Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Monotheism

The worship of one God. My son was asked in school that if we believe in the trinity and we believe them to be 3 separate beings, how can we believe in monotheism. Easy. There is only one God, our Heavenly Father. We worship Him and revere Him as our Father and the Supreme Being. Jesus Christ, His Son, is just that, His Son, the First Born of our Father's spirit children (of which we are all part) and His Only Begotten Son here on earth. We come to the Father through the Son because He is our intermediary with the Father. He, Christ, paid the price for our sins through the atonement. If we repent and take advantage of the atonement, we can be forgiven and become worthy to enter or return to the presence of our Father. All Christ did, all His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane when He atoned for our sins, when He took upon Himself all of our pain, failures, sickness, any and all bad things that ever happen to us, His crucifixion, death and resurrection allow us to come back to our Father and be with Him again as we were before coming here to earth to gain a body and to prove ourselves to see if we would be true and faithful to the commandments so that we could return Home to our Father. The Holy Ghost is another separate being that testifies of the veracity of the Father and the Son and lets us know that what we are doing is correct. He, the Holy Ghost, is that warm, fuzzy feeling when we hear something true, He testifies to us. That is why Christ told His disciples that He would send the Comforter after He left and the Comforter would teach them the truth of all things. There was no need for the Holy Ghost when Christ was with His disciples because they saw Him, lived with Him, worked with Him, preached with Him, witnessed His miracles. The Holy Ghost testifies to us of true things that we cannot see but we feel them and they are true. Just like now, if you are reading this with a sincere heart, pondering these words, you feel of their truth through the Hold Ghost. I know it happens because I can feel His, the Holy Ghost's presence now testifying to me this is so. It makes so much sense, it is logical. There are 3 separate and distinct beings in the Trinity, they form the Godhead but there is only 1 God that we worship and that is God, our Heavenly Father. They are 1 in purpose but only 1 Father, Architect, Planner, Overseer, God and that is our Heavenly Father. See, monotheism.

1 comment:

  1. Greetings Dad

    On the subject of the Trinity,
    I recommend this video:
    The Human Jesus


    Take a couple of hours to watch it; and prayerfully it will aid you to reconsider "The Trinity"

    Yours In Messiah
    Adam Pastor

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