It is worth noting that several months ago the Lord called together
his twelve disciples, who are now angels, and sent them out to the entire
spiritual world with the command to preach the gospel there anew, since
the church established by the Lord through those disciples is so close to
its end today that scarcely any of it remains in existence. Also worth not-
ing is that the church’s deterioration was the result of its splitting the
divine Trinity into three persons, each of whom is God and Lord. [ 2 ] As
a result, a kind of brain fever spread throughout the whole theology and
infected the church that calls itself Christian from the name of the Lord.
I call it a brain fever because this development has so deranged human
minds that they do not know whether there is one God or three. The
mouth says there is one, but the mind thinks there are three. The mind,
then, is at cross-purposes with its own mouth, and thought with its own
speech; this results in no knowledge of God at all. The materialist philos-
ophy that rules today has no other source. As long as “one” is what the
mouth is saying and “three” is what the mind is thinking, do they not
inwardly meet halfway and obliterate each other? Then if thinking about
God occurs at all, it scarcely goes beyond thinking the word “God.” The
word is denuded of any meaning that would entail actually having a con-
cept of him.
[ 3 ] Because the idea of God and every notion of him has been torn
to pieces, I intend to discuss in sequence God the Creator, the Lord
the Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit the Effecter, and then to discuss the
divine Trinity, with the purpose of mending what has been torn. This
mending will occur when human reason is convinced from the Word
and its light that there is a divine Trinity; that it exists within the Lord
God the Savior Jesus Christ like the soul, the body, and the effect of
one person; and that the following statement in the Athanasian Creed is
valid:
In Christ, God and a human being, or the divine nature and the
human nature, are not two; they are in one person. Just as the rational
soul and the flesh is one human being, so God and a human being is
one Christ.The Oneness of God
5 The very essence and soul of everything in a comprehensive theology is
the acknowledgment of God [arising] from a concept of him. Therefore