GODHEAD REVEALED

The Truth about the GODHEAD

Monotheism, polytheism or dualism

INTRODUCTION

The doctrine of the “Godhead” is a central theme of the Bible, both for the Old Testament and the New Testament. The classic expression of the doctrine of “One God” is found in Deuteronomy 6:4. “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD.”

This belief in only one God is called monotheism, which comes from two Greek words: monos, meaning alone, single, one; and theos, meaning God.
Anyone who does not accept monotheism can be classified as any one of the following:
1. an Atheist who denies the existence of God;
2. an Agnostic - one who asserts that the existence of God is unknown and probably unknowable;
3. a Pantheist - one who equates God with nature or the forces of the universe;
4. a Polytheist - one who believes in more than one God.
A. Ditheism, the belief in two gods, is a form of polytheism,
B. Tritheism or Trinitarianism, the belief in three gods, is a form of polytheism.
5. a Unitarianism, the belief that Jesus, the MAN, is all of God.

THREE MAJOR BELIEFS
The three most common beliefs on the Godhead, however, are (1) Trinitarianism, (2) Unitarianism, and (3) Dualism.

TRINITARIANISM
The premise of the Trinity Doctrine is that there are Three PERSONS in ONE GOD, sharing the same powers, occupying three thrones in heaven. Trinitarians use the diagram of a triangle to explain that the three corners represent the three members of the Trinity, while the complete triangle represents God as the whole trinity. The Discrepancy, however, in the Trinity doctrine is that THREE PERSONALITIES equals THREE GODS. This belief breaks the very First Commandment of God that says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me”. Revelation 4:2 states that there is only “one throne” in heaven. To have three persons, three personalities, then you have three Gods and that is paganism? Most all of the churches believe and teach three personalities of this doctrine as truth, Mormons teach a form of this, different in that they believe there is three separate persons.

UNITARIANISM / ONENESS
The premise of the Oneness Doctrine is that JESUS, THE MAN, IS ALL OF GOD.
The Discrepancy, however, in the Oneness doctrine is that Jesus cannot be his own Father. If Jesus was the Father, why did Jesus pray to the Father if He is already His own Father? Why did He cry at the cross, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Was Jesus just acting it out? Obviously not. United Pentecostal and Unitarian Universalism teach a form of Unitarianism.

DUALISM / TWONESS
The premise of the Twoness Doctrine is that there are TWO GODS: THE ETERNAL FATHER & THE ETERNAL SON who is a little less then the FATHER; making the HOLY SPIRIT just a POWER and MESSENGER OF THE TWO. The Discrepancy, however, in the TWONESS doctrine is that a ‘SON” is ‘BEGOTTEN’. The word “SONSHIP” signifies a ‘BEGINNING”. There is no such thing as an “eternal son”. The word “ETERNAL” means no beginning and no end”.
The Jehovah Witness teach a form of this, in that the Holy Spirit is the force of God and Jesus is a little god.

How to truly understand the Monotheism God.
Mat 16:16-17, Jesus ask his disciples who He was and Peter answered. Jesus said that this had been REVEALED to Peter from His father in heaven. No matter how hard we try, we can’t prove to you the truth of the Godhead, for it has to be revealed by God to your heart. So ask God to open your mind and heart to the truth of the Godhead and receive it from GOD.

THE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING ON THE GODHEAD
God, all throughout the Old Testament did not have a body, but appeared to the people in different forms, such as the Burning Bush to Moses, the Cloud by day, and the Pillar of Fire by night, to the children of Israel. Though He may of appeared as man, such as when Abraham called Him LORD. No one ever saw God, for God is a Spirit. 1 John 1:18 says, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him”. Jesus Made him KNOWN.

GOD IS A SPIRIT The Scripture states that, “God is a Spirit; and they that worship Him, must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth” (John 4:24). In Isaiah 43 and 45, we can read that God the Father said that He alone is God... “And [there is] no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is] none beside Me.”(Isa. 45:21) “Before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] No Saviour.” (Isa. 43:10-11) In these Scriptures, we can clearly see that there is only one God, (not two or three) for in His very First Commandment, Elohim (the self-existing One) solemnly said that “Thou shalt have NO other gods before Me...” (Exodus 20:3)

GOD’S THOUGHTS AND ATTRIBUTES
Way back in eternity, before there ever was a star, a moon, or a galaxy, Elohim had eternal thoughts and attributes that He wanted to express and manifest for His own pleasure and glorification. He hath seen all things from the beginning, for He is infinite and all-knowing. Elohim wanted to be God. The word “God” means “an object of worship”. But there was no one that worships Him at that time and so He then created the angels first, so that He as God is worshiped and is proclaimed as the Almighty. Elohim also wanted to become a Father. Yet how can He be called a “Father” when He Himself has no children?
And so in God’s mind He wanted to create sons and daughters unto Himself so that He could become their Father. Thus, we know that this plan of God was fulfilled and manifested later on. He created Adam and from him He took Eve. It’s a type of the church which was taken from the body of Christ, for the Bible says, “we are flesh of His flesh, and bones of His bones.” Elohim wanted to become a Saviour. But you see, how can He become a Saviour when there’s no one to be saved in the first place?

There has to be a fallen entity first before He could ever display his attributes as a Saviour. We can therefore conclude from this case that God hath foreseen the fall of man and He permitted man to fall from grace in order for God to fulfill His majestic plan of saving them. Man was placed as a “free moral agency” to choose for himself between good and evil. Adam and Eve fell for the wrong choice. But God prepared the solution for sin even before the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8 tells us that the “Lamb was slain “before” the foundation of the world” to act as an atonement for sin. And God wrote our names (God’s elected seed) in the Lamb’s Book of Life even before man could ever commit sin. Christ came to redeem these predestinated seed. Elohim wanted to be a Healer, too. Yet how can He become a Healer when there’s nobody that’s sick? There has to be a sickness first before He could become a Healer. Which was first, the sickness or the Healer? We can then conclude from here that sicknesses and afflictions are part of God’s permissive will unto men in order to show and manifest to mankind His attributes of being a Healer. Psalms 103:2-3 states, “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth ALL thy diseases.” Consider the afflictions of Job, blind Bartimaeous, the woman with the blood issue, and more. Through their affliction, they have declared the glory and healing power of God and served as testimonials of God’s grace through their generations. God also wanted to manifest Himself as a King, as a Priest, and as a Judge. So there has to be a kingdom set-up, a holy tabernacle set-up, and a judgment bar set up. These are His eternal thoughts and intentions before the foundation of the world, to get glory unto Himself.

Yet God knew that as a Spirit He will never be able to fulfill these plans of his without having a “body” that will act out His plans. For example, it is written in His Law that “Almost all things are by the Law purged with blood; and without the shedding of blood is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22). Redemption requires death. Can a Spirit bleed and die?

It takes BLOOD, therefore, to pay the penalty for sin. Yet no man’s blood, no angel, no priest, no animal’s blood, was ever worthy to redeem man in his fallen estate. God must do it Himself, for there is no Saviour but Him alone. He must do it in order to show that He alone is the ONLY Redeemer. In Isaiah 45:22, God said, “Look unto Me, and be ye saved, for I AM God, and there is none else.” “Thou shalt know no God but Me; for there is NO SAVIOUR BESIDE ME”. (Hosea 13:4).

God, therefore, is the only Saviour there is. The key to the whole mystery of the Godhead is this: God knew that He, as God, could not die and bleed in the Spirit, for a Spirit has no flesh and bones. But His own law required blood for an atonement. So in order for God to fulfill His plan of redeeming mankind, He had to put on a veil of flesh, in order to taste death and pay the penalty for His own law, to justify the ungodly. That is to fulfill Romans 3:28, “Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.” “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph.2:8,9).

GOD’S THOUGHTS EXPRESSED INTO “WORD” (LOGOS)
God, then began to express Himself from eternity, by His spoken Word. Time began when God started speaking. This great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end, began to express His attributes by the Spoken Word. Out of the existence of the Father went out the “Logos”, which was the Word, which was God’s “Theophany”. It was a visible body of the great Jehovah God going forth in the beginning. It was called the “Logos”, which in the original Greek, means “something spoken; which includes the thoughts of the Speaker”. That Logos was God’s “express image”. It was God Himself made into Word. That Logos that went out from the great eternal Spirit was called the “Son” of God. It was the only visible form that this Spirit had. And It was a “theophany”, which means a celestial body, and that body was like a “man”. Time, then, began when that “Logos” came out of God, as evident in the succeeding scripture. John 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made” ..And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.” (John 1:1-3,14). From that “theophany” is where man was also created by God, after His own image, which was a “spirit-man”: “And God said, Let US make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”(Genesis 1:26,27).

The “Let US make man in OUR own image” in the above verses refer to God the Father (the great Spirit) talking, speaking to His Theophany Body, which was the Son of God. We can see here that man was created from that pattern, with both spirit and body realms. We were never created in the image of angels.

God will speak one of these days, and we’ll come forth in His image and in His likeness, men and women, not angels, but men and women. God made Angels; we’ll never be Angels. We weren’t made for Angels. Men are made men. God made man. He intends him to be man. It’s God’s pattern.

The “theophany”, which was the Son, is also what’s spoken of in Colossians 1:15-17, which reads: “Who is the IMAGE of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and He is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

That theophany of God was then made FLESH on earth later on in the Person of Jesus Christ through the womb of Mary, God’s only begotten Son.

“Revelation 3:14 speaks of Jesus as the “Beginning of the Creation of God”. That is Who the Lord Jesus says He is. But those words don’t mean exactly as they sound to us. Just taking them the way they sound has made some people (in fact multitudes of people) get the idea that Jesus was the first creation of God, making Him lower than Godhead. Then this first creation created all the rest of the universe and whatsoever it contains. But that is NOT right. You know that doesn’t line up with the rest of the Bible. The words are, “He is the BEGINNER or AUTHOR of the creation of God.”

Now we know for a surety that Jesus is God, very God. He is the Creator. John 1:3 “All things were made by Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” He is the One of Whom it is said, Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”. Also it says in Exodus 20:11, “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. See, there is no doubt that He is the Creator. He was the Creator of a FINISHED PHYSICAL CREATION. Surely we can see what these words mean now. To have any other interpretation would mean that God created God. How could God be created when He, Himself, is the Creator?

GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH
And thus, God fulfilled His plan of salvation, the fulfillment which is written in 1 Timothy 3:16 which states: “And without controversy, great is the mystery of Godliness, God was manifest in the flesh.” When did God manifest in flesh? It was when Jesus Christ was born through a woman; without any resulting sexual act but it was God Himself making both hemoglobin and egg cell in the womb of Mary, God Himself taking the form of a man. Jesus Christ was the FLESH of God, none other than God Himself creating a BODY of His own. That fleshly BODY was called the “SON”, while the SPIRIT indwelling that body was the “FATHER”. Not two Gods now, but God veiling Himself in FLESH. That’s the reason Jesus said “I and My Father are one.” (John 10:30). Philip, the apostle, one time said to Jesus (John 14:8-9), “Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.” And Jesus answered him saying, “ Have I been with you so long and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” The name “Jesus” means “Jehovah has become our Saviour”. Jesus was also called “Emmanuel”, meaning, “God WITH us”, God dwelling with men.
When the Father decided to come down as our Saviour, He put on a robe of flesh and planted Himself, as a seed, in the womb of Mary. This seed was to produce the flesh and blood of the Body He would dwell in as the Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is God becoming man, to redeem man back to Himself. God could not die in the Spirit because He’s eternal. But He had to put on a MASK and ACT the part of death. He did die, but He couldn’t do it in His God form. He had to do it in SON form, as a Son of Man on earth.

JESUS, THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD
The Apostle Paul says this about Jesus in Collosians 2:9-10: “For in HIM all the FULLNESS of the GODHEAD dwells BODILY, and ye are complete in Him, which is the Head of all principality and power”...”In Whom we have REDEMPTION through His BLOOD, even the forgiveness of sins : Who is the IMAGE of the INVISIBLE GOD... And He is before all things, and by Him all things consists” (Collosians 1:14,15,17).
JESUS, therefore, is the EXPRESS IMAGE of the unseen God, God creating a FLESH-BODY of His own. Men could have never seen God except through Jesus Christ, the FLESH of God.

THREE DISPENSATION OF THE ONE GOD
“God ABOVE Us” - that’s how God was known in the Old Testament, in the Fatherhood dispensation. God dwelling in the heavenlies, where no man could ever touch Him.

When the the time for the Sonship dispensation came, fulfilling the prophesy of Isaiah 9:6 which says, “For to us a child is born, for to us a SON is given: the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty GOD, and everlasting FATHER, Prince of Peace”, these all pertain to the FLESH of God - JESUS, being God Himself becoming Emmanuel, which being interpreted “God WITH us” - God Who can now be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.

It was God also fulfilling Isaiah 53:5, “But He (God) was WOUNDED for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him: and by His stripes we are healed” - all fulfilled and completed at the Cross of Calvary. In these last days, after Jesus has been resurrected and glorified, God has sent us back His Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to indwell every believer. Thus, we are now living in the HOLY GHOST Dispensation - “God IN Us”. As 1 Cor. 6:19-20 states, “What? Know ye not that your body is the TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost which is IN YOU, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify GOD IN YOUR BODY, and in your spirit which are God’s.”

THE SPIRIT OF JESUS IN THE CHURCH
JESUS is that self-same Holy Spirit; as He has attested in John 14:18, saying, “I will not leave you comfortless, “I“ (Personal Pronoun) WILL COME TO YOU.” “I will be with ye, ye are sons, God has sent forth the SPIRIT of His SON into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.” FOREVERMORE!” Who was that? That was the same God Who also said, “ I have power to lay my life down, and raise it up again” (John 10:18).
Jesus’ own Spirit is now “God IN Us”, the “Hope of Glory” (Colossians 1:27). It is the SELF-SAME GOD all the time, never changing His power, just changed His form from the heavenly to the earthly, and then back again as the Great Spirit, after having fulfilled His great redemptive story.

He was “GOD ABOVE US” in His Fatherhood dispensation; “GOD WITH US” in His Sonship dispensation; and now “GOD IN US” in the Holy Spirit dispensation.

Jesus said, “ I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, the Beginning and the Ending, saith the Lord, Which IS, WHICH WAS, and WHICH IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY” (Rev.1:8 ) Not three persons in One God but ONE GOD in three dispensations, in three manifestations.

JESUS IS BOTH MAN AND GOD
Jesus, talking to the Jews one day, said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he was glad.” Then said the Jews unto Him, ‘thou art not yet fifty years old and hast thou seen Abraham?’ Jesus said unto them, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:56-58). Who was the great “I AM”? Remember the burning fire that talked with Moses on the holy mountain? That was the “I AM”, the self-same Jesus speaking to the Jews. They could not see that Jesus was their own God VEILED IN FLESH. ”The Jews answered him saying, “For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that Thou, being man, makest Thyself God” (John 10:33). They really failed to see that He was the Emmanuel - both MAN and GOD.

Jesus also is the WORD that became FLESH and dwelt amongst us (John 1:1,14). JESUS certainly was a man weeping at the grave of Lazarus. But when He shouted, “Lazarus, come forth!”, and a dead man, four days and stinking, arose and lived again - that was more than a MAN! Who can raise the dead but God alone. He was a man hungry that night looking on a tree for something to eat. But when He took five bread loaves and two fishes and was able to feed five thousand - that was more than a man. That was the creator, JEHOVAH! He was a man laying on the ship that night, tired and asleep, while the waves come up. But once he arose and rebuked the winds and the waves and said, “Peace be still!”. That was more than a man. That was God Who can control all nature. It was a man crying for mercy at the cross, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” But on Easter morning, when He broke the seals of death, hell and grave, and rose up again and said, “I AM HE that was dead, and behold, I AM ALIVE FOR EVERMORE!” Who was that? That was the same God Who also said, “ I have power to lay my life down, and raise it up again” (John 10:18).

JESUS, BACK TO A “PILLAR OF FIRE" Let us remember that after Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection, Jesus ascended up into the heavens. And when SAUL of Tarsus was on His road to Damascus to persecute the Christians (Read Acts 9:1-5),
a BIG LIGHT, a PILLAR of FIRE struck him,
and he asked, “LORD, who are You?” SAUL knew that It was the same Pillar of FIRE that appeared to Moses,
but that Pillar of FIRE answered him, saying, “I AM JESUS, whom thou persecutest.” See, He had TURNED BACK, exactly back to THE SAME FORM before He took on a tabernacle of FLESH - the Pillar of FIRE that met Moses in the wilderness.

Remember, It was the SAME Pillar of Fire that came to PETER that night and loosed him out of the prison cell (Read Acts 12:5-7). That SAME Pillar of Fire (Cloven Tongues of Fire) appeared on the Day of PENTECOST and set on each of those at the upper room, dividing Himself, giving part of His Spirit among His church (Acts 2). Peter declared in Acts 2:36, “Let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that SAME JESUS, whom ye have crucified, BOTH LORD AND CHRIST”.
There He is - LORD (Fatherhood), JESUS (Sonship), CHRIST (Anointed Holy Ghost) - The LORD JESUS CHRIST, the complete manifestation of the ONE TRUE GOD.

Finally, consider this: Who was the FATHER of Jesus? Matthew 1:18
says, “She (Mary) was found with child of the HOLY GHOST.” But Jesus Himself claimed that GOD was His FATHER. Therefore, God the Father and God the Holy Ghost make the Father and the Spirit ONE, OR ELSE JESUS HAD TWO FATHERS. But notice also that Jesus said that “I and My FATHER ARE ONE”, NOT TWO. That makes ONE GOD, NOT THREE. The entire Bible does not say a thing about a First or Second or Third Person in a ONE GOD. The mystery is found in 1 Timothy 3:16: “And without controversy, great is the MYSTERY of Godliness, GOD was manifest in the FLESH, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles; believed on in the world, received up into glory”.

The ONE TRUE GOD was manifest in the FLESH. That’s how SIMPLE it is. GOD CAME IN
A HUMAN FORM. That didn’t make Him another God. He was GOD, THE SAME GOD. If you cannot accept this TRUTH of the Godhead, but refute it, Jesus said that you are still living in SIN; for He said in John 8:24, “For if ye believe NOT that I AM HE (God), ye shall die in your sins”. “He that believeth not the SON shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).

JESUS IS JEHOVAH MADE FLESH
JEHOVAH of the Old Testament is JESUS of the New Testament. That is the great MYSTERY of the Godhead. NOT THREE GODS, but THREE DISPENSATIONS and three OFFICES of the same ONE GOD. Never can we find any Scripture that declares that there are THREE GODS in the Holy Writ. If you do, you are breaking the First Commndment which says, “I alone am GOD, thou shalt have no other Gods before Me.” GOD Himself declared in Isaiah 45:21 that, “There is NO GOD BESIDE ME; a just God and Saviour, THERE IS NONE BESIDE ME..”

JESUS confirmed this truth in Mark 12:29 saying, “The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is ONE LORD”. The whole thing was JEHOVAH GOD condescending Himself from His heavenly estate to an earthly body He called JESUS, fulfilling His sovereign purpose of becoming Saviour, Redeemer and Healer by shedding His OWN BLOOD as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. ”Of Whom as concerning the FLESH, CHRIST came, Who is OVER ALL, GOD Blessed Forever” (Romans 9:5). AMEN.

What does the bible say about the Name of Jesus

What is Done in Jesus Name	References
The Name is spread abroad	Mt 9:31; Mk 1:28; 6:14;
Preached where not named	Rom. 15:19-20
Teach, preach, speak, in or about	Lk24:47;Ac.4:17,18; 5:28,40; 9:15,27,28; 8:12
One exhorts	1 Cor 1:10
We are to pray in	Jn 14:13,14; 15:16; 16:23,24,26; 1 Jn 5:13-15
We call on	Ac 9:14; 1 Cor 1:2
Give thanks in	Eph 5:20; Col 3:17
We gather in	Mt 18:20
Receive other in	Mt 18:5; Mk 9:37; Lk 9:48
We give to others	Mk 9:41
One cast out evil spirits	Mk 9:38-39; 16:17; Lk 10:17; Ac 16:18; 19:13
There’s power to heal	Mk 16:17-18; Ac 3:6,16; 4:7,10
Signs and wonders are done	Acts 4:30
Judgment is given	1 Cor. 5:3-5
Suffers, reproached, hazard’s life	Ac 5:41; 9:14,16,21; 1 Pet 4:14
Deceivers will come	Mt 24:5; Mk 13:6; Lk 21:8
One must believe in	Jn 1:12; 2:23; 3:18; 1 Jn 3:23; 5:13; Ac 19:13
The name of Jesus is magnified	Ac 19:17
Jesus name is glorified in us	2 Thes 1:12
Every knee shall bow to	Phil. 2:10; Is 45:23; Rom 14:11
One has remission of sins	Lk 24:47; Ac 2:38; 10:43; 1 Jn 2:12
One is washed	1 Cor 6:11
One is sanctified	1 Cor 6:11
One is Justified	1 Cor 6:11
The Holy Ghost is sent in	Jn 14:26
One has life through	Jn 20:31; 1 Jn 5:13
No other saving Name	Ac 4:12
Everything done in word or deed	Col 3:17
Name is above every name	Phil 2:9; Eph 1:20-21

There is one additional item that is alluded to in the above list, but is not named explicitly. And that is we are to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is alluded to in the references on washing and remission. But we find them explicitly in Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:48, 19:5; 22:16;

There is also symbolical references found in Romans 6:3; 1 Corinthians 1:13; 6:11; Galatians 3:27; Colossians 2:11-12;

And yet in spite of all that has just been said above, somehow, the majority of Christianity does not baptize in His name, (The Lord Jesus Christ). (See Christian Baptism)

Here are some Scriptures that tell us that JESUS, THE MAN, ACCEPTED
WORSHIP : (See Scriptures: Matt. 8:2, 9:18, 14:33, 15:25, 28:9, 28:17; Mark 5:6; Luke 24:52; John 9:38)

MATTHEW 8:2-3, “And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.”

MATTHEW 15:25-27, “Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.”

MARK 5:6-7, “But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.”

LUKE 24:51-52- “And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.”

JOHN 9:35-38, “Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he,Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.”

Can you see it, it was God in Jesus reconciling the world to Himself. Not another God or another person, it was GOD, the one and only redeeming His own creation back to Himself.

Look at this scripture, II CORINTHIANS 5:18 † And all things are of God(Elohim) , who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 † To wit, that God(Elohim) was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

One last thought, Many are called, but FEW are CHOSEN. Most Christians today believe in the Trinity of three persons in one God. It is a deception, because if you have three separate personalities then you have three separate persons and you also have THREE gods, and most have been deceived by it. Remember Many are CALLED, be one of the FEW that are CHOSEN and come out from among her and be not partakers of her sins.

Some history of the Godhead.

This is the name that was given to the early Christians that worshiped God as one, Modalistic Monarchianism

The modalist doctrine is usually explained simply as the belief that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are only manifestations, or modes, of the one God (the monarchial), and not three distinct persons (hypostases). It should be distinguished from dynamic monarchianism which also upheld the oneness of God, but did so by claiming that Jesus was an inferior, subordinate being. More precisely, modalistic monarchianism is the belief that considers “Jesus as the incarnation of the Godhead” and ‘the Father incarnate.”

Modalistic Monarchianism is the oldest orthodox belief that Jesus was God. No simultaneous Modalist would ever deny Jesus was God and man. They believed in the deity of Christ. They did not believe an eternal God the Son was incarnated in the physical body of Jesus. This belief is not found in the New Testament anywhere. The earlier Modalists such as the Apostles Peter, John, Paul, James, and subsequent teachers such as Noetus, Epigonus, Praxeas, and Sabellius, held strictly to the belief that Jesus was the manifestation of the Father. And that by identifying the Son and the Father together held to the unity of the one God.

Patripassianism is the teaching that the Father became incarnate at the birth of Jesus, remained in Jesus all of his life, and experienced the rejection of the Jews and the sufferings of the Cross. Trinitarians would later claim the Patripassians believed the Father died on the Cross. Such falsehoods are used to deceive those easily beguiled with lies and distortions. Praxeas attempted to make known the beliefs of the Modalist by proving a distinction between Christ the man, the son of David, and God the Father. Praxeas taught the dual nature of Jesus as God and man and his favorite verse of Scripture was 1Timothy 3:16. Praxeas as other Modalist taught that it was the Father incarnate in Jesus as God while later trinitarians took up the theory it was God the eternal Son incarnate in Jesus. Naturally there was a difference between which person of the trinity was incarnate in Jesus as far as the trinitarians were concerned. But to the Modalist there was no question it was God the Father in Christ reconciling the world unto himself (2Cor 5:19). This language in the singular (God, himself) does not admit of other divine Beings in Christ, certainly not an eternal God the Son. Monarchian Patripassian Modalist would not be converted to the new logos, neoplatoist theories of the trinitarians.

Sabellius was one of the greatest defenders of the Monarchian Modalist Patripassian teaching of the early Apostolic Church. God was indivisible and could not emanate from himself another divine god or Spirit Being (see Isaiah 44:8). His learning took him to Rome in the early third century. While Pope Calixtus was himself a Monarchian, it is claimed he excommunicated Sabellius from Rome because Modalism was at that time on the decline and the Egyptian logos allegorical interpretation was taking the city. The conflict between Sabellius and the neo-tritheist was causing unrest within the Rome Church. Calixtus accepted that the Father suffered in the Son, but was not ready to defend that the Son was another mode of the Father in human form.

Calling the Monarchian Modalist doctrine Sabellianism was a way for the trinitarians to make it look like heresy started by some strange unknown and disliked heretic. Sabellius was in fact trying to save the Church in Rome from the neo-platoist philosophers trying to divide the Godhead into separate Spirit Beings, separate persons, and separate Gods. It can be stated from the Monarchian position that when Sabellius was disfellowshipped by Rome, the ancient doctrine of One God descended from Judaism was also cast out. The fall of Rome into the dark ages began right here when the light of one God was rejected. No one would be able to save Rome or the world from the savage and brutal killing machine the Catholic church became during the dark ages that followed Sabellius being rejected. When Rome fell into the hands of philosophers, gnostics, monks, priests, and trinitarian popes, to many, the city and Catholic church became mystery Babylon the great, mother of harlot Protestant churches that issued from her and which maintain the trinity doctrine.

Some trying to equate the teachings of Monarchians and Sabellius on how God emanated his Lordship image tried to compare this with the Greek philosphy about the monad. However, no Monarchian ever resorted to Greek philosophy to explain the oneness of the Father and the Son nor their unity. The Monarchians taught clearly the Father and the Son were manifestations or modes of one God. Sabellius named this Huiopator: (Father-Son) not monad expansionism. This mode which he called the Father-Son was confessed when Jesus was called the Lord Jesus Christ.

As Father, God was revealed in the mode of Creator and Lawgiver; as the Son, God was revealed in the mode of the King of Israel, the Messieh, the Redeemer, Savior, and earthly Lord of glory; as the Holy Ghost, God was revealed in the mode of the giver of grace and mercy in salvation as revealed by the Apostle Peter in Acts 2:38 (the promise). The present mode of the Holy Ghost in the Church is that of regeneration and sanctification. These were three different modes revealing the same God. Sabellius as well as the modalists that preceded him for over two hundred years believed Jesus was the Word and the Word was God (John 1:1). These Monarchians did not develop the logos doctrine into the eternal Son doctrine. It was the later neo-platoist logoist who made Jesus into a separate God Being called the Logos. whom they believed was with the Father and although in unity was nevertheless separate Gods. Scholars who are honest will admit that Monarchian Modalism was the orthodox teaching of the majority of early Apostolic Churches. The Adoptionist and Dynamic Monarchian split from this group which began the slow and systematic development of the trinity doctrine.

Trinitarianism Doctrine

This is a teaching that God consist of three separate and distinct personalities; co-existent, co-eternal, and co-equal. There are different kinds of trinitarians. Some believe each person is a separate Spirit and a separate God. Some believe there is one God and one Spirit that has three personalities. There are neo-trinitarians who are partial modalist. These believe when we get to heaven we will not see three Gods but instead see Jesus who will be the image of God as he was upon the earth.

Trinitarianism had a gradual development. It was not the faith or belief of the Apostles and early Christians. It was birthed from over two hundred years of debate on the relationship of the Father and the Son. The first departure from Monarchian Modalism was the Adoptionist (Twinitarians). These denied Jesus was divine. Claiming he was only a man. This cut hard across the Monarchian Modalist who held Jesus was Divine. These Adoptionist claimed Jesus was adopted by God the Father to be his son at his baptism: "thou art my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." Since these split from the orthodox Monarchians they are called Dynamic Monarchians by trinitarians. This name is not adequate to actually describe them. They did believe in the Monarchy of the Father as the only God. This was no less than the Pharisee belief when they denied the Deity of Jesus. I would call them Pharisee-Monarchians since their belief about Jesus mirrors that of this Jewish sect.

The Adoptionist began a fire-storm of controversy that birthed the two-god Binarians or Biarians. These, of whom later Arias became the champion, believed Jesus was a separate God from God the Father by creation in a process called "begotten." Jesus was begotten of the Father as a junior God but did not always exist. This pre-existing Jesus was a created being. The two-god group took even more Monarchian Modalist Churches from its ranks.

The LOGOS is a Word or Thought Expressed. This was twisted by Plato’s philosophy of what the logos is or was. It was in Egypt that the theory was born to bring the relationship of the Father and the Son more in line with Plato philosophy in relationship to the logos. In Plato's philosophy the logos was an intermediary power between God and man. This logos was divine thought, reason, and mind. Jesus was then compared with and made this Greek logos. This allowed Jesus as the logos (reason, thought, and mind of God), to subsist and become co-eternal with God. How could God be God in eternity without reason, thought, and mind? Co-eternal brought instantly co-existence and co-equality. These beliefs were not fully formed or expressed until the Council of Nicaea in 325AD. This twisted meaning of Logos is how the Trinity came into being.

This Egyptian doctrine gave back the Son his Deity which the Adoptionist had taken away. But there was still lacking how the logos would become a different person from the Father. It came to be explained that Jesus was a man and also the logos. This gave him instant personality and separate will and existence from the Father. The eternal logos became Jesus and this hypostatic union made Jesus an eternal person separate from the Father. It was then claimed at Nicaea that Jesus was of the same substance of the Father and was equally God begotten of the Father. This was expressed in the words: "God from God."

The Bishops who came to Nicaea appear to have been Monarchian, Adoptionist, Biarians, and the new logos-trinitarians. It was Athanasius of Egypt, a devout neo-platoist, who influenced the Council in the logos philosophy and with it defeated all others present who disagreed with the triune God. It was the Nicene Creed that laid the foundation for the trinity doctrine. It was not until 381-382 at the Council of Constantinople that the Holy Ghost was added clearly to the trinity. After the Nicaea victory of trinitarians over Monarchians, Adoptionist, Biarians, and others, the trinity doctrine became the interpretation of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Most Protestant churches retained this doctrine of the trinity. Does it teach three separate Gods? We believe the answer is yes! Here is a simple test:

Answer these questions and you can determine if you are Trinitarian.

1.) Are there three different persons in the Godhead?
2.) Are each person in the trinity a separate Being?
3.) Are there three divine Spirits that are each God?
4.) Are there three different personalities in the Godhead?
5.) When Jesus died on the Cross, did one of the divine Spirits die?
6.) When Jesus died on the Cross, did one of the separate Beings die?
7.) Was there a time of 3 days that one of the Gods was dead?
8.) If one of the Gods died on Calvary does that not mean this one was not co-eternal, co-existent, and co-equal any more?
9.) Was an eternal Son incarnate in Jesus the man?
10.) Was the eternal Son a separate Son from Jesus who was begotten of the Father?

If you answered YES to any of the above questions, then you are a Trinitarian. You shouldn’t feel too bad because millions and millions of people have been taught this to be true from a very young age. It is easy to see from history that this false doctrine was brought into the church by the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer the three following questions to see if you are a Monarchian Modalist

Do you believe there is one God, who is one Spirit, who is one Being, who is one person?

Do you believe the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are different manifestations, (titles) of this one God?

Do you believe God the Father was manifested in the Flesh of Jesus, in other words, Jesus was the incarnate God.

If you answered YES to ALL Three of the questions above, then you are a Monarchian Modalist.

You may not understand how to interpret all the Scriptures that speak of the Father and the Son. This does not matter. If you answered yes to the three questions, you are a true Believer in One God. You are just like the first early Christians from 30-100AD and even a few Christians today. Congratulations!

When the dark ages ended with more and more light exposing the falsehoods of the Catholic Church, many different men saw again the Monotheism of God and wrote Monarchian concepts. Some of these were murdered, like Michael Servetus. Others hid their Oneness beliefs but then wrote about them like John Miller. But little by little the Monarchian Modalism of the early Church was restored. There remains a tremendous hatred of many Trinitarians against the modern Monarchian Modalistic people. Today there are Trinitarian defenders who continue to spread hatred that the Monarchian Modalist faith of the early Church restored is nothing but an ancient heresy. In spite of Trinitarian attacks against this orthodox faith, millions now see that Trinitarianism is false and has pagan roots.

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