THE GODHEAD VERSES THE HOLY TRINITY

 

The saying is not "Jesus and God" but just one, the other, or just plain "Holy Ghost" of Jesus with the power of God. 

What follows is sort of an outline for my Facebook presentation this morning.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1,14)

Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (Mat 28:19) 

⁸ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. ⁹ For in Him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. ¹⁰ And you are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power… (Col 2:8-10)

 The Godhead is the “state of being God.” That state is the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

The Holy Ghost is what Moses saw and what came down the day of Pentecost. 

Moses asked God, “"Please show me your glory.”

God replied, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you My Name 'the Lord'.” (Exod 33). 

The Glory of God is His Dynamic — His Goodness pass before the eyes of Moses, but God would not allow Moses to see His Face. His face means that he would not turn around for Moses to see His other side. 

It could be that God was revealing Himself and not the other substance of the Godhead, not the bodily shape, or the material substance of God. 

God’s goodness passing by was His Power or virtue — the “Dynamos” of God in the Greek. 

There we have the Godhead or Holy Trinity: the backside of God (the Holy Ghost), the body of God (the Son) and the Power of God (the “Father;” Yahweh) 

The “Godhead” is God at the head or the Divine Nature in that He is the Creator. (Supra-nature). 

That indicates One True God — the whole of God. 

God was whole at the Creation because the Word Jesus was there as God in the beginning (John 1). 

Jesus pre-existed His flesh. Jesus was there in Name — the Word — but not flesh (Hashem). 

The spoken Word of the Lord was by Abraham, Moses, and the prophets. They were the “mouth” of Jesus, speaking the Word. As such Christ was in them all, not in body but guiding their thoughts and actions. 

The patriarchs were as much like proxies until the Word came in the flesh. They were like loudspeakers of the Words from the Mind of Jesus. 

The One God (Jehovah) has three substances: Power revealed by Light (Light of the world), a Spirit in the bodily shape of a man (Luke 3:22) and Dynamics — the motion like a dove or even a mighty rushing wind, as needs be (Acts 2) 

God was always active in scripture. His activity revealed Power. When God rested, then mankind was on their own in the Garden doing as they pleased without the intervention of God. 

During the 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments, mankind was again on their own. 

Then God came in the flesh with no need for prophets. He would speak as God Himself. The Word, Jesus, became flesh and prophecy was fulfilled. 

The Godhead was complete all along. It was revealed in the New Testament; first the Word that had flesh, then beginning in Acts, the Word in Spirit in the bodily shape of a man. 

The Godhead is like a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night but when the Dynamic stops; He is revealed either as a Ghost or a Man. The Dynamic is that He is both at the same time with the other faculties there but not revealed until at rest. Theologians call that Dynamic “homeostasis” — a stableness between independent substances, hence God is not three persons but one Person, One Spirit, and One Power. 

Upon the death of Jesus, the Spirit in the shape of a man was the Ghost of the dead person of Jesus. 

Envision the Godhead like a tree. 

The Tree of Life is the whole tree. The visual body of the Tree is symbolic of Jesus.

The root of the Tree emanates life to the branch or vine. The root is symbolic of the Father from which the tree itself grows. 

The living water (Holy Spirit) flows from root to the tree and its leaves for the healing of the nations (Rev 22:2). 

Hence, the Tree of Life is either representative of the Godhead or the Godhead itself presented as a Tree of Life for our understanding. 

The Tree of Life, the Godhead, and the Holy Trinity are three devices to describe the fullness of God; Him “made whole.” 

“Made whole’ in the Bible is when sinners, lacking the Spirit of God, receive God in Power and in Spirit and are made whole. 

Think not of “Father” as biological but genetic. The “Father” is the root of the Tree whose genes are in the Person of Jesus, and the “Son” is the product of those genes; the growth (vine) from the root. 

In other words, Yahweh is in every nuclear cell of Jesus. Jesus carries the DNA of Yahweh. Remove the flesh and the DNA remains. The DNA is the Identity of God called “selem” in the Hebrew which is the phantom Presence of God. 

As Plato would say, The shadow or phantom of God is a fragment of God that is just as real as the physical substance of God. Jesus sits at the right hand power of God, not beside the Father but within Him.