣经》（The Vulgate）译成‘未来岁月之父’。《洛斯版本圣经》（Lowth）则译成‘永恒岁月之父’。在其字面意义上，就是指永恒之父。” 所以在希伯来文本当中，这词句按照字面解读就是“永恒之父”，而不是“永在的父”。故此，以赛亚书9:6并不是表达基督是父上帝，而是表达祂是将来永恒岁月之父。《杨氏直译本》（Young's Literal Translation）和《达秘译本》（Darby Bible）是少数把这词翻译得正确无误的两本译本。 “因有一婴孩为我们而生，有一子赐给我们，君权必担在他的肩头上，祂称他名为奇妙，策士，全能的神，永恒之父，和平之君。”（以赛亚书 9:6 《杨氏直译本》） “因有一婴孩为我们而生，有一子赐给我们，政权必担在他的肩头上，他名称为奇妙，策士，全能的神，永恒之父，和平之君。”（以赛亚书 9:6 《达秘译本》） 耶稣创造了万物，而同样的，祂也是受造物之父（来1:2；约1: 3 ；西1:16, 17）。还有意思的是，耶稣和使徒们所引用的希腊文《七十士译本》（Septuagint）并不含这个词语。那么这个大多数译本都错误翻译的词语到底是怎样进入希伯来文圣经的呢？ 《七十士译本》的以赛亚书9:6是这样翻译的：“因有一婴孩为我们而生，有一子赐给我们，政权必担在他的肩头上，他名称为伟大策士的使者，因我必给众君王带来和平，并给他健康。” 耶稣所引用的旧约希腊文《七十士译本》透露了以赛亚书9:6原本最有可能的说法。它是由70至72位犹太学者于公元前300至200年间翻译的，所以它是取自最古老及最可靠的手抄本。然而，希伯来文的旧约圣经是由一批马所拉学士于公元第6世纪编制的。公认的事实是，在第六和第七世纪间，很多文本变体和添加悄悄然地进入了希伯来文本之中。那么以赛亚9:6这句添加的文本是从哪里来的，而且还被大多现代学者错误翻译呢？ 有一件事无人能否认的是，只有其中一个翻译本是正确的。但是哪一个呢？是从最古老的手抄本翻译的《七十士译本》呢，还是那些于第六和第七世纪之间出现变体的后期版本呢？ （33）我与父原为一？ 在约翰福音10:30中，基督宣告说：“我与父原为一。” 这一节经文应该是当今最被三位一体论信徒误用误解的经文了。许多人结论说，这意味着耶稣和父是同一位生物，正如三位一体论的解说。然而这一节不应该被误解，因为耶稣在约翰福音中稍后解释了祂这句话的具体意思。所以这是一个典型的例子，显示这么多三位一体论信徒如何已经被满脑子灌入了先入为主的观念。 对于神性生物的数目所产生的混淆，一部分是来自人们对“一”字的误解。简单来说，《圣经》所说的“一”不一定代表数量。《圣经》经常用“一”字来代表团结合一。 我们看到这个原则在《圣经》中很早就已经立定了。创世记2:24 “因此，人要离开父母，与妻子连合，二人成为一体。” 这里的“一体”不代表两个人结婚后就融化成为一个人的意思，而是说两人结合成为一家人。罗马书12:5 “我们这许多人，在基督里成为一身，互相联络作肢体，也是如此。” 那么这是否把我们大家都变成单一的基督徒呢？如果你按照三位一体论的方程式的话，答案就必须是肯定的！ 犹太领袖听了耶稣在约翰福音10:30这一番话，就勃然大怒，于是想办法处死祂，因为他们认为耶稣自称自己与上帝同等。约翰福音10:33： “犹太人回答说：我们不是为善事拿石头打你，是为你说僭jian4妄的话，又为你是个人，反将自己当作神。” 再过三节我们看到耶稣澄清祂这话的意思，自称是上帝的儿子。约翰福音10:36 ：“父所分别为圣，又差到世间来的，他自称是上帝的儿子，你们还向他说：你说僭jian4妄的话吗？” 所以耶稣没有说祂与圣父是同一位，因为圣父跟圣子是不同的一位，圣子跟圣父也是不同的一位。根据《约翰•吉尔圣经注释》对约翰福音10:30的解释，另一个显示耶稣与圣父不是同一位的证据是，这一节中的动词是复数的，因此应该翻译成“我与父，我们原为一。” 无论如何，我们不需要猜测耶稣所说祂与祂父原为一的意思，因为稍后在约翰福音里基督自己的话显示了祂话中的确切含意。基督的意思是合一，因为祂祷告祈求，叫祂门徒也能合一，如同祂与祂父合一一样。这个祷告不是叫12个门徒变成一个12头的门徒，而是叫12个门徒在合一中同心协力的合作同工。 约翰福音17:22 “你所赐给我的荣耀，我已赐给他们，使他们合而为一，像我们合而为一。” 约翰福音17:11 “圣父阿，求你因你所赐给我的名保守他们，叫他们合而为一像我们一样。” 约翰福音14:11也是经常被错误引用来指圣父和圣子是同一位上帝。在这里，耶稣说：“我在父里面，父在我里面。” 按照这种误解的逻辑，不知道这些人要怎样解释我们也在祂里面，而祂也在我们里面这句话。约翰福音14:20 “到那日你们就知道我在父里面，你们在我里面，我也在你们里面。” 约翰福音17:21 “使他们都合而为一，正如你父在我里面，我在你里面，使他们也在我们里面...。” 既然三位一体论教导说有三位全方位同等的生物，那么按照这个说法，约翰福音10:30应该是这样写的：“我与父与圣灵原为一。” 但事实并不是这样的。的确有三个实体，但只有两个生物。 给复临信徒参考： “基督本体里的神性没有变为人性，而人子的人性也没有变成神性，而两者是在人类的救主身上神秘地混合在一起的。祂不是圣父，但神本性一切的丰盛都有形有体的居住在祂里面。” （怀爱伦著，《信函8a》1890年7月7日） “人子耶稣基督不是主神全能者，不过基督与圣父原为一。” （怀爱伦著，《文稿140号》1903年） “基督与祂门徒之间所存在的合一并不毁灭他们双方的位格。他们在意志、思想、品格上合而为一，但在本体位格上他们是分开的。上帝与基督也是这样合而为一的。” （怀爱伦著，《教会证言卷八》原文第269页第4段，1904年版） “基督祷告叫祂的门徒都能合而为一，像祂与父合而为一一样。” （怀爱伦著，《评阅宣报》，1888年5月29日） （34）人看见了我就是看见了父 在约翰福音14:9中，耶稣说：“人看见了我，就是看见了父。” 基督是不是说祂自己就是父，或者说祂是祂父“本体的真像”，从而有同样的本性、特性和荣耀呢？换句话说，人看见了一个，就等于看见了另一个。下面我们来看两位学者的评论。 《约翰•吉尔圣经全释》对约翰福音14:9的解释是： “人看见了我，不是用肉眼来看，而是用慧眼来看，人看见了我里面的神性完美，就是看见了父，在祂里面的完美。因为在我里面的，也同样在祂里面，而在祂里面的，也同样在我里面。我是祂的真形像，我有和祂同样的本性、特性和荣耀，以至人看见了一个，就是看见了另一个。” 基督是祂父的真像。哥林多后书4:4 “此等不信之人，被这世界的神弄瞎了心眼，不叫基督荣耀福音的光照着他们，基督本是上帝的像。” 《巴恩斯圣经注释》对哥林多后书4:4的解释是：“谁是上帝的像？基督被称为上帝的像： （1）是基于祂的神性，祂在祂的神性特性和完美上与上帝一模一样。参阅西1:15和来1:3。 （2）是在祂身为中保的道德特性上，祂向人展现出圣父的荣耀。祂像上帝。在祂里面，我们看见了祂所体现和发出的神性荣耀和完美。 由于祂在各方面都像上帝，所以祂被称为上帝的像。通过祂，神性一切的完美得以向人彰显。撒但最讨厌最憎恨的，就是基督作为上帝的像，祂的荣耀照在人身上，并充满他们的心。撒但恨这个像，他恨人们变得像上帝，他恨一切与伟大荣耀的耶和华相似的人物。” 歌罗西书1:15 “爱子是那不能看见之上帝的像，是首生的，在一切被造的以先。” 希伯来书1:3 “他是上帝荣耀所发的光辉，是上帝本体的真像，常用他权能的命令托住万有，他洗净了人的罪，就坐在高天至大者的右边。” 儿子或多或少是他父亲的复制品。他在某种程度上有他父亲的特征和个人品质，当然不是完全一模一样，因为在人类当中是没有十全十美的复制的。但在上帝或祂的任何创造当中是没有不完全的，所以基督是父本体的“真像”。 由此可见，耶稣的意思是，祂是祂父的真像，并有同样的本性、特性和荣耀。基督的话不可能意味着祂就是父，因为《圣经》告诉我们，约翰一书4:12说： “从来没有人见过上帝，我们若彼此相爱，上帝就住在我们里面，爱他的心在我们里面得以完全了。” 只有基督才看见过独一真神父上帝。约翰福音6:46 “这不是说：有人看见过父，惟独从上帝来的［耶稣］，他看见过父。” 给复临信徒参考： “基督明显地烙印在门徒的脑海中这个事实，他们只能凭信心看见父上帝。没有人能看见上帝的外形。唯独基督能向人类彰显父上帝。［引用约14:9］” （怀爱伦著，《评阅宣报》，1897年10月19日） 根据三位一体论的教导，这一节应该是这样写的：“人看见了我，就是看见了父和圣灵。” 但是事实并非如此。神里面虽然有三个实体，但只有两个是生物。第三个是他们的灵。 （35）多马是否相信耶稣是圣父？ 约翰福音:20:28 “多马说：我的主，我的上帝。” 我们只能推测多马为什么会这么说，但既然他被称为“怀疑”的多马，我们可以理解，他这句话或是在惊奇和难以置信的顷刻间脱口而出的。多马是犹太人，所以有可能是用了旧约时代一种普遍的表达方式，就是把上帝所认可的代表都称为“上帝”。希伯来语用elohim来指上帝，但同时也可以指下列的任何例子。 （1）统治者、审判官，在神圣地点供职的神圣代表人，或反映出神圣威严与大能者。 （2）神物，超乎人类的生物，包括上帝和天使。 因此，多马不是称呼耶稣为上帝，至少在三位一体论的意义上，而可能是称呼祂为一位反映神性大能与威严的人，或是一位统治者。如果不是这样的话，那下面是为何多马这么说的最大可能性原因。 按着正当的文法范畴来说，我们发现“我的主，我的上帝”这句话称呼了两个不同的个体。不过，按原文的文法来看，多马是对耶稣一个人说的。 所以我们必须找出一个不违背文法的诠释。这是可行的，只要我们明白，多马在说这句话的时候，虽然他是对着耶稣说的，但他同时也称呼在耶稣里面的父上帝。它的上下文也支持这个论点。我们来看耶稣之前与怀疑的多马和腓力所谈的一段话。 约翰福音:14:5-10 “多马对他说：主阿，我们不知道你往那里去，怎么知道那条路呢？耶稣说我就是道路、真理、生命；若不借着我，没有人能到父那里去。你们若认识我，也就认识我的父，从今以后，你们认识他，并且已经看见他。腓力对他说：求主将父显给我们看，我们就知足了。耶稣对他说：腓力，我与你们同在这么长久，你还不认识我吗？人看见了我，就是看见了父，你怎么说：将父显给我们看呢？我在父里面，父在我里面，你不信吗？我对你们所说的话，不是凭着自己说的，乃是住在我里面的父作他自己的事。” 腓力当着多马的面告诉耶稣说，他能看见父也就知足了。耶稣回答多马和腓力说，看见了祂（耶稣）就等于看见了父，因为父在祂里面。但是多马还是不明白。 多马下一次与耶稣对话是在约翰福音20:28。现在多马已经明白父在耶稣里面做工，甚至叫耶稣从死里复活，所以看见了耶稣，也就是看见了父。因此多马才会发出这样的惊叹：“我的主（耶稣），我的上帝（父）！” 多马并没有称呼耶稣为他的“主和上帝”。 我们也知道，怀疑的多马不可能宣告耶稣是那独一真神上帝。原因是在上面几节，在约翰福音20:17，约翰记载了复活的耶稣向末大拉的玛利亚显现，并告诉她说，“不要摸我，因我还没有升上去见我的父，你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说：我要升上去，见我的父，也是你们的父，见我的上帝，也是你们的上帝。” 耶稣说祂的上帝是祂父亲，而祂的上帝也是玛利亚的上帝。耶稣有没有告诉玛利亚说祂是她的上帝呢？没有，相反的，耶稣非常具体地说祂的上帝也是玛利亚的上帝。 既然复活的基督称呼圣父为“我的上帝”，那耶稣怎么可能是上帝，如果连祂自己都有上帝呢？约翰确实不可能说多马用三位一体论的意义来称耶稣为“我的上帝”，因为约翰刚才记载了耶稣称呼父为“我的上帝”。多马不可能称耶稣为上帝，因为约翰写道，耶稣升上去见玛利亚和多马两人的同一位上帝。 再说，在多马承认了耶稣之后的仅仅一节里，约翰福音20:30-31，约翰就结论说： “耶稣在门徒面前，另外行了许多神迹，没有记在这书上。但记这些事，要叫你们信耶稣是基督，是上帝的儿子，并且叫你们信了他，就可以因他的名得生命。” 约翰没有说“要叫你们信耶稣是上帝”。如果是这样的话，那么约翰宣告耶稣为上帝就远远大于宣告祂为上帝的儿子了。 由此可见，耶稣不是父上帝，也不是上帝，而是上帝的儿子。我们若相信祂是真的上帝的儿子，我们就能因祂作为圣子的名分而得永生。阿们。 （36）只有上帝才能赦罪吗？ 三位一体论老是聚焦于一个法利赛人所说的话，却对耶稣亲口所说的话视而不见。从这一点就能看出其迷惑人之处。有些人称耶稣就是上帝，因为这些法利赛人说只有上帝才能赦罪。 （马可福音2:7） “这个人为什么这样说呢？他说僭妄的话了，除了上帝以外，谁能赦罪呢？” 但是这些耶稣说进不了天国的法利赛人（马太5:20；23:13）不知道或不接受耶稣是上帝的儿子，他们也不相信父上帝已经把做这些事的权柄都交给了耶稣。三节之后，耶稣说祂已经被赋予赦罪的权柄了。 （马可福音2:10） “但要叫你们知道人子在地上有赦罪的权柄... ” 不单只是赦罪的权柄，耶稣也说：（马太福音28:18） “天上地下所有的权柄，都赐给我了。” 约翰也说：（约翰福音3:35）“父爱子，已将万有交在他手里。” 注意，上帝已经将“所有的权柄”、“万有”都 “赐给”祂儿子了。如果圣子是上帝如同圣父是上帝一样，又如果圣子是全能者如同圣父是全能者一样，那么圣子怎能被赐予任何事物，假如祂本身是上帝呢？上帝本身自然就有这些东西，怎么可能还需要任何生物把这些东西“赐给”祂呢？上帝不依靠任何人或物来获取这些东西。但是我们清楚看到，耶稣必须依靠祂父亲来将万有交在祂手里。耶稣也照样获得了祂父亲所赐给祂的赦罪的权柄。 （37）我们应当只敬拜上帝吗？ 有人说马太福音吩咐我们应当只敬拜上帝。那么既然耶稣也受人敬拜，他们就结论说耶稣必定是上帝。 （马太福音4:10） “耶稣说：撒但退去吧。因为经上记着说：『当拜主你的上帝，单要事奉他。』 当耶稣说“因为经上记着说”这句话的时候，祂是在引用申命记6:13，祂所用的是希腊文旧约的《七十士译本》，它上面是这样说的：“你要敬畏耶和华你的上帝，并且要单单事奉他。” 我们注意到的第一点是，这两个章节在技术上并没有说“要单单敬拜上帝”。它只说“要单单事奉上帝”。然而，在这一节中，“事奉”这两个字带有敬拜的色彩。无论如何，耶稣曾教导说，我们应当事奉别人，不过这一节的“事奉”明显不是这个意思。再说，上帝也曾命令众天使敬拜祂儿子，所以这里的事奉也不是敬拜的意思。（希伯来书1:6） “再者，上帝使长子到世上来的时候，就说：『上帝的使者都要拜他。』” 不要忘记腓立比书2:6 “他本有神的形像，不以自己与神同等为强夺的。” 这告诉我们耶稣在本性上与上帝同等，所以祂是全然神性的，祂因此当然配得敬拜。耶稣也说：（约翰福音5:23） “叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一样。不尊敬子的，就是不尊敬差子来的父。” 那么耶稣对撒但所说的是什么意思呢？那么多人误会了祂的意思。其实答案并不难找。在马太福音4:10，耶稣说“因为经上记着说”。那么这意味着耶稣是指着旧约圣经中某个相关的例子。要找到答案，我们只需看耶稣所指的是什么，再应用到祂对撒但所说的话。我们来看看耶稣所引用的章节。 （申命记6:13-15） “你要敬畏耶和华你的上帝，事奉他，指着他的名起誓。不可随从别神，就是你们四围国民的神。因为在你们中间的耶和华─你上帝是忌邪的神，惟恐耶和华─你上帝的怒气向你发作，就把你从地上除灭。” 这段经文凸显了所争议的课题，就是关于拜偶像，或拜假神。敬拜基督并事奉祂不等于拜偶像。以赛亚书14:12-14告诉我们说，撒但要像至高者上帝一样受敬拜。耶稣在旷野受试探时，撒但要耶稣俯伏在地向他下拜，拜他为神，因此耶稣就引用旧约圣经应对他，说，你不可敬拜或“随从别神”。所以基督的话必须从他所引用的经文语境中去了解。很多基督徒经常都无视经文的上下文语境，结果错误的应用了特定的词句而偏离了经文原来的意思。 所以我们要敬拜真神上帝，不要拜假神。因此这不排除我们对祂儿子的敬拜，因为祂儿子与父亲是同等的。而我们也当事奉上帝，不事奉假神，所以这也不排除事奉基督。 （38）耶稣叫自己从死里复活吗？ 那些声称耶稣必定是上帝的人，是根据约翰福音10:18里耶稣的一句话。他们声称基督叫自己从死里复活。但是他们却忽略了《圣经》至少22次明白地说，是祂父亲叫祂从死里复活的。 翻译成“权柄”的希腊原文“exousia”，它的意思还包括“权威”、“管辖权”、“自由”、“能力”、“权利”和“力量”。在这里适当的翻译成“权柄”。 约翰福音10:18 “没有人夺我的命去，是我自己舍的。我有权柄舍了，也有权柄取回来，这是我从我父所受的命令。” 英王钦定本把它翻译成“能力”，于是让一些人误以为耶稣有能力叫自己复活。如果翻译对了，这一节就会呈现全新的意义，从而消除一切看似自相矛盾的问题。下面是所有说明是上帝叫祂儿子从死里复活的经文。 1**使徒行传2:24 “上帝却将死的痛苦解释［解除］了，叫他复活... 。” 2**使徒行传2:32 “这耶稣，上帝已经叫他复活了... ” 3**使徒行传3:15 “你们杀了那生命的主，上帝却叫他从死里复活了... ” 4**使徒行传4:10 “... 这人得痊愈，是因你们所钉十字架，上帝叫他从死里复活的，拿撒勒人耶稣基督的名。” 5**使徒行传5:30 “你们挂在木头上杀害的耶稣，我们祖宗的上帝已经叫他复活。” 6**使徒行传10:40 “第三日上帝叫他复活，显现出来... ” 7**使徒行传13:30 “上帝却叫他从死里复活。” 8**使徒行传13:33 “上帝已经向我们这作儿女的应验，叫耶稣复活了... ” 9**使徒行传13:34 “论到上帝叫他从死里复活，不再归于朽坏... ” 10**使徒行传13:37 “惟独上帝所复活的，他并未见朽坏。” 11**使徒行传17:31 “... 并且叫他从死里复活，给万人作可信的凭据。” 12**罗马书4:24 “也是为我们将来得算为义之人写的，就是我们这信上帝使我们的主耶稣从死里复活的人。” 13**罗马书6:4 “... 像基督借着父的荣耀，从死里复活一样。” 14**罗马书10:9 “你若口里认耶稣为主，心里信上帝叫他从死里复活，就必得救。” 15**哥林多前书6:14 “并且上帝已经叫主复活，也要用自己的能力叫我们复活。” 16**哥林多前书15:15 “... 因我们见证上帝是叫基督复活了，若死人真不复活，上帝也就没有叫基督复活了。” 17**哥林多后书4:14 “自己知道，那叫主耶稣复活的，也必叫我们与耶稣一同复活，并且叫我们与你们一同站在他面前。” 18**加拉太书:1:1 “作使徒的保罗，（不是由于人，也不是借着人，乃是借着耶稣基督，与叫他从死里复活的父上帝）” 19**以弗所书:1:20 “就是照他在基督身上，所运行的大能大力，使他从死里复活，叫他在天上坐在自己的右边，” 20**歌罗西书2:12 “你们既受洗与他一同埋葬，也就在此与他一同复活，都因信那叫他从死里复活上帝的功用。” 21**帖撒罗尼迦前书1:10 “等候他儿子从天降临，就是他从死里复活的，那位救我们脱离将来忿怒的耶稣。” 22**彼得前书1:21 “你们也因着他，信那叫他从死里复活，又给他荣耀的上帝... 。” （39）以赛亚书43:11或何西阿书13:4证明耶稣是上帝吗？ 既然这两节说，除了耶和华上帝以外，再没有救主了，而其他经文例如约翰壹书4:14 则说耶稣是我们的救主，那么很多人就争论说，耶稣必定是那个耶和华上帝了。但这个论点是站不住脚的。 以赛亚书:43:11 “惟有我是耶和华，除我以外没有救主。” 何西阿书:13:4 “自从你出埃及地以来，我就是耶和华你的神，在我以外，你不可认识别神，除我以外并没有救主。” 在这两节里翻译成“救主”的希伯来词最普遍的翻译是“拯救”或“得救”，也有被翻译成“拯救者”的。在摩西的时代，上帝拯救了祂的子民脱离埃及的势力，而在以赛亚的时代，上帝拯救了他们脱离亚述国的势力。再没有其他人可以拯救他们脱离这些势力，所以经文清楚地显示，除了上帝以外，他们并没有其他的救主。 《巴恩斯圣经注释》对以赛亚书第43章做了这样的解释：“这一章... 主要是针对上帝给祂被掳到巴比伦的子民所应许的拯救。上帝的子民依然被先知看为在长时间痛苦的掳掠中受苦受罪，而先知的目的是以拯救的保证来安慰他们。” 何西阿书13:4当然是指上帝拯救祂的子民脱离埃及人那个时候。 当然耶稣是我们的救主。但是在这些经文中，上帝是祂子民以色列的救主这个背景，是关乎拯救他们脱离巴比伦和埃及的奴役，而不是拯救他们脱离他们的罪。那是基督为全人类所做的事。人类最大的拯救是脱离罪恶的权势，而这就是上帝交给祂儿子的任务了。 （40）还没有亚伯拉罕，就有了我 另一个备受争议的经文是约翰福音8:58。“还没有亚伯拉罕，就有了我。” 但所争议的主要是英文版圣经。英皇钦定本圣经KJV翻译成“还没有亚伯拉罕之前，我是。” “我是”这两个词也意味着“我存在”。有人称耶稣在约翰福音8:58里宣告自己为上帝，因为他用了“我是”这两个字。他们错误地把“我是”这两个字与出埃及记3:14联系在一起。从这节经文，他们便引出一个结论说，耶稣在隐喻一个神性的名字并以此来告诉犹太人祂是上帝。三位一体论信徒进一步尝试支持他们的论点，说这就是为什么犹太人拿起石头要打死祂的原因。但这其实是因为耶稣在约翰福音第8章的整篇中对他们说了许多事情，而逐步的激怒了他们。最后因为耶稣说祂比他们的国父亚伯拉罕还要大，而彻底让他们忍无可忍了。所以耶稣称祂的权柄比先祖亚伯拉罕还要大，这也意味着祂也比他们大。 约翰福音8:58的“我是”这两个字，是来源于两个希腊词“ego”跟“eimi”。《斯特朗圣经词典》的定义是：ego是指“我”（只作强调性用词）。eimi则是指“我存在”（只用于强调性），我是... 你想耶稣应该如何回应犹太人这句话：（约翰福音8:57） “犹太人说：你还没有五十岁，岂见过亚伯拉罕呢？” 法利赛人不知道耶稣早在亚伯拉罕之前就已存在，于是他们说，你怎么可能见过亚伯拉罕呢，你都还没有50岁呀！既然希腊文中的“我是”也意味着“我存在”或“我已存在”，那么还没有亚伯拉罕就已存在的基督，来自祂的回应明显应该怎么翻译呢？ “耶稣对他们说，我实实在在地对你们说，还没有亚伯拉罕之前，我是。” 或者是 “耶稣说：我实实在在的告诉你们，还没有亚伯拉罕，就有了我。” 两个版本都是合法的译本，但是大部分的圣经译本实际上跟第二个版本相吻合。这是有充分理由的。这两个词也可翻译成“我存在”、“我是（过去式或现在完成式）”。除了在约翰福音8:58，还有其他章节也出现这两个词的。比如说，在路加福音19:22， ego eimi 被翻译成“我是（过去式）”。 这两个词是犹太人和基督徒以及第一世纪在新约圣经中普遍常用的词语。它不是任何神明的名字，圣经的上帝也好，其他神明也好，都不用这个名字的。它从来都没有被犹太人或基督徒理解作宣告自身为上帝的词语。如果他们认为是这样的话，那犹太人肯定不会把这两个字用在他们自己身上，不过事实却相反，他们经常都用这两个字。彼得、保罗、加百列和撒迦利亚都说过“我是...某某 ”。但是他们没有一个宣称自己为上帝的。 路加福音1:18 “撒迦利亚对天使说：我凭着什么可知道这事呢？我已经老了［原文作：我是（ego eimi）一个老人］，我的妻子也年纪老迈了。” 路加福音1:19 “天使回答说：我是（ego eimi）站在神面前的加百列...” 约翰福音1:27 “就是那在我以后来的，给他解鞋带，我是（ego eimi）不配的。” 使徒行传10:21 “于是彼得下去见那些人，说：我就是（ego eimi）你们所找的人... ” 使徒行传21:39 “保罗说：我本是（ego eimi）犹太人，生在基利家的大数... 。” 连那生来瞎眼的人也说“我是”或“是我”来介绍自己。约翰福音9:9 “有人说：是他，又有人说：不是，却是像他，他自己说：是我（ego eimi）。” 也没有一个犹太人认为这个瞎子在宣告自己为上帝。 下面是耶稣在四福音中说ego eimi的所有其它章节。没有一句可以被理解为耶稣自称为上帝。马太福音24:5、马可福音13:6、路加福音21:8、约翰福音8:24, 28；13:19 “我是基督”。约翰福音18:5, 6, 8 “我就是”。马太福音20:15 “我作［我是］好人”。马太福音28:20 “我就常与你们同在... ” 马可福音14:62 “耶稣说，我是（上帝的儿子）...” 路加福音22:27 “... 我在你们中间，如同服事人的。” 路加福音22:70 “他们都说：这样，你是上帝的儿子吗？耶稣说：你们所说的是。” 约翰福音6:35, 48, 51“耶稣说：我就是生命的粮...” 约翰福音7:34 “我所在的地方... ” 约翰福音12:26；17:24；14:3 “我在哪里... ” 约翰福音8:12 “我是世界的光... ” 约翰福音8:18 “我是为自己作见证... ” 约翰福音8:23 “... 我是从上头来的，... 我不是属这世界的。” 约翰福音10:7, 9 “我就是（羊的）门...” 约翰福音10:11, 14 “我是好牧人... ” 约翰福音11:25 “复活在我，生命也在我［原文作：我是复活和生命］” 约翰福音14:6 “我是道路... ” 约翰福音15:1, 5 “我是真葡萄树... ” 约翰福音:17:14, 16 “我不属世界... ” 约翰福音18:37 “你说我是王... ” 到了基督行将结束祂的布道工作时，有关祂的消息已经传遍远近四方。这时，犹太人理解基督自称祂是谁？他们又告祂什么控状呢？ 马太福音26:63 “耶稣却不言语。大祭司对他说：我指着永生上帝，叫你起誓告诉我们，你是上帝的儿子基督不是。” 马太福音27:40 “...你如果是上帝的儿子，就从十字架上下来吧。”马太福音27:43 “他倚靠上帝，上帝若喜悦他，现在可以救他，因为他曾说：我是上帝的儿子。” 马可福音14:61 “... 大祭司又问他说：你是那当称颂者的儿子基督不是。” 马可福音14:62 耶稣说：我是（ego eimi）... ” 马可福音15:39 “对面站着的百夫长，看见耶稣这样喊叫断气，就说：这人真是上帝的儿子。” 路加福音22:67 “你若是基督，就告诉我们。” 路加福音22:70 “他们都说：这样，你是上帝的儿子吗？耶稣说：你们所说的［我］是（ego eimi）。” 约翰福音19:7 “犹太人回答说：我们有律法，按那律法，他是该死的，因他以自己为上帝的儿子。” 在以上的几节经文中，有两次耶稣回答说，“我是”（ego eimi）。他不是在说他是上帝，而是在证实他是上帝的儿子。犹太人明显从来不以为耶稣宣告自己为上帝。假如耶稣宣告自己为上帝的话，那么这骇人听闻的事就必传遍远近四方。整本新约圣经都没有记载到有任何人问他是不是上帝。所以在约翰福音8:58节中犹太人怎么可能会以为他在宣告自己为上帝呢？ 另外我们也当注意，出埃及记3:14的这个词组“我是自有永有的” （英皇钦定本翻译成“我是那我是”）它的具体意思也有各种说法。《通俗拉丁文本圣经》翻译成“我是那我是”。《七十士译本》翻译成“我是那存活的”。《约拿单的塔古姆》希伯来圣经意译本和《耶路撒冷塔古姆》将这词组意译为“祂那一说，世界就有了，祂那一说，万物就存在了。” 原文的字面意义是“我会是那我会是的。” 如果用希腊文旧约《七十士译本》来对照一下出埃及记3:14和约翰福音8:58，我们会发现上帝说：“我是那生物（ego eimi ho ohn， OHN翻译成英文的BEING，也是“是”字的进行式，中文和合本翻译成“自有的”），而耶稣则说：“还没有亚伯拉罕，我是（ego eimi）。” 由此可见，上帝的名其实是Ho Ohn (The Being 那生物/那自有的）而不是ego eimi（我是）。出埃及记3:14的最后一句也进一步证明这一点。“那自有的（Ho Ohn）打发我到你们这里来。” 经文不是说“我是（ego eimi）打发我到你们这里来。” 无论这词组翻译成什么，ho ohn跟ego eimi 是不同的。所以出埃及记的“我是”和约翰福音的“我是”两者之间并没有必然的关系。约翰福音8:58不可能将耶稣等同于上帝，除非是用不正确的译本和错误的文法持着自己的偏见去推断出来的。 总结来说，约翰福音8:58的正确含义，中文和合本圣经还是翻译得正确的。“还没有亚伯拉罕（的存在），就有了我（的存在）。” （41）阿拉法与俄梅戛，初与终 在启示录中有几个章节提到基督是阿拉法与俄梅戛。这就让许多人误以为基督就是上帝。今天我们就来集中探讨这个课题。 首先我们来看启示录提到阿拉法与俄梅戛的几个章节。 启示录1:8 昔在今在以后永在的全能者，主上帝说我是阿拉法，我是俄梅戛。 （【以上乃此经文的正确翻译。整段话是耶稣说的，祂说祂的父（那昔在今在以后永在的全能者主上帝）说祂（耶稣）是阿拉法、俄梅嘎。】 天父是昔在今在以后永在的全能者主上帝——启1：1-4，4：8，21：22 耶稣是阿拉法、俄梅嘎——启1：5，22：12-13） KJV Revelation 1 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. 启示录21:6 他又对我说：都成了。我是阿拉法，我是俄梅戛，我是初，我是终。我要将生命泉的水白白赐给那口渴的人喝。 启示录22:13 我是阿拉法，我是俄梅戛，我是首先的，我是末后的，我是初，我是终。 初，就是起初/开始（the beginning） 终，就是终结/结束（the end） 有些人相信“阿拉法”与“俄梅戛”这两个概念是指基督没有开始，也没有结束。但是圣经没有这样讲。启示录说，基督是某一件事的首先或初始，和末后或终结。不止这个，一个开始是指某一事物的根源，而一个终结是指某一事物的终止/结束。永恒就是没有开始的，也是没有结束的。许多基督徒对圣经中的开始/起初有着错误的观念。我们知道父上帝是没有开始的，祂是常存的。“阿拉法”是希腊字母中的第一个字母，所以它是希腊字母的“初/开始”，而“俄梅戛”是希腊字母中的最后一个字母，所以它是希腊字母的“终/结束”。所以这些词只不过是指某一件事的开始和结束。那是什么事呢？我们不要作任何假设，只要看圣经怎么说，还有这些话对犹太人有着什么样的意义。 我们注意到，凡是提到阿拉法和俄梅戛的章节每一次都是随着基督复临和世界末日的景象而来的。这并不是什么巧合。基督创造了这个世界，给世界带来了一个全新的开始，而到了世界末日，基督要从天降临，给世界带来毁灭的结局。所以说，基督是阿拉法与俄梅戛，是开始也是结束，是第一个也是最后一个。这三种说法都是同一个意思的。在启示录1:17, 18，耶稣说：“我是首先的，我是末后的。又是那存活的；我曾死过，现在又活了，直活到永永远远。” 谁是阿拉法与俄梅戛（最先和最后的），那曾死过而现在又活到永远的呢？就是基督。 我们也注意到，启示录21:1-8和22:12-14虽然谈到了世界末日，但也直接地透露，那些遵守上帝诫命的人必能吃生命树的果子，而那些行邪术的、淫乱的、杀人的、拜偶像的、并一切喜好说谎言编造虚谎的（启21:8和22:15），都必永远灭亡。注意启示录21:7（启21:7 得胜的，必承受这些为业，我要作他的上帝，他要作我的儿子。） 如何连系到启示录2:7（启2:7 圣灵向众教会所说的话，凡有耳的，就应当听。得胜的，我必将神乐园中生命树的果子赐给他吃。），而2:7又连系到启示录22:14，这里说那些能吃生命果的人，就是那些遵守上帝诫命的人。（启示录22:14［和合本］ 那些洗净自己衣服的有福了，可得权柄能到生命树那里，也能从门进城。［英皇钦定本］那些遵行他诫命的有福了，可得权利能到生命树那里，也能从门进这城。） 那么我们发现，阿拉法和俄梅戛这句话的上文是关于世界末日和基督再来的。而这句话的直接下文是关于两件末日之后马上要发生的事，就是得胜的义人将得赏赐，而恶人将被毁灭。有太多证据显明这不是什么巧合。既然启示录是圣经的结局篇，同时也是关于末后的事，那么这就说明为什么这几个章节都提到“终”。那如果“终”是指这世界的结局的话，那么“初”明显是指世界的起初了。这起初就在圣经的开头，比如创世记1:1，和其它提到创世记第一章的经文。我们至今所看过的一切告诉我们，阿拉法俄梅戛这几个章节是指基督复临和世界末日，到那时，那些忠心遵守上帝诫命的人必然吃到生命树的果子，而其他人则必灭亡。 《克拉克圣经注释》对启示录1:8所作的分析，说明了这句话如何被犹太人所用和理解。犹太人有没有把这句话诠释成基督是常存的而且祂又是上帝呢？这当然又与箴言第8章产生矛盾，那里说基督是生出的。所以这怎么说也是说不过去的。 根据犹太人对这句话的意思之理解，从起初和圣经的第一本书，直到末后和圣经的最后一本书，耶稣都包含了一切。犹太人实际上明白这句话的含义，这样，他们必不同意三位一体论的说法。这几节经文所提到的初与终，初是指这世界被基督创造的开始，而终则是指基督复临和世界末日还有新天新地的产生。基督造成这世界的开始，祂也把世界带到它的结局。《巴恩斯圣经注释》对启示录22:13的解释也证实了圣经在这方面所启示的。 启示录所说的初与终的初字，既然是指这世界的创造和开始，那我们就来看看下面这几个章节。 创世记1:1 “起初，上帝创造天地。‘ 箴言8:23 “从亘古，从太初，未有世界以前，我已被立。” 约翰福音1:1-3 “太初有道，道与上帝同在，道就是神。这道太初与上帝同在。 万物是借着他造的，凡被造的，没有一样不是借着他造的。” 以弗所书3:9 “又使众人都明白，这历代以来隐藏在创造万物之上帝里的奥秘，是如何安排的。” 更准确的翻译是［英皇钦定本］“并且使所有人明白那奥秘的团契是什么，这是从世界开始就隐藏在上帝里的，他借着耶稣基督创造万物。” 希伯来书1:10 又说：『主啊，你起初立了地的根基，天也是你手所造的。 这样，在这个背景下，所有提到起初的经文，贯彻始终都是一致的。这也进一步支持阿拉法和俄梅戛这两个词的意思。 给复临信徒参考： “基督说，我是真实的见证。我是阿拉法与俄梅戛，初与终，首先的和末后的。” （怀爱伦著，《证道与短讲》第一集，原文第231页） “... 甚至从创世记至启示录，基督是阿拉法，福音链的第一环，也是俄梅戛，福音链的最后一环。这条链是在启示录里鋳zhu4成的。”（怀爱伦著，《文稿汇编》第10集，原文第171页） “祂是我们信心的创始成终者，是阿拉法与俄梅戛，初与终，首先的与末后的。” （怀爱伦著，《1888年资料集》，原文第783页） “所以说，祂是上帝创造的开始或首领这句话的意思是，受造之物的开始都在祂里面，如祂自己所说，祂是阿拉法与俄梅戛，初与终，首先的与末后的。启21:6; 22:13。祂是万物的起源。”（瓦格纳著，《基督与祂的义》原文第20页，1890年） （42）结论 许多人感觉混淆，不知道自己所拜的是谁，或是谁住在他们里面。是一位三位一体的神吗？还是真实的父和子。圣灵究竟是圣灵上帝还是上帝的灵？圣子藉着后者而进入我们心里。耶稣说“我们所拜的，我们知道”（约4:22）这句话就包括了祂自己所拜的。接着祂还解释祂自己拜的是谁。祂说：“那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他。” （约翰福音4:23）耶稣跟所有“真正拜父的”人一样拜祂的父。耶稣拜祂的父，因为祂的父就是祂的上帝。 耶稣在祂复活之后对马利亚说：“不要摸我，因我还没有升上去见我的父，你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说：我要升上去，见我的父，也是你们的父，见我的上帝，也是你们的上帝。”（约翰福音20:17） 耶稣告诉祂门徒说，祂的上帝与他们的上帝是同一位上帝。祂也解释了这位上帝是谁，就是父。祂告诉门徒说，祂的父也是我们的父，祂的上帝也是我们的上帝。 许多人明显混淆了。你经常会听到这样的祷告：“父啊，我们感谢你下来为我们的罪而死。” 然后你会听到人们在结束祷告时说：“奉耶稣的名求！” 奉耶稣自己的名来向耶稣祷告合理吗？祂是我们的中保，而且祂吩咐我们奉祂的名来向天父祷告。（路11:2；约16:23；弗5:20） 你会听见人们向天父祷告，而结束时却说：“奉你的名求！” 圣经说：“因为只有一位上帝，在上帝和人中间，只有一位中保，乃是降世为人的基督耶稣。”（提摩太前书2:5）我们当向父上帝祷告，并奉我们中保耶稣基督的名来祈求。看来那些对父和子在圣经中的分别和地位产生混淆的人不知道自己所拜的是谁。因此他们没有“用心灵和诚实拜祂。” 圣经很多次说明耶稣真的是上帝的儿子。但三位一体论却说不是的，他们只不过在表演角色。因此父子的位格已受到破损。上帝不再是一个真父亲，而基督也不再是一个真儿子。这是撒但的计划，叫基督徒不认父和子，并让他自己获得他一直以来所渴望得到的敬拜。 是基督作我们的保惠师，而祂和祂父亲俩藉着祂的圣灵住在我们里面(约翰14: 16-23) 那么三位一体论是真理还是谬论呢？按照圣经的见证，只有一位上帝，就是父，还有一位主，就是耶稣基督。而祂们的灵就是上帝的临格与大能。父子不但创造了我们，祂们也爱我们，甚至策划了一项奇妙的方案，把一个失落的世界从罪中拯救出来，好叫我们恢复在祂跟前的地位。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂

All trinity studies Previous Download 看中文 Next The God of Our Fathers "THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS" (Acts 3:13, 5:30) This page has been created to be a quick go to page for people looking for Bible verses referring to the one true God and His Son. Bible verses are also listed showing the Holy Spirit as being the Spirit of Christ Himself, which He received from God the Father. So please make free use of this page. Share it, copy it and help to spread the truth of the one true God and His Son. God the Father is the One True God. Matthew 4:10 ...'Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.' Matthew 11:25 ...'At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.' (Repeated in Luke 10:21 - Also Reference this verse with Revelation 14:7, Acts 4:24-27 and John 17:1-3) Mark 12:28-34 ...'And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.' John 4:22-24 ...'Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.' John 8:54 ...'Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God.' John 14:1-6 ...'Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.' John 17:1-3 ...'These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.' John 20:17 ...'Jesus saith unto her, 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.' Acts 3:13 ...'The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.' (Note: The God of the Old Testament fathers was God the Father) Acts 4:24-27 ...'And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed.' Acts 5:30 ...'The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.' 1 Corinthians 8:4-6 ...'As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 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.' 1 Corinthians 11:3 ...'But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.' 2 Corinthians 1:3 ...'Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.' 2 Corinthians 11:31 ...'The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.' Romans 1:7-9 ...'To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with? my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.' Ephesians 1:2-3 ...'Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.' Ephesians 1:17 ...'That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.' Ephesians 4:4-6 ...'There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.' (Please reference this with 1 Corinthians 8:6) Hebrews 9:24 ...'For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.' 1 Timothy 2:3-5 ...'For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, AND one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.' Hebrews 12:22-24 ...'But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, AND to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.' 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 ...'For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.' 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 ...'Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.' 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ...'Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace.' Philippians 2:11 ...'And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.' 1 John 5:20 ...'And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.' Jude 1:4 ...'For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.' 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.' Revelation 7:10 ...'And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.' Revelation 21:22 ...'And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.' Revelation 22:1 ...'And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.' Jesus Christ is the Literal, Begotten Son of God Psalm 2:7 ...'I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.' Proverbs 8:22-30 ...'The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.' (NOTE: 1 Corinthians 1:24 confirms that Christ is 'the wisdom of God') Proverbs 30:4 ...'Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?' Micah 5:2 ...'But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.' John 16:27-29 ...'For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, AND am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.' John 17:7-8 ...'Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.' John 8:42 ...'Jesus said unto them, 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.' Matthew 3:17 ...'And lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' Matthew 14:33 ...'Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, of a truth thou art the Son of God.' Matthew 16:15-17 ...'He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.' Matthew 17:5 ...'While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.' Mark 1:1 ...'The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.' Mark 3:11 ...'And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, thou art the Son of God.' John 1:14 ...'And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.' John 1:18 ...'No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.' John 3:16-18 ...'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.' John 3:34-36 ...'For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.' John 5:26 ...'For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.' John 5:43 ...'I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.' John 6:68-69 ...'Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.' John 10:36 ...'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?' John 11:4 ...'When Jesus heard that, he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.' John 11:27 ...'She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.' John 17:1 ...'These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.' John 20:17 ...'Jesus saith unto her, 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.' 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.' Acts 3:13 ...'The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.' Acts 9:19-20 ...'Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.' Romans 1:9 ...'For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.' Romans 8:3 ...'For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.' Ephesians 1:3 ...'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.' Ephesians 3:14 ...'For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.' Galatians 2:20 ...'I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.' Galatians 4:4 ...'But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.' Galatians 4:6 ...'And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.' Colossians 1:13-15 ...'Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.' 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 ...'For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.' Hebrews 1:1-5 ...'God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?' Hebrews 4:14 ...'Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.' Hebrews 5:5 ...'So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.' 1 Peter 1:3 ...'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.' 1 John 1:3 ...'That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.' 1 John 1:5-7 ...'This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.' 1 John 2:22-24 ...'Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.' 1 John 3:8 ...'He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.' 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.' 1 John 4:15 ...'Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.' 1 John 5:5-13 ...'Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 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. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of 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 this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 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.' (PLEASE NOTE: verse 7 is known to be an 'added' verse that is not inspired) 1 John 5:20 ...'And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.' 2 John 1:3 ...'Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.' Revelation 1:5-6 ...'And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.' Revelation 2:18 ...'And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass.' Revelation 3:21 ...'To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.' Revelation 14:1 ...'And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.' The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father and the Son The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God the Father, which He has given to His Son Jesus. These verses show that the Holy Spirit is not a 'third being', but rather the Spirit of Christ, which He has received from God. Job 33:4 ...'The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.' Psalm 51:10-11 ...'Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.' Psalm 139:7 ...'Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?' Joel 2:28 ...'And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.' Matthew 12:15-18 ...'But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; And charged them that they should not make him known: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.' Matthew 18:20 ...'For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Mark 1:8 ...'I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.' Luke 21:14-15 ...'Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.' (Reference this verse with Luke 12:12) Luke 24:49 ...'And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.' (Reference this with Acts 2:33) John 3:34-35 ...'For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.' (Reference this with Acts 2:33) John 4:10 ...'Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and He would have given thee living water.' John 7:37-39 ...'In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)' John 14:17-21 ...'Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' John 17:22-26 ...'And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.' John 20:21-22 ...'Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.' Acts 1:1-2 ...'The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that HE through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen.' Acts 2:32-33 ...'This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.' Romans 8:9-10 ...'But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.' 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 ...'But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.' 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 ...'Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was Christ.' 2 Corinthians 3:17 ...'Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' 2 Corinthians 13:3-5 ...'Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?' Ephesians 3:14-17 ...'For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love ...' Ephesians 4:7-11 ...'But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that HE might fill all things.) And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.' Galatians 2:20 ...'I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.' Galatians 4:6 ...'And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.' Philippians 1:19 ...'For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.' Colossians 1:27 ...'To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.' Hebrews 1:8-9 ...'But unto the Son he saith, thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.' Titus 3:4-6 ...'But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.' 1 Peter 1:10-11 ...'Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.' 1 John 2:27-28 ...'But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.' Revelation 1:12,13,20 - Revelation 2:1 ...'And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man ... the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.' Revelation 2:18,29 ...'And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass ... He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.' Revelation 3:20 ...'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.' Revelation 5:6 ...'And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, HAVING seven horns and seven eyes, WHICH ARE the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.' Revelation 22:1 ...'And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.' There are only Two Beings in the Godhead When the Bible speaks of the Godhead (Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20), it is actually referring to God the Father. Paul confirmed in 1 Corinthians 11:3 that the 'HEAD of Christ IS GOD'. So God the Father is the 'God-head'. He is the 'source of all things' (1 Cor.8:6). But we include Christ in the Godhead, because Jesus Christ is the literal Son of God the Father, as shown above, which means Christ is 'OF' the Godhead. And as Colossians 2:9 confirms, all the fulness of the Godhead (God the Father) 'DWELLS IN' Jesus Christ, as Jesus confirmed Himself in John 14:10. But the main purpose of this section is to expose the false trinity doctrine which says there are '3 beings' in the Godhead.Genesis 1:26 ...'And God said, let us make man in our image.' John 1:1-3 ...'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with [THE] God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.' Ephesians 3:9 ...'And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.' Zechariah 6:13 ...'the counsel of peace shall be between them both.' 2 John 1:9 ...'He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.' Luke 10:22 ...'All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.' John 16:3 ...'And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.' 1 Corinthians 8:5-6 ...'For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 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.' 1 John 1:3 ...'and truly our fellowship is with the Father, AND with his Son Jesus Christ.' John 17:1-3 ...'Father ... this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, AND Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.' 1 Corinthians 1:3 ...'Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, AND from the Lord Jesus Christ.' Ephesians 1:2 ...'Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, AND from the Lord Jesus Christ.' 2 John 1:3 ...'Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, AND from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.' James 1:1 ...'James, a servant of God AND of the Lord Jesus Christ.' 2 Peter 1:2 ...'Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God AND of Jesus our Lord.' 1 John 2:22 ...'Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father AND the Son.' John 15:23 ...'He that hateth me hateth my Father also.' 1 Timothy 2:5 ...'For there is one God, AND one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.' John 5:23 ...'That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.' John 8:18 ...'I am one that bear witness of myself, AND the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.' Revelation 21:22-23 ...'And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty AND the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, AND the Lamb is the light thereof.' Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

All trinity studies Previous Download Next What is the Origin of the Trinity Doctrine What is the Origin of the Trinity Doctrine? It was about a century after Tertullian when Arianism began causing so many disputes that Constantine convened the first ecumenical Council in Church history to settle them. Arius was an elder in the Alexandrian Church in the early fourth century that taught Christ truly is the begotten Son of God and why God is called His Father to state the obvious. A real Father and Son in other words. Opposing the teachings of Arius was Athanasius, a deacon also from Alexandria. His view was an early form of Trinitarianism where the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are said to be all the same one god but distinct from each other making it impossible for them to be a real Father and Son. His view was a worsening change to what Tertullian believed with the Holy Spirit not yet claimed to be a literal being. That came later. Mainstream history says Arius taught Christ was created, but the Church burnt all copies of his book Thalia which contained what Arius believed thus hiding what he really taught. Some historians claim they then altered records and falsely rumoured that he taught Christ was created in order to discredit him. The Catholic Church is known for creating false historical records to their interpretation of events to hide the real truth. Consider the following for instance. The view of Athanasius was highly influenced by Origen who was a Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism. His work was later condemned as unorthodox. Origen taught the doctrine of Purgatory, transubstantiation, transmigration and reincarnation of the soul, the Holy Spirit was a feminine force, Jesus was only a created being, there would be no physical resurrection, the creation account in Genesis is a fictitious story and is known to have publicly castrated himself based on Matthew 19. Arius on the other hand was a pupil of Lucian of Antioch. Lucian was responsible for the work that gave us what is known as the Textus Receptus which was completed by Erasmus, and is what gave us the trusted New Testament of the KJV Bible. These and other facts reveal that Athanasius was influenced by Greek philosophy and that Arius probably taught Biblical truth despite mainstream history. Some believe Constantine was the first Christian Roman Emperor, but he was actually a sun worshiper who was baptized on his deathbed. During his reign he had his eldest son and his wife murdered. His belief at best was a blend of paganism and Christianity for political purposes, and so he neither cared nor really understood this dispute, but was just eager to bring the controversy to a close and keep unity in his empire. When the bishops gathered at Nicea on May 20, 325 AD to resolve the crisis, very few shared Athanasius's view of Christ as most held a position midway between Athanasius and Arius. The religious debates lasted two months before the Council rejected the minority view of Arius, but having no alternative, Constantine approved the view of Athanasius, which was also a minority view. And so the Church was left supporting a belief held by only a minority of those attending. The Encyclopedia Britannica states: “Constantine himself presided, actively guiding the discussions, and personally proposed ... the crucial formula expressing the relation of Christ to God in the creed issued by the council ... Overawed by the emperor, the bishops, with two exceptions only, signed the creed, many of them much against their inclination.” — (1971 edition, Vol. 6, “Constantine,” p. 386) Horrific religious persecution followed the decision made by Constantine who was essentially a pagan Emperor who imposed an invented creed never preached by Jesus. Constantine exiled those who refused to accept the creed as well as the bishops who signed the creed but refused to join in condemnation of Arius. But several years later Constantine became lenient toward those he condemned and exiled at the council and allowed them to return. In AD 335, they brought accusations against Athanasius and so now Constantine had Athanasius banished! This was not about Biblical truth. Many of the Bishops who formulated the doctrine of the Trinity were steeped in Greek and Platonic philosophy, which influenced their religious views. In fact the language they used in defining the Trinity is taken directly from Platonic and Greek philosophy. The Platonic term trias, meaning three, was Latinized as trinitas, which gave us the English word Trinity which is neither biblical nor Christian. As Bible scholars John McClintock and James Strong (wrote the famous Strong's Concordance) explain, “Towards the end of the 1st century, and during the 2nd, many learned men came over both from Judaism and paganism to Christianity. These brought with them into the Christian schools of theology their Platonic ideas and phraseology.” — (Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, 1891, Vol. 10, “Trinity,” p. 553) So the Trinity was not derived from scripture, but was conceived in philosophy. Greek philosophers were greatly influenced by Plato (427-347 BC) who was considered the greatest of all Greek philosophers. Plato was ingrained with Trinitarian thought and knew that all the ancient religions had triad deities, and so he desired to come up with a better definition to define God above all the deities of Greek mythology. The Council of Nicea did not end the controversy and the bishops went on teaching as they had before, and the Arian crisis continued for another sixty years. Athanasius was exiled no fewer than five times and it was very difficult to make his creed stick. The ongoing disputes were violent and bloody at times as Christians slaughtered one another over their differing views of God. Noted historian Will Durant writes, “Probably more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in these two years (342-3) than by all the persecutions of Christians by pagans in the history of Rome.” — (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 4: The Age of Faith, 1950, p. 8) Disputes eventually became over the nature of the Holy Spirit. So 44 years after Constantine's death in May 381 AD, Emperor Theodosius, baptized only a year earlier, convened the Council of Constantinople to resolve them. Theodosius favoured the Nicene Creed and so after his arrival in Constantinople he expelled the bishop Demophilus, and surrendered the Churches there to Gregory of Nazianzus who was the leader of a small Nicene community there, and one of three men that became known as “the three Cappadocians.” These three men had an agenda at this council which was for the first time to push the idea of the Holy Spirit as a literal being. Gregory was recently appointed as archbishop of Constantinople, but due to illness, Nectarius, an elderly city senator had to take over the role of archbishop and presided over the council. And so Nectarius was baptized for the job and the Trinitarian view on the Holy Spirit was governed by someone with little or no knowledge of theology! What resulted became known as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed where they now decided that the Holy Spirit was a literal being. Any who disagreed were in accordance with the edicts of the emperor and Church authorities branded heretics and dealt with accordingly. This final teaching on the nature of God is what became the Trinity as it is generally understood today. It was not decided so much from Scripture but from Greek philosophy, much bloodshed and whoever held the most power. Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

All trinity studies Previous Download Next We Need to Realise That if God is Trinity We need to realize that IF God is a Trinity, THEN ... 1. Jesus is not the literal son of God, the Father. 2. The Holy Spirit is not God’s (the Father’s) spirit with which He is everywhere present but a third, separate person of the Godhead. 3. Jesus should have called the Holy Spirit His Father because the Bible clearly teaches that it was the Holy Spirit that overshadowed Mary. (Luke 1:35) 4. Jesus never really died because God cannot die (He is immortal—1. Tim. 6:16). a) And because of it, He has never really paid the price for us and the atonement was not complete. b) He had a part of Himself that was conscious after His death, founding the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. 5. Jesus was never tempted here on earth because the Bible says “God cannot be tempted with evil” (James 1:13). 6. We have a Comforter (the Holy Spirit who is a separate Being, other than Christ) who was never a human being, was never tempted and tried as we are and never suffered death for us. 7. At the new birth, we will possess the Holy Spirit’s life (who was never a human Being and never conquered sin). This life is not a victorious life and there is no union of humanity and divinity in it. 8. We could never really study our Bibles without theological education because it is hard to know when God speaks in a literal and when in a metaphorical sense. (He calls Jesus His Son but in reality He is not.) 9. We have 2 Mediators and 2 Intercessors: Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 10. Jesus is removed from being our Comforter, and the 3rd Person of the Godhead takes His place thus causing us to look apart from Jesus in another direction. (Read what Ellen White said in Review and Herald, August 26,1890, par. 10) The Glorification of Christ ~ by Nader Mansour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VHmDVKquxU&t=1s Who or What is the Holy Spirit ? ~ New gods ~ by Nader Mansour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSGXRSvSKKQ Who Do You Worship ? ~ by Nader Mansour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJnDa_crKrs&t=1s ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Previous All trinity studies Next Back to top

返回研究目录 上一篇 下载中文 Read in English 下一篇 三位一体信徒能否受上帝的印记 三位一体信徒能否受上帝的印记？ 敬拜三位一体神的人是否有可能受我们在启示录7章和14章中所提到上帝的印记呢？ 这是一个非常重要的问题，因为在末世时只有受上帝印记的人才会得救。 “认识上帝是一切真教育真服务的根本，是抵抗世上诱惑唯一的真保障，是能使我们在品格上与上帝相象的唯一途径。 凡从事于超拔人群之工的人，非得认识上帝不可。人品格的展变，生活的纯洁，工作的效率，遵守正义的毅力，都从真正认识上帝而来的。这种认识，乃是人生今世和来世双方所不可少的准备。 “认识至圣者，便是聪明。” 箴言9:10 我们所得“一切关乎生命和虔敬的事，”（彼得后书1:3）都是从认识他而来的。 耶稣说：“认识祢独一的真神，并且认识祢所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生。” 约翰福音17:3 （怀爱伦，服务真诠，409.1-6 页） 现在许多三位一体论者说，理解我们敬拜的上帝并不重要，并声称上帝是一个“奥秘”。这是那些敬拜三位一体的人常用的借口，因为他们无法理解他们崇拜的是什么。 但如果是这种情况，我们就无法认识我们敬拜的神，这自然就意味着敬拜罗马天主教的神或回教的神是可以接受的。 因为倘若我们仅仅认为有限的头脑无法理解我们所敬拜的上帝，并且认为知道上帝是否是独一真神还是三位一体并不重要，那么就不会拒绝任何关于“上帝”的概念，并且所有“有可能对”的道理都可以被接受。 一旦你理解了这一点，你就会开始意识到三位一体神的普世宗教合一的性质。 这就是为什么我们看到至今大多数的教会都有份参与普世教会合一运动。 他们无法分开，因为他们都对上帝的身份有一个混淆的概念。 他们不再使用上帝的话语作为神圣的启示和信仰上的至高权威。 相反的，他们被人类的想法牵引着。 但那些凭着“耶和华如此说”的人能够脱离这种普世教会合一运动，因为他们透过上帝的圣言认出了普世教会合一运动的神不是圣经里的神。 因此，那些敬拜三位一体的人能受上帝的印记吗？ 让我们来看启示录第14章关于这一点。。。 启示录 7：2-3 2 我又看见另有一位天使，从日出之地上来，拿着永生上帝的印。他就向那得着权柄能伤害地和海的四位天使，大声喊着说： 3 “地与海并树木，你们不可伤害，等我们印了我们上帝众仆人的额。” 启示录 14:1 我又观看，见羔羊站在锡安山，同他又有十四万四千人，都有他的名和他父的名写在额上。 我们可以从这些经文中注意到两件明确的事情。 印记被称为“永生上帝的印”。 什么是“印记”？ 印记是'羔羊和他父'的名字。 羔羊是耶稣基督，所以谁是耶稣的父？ 那就是父上帝。 看看以下的经文。 马太福音 16:16 西门彼得回答说：“你是基督，是永生上帝的儿子。” 约翰福音17：1-3 1 耶稣说了这话，就举目望天说：“父啊，时候到了，愿你荣耀你的儿子，使儿子也荣耀你； 2 正如你曾赐给他权柄管理凡有血气的，叫他将永生赐给你所赐给他的人。 3 认识你独一的真神，并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生。 约翰二书 1:3 恩惠、怜悯、平安从父上帝和他儿子耶稣基督，在真理和爱心上必常与我们同在！ 所以耶稣基督，弥赛亚，是父上帝的儿子。而启示录第14章为我们确认了上帝的印记是“耶稣的名和上帝的名”。如果我们看希腊原文的话它只是记载着“父的名字”。不是父，子，圣灵的名字，更不是父上帝，子上帝，圣灵上帝的名字。而是有“父”的名字。圣经也为我们确认了父上帝是独一的真神，如以下经文所说的，而不是众教会所敬拜的三位一体神。 约翰福音17：1-3 。。。“父啊。。。认识你独一的真神，并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生。” 哥林多前书 8:5-6 5 虽有称为神的，或在天、或在地，就如那许多的神，许多的主。 6 然而我们只有一位上帝，就是父，万物都本于他，我们也归于他；并有一位主，就是耶稣基督，万物都是藉着他有的，我们也是藉着他有的。 约翰福音 20:17 耶稣说：“不要摸我，因为我还没有升上去见我的父。你往我弟兄那里去，告诉他们说：我要升上去见我的父，也是你们的父；见我的上帝，也是你们的上帝。” 你不认为我们应该听那诚实的见证人，弥赛亚耶稣基督的见证吗？而耶稣向我们确认了祂父为那独一的真神。不但如此，耶稣还说父上帝也是祂的上帝！希伯来书1：9也同样证明这一点。 有趣的是，犹太人不曾敬拜三位一体神，而清楚知道父上帝是他们的神（约翰福音8：41）。耶稣也不曾敬拜三位一体神，或所谓的其他两位神，而是晓得祂父是独一的真神 （约翰福音17：3）。使徒们也不曾敬拜三位一体神，而是敬拜和宣告父上帝为独一的真神（哥林多前书8：6）。事实上，他们也同样高举和敬拜耶稣，为永生上帝的儿子。这也是为什么我们有上帝的名和祂儿子的名在我们额上。 这些都是不重要的！真的吗？ 很多三位一体信徒都宣称这是不重要的，而且上帝是一个“奥秘”，我们不能认识我们所敬拜的神。他们否认了这神圣的启示。是上帝给予人类的启示！耶稣清楚地说明了永生是建立在对父上帝和祂自己的认识。耶稣说我们能够认识上帝，但是三位一体信徒说我们不能认识上帝。你愿意相信谁呢？那“诚实见证人”的智慧，还是人的智慧？现在我们来看看耶稣在约翰福音第4章中对井边的妇人所说的话。 约翰福音 4:21-24 21 耶稣说：“妇人，你当信我。时候将到，你们拜父也不在这山上，也不在耶路撒冷。 22 你们所拜的，你们不知道；我们所拜的，我们知道，因为救恩是从犹太人出来的。 23 时候将到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他，因为父要这样的人拜他。” 24上帝是个灵（或无“个”字），所以拜他的，必须用心灵和诚实拜他。” “你们所拜的，你们不知道”。。。这句话在今时今日是对谁说的呢？三位一体信徒！ 在整个新约圣经中，耶稣和使徒们都表明父是独一的真神，而且我们的忠诚和敬拜最终是归与祂的。耶稣确认了真正的敬拜者是敬拜父上帝为独一真神的。这意味着那些崇拜这三位一体神的人不是真正的敬拜者。如果我们不是敬拜那独一真神的话，我们有可能受那永生上帝的印记吗？不，根本不可能！仍然在天主教内的罗马天主教徒能受上帝的印记吗？不能。为什么呢？因为他们不是敬拜那独一的真神。那些敬拜三位一体的人也是如此。他们没有敬拜独一的真神，所以不能受祂的印记。注意启示录第14章怎么说到那些受上帝印记的人。 启示录 14:4 这些人未曾沾染妇女，他们原是童身。羔羊无论往哪里去，他们都跟随他。他们是从人间买来的，作初熟的果子归与上帝和羔羊。 “妇女”在圣经里意表着教会。由此，“沾染妇女”意思说沾染堕落的教会。那沾染堕落的教会又是什么意思呢？这 意思说被他们的假道理和假神的敬拜所迷惑。三位一体神论是源于巴比伦的谬论。因此，崇拜三位一体神意味着你 沾染妇女 ，并无法受父上帝的印记。 末世的善恶之争是关乎敬拜。而启示录第14章显明了我们应当敬拜的是谁。 敬拜我们创造主上帝的呼召 启示录 14：6-7 6 我又看见另有一位天使飞在空中，有永远的福音要传给住在地上的人，就是各国、各族、各方、各民。 7 他大声说：“应当敬畏上帝，将荣耀归给他，因他施行审判的时候已经到了，应当敬拜那创造天、地、海和众水泉源的。” 在创世纪第1章里，我们可以看到以下的陈述 “上帝说：“我们要照着我们的形像，按着我们的样式造人，” 那三位一体信徒相信这是 “三位一体神” 在说话。但是，如我们上述所见，圣经所显明的上帝是天父。所以谁才是在这里说话的呢？是天父上帝在说话。那上帝在对谁说话呢？歌罗西书1：16，约翰福音1：3 和哥林多前书8：6 都证实了天父上帝藉着祂的儿子耶稣基督创造了万物。所以天父上帝在对谁说话呢？祂在对祂的儿子说话。让我们看看大伟王在历代志上第29章怎么说。 历代志上29:10-11 10 所以，大卫在会众面前称颂耶和华说：“耶和华我们的父，以色列的上帝，是应当称颂，直到永永远远的。 11 耶和华啊，尊大、能力、荣耀、强胜、威严都是你的；凡天上地下的都是你的；国度也是你的；并且你为至高，为万有之首。 那万有之首是谁呢？哥林多前书11：3 “我愿意你们知道，基督是各人的头，男人是女人的头，上帝是基督的头。” 因此那万有之首就是天父上帝。耶稣也在马太福音11：25证实了这一点， “那时，耶稣说：“父啊，天地的主，我感谢你！” 。 所以启示录第14章大声说应当敬拜的，那独一的真神，天地的主和我们的创造主是谁呢？是父上帝，那独一的真神，一切生命的本源 （歌林多前书 8：6）。上帝末世的子民将领受谁的名字和印记呢？他们受父上帝，那独一的真神，永生上帝的印记。是的，我们也应当敬拜和归荣耀给弥赛亚耶稣，因为他是独一真神的儿子，而启示录5：13也确认了我们要敬拜父上帝和羔羊（基督），直到永永远远。但是基督所得的一切荣耀是使荣耀归与父上帝。 腓立比书 2:11 “无不口称耶稣基督为主，使荣耀归与父上帝。” 由此，我们的敬拜最终去到父上帝，因祂是万有之首，万有之神，也是万有的生命之根源。但是那些敬拜巴比伦三位一体假神的人不是敬拜那圣经里独一的真神。因此，他们不可能受上帝的印记。朋友们，这是非常重要的。这是关乎我们永生的。如果你相信和敬拜三位一体神的话，我真心邀请你研究这课题并寻求真理。你是否想受上帝的印记呢？那就敬拜那独一的真神，父上帝。 上一篇 返回研究目录 下一篇 到最頂