All scripture references, unless otherwise noted, are from the King James Version of the Holy Bible. The Hebrew and Greek meaning of the words mentioned are from Strong's Hebrew-Greek Dictionary.
Last year on Thursday, December 21, 2017 I posted the following post. I certainly did not then nor do I now wish to be controversial but rather that God Almighty would receive the glory due His name. Thus I am re-posting this. I truly believe all the Bible says and have since 1965 when the Lord Jesus saved my soul. Up to that point I had never read the Bible. When the Lord told me to make Him my choice as He was the only reasonable choice I had, I knowing that I would need His help said, "Lord Jesus if you'll help me, I will serve You from this day till the day I die." I can tell you that He has helped me. He cleansed my mind that day and told me to read His word, starting in Matthew. I can now say "...Ebenezer..." (see 1st Samuel 7:12) for "...hitherto hath the LORD helped..." me.
Isaiah 9:6 says, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." The Son called the Father? Well, I'm a son and I am a father. But I am not my father. And he is not me, his son. (In fact he is not even alive anymore) Yet Isaiah under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost said, the "Son...shall be called...the Everlasting Father..." This is no doubt what the Lord Jesus meant when He said in John 16:26-27, "At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God." When you and I ask anything in Jesus name it is as though the Lord Jesus were asking the Father. And the Lord said in John 8:28, "... When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." Jesus, the Son of the Living God is called "...The everlasting Father..."
It is no wonder then that the Apostle Paul told Timothy in 1st 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." How can the Son of God be His own Father? It is a mystery. But it is a mystery revealed in the Bible. The mystery does not involve a Trinity of persons in the Godhead. The doctrine of the Trinity was foisted on the 3rd century church as a means for the church to become the state religion. And much to the dismay of the Trinitarian theologians among us, God is One in His nature. Deuteronomy 6:4 says, "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD..." And while the verse of scripture translated "God," in the Hebrew is Elohim a plural form of the word, it would be a stretch to make it mean gods as if God were plural. The word god can apply to magistrates, or judges. In Strong's Hebrew-Greek dictionary the meaning is, "ĕlôhı̂ym (pronounced) el-o-heem' Plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: - angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty."
I read some time ago, one Trinitarian theologian, (I guess he was) who said the word "God" implied a unity of the persons of the Godhead. So, being curious and wanting to be right, I went to where the Lord Jesus answered the question put to Him as to what the first commandment was? He replied in Mark 29:29b-30, "...The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." Again I looked in Strong's Hebrew-Greek dictionary and found the word Jesus used for one was the Greek word "heis. "The Greek meaning of the word, again according to Dr. Strong is, "heis (pronounced) hice (Including the neuter [etc.] ἕν hen); a primary numeral; one: - a (-n, -ny, certain), + abundantly, man, one (another), only, other, some. See also G1527, G3367, G3391, G3762." A primary numeral; one? Well that settled it for me. I would rather take Jesus' word than all the theologians in the world.
The Lord Jesus declared in John 10:30, "I and my Father are one." (again the word Heis is used for one) When He said that the Jews took up stones to stone Him. He asked in John 10:32, "...Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" The Bible says in John 10:33, "The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." They recognized what He was saying in verse 30 was His claiming to be God. But they were wrong. He being God had made Himself man. He was truly the God-Man.
"...Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord..." Do you love Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength? If you do, you will have no problem with repentance or baptism in Jesus name. (See Acts 2:38) My friend God has promised to give you His Spirit if you will obey Him (See Acts 5:32) If you have never done so, why not do what the Apostle Paul told both the Jews and Greeks in Acts 20:21 to do, repent toward God and put your faith in the Lord Jesus. God will give you His Spirit. If you refuse, God will take away even that which you seem to have. (See Luke 8:18)
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