- 20 - Paul also writes: I Corinthians 8: 5-6: ‘For although there may be so-called “gods” in heaven or on earth – and indeed there are many such “gods” and many “lords” – yet for us Christians there is but one God, the Father ... and but one Lord, Jesus Christ.’ Paul here says that Christians should not continue to use the term ‘god’ in its derived sense, in which it is applied also to God's creatures, but should use the designation ‘God’ only when they mean the one true God, ‘the Father’, and that they should call no-one ‘Lord’ except Jesus Christ. They must therefore also not refer to Jesus Christ as ‘God’. Another falsification is found in the Epistle of John, the passage in question reading in its correct version: I John 5: 20: ‘We know that the Son of God has come to earth and has given us true understanding so that we might know the true God, and we are in communion with the true God, since we are in communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, who is true and eternal life.’ Besides other inaccuracies, the word ‘God’ has been added to the last sentence so that is reads: “This is the true God, and eternal life.’ What John teaches here is exactly what was said so often by Christ and by the Apostles, namely: God is the true God, but the Son also is true, for he speaks the words of God, teaching only as the Father has directed him. In everything that he proclaims, he is therefore as true as the Father Himself. Hence, those who are in communion with the Son are thereby also in communion with the true God. And since God has granted to His Son eternal life, the Son also is eternal life for all those who are in communion with him. The doctrine that in God there are three persons who together constitute only one God finds its main support in the grossly falsified passage in the Epistle of John, the correct text of which reads: I John 5: 8: ‘For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and these three are in accord.’ To this has been added the spurious sentence: ‘And there are three who bear witness in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three are one’. Your Catholic theologians are well aware that this entire last sentence is a contrived insertion. Nevertheless, it is retained in the Catholic editions of the Bible, although other Christian denominations have eliminated it. Except for the passage I have mentioned, there is in the entire New Testament not the faintest evidence to support the doctrine that what you call the ‘Holy Ghost’ is a Deity equal to the Father. • The term “Holy Ghost’ as used in the New Testament means the entire good spirit world. • God is a ‘holy ghost’. He is the highest and most sacred of all spirits.
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