Page 44 - Elohim - Almighty Godhead

SELAH! THINK ON THIS!

Dear reader, it is quite ludicrous to think that when the Father spoke from heaven
saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” (Matt. 17:5),
that He was in essence saying, “This is (Me in the role of) My beloved Son, in whom
I am well pleased. Hear (Me) as I speak (as) Him”? If we are indeed to embrace a
literal “three-in-one God,” then that is what is being conveyed! How is this concept
able to make us “one as He is one” with the Father?
In addition, we would have to believe that Jesus, in stating of the Father (which He
would really be saying of Himself) things like, “The Father loves the Son, and shows
Him all things that He Himself does” (Jn. 5:20). Think about it dear saint! If the
Father and the Son are one and the same God, this phrase has no real meaning for
us! It would also be meaningless for Jesus to teach us, “I do not seek My own will,
but the will of the Father who sent Me” (Jn. 5:30), if indeed the Son is in reality the
Father! If He is the Father as well as the Son, then of course He would do His will-
they are one and the same! Rather, the real lesson being conveyed is that we are
being presented with TWO WILLS of two different members of the Godhead that are
functioning together in perfect UNITY and ONENESS with one another! Jesus is
teaching His disciples how they too can function in unity and oneness! It is a
meaningless illustration if the Father and the Son are really one and the same person.

AM I MAKING YOUR HEAD HURT?

Then be encouraged by this needful exhortation from
Evangelist/teacher Charles Grandison Finney:

Charles Grandison Finney “LET NO ONE DESPAIR
1792-1875 IN COMMENCING THIS BOOK,
NOR STUMBLE AT THE DEFINITIONS,
(Presbyterian minister and leader THINKING HE CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND
in the Second Great Awakening
SO ABSTRUSE A SUBJECT…
in the United States. MY BROTHER,
He has been called th`e SISTER FRIEND-
"Father of Old Revivalism.”)
READ, STUDY, THINK
TO DEVELOP YOUR POWERS

BY STUDY.
GOD DESIGNED THAT RELIGION

SHOULD REQUIRE THOUGHT,
INTENSE THOUGHT,

AND SHOULD THOROUGHLY DEVELOP
OUR POWERS OF THOUGHT.

THE BIBLE ITSELF IS WRITTEN IN
A STYLE SO CONDENSED AS TO REQUIRE

MUCH INTENSE STUDY.
MANY KNOW NOTHING
OF THE BIBLE OR OF RELIGION,
BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT THINK AND STUDY.
I DO NOT PRETEND TO
SO EXPLAIN THEOLOGY AS TO

DISPENSE WITH THE
LABOR OF THINKING.”

44 (SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY-
PREFACE, PAGE 9- CHARLES FINNEY)