GOD IN THREE MODES

  Be patient for a few short paragraphs on nomenclature for it is necessary to consider the textus receptus (received text) from God rather than translations.

  Protestant teaching, introduced by John Wycliffe, is the designation “godhead.” The Latin Vulgate used by Catholics translate the Greek word, “theiotes” in the Latin as “divinum” and “divinitas” in different passages. Both Latin words are singular, but the former is gender neutral and the other feminine.

  In the Greek, theos is singular theoti is plural. Both are used in the Bible. “Theiotes” comes from “theos.” Theiotes is a “state of being God” (Strong’s Dict.) whereas theos is God. Theo is both gender feminine and gender masculine. That makes sense because although Theo (God) is patriarchal, supernatural beings would not be considered male nor females but in appearance. That is implied from this passage about glorification: “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels of God in heaven” (Mat 22:30).

  Of course, that does not apply to angels while on Earth but in heaven alone. Incubi and succubi are angels who come to earth and engage in coitus with humans. Some have written that “Sons of God” who had intercourse with “daughters of men” were incubi. (Gen 6:2). This background is for a purpose. We think of God as “Father” as in “Father God” (John 1:18) the Greek word is “Pater” from which “paternal” comes in English.

  In the biblical context, that would mean from the “seed” of God. That “seed” is not sperm nor ova but the Holy Spirit of God, to wit: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being” (Gen 2:7) and to Mary, the angel said, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35).

  There was no sexual intercourse involved in either God generating Adam nor Jesus. The Holy Ghost of Jesus is thought of as male for two reasons: “He” is the Ghost of Jesus and “He” is the “Living Water” that generated Adam and Jesus (John 4:10). Also, think of the Holy Spirit as the “Seed” of the universe as dividing “the waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6) which is exactly translated, “the semen from the semen” (Strong’s Dict.)

  Furthermore, God is perceived as male because the gender of Jesus is male. He is the Son of God and God at the same time: ““If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him” (John 14:7). God is certainly not female! That comes from feminist heresy and pagan religions. Even the person Jesus is paternal in that Christians are His heirs. Women in those days had no estates and to be an heir meant of the male line.

  All that information circles back to the “godhead” (theiotes), feminine gender for “divine nature” but that is “the state of being God.” Thus, God is paternal and His State maternal. The Godhead is not three “Persons” but three “States” or three levels of substances in one, performing as One.

  The Greek for that is homeostasis, or as pertains to God, three immutable substances in dynamic equilibrium. Those three “substances” of God are Mind, Body, and Spirit (Knowledge, Material, Power). Those substances Exist as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and are eternal and always in dynamic equilibrium. Just as you have seen the Father by seeing Jesus, you also have “seen” Jesus by sensing the  Holy Ghost of Jesus.

  With that said, the “Person” of God died on the Cross, but His other two substances were nailed there as well. When Jesus died, he gave up His Ghost, and Jesus perceived that the Father had forsaken, or given up, on Him (Mat 27:46). God in three substances suffered death on the Cross. His Flesh “slept,” His Ghost departed for a time, and His Mind surely went with His Ghost as ours will with ours (evidenced by Lazarus in Abraham’s Bosom).

  The Jews needed to know that Jesus was their same Messiah. To explain the divine nature of God, the writer wrote:

He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power. (Heb 12-3)

 Examine that closely: (1) Jesus is God’s Son, (2) Jesus is who made the worlds, (3) He is the Brightness of God’s Glory (i.e., He is the paternal “Father”), He is the expressed image of God’s “Person,” and He is Power. In other words, Jesus is God manifested — the three substances of God in One Person.

  Protestants teach that the “Godhead” is “God in three persons.” Indeed, the Godhead is the divinity (substance) of the Christian God (Wikipedia), but it too uses, “in three persons” rather than “substances.” However, Jesus is the expressed image, or that Person. The Godhead is One Person expressed as Jesus. According to scripture, therefore, the Godhead is One Person of three substances: Mind, Flesh, and Spirit.

  Just what is a “person?” One definition is, “One of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians” (Merriam-Webster Dict.). Modes would be substances, and the One Person has three modes of communication with His creatures. Jesus is God manifested. When God appears, that “Person” is called “Jesus.” Jesus is either a brightness (Glory), an image (THE Man, or THE Angel of God), or Power (THE Holy Ghost).

  A person is also “the body of a human being” and “the personality of a human being” (ibid). Hence, “person” always refers to a being in human mode or substance.

  Whew! All that to say, “God is One Person with three modes of operation Who is manifested in three different substances, all in harmony with each other another.”

  With that, it is proper to call Jesus “God,” and it is proper to call God’s Spirit, the “Holy Ghost” of Jesus. The former is the manifestation of God in material, and the latter the manifestation of God in Power, or non-matter. However, it is not proper to say, “Jesus and God” or “the Holy Ghost and Jesus” because all three are One God.

  It is important to know the nature of God. He is neither male nor female, but His personality is male and His Creative ability as well. His nurturing mode is female as Eve’s who was also generated from the Holy Spirit through Adam and was assigned the nurturing role.

  Also, the nature of God is not multiple personalities but one Person with one Personality. That is important because heretics say that the “godhead” is a three-headed God, and consider Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Ghost as three individual “Gods.”

  Neither is there a female personality or counterpart to God. There is no “Mother Nature.” He is “Father Supra-Nature” Who nurtures!

  Neither was there a “demiurge” (a separate Creator God). Jesus created it all! That is what God is called when He manifests Himself! He manifested Himself gloriously when He showed His Power to generate all things! Material is not evil as Gnostic heretics claim because an evil “god” did not create. The misuse of material (the world) is evil. God told how to use the Garden but Satan how to misuse it.

  Neither was there two creations. God is the Knowledge of Good. He does not make mistakes. Satan is the author of evil knowledge, but it was not his tree. He misused what God made. Evil was in the tree so that mankind could choose for themselves just who is their God.

  God had the foreknowledge and knew the choice would be wrong just as with the angels. He planned on manifesting Himself to mankind for the express purpose of saving them from themselves! Jesus was there in the beginning (John 1) not because God screwed up, but because given choices, he knew people would.

  The “supra-nature” of God is grace. He made us without the ability to save ourselves. Hence, his nature was graceful, and he created Flesh for Himself to do that for us! Those saved, in the end, will be like God again — in His image: with pure mind, with incorruptible flesh, and full of the Power of God. We too will walk on water like Jesus; we shall stand on the sea of glass (Rev 15:2)!

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds. (Heb 1:1-2)

  The different modes of God are different ways that he speaks to people. The Father spoke to the ancient Hebrews, the Son to the multitudes of people, and the Holy Ghost to the “lively stones” of the Church. It is God who always speaks but in different “bandwidths:” Preserving on the Way, redeeming those who know the Way, and guiding the Way to the Tree of Life (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost).

  Now for a further test from scripture: “For in Him (Jesus Christ) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Col 2:9). Jesus is the bodily form of the Godhead! What happened when Jesus was baptized? “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him” (Luke 3:22; KJV).

  The “Holy Ghost” is the Pneuma (Breath) of God specific to His Person, Jesus. It is the same Pneuma that breathed life unto Adam. God breathes, the Holy Spirit is His “Breath”, and Jesus is the “Cup” or material container for His Breath. Once the Cup was broken, the Holy Spirit in bodily form was emptied, until the broken Cup was regenerated. Now the Holy Ghost of Jesus is again in the Cup, and that “Cup” freely pours Living Water into the souls of Christians.

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