Christian Churches of God
No. 076C
Origins
of Radical Unitarianism and Binitarianism
(Edition 1.5 20100129-20210130)
Many purporting Christians seek to explain the
nature of God in terms of Radical Unitarianism or Binitarianism not realising
that the doctrines they claim are in fact the doctrines of pagan gods and have
been used to destroy the church set up by Jesus Christ.
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Origins
of Radical Unitarianism and Binitarianism
There are a
great many people who claim to follow the doctrines of the early church and
when examined they proffer the doctrines of the second century that were used
to penetrate and destroy the early church. They are ignorant of the origin of
their doctrines and the heresy involved and the attacks on the doctrine of the
Nature of God.
Two
doctrines were used to attack and destroy the doctrine of the Nature of God and
its understanding in Judaism and later in the emergent church.
The first
false doctrine was the doctrine of Radical Unitarianism that sought to deny the
function of the pre-existent Messiah and hence destroy the OT theology and its
prophecy of Messiah and the church.
The second
false doctrine was that of Binitarianism. It emerged from the revelation by God
to Isaiah of the coming Messiah.
Once this
prophecy was issued to Israel the demons immediately set up a counterfeit
system in nearby Syria and Mesopotamia generally in what were mystery cults.
The great false religion was that of the worship of the god Attis and the
goddess Rhea or Cybele who came to be associated with him.
The other
gods were Adonis among the Greeks and Osiris in Alexandria. We will examine the
development of this doctrine below.
Firstly let
us define and examine Radical Unitarianism and then let us examine its origins
and similarities to Binitarianism and examine what Christ had to say about this
doctrine and see how it is a fabricated heresy which relies on the
misconstruction of Scripture, both OT and NT.
Definition:
The belief that Christ had no existence prior to his conception/placement in
the womb of the virgin Mariam.
This
doctrine was advanced by Pharisaic Judaism at the time of Christ. It ignores
large areas of Scripture and was rejected as a view by Christ himself who
quoted Scripture to demonstrate its fallacy. It is advanced by those terming
themselves Unitarian Christians today and also by elements of rabbinical
Judaism, who are the modern day Pharisees, who misquote OT Scripture and assert
that Messiah had no pre-existence and that he is yet to emerge in the near
future. This view has been examined in the paper The False Messiah
(No. 067B).
Very much
like Trinitarian doctrine it seizes on the weakest point of its argument and
asserts it as being the strongest point in refutation of it, and uses it as its
proof text.
Christ had
finished expounding the function of the Two Great Commandment of the Law of God
to the Pharisees who were gathered together because he had silenced the
Sadducees who claimed that there was no resurrection by his comment that God
said: “I am the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob and God is not the God
of the dead but of the living” (Mat.22:32).
The
Pharisees were gathered and a lawyer asked him: “Master, what is the greatest
Commandment in the Law?” (Mat. 22:36)
Christ
answered: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy mind (quoting Deut 6:5, 10:12; 30:6). This is the First
and Great Commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets” (Mat. 22:37-40).
The scribes
divide the Law into two sections: the affirmative commands and the negative
commands. There are 248 affirmative commands (which are allegedly the number of
the members of the body) and 365 negative commands (one for each day of the
solar year, thus also proving their mysticism). The total is thus 613 in number
which accords with the number of the “letters” in the Decalogue or so Bullinger
asserts of them (Companion Bible, fn.
to Mat. 22:36).
When Christ
had made the basis of the Law clear in its divisions and functions and he had
the leaders of the Pharisees together he dealt with another major problem that
they would inflict on Judah for millennia. He asked them the question: “What
think ye of Christ, Whose son is he?”
They said
to him: “the son of David.”
In
refutation of them he used Psalm 110:1 which is a favourite text of the Radical
Unitarians today to deny his pre-existence.
This is
Christ’s answer to all who deny his pre-existence: “How then does David in the
Spirit call him Lord saying: ‘The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right
hand until I make your enemies your footstool.’
If David
then called him Lord, how is he his son?”
The
Pharisees were silent knowing that it was Yahovah of Hosts speaking to Messiah
in the text.
The text in
Psalm 110:1 was an “oracle of Yahovah (i.e. neum Yahovah).” The Sopherim then
changed 110:5 from Yahovah to read Adonai instead of Yahovah. This was one of
the 134 places that Yahovah was changed to Adonai in the texts of the Masoretic
Text (MT) by the Sopherim to conceal the identity of the beings involved and
the distinction between the superior and subordinate entities of Almighty God
and the God of Israel, which was his inheritance (see also Appendix 32
Companion Bible for notation of the 132 places altered and Appendix 98 VI, i, a, 1A, a, for the Greek text in Matthew
22:44 quoting Ps. 110:1 where Yahovah is rendered ho kurios with the definite article in the Greek indicating Yahovah
of Hosts is meant) (see also the paper Psalm 110 (No.178)).
The meaning
could not be disguised in some texts though. One such text is Psalm 45:6-7
where David says: “Therefore God thy God has anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy partners.” Hebrews
1:8-9 shows that this is specifically the Christ. If Christ was Israel’s second
God at the time of David how then can he not have pre-existence? (see also the
papers Psalm 45 (No. 177) and The Pre-existence of Jesus Christ
(No. 243)).
Zechariah
shows that the Angel of Yahovah at the head of the elect is an elohim as will
be all of the elect and David himself (Zech 12:8) (see also the paper The Elect as Elohim No. 001)).
Zechariah 2:8-9 shows that the Lord of Hosts (Yahovah Sabaoth) has sent the
secondary Yahovah unto the nations that spoiled Israel. He will shake his hand
upon them and they will be a spoil to their servants and we will then know that
the Lord of Hosts has sent him. How can this not be an angelic and supernatural
being?
These
Radical Unitarians claim that the One True God was present in the wilderness
and gave the Law to Moses. However, the NT is quite clear that no man has seen
God ever, both from the Gospels and the epistles, and that it was the
subordinate elohim that spoke to Israel (Jn. 1:18; Jn 5:37; Jn. 6:46; 1Tim.
6:16; 1Jn.5:20). Christ states that he came down from Heaven and that no man
has gone into heaven save Christ who came down from heaven (Jn. 3:13). He says that anyone who has seen the son has
seen the Father (Jn. 6:36); however, this does not negate the fact that he said
that no one has seen the Father ever except he who was from God, namely
himself.
He is
telling the parable of the Holy Spirit being the form and power of God and that
through the Spirit he was of God.
Christ also
said that he had seen Satan fall like lightning from heaven (Lk. 10:18). How
can he have done that and not be a supernatural being?
In John 17:5
Christ says in prayer: “and now, Father glorify thou me in thine own presence
with the glory I had with thee before the world was made.” How can a rational
person construe this utterance as not stating that he had pre-existence? The Binitarians had to assert that it really
was the fact that Christ was some form of a conscious entity as part of the
Father but still not really the Christ as a separate entity. What irrational
gibberish that proposition is. The Radical Unitarians have to simply ignore the
texts to maintain their irrational fiction that Christ had no existence until a
zygote in the virgin’s womb. In John 17:18 he again states that God sent him
into the world (and that is not in the sense of a zygote).
Philippians
2:5-7 is mistranslated and often used as a Trinitarian proof text. It refers to
the rebellion and Christ’s faithfulness and self-sacrifice in the heavens. It
says: “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who,
though he was in the form (morphe) of
God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself
taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” (RSV).
How
difficult is this text to understand. It is fairly simple language. It
establishes that:
One would have
to be feeble minded to assert this text does not imply pre-existence. Even the
Trinitarians were faced with garbling the translation to try to make him equal
to God but even they are not stupid enough to try to deny his pre-existence.
That premise is why Trinitarianism has been more successful than Radical
Unitarianism as a deception (with the exception of Hadithic Islam).
Paul’s
statement in 1Timothy 3:16 has been forged in Codex A. The text says: “And
without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness: which was manifest in
the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of Angels, preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
Bullinger
(Companion Bible) in the footnote to verse 16 notes that the R.V. holds “Theos (God) rests on no sufficient
evidence.” He goes on to explain that the letters were originally ho (which); the Greek uncial being O.
Some scribe later added the s making it “He Who” – thinking it made more sense.
Later another placed the bar across the O making it Theta. It was thus implied
to be a contraction for Theos (God)
and thus the word God was inserted to the text in the KJV. Trinitarians use it
as a proof text knowing it rests on a forgery in Codex A but relying on the
ignorance of others. However, no one seriously tries to assert that it does not
require a presumption of pre-existence.
Paul states
quite clearly that Christ was with Israel in the wilderness under Moses and all
ate of the food and all drank the water of the rock that was with them, and that
rock was Christ (1Cor. 10:4). Yet the Radical Unitarians try to ignore this
text also.
The OT
texts themselves state that no man can see God and live (Gen. 32:30). Yet this
being that was the subordinate God of Israel wrestled with Jacob and named him
Israel.
Radical
Unitarians to this day resort to silly arguments and misrepresent Scripture.
One such misrepresentation is from Hebrews 1:2. The text in Hebrews 1:1-2 says:
In many and
various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last
days He has spoken to us by a son, whom He appointed the heir of all things,
through whom he created the world.
Now Radical
Unitarians have actually quoted this text as evidence that Christ had no
pre-existence by stopping at the words the
heir of all things. They deliberately and dishonestly use this text and
fail to continue in the text to read to through
whom he made the aeonas, or ages
(and which is translated as the world). These ages are the three ages from the
restoration of the planet and the creation of Adam to the Flood, the age from
Noah to Christ and the third age from Christ to the Last Days and the
Millennium under the Messiah.
Believing
the text is one thing and a matter of faith, but to suggest that the text
asserts that this son of God was human with no pre-existence is intellectually
absurd. We know from this text he is a son of God and we know from Scripture
that there were many sons of God (Job 1:6, 2:1; 38:4) and also that they were
called Yahovah or “He causes to be” and we know that there were four of them at
the one time dealing with Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis chapters 18 and 19) (see also
the paper The Angel of YHVH (No. 024)).
We know
from the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) and the Septuagint (LXX) that the text in
Deuteronomy 32:8 was altered in the MT. The text originally read:
When the
Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of
men, he fixed the bounds of the people according to the number of the sons of
God (see also RSV).
The
Sopherim changed this text to read according
to the number of the sons of Israel which is a fraud. It is done to hide
the inheritance of the Yahovah of Israel as verse 9 continues on directly to
identify that Yahovah’s portion is his people, Jacob the lot of his allotted
inheritance (see Green, The Interlinear
Bible). This text shows clearly that the Yahovah of Israel was one of the sons of God and Israel was
allotted to him as his inheritance. Through Him and his inheritance God was to
take all mankind to Himself as we see in Deuteronomy 32. This text was where
Moses revealed the name of the One True God Eloah for the first time (in the
modern Bible sequence) and listed it twice in verses 15 and 17. Moses had
already identified the name in Job on a number of occasions. This entity, Eloah,
is the object of worship and is singular admitting of no plurality whatsoever.
Unlike the word elohim which is a
plural word translated as gods in the
texts, Eloah is the name of the One True God who is the creator and Father of
all. Elohim is what He is becoming through the creation, both heavenly and
human.
Thus the
Messiah is appointed heir of all things so that God may become all in all. He
must have had pre-existence as a son of God in that inheritance and the text
shows clearly that he did indeed create the ages in which the inheritance would
be developed. Christ thus confounded the Pharisees to deal with the specific
heresy of Radical Unitarianism that denies his pre-existence.
In view of
these critical biblical texts it follows that a Radical Unitarian cannot be a
Christian as the doctrine is directly converse to the statements of the Bible
and to Christianity specifically. The pre-existence of Christ is fundamental to
the Christian faith.
It is
perfectly understandable that Jews would seek to lie and cheat to justify their
failure over the past two millennia. However, it is inexcusable for a
professing Christian to do so.
No sound
thinker would use the first half of Hebrews 1:2 to deny what the second half of
it, with verse 3, plainly asserts, as we see above.
We will now
examine the Origins of Binitarianism in order to tie the two doctrines together
in heresy.
Binitarianism
is not a Christian doctrine. It arose in Mesopotamia in the cult of the god
Attis and the other deities of the mystery cults. Those cults emerged in their
specific Messianic doctrines after God had revealed through the prophet Isaiah
how the Messiah was to be introduced into Israel.
The
doctrine was in fact a cleverly constructed demonic ruse to divert Israel from
the faith. It is an example of why the demons long to look into the prophecies
of God that are revealed through the church and the prophets.
Isaiah son
of Amoz was born before 760 BCE. He began his work in 742 BCE in the year that
king Uzziah died (Isa. 6:1). He came into prominence in the Syro-Ephraimitic
invasion of Judah in 734 BCE. From 734 he prophesied of the coming Immanuel and
in 734 he retired from public prominence owing to Ahaz’s conclusion of the
Syrian alliance. His seclusion lasted until 715 BCE when he began to speak more
freely under Hezekiah. In 705 the death of Sargon II saw a general revolt
against Assyria and the invasion of Sennacherib saw the rejection of the
Assyrians and their expulsion by God from Judah with the virtual end of his
ministry from 701.
The cult of
Baal-Ashtoreth had been developing in Israel and was condemned. The other
similar cults under other names were occurring all over the Middle East and
into Europe. The Hittites or Celts however had gone into Europe earlier and
taken the ancient festivals with them. They had not developed the cult of the
“dying god” as precisely as had the Middle East people, as the ideas to defeat
the Messianic texts had not been issued until Isaiah ca. 734 BCE.
By the time
of Jeremiah, whose work spans the period from 626 to ca. 580 BCE, we have seen
the rise of the cult of Attis and the establishment of the Sun festival at
24/25 December after the solstice. The doctrines of the Mystery and Sun Cults
were:
God was
specific in His condemnation of the sun cult in Jeremiah’s day. In Jeremiah
10:1-10 we see God absolutely condemn the solstice festival that we now call
Christmas.
Any person
who keeps or follows these festivals is a devotee of the god Baal and the sun
cults. They are not Christians.
Anyone who
says that when they die they go to heaven is not a Christian; they are Gnostic
imposters (see Justin Martyr, Dial.
LXXX).
In just
over 110 years the counterfeit had been developed and was in full swing in the
Middle East. Judah was headed for captivity from which she would emerge for the
Restoration and the Messiah. Judah would then be placed under judgment. Her
system would be destroyed and she would be sent into exile for two thousand
years.
The sun
cults were to extend from the cult of Osiris and Isis in Egypt which had
developed much earlier into the idea of the Mother Goddess Isis holding the
invincible infant sun god in the cave on the day after the Solstice, i.e. on
the evening of 24 December which was the start of the day of the 25 December.
This cult spread into Syria and Mesopotamia as the cult of Attis from where it
went into Rome and became a major cult.
The sun festival did not enter Christianity until 375 CE in Syria and 386 in Jerusalem at the
fall of the Roman Empire and the commencement of the Dark Ice Age.
Interestingly it was in Syria that it penetrated Christianity and spread from
there.
It had gone
into Greece and Thrace from the Middle East and into the Balkans as the cult of
Adonis, and also of the Mother goddess and the fertility cults as Demeter where
the sun cults entered Christianity also (hence the black Madonna and the cult
of the virgin).
The
expansion of the cults is dealt with in the paper The Origins of
Christmas and Easter (No. 235).
The
greatest element of fraud ever perpetrated on humanity was the Binitarian
nature of the god Attis.
People who
do not understand the doctrine try and misread it into Christianity. Let us be
very clear. Binitarianism is not a Christian doctrine. It is not scriptural and
has been used to destroy the early church and also the Churches of God at the
end of the twentieth century.
The
doctrine of Attis taught that he was a god who assumed physical form from
himself. That is, the physical Attis was a second divine aspect of the one god.
It was a masterpiece of satanic deception using the dual nature of God in
counterfeit of the Bible as the singular Eloah extending Himself to become Ha
Elohim. In the biblical doctrine Eloah extended Himself through His Spirit and
all the sons of God became elohim or gods on their creation through the
extension of the Holy Spirit as the enabling power of God so that He could be
all in all as Ha Elohim extending to all elohim. This was the most powerful
message of the OT which was to be explained by Christ in qualifying to extend
the capacity to humans through the Holy Spirit.
To muzzle
the understanding of the theology of the Bible, the extension of this capacity
had to be confined to one entity only and then split into two. This has the effect of allegedly overcoming
an objection of the Greeks which was levelled at Christianity by them precisely
to undermine the Bible and establish this two-headed god. They argued that only
like could atone for or reconcile humanity to God, and they thus argued that a
vicarious sacrifice could not reconcile man to God.
The obvious
logical absurdity of this proposition was ignored and the devotees of Attis
entered Christianity to overtake and destroy its theology.
The
supposition is absurd in that if God said that He would accept Christ’s
sacrifice in payment of sin, which He did through Isaiah, then it was accepted
as a payment. In the same way if anyone said that they would accept something
as payment for a debt under the law which is what sin is, then they were legally
obliged to do so. To suggest that the entity or payment had to be an element of
the One True God to do so, otherwise it is not an effective sacrifice, is an
impious and heretic accusation against the One True God. The only thing that
the One True God cannot do is die. One of the sons of God had to do that to
reconcile all the elohim and all of mankind to Eloah as Ha Elohim or The
God. That is why he had to be of the one
origin, as was the entire Host. Thus he had to be both one of the elohim and a
man.
That
doctrine has to be overcome by the demons and so they invented the Binitarian
doctrine and established it in the mystery cults specifically to await the
coming of the Messiah.
Once the
church had been established and the apostles were all dead they began to
insinuate the doctrine into Rome solely for reason of power in control of the
religions in Rome. They had to transfer the doctrine of Attis from the cult of
Attis to the new and rising sect of Christianity.
In the
middle of the second century the man Anicetus, who had penetrated the Christian
Church, was elected bishop of Rome. Immediately he was powerful enough he
introduced the Easter system in the church in Rome. Easter is the English word
for the goddess Ishtar of the sun and mystery cults. The church outside of Rome
objected and so commenced the Quartodeciman disputes (see the paper The Quartodeciman Disputes (No.
277)).
These
heretics had inserted the Sunday sequences into Christianity in Rome from 111
CE. As soon as they were able they inserted the “Dying God” festival of Attis.
The festival is designed to move the Lord’s Supper away from the Passover to
the Friday of the cults and their “resurrection” on the day of the sun.
There is
nothing Christian about the festival of Easter whatsoever. It is a counterfeit
system. We did not split with the Roman Church in 154 but tried to peacefully
exist alongside them.
Once they
had inserted the festival ca. 154 CE, they began twisting the theology of
Christianity and in 170 the Alexandrian school began asserting the Binitarian
doctrines into Christianity and asserting the structure directly to Jesus
Christ. They did this by elevating Christ above the other elohim in the Host
which was not done until the second century.
By 192 they
had taken over the church in Rome completely and were in a position to expand
the heresy into Christianity generally. Victor, bishop of Rome and the greatest
schismatic the church had ever seen, after he became bishop, in 192 CE declared
the Quartodeciman Church of God anathema. He ruled that to be in communion with
Rome the Easter Festival had to be observed instead of the Passover. The result was that the Celtic Church in Britain
simply ignored the Roman Church and they went on as Quartodecimans until they
were forced at the point of the sword to adopt these false Roman doctrines.
That event occurred in 664 CE from the synod at Hilda’s Abbey in Whitby. The
Trinitarians subsequently effectively rewrote the history of the church.
Binitarianism
was used to undermine the theology of the Church from 170 CE. In 325 at Nicaea
Binitarianism was declared doctrine of the Universal Church controlled from
Rome. The Unitarian bishops of the
church were exiled with their logician Arius by order of Constantine.
In 327,
just two years later Constantine had become aware that Binitarianism was a
heresy and that the churches outside of the influence of Rome did not accept it
he recalled all the exiled bishops and made Unitarianism the faith of the
empire, which it remained, with the exception of the reign of Julian the
apostate, until 381 CE when Gratian made the error of appointing the Spanish
born Theodosius emperor at Constantinople. He was an Athanasian. That sect,
using the Cappadocians, had developed the doctrine of the Triune God to
superimpose on Binitarianism. Thus the Trinity was born.
From the
Canons of Constantinople they rewrote the doctrines of Nicaea and the fraud of
the Nicene Creed was born in what had become pseudo-Christianity.
Binitarianism
is the means by which Christianity was undermined in the first place and then
by force of arms the original theology was suppressed.
The
fraudsters of Christian history and doctrine seek to assert that Binitarianism
was the original Christian doctrine. Some writers in the Trinitarian world at
the end of the twentieth century in the USA, in an effort to justify their
adoption of Trinitarianism, such as in the SDA groups, wrote works that
misrepresented the early theology of the church in an attempt to demonstrate
that the church was Binitarian originally. Their arguments are based on a
profound ignorance of Scripture and the doctrine of the early Church and the
historical conflicts involved. Their false arguments are examined in the paper Binitarian and Trinitarian
Misrepresentation of the Early Theology of the Godhead (No. 127B).
One of
these pseudo-religious “scholars,” when it was pointed out that he had no
theological or religious qualifications, mysteriously turned up with a
Doctorate in Theology on his resume. However, when the hate sites got hold of
it and publicly ridiculed him, suggesting he had purchased it in India, it
disappeared again. His site is often
used by the LCG to promote fiction in support of them, over the objections of
their more scrupulous members.
The
doctrine of Binitarianism is being used by the plants and sycophants in the
Churches of God at the end of the twentieth century and now into the twenty-first
century to undermine the theology of the Churches of God. It was started by the intrusion of Jesuits
into the SDA church in the USA. After the Biblical Unitarian theologian Uriah
Smith died in 1931 the plants simply asserted Binitarianism and proceeded to
develop an acceptance of Trinitarianism. By 1978 they declared they were
Trinitarian and now many do not even know that it is only a recent development.
They
penetrated the Worldwide Church of God using two systems. They used the
Trinitarian system to assert Binitarianism to overcome the obvious stupidity of
Herbert W. Armstrong’s Ditheism (see the paper Ditheism (No. 76B)).
Some
pseudo-theologians as above state that Herbert Armstrong taught Binitarianism
which is a blatant lie. However the agenda was really to swing the Church of
God to Trinitarianism using Binitarianism as the vehicle. It worked in the second
and third century, and again in the Reformation, why not again now? After all
no one in the world thinks critically anymore, or do they?
The Church
of God (Seventh Day) was penetrated, and in 1995 declared that they had always
been Binitarian, which is another blatant lie. Some of their ministers were
shocked. Others outside of the US voted with their feet. Today there is not one
branch of the COG (SD) in Africa, of which we are aware, that is still with
them espousing this heresy. They are now almost all within CCG.
The next
direction of attack was by using Freemasons who entered the Churches of God but
had not properly renounced their sin. They used the approach of advocating
Radical Unitarianism that asserted that Christ had no pre-existence. These
people managed to congregate in the UCG and comprise more than 10% of the
attendance and ministry.
The
combined attack sees the Binitarian proponents misrepresent the Biblical
Unitarian doctrines to assert they are Radical Unitarians. It may be ignorance,
as they demonstrate that continually. Only time will tell.
There are a
significant group of Binitarian/Radical Unitarians left in WCG who think they
do God a favour holding on to the heresy. They argue that God and Christ was
the one person who was at Sinai. Then they argue that this God split into the
two beings at the Incarnation. They have no comprehension of what Christ and
the apostles were saying. It is effectively the Binitarian doctrine of Attis
all over again.
Thus the
doctrines slip into one another at will depending on how the dual nature of God
is explained at any one time.
What must
be realised is that many of these people do not know what they are saying and
do not comprehend the Scriptures and the heretical nature of their views. More
importantly they do not understand the damage they do to the newcomers to the
faith.
The
doctrine of Sabellianism also came into the church in China after the uprising
of 1850 and the sect of the True Jesus Church formed after that. They asserted
and assert to this day that Jesus Christ is the Father and there is only one
God and Christ is it. That is a form of Radical Unitarianism that even the
Binitarians see as complete nonsense. That has to be corrected before they can
be of use to the faith and in fact stop being of harm to the faith.
The
theological deterioration, aside from this major error in China, is in the USA
and commenced from Ellen G. White and extended into the WCG system through
Herbert Armstrong and Herman Hoeh and the Trinitarian quislings at Pasadena,
who were intended to have finished the job. It also penetrated the uninformed
of the Church of God (SD) and in the Seventh Day Baptists chiefly from the
USA.
Radical
Unitarianism was also advanced into the General Conference of the Church of God
(Seventh Day) and its adherents ignore and misrepresent the Scriptures with the
argument we see above. It has far less adherents but their people too are
joining us overseas as they examine their doctrines more closely against
Scripture.
UCG aia has
at least four doctrines on the Nature of God that emerge at any one time. LCG
is not much better.
There are
Trinitarians, Binitarians, Radical Unitarians, Ditheists and only rarely
Scriptural Unitarians. Usually the Scriptural Unitarians (sometimes termed
Sabbatarians and often and incorrectly termed Arians by the Trinitarians) are
not tolerated by the ministry, yet they tolerate all the other heretical
forms. That should tell us all we need
to know about where they are headed.
This
Binitarian/Radical Unitarian heresy is not harmless and must be exposed for
what it is and stamped out of the Churches of God. It is a deliberate exercise
and has limited the ability of the Church of God to expand in these Last Days.
God will
address it and correct the errors. He can’t use them as they are in the Last
Days.
Everyone
everywhere must be properly educated to deal with these issues.
We will
consolidate the faith now to deal with the coming Beast power or Empire of the
Beast.
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