If people believe both of these myths and lies - namely that we are born with an immortal soul, and the Holy Spirit is one of three Gods in a Trinity - then they are completely confused on how to receive salvation. If you have an immortal soul at birth - then why do you need to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, which the Bible teaches is the down payment of the Salvation promised ? These two false doctrines are extremely dangerous to ones salvation, if you believe in them. You may lose out on salvation, if you continue to believe these lies.  

 

The Trinity is one of the greatest false doctrines you can come across. If people believe this they become completely confused. If you can't understand it, then why on earth should you blindly accept it ? Let us use our minds and reasoning powers. God reveals the truth to us through our minds. To just accept a doctrine blindly without Biblical proof is folly.

 

The Holy Spirit is simply the life and nature of God. God the Father and God the Son are both part of the Godhead and share the same nature. God's Spirit is the bonding element in the true church and in God's Kingdom and family.

 

John 17:20-23 " Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 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. "

 

How else could the Father be in Christ, and Christ in the Father, and Christ be in the true Church - other than through the power of the Holy Spirit ?

 

In fact the biblical definition of a Christian is someone who has the Spirit of God and Christ living in them. Romans 8:9 " 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. "

If the Holy Spirit is one of three Gods then the Holy Spirit is Christ's Father. Yet Christ repeatedly said God was His father, not the Holy Spirit.

 

Many people will take the references Christ made in the scriptures, where He referred to the Holy Spirit as " he " and as the Comforter, as proof that the Holy Spirit is a third person in a Holy Trinity. It is so important when studying the Bible that we not take one particular scripture out of context. Christ was just using a figure of speech when He referred to the Holy Spirit as " He."

 

John 14:26 " But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost(Spirit), whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. "

 

John 15:26 " But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: "

God calls us and reveals the truth to us through His spirit. God opens people's mind to understand the spiritual, and the Bible by and through His spirit.

 

1 Corinthians 2:10-16 " 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. "

 

God's spirit was working with Christ's disciples, during the 3 1/2 years of His ministry. Their minds were slowly being opened to understand the spiritual.

 

John 14:15-18 " If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 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. "

 

The Holy Spirit entered the believers on the Day of Pentecost, and thus God's spirit that before was merely with the disciples, entered into them and was within them (Acts 2:1-4).

 

There is nothing substantive in the Bible to prove or even indicate that there is a third member of the Godhead called the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 15: 24-28).

 

If you read the book of Revelation we are given a picture of God the Father on His throne, the 24 Elders before God's throne, the strange beasts full of eyes, Angels and the Lamb of God, which is Jesus Christ. Yet there isn't a picture or vision painted of the Holy Spirit. That is because the Holy Spirit is not a literal spirit being, but is simply the life and nature of God. It is through His spirit that God works and does things. It is something like energy, or power coming from God.

 

If you don't understand what the Holy Spirit is then you can't understand how we can receive a new nature at baptism. You can't understand how we are to put down the works of the carnal mind and follow the lead of the new nature. You can't understand how Christ is creating a new man, in God's spiritual image.

 

People especially are very confused if they also believe the false doctrine that we are born with an immortal soul at birth. I have already disproved the false doctrine fo the immortality of the soul. Yet if people believe that, then they are unable to see the need for the gift of eternal life that God provides through the giving of the Holy Spirit. They think they have an immortal soul already, and so make no effort to insure their salvation, by working to repent and follow the other conditions God expects of us, before we can receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This trinity dogma is an extremely serious false doctrine.

 

2 Peter 1:3-4 " According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. "

 

How else can we be partakers of the divine nature, unless we receive the new nature the Holy Spirit after repentance, belief and baptism ?

 

 

 

 

Exposing the False Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul

 

We are living souls.

 

Our human ancestors, Adam and Eve, were given a choice by God. They could leave it up to God to make the rules, and set the standards of what was right or wrong. On the other hand they could rebel against God and decide for themselves what they figure is right and wrong. They were given free moral agency.

 

Genesis 2: 16-17 " And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. "

 

Genesis 3:2-3 " And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." This was the tree of the knowledge of good and eviland the writer feels this may not be a literal tree, but merely symbolic of our two human ancestors given the choice of letting God set the standards, or rebelling against God's rule and they deciding for themselves what they thought was right or wrong.

 

The first recorded lie in the Bible is in Genesis 3:4 " And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. "

 

There is mentioned in Genesis 2:9 that there was also the tree of life in the garden. Adam and Eve could have eaten from that tree and lived forever ! Whether this tree of life was a literal tree is debatable. The writer feels this tree of life was symbolic of the Holy Spirit, and the fact that Adam and Eve had access to the Holy Spirit. But in rebelling, their personal access to eternal life was cut off. This is just the writers own interpretation. There is a lot of symbolism in the Bible. It could have been a literal tree.

 

So our first parents broke God's specific commandment. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

 

 

Genesis 3:17-19 " And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it .....In the sweat of your face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. "

 

So death came upon the human family, upon those made in the image of God. Therefore we the descendants of Adam and Eve have inherited this death from them. As well we all commit our own sins, and the wages of sin is death.

 

Romans 5:12 " Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: "

 

The Bible teaches that we are living souls, and that we are of the earth, and return to it at death.The human body is made up of 20-odd commonplace elements that are all present in the earth's dry dust. This is a scientific fact.

 

Chemical Composition of the Human Body

 

Ecclesiastes 3: 19-20 " For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. "

 

Psalm 103: 14-16 " For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more."

 

All the various teachings like the wicked suffering forever in hell, transmigration of the soul, and reincarnation are simply beliefs that cannot be proven. There is no proof of these. They are simply belief systems not based on reality.

 

There are even people who believe pets go to heaven and live forever. Yet there isn't one shred of evidence this is so. This is just a cozy myth some people use to soothe themselves and deal with the difficult questions children bring up about death.

 

So is there nothing after death? Is there just a void ?

 

The Bible teaches that Christ won the victory over sin and death.

 

Romans 6:23 " For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. "

 

Very many of the Old Testament prophecies point to Christ. These are many powerful proofs that the Bible is true. Christ died and was in the tomb. After three days and nights the body was gone. There was an empty tomb. There were numerous eye witnesses that confirmed that Christ had actually risen from the dead.

 

1 Corinthians 15: 3-8 " For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures: And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, He was seen of about five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, He was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all He was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. "

 

 

Through Christ's sacrifice, His shed blood, His death and His resurrection we can have forgiveness of sins. We can receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. There is the hope of the resurrection and eternal salvation. Of course there are conditions we must meet before we are saved. Among these are that we must grow spiritually and produce spiritual fruits.

 

 

There is no where else to go for salvation. Acts 4:10-12 " Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of the builders, which is the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. "

 

The Holy Spirit is given to those who meet God's conditions (Acts 2:37-39) (Mark 16:16) (Luke 13:1-5) (John 8:23-24) (Acts 5:32).

 

If the wicked suffer forever in hell then the Bible is a fraud. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). The wages of sin is not eternal life in hell. Death is the absence of life.

 

1 Corinthians 15:16-17 " For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ risen: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. "

 

1Corinthians 15:20-21 " But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. "

 

The fate of the incorrigible wicked is to return to dust. They will be burnt up and turn into ashes (Malachi 4:1,3).

 

The ones who will be tormented forever and forever in hell are Satan and the fallen angels (Revelation 20:10) (Matthew 8:28-34 note verse 29) (Luke 8:26-40 note especially verses 28 and 31). Satan is the one responsible for the lie that the incorrigible wicked human beings will live forever in hell fire, being tormented forever and ever. The truth is that this is the fate of the Devil and his fallen angel followers.