Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The theology of the godhead or trinity in Christianity

Many Christians believe in an entity called the godhead. It is a strange explanation of three so-called distinct deities of The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit all rolled into what they call God.

We believe in the sense that God or Y'hweh is the The Father as described in the New Testament. Many godhead apologists clearly twist the New Testament and Old Testament Scripture to suit this godhead idea.

Where does the godhead come from?

The term godhead is used three times in the Bible, all are included in the letters of Paul. He is using the term loosely as a way to connect to the Roman people, and other Pagans. I have provided the Scriptures and a few verses before and after.

Acts 17


Romans 1

9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

I highlighted the word "power" in this scripture to better explain what Paul is trying to describe. He uses the term power to describe the Eternal Light or the WORD of GOD. We are ALL a part of this divine Light. God's WORD is described as Light many times in the Bible. You can read my teaching on what I perceive as the first Light (Yeshua) created by God (LINK HERE).

Now we know that Paul is using this term to relate to the ignorant pagans he was so desperately trying to convert. This godhead theory and its origins is of pagan philosophy. There is nothing wrong with trying to relate but to adopt this pagan philosophy is dead wrong.

The strange thing is the English translation godhead is actually derived from 3 different Greek words. those words being; "theios" - Used in Acts 17:29 which means: "a general name of deities or divinities as used by the Greeks". Theios is also used in 2 Peter 1:3 and 4, and means divine. The other Greek word is "theiotēs", which is used only once in the New Testament and simply means "divinity, divine nature". The 3rd Greek word is "theotēs", which means deity or nature of G-D but the two Greek words "theiotēs" and "theotēs" are certainly the same word. As we can clearly see all three Greek words are stemmed from the same root but lets examine the Latin phrases used that were directly translation to English.

Acts 17:29 (Greek - Theios) to (Latin - divinum) to (English "proper" - divinity)

Romans 1:20 (Greek - Theiotēs) to (Latin - divinitas) to (English "proper" - divinity, or power of divinity)

Col 2:9 (Greek - Theotēs) to (Latin - divinitas - divinitatis) to (English "proper" divinity, quality/nature of God)

It seems that the English translators of the Latin Bible injected the common trinity based theology of the time into their translations.

What makes up the godhead?

Now this is where it gets highly strange. The godhead is said to be made up of (The Father + The Son + The H'ly Spirit = godhead)

The Son

How can someone discern that Yeshua is equal with the Father or God? Well they can't, but they use
scripture to explain themselves.

The most famous of these verses is John 10:30 "I and my Father are one".

They use this scripture, and few others, to declare that Jesus is indeed God or Y'hweh. first Yeshua says the Father and Him "ARE" not "IS" one, very big difference.

If we go John 17:11 Yeshua says;


I highlighted "that they" and "one, as we are" because if they can conclude that Jesus is God from the scriptures in John, especially using godhead theology, then we are all gods(sarcasm) because Yeshua clearly states we can be ONE with the Father just as HE is.

In this scripture Jesus clearly supports what Paul is trying to say about this godhead, that we are all a part of it. In reality this so-called godhead is THE LIGHT, THE WORD OF GOD.
So we can throw Jesus out of the godhead or trinity equation because his oneness is the same as everyones oneness with God, just a heck of a lot more powerful.

The Father

John 14:28
"You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you ' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."

"The Father is greater than I", that means that Yeshua and the Father are not co-equals.

Also, most people who do not know the basic Hebrew rules for scripture, such as the PARDES system, have no idea how to read the scripture. Most godhead apologists look for the hardcore scripture that says the Father is not God, the all powerful, head of the table, God. The problem is they cannot find it. Why? Because it is assumed that the reader of the scriptures know, by the virtue of commonsense, that the Father is God the almighty.

Case in point; you cannot find that godhead system proof but you can find the proof that early Christian leaders, such as Paul, considered God to be the Father. He doesn't preach on it, because he assumed everyone knew it in advance, but you can find that proof not in the meat of the scripture but in the greetings of his letters. The greetings are always overlooked because to theologians the greetings hold no real scripture value.

Romans 1:7

Corinthians 1:3

Galatians 1:4

Ephesians 1:2

Philippians 1:2

Philippians 4:20

Colossians 1:2

1-Thessalonians 1:1

1-Thessalonians 1:3

1-Thessalonians 3:11

2-Thessalonians 1:1


2-Thessalonians 1:2

1-Timothy 1:2

Philemon 1:3

John 6:27

1 Corinthians 8:6

Galatians 1:1

Galatians 1:3

Ephesians 6:23

Philippians 2:11
2 Timothy 1:2

Titus 1:4

1 Peter 1:2

2 Peter 1:17

2 John 1:3

Jude 1:1

The Holy Sp'rit

The third part of the godhead or trinity is the Holy Sp'rit. This is the dangerous part; NO MAN should ever tinker with the H'ly Spirit. Yeshua, and the rest of the Bible for that matter says, the Holy Spirit belongs to GOD or the Father.

Matthew 10:20


Luke 11:13


So we know the H'ly Spirit is of God the Father. So how can it be separate to satisfy the godhead or trinity dogma? IT CAN'T!!

What does Paul have to say about the Father and God?

Corinthians 8:6


Notice the "we in HIM" and the "we by Him"

Jesus is eternal and he was the first Light created by Y'hweh for us pathetic children here on earth.

Timothy 2:5



The godhead theology is not of God it was used to help people understand The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. But we have created a twisted distinct dogma from it. If early gentile Christians would have adhered to the Hebrew way of reading scripture such as the p'shat (meaning; the literal plain meaning of the scripture cannot be changed) we would not have hundreds of million of Christians in the world today that subscribe to the idea that Yeshua is fully God. And most believe this in a dozen different ways. The p'shat is in effect with the Hebrew texts of the New Testament such as Matthew and James. But there is a growing belief that all the Gospels may have been drafted in Hebrew. So the p'shat would be in effect. We lost or rejected these rules and knowledge and we created our own dogma from that ignorance, which is highly dangerous.

If we are to accept a centered power of God or the Father, we should accept what Yeshua says, accept the oneness or Light of God. The power of the Light is infinite. God is the Father as described by Yeshua.

We should reject everything pagan influenced, and twisted by the early Church, and I stand with Y'hweh and his Son the Christ Yeshua the Savior of Man.

These things that are not of God need to be ignored and buried. I understand why Paul did what he did, he had to break through the pagan mind. And what do you know?, we adopted their pagan theology!!!!! We should have understood as Jews, not depraved pagan gentiles from Rome!

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