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The Godhead
Introduction
The word Godhead conjures up ideas of the unimaginable, the
unthinkable, a mystery hard to be to be understood. It hints of
something we could never possibly understand, yet men have tried
fervently to grasp the concept of nature of God and to understand
it. Such controversy has brewed for centuries with one belief
calling another names such as "cultists", "heretics", etc.
The fact is that every denomination it's dogma and it's own
particular beliefs when it comes to the Godhead. Most of
the attempts at an explanation are not biblical and cannot be
explained from the bible alone. For the ones that are able
to explain most of the texts, there are still texts for them that
remain a mystery and then the confusion sets in all over again.
Allow me to present a brief note to internet
users:
In this culture of every man being right in
his own eyes, there is a growing issue with Christian websites
in which many internet surfers, while clinging to one scripture
theology and pet scriptures, seem to think they are more
spiritual, more able, more called, more anointed, more
everything, than a Pastor who has devoted his life to the Word
of God. Apparently, they feel that God has called them
personally to "hunt down" and attack everything that doesn't
agree with their view, their doctrine, or their traditional
theology. This is growing worse by the day.
If you wish to dispute the teaching on this
site please feel free to do so. After all, it is the duty
of every Christian to question what they are being taught and to
determine it's authenticity and truth by the Word of God.
If you wish to send an email with a couple of
pet scriptures, please DO NOT waste your time or mine.
Yes, this sound brash, but the fact is that such emails that
contain only one or two scriptures are NOT sufficient to dispute
ANY teaching on ANY site. Check out this link to see some
of the more humorous emails I've received. I say humorous
because apparently there are self-proclaimed champions of the
Word that have taken it upon themselves, not to study, but to
surf from site to site rebuking anything and everything in their
way (despite their shallow understanding).
Please, friend, for your sake and mine, if
you wish to dispute the teaching, do this: Start with what
I have, copy it into your own document if you wish, then LINE BY
LINE, PRECEPT BY PRECEPT, dispute it with your own comments,
scripture, etc. That is the proper way to dispute,
correct, and teach someone else. You'll never gain a man
who holds a particular doctrine by saying "oh yeah? Well
you're wrong and I've got 1 scripture (against his 3 or 4
HUNDRED) to prove it! So there...." That, my
dear one, is the wrong attitude, wrong spirit and is completely
in violation of the Word of God!
Feel free to contact me at any time.
Please don't feel free to rebuke without MUCH proof.
It is completely foolish to submit 1 or 2 scriptures as your
"proof". Thanks for your understanding.
Let me warn your first: This is not "MILK". It
is STRONG MEAT and requires EXTENSIVE STUDY!
Before I begin, may I ask you a few questions?
Do you really want to understand what the Word of God has to say,
or are you one that just wants to argue because it doesn't fit
what you happen to believe? Do you want to be able to reconcile
scripture with scripture, or are you one of those people who would
rather "stick to your guns" of tradition just because all your
ancestors before you believed a certain thing.
Have you HONESTLY, ever studied the Godhead ... reconciling EVERY
SINGLE passage that has to do with the Godhead? Have You? Most
people have not. Can you teach it? Can you explain it using even
the most controversial of scriptures? Can you understand the
scriptures you are using?
Do you believe the way you do because you have personally studied
it for yourself or because everyone else around you believes the
same way? If the answer is the latter, you are walking on
dangerous ground. If you take your godly convictions and beliefs
from everyone else around you, then you have NO foundation stable
enough to base your faith on. Now, come on, be honest.
Do you know what it means to study the Word of God? STUDY does NOT
mean reading a few verses and reaching a conclusion. STUDY means
to get ALL the facts, ALL the verses, ALL the scripture and then
reconciling them together. Have you done that?
Let me give you an example of what I am referring to: Below is the
simple subject of one of the Bible's most prominent prophets:
Elijah the Prophet
We all know the story of Elijah, right? Elijah was take to heaven
by a Chariot of Fire. Right? You've heard the story, you've seen
the pictures, and read it in the bible. Maybe it was one of your
favorites as a young child. I know it certainly was one of mine. I
remember seeing those pictures and thinking...wow...that is cool.
Riding in a Chariot of Fire. Here is one of them with comments
beside the picture:
That's really cool ... but my favorite has to be the next one.
There it is, in living color, just like the bible says: A Chariot
of Fire and ol' Elijah, right there in the chariot! That's a great
story!
Well, what if I were to tell you that this version of the story
was incorrect? What if I told you that you didn't read all the facts
or that perhaps you had misinterpreted the story? Many of you
would argue with me and go running for your bibles and (after
blowing 2" of dust off them), you'd be ready for a fight.
Well...maybe not a fight, but you'd be ready to dispute everything
I had to say.
After all the whole Christian World, especially all the scholars,
can't be wrong in a simple story such as this. I mean, what's to
get wrong ......
Right?
Wrong!
If you believe the bible states that Elijah
went to heave "in" a chariot of fire, you are mistaken. It
does not say that.
Man has corrupted this story. But don't trust me...Read it for
yourself.
2 Kings 2:11
"And it came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses
of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven".
What was that? He went up by WHAT?
A Whirlwind?
YES, a Whirlwind ... Read it again. The Bible says nothing about
him being in a chariot of fire. We assume that he was and it was
likely that our assumptions are correct, but the Bible doesn't say so.
Do you think
that's wrong? Look also in 2 Kings 6:17 and you'll find also that
the chariots once again served to do exactly what we see in the
previous instance! They were used to PART and to protect!
THAT is what the Word of God has to say about Elijah's translation
into heaven. Period. It does NOT say he went to heaven by a
Chariot of Fire. Although it sounds good and we like to think that
is exactly the way God works (and he very likely did in this
case), the fact is that the Bible doesn't support that theory.
The entire point is this: If you were wrong about something you
were so sure of; something you were absolutely sure that you knew
from the Bible; something perhaps you've even read for yourself
and was confident in your knowledge; I ask you this: Could you
possibly be
wrong about other things? The honest answer to that is yes, it is
possible.
Jesus told the Pharisees "Search the scriptures; for in them ye
think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of
me." (John 5:39).
So, When it comes to the Godhead What Do You
Really Believe?
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