it follows that a god from a god is not possible, because such a god would
necessarily lack absolute and essential divinity in the form of intrinsic
underlying reality and capacity to become manifest. It does not matter
whether that god is said to be “born” of God or to emanate from him, he
would still be produced by God, which is scarcely different from being
created by him.
To introduce into the church the belief that there are three divine
persons, each of whom is individually God, although they share a single
essence, and to say that one of them was eternally begotten and the third
has been having an effect from eternity, is to destroy completely the con-
cept of one God. Along with that it is also to eradicate the whole notion
of divinity and to drive all reasoned spirituality into exile. No longer
truly human, human beings are becoming earthly in every respect. The
only difference between them and wild animals is that they can talk.
They are against anything and everything spiritual about the church—
the earthly self calls all that delusional.
These hideous heresies about God have poured out of one source
alone: the earthly self. Dividing the divine Trinity into persons has
brought about not only nighttime in the church, but also death.
[ 2 ] The concept of three divine essences that are the same is an
offense to reason, as I learned from angels. They said that even pro-
nouncing “three equal divinities” is impossible for them. They said that if
someone came to them and tried to say it, that person would automati-
cally turn away. After saying it the person would become like a human
log and would be thrown away downward, headed for those in hell who
do not acknowledge the existence of any God.
Truly, to implant in toddlers, children, and teenagers the idea of
three divine persons—which inevitably entails the idea of three gods—is
to take away all their spiritual breast milk, and then all their spiritual
solid food, and later on all the spiritual food for their reason, and, in the
case of those who convince themselves of that point of view, to cause
their spiritual death.
On the one hand, those who direct heartfelt, faithful worship to one
God alone as Creator of the universe, and as Redeemer and Regenerator
as well, are comparable to the city of Zion in the time of David, and the
city of Jerusalem in the time of Solomon after the Temple was built. On
the other hand, the church that believes in three persons and views each
person as an individual god is like Zion and Jerusalem after they had been
destroyed by Vespasian and the Temple there had been burned down.
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