Is the Holy Spirit a third entity, or is the Spirit only the omnipresence of Jesus and/or the Father? Trinitarian Controversies The terms Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are found in the OT. However, the terms are more clearly brought out, used, and linked together in the NT. No one…
Is Jesus omnipresent during the incarnation? How have other Christians understood this question? How can we employ the sanctuary as a framework for answering this question? A Small Sample from Selected Theologians in the Past The following theologians asserted that although Jesus took on human form in the incarnation, He…
Did Jesus have a beginning? How have other Christians understood this question? How can we employ the sanctuary as a framework for answering this question? The Creeds Provide the “Solution” All Christians who accept the conclusions of the Trinitarian creeds of the fourth century have allegedly settled the question by…
In 1 Kings 12:28, Jeroboam effectually eliminated the sanctuary from interpreting the divine presence by setting up major worship centers in Dan and Bethel. The result was that the divine presence was reduced to nature. The Roman Catholic view of transubstantiation in the Eucharist essentially reduces the divine presence to…
In our previous newsletter we noted how Catholicism follows the principles of interpretation that Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:25-33) also followed by rejecting the authority of Scripture, by employing philosophy in order to interpret the divine presence that results in allegorizing/spiritualizingScripture, by allegorizing and spiritualizing the relationship between the sanctuary and…
In newsletter 3, we looked at the link between the western Greeks in Italy, the birthplace and cradle of Greek philosophy, and the little horn of Daniel 8. The casting down of the heavenly sanctuary in Dan 8:11 is primarily a philosophical attack that destroys the role of the heavenly…
In this newsletter we will first begin by examining the Biblical view of the I AM of Exod 3:14-15, and how the I AM is connected with the sanctuary, and with a plain reading of Scripture. In the next article we will examine how Catholicism has largely followed Jeroboam’s view…
Introduction and Brief Review of Last Newsletter In our previous newsletter we learned that the little horn of Dan 8 arose out of the western Greeks in Italy, which constituted one of the four horns that came up in place of the great horn that was broken. Since western Greece…
This newsletter will explore the nature of the attack on the heavenly sanctuary by the little horn of Daniel 8. In other words, will the attack be a military/physical attack or a philosophical and spiritual attack? Before we delve into this, we will first identify the little horn, and then…
What is the heavenly sanctuary? Is it a real spatio-temporal structure? Or is it a symbol that stands for heaven and/or the divine presence that permeates the entire universe? If it’s a symbol, then it does not take much to conclude that it’s allegorical, and mystical. However, if it’s real…