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Heresies that you are promoting and which were debunked by Christians 1700 years ago.

Saying so by a mere reference does not make it so. We reprove false teachings by the scripture, right?

Is the title wrong or not? I see no scripture teaching another way to honor the Father in worship or another way to approach the Father in worship. Someone on the internet put scriptural reference for each line in the Nicene creed, and many Christians sites are parroting it, but Matthew 3:16-17 does not teach that practice at all. So are we not to prove all things or not by the scripture? John 14:6 & John 5:22-23 reproves that line for worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son.

At the very least, remove that reference as well as the one for the Holy Spirit being the Giver of life because that reference in Genesis says nothing about that either. John 6:30-35 testifies that Jesus is the bread of life that gives life to the world & John 5:39-40 testify all scripture is supposed to point to the Son for life.

I can understand why believers will continue to hold to that creed, but there is no need to hold unto those erroneous references for those 2 lines. I have not checked every reference in the Nicene creed, but those 2 scriptural references are hardly confirming those 2 lines in the Nicene creed. Just saying FYI
 
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Revelation 22:10-12,
why didn't you just say up front that you are anti-speaking in tongues as pentacostals interepret it? Some people might agree with that. But you've gone off on a tangent about the nature of the Triune God. You've got your mind made up and don't want to repent of your error. Sadly, I guess we should let your thread go to sleep. :yawn:

Actually, worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son permits the thief to break thru as it broadens the way in the worship place that allows seducing spirits to come in and take the spotlight to lure other believers to chase after them for a sign as well as seduced the ones they have fallen upon to chase after them again for a sign.

Jesus was warning about this in Matthew 7:13-14 as the means will be done by ecumenical format in Matthew 7:15-16 for why many believers will claim miracles by it in Matthew 7:21-23 and yet they fall in Matthew 7:24-27 to prove they did not heed His words that He is the only way to come to the Father by.

Jesus offered the solution and emphasized this in Luke 13:24 to avoid the consequence of being let behind when the Bridegroom comes in Luke 13:25-30

But yes, by being open to worshiping the Holy Spirit in the worship place and believing the lie that you can receive the Holy Spirit again, is why many believers experience the phenomenon of what they think was the Holy Spirit coming over them apart from salvation, in bringing tongues which never comes with interpretation as it is a stranger's voice gained for climbing up another way; John 10:1-5
 
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Another great post on what I would have figured to be simple "Trinity 101".

I guess people can be confused about anything.

Worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son permits the thief to break thru as it broadens the way in the worship place that allows seducing spirits to come in and take the spotlight to lure other believers to chase after them for a sign as well as seduced the ones they have fallen upon to chase after them again for a sign.

Jesus was warning about this in Matthew 7:13-14 as the means will be done by ecumenical format in Matthew 7:15-16 ( which the Nicene creed is for it was developed to unite the churches ) for why many believers will claim miracles by it in Matthew 7:21-23 and yet they fall in Matthew 7:24-27 to prove they did not heed His words that He is the only way to come to the Father by in worship ( John 14:6 ) and the only way to honor the Father by in worship ( John 5:22-23 ).

Jesus offered the solution to avoid the thief and emphasized this in Luke 13:24 to avoid the consequence of being let behind when the Bridegroom comes in Luke 13:25-30
 
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This has already been explained... These verses are talking about salvation. The work that Christ did on the cross is why He is the door...
It does not remove the fact that the God Head is three.... The Father, Son and Holy Spirit...

However, belief in Christ is what brings salvation..It does not diminish the position in the God Head of the Father.. nor the Holy Spirit.

It does position how sinners are to leave their spirit worship and their practice of communing with those spirits by ecstatic tongues which is gibberish nonsense in order to come to God the Father thru the Son.

It is that invitation that is law as sinners such as those must continue to keep coming to God the Father by way of the "Bridegroom" for that is how we are intimate with God the Father by. Otherwise, what is to keep them from bringing their spirit worships and the communing with those spirits? How can anyone know that they have not fallen back into their own ways or that those spirits are back on them again?

How can anyone know they are not being influenced if the rudiments of the world's religions and the occult as well as the spirit of the antichrist is found in Christianity unless the way to God the Father is narrow all the time past salvation?
 
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Contradicting the Nicene Creed is not permitted in any of CF's Christians Only areas. The mods will eventually close this down.

It is in the proper forum, is it not? It is being featured, is it not?

If we are to prove everything by the scripture, then why is Matthew 3:16-17 hardly confirms the practice of worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son? Why is that reference in Genesis is hardly confirming that the Spirit is the Giver of life?

John 5:22-23 cites a standard of judgement on how the Father wants to be honored. John 14:6 cites Jesus as the ONLY way to come to God the Father by and He was not just talking about salvation either.

John 6:30-35 cites Jesus as the bread of life that gives life to the world. John 5:39-40 cites that scripture is supposed to point to Jesus to come to for life.

Who would the Holy Spirit give credit to as the Giver of Life? John 16:13-14 Who would the Holy Spirit lead us to testify of in this life? ( John 15:26-27 ) How can the Holy Spirit glorify the Son unless thru us in worship? ( John 16:14 )

These are honest questions and legitimate concerns regarding the practice of the worship of the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son as the title states it as unbiblical because I cannot find scripture that teaches that plainly enough, and yet I find some confusions occurring when the Holy Spirit is honored.

Is Jesus warning about this for why many believers fall in Matthew 7:13-27? Is narrowing the way back to the Son is the solution that Jesus says in Luke 13:24-30? Feel free to discern the answers with Him.
 
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That's it in a nutshell........ who can argue?

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

I know that believers can reprove others for thinking there are other ways to be saved in coming to God the Father by in that verse.

But can you see that I am using that same verse to reprove others for thinking there is another way to come to God the Father by other than by the Son in worship?
 
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I get that emphasis on obeying Paul on having that mind of Christ as the specified way of worship and so yeah, the only way.

Then you have Jesus's own words on how we are to come to God the Father by and He did say He is the only way.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Look at that verse. I mean, really look at it and ask Jesus if He really meant that. If you need conformation...

John 10:1Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.....7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

Now if we are to reprove the works of darkness, how can this not reprove worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son especially since there is no scripture teaching anyone, let alone the church to do that kind of worship in that way?

Then you have His warning in Matthew 7:13-14 and the consequence mentioned in Matthew 7:21-27 for why in these latter days, He emphasizes striving to enter thru that straight gate in Luke 13:24-30



Since it was only the Son that had died on the cross and not the Triune God, then I would pay attention to His words for why Jesus is the only way to come to God the Father by in worship since He is our Passover Lamb. Since the Holy Spirit has been sent to testify of the Son to glorify the Son thru us, how can we come to God the Father to worship Him in any other way than by only honoring the Son?

Where do you get this idea that ONLY God the FATHER is God, and that Jesus is simply a tool God sent to use as a pass key to gain access to him, that we only worship because he is the holy pin number to help us get to the "real" God (the Father) and that the Holy Spirit isn't really anything at all of any real importance but some sort of ghostly compass that Jesus put in us to be a guide to the "real" God (apparently the Father)?

This whole concept of God being made up ONLY as the Father is not supported by scripture at ALL no matter how many bible verses you cherry pick out of it and mangle in order to "prove" that the Holy Spirit is some sort of different god than God and thus unworthy of our worship.

God is made up of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit equally. You cannot have one without the others. You cannot worship one without the others. They are ONE God.

God is not the Father alone, the Holy Spirit alone, or Jesus alone. God is made up of all three parts the same and he is ONE. We do not have a pantheon of three separate gods.
 
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Where do you get this idea that ONLY God the FATHER is God, and that Jesus is simply a tool God sent to use as a pass key to gain access to him, that we only worship because he is the holy pin number to help us get to the "real" God (the Father) and that the Holy Spirit isn't really anything at all of any real importance but some sort of ghostly compass that Jesus put in us to be a guide to the "real" God (apparently the Father)?

Where did I say that God the Father is the only God and Jesus is a tool?

God is reconciling the world to Himself thru Jesus Christ. There is no other way to come to Him. That does not mean the Son nor the Holy Spirit is God. Jesus is God. The Holy Spirit is God. But because of spirits in the world and God calling sinners away from their spirit worship is why Jesus is the only way.

This whole concept of God being made up ONLY as the Father is not supported by scripture at ALL no matter how many bible verses you cherry pick out of it and mangle in order to "prove" that the Holy Spirit is some sort of different god than God and thus unworthy of our worship.

God is made up of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit equally. You cannot have one without the others. You cannot worship one without the others. They are ONE God.

God is not the Father alone, the Holy Spirit alone, or Jesus alone. God is made up of all three parts the same and he is ONE. We do not have a pantheon of three separate gods.

The problem is how confusion brought on by a phenomenon in the worship place when focus is on the Holy Spirit. This leads me to see John 14:6 and John 5:22-23 in a new light that Jesus meant what He has said. He gave warnings to avoid falling in Matthew 7:13-27 & the solution to avoid the consequence in Luke 13:24-30.

I believe in the Triune God, but something is wrong when sometimes the Holy Spirit is honored in worship. Time for discernment and heed His words with His help.
 
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A brother in India had shared that at one time, he did not believe the Holy Spirit would do dramatic manifestations any more like He did back in the early church days until one Pentecostal calendar day, his church was honoring the Holy Spirit in worship. He felt something like liquid nitrogen seeping through his skull, and before he knew it, he was confessing an apology to the Holy Spirit against his will.

Discern that. Why would the Holy Spirit "invade" him in such a way to coerce an apology from him against his will? Was that the Spirit of Christ? What does this event tells other believers to do? Seek after more manifestations like that. What is the difference between what this does and what others are doing in slain in the spirit, holy laughter movement, Toronto's Blessings, Pensacola Outpouring, Ernest Angeley's Healing Crusade where he "Whhoooooo" to announce the Holy Spirit falling on a believer He is about to heal where focus is on the Holy Spirit in the worship place? Why is there confusion in all of those events when God is not the author of it?

Was that the Holy Spirit answering those calls? Was it not the Holy Spirit being honored in worshiped?

Why would God allow strong delusion to occur when honoring the Holy Spirit in worship?

You may say well.. when there is confusion, that was not the Holy Spirit, but I point out, that brother was honoring the Holy Spirit and that had happened. How are you going to convince him that was not the Holy Spirit when he was honoring the Holy Spirit in worship? How can you convince any one that was not the Holy Spirit when people are falling backwards and in confusion in spite of the verse that God is not the author of confusion? 1 Corinthians 14:32-33

Jesus spoke about it in Matthew 7:13-27 and again in Luke 13:24-30 for why He is calling believers and churches to narrow the way back to Him in worship or risk the consequence of suffering a thief to break thru by which many fall.

The Holy Spirit is in you. He is leading us to testify of the Son to glorify the Son in worship. That's His job. It is the spirit of the antichrist that would take that spotlight off of the Son ( instead of Christ ) to seduce believers into chasing after them to receive for a sign, even for a sign of tongues which never comes with interpretation which is why that gibberish nonsense is confusion and not of Him at all .

Completely missed the point and proved my case.

I suppose it's my own fault for trying to be too clever.
 
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Where did I say that God the Father is the only God and Jesus is a tool?

Because you keep stating over and over that the Holy Spirit should not be worshiped because the only way to the *Father* is through Jesus.

We're not just to worship the Father alone, but GOD, who includes all three...Father, Son, and Spirit. The thing is we already have access to Jesus because he is God made flesh, and we have access to the Holy Spirit because he resides within us always, but how do we access the Father who is invisible and we cannot see? Well Jesus provides a way.

It in no means that we are forbidden to worship God in his entirety, and if we're only worshiping the Father alone or Jesus alone, we are rejecting the Spirit as God.

GOD is to be worshiped as he is ONE.

God is reconciling the world to Himself thru Jesus Christ. There is no other way to come to Him. That does not mean the Son nor the Holy Spirit is God. Jesus is God. The Holy Spirit is God. But because of spirits in the world and God calling sinners away from their spirit worship is why Jesus is the only way.

You are mixing up worship of God with God's plan for salvation. God cannot abide sin and humans are full of sin and so because of our sin, we must be separate from him. Because of our sin, we could not reside in his kingdom. Thus, God made a plan that he would come to us in flesh as a human being and take all of that sin and guilt upon himself in our place. Since the part of God who is Jesus took on being the sacrificial Lamb, he is the one who acts as our mediator between us and God for the sake of *salvation* and as Judge to proclaim us guilt free.

This is in no way an instruction to forbid us from worshiping God in his entirety, for we cannot in fact worship one without the others. They are a package deal. They are ONE.

The problem is how confusion brought on by a phenomenon in the worship place when focus is on the Holy Spirit. This leads me to see John 14:6 and John 5:22-23 in a new light that Jesus meant what He has said. He gave warnings to avoid falling in Matthew 7:13-27 & the solution to avoid the consequence in Luke 13:24-30.

Again, you are confusing two different topics. You have decided since some people appear to be ONLY worshiping the Holy Spirit and rejecting the other two parts of God, that we are instead to ONLY worship God the Father and maybe God the Son, but to reject the Holy Spirit. What you are suggesting is just as problematical as what they are accused of doing because we must worship God in his entirely...Father, Son, and Spirit, and not one or two of them alone.

I believe in the Triune God, but something is wrong when sometimes the Holy Spirit is honored in worship. Time for discernment and heed His words with His help.

The Holy Spirit *should* be honored in worship, along with the Father and the Son. All three. God in all his being.
 
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I know that they referenced Matthew 3:16-17 as proof text for the "practice" of worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son for that modified Nicene creed, but it doesn't really cite the practice at all. Try as I might by search engines, I cannot find an actual verse for that practice, even though the Holy Spirit is God.

Contentions are that the Holy Spirit is God ( I agree ) and of the Triune God ( I agree ) and so we should worship Him as well. It sounds reasonable until I read these verses.

John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

Do note that John 5:22 is citing a judgment we should not play around with


Jesus did not mention the Holy Spirit at all. If He had not stated that last portion of verse 23, I would think it would be okay to honor the Holy Spirit just as long as they honor the Son, BUT because that bold and underlined statement is what Jesus has said is why I believe honoring the Holy Spirit is not the will of the father for us to do nor are we led by the Spirit to do that.

If we look at the role of the Holy Spirit we find He has a job to do through us.

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me:

The n we have this truth about what makes each of our individual witness of Jesus Christ as true.

John 8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.

So let us say we as individual believers decided to worship God in our solitary private setting whereby as led by the Holy Spirit in us, what we say in honoring the Son in glorifying the Son in worship will be true as by doing so honor and glorifies God the Father.

So in an assembly of a body of believers, our witnesses and our worship is true because the Holy Spirit is doing the same thing thru us to do that. The Holy Spirit cannot lead believers to speak of Himself in seeking the gory of Himself in worship just as a believer will not speak of himself to seek the glory of himself in worship for that worship to be true.

Now before we consider that I am being too literal with the Word of God in application, consider my alarm when believers call for the Holy Spirit in worship to come and fall on them, and there is nothing but chaos and confusion when something responds. Even one brother in India did not believe that the Holy Spirit would do any dramatic manifestations any more and one Pentecostal calendar day, he and his church was honoring the Holy Spirit when he felt something like liquid nitrogen seeping through his skull, and he was giving an unwilling apology to the Holy Spirit for not believing He did such dramatic manifestations today as He has done back in the early church days.

#1; God wants a willing confession; not a coerced one. He did not give us a spirit of fear, but of sound mind. If the Holy Spirit could do that, no one could grieve the Holy Spirit.

#2; The sensation of receiving something is not the Holy Spirit when He is in us.

By the apostle John's line of discernment in testing the spirits 1 John 4:1 by knowing the Holy Spirit is in us 1 John 4:4 and anything outside of us or coming over us later in life as a saved believer, is the spirit of the antichrist.

So why did God allow that which is not the Holy Spirit answer in that way when that brother was honoring the Holy Spirit? Why would God allow a strong delusion to occur?

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

Again. Do note that John 5:22 is citing a judgment we should not play around with. I believe that is why God allowed that phenomenon to happen because that is not how we are to honor the Father at all in worship.

Jesus told us how bad it will be in the last days as the way to come to God the Father will be broaden in Christian worship per Matthew 7:13-17 for why we are to narrow the way back to the Son in worship or else risk being left behind; Luke 13:24-30

Only the spirit of the antichrist would take the spotlight off of the Son in worship with their visitations and signs and wonders, but the indwelling Holy Spirit would never do that.

So that is why I believe it is an errant assumption to believe we are to practice the worship of the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son even though we all believe the Holy Spirit is God and of the Triune God. There are other spirits in the world wherefore why God the Father has all the invitations to come to Him by the only way of the Son in living that reconciled relationship with God so that sinners can turn away from their spirit worships and stay away from those spirits by only coming to the Son in worship in coming to God the Father by.
Many Charismatic/Pentecostal churches in their service do seem to be worshipping and emphasizing the Holy Spirit among them, but Hs to remain in the background, as all things are to be taught and said to the glory of the father and Jesus Christ, as the Spirit will exalt and magnify not Himself, but Jesus Christ!
 
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Well, you should be applying faith in God to cause the increase anyway. I am for you.
Ok, I'll spell it out. You have violated pretty much every single aspect of agape love outlined in 1 Cor 13 in your exchange with people here. How we do what we do matters to God as much as why.
 
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Because you keep stating over and over that the Holy Spirit should not be worshiped because the only way to the *Father* is through Jesus.

We're not just to worship the Father alone, but GOD, who includes all three...Father, Son, and Spirit. The thing is we already have access to Jesus because he is God made flesh, and we have access to the Holy Spirit because he resides within us always, but how do we access the Father who is invisible and we cannot see? Well Jesus provides a way.

It in no means that we are forbidden to worship God in his entirety, and if we're only worshiping the Father alone or Jesus alone, we are rejecting the Spirit as God.

GOD is to be worshiped as he is ONE.



You are mixing up worship of God with God's plan for salvation. God cannot abide sin and humans are full of sin and so because of our sin, we must be separate from him. Because of our sin, we could not reside in his kingdom. Thus, God made a plan that he would come to us in flesh as a human being and take all of that sin and guilt upon himself in our place. Since the part of God who is Jesus took on being the sacrificial Lamb, he is the one who acts as our mediator between us and God for the sake of *salvation* and as Judge to proclaim us guilt free.

This is in no way an instruction to forbid us from worshiping God in his entirety, for we cannot in fact worship one without the others. They are a package deal. They are ONE.



Again, you are confusing two different topics. You have decided since some people appear to be ONLY worshiping the Holy Spirit and rejecting the other two parts of God, that we are instead to ONLY worship God the Father and maybe God the Son, but to reject the Holy Spirit. What you are suggesting is just as problematical as what they are accused of doing because we must worship God in his entirely...Father, Son, and Spirit, and not one or two of them alone.



The Holy Spirit *should* be honored in worship, along with the Father and the Son. All three. God in all his being.

Just to clarify; The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God.

We cannot honor and glorify God the Father by honoring and glorifying God the Father. Where is His glory? On the Son. John 13:31-32 & Philippians 2:5-11

We honor and glorify God the Father by coming to Him in worship by the only way of the Son; John 14:6 because it is by honoring and glorifying the Son in worship is how the Father is honored & glorified by.

That is what the Holy Spirit in us is leading us to do in testifying of the Son ( John 15:26 ) in glorifying the Son ( John 16:14 ) and He does that through us in worship and not just outreach ministry ( John 15:27 )

That is my understanding in scripture.

There is no scriptural reference for worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son. The scriptural reference of Matthew 3:16-17 does not say that nor teach that.

I am hoping someone will provide scripture to allay my contentions and my concerns when the scripture I have sited has reproved seemingly otherwise; least wise to me.
 
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Many Charismatic/Pentecostal churches in their service do seem to be worshipping and emphasizing the Holy Spirit among them, but Hs to remain in the background, as all things are to be taught and said to the glory of the father and Jesus Christ, as the Spirit will exalt and magnify not Himself, but Jesus Christ!

For clarity sake, "the Holy Spirit in background" meaning dwelling in us in leading us to testify of the Son to glorify the Son in worship, and by doing so glorify God the Father. If that is your meaning, I agree wholeheartedly because scripture does testify to that truth that the Holy Spirit will not exalt Himself nor magnify Himself but Jesus Christ.

Spirits coming into the worship place or felt in the worship place by the believers are the spirits of the antichrist as they seek to exalt themselves and magnify themselves with signs and lying wonders in seducing believers in chasing after them to receive. That is why our focus should be on the Bridegroom in worship since He will be coming soon for the abiding bride of Christ.
 
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Ok, I'll spell it out. You have violated pretty much every single aspect of agape love outlined in 1 Cor 13 in your exchange with people here. How we do what we do matters to God as much as why.

Until you show how or why, there is no reproof being done in Christ's love towards me.

If using scripture for reproving someone or something is not showing love, then what are you doing?
 
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Until you show how or why, there is no reproof being done in Christ's love towards me.

If using scripture for reproving someone or something is not showing love, then what are you doing?
This is so predictable. I actually wrote down, he will probably respond with "you are the one doing it." Which is basically saying, "I know you are, but what am I?"

Embracing one principle of love while violating other principles of the same, is not love.

If you are quoting scripture and being prideful and rude while doing it, it isn't love.

If you are talking to brothers and sisters in Christ, and rejoicing in correcting them, it isn't love.

If you only care about your argument you are seeking your own and it isn't love.

This entire thread has been you parading yourself around and provoking arguments. That's not love, that's not fruit of the spirit. That is immaturity and strife.
 
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Saying so by a mere reference does not make it so. We reprove false teachings by the scripture, right?

Is the title wrong or not? I see no scripture teaching another way to honor the Father in worship or another way to approach the Father in worship. Someone on the internet put scriptural reference for each line in the Nicene creed, and many Christians sites are parroting it, but Matthew 3:16-17 does not teach that practice at all. So are we not to prove all things or not by the scripture? John 14:6 & John 5:22-23 reproves that line for worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son.

At the very least, remove that reference as well as the one for the Holy Spirit being the Giver of life because that reference in Genesis says nothing about that either. John 6:30-35 testifies that Jesus is the bread of life that gives life to the world & John 5:39-40 testify all scripture is supposed to point to the Son for life.

I can understand why believers will continue to hold to that creed, but there is no need to hold unto those erroneous references for those 2 lines. I have not checked every reference in the Nicene creed, but those 2 scriptural references are hardly confirming those 2 lines in the Nicene creed. Just saying FYI
Sola Scriptura is a man-made belief.
 
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It is in the proper forum, is it not? It is being featured, is it not?

If we are to prove everything by the scripture, then why is Matthew 3:16-17 hardly confirms the practice of worshiping the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son? Why is that reference in Genesis is hardly confirming that the Spirit is the Giver of life?

John 5:22-23 cites a standard of judgement on how the Father wants to be honored. John 14:6 cites Jesus as the ONLY way to come to God the Father by and He was not just talking about salvation either.

John 6:30-35 cites Jesus as the bread of life that gives life to the world. John 5:39-40 cites that scripture is supposed to point to Jesus to come to for life.

Who would the Holy Spirit give credit to as the Giver of Life? John 16:13-14 Who would the Holy Spirit lead us to testify of in this life? ( John 15:26-27 ) How can the Holy Spirit glorify the Son unless thru us in worship? ( John 16:14 )

These are honest questions and legitimate concerns regarding the practice of the worship of the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son as the title states it as unbiblical because I cannot find scripture that teaches that plainly enough, and yet I find some confusions occurring when the Holy Spirit is honored.

Is Jesus warning about this for why many believers fall in Matthew 7:13-27? Is narrowing the way back to the Son is the solution that Jesus says in Luke 13:24-30? Feel free to discern the answers with Him.
The Bible says: worship God.
What he proclaims: don't worship God
 
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