FAME: Finance Authority of Maine

Maine's business and higher education financial aid agency. FAME works closely with Maine's lending community, offering a variety of loan, grant and scholarship programs.

FAME: Finance Authority of Maine

Maine's business and higher education financial aid agency. FAME works closely with Maine's lending community, offering a variety of loan, grant and scholarship programs.

Maine Education Services Foundation

Maine's leading resource for low cost educational financing, college guidance and career planning.

MBNA Foundation: Maine Scholars Program

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Osher Scholarship

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Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute

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The Barking Foundation

A private, non-profit foundation providing scholarships for accredited post-secondary education to State of Maine residents, based on their financial need.

>First off, we have a clear testimony in the NT, that heresy of the
>Apostolic gospel was a problem even during the time of the apostles
>themselves. Many of Paul's epistles deal specifically with heretical
>teaching. The first 18 verse of John's gospel clearly speak against
an
>already existing heresy, namely gnosticism and its anti-Trinitarian
>teachings.

Gnosticism yes. "anti-trinitstianism" no way. There was no need to
defend something that didn't even exist (trinity) within the "church".
The only "trinity" the apostles and so-called "earchy church fathers"
knew of was:

that the Father, Son and holy spirit were in union. They recognized
the Father and God of Jesus (YHWH), they recognized the Son of God and
they recognized holy spirit as God's force. Jesus was God only in the
sense of being a "mighty one" and because he spoke as if God (no
different than Moses in that respect- see Ex. 4:15; 7:1). This "agency"
where for all intensive puposes the messender *is* the sender.

Trinitarians simply refuse to comprehend that the Hebrew and Greek
terms for "God" are not limited the way English may be. The Biblical
usage of the word "God" cannot be defined by English and it's
semantics.

The holy spirit is "God" only in the sense it is God's power- his force
that accomplishes his will. It's not a person. Because of the early
"christians" need to explain and/or understand Christianity in
philosophic terms they allowed Greek philosophy to distort the Bible's
clear message. The trinity you believe in TODAY of three in one triune
all three being co-equal, co-equal,, etc..is merely a borrowing and
refashioning from Plato.

PLATO, it is thought, lived from 428 to 347 before Christ. While he did
not teach the Trinity in its present form, his philosophies paved the
way for it. Later, philosophical movements that included triadic
beliefs sprang up, and these were influenced by Plato's ideas of God
and nature.

The French Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel (New Universal Dictionary)
says of Plato's influence: "The Platonic trinity, itself merely a
rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples,
appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave
birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian
churches. . . . This Greek philosopher's conception of the divine
trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions."

The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge shows the
influence of this Greek philosophy: "The doctrines of the Logos and
the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who . . . were
much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the Platonic philosophy . .
. That errors and corruptions crept into the Church from this source
can not be denied."

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