Runningman
Active Member
The part you're missing in your formula is knowing the Father as the only true God. You seem to have glossed over what the word "only" means here. In the Greek, monos means alone, only, solitary, single. So the Father is alone the true God, singularly the true God, the only true God, solitarily the true God. So this excludes any other possible persons from being the true God with the Father, i.e., the "Holy Spirit" and "Jesus Christ" are not separate persons who are God. Learn who God is first and the rest will fall into place. If you do not believe the Father is the only true God, you do not have eternal life.Correction: The ignorance of those attempting to know GOD apart from the LORD leads to religion and Death!!!
Without THREE, no one could be Saved!!!
TRUTH #1 FATHER God and JESUS CHRIST= John 17
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
TRUTH #2 JESUS CHRIST to the FATHER = John 14:6
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
TRUTH #3 HOLY SPIRIT = Mark 3:29
“Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter;
but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”— because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
HONOR all THREE or you die in your sins!!!
Jesus said below regarding the requirement for eternal life:
John 5
24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
So let me ask you to test your understanding. Who sent Jesus Christ according to John 17:3?