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Also, it is vital to examine the equally important question of: Is Jesus the completely human \"Son of God\"? Or, is he 'God the Son' who pre-existed as a second person in the Binity or Trinity? Furthermore, some believe that Jesus pre-existed, but came into existence as an archangel! This is called Arianism. If, however, God is one person but can appear in different modes, did He leave heaven and come down into Mary's womb in the 'mode' of a human-so that \"God the Father\" became the baby Jesus? This is called Modalism. These issues have raged since the second century when Jewish Christianity had gone out into the Gentile world with that world's pagan Platonic philosophies. Most importantly, the Jews of Judaism, throughout its history, never taught that God consisted of two or three persons in one essence. So, the key question is: Did Jesus or any of his Bible-writing representatives change that belief? Did they reveal a truth that the Jews were unaware of? In other words, was Jesus really a Binitarian or a Trinitarian? Or did he confirm a strict Unitarian monotheism concerning His heavenly Father? Furthermore, it is claimed that the Christianity of the churches is one of the three great monotheistic religions, the other two being Judaism and Islam. However, with the definition of monotheism being the worship of one God, we must ask: Can a teaching of three persons in one God truly be monotheistic? The importance of this subject of \"who God is\" can hardly be overstated and this book demonstrates that the Bible teaches an entirely Unitarian view of who God is. In other words: God is one person, the Father. Furthermore, it shows that Jesus never literally pre-existed and has always been 100% human as existing from his conception in Mary's womb. However, because the predominant teaching of the churches is that of Trinitarianism the material in this book focuses on the falseness of that view according to the Bible but, naturally, some of this information is also applicable to Binitarianism and to a lesser extent Modalism. Certainly, these last-mentioned doctrines are also a deviation from the original belief about God as found in ancient Judaism, in Jesus' teachings, in the words of the Apostles, as well as those of the earliest Church fathers. Additionally, this book examines the associated Trinitarian doctrines of the eternal generation of the Son, the hypostatic union, kenosis, perichoresis, and coinherence-strange terms indeed, but ones that will be explained in the book! Indeed, these terms are all man-made expressions as ways to try to explain the Trinity. Furthermore, some defenders of the Trinity doctrine try to use analogies in this futile endeavour-futile because their analogies do not actually fit with the Trinity. Apart from revealing all the issues and problems with the doctrine of the Trinity as compared with the biblical data, the various parts of this book also reveal the biblical concept of ideal or notional pre-existence indicating that Jesus did not literally pre-exist, but did pre-exist in God's mind, that is, God's foreordination of \"the Son of God,\" so that there never was a \"God the Son\" or some other being from heaven. Part of the misunderstanding of the origin of Jesus is because of a misreading of the last gospel to be written, namely, the Gospel of John with many of Jesus' sayings being in very figurative language and which should not be read in a literalistic way. 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Of course, one must be an authentic Christian before one can effectively do Christian ministry. The more authentically Christian one is, the more effective one's ministry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYves Congar, O.P., perhaps this century's greatest ecclesiologist, speaks of various \"levels\" of ministry. He suggests that there are three levels. The first is general ministry, rooted in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and expressed in various occasional, spontaneous, and passing services--for example, parents catechizing their children, a married couple giving advice to others who might be having difficulty in marriage, individuals visiting the sick and imprisoned or leading Bible study groups. The second is publicly recognized ministries more directly related to the needs and habitual activities of the Church--for example, permanent catechists, lectors, eucharistic ministers, choir directors. And the third level is ordained ministries, which are, for Congar, public offices whose base is sacramental--for example, diaconate, presbyterate, and episcopate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet another Dominican theologian (and a colleague of mine at the University of Notre Dame), Father Thomas F. O'Meara, offers a readily discoverable definition in his book,\"Theology of Ministry\" (New York: Paulist Press, 1983). Christian ministry \"\"is the public activity of a baptized follower of Jesus Christ flowing from the Spirit's charism and an individual personality on behalf of a Christian community to witness to, serve and realize the kingdom of God\"\" (p. 142).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinistry, according to Father O'Meara, has six characteristics: (1) doing something; (2) for the advent of the kingdom; (3) in public; (4) on behalf of a Christian community; (5) which is a gift received in faith, baptism, and ordination; and (6) which is an activity with its own limits and identity within a diversity of ministerial actions (\"Theology of Ministry,\" p. 136).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese attempts at definition by important Catholic theologians overlap in significant ways with similar efforts by theologians of other Christian traditions and by various ecumenical consultations. The Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in the United States, for example, makes a distinction between lowercase and uppercase ministry. Ministry with a lowercase \"m\" belongs to every baptized Christian and involves the task of proclaiming the gospel to all, believers and nonbelievers alike. Each of us shares in this ministry insofar as we belong to the priestly people that is the Church. Ministry (with a capital \"M\") is a particular form of service within and for the sake of the Church in its mission to the world. It is a ministry of proclaiming the gospel, celebrating the sacraments, caring for the faithful, witnessing, and serving. It stands with the People of God under Christ but also speaks in Christ's name to his people. (See the suggested readings at the end of this chapter for information on \"Lutherans and Catholics inDialogue: Eucharist and Ministry.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe so-called Lima statement, \"Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry\" (Faith and Order Paper No. 111, World Council of Churches, 1982), makes a similar distinction between a general ministry, which is rooted in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and bestowed on every member of the Church, and ordained ministry, about which there is, of course, disagreement. According to the Lima document, the word \"ministry \"in its broadest sense \"denotes the service to which the whole people of God is called, whether as individuals, as a total community, or as the universal Church.\" The words \"ministry\" or \"ministries \"\"can also denote the particular institutional forms which this service may take\" (II, 7, b, p. 21). 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