Jesus is God

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At 10:43 PM 10/14/98 -0500, Bro Josh wrote:
>YOU:
>If the Godhead was understood solely by reading scripture...than why 
>don't other denominations "get it?"  
>
>ME:
>Because other denominations do not have the Holy Spirit to guide 
>their studies.

No so.... they have the Holy Ghost to guide them, they just 
don't allow the comforter to lead them into truth.  They see
God in a role of ordering higher-world activities and not every
day life.

>YOU:
>I don't think that everyone has a  lightening bolt experience like I 
>did, for some people it comes slowly over time, but everyone must 
>have the Holy Ghost show them who God is. 
>
>ME:
>First of all, I had one of these "lightning bolt" experiences.  I had 
>been brought up to understand that God was a "trinity".  No one could 
>convince me otherwise.  Then one nite, a 'junior preacher' at my 
>church said something I had heard 50 thousand times and just passed 
>it off as ridiculous.  Right then and there I understood what I had 
>been denying.  

<snip>

I think revelations come by being *willing* and *open* to ways of 
understanding different than what's currently believed.  I remember
as a young catholic boy that there's a "trinity" and that when I was
no-longer catholic (at age 25) and was starting to embrace a protestant
theological stance, there was a time when the Lord was trying desparately
to enlighten me as to His oneness.  All before I ever knew that oneness
apostolics existed!  I just dismissed it because I wasn't willing to
understand it along the current lines of what I thought was truth.  So,
I went back to trinitarian thinking.  I thought, that as such a preposterous
notion (so off-base from what I thought I knew), that it was *me* (the flesh,
my carnal nature) that was trying to lead me into falsehood *AWAY* from 
what I thought was possible.  Surely, it couldn't be the Lord.  Not in a
million years.  Sadly enough, the case is still the same once we get inside
of the pentecostal movement thinking that certain things aren't of God as
we're unopen to his truth.

Little did I know that it was several months later that I'd have been
in the presence of of oneness apostolics that believed just exactly inline
with what the Lord was trying to show me several months previous that I
had dismissed.

I *knew* the Holy Ghost could bring revelation and a deeper knowledge,
but at the time I wasn't willing to accept it.  I wasn't open to it.
I quenched the effectiveness of the Spirit moving on me.

Bro Tyler 
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