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The Gospel is what we call ‘the death, burial and resurrection’ of Jesus Christ. I’ve stated in Chapter 19 an equivalent of the gospel, which is repentance, baptism, and receipt of the Holy Spirit; of which as symbolized by the death of Christ, we have the obligation to repent; by his burial, we are baptized; and by his resurrection, we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

In 1 Corinthians 15:1, it says, ‘Now I am reminding you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you which you indeed received and in which you now stand.’ In verse 3 it says, ‘For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared to Kephas, then to the twelve.’

In the Old Testament, the Israelites experience repentance when they prayed that they may be freed from the bondage of

Egypt

, and that they had baptism when they crossed the

Red Sea

, and they had a fresh taste of resurrection when they receive manna from heaven. As the host is raised during the institution of the Eucharist, we remember Jesus ascending in heaven after his resurrection, as we then recall the outpouring of the Holy Ghost unto the apostles.

Our salvation also lies in this that we may reconcile with God by revealing our sins to the priests and repenting from doing these as the priest gives us the absolution for the sins we commit. We by burial of Jesus, in the present situation address this representation of burial by having ourselves baptized in the name of Jesus (Acts 2:38) who is the Father and the same time the Son of the Holy Spirit thus we are baptized in the name the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). Resurrection of Jesus Christ indwells us the Spirit as we are cleansed and sealed by communion that we may receive the gift of the Holy Ghost as to some of us it is evidenced by speaking in other tongues or strange language which may include foreign languages.

We are taught to observe things, of which we should be faithful then in our spiritual obligation, that we should continue to cleanse ourselves from sin and continually invoke the name of God that we may speak the word with boldness even carry great exploit of it by being steadfast proponent of truth.

In the church, we practice repenting from our sins by contemplating on this that we may surface it thus experiencing death. By confessing these to the priest, we die to ourselves by revealing our sins to him that God in heaven may listen to those sins confessed and may forgive them as the priest gives absolution that we may experience burial. We then prepare ourselves to be open to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit by being cleansed and sealed by communion thus experiencing resurrection. And through all these even with repentance, baptism and receipt of Holy Ghost, we complete our advocating of the gospel. From the sacraments through our continual practice by repeating repentance, confession and communion, we continue to be bounded by the indwelling of God.

We are made whole as we are truly Christians through the sacraments of the church of which by obeying these we perform the highest virtue which is ‘obedience’ that we may lay our head on the confessional relying on our superiors or to the priests who could guide us that we may be gifted with many wonders that God can endow to us sharpening our insights.

We restore the presence of the Holy Spirit as we submit to His presence in prayers and tongues, even in the operation of the gift of prophecy. This process that our thoughts may be pure as against those who do not believe in the gift of tongues blesses us. We practice this not that we may oppose others but that we may serve as light to them, even to those who also believe.

We should not yield to being weakened, but that we may be bold and strong that we may know of our capacity and limits, and that we may realize that God is great and with his power, no one can hinder the operation of his gifts. We should be observant of the things happening around us by the presence of the Spirit and by revelation especially through the gift of interpretation, that we may know a lot about the nature of God, how he became Man that man may become of God. By his being Man, his Divinity still remained in him and through this, he was able to perform miracles even during his stay on earth.

Through contemplation, we became one with God as our mind are merged with his Divinity making ourselves subject to his wonders, as it is in silence that many are revealed and made manifest to us. We know too well that God precedes everything, so in anything that we do, it should be preceded first by prayer. In the quiet of our mind, we develop that love that continue to reveal to us many things, mysterious they are, that open to us many secrets of Heaven.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra      

Paul in conclusion to his 2nd letter to the Corinthians
coax everyone to greet one another with a holy kiss as all the holy ones
welcome them. Likewise in finale, he said, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you”
(2 Cor. 13:12-13-NAB).

It
should be noted that the name of Jesus Christ was mentioned first in this
Trinitarian order. It reflects that the name of Christ is being emphasized
first since it is through him that an actual process of Christian salvation was
made manifest. Christ as an opener, that serves as an aperture into the abyss
of insights that flood the enlightened believers, therefore functions as the
key to the wonderful things even little miracles experienced by the
Trinitarians.

Our
consciousness is being instigated that we may then open our eyes to deeper
truths. Likewise this chance harnesses our will to encourage each other to
renew our love for our brothers and sisters in the Christian family, and
develop our will to commune together.

In
the sustaining work that leads us to the holy living obedience to the Son, the
Spirit redeems us and we receive knowledge as the Father chooses us. With the
rejoicing in praise and worship, as the Christians obtain focus, we are then
being guided that in our insights may arise a revelation regarding the future
coming of Christ, as it may then be known to the Jews that he was the messiah
who obtains his wounds from the house of his friends (Zechariah 13:6).

The
detailed analysis from the scriptures serves as support that to our hearts we
may understand that we should unify the believers, as Jesus and the Father are
one in communion with the Holy Spirit as they share the same spirit. This is
revealed through the crystallized greetings of John to the seven churches in
Asia: grace to you and peace from who is and who was and who is to come, and
from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness,
the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth (Revelation
1:4-5).

With
this revelation, we are also encouraged to start a devotion to the holy
Trinity, being the undivided unity that is the highest form of devotion as we
may then be enlightened to the workings of the Holy Spirit, that our mind and
heart may serve as illumined rays making us as light to others, that they too
may receive foreknowledge from the Father and obtain revelation regarding the
mystery of God.

Let’s
allow the Spirit to push us, that we may encourage others too with us serving
as light and salt to the earth. Knowing well from the Father as this is
revealed through the Holy Spirit that dwelt in the Jesus paraclete, we too take
part from the Trinitarian unity of which as Jesus is one with the Father, we
are also one with Jesus, making us an extension in duality with the Master. If
we were only observant of the nature of the Spirit that we receive through the
indwelling of this in us, we would also feel the rupture of emotions, as we are
in-filled with the Holy Ghost.

This
indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the great mystery beyond human control. All
you have to do is to be open as we are in praise and worship, and allow the
Spirit paraclete to move in us as our eyes are closed. Making you stammer and
speak in plain strange language is not the end of the in-filling but a
possibility that through listening to others who are in tongues too,
interpreting this would make you be endowed with the gift of prophecy.

The
release of the Holy Spirit through healing, laying of hands and guided free
praising/praying in tongues, is all you need to make our restoration complete
as we may obtain both repentance, baptism and receiving of the Holy Spirit
which we call the “gospel” as revealed in Acts 2:38-NAB: “Repent, and be
baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

In
testimony that the Spirit continues to move in us, we read: “And they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the
Spirit enabled them to proclaim (Acts 2:4).” This revealed truth only signify
that the speaking in tongues did not end in Judea and Samaria but also it
continues in the uttermost part of the earth in the circle of the very
Gentiles, of which we are regarded as such now.

As
you have had repentance and baptism, the only thing you need to complete your
plan of salvation is the receiving of the Holy Ghost and His gifts. For “it will
come to pass that in the last days,” God says, “ I will pour out a
portion of my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy,
your young men shall see visions; your old men shall dream dreams… I will pour
out a portion of my spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy (Acts
2:17-18).

Let
us try to obtain the gift of the Holy Spirit particularly the speaking in
tongues that the vessel, which is our body, shall be continually cleansed for
us then to obtain pureness of thoughts and receive healing. In the time that we
feel dry, we only have to obtain the refreshing in the Holy Ghost (Acts 3:19).

-Jyotisman
Nearu Upendra

The Lord our God though perfect
He is, was tempted while in bodily form as the Son Jesus Christ. The devil took
him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, and said
to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down (Matthew 4:5-6).” The
devil cited, “angels with their hands will support you, and your feet shall not
be hurt.”

Jesus likewise has this answer, “You shall not put the Lord, your
God, to the test (Matthew 4:7).” Again the devil was very insistent, for he
took Jesus to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the
world in their magnificence, and said, “These shall be yours if you prostrate
yourself and worship me (Matthew 4:8-9).”

The Lord Jesus was quick with his answer: “Get away behind,
the Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve (Matthew
4:10).” It is for God alone shall we bestow worship, though as Catholics we
pray that the Virgin Mary intercede on our behalf.

Jesus was sturdy with his articulation, as he said, “Do not think
that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish
but to fulfill (Matthew 5:17).” He was steadfast in all his ways as a God
appearing in the form of a human, and was godlike in his gestures and speech,
though he also smiles even laugh as mentioned in Psalms 37:13: “The Lord shall
laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming (KJV).”

Accordingly, even though some may speak in tongues, they utter of
God’s righteousness praising him even all day long (Psalm 35:28). As those of
them are filled with insights, the Lord did guide them cleansing their mind and
hearts. ‘Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them
what referred to him in all the scripture (Luke 24:27-NAB).’

If we try to analyze, Jesus did receive temptations but was firm
to stand away and against those enticements, and was pure in his thoughts
knowing only the Father for superiority and that though he was not subordinate
being entwined with the Father, did not count equality with God as his recourse
but that he may humble himself for the fulfillment of the mission to redeem man
from sin.

He brought himself low in human form for equality among us being
his brothers, living alike of our nature, joyful and compassionate and observes
everyone that he may take recourse in the time that his help is needed. He
wants us to grow and be strong to rise up if we stumble, yet he was ready with
his arms enwrapped on us should we need a cane or an immediate rescue.

Our Lord sees all things, listens to everyone and is not deaf to
our aspirations for he hears all the things we say, and is ready for an advice
even offering material help, that we may know that we are not alone even though
we feel far from God. He is intimate to those who seek him and explore his
wonders, dying for his love and closeness.

The Lord has eyes to see our condition. He observes us who are led
astray, as it is written: ‘a stray sheep was

Israel

that lions pursued (Jeremiah
50:17).’ As we continue in verse 20: ‘In those days, at that time,’ says the
Lord: ‘they shall seek

Israel

’s
guilt, but shall be no more, and

Judah

’s sins, but these shall no
longer be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.’

So God is not deaf to our pleadings, even not blind to our
torments; how we suffer from pain because of broken families, how we are ill as
a result of disease and how we are in anguish as a consequence of the many
problems we heap upon us inasmuch as we are mortals and are of corruptible
bodies that even our souls can be ruined.

When I was in Novaliches in the formation house of the Franciscan
Conventual, while in full lotus and my mind was bare and empty, my inner eye
saw the torso coming down from the cross while from the invisible arms and
waist extend rays of bright lights while silver and gold dashes shower on the
image and me. And the word came from the mouth of the figure, asking me, “Which
would you prefer,” he said, “Me or life?”

Because, I could no longer breathe as my breath is suspended, I
immediately answered, “Life Sir.” And the vision ends and I found myself still
sitting in the full lotus as I lean at the back of the church’s altar table. Of
course to me, I may have clung to the right choice since Jesus is not only the
way and the truth but also the life. Could I have fallen to a deception, I may
have died that very moment. But with God as my recourse, he would not end my
life in a very tragic way.

Even in the hardest moments of our travail being sojourners of the
earth, God has been always gentle and would speak in our hearts in perfect
timing. We are not left alone to bear the pains in the corner while in tears
but he sits beside us though in silence even without a word but just pure
presence.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra

I can’t sleep because… God may
have a plan. I opened the Bible and my eyes pierced the words as if written
afresh. It says in Isaiah 8:10-NAB: ‘Form a plan, and it shall be thwarted;
make a resolve, and it shall not be carried out, for “With us is God!”’

The Lord gives me courage that I may tell everything… I prayed,
‘your words is more than enough my Lord.’… I’m consumed. And stood still. I
will never forget this evening when the Lord visited me. He asked me to take
courage for he will guide me, as the plan is sought.

It is a beautiful evening, for the Divine Mercy manifest a mirage.
I hope he could cure me. I offered a decade for one suffering cancer.
Teary-eyed, I was blocked. Thoughts, though, continue to seep in. “St. Jude
Thaddeus help me,” was my prayer.

Actually, I’ve taken two shots of Tanduay with Extra Joss, which
the youth offered to me, as I gave them assorted candies worth ten pesos. God
has a plan. And it is revealed to me as a body in-filled. Tomorrow I hope the
youth who took courage to say yes to our invitation for Charismatic will attend
the prayer meeting in form of praise, worship and talk.

Jesus became the Trinity for as
he was one with the Father, I was one with the youth, and I seem to copy their
form looking young too. I’m becoming more a man that has the courage to speak
out even from rooftops, and reveal the nature of God as the Father Holy Ghost
that in-filled the Son and they share bodily form.

God is good as He manifest in Triune. He is wiser above all,
having revealed himself through Solomon and behold, one is more than Solomon,
Jesus. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 says, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom…” and it follows, “All of us
gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
the image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.”

So it was clear, the Father in Holy Ghost form that fathered Jesus
is Jesus Himself as he was the image formed, and that it was God that was
manifested in the Lord. The Lord Jesus is God Himself. The Lord was the God
which we call Father.

So God is good, speaking through His vessels, and He continues to
manifest bodily, and differentiate things, from God and god, from ‘He’ and
‘he’. And we see that even the youth are considerate to whom who suffers from
lack of sleep, as they ended their drinking spree that I may have silence at
about 11:00 p.m. Tomorrow is Sunday.

This day now as I continue is Sunday, and I hear the bell rang
calling for the first

Mass.

I looked at my Bible and I was surprised that it had turned its pages almost at
the back cover. It says in 2 Corinthians 4 (with title Integrity in the
Ministry): “Therefore, since we have the ministry through the mercy shown us,
we are not discouraged. Rather, we have renounced shameful, hidden things: not
acting deceitfully or falsifying the word of God, but by the open declaration
of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of
God.”

It is an exact message for me to tell the truth and nothing but
that one, which I could reveal, honestly, that others may learn from my story.
God is indeed so good that if I would write all my thoughts and experiences
they could not fill many books on earth. Likewise, I am not Jesus but function
perhaps as I may fancy that I am his ‘walk-in’ as disciples, apostles, and
prophets are in accord with the Master.

Nothing can separate us, as the bond I have with family and
friends. Moreover, though no one knows the hour, for me the hour has come that
I may give myself like parted bread. As Jesus has shared in my life, I continue
to share Jesus to others to allow their faith in God to grow.

I, though I don’t take it as pride, continue to function as the
light to the world and salt to the earth. I remember one time when I served as
sacristan (being a seminarian) at

St.
  John

the Baptist Cathedral; I was shocked with
something in heaven. Somehow a red ball of fire arose from a crescent moon and
with its light, it pierced the Bible and me.

I was horrified with such visual vision, that I ran crying till
I’m in our room which awakened the other seminarians including the now Fr.
Charles. They comforted me but I could not be stopped from my crying. As I was
running from the terrace to our room, repeatedly a voice followed me saying, “I
am the Light of the world, he who ever believes in me shall have the light of
Light.”

The following morning, I went to Ng Lilian Chua and barely related
what happened the night before as I continue to shed tears. She gave me a fare
to the seminary in Numancia, barely of ten kilometers from Kalibo, seven
perhaps, for me to see Fr. Vic Martelino, that with him, I may seek comfort.
Accordingly as I was riding in the back ride, I could not be stopped from
crying, and as I am closing my eyes, the beautiful face of Jesus stayed in my
inner vision all throughout the ride.

As I get my GSIS dividend, I used it to Xerox the chaplet of the
Holy Spirit and part I spent in procuring red rosaries, which I gave around
till in Capitol. I wrote a letter to the Franciscan under the encouragement of
Fr. Boy, and went along with Uncle Ernie and Auntie Baby to

Manila

, as they were to attend Couples for
Christ Convention while Auntie Molac accompanied me to Tagaytay that I may
enter in Order Friars Minor Conventual. Auntie Lelie was visiting me as the
group of Aspirants went back to Novaliches in the formation house of
Franciscan. As I was already with the monks in the convent, Dad visited me and
embraced me in the chapel. Mom was writing letters to me during my stay in
Novaliches. Later, Dad and me went to buy my clothes before he went back to
Aklan.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra.

The Father and Jesus shares the
same spirit for God has sent Jesus and His spirit, and that spirit is the Holy
Ghost. God actually living in the person of the Holy Ghost or Spirit was a deep
mystery abundant of revelation though experienced only by a few. In fact you
can find nothing in this world than the mystery of God, which to some people in
their desperation have divided the Father as almighty and Jesus as mighty.

Likewise Isaiah 9:6 is clear that Jesus is also the everlasting
Father and being the basin of the Holy Ghost indwelling, Christ functioned
seemingly as the “walk-in” of the Father making Jesus somehow as a stinger in
duality with God the Father. The Father and Jesus feel the same emotion, even
desperation as they share the same spirit Holy Ghost.

The two of them is in one accord in the mission of saving the
world and its inhabitants. Somehow those who experience union with God function
also as “walk-ins” of whosoever’s spirit. I don’t know of whose spirit am I
such, but I feel the same saga of St. Francis of

Assisi

with the two of us having similar
experience, with mine applied to the modern world.

Somehow, during my stay in Franciscan, I don’t only experience
possession of male spirit but of female as well like of St. Therese’s perhaps
because I was empty, which later made me possessed by demons also. As I am
freed and cleansed, I was unconfined of evil spirits who are in struggle with
my God. In my case, the spirits that possessed me first are of human spirits,
but I had occasional indwelling of the Father, unlike Jesus who was formed in
the image of God since the beginning not only of his likeness but that he was
God in appearance since the beginning and did not lose his Divinity in his stay
on earth.

This is the wonder of Jesus being completely human yet was
absolutely Divine, and with the Holy Ghost entwining them they as Trinity are
not separated though each was in oneness with the other. You too are shaped to
become bodies indwelt by the Spirit, as God lives by his spirit. This is deep
thing to understand but this is the truth because Jesus is an expressed image
of the Father united with him though being sent is not superior to the Father
but is closely in union that though the Father is not the Spirit or Jesus;
Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit are one not just in accord but as One God
being the Holy One or the eternal Godhead. They are not just fused as one in
dispensation to Tri-Theism or the belief in three gods, that is a fallacy, but
one in exact meaning of the word one as in “Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is
One Lord.”

God is giving us the chance to repent and has opened his nature
for our eyes to see, that the light be placed in a lamp stand on the table for
all of us to see. He lives in us as we make people happy, even along with us
exchanging jokes and making each other happy. As a seemingly acclaimed
“walk-in” and a dual stinger with my Creator, there are times that I feel that
I have no gender, neither Man nor woman, gay or lesbian but simply as an
existence with no name to be proud of, nor dignity to protect but as a property
of all in a mission to fulfill the salvation in the world of all men, with me
seemingly classified as man in plain nature of it loving an opposite sex and
longing for copulation and not a coitus.

I am meant for procreation as sent to multiply and not just feel
sexual satisfaction in a very selfish nature. I have a notion that men even
gays and bi-sexuals should act as men meant for God’s purpose and be honest to
tell everything about him from the secret of his toe to the wonder of the tip
of his hair, and serve for God’s purpose feeling divine possession of the
spirit Holy Ghost. Narcissus did fall in love to himself and turned him a flower
while I’m deeply in love with God in three Deities but is one, making the
Trinity and its oneness indivisible.

God is wiser than all of his creation and he speaks in perfect
timing through the Holy Spirit paraclete possessing the Jesus paraclete sharing
life, body and soul in a union of Masters for the perfection of the world which
they created for their satisfaction. They are not slaves of doctrine or
religious affiliation but are independent of any human philosophy, not reduced
to philosophies of the Romans or the doctrine of just one church.

All become body parts of this God, that different churches become
one body of Christ. As we may analyze God is perfect in all his ways, and just
to forgive us of our sins, and is gentle and kind and merciful having all
qualities rolled as one, truly a person and not just a spirit, and desires a
pure vessel for proper indwelling.

God is also silent and meek and knows all and Jesus though a Son
being somehow frail is not imperfect but he has the perfection of the Father
for the Father and Jesus are not just in accord but are one as in Deutronomy
6:4. Jesus in modern times now speaks plainly of the Father not as my own
witness but that there is a Father in heaven that becomes his witness as the
spirit Holy Ghost speaks in churches through the gift of tongues,
interpretation and prophecy.

God is truly a man or person of his own in the expressed image of
the Son though forever divine, holy or sentient being pure, and God can
manifest in the person of Jesus Christ truly a God that we may enjoy of his
wisdom to our delight. On my part I remain the same ordinary person fancying as
a walk-in though I believe in such and had not power except that my chakras
are open.

I want to thank God of being him brilliant about everything and
luminous as we may have then an abundance of light. Thank you Jesus!

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra

It was mentioned in Chapter 14 that, “God is manifested as
an undivided unity in a threefold nature of God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit being of equal substance and are tangible wherefore are
called persons.” We have to define the words applied here to obtain clarity of
the terms used.

Being
equal in substance here means being of the same essence and not of being of a
physical matter. It can be conceptualized having essential significance. The
Godhead being tangible does not limit its nature as can be touched or felt by
touch. The word tangible here means being definite or precise in purpose
wherein you can specify its nature; and you can relate it likely to your own.

Lastly,
“being tangible wherefore are called persons”, means they being of definite
fashion whether visible or intelligible, are classified like the pronouns, as
of the three classes of them in grammar. In the baptism of Jesus, the Father
was indicated as the speaker (the first person) with Him saying “my” beloved
Son; the Son was disclosed as the subject spoken to (the second person, ‘you’
or as in ‘this’); while the Holy Spirit (falling as the third person, ‘he’ or
‘it’ though this was not indicated) was symbolized as the subject spoken
somehow attached and is identified to the Godhead being apparent or visible to
John the Baptist

It
is revealed in the Old Testament that the word for God is “Elohim” or ‘persons’
(plural) and is different from “El” or ‘person’ (singular) though God in a
threefold nature is considered as one thus forming the Trinity in an undivided
unity. This explanation reiterates that God being Triune though the Holy ‘One’
is beyond human comprehension and is therefore classified as “a mystery”.

According
to a fellow man of God in one of the other Trinitarian churches, “The Trinity
is a biblical concept that expresses the dynamic character of God, not just a
Greek idea pressed into Scripture from Philosophical or Religious speculation.
He further elaborates that while the term Trinity does not appear in the
Scripture, the Trinitarian structure appears throughout the New Testament to
affirm that God Himself is manifested through Jesus Christ by means of the
Spirit.

In
the documentation compiled through a certain Jerry M. Henry, it says that two
errors appear in history while considering the Trinitarian doctrine. These were
‘Tri-theism (Three-gods)’ and ‘Unitarianism’. In Tri-theism, the error is made
by emphasizing the distinctiveness of the Godhead to the point that the Trinity
is seen as three separate Gods, or ‘Christian Polytheism’. On the other hand,
Unitarianism excludes the concept of distinctiveness while focusing solely on
the aspect of God the Father. In this way, Christ and the Holy Spirit are
placed in lower categories and made less than divine. Both errors compromise
the effectiveness and contribution of the activity of God in redemptive
history.

Somehow
in the magazine ‘Know the Truth’, a catholic publication, in its banner
statement in an article ‘TRINITY’ IN THE BIBLE, it says that those who deny the
Divinity of Jesus are compelled to deny the Divine nature of the Holy Spirit.
For them, “The Trinity of God” is beyond human understanding. So they deny it.
They just forget the fact that God, who created man, can never be a slave of
human intelligence. Furthermore, they consider the Holy Spirit as an angel or
one of the seven spirits before the throne of God, this doctrine being
erroneous as opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic ‘Trinitarians’.

We
can find in Genesis 1:26 the following passage: Then God said: “Let Us
make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” In the succeeding
verse, it says, “God created man in His image; in the divine image, He
created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27).” Thus,
herein, the likeness of God is plural as He creates both the male
and the female human beings, Adam and Eve. To Fr. Paul Kaiparambadan, as Adam
and Eve shared one flesh, the Father and the Son shares also in one substance.
Adam and Eve were one spirit, just like Father and Son shares one Spirit
(Malachi 2:15). Thus, the whole creation becomes the ‘image’ reflection, or
mirroring of the manifold life of Divine nature of Trinity.

Likewise,
the Lord who came down to see the tower of Babel said, “If now, while they are
one people, all speaking in the same language, they have started to do this,
nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume to do.” Then he
further conveyed, “Let Us then go down and there confuse their language,
so that one will not understand what another says (Genesis 11:5-7),”

Anti-Trinitarians
said that the above occurrence of the name of God in the Old Testament being in
plural form was possible because he was talking with the angels and cherubim
surrounding him. But the above passages clearly testifies that the Triune God
is in threefold nature consisting of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit, and
they converse together even before angels, seraphim and cherubim are created. A
great example of God that is plural being in singular form was that occurrence
when Jesus called his Father in singular form while he was about to die on the
cross. He had these words while on the cross, “El, El, lema sabachtani,”
meaning, “My Lord, my Lord, why had you forsaken me.”

God
as a single individual “El”, with him defined as Love, is invalid, and
without the experience of ‘love’ if there is an absence of the one whom he
loves in the person of the Son. Their deeds were made manifest through the Holy
Spirit with the Bible saying that the Holy Spirit exists with God in the
passage, “Now the Lord has sent me and His Spirit.”

Let
us implore the name of the Triune God in our prayers.

-Jyotisman
Nearu Upendra

With the Trinity to my discovery seemingly emerging as the sole truth to the Trinitarians among the plenty of faith explanations in different Christian religions, paraphrased as assessed even in the early Christian faith, though the Godhead maybe be fused as one or are distinguished apart, herein God is manifested as an undivided unity in a threefold nature of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit being of equal substance and are tangible wherefore are called persons.

Though truth is sizeable, if we contemplate what enlightenment we may derive by reading the scriptures asking that we may be inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Trinity is still a mystery where its divine truth are taken as sacred and are beyond our human understanding, even if we struggle our differences in our religious beliefs whether in theological or philosophical arguments.

God being “love” exists as one who loves that one who is loved, and with the result of their love to each other, manifesting as the Spirit Paraclete, that though He was hovering in the face of the waters in the creation, in the time right for God He then took the form of a flesh and is molded with body, soul and spirit just like us who are patterned to the image and likeness of this God who is the only begotten Son in body form.

Even Paul when he came to the disciples in Corinth did not become a proud witness in such a way that he may speak, he instead communicates not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, as he humbly declares to the Corinthians his testimony about God (I Corinthians 2:1). Paul worded his speech in imitation of the Master who having humbled himself (Philippians 2:8), was inclined to empty himself taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance (Philippians 2:7), obedient to death, even death on the cross (Philippians 2:8).

Though we don’t see the word Trinity in the Bible, the Trinity is present in the expressed image of the person of Christ, he having the spirit of the Father present as the spirit Holy Ghost in the body of Jesus. The Trinity was first used by St. Theophilus of Antioch in his book ‘Epistle to Antolycus’ in A.D. 180 with the Trinity having the Greek Word “triados” and the Latin word “trinitas” reiterated also in the magazine ‘Know the Truth’.

It says in the magazine that those who worked behind the creation of the canonical book ‘Bible’ believed and accepted ‘The Trinity’ as God’s revealed truth handed over to them by the apostles. Likewise we believe that the Trinity was biblically viewed as one who having this concept as balanced proves that while there is unity, it also shows distinctiveness among the three persons.

Though the Old Testament shows some features that are related to the ones that can be found in the New Testament, it does not mean that the Godhead is knowable from the Old Testament. The Trinity has opened to us an explanation which attests that the Triune God has distinguishing features, which we can find in the New Testament, yet does not infringe the concept of the oneness of God in the Old Testament. St. Theophilus in his work ‘Modesty’ wrote: “Trinity of the one Divinity; Father, Son and Holy Spirit” (chapter 22).

To explain the Trinity in four types of passages, we have Matthew 28:19, Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. As we continue in the next scripture text, it is said, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you (2 Corinthians 13:13). Moreover, Peter as the apostle of Jesus Christ in his greetings to the chosen sojourners of the dispersion in

Pontus

,

Galatia

, Cappadocia, Asia, and

Bithynia

, said, “in the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: may grace and peace be yours in abundance (1 Peter 1:1-2).” And the fourth type of passage was one that which John did greet the seven churches of

Asia

: “Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne (Revelation 1:4).

These four passages supports the Trinitarian doctrine with the clearest scriptural reference in the fashion that which each person of the Godhead is distinguished from each other yet they closely relate in their inner relationship being One God in undivided unity.

In reference to the document provided by a fellow Trinitarian church as it is documented by Jerry M. Henry, I Peter 1:2 shows that the Trinitarian formula is followed with allusion to each person of the Godhead. The scattered Christians are reminded through reference to the Trinity that their election (foreknowledge of the Father) and redemption (the sanctifying work of the Spirit) should lead them to the holy living obedience for the Son.

He also explained that though the New Testament depict evidences for asserting the truth about the Trinity presented in a systematic form, the scattered segment from various writers that appear throughout the New Testament reflect a seemingly accepted understanding that exists without a full-length discussion. It is embedded in the framework of the Christian experience and simply assumed as true. He further emphasized that the New Testament writers focus on statements drawn from the obvious existence of the Trinitarian experience as opposed to a detailed exposition.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra

In a mysterious way, Jesus shared like parted bread, his life and experiences to his apostles and disciples, even to those who had witnessed his works; and nowadays with the manifestation of the Holy Spirit through experiences of its presence in the congregation that we may gain enlightenment by the message we get from the scriptures that would benefit the body of Christ which is the church.

It is the great gift of God that we are seen working together for the improvement of our knowledge about the scriptures and the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, as we are drawn in this end times. It is also a must that we should unveil the truth about the mystery of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ through insights in illumined rays that we may be clarified of the things that puzzles us.

Despite of the misfortunes coming our way, our understanding must be opened that God is not the source of all the evil that we face now because God is the lover of justice. It is with these key words that we are formed according to his image and likeness, not only with the application of the presence of the Spirit, but by the legacy of the good placed in every human heart.

Though Jesus was called the Son of the Most High (Luke 1:32), he is merged with the Father that you can hardly differentiate one from the other. Bible scholars for example have two interpretations on who is the almighty in Revelation 1:8 written as follows: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.” One struggles that it is Jesus; the other was saying it was the Father.

Again, we struggle with the Holy Scriptures if we only use knowledge. It has to be coupled with enlightenment from the Holy Spirit. If we move before the scripture text we’ve just read, in verse seven, we read, “Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him.”

Somehow in I Thessalonians 4:16, it says, “For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” If we look further in Zechariah 14:4, it is written, “That then his feet shall rest upon the Mount of Olives, which is opposite

Jerusalem

to the east.”

Of course the Father cannot be seen because he is a pure act and a pure spirit, and it needs a being or a creation for him to be manifested in human form, and that being that proceeds from the act of the Father is the Christ where in him God is manifested in human form or manifested bodily or in flesh. “For in him (Jesus) dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily (Colossians 2:9).”

Still in the deliberation on God who is the Father in heaven being a pure spirit, it says, “No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him (John 1:18).” It only clearly attests that the spirit of the Father (Isaiah 11:2), who is the Holy Ghost dwells in the heart of Jesus secluded in his bodily form making the Trinity possible with the spirit of the Father that is the Holy Ghost present as an active force in the body of Jesus, called the Son of the Most High, making him the one whom the Father rejoices of him with whom all fullness dwell (Colossians 1:19) for he is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation (Colossians 1:15).

Accordingly, being a God in human form, he shall say, “I am no prophet, I am the tiller of the soil, for I have owned land since my youth.” And if anyone asks him, “What are these wounds on your chest?” he shall answer, “With these I was wounded in the house of my dear ones” (Zechariah 13:5-6).

These were the same enlightenment spoken by Paul to the Ephesians how that by mystery it was made known to him by revelation, as he have written briefly earlier. When you read this you can understand his insight into the mystery of Christ (Ephesians 3:3-4). It follows; that he then wrote his letter to the Colossians explaining the mystery how Christ being the creation was possessed of the spirit of the Father who is the Holy Ghost, making him (Jesus) both man and God.

Just for the sake of sharing the experience, I remember how I was furious in Sebaste flaming with hot temper as I preached about the end of the world warning them to repent as I am possessed with a mighty spirit, wherever it comes seemingly with me as a shouting prophet with strange husky loud voice when in truth I’m just an ordinary man with the fire of God’s word coming from my mouth which completely took me away from reality. That was November or December of 1991.

In the same way, I was also reminded how I had endured writing hundreds of love letters since 1993, with free stationeries even envelopes, writing even some of the letters right in the stationeries in clear handwriting. This is also the reason why I had poor handwriting later because I never did refuse anyone before who ask of me to write a love letter even if I already endure the pain in my fingers.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra