Over fifty years ago, I had a problem with the church I attended. My problem was not with Yahweh. The people in this body of believers had fired another pastor. I was tired of them. I was not sure that I could believe anything that they had taught me for the previous ten years or so.

I asked Jehovah, the I Am, to reveal himself to me. He did, and He led me back to that congregation through the new pastor they called. Then I was called to full-time ministry and became a workplace minister. When I married my wife, I joined the church she was at.

Jesus has proceeded to show me that He is the Son of God and who He, the Father, and Holy Spirit truly are. We refer to them as a triune being, just as we are made of three different parts. This is what Moses meant in Genesis when he wrote that God made mankind in their own image.

I do not understand why I was never told this in any of the church classes I had growing up or any of the Bible classes I took in college. We were told that this was a trinity and not a triune being. As a writer, I am amazed that some of these ThDs did not take enough English classes to learn the difference between these two words.

It is more understandable that many pastors and evangelists, without even a bachelor’s degree, will argue with me when I try to correct their misuse. It’s like knowing proper English makes me a heretic. I am reminded of the Catholic Church officials who tried to excommunicate Galileo and others for showing that the Earth orbited the sun and not the other way.

God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, or, for the non-theologian like me, all-powerful, all-present, and all-knowing. He did create everything in the universe, and before that miracle, nothing existed except the triune God. I do not have enough faith to believe in the Big Bang or any other theories that believe an accident caused the entire universe.

For me, I must acknowledge that Jehovah created the universe, including our and other occupied planets, by His intentional action. The books of the Bible include stories that confirm many aspects of this creation and development here and in near and far space.

Criticizing myself or Christian scientists by calling us ignorant and unscientific simply affects me as the kid on the playground did when he called me a sissy. I have grown up, but I am not so sure of the detractors who refuse to acknowledge scientific theory when it comes to the beginning.

I believe in one triune God and that He told Moses His name was I Am. I believe He sent His Son to teach and die for us. I also believe that their spirit has been sent as our comforter and educator. This is the God I believe in. Believe in your own or believe in none; that is your business.

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