childhood like the root of a tree in the ground. If the tree is cut down, a
new shoot appears.
[ 2 ] My friend, do not just cut down that tree; dig out the root as
well. Then plant your garden with trees that bear good fruit. Make sure
the idea of three gods is not stuck in your mind as your mouth says “one
God” without any accompanying mental picture. If the intellect above
your memory is thinking three gods at the same time as the intellect
below your memory is making your mouth say “one God,” your intel-
lect is like some clown on a stage who can play two parts at once. He
switches from one part to the other, saying something in one role and
contradicting it in the other, and in the argument calling his one self
wise and his other self demented. Eventually he will stand in the middle
looking both ways and thinking neither of them is anything. Likewise, if
there is not one God and there are not three, then there is no God. This
is the sole source of the materialist philosophy predominant today.
In heaven no one can even mention a trinity of persons, each of
whom is individually God. The heavenly atmosphere itself in which
thoughts travel in waves, as sound travels through air, works against it.
Only hypocrites there can get away with it, but in the atmosphere of
heaven their speaking has a bad sound like grinding teeth, or it squawks
like a crow trying to sing like a songbird.
In fact, I have heard from heaven that using oral confession of one
God to wipe out a belief in a trinity of gods (when that belief has been
planted in the mind with supporting evidence) is as impossible as it
would be to pass a whole tree through its own seed or to pass a man’s
whole chin through a single hair of his beard.
5. The apostolic church knew no trinity of persons. This idea was first 174
developed by the Council of Nicaea. The council introduced the idea into
the Roman Catholic church; and it in turn introduced the idea into the
churches that have since separated from it.By “the apostolic church” I
mean not only the church that existed in various places in the time of
the apostles but also the church that existed over the two or three cen-
turies after their time. Eventually, however, people started to tear the
door to the house of worship off its hinges and break into the sanctuary
like thieves. By the house of worship I mean Christianity; by the door I
mean the Lord God the Redeemer; and by the sanctuary I mean his
divinity. Jesus said, “Truly I sayto you, those who do not enter through
the door to the sheepfold but instead climb up some other wayare thieves
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