1: In the beginning God[1]
created the heaven
and the earth
[1] ELOHIYM:
All
references to “God” in Genesis chapter one are Strong’s Hebrew reference 430,
“Elohiym”). The word refers to more than two (Dr. Walter
Martin/Ankerberg 1985?). There is a word in Hebrew that refers to more than one
but not more than two, but Elohiym is not that word. The word “Elohiym, is a
reference to the Triune Godhead. Genesis 1:1 specifically tells us that it is
the Triune God--the Godhead---who created all things (Isaiah
44:24, 45:18, John 1:3,10). This is the first Biblical evidence that Jesus is
Jehovah—God Almighty—and not simply a subordinate that God “used” to create all
things (Watchtower Society teaches that Jehovah created Jesus and then used him
to create all other things. Scripture does not substantiate their claims).
According to Philippians 2:10-11, which is a New Testament quote of Jehovah who
is speaking in Isaiah 45:23, Jesus is
the LORD GOD—Yahweh Elohiym—of
Genesis1-3. That is the first Biblical reference to the Godhead which resides
in Jesus in physical form (Colossians 2:9). We serve a Triune God who is one. The Holy of Holies literally means
the Holy place of the Holy Ones—i.e., the Godhead (Dr. William Cooke).
Do we understand how God can be three yet be one? No, we do not. It is as
impossible for man to analyze and pry apart the Godhead as it would be to
attempt to separate the soul and spirit; only God has sufficient understanding
and power to accomplish such a thing in His triune personage and yet remain
one. It is sin to theologically transform the Triune Godhead into a hierarchal,
idolatrous, triad. Just so, it is sin to theologically turn the holy, one
flesh, relationship of marriage into a hierarchal duo with a god-man at the
helm. Man-made hierarchies accomplish nothing less than the conversion of
triune into triad and one flesh into duo...
