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So, on Earth, we have the witness of the Holy Ghost, the water of the Word and the
redemptive power of Christ’s blood to sustain us (1 John 5:8). Christ’s blood is
His blood it is not Christ Himself or God, but it is of God (1 John 5:8) and cleanses
us from all sin by propitiation (1 John 2:2).

The Trinity

This is a valid doctrine (Mat 28:19). The Word is Christ, the Word is God, the
second Person of the Trinity and the Son (1 John 1:1, 14, 1 John 5:20, Rev 19:13-
16). All three Persons of the Trinity are one as shown by the fact that their three
titles form one name (Mat 28:19). Other equivalencies of God are established e.g.
God is the Word (John 1:1, 14, 12:48, Hebrews 4:12-13), God is Light (1 John
1:5), God is The Way (John 14:6), God is The Truth (John 14:6), God is The Life
(John 14:6), God is Love (1 John 4:8). God is also Truth as well as The Truth
(John 1:14, 14:6, 1 John 5:6). The Word is a Person (John 1:1, 14, Heb 4:13) as
God is a Person (Gen 1:1, Ex 3:14, 20:3) the one triune Person of the three-in-one
Persons (Gen 1:6, Ex 3:14, 20:3, Rom 1:19-20). God is a single Person or I (Gen
6:17, Ex 3:14, 6:3, 20:2-3, 5, Jer 23:6), but is not a distinct ‘Fourth’ Person,
distinct to God the Father, God the Son, or God the Holy Ghost (Mat 28:19). God
is also Three Persons in this One Person (Mat 28:19), the Godhead (Acts 17:29,
Rom 1:19-20, Col 2:9) and therefore a plural We or community (Gen 1:26, 3:22).

One mystery of God is that God the Son has always been God despite being
‘firstbegotten into the world’ (Heb 1:6, Rev 22:13, 16). God has a soul as Christ is
the Word made flesh and has flesh in his risen body (Lev 26:30, Jer 32:41, Zech
11:8) and also has a ‘mind’ (Ezek 23:18). When Jesus refers to himself as a Jew
and a member of the ‘we’ that worships God, he is referring to his incarnation as
fully Man dwelling among us whilst being tempted in all points as we are (John
4:22, 14:28, 1 Tim 2:5, Heb 4:15). He had to be under the Law to redeem us from
it (Gal 4:4-5). As a man on Earth, before his death, Jesus was a perfect Jew under
the Law for our redemption (John 4:22), but after his resurrection he was not a Jew
(Mat 5:17, John 19:19, 30, Rom 3:2, 10:4). To be both a Christian and a Jew in
faith is impossible (Rom 10:4).

The two natures of Christ, God and Man, are joined in the ‘Hypostatic Union’ that
is they can not be merged or disconnected, which is a mystery. This was correctly
set out in detail in the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. This stated that Christ is
in two natures ‘without confusion, without change, without division and without
separation.’ (Mat 28:19, 1 Tim 2:5).