Here is my explanation and perspective…
In the Godhead, as revealed in the scriptures, there is Person of the Father, the Person of the Son, and the Person of the Holy Spirit. All are co-eternal, co-equal and share equal glory, majesty and power. None is before or after another or greater or less than another. The Son is not inferior to the Father… but each have different roles and the Son chooses submit to the Father’s will. Jesus (the Son), the second Person of the Triune Godhead was the One who, although coexistent and co-eternal with the Father, voluntarily submitted Himself to take on human nature. In His meek and humble human existence and position, the Son lived in total obedience to His Father, as stated in
Philippians 2:6-6…
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
A TRUE GOD CANNOT become anything than what He IS. A true God is not changeable - cannot ‘Become’… is IMMUTABLE.
Do you believe that Jesus is IMMUTABLE?
Did Jesus ‘Become’ anything than what he always was:
- ‘I am he who WAS DEAD… BUT is NOW eternally alive!’
- ‘After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.’ (Hebrews 1:3)
Jesus ‘sat down at the right hand of the Majesty’. Who is ‘the Majesty’ that Jesus ‘sat down’ with?
What does it mean to be at someone’s ‘Right hand’? Does it imply EQUALITY?
So, while Jesus, the Son has voluntarily chosen to put Himself in a lower position and in complete submission to His Father for the salvation of humanity, that does not make Him lesser than or unequal to His Father.
Is a Son not ALWAYS in subjection to his Father?
And, how are you saying that ‘Neither is before or after another’ yet you say that the Father is FIRST PERSON of the so-called ‘Godhead’.
How can there be a ‘First, Second, and Third’ person if there is no rank order since all three are CO-EQUAL???
You seem to be redefining the meaning of the word ‘EQUAL’!
I do not believe at all He will be receiving or ruling a “lesser kingdom” and I’m not sure what you mean by that.
Are you suggesting that the Kingdom of Heaven is EQUAL to the kingdom of the creation?
Isn’t the created kingdom world like “
a room in the [Mansion] kingdom of the Father”?
I believe the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are working out and accomplishing their perfect plan in complete unity. As planned, Jesus will literally rule the Millennial Kingdom on earth from Jerusalem in unison with His Father and Holy Spirit and after in the eternal new heaven and earth.
Jesus Christ… is working to accomplish the perfect plan OF THE FATHER.
‘The Father has put all things into the hands of the Son’.
You seem to be a bit confused in what the Scriptures says. It is true that Jesus Christ is ruling in his millennial rulership BUT IT IS THE PLAN OF THE FATHER that he should do so.
The Holy Spirit is only AN INSTRUMENT that Jesus uses to accomplish what the Father has planned for him to do.
The Holy Spirit TAKES FROM WHAT JESUS HAS and gives it to the believers. If the Spirit takes from Jesus, how is the Spirit EQUAL to Jesus?
And Jesus is GRANTED what he has from the Father…. How is Jesus EQUAL to the Father?
Do you see that THE ONLY ONE who does not change, neither gains, nor gives away anything AT ALL AT ANY TIME is THE FATHER!
Guess what? The Father says of himself:
- ‘YHWH is my name off all eternity’
- ‘I AM He was, is, and ALWAYS WILL BE’ (Immutable, Eternal, Everlastingly GOD)
I think you should read your Bible a little more closely and stop listening to trinity church fallacy doctrine.
By the way, there is no such word or term as “Godhead” in scriptures. It’s what you have been misled to believe. The trinity had to try to find a way of claiming that God is three. I see what you quoted from a trinity creed above but if is not true at all.
The term, “God-Head”, is purposely MISTRANSLATED for the trinity purpose. The verse it is mistranslated from said that:
- “God was pleased that he [Jesus] SHOULD BE FILLED WITH THE FULLNESS’
This was when Jesus was anointed
WITH the Spirit of God at the river Jordan. You know the event well from scriptures… GOD spoke from Heaven in glory saying:
- “THIS is my Son in whom I am WELL PLEASED!!!’
Isaiah 42:1 expresses it more succinctly:
- “Behold MY SERVANT, MY CHOSEN ONE in whom I AM WELL PLEASED! I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT ON HIM and he shall fulfil all my desires’
It is THE SPIRIT OF GOD which GOD was pleased to FILL THE SON with.
Two questions:
1) What do YOU understand by the term, ‘
God-Head’?
2) HOW do you believe that Jesus was “
Filled with the GOD-HEAD”?