scholarly journals DOGMA TRITUNGGAL MENURUT KRISTEN SAKSI-SAKSI YEHUWA

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Roni Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Central Dogma ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Trinity

In the tradition of mainstream Christianity, the Trinity is a very central dogma as a faith in God as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It can be seen in the 12 creeds of the Apostolic Creed where the faith of the Trinity was first, second, and third. There is one school of Christianity, calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses, rejecting the dogma of the Trinity in their divine concept. According to Jehovah's Witnesses, the word Trinity is not originated of the Bible. The Trinity is also not taught by early Christian Fathers and Pre-Nicene. The Trinity Dogma was introduced by Constantine for some reasons, and even continued in the Athanasian Creed. Jehovah's Witnesses therefore believe that the Trinity dogma is an apostate that the Bible has foretold, and is influenced by ancient beliefs and Platonism.

scholarly journals Konsep Kesatuan Yesus dan Allah Bapa Dalam Injil Yohanes 17:22 Untuk Menghadapi Doktrin Subordinansi Tritunggal Saksi Yehuwa

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yanjumseby Yeverson Manafe ◽  
Yenny Anita Pattinama
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
Triune God ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The One ◽  
The Trinity

Doktrin Trinitas atau doktrin Allah Tritunggal adalah pengajaran tentang Allah yang menyatakan diri-Nya dalam tiga pribadi, yaitu Allah Bapa, Allah Anak (Yesus Kristus), dan Allah Roh Kudus yang ketiganya adalah esa. Di satu sisi, doktrin tersebut merupakan doktrin yang sangat penting dan unik dalam kekristenan. Dikatakan penting karena doktrin ini berbicara tentang Allah Tritunggal yang menjadi pusat pujian, penyembahan dan pelayanan orang percaya. Dikatakan unik karena doktrin tersebut tidak terdapat dalam agama manapun di dunia ini. Namun, di sisi lain, doktrin tersebut merupakan doktrin yang sulit dipahami dan diterima oleh akal manusia bahkan menjadi bahan perdebatan yang hebat di berbagai tempat, masa dan kalangan manusia. Dengan studi eksegetis Yohanes 17: 22 sebagai dasar evaluasi kritis terhadap doktrin subordinasi Tritunggal dalam theologia Saksi Yehuwa, maka dapat diketahui bahwa doktrin subordinasi Tritunggal dalam theologia Saksi Yehuwa adalah doktrin yang menyimpang dari kebenaran Alkitab.   The doctrine of the Trinity or the doctrine of the Triune God is the teaching of God revealing Himself in three persons, namely God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit of which all three are one. On the one hand, the doctrine is a doctrine that is very important and unique in Christianity. It is said to be important because this doctrine speaks of the triune God who is the center of the worship, worship and service of believers. Said to be unique because the doctrine does not exist in any religion in this world. However, on the other hand, the doctrine is a doctrine that is difficult to understand and accepted by human reason and even becomes a matter of great debate in various places, times and circles of humans. With the exegetical study of John 17: 22 as the basis for a critical evaluation of the doctrine of the subordination of the Trinity in the theology of Jehovah's Witnesses, it can be seen that the doctrine of the subordination of the Trinity in the theology of Jehovah's Witnesses is a doctrine that deviates from Bible truth.

scholarly journals Knowing the Father

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David. T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Charismatic Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

The emergence of the Charismatic movement has generated a new awareness and interest in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, but has also brought a realisation that there is a still-neglected Person of the Trinity, the Father. Part of the reason for this lies in the historical development in the doctrine of the Trinity, which led to a belief that external actions of God are not differentiated between the Persons, and also in the fact that the Father only generally acts in the world by Son and Spirit, so has no clear role. It seems natural to attribute creation to the Father, but even here, the Bible sees the Son as the actual creator. Nevertheless, the Father can be seen as the source of the concepts and means behind the material; interestingly there are hints of this in classical Greek thought and other faiths. This is ongoing, perhaps particularly in the evolutionary process of the world. Thus, paralleling the incarnation, the Father is present in the material universe, as its ethos. He can also be seen to be affected by creation, sharing in its nature in his kenōsis, and in its suffering. Creation then inspires a sense of wonder not only from its existence, extent and nature, but from its interactions and underlying concepts; this is worship of the Father. Sin is then when this is overlooked, or when actions disrupt it; these are an offence to the Father.

scholarly journals HOLY TRINITY AND THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Arigala Jessie Smiles ◽  
Potana Venkateswara Rao
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
God The Father ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Arian Controversy

Although early Christian theologians speculated in many ways on the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, no one clearly and fully asserted the doctrine of the Trinity until around the end of the so-called Arian Controversy during the 4th century. Arius taught that God the Father and the Son of God did not always exist together eternally. In this context this research article attempts to review the evolution of the concept of Holy Trinity and the Arian Controversy, understand the main differences between Homoousian and Homoiousian arguments with an aim to help the reader understand the divinity of God the Jesus Christ and his co-eternal and co-equal position along with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

scholarly journals The Holy Spirit and the Early Church: Doctrine & Confession

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Van Oort
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Church Doctrine

This article firstly investigates in what way various main theological figures in the first centuries of the Christian era spoke about the Trinity and thus, also, about the Holy Spirit. Secondly, it investigates how the formulas of Early Christian confessions of faith developed into their mature and final forms. Such (baptismal) confessions often reveal trinitarian expressions and explicit wordings about the Holy Spirit.

scholarly journals Helligånden, Guds røst på jord

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-64
Author(s):  
Morten Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
The One ◽  
The Trinity

The Holy Spirit - God’s Voice on Earthby Morten MortensenFew Western theologians have talked so much about the Holy Spirit as Grundtvig. When Grundtvig constantly fastens his gaze on the present reality and the presently active God, belief in the Holy Spirit acquires a particular importance. There are thus good grounds for inquiring into Grundtvig’s theology of the Holy Spirit, also since demands have been heard from several quarters in our day and age for renewed attention to be paid to the third article of the Creed.When Grundtvig wishes to explain who the Holy Spirit is, he maintains that one must first grasp what the spirit of a people is before one can understand the spirit of the people of God. This understanding is supported from the Bible by the fact that it was the Holy Spirit that in the act of creation created the human spirit as an image of itself, inasmuch as God breathed into the soil and created a human being. This human spirit is closely connected with the ability to live in a invisible world, which is held together through language and which can be passed on through words. Word and spirit belong together, says Grundtvig - the spirit is the vital force in the word. The spirit is the faith, hope and love that lie in the words.The human spirit should thus be handed down from generation to generation through the native tongue. But as a result of the Fall it was eclipsed and destroyed, so that the image of God’s Spirit became unrecognizable in it. But with Jesus, God’s Spirit came again to the human spirit. For God the Father’s Spirit was also Jesus’ Spirit, inasmuch as He was conceived by Him and walked in the Spirit. Through the atonement on the cross Jesus could then give the race of man a share in His own spirit, so that the race of man could be saved and enlightened in Him. Thus it was that on Whit Sunday the Holy Spirit could join forces with baptism and the Eucharist, since He was in “the Words of the Lord’s own mouth”. The Spirit is therefore handed down together with the visible signs from generation to generation, and must in this way pass through the generations in order to regenerate and renew the fallen human spirit. On the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ the human spirit will thus be completely one with the Holy Spirit.It is obvious that this theology of the Holy Spirit is bound up with an understanding of the Trinity which differs from the one in the orthodoxy of the Lutheran tradition. Thus Grundtvig stresses the threeness in the Trinity of the Godhead and emphasizes in particular that the Spirit is a person. In this emphasis on the threeness he shows a dependent position on the Eastern one, which is also revealed in the fact that the Spirit is not said to emanate from the Father and the Son, but is said to emanate from the Father through the Son.This inquiry thus points out how Grundtvig really manages to talk about the presence of God. He can do so by virtue of a profound understanding of the person of the Holy Spirit.

Dual Processions of the Holy Spirit: Development of a Theological Tradition

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Nodes
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Principal Difference ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Back Door ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Trinity

The theology of the Holy Spirit waited through the early Christian centuries until the main doctrines regarding the Trinity and the person of Christ had been forged. Even then pneumatology was introduced ‘by the back door’, in Theodore Campbell's phrase, that of how the Son was placed in the Father, Son and Spirit confession. While prayers to the Spirit were not lacking in the earliest liturgies, still, at Nicea the doctrine ‘had been disposed of in lapidary brevity’, as Jaroslav Pelikan has described the credal line, ‘and we believe in the Holy Spirit’. ‘Nor does there seem to have been a single treatise dealing specifically with the person of the Spirit composed before the second half of the fourth century’. After Nicea, however, controversy concerning the Spirit erupted ‘with a vengeance’, producing the same kind of energy that had accompanied the Christological debates. Pneumatomachi, Tropici, and Macedonians, though losers in the fight for orthodox doctrine on the Spirit's nature, had mounted formidable campaigns, as Arians had done over the relationship of Christ to the Father. But disagreement over the Spirit had an even greater impact than Arian opposition in that the filioque remains a principal difference between the Catholic and Orthodox, and now Catholic and Anglican, creeds.

Spirit

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale B. Martin
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Christian View ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

When the subject is the Christian view of the holy spirit, it is even more difficult to find an orthodox doctrine of the spirit if the Bible is read only through the method of modern historical criticism. Read historically, the Bible does not teach a doctrine of the trinity, and the Greek word for “spirit,” pneuma, refers to many different things in the New Testament. Moreover, the pneuma was considered in the ancient world to be a material substance, though a rarified and thin form of matter. Yet those ancient notions of pneuma may help us reimagine the Christian holy spirit in new, though not at all unorthodox, ways. The spirit may then become the most corporeal person of the trinity; the most present person of the trinity; or alternatively, the most absent. The various ways the New Testament speaks of pneuma—that of the human person, or the church, of God, of Christ, and even of “this cosmos”—may provoke Christian imagination in new ways once the constraints of modernist methods of interpretation are transcended. Even the gender of the spirit becomes a provocative but fruitful meditation for postmodern Christians.

Studi Eksegetis Yohanes 1:1-18 Sebagai Apologetik Terhadap Kristologi Saksi Yehuwa

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Pangeran Manurung
Keyword(s):  
Striking Difference ◽  
Human Being ◽  
John 1 ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witness ◽  
Search Results ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God The Father ◽  
The Difference

Eksegesa John 1 : 1-18 shows that the Jehovah's Witness teachings deviate from the truth of the Bible and dangerous for Christians . The danger Christology of Jehovah's Witnesses should be bringing us to the prudence and discretion to reject it . It can be said that Jehovah's Witnesses do not include Christianity in accordance with the search results against their teachings . first ; they do not recognize the Bible that has been issued by the Indonesian National Bible Institute and consider if the Bible has too much harm to use their own New Translation of the Holy Scriptures that have been proven not a translation , but just a collection of interpretations and teachings of their leader alone . second ; Jehovah's Witnesses do not acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Savior only . They simply believe that salvation is obtained through belief in Jehovah and his kingdom and perform service message and follow the trial associations .                Before errors interfere Christology Christology of Jehovah's Witnesses Bible , please note that the topic of Christology is the difference between Christianity and other religions . This discussion has also become one of the topics that face many attacks from the outside or from within Christianity , either in the form of religion , philosophy , and ideology . The debate on this topic appeared since the beginning of Christianity , and give rise to a long and complex debate for nearly three centuries ( 300 years ) !! . Such debates will continue to exist throughout the period and just a rehash issues that had once appeared . And Christians should study the various debates and views of the ever emerging that are not easily fooled by the views back to this era .Eksegesa John 1 : 1-18 has been done and produce a biblical Christology and biblical correct . The truth is not in doubt because of the analysis conducted in accordance with the procedures and rules that apply in general . Now if Christology Christology of John compared with Jehovah's Witnesses, it will show a striking difference . Once observed , Christology Witnesses builds upon the interpretation of individuals who previously have had a negative Christological doctrine .                Conclusion those who think that Jesus is the firstborn of Creation ; Jesus was a human being ; Jesus is God in creating a peer ; Jesus lower than God , Jesus is the Angel Gabriel , and other Christological doctrine which basically degrading nature of Christ is a form of insult to the majesty of Christ . The Bible clearly and emphatically teaches that Christ is God incarnate , private alpha and omega , the creator of all that exists , and the equivalent of God the Father . Summing Christ as superior human or clear eldest creation is false teachings . The followers of Jehovah's Witnesses must repent. Amen

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