Dear Louis! Some time ago I had an religious experience: I closed my eyes and saw a circle of light and knew: this is God. Later I found out that God can be described by a circle: the Holy Ghost is the spirit of truth (John 15:26), truth is the word of God (John 17:17), the word of God is Jesus (John 1:14), Jesus is God (John 10:30), God is a spirit (John 4:24) and the circle is closed. The light is a symbol for love, since it is written: God is light, God is love. So God is one God. This is opposed to the doctrine of the trinity, which depicts God with a triangle. Interestingly the circle is only described in the Gospel of John, the only Gospel which was written by an apostle and which tells us the most about God. … It looks like as if I am the only one who knows the meaning of the circle… God bless you ~ Ralf Biermann
Religious experience is not authoritative and does not displace biblical truth! All truth was long ago delivered and there are no more revelations from God beyond what we already have in the Bible. “Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3, ASV). Not even angels from heaven, should they come with more revelations are to be believed (Galatians 1:6-9), and one’s closed-eyes sighting of a circle of light and subsequent interpretation is no more credible or divinely permissible.
Further, mishandling of the Word of God respecting who was and who was not an apostle of Christ (John was, but Matthew was not?) demonstrates a need to acquire a basic Bible knowledge, before purporting to delve into the deep things of the Word of God, or for that matter, before attempting to bring to the attention of his fellow man things of which he alone is aware. Though Mark and Luke were not apostles, John AND MATTHEW were apostles (Matthew 10:2-4). It is presumptuous and highly suspicious that someone alone would stumble on a religious truth today that for 2,000 years was unknown (“a circle of light”) to any Bible student and apparently not evident in the Scriptures themselves.
Three passages specifically mention the “Godhead” (Acts 17:29; Romans 1:20; Colossians 2:9). Several passages teach that there are a plural number of persons in the Godhead, beginning with creation references (Genesis 1:26). A number of passages also teach that there are three persons in the Godhead (Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 4:4-6). Ephesians 4:3 addresses the subject of “unity” and immediately follows it with the introduction of seven “ones,” “body,” “Spirit,” “hope,” “Lord,” “faith,” “baptism” and “God and Father.” In primitive, New Testament Christianity, there is one spiritual body — the church, one Holy Spirit, one hope, one Lord Jesus Christ, one system of faith, one valid baptism (immersion in water for the remission of sins, Acts 2:38; Romans 6:3-5) and one God the Father, or seven ones. In the vein in which there is one each “body,” “hope,” “faith” and “baptism,” there likewise is one each “Spirit,” “Lord” and “Father” — three persons in the Godhead. Anyone who can count to seven can also count three persons in the Godhead. Another article in the “Archive” of Gospel Gazette Online that ably teaches about the nature of God can be found at https://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2001/may/page10.htm. Additional references on page 2 of this issue of Gospel Gazette Online adequately prove that the Godhead is composed of three divine persons.
