The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

Official Statements - Trinity183Quote from ‘Mark of Brazil‘:“The name YAHWEH stands for Saturday [the Sabbath, blessed by the livingGod of heaven and sanctified on the seventh day of creation and rested fromall his works] and the Trinity, the [three-gods-teaching] stands for Sunday!““Jesus Christ had never mentioned such a phenomenon, and the word‘Trinity’ cannot be found anywhere in the entire New Testament. The doctrinewas taken into consideration by the church only three hundred years afterthe death of our Lord. “(Arthur Weigall, a historian,” The Paganism in Our Christianity”)“The practice of Church’s preaching and teaching is dominated by a supernaturalconception of Jesus, which is not attributed to the New Testament. It says thatJesus was true God, and that therefore the two concepts of God and Christare interchangeable. But that is not biblical. The New Testament says thatJesus was the Word of God, that God was in Christ and that Jesus is the Sonof God *”. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, andJesus Christ, whom you have sent.”(John 17:3)(John Robinson, an Anglican bishop)* see John 1:1In the year of 517 the Catholisation of Arian Germans began. After long, uphillstruggles three of the most important Arian peoples were destroyed - the Heruliin the year of 493, the Vandals in 534, and the Ostrogoths in 538.At the Council of Chalcedon (451) the decisions of the synods of Nicaea (325) andConstantinople (381) were confirmed, affirmed and proclaimed as ecumenical.Until the 16th Century, hardly a Christian could dare doubting the doctrine of the Trinity.The one who still dared to doubt this irrefutable dogma or to refute it at all in the MiddleAges, was beheaded like the clergyman Johann Sylvan (who died in 1577).The most important opponent of the doctrine of the Trinity in the 16th Century was theSpaniard Michael Servetus. Shortly after the publication of his book “ChristianismiRestututio” he was arrested at the instigation of Calvin, the Catholic Inquisition. Theimprisoned Servetus did not revoke; so he was burned at the stake in 1553.Karl Heussi writes: “Servetus was a spiritually outstanding, versatile man filledwith deep piety and genuine reverence for the Holy Scripture and Christ. Withhis brilliant sharp eye, he recognized the difference between the Christ of theGospels and the Christ of dogma. “(Compendium of Church History, 5th ed, page 271)Rhine-Neckar-Newspaper dd. 20./21.04.1996:“The decapitation of John Sylvan at the market place in Heidelberg on December23rd 1572, rendered in watercolor. Frederick the Pious and the Council of Churchesresponded with high sensitivity as it was revealed that a few Electoral Palatineclergymen denied the divinity of Christ and the Holy Spirit and thus the commitmentto Triune God common to all Christian confessions. Johann Sylvan was executedwhereas some clergymen managed to escape. Our illustration is an extract from thebook “Religion and Power in the Palatinate in 1600” by Frieder Hepp. “