Who is Jesus Christ? Godhead versus Trinity by Cameron Moshfegh
Galatians 3:13
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:”
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Isaiah 53:10
“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.”
King James Version (KJV)
Who is Jesus Christ? Godhead versus Trinity
A Bible study to
SERVE OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
Author: Cameron Moshfegh
Date: 2024-03-29
Table of contents
This Bible study quotes exclusively from the King James Bible (1769 Edition).
This Bible study applies questioning based on biblical teaching which can be found in 2 Timothy 2:15-16, 1 Corinthians 2:13-14, Romans 1:22-23, Colossians 2:8 and Acts 17:29.
2 Timothy 2:15-16
“15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness."
1 Corinthians 2:13-14
"13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Romans 1:22-23
"22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things."
Colossians 2:8
“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.”
Acts 17:29
“Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.”
Vain imaginations, man's wisdom and philosophies are great challenges in the study of the Bible.
Therefore, in all Bible study, but with a particular emphasis when it comes to the things of the Spirit of God, it is necessary that we ask ourselves the following two questions:
Are we studying and rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15), or are we formulating profane and vain babblings which the Bible warns against and teaches not to do (2 Timothy 2:16)?
Note: Studying and rightly dividing the word of truth requires effort of the mind and the application of diligence and logic within the spiritual teaching of the Bible. This brings us to the second question.
Are we comparing spiritual things with spiritual (1 Corinthians 2:13-14), or are we adopting man's wisdom and philosophies to describe the things of the Spirit of God which the Bible warns against and teaches not to do (1 Corinthians 2:13-14, Romans 1:22-23, Colossians 2:8, Acts 17:29)?
Note: When we strain our mind and apply diligence and logic in the study of the Bible we need to remain in the spiritual teaching of the Bible, comparing spiritual things with spiritual, and not slide into man's wisdom and philosophy.
Applying these questions in the Bible study of the Godhead versus the Trinity we find the following.
The word “Trinity” is never used in the Bible, but the word “Godhead” is (Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20, Colossians 2:9).
All formulations of the Trinity imply the description of God as different Persons, either with the use of the base word "person" or without it and instead with the use of words like "individual", "character", "entity", "figure" and so on. Unless the existence of a person is explicitly denied, every use of the base word "person" implies a person. Most importantly, when enquired for the meaning of the base word "person", those formulations of the Trinity that don't use the base word "person" will imply the meaning of the base word "person" through the application of man's wisdom and philosophy.
Therefore, as a first step it is necessary to look at how the Bible uses the base word "person", including all its inflections and derivatives. Please look up what a base word, its inflections and derivatives are. Examples of inflections and derivatives of the base word "person" include but are not limited to the words "person", "persons", "personal", "personality", "personify" and "personification".
The following is the listing of all Bible verses where the base word "person" appears, including all its inflections and derivatives:
Genesis 14:21, Genesis 36:6, Genesis 39:6, Exodus 12:48, Exodus 16:16, Leviticus 19:15, Leviticus 27:2, Numbers 5:6, Numbers 19:17, Numbers 19:18, Numbers 19:19, Numbers 19:22, Numbers 31:19, Numbers 31:28, Numbers 31:30, Numbers 31:35, Numbers 31:40, Numbers 31:46, Numbers 35:11, Numbers 35:15, Numbers 35:30, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 10:22, Deuteronomy 15:22, Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 27:25, Deuteronomy 28:50, Joshua 20:3, Joshua 20:9, Judges 9:2, Judges 9:4, Judges 9:5, Judges 9:18, Judges 20:39, 1 Samuel 9:2, 1 Samuel 9:22, 1 Samuel 16:18, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Samuel 22:22, 1 Samuel 25:35, 2 Samuel 4:11, 2 Samuel 14:14, 2 Samuel 17:11, 2 Kings 10:6, 2 Kings 10:7, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Job 13:8, Job 13:10, Job 22:29, Job 32:21, Job 34:19, Psalms 15:4, Psalms 26:4, Psalms 49:10, Psalms 82:2, Psalms 101:4, Psalms 105:37, Proverbs 6:12, Proverbs 12:11, Proverbs 18:5, Proverbs 24:8, Proverbs 24:23, Proverbs 28:17, Proverbs 28:19, Proverbs 28:21, Isaiah 32:5, Isaiah 32:6, Jeremiah 43:6, Jeremiah 52:25, Jeremiah 52:29, Jeremiah 52:30, Lamentations 4:16, Ezekiel 16:5, Ezekiel 17:17, Ezekiel 27:13, Ezekiel 33:6, Ezekiel 44:25, Daniel 11:21, Jonah 4:11, Zephaniah 3:4, Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:9, Matthew 22:16, Matthew 27:24, Mark 12:14, Luke 15:7, Luke 20:21, Acts 10:34, Acts 17:17, Romans 2:11, 1 Corinthians 5:13, 2 Corinthians 1:11, 2 Corinthians 2:10, Galatians 2:6, Ephesians 5:5, Ephesians 6:9, Colossians 3:25, 1 Timothy 1:10, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 12:16, James 2:1, James 2:9, 1 Peter 1:17, 2 Peter 2:5, 2 Peter 3:11, Jude 1:16
In every instance, the Bible uses the base word "person", either as the singular word "person" to describe a single person or as the plural word "persons" to describe multiple persons, while each person is described as:
- always one single person with one single body that is visible to the human eye
- never a person without a body
- never a person with a body that is not visible to the human eye
- never multiple persons with the same single body
- never one single person with multiple bodies
In the Bible, the Trinity's way of using the base word "person" does not occur.
It is important at this point to remember again to be comparing spiritual things with spiritual (1 Corinthians 2:13-14) to remain within the spiritual teaching of the Bible, particularly when the Bible speaks of the things of the Spirit of God, particularly the Godhead. And it is important to remember that the Bible warns against and teaches not to adopt a conception of the Godhead that is based on man's wisdom and philosophies (1 Corinthians 2:13-14, Romans 1:22-23, Colossians 2:8, Acts 17:29).
The following examples show that the Trinity is a form of applying man's wisdom and philosophies to the things of the Spirit of God, particularly to the Godhead, and the consequences thereof:
John 14:8-9
Even the inner circle around Jesus Christ struggled with precisely this conception of the Godhead that is based on man's wisdom and philosophy (John 14:8-9). This is also the case with Philip, who asks Jesus Christ to show them the Father (John 14:8). Because Philip sees Jesus Christ's body, his request shows that he believes the Father to be a different Person than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's answer to Philip shows that Philip does not know Jesus Christ because he requests Jesus Christ, Who is bodily visible to Philip, to show them the Father (John 14:9). But Jesus Christ's answer also shows that He expects a Christian who follows Him to know Him (John 14:9).
Galatians 3:13
When Jesus Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, this could not happen by destroying the law but only in fulfillment of the law, because God is not a liar and must keep His word (Proverbs 8:7-8).
Therefore, it is written that Jesus Christ came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17), and that Jesus Christ came not to do His own will but to do the Father's will which has sent Him (John 6:38-40).
However, it is also written that everyone that hangeth on a tree is cursed (Galatians 3:13). But how then could Jesus Christ redeem us from the curse of the law if He hanged on a tree and the law cannot be destroyed?
The only way was Jesus Christ being made a curse for us (Galatians 3:13), and this can never be undone, as the law cannot be destroyed because God is not a liar (Proverbs 8:7-8).
When we acknowledge that in Jesus Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9), God is only one Person, that is Jesus Christ, while the Father is Spirit dwelling in Jesus Christ (John 14:8-10, John 17:21-23), revealing God Himself being made a curse for us to redeem us from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13).
This shows the ultimate act of God's love for us (Ephesians 5:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:16, 1 John 4:10, Revelation 1:5) and perfectly agrees with John 17:23 stating that the Father has loved us as He has loved Jesus Christ.
However, applying the Trinity here, which is to describe God as different Persons, implies the distinct Person of the Father and the distinct Person of Jesus Christ.
This would mean that the Person of Jesus Christ was being made a curse for us, but not the Person of the Father, because applying the Trinity implies that only the Person of Jesus Christ had hanged on a tree and not the Person of the Father (1 John 4:10).
This would make the Person of the Father child sacrificing and therefore less loving of the Person of Jesus Christ, which stands in violation of John 17:23 stating that the Father has loved us as He has loved Jesus Christ.
Therefore, it is revealed here that the Trinity perverts the Gospel into Molech worship (Leviticus 18:21) which is an abomination in God's sight (1 Kings 11:6-7). This again shows the danger of applying man's wisdom and philosophies to the things of the Spirit of God, particularly to the Godhead.
Preliminary End of Study
This study is to be continued, including but not limited to the use of the following Bible verses:
The Bible describes that a human being consists of spirit, soul and body as Paul is addressing the Thessalonians, and the Thessalonians are human beings (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
In the Bible a human is also described as a person.
Jesus Christ is described as the express image of God's Person (Hebrews 1:3)
Paul speaks of the person of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:10)
Pilate describes Jesus as a Person (Matthew 27:24)
Jesus Christ is born in the flesh and is conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of Mary (Matthew 1:20). No ovum or sperm is involved in the conception of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is a Man (has a body in the likeness of men) but He is not a human (Philippians 2:7).
Jesus Christ has always existed as a Man. He had to be born in the flesh to fulfill the law of the Old Testament.
Jesus Christ is God.
God created humans in his own image after his likeness (Genesis 1:26-27).
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