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Truly Autotheos!

  Steve Hays   writes … The doctrine of Eternal Generation leads to eternal subordination.    In formulating the Trinity, two opposing errors are to be avoided: tritheism and unitarianism. Nicene subordinationism is a harmonistic device to avoid tritheism by making the Father the primary God. Standing behind the phrases God “of” God, light “of” light, and true God “of” true God is the imagery of the Father as the fons deitatis or fons trinitatis. And this is a form of modalism. It preserves monotheism by treating the Son as a secondary or second-grade divinity, and the Spirit as a tertiary or third-grade divinity. What you have is a continuity rather than identity of essence. Creedal categories of generation and procession serve the same function. Nicene subordinationism represents a compromise position, swapping one heresy for another. The true doctrine is that the Godhead’s hypostases are each autotheos. To contend that each person is autotheos doesn't mean the per...
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The Church at Laodicea as the New Davidic/New Monarchial Covenant

Shema  14  “ And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation . John 1: 1:    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  2  He was in the beginning with God.  3  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  4  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  5  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Historical Prologue 15  “ I   know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.  Growing up, I understood this text to refer to individuals & churches who had grown complacent.    Laodicea as a church was cruising on mediocrity & in increasingly desperate need ...
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The Church at Philadelphia as the Johannine Covenant

Shema  And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. Matthew 16:19 : I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed[ a ] in heaven.” Historical Prologue  8  “ ‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.  The Johannine/Reformational Covenant’s Transitional Prophet from the Davidic Era is John the Baptist.   The story begins in Luke with announcement of John’s birth to Zechariah & Elizabeth & Gabriel’s appearance to  Mary to announce Yeshua’s conception & birth.  They, like Simeon & Anna in the Temple’s courts watching & pra...
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