- 15 - 8. 3 There is no tri-entity God I shall now lay before you in their broad outlines certain individual truths in Christ's teachings, comparing them with the doctrines of modern Christianity and in particular with those you have heretofore preached as a member of the Catholic clergy. In so doing I fulfill the wish you have long cherished. This will also show the falsity of other doctrines that depart from the teachings of Christ in other Christian churches. 1. Christ taught a God in one person, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. He knows no triune God such as the Catholic and other Christian churches teach. Only the Father is God. None other is His equal, neither the Son, nor what you call the ‘Holy Ghost’.. After his Resurrection, Christ said: John 20: 17: ‘I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ According to the words of Christ, the Father is above all. John 10: 29: ‘My Father, who gave me the sheep, is greater than everything, and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand.’ If the Father is greater than everything, there is nothing equal to Him, and He is greater than the Son, a truth that Christ confirms with the words: John 14: 28: ‘the Father is greater than I.’ He also calls God the sole good being. Whenever Jesus was addressed as ‘good Master’, he would reply: Luke 18, 19: ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good save God alone.’ Because God is above everything, He can confer power upon whomsoever He will, as He did to His Son, whom He invested with the fullest powers. John 17: 2: ‘Thou hast given the Son power over all flesh in order that all that thou hast entrusted to him may have everlasting life.’ That Christ is not God I demonstrated to you with the help of the Holy Scriptures and in greater detail when I taught you concerning his life and his work. The truth, that only the Father, but not the Son, is God, is furthermore sustained by the teachings of the Apostles. Thus, Paul writes: I Corinthians 8: 4-6): ‘We know there is no God but the One. For although there may be such as are called gods in the heavens and on earth – and indeed there are many such gods and many such lords – there is for us Christians but one God, the Father, from whom all things are and for whom we were created.’ Furthermore, Paul calls the Father the ‘God of Jesus Christ’. Ephesians 1: 17: ‘May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ give unto you a spirit of wisdom.’ According to Paul also, Christ’s coming will be brought about:
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