Is God one being, or two beings or three?

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1 John 5:7 Modern English Version (MEV)

7 There are three who testify in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and the three are one.

No Syriac manuscript of any family — Peshito, Philoxenian, or Harklean — has the three witnesses; and their presence in the printed Syriac Gospels is due to translation from the Vulgate.

So too, the Coptic manuscripts — both Sahidic and Bohairic — have no trace of the disputed part, nor have the Ethiopic manuscripts which represent Greek influence through the medium of Coptic.

The Armenian manuscripts, which favour the reading of the Vulgate, are admitted to represent a Latin influence which dates from the twelfth century; early Armenian manuscripts are against the Latin reading.

Of the Itala or Old Latin manuscripts, only two have our present reading of the three witnesses: Codex Monacensis of the sixth or seventh century; and the Speculum, an eighth or ninth century manuscript which gives many quotations from the New Testament.

Even the Vulgate, in the majority of its earliest manuscripts, is without the passage in question. Witnesses to the canonicity are: the Bible of Theodulph (eighth century) in the National Library of Paris; Codex Cavensis (ninth century), the best representative of the Spanish type of text: Toletanus (tenth century); and the majority of Vulgate manuscripts after the twelfth century.

There was some dispute as to the canonicity of the three witnesses as early as the sixth century: for the preface to the Catholic Epistles in Codex Fuldensis (A.D. 541-546) complains about the omission of this passage from some of the Latin versions.

(newadvent.org/ Catholic Encycopedia/ Epistles of St. John)
 

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The Father of Jesus is one Being.

Jesus is another Being.

The Holy Spirit is not another Being.

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Your right. We heard Jesus speak. We hear the Holy Spirit speak. We seen Jesus' form

John 5:37
37 "And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.
(NKJ)

Three different beings in three different places at the same time.
Matt 3:16-17
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.
17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
(NKJ)
 

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Is God one being, or two beings, or three?

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"GOD", ---- Thinks / His "Thought" // The "Spirit" of GOD.
"GOD", ---- Speaks / His Word // Christ.
( Spirit is Thought ). // "THINK" on These Things". - ( Philippians 4:8 KJV )!!
"GOD", "Spirit", And "Word of God"; All three are HIM!!!

If we have His Thought, we have His Spirit; And If we have His Word we have Christ // GOD // HIM!!!

NOW Ain't that Simple??

PAUL, DAVID -- 082815
 

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"GOD", ---- Thinks / His "Thought" // The "Spirit" of GOD.
"GOD", ---- Speaks / His Word // Christ.
( Spirit is Thought ). // "THINK" on These Things". - ( Philippians 4:8 KJV )!!
"GOD", "Spirit", And "Word of God"; All three are HIM!!!

If we have His Thought, we have His Spirit; And If we have His Word we have Christ // GOD // HIM!!!

NOW Ain't that Simple??

PAUL, DAVID -- 082815
You have some right ideas, but the wrong explanation.
 

meshak

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"GOD", ---- Thinks / His "Thought" // The "Spirit" of GOD.
"GOD", ---- Speaks / His Word // Christ.
( Spirit is Thought ). // "THINK" on These Things". - ( Philippians 4:8 KJV )!!
"GOD", "Spirit", And "Word of God"; All three are HIM!!!

If we have His Thought, we have His Spirit; And If we have His Word we have Christ // GOD // HIM!!!

NOW Ain't that Simple??

PAUL, DAVID -- 082815

welcome back brother:)
 

patrick jane

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"GOD", ---- Thinks / His "Thought" // The "Spirit" of GOD.
"GOD", ---- Speaks / His Word // Christ.
( Spirit is Thought ). // "THINK" on These Things". - ( Philippians 4:8 KJV )!!
"GOD", "Spirit", And "Word of God"; All three are HIM!!!

If we have His Thought, we have His Spirit; And If we have His Word we have Christ // GOD // HIM!!!

NOW Ain't that Simple??

PAUL, DAVID -- 082815


hey, it's good to see you !!!! - we miss you here -
 

patrick jane

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"GOD", ---- Thinks / His "Thought" // The "Spirit" of GOD.
"GOD", ---- Speaks / His Word // Christ.
( Spirit is Thought ). // "THINK" on These Things". - ( Philippians 4:8 KJV )!!
"GOD", "Spirit", And "Word of God"; All three are HIM!!!

If we have His Thought, we have His Spirit; And If we have His Word we have Christ // GOD // HIM!!!

NOW Ain't that Simple??

PAUL, DAVID -- 082815

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