On today's podcast, I'm going to be going through listener comments and reviews on YouTube, and there's quite a few of them. I won't get to everything, but I want to answer questions as well as read some of the reviews. So may God bless you.

Greetings. Thank you for tuning in to listen to Equipping the Bride podcast. I'm brother Jason DeMars from Beaufort, South Carolina, a minister at Bethel Tabernacle. New episodes of this podcast are posted every Friday. You can watch this podcast on YouTube and listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. If you have any questions, testimonies or prayer requests, please let me know at jasondemars.com. I also have free books and tracks available at my website, and shipping is free as well. May the Lord richly bless you.

Hello everyone. Welcome to the podcast. I'm going to be going through listener questions and feedback from YouTube. Once again, appreciate everyone that listens in, appreciate the ones that don't listen in <laugh>. Would you all do me a favor? Would you be willing to, if you're li if you're watching this on YouTube, would you will be willing to leave, leave a review leave your comments like the video, subscribe. 

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If you have a request for a topic that you'd like me to cover on one of the podcasts, we certainly be g glad to pray over that and study that and go, go into that. So keep me in prayer. I'm, I'm in the process of praying about a couple missions trips this year to several different countries throughout the Middle East. And so we when you go forward in that, you really need the Lord's hand and guidance and direction through all of it. This isn't taking a trip down the road. This is going to the Middle East and places that can be quite dangerous if wisdom isn't used. So your prayer prayers are greatly appreciated. So let's begin to look at some of the comments. I'm going to say my most watched and commented on video is one that I recorded quite a number of years ago called Why the Trinity of Three Persons is False. And it's funny because I, I recorded this video in, in the studio that I had in Minnesota, and sort of just cuts abruptly because I intended to make a follow up to it, and I have in other iterations of it, but not necessarily a follow up to that. 

You know, hundreds of comments come through on this video both encouraging and extremely critical of what I have to say, and that's fine. Just looking at a few different things that people are saying here. Let me go down a little bit as I'm looking. One, one comment that people make quite a bit, which I speak about it in the video this Joe, Joe o says, false is this man. He himself is trinity, body, soul, and spirit, three in one, all different, but in one body. This is what he says to me, which is ironic because I cover this right in the video. 

Body, soul, and spirit are three aspects of one person, not three persons, in one, one essence. That's the problem. The Trinity speaks of three persons, in one essence, a social trinity, three persons in fellowship, 1, 2, 3 persons in fellowship for all of eternity. And when you speak of a trinity in this manner, manner, it's no different than polytheism. That's three different gods. No matter how you suss it up with all kinds of rhetoric and philosophy and theology. This is three, three Gods, three persons who are all God is three gods. All right? And then he, he refers to, I myself am a trinity. I agree with that, but not a trinity of three persons. I'm not a schizophrenic. It's, I, I I have a soul. That's the nature of the spirit. That's, that's the, the nature that my spirit man takes on. Alright? So then I have a spirit which is corresponds to the mind. And then I have a body that's not three persons, that's three aspects or three attributes of one person. So it's ironic that the Trinitarians people who believe in three persons in one Godhead use that analogy because it really doesn't make any sense to their theology.

Same thing with the egg. It's one egg, but it's made up of three different aspects. The yolk, the white, and the shell. It's not three eggs, it's one egg. And those are three different aspects of that one egg. I have a, let's see if I can find it. There's a very long response that someone gives, and in it, they, they speak about. I can find it, not sure that I can, but as I go through it, I guess maybe it will work better if I just jump around from video to video. There's quite a number of them that are here. And if I just try to find all the ones on that particular video might make it difficult the way YouTube has it broken out. On my video that I did, what does the Bible say about long hair?

 Jeremiah Ama says, you forget that the Bible also enacted the Nazirite laws. Well, that's two different things. So the commands and the direction that the Lord gives to man and woman, man to have short hair, woman to have long hair is a separate thing. And that's why the Nazirite vow is unique in that way. So the Nazirite vow there's one mention in the Old Testament of a woman going under a Nazirite vow, and that's the mother of Sampson. And in it, she's told not to drink, strong drink, et cetera, but she's nothing about h long hair is mentioned, which is interesting. So long hair for a woman wouldn't be a distinction for her let, to let her hair grow and no razor touch, touch her hair. That wouldn't be a distinction. And so when the angel of the Lord speaks to the wife of Manoah, Samson's mother never mentions the hair because she has long hair.

She doesn't cut her hair. But for the man, for the man, it always mentions it. And for Samson, it mentions it because that would be distinct for him because men had short hair. It's very simple. And so really the command of our daily walk is distinct from this Nazirite vow. And the Nazirite vow really doesn't have any implication on the New Testament. It is an Old Testament vow, though, you see Paul doing it, but Paul is doing it in connection to being a testimony to the Jews that he's not against the law of Moses. And so I hope that answers that for Jeremiah.

What does the, in, in my video, what does the Bible say about high heels? Someone named Oma Toes, wo says, so many Christians worry about way too many inconsequential things. That's your opinion. Things that you deem inconsequential, the Lord may deem as important as significant. And when it's something like this, you know high heels, it impacts modesty. And so if we're going to say that it doesn't matter, then we have to say that modesty doesn't matter, and we can't say that because the scripture tells us as sisters and brothers to dress and act and live with modesty.

Another question comes in from an Elijah, on the video, what does the Bible say about long hair? May I ask, what is the limit of the length to which a man should let his hair grow, for example, is an afro for an African man too long? Boy, we, you, you know, you get into every detail here and what is considered short hair for an African brother or what is considered long hair for an African brother? Yes, to a certain extent if you let, if you just let your hair grow, and it is quite long. And, and, and again, this is a little bit relative because the hair can be very curly, and it could be that if you c brushed it out, it might be, you know, it's hard to show on this here, it might be that long if you brush it out very way, very high above your head, and it would be considered long.

But if it's, if you I don't want to make myself a dummy, but if you keep, keep it tamed down and, you know, with product, product oil product and so forth, it can appear to be just this big off your head. And so I think with, with that, you know it, it, it needs to be something that you would consider still short hair. If you just let it grow and it's long and you brush it out and it's way off your head, untamed would be something that wouldn't be scriptural. You want to keep it short, that doesn't mean it has to be this short, but you know, something, something modest there would be very important. All right then brother Don gurgle writes in response to Elohim, part one, in all my years of studying the nature of God, I've not read nor heard anyone address this topic with such dimensional insight. I'm looking forward to broadcast of part two. Thank you, brother Don. I appreciate that.

Someone asks in the sermon, is William Braham a cult leader? A Paso Joseph? I didn't understand what you mean. Was he a cult leader or not? Well, go back and listen. It's quite clear and emphatic in the video that he is not, if you watch it from start to finish, you see, you see, I, I have some commentary on what people respond and some experiences people have had. And, and I go into that and show, yeah, there are pastors that have turned their churches into cults, but that doesn't mean that Brother Braham was the leader of those churches. Those men took the message and perverted it in the video music, the spirits that inspire. Sister Sally Duke says, great teaching. I appreciate it. Thank you Sister Sally. On the video, what does the Bible say about long hair? Auto music? Says, I studied sociology and theology. The Romans invented skirts. And did you know, men's hair was not cut short until the 20th century? The Renaissance men wore wigs, still lice is to blame for hair loss in men. Interesting comment, I'll say this in response to that is that what the Renaissance men did is irrelevant to the topic about long hair. We're not referring to that as the absolute, we're going back to the Bible and expositing scripture as to what it says.

 Romans invented skirts, again, not applicable to that particular video. May be applicable to another video, but no, the Romans did not invent skirts. That's inaccurate. And whether you have a sociology and theology degree, that's fine. I have a philosophy degree. I haven't used it for anything in work. I've been a minister for I don't even remember what it is, 23, 25 years and 24 years, excuse me. And I was in banking. And so <laugh> that degree is nice, but if you're not faithful to scripture, it really doesn't matter. The Romans did not invent skirts. It's very clear that this goes, goes back a long ways. So, alright

 here's a series of comments on why the trinity of person three persons is false. Albert Castane says, I agree, the Trinity is a pagan doctrine that was adopted by Roman Catholic Church during the Council of Naia and j w Sanders response to Albert saying, Justin Martyr's writings tell us that the Trinity was already established in his time, 100 ad it's not 100 ad hundreds of years before the Catholic Church. JW Sanders is, is both wrong and right. So Justin Martyrs was, was, was in more in the middle of the 100 s or the second century ad. And the Trinity, as he says, wasn't established around the Year one 50 just Justin Mar Tertullian, the first Latin writer used the word Trinity.

 Theophilus of Antioch was the first Greek writer, writer to use the word trinity. And these were in the middle of the second century. Now, again, that's a long time between the, the, the death of the, the, the crucifixion and the death of the last apostles. Most of the apostles died in the sixties, fifties and sixties in the first century. And the Apostle John died somewhere around one in the nineties in the first century. And so we're, we're talking almost a hundred years after the death of the majority of the apostles, and particularly the Apostle Paul Apostle to the Gentiles. And so this idea of the Trinity is not in scripture. Again, it Mr. Sanders speaks there, but remember, we have to be accurate again. The apostles didn't establish belief in the terminology. Trinity, neither did they es at, at the time of Justin Martyr's.

Writings believe in a trinity of three persons. It wasn't fully established in this time yet. But yes, it was hundreds of years before the Catholic Church. The Council of NAIA recognizes the Trinity as the correct doctrine for Orthodox Christianity that was in, that was in Western, both Western and Eastern church. So in Europe and Asia, the Middle East, the Council of NAIA was accepted the, the Council of Bishops, but there were dissenting ones. And later on during Constantine's reign the ne after his, after his, after his reign came to an end, the next emperors put forward the Arian doctrine as Orthodox. Then another emperor came along and changed that. So, so as time went on, there was a variance, there was a difference. And even if you, if you study church history, not every Orthodox church that quote unquote can trace their history to the apostles agrees with the Western doctrine of the Trinity.

Not all orthodox churches agree on which councils of the church are to be accepted. And so it's very, it's which trinity, which trinity of persons are we talking about? Well, the person, Albert at the beginning says The Trinity is a pagan doctrine that was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church during the Council of Nicea. Again, that ignores history and the development of philosophical thought within theology. And that's an important topic and important subject to, to understand when you're looking at this. It was all impacted by Western philosophical understanding and approach to knowledge. And so this process, JW Sanders says, was already established. Well, it wasn't already established. There was a development, there was a process. This process took time over a timeline and resulted in the Council of Nicea. But there's still, there were still arguments going several hundred years into the future about Christology and about the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

So these things weren't, weren't settled and weren't agreed upon by everyone at this time. All right, so we're about 25 minutes into the podcast. I'm going to go down, and this is a question that I get from time to time. Someone asked me, how do I find a church that doesn't believe in the Trinity? The only one I know of is Pentecostals, U P C. And their doctrine of tongues is completely taken out of context. Therefore, I have no church to fellowship with. And what I tell people on that is contact me@jasondemars.com, let me know what city you live near, and I can go ahead and do some research and find a place, find a church that doesn't believe in the Trinity and that you can fellowship there. Another spot is in the, in on the video, why the Trinity of three persons is false. They say, says, John Mulvihill says in one John five seven, these three are one.

 Dean Burgess references first century letters, the three in one. The big issue is the Roman Trinity has rules that are not biblical. Jesus tells Philip that he is the Father. So distinct Personages does not suit the description of three in one. I e The Father is not the Son. The Son is not the Holy Spirit. If you've seen that triangle, it says Father, son, holy Spirit. Father is not the Son. The Son is not the Holy Spirit. Yes John, that's accurate. You know, there's, there's a lot more to it than that and that's a whole video in, in and of itself. But remember first John five, seven says, these three are one. Now I believe that's scripture, the Father, the Lord Goss and the Holy Spirit. These three are one, but many, there's many scholars that look at this and they're, they're still considered Trinitarian scholars. And they say that verse was added later. It is not in the earliest manuscripts of First John. That portion was added to emphasize a Trinity doctrine. Well, either way it doesn't say that the, it's three in one. As John says in his comment, there's no scripture to say three in one. It's the three are one, they're the three are one person. But the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost are three different aspects of that same person. So let me go down and

Find another comment. Deep light writes on response to why the trinity of persons is false. Where does the Bible say the logos became external to God at a certain point in time well contained within the word itself. Logos, it's speaking of that, but also in Proverbs chapter eight, it speaks of that. And let me take a moment to grab that. This is speaking about wisdom. Proverbs 8 22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old I was set up, let me grab this here. This is the N l t Proverbs 8 22. The Lord formed me from the beginning before he created anything else. So the Lord formed wisdom, the word there, I'm going to grab the Kjv Plus, if you look at this, the Lord possessed me. It literally means it's the same word used to create or to erect, but then it goes before beginning. In the beginning of his way, before his works of old I was set up, the word set up means literally to pour out. So you pour out, it's coming out of something. So this wisdom is being poured out from God. So when the, when,

When wisdom was brought forth, it was poured out from God. It was first in God, internally in God. And you'll find this in the early church Father's writings. It was first in God as a thought. Lo gospel means thought expressed. It was first in God as a thought. Then just prior to creation, he brought it forth from himself to be an expression of himself. I was set up, I was poured out from everlasting, from the beginning or ever what the earth was when there was no depths, I was brought forth this word, this word means to twist or to whirl figuratively to bear. Like speaking of the birth process. So when, when you're born, you come out of your mother, you're a part of your father and your mother, and you come out of your mother. So when the logos comes out of God, it's first in God as his thought, a part of his very life. Then it comes out from God. It's a part, it's the same substance as God himself. I was set up, I was poured out from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was when there was no depths, I was birthed. I was twisted. I was, I was World Fourth

When there was no fountains, abounding with waters before the mountains were settled. Before the hills was I once again, the same word brought forth well as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there when he set a compass upon the face of the depth when he established the clouds above when he expressed. So you, it keeps going on. You can read the rest of Proverbs chapter eight. But that's the place where the logo becomes external to God at a certain point. So, well thank you all for listening in. Thank you all for the listener feedback. Sure, appreciate it. Would love to hear more. Please get, write us a review especially on in the Apple Store. On Apple Podcast. We greatly appreciate that. May God bless you.

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