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Do the Brotherhoods Recognize the
“Trinity?” Question: What do Brothers call God, and do the Brotherhoods recognize God as a Trinity? Answer: To my knowledge, the
Brotherhoods refer to God only as the “Father God” when They are
talking about the Originator of the Universe. Whatever name we give to Him as
we hold a concept of Him in our minds is really sufficient
to contact Him through prayer. Generally speaking, however,
He has enough lieutenants down the chain of command to take care of our
problems so that He doesn’t actually get involved in our problems. The
Brotherhoods do not recognize
the Trinity as a mystery in the way that the Christian churches regard it.
They recognize that there is a God. They also recognize the divine nature of
Christ who calls Himself alternately the Son of Man and the Son of God. The
Jews had a problem with the fact that Christ was a person who was worthy of
worship, yet they recalled that Moses had told them there was only one God
and no other Gods were to be worshipped before Him. The Jews who had become
Christians could not worship Christ, so they devised a mystery wherein Christ
really is God. After seeing the power of the Holy Spirit, which was the Brotherhoods operating through certain select
individuals to give them miraculous power, they ascribed that power to being
an aspect of God. They believed that all were manifestations of God—such as
Christ the man functioning on Earth and the Holy Spirit functioning through
man—and, of course, the only way they could worship all three was to say that
They were all God. (08-1973) |
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