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Tue, 24 March 2009 05:57

djerving
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Registered: March 2009
Location: Milwaukee, WI

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First, I hope you are still a part of our discussions, Michael.

This is not just for you but for all the brethren here.

I remember Dr. Freeman's theology tapes on the subject of the tri-unity of the Godhead. And in them he made clear that none of us has a real understanding of thd nature of the godhead.

He stressed that the unity and ti-unity of God were both true, and at the same time were beyond our understanding as men. No earthly analogy can suffice, they all fall short.

He also referred to a brother unnamed by him who had received a revelation regarding these things that no amount of earthly doctrine could ever put into clear definition.

I am not a Branhamite, nor ever have been. Do not associate me with him, please. But I suspect that William Branham was the man Dr. Freeman referred to.

I read yrs ago Branham's sermons on Revelation. He was not a teacher, but I do believe he was a prophet. That does not mean he had full revelation or was always right. But some of the things Wm Branham had to say about the Godhead reconciled these questions about the godhead in ways that were astonishing.

I believe God gave him, a simple uneducated man, revelations about the Oneness of God and His eternal manifestation as Father Son, and Holy Spirit that went so far beyond anything the Church has ever heard through intellectual discussion, that it can do no less than humble us in the presense of our God.

I don't exalt any man. I don't exalt any doctrine. I just know that I saw such an amazing balance and powerful amount of truth backed up by scripture in what he presented that I have never forgotten it.

Branham showed from scripture that God is One God, but also that He is One God eternally manifested as Father Son and Holy Spirit, yesterday, today and forever. He got this by revelation, not doctrine or philosophy. He received it from the very presence of God.

Dr. Freeman said of this person that he stated that neither the Oneness camp nor the trinitarians were right, but that the truth could only be grasped as a revelation from God.

Again, I am not a Branhamite. I have his books on my shelf, as well as Dr. Freemans. I have many others as well. None of us have an answer for this. We will understand in eternity.

I am sure both Wm Branham and Hobart Freeman understand now, what we still gaze into a dark glass over(1 Cor.13).

But the truth is not even somewhere in between these two concepts. It is something above and beyond them that we will only understand in eternity. To that end, theological debate is only capable of whetting our appetites for the revelation of His glory which is coming for those who love Him.

In Christ,

Doug Jerving

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