Head knowledge

David Reid continues from the same study: “The three persons of the godhead allow God to testify fully and completely, according to His standard of proof, that He exists, without being dependent on anything else in creation. If there was only one God in one person He couldn’t do that. Apparently there’s a divine design to the universe that reflects the character of God Himself.

“The godhead has to exist with one God in three persons for God to be able to bear fully accurate testimony of Himself without being dependent on anything else in the universe. This allows God to be complete by Himself.

“God didn’t need us to give Himself someone to love. What our role is we have the privilege, honor and the incredible grace of God to participate in the love that already existed between the three members of the godhead before the world began.

“The beauty of tying your terminology and your phrasing and vocabulary to the Word of God is you can always come back to the source and figure out whether you’re right or not. The use of extra-biblical terms cannot lead anywhere else but to confusion. It’s just bound to happen. The scriptural word for ‘trinity’ is godhead.

“Guess how many times the word godhead appears in scripture? Three. Isn’t that interesting. You’d almost think there was a design intelligence that inspired it and put it that way. If believe coincidences like that are coincidences, my personal opinion is you’re naïve.

“They’re not coincidences. They’re there because in the divine intelligence of God that’s the way it’s been designed.

“I would suggest to you that if all you believed were those three verses and nothing else it would rule out all the other religions of the world as to the godhead.

Acts 17:29. What that verse tells you is the godhead is fundamentally different from the dumb gods of this world that are carved, made by human hands. It tells you how to think about the molten calf in Exodus, for example.

“Romans 1:18. The first thing that verse tells you is that God’s wrath has been revealed. Does mankind have an awareness of that? Yes, they do. Is the truth elusive, difficult to find and has to be searched out, or is it so close you can actually grip it?

“The first part of the verse tells you it’s a revealed fact that God has wrath against ungodliness. They hold that truth in the midst of unrighteousness, so what that means is man has a keen understanding that he is at enmity with God.

“Verse 19 is a problem for the lost man. What they learn is God has power. If God didn’t have any power, but He had all sorts of wrath against sin, no one would care. The verse indicates the godhead is known to man.

“Daniel 3:24. What do the modern versions do in that passage? They change it so that it’s the lowercase ‘son’; in fact they change it to ‘a son of the gods,’ but that’s not what it says. It’s the capital Son of God.

“What Romans 19 said is that ‘being understood by the things that are made’ included God’s eternal power in the godhead and Daniel 3:25 is just a proof of that. Nebuchadnezzar looks into the fire and what does he think he sees? The Son of God, who is in fact, there! Is Nebuchadnezzar a Bible-believing, Pauline, mid-Acts dispensationalist? NO.

“And yet what happened is when he sees that individual there you can tell by what he says that he has a knowledge that God has a Son. It’s clear as can be!”