Trinity of God at the center of the Jesuit interpretation of Jesus

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The Roman Catholic Trinity was rehashed and the opportunity was taken to place Jesus Christ in a pseudo-center. Here is a typically Jesuit sophisticated interpretation of how to lead away from the gospel.

Trinity – Eternal bone of contention

The Trinity of God is and remains a mystery. You can look at it however you want, but people cannot really explain the constellation of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Three different individuals, each acting independently, but still a unit. Some call God’s peculiarity the “Trinity”, others the “Heavenly Trio”. As inexplicable as the nature of God is, the statements in the Bible that provide information about the constellation are also contested.

1 John 5:7-8 – Comma Johanneum

When it comes to the question of the Trinity of God, the focus is on passage 1. John 5:7-8 (from German Schlachter 2000):
“7 For there are three who bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one;
8 And there are three that bear witness on the earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three agree.“

Other Bible editions

In the King James Version the verses are as follows:
“7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.“

These two verses are reproduced completely distorted in the modern Bible editions (translated from German Bibles)
Luther 2017:
“7 For there are three who bear witness to this:
8 the spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree.“

Gute Nachrichten Bibel 2018:
“7 So there are three witnesses:
8 the spirit, the water and the blood. The statements of these three witnesses agree.“

Einheitsübersetzung 2016:
“7 For there are three who bear witness:
8 the spirit, the water and the blood; and these three are one.“

Das Buch:
“7 These three things testify to this.
8 They are the Spirit of God, the water, and the blood, and these three agree perfectly.“

Deletion in the Nestle-Aland basic text

This passage, 1 John 5:7-8, is so “controversial” that it was even given the name “Comma Johanneum.” Here the new Bible translations proclaim that the statement “the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit” in verse 7 was once added and does not correspond to the original. However, the Schlachter 2000 Bible edition and the King James Version (1611) are based on the Textus Receptus (majority text), while the modern Bible editions are based on the “scientific” texts according to Nestle-Aland.

Rather, it can be assumed that the controversial passage was subsequently deleted. This is already indicated by the thousands (!) of changes and removals that were made in the original majority text and are now sold as Bibles (Info).

Comparison with John 1

Verse 7 in the majority text clearly indicates that God is a “heavenly trio” who can each act independently as individuals, but still form a unit. However, the biblical information contradicts the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church (Info). Therefore the deletion from 1 John 5:7 is understandable.

Confirmation that the majority text with “Father, the Word, the Holy Spirit” provides the correct description is provided by John, Chapter 1. These are the first two verses and verse 14:
“1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.“

Here it is clear that “the Word” must be Jesus Christ. This also applies to “the Word” in 1 John 5:7, but this has been deleted in modern versions of the Bible. In Luke 1:35 the “Word” is spoken of as “the Holy thing,” which is to be called “Son of God.”

The independence of the “person” of the Holy Spirit can be seen in His work. More on this here.

Roman Catholic narrative

The Roman Catholic Church strives to maintain its learned version of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is therefore a spiritual product of Father and Son. Not a separate “person,” but rather a force. However, this church leaves open how one could blaspheme a “power” to such an extent that forgiveness is no longer possible.

The Jesuit magazine “America – The Jesuit Review” takes on the topic of the Trinity and tries to highlight a similarity between man and God (Source). The “metaphors” used in the Bible, breath and spirit, are useful for this. These also provided a basis for understanding the “divine and human elements of the Church, anchored in the person of Christ.”

The creation account as an approach

According to the second chapter of Genesis, God creates man from the earth. This person becomes a living being with the help of the breath of God. For this, the Jesuit author quotes Genesis 2:7: “The LORD God blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being”

Unfortunately, the author “forgot” to give the Bible version because there is a peculiarity in the verse he used. The phrase “a living being” does not even appear in the Jesuit Bible Douay Rheims. Even in the King James, in the German Schlachter 2000, and even in other English-language Bibles it says: “a living soul”. Other Bibles write “a living person.” The wording “a living being,” on the other hand, is given in the New International Version (NIV)..

Das Narrativ der unsterblichen Seele

A stumbling block, because the Bible provides information, also in the knowledge of the Roman Catholic Church (New Catholic Encylopedia, Vol. 13), that man as a living being himself IS the soul and a soul independent of the body does not exist. A catastrophe, because the biblical truth completely overthrows the dogmas such as “immortal soul”, “purgatory and eternal hell”. (Info). The narrative of an immortal and divine soul must of course be maintained.

The author also remains very vague in the sequel by staying on the emotional track. Breathing the “breath of life” into the nose is a rich image and, according to the Jesuit, captures the feeling of the divine breath as the “Spirit of God.” So a constructed feeling is declared a fact and now the basis for further explanations. This is the “art of the scholastics”, which can also be found in the areas of “(spiritual) science” in the postmodern world.

Holy Spirit in the breath of Jesus?

A welcome opportunity for the author to present the Holy Spirit as a product of the Father and the Son is the verse John 20:22:
“And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:“

According to the author, it becomes clear here that the “Trinity” is present. The Father in the work of the Son and the Spirit present in the breath of the Son.
However, this statement conflicts with Jesus Christ’s announcement that the Holy Spirit will come in John 14:26:
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.“

It is obvious that the Roman Catholic version presented by the Jesuit author cannot be true.

Jesuit art of deception

What follows is a “masterpiece” of subtle deception from Jesuit forge. The author focuses on Christ (not “Jesus Christ”!). “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me,” says the quoted verse Matthew 28:18. “Go out,” the author continues, “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19) is Jesus’ command to his disciples. However, the author keeps it to himself for what purpose the disciples should go out and where. The unabridged verse 19 reads:
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:“

The reason for omitting the meaning and purpose of the going forth and act of baptism becomes apparent with the following explanation:
Accordingly, Matthew not only emphasizes the trinitarian nature of God, but also places Jesus (not “Jesus Christ”!) at the center of the Trinity. It is Jesus who holds everything together. He is the anchor for the first disciples and their mission and also for us today, “who look for new ways to navigate a changing world,” said the Jesuit author.

Jesus in the pseudo-center

The author puts Jesus, if he even means the “Jesus Christ” of the Bible, at the center. However, not in the sense of the exclusive path of salvation based on the equally exclusive sacrifice of Jesus Christ, but as a companion and comforter in the search for new paths within a changing world.

In doing so, the Jesuit uses the narrative of a multiple path to salvation for humans and misleadingly places the Savior at the center of the Trinity. The author also suggests Matthew 28:19 as a call to look for new ways. The Bible is clear on the basis of a single verse, John 14:6 (complete!):
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.“

Since one cannot misunderstand the actual statement in Matthew 28:19 and the author presents the content in a completely modified context, it may be permissible to assume that the Jesuit is not himself a victim of deception, but that people are consciously and deliberately wants to lead you astray.

Jesuit narrative

The Jesuit Paul F. Knitter, after an “Ignatian enlightenment of Gnosticism,” wrote in his book “Introducing Theologies of Religions”:
“For Jesus the Spirit-filled prophet, the focus of his life and realtionships was the Reign of Got. That meant that he was not – as his followers have often been – chruch-centered. His primary concern was not to increase membership of his own movement or community. Rather, it was to transform people’s hearts so as to transform their sciety“

Knitter also highlighted the changing worldly world, in which people were looking for new ways, according to the author from America magazine, as a central theme in the book “Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian”:
“That’s it! That’s the crux of the problem: Christian dualism has so exaggerated the difference between God and the world that it cannot really show how the two form a unity.“

Again, only a single verse of the Bible is needed to deliver this statement to all the winds. James 4:4:
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.“

The statement in James 4:4 can stand alone without context to be understood. It is exactly the opposite of what the Jesuit Paul F. Knitter tells us.

You can protect yourself from being misled

As usual. Well-sounding words from a Catholic priest from a Jesuit stable, but completely missing the gospel and leading people hopelessly astray. How can one prevent such a deliberate deception?

Pick up the Bible and read the Word of God as it is written, using one hundred percent of your own mind, with prayer and asking for the Holy Spirit. As simple as that! The knowledge of the true Word of God, the ability to distinguish truth from lies, the ability to separate the right spirit from false spirits form the “armsament” to ward off such (spiritual) attacks.

Armor of God

Bible verses from King James Version