![]() ![]() Writing in 1898 he described the Spirit of God as "God’s representative-the power by which he works, the agency by which all things are upheld." 5 He says that the Spirit of God is recognized in the Bible as the Lord’s presence. ![]() Loughborough also declared himself on the subject of the Holy Spirit. Spain adopted it in 589, Africa in 534 and England in 596. and was an established doctrine by 681 A. It was introduced into the Christian Church about 325 A. It is simply a renovation of the pagan Persian religion. ![]() The doctrine of the Trinity came into the church, so he argues, about the same time as image worship and Sunday observance. That Loughborough was opposing Trinitarianism, not merely as it appeared in his day, but in its earliest manifestation in the Christian Church, is evidenced by his amplification of his third point. To believe the doctrine of the Trinity, to Loughborough, would involve acceptance of the idea that "God sent himself onto the world, died to reconcile the world to himself, raised himself from the dead, ascended to himself in heaven…." 3 Here again we are confronted with anti-Trinitarianism based on opposition to what Trinitarians did not teach, that the Father was the Son and vice versa. As indicated by John chapter 17, the oneness between them is the same as that between Christian believers. He opposes the use of the terms "the Triune God," and "the three-in-one God." 2 "if Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are each God, it would be three Gods." Under the second point he urges that in Scripture Father and Son are spoken of as two distinct persons. In enlarging on the first point, Loughborough objected to the idea that three are one, and one, three. There are many objections which we might urge, but on account of our limited space we shall reduce them to the following: 1. Loughborough’s answer to the question, "what serious objection is there to the doctrine of the trinity?" Loughborough replied: James White was editor of the Review and Herald in 1861. LOUGHBOROUGH OPPOSES "PAGAN" TRINITARIANISM ![]()
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