The Godhead - God
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God is a family |
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Herbert W.
Armstrong taught that God is a family. Here is what he wrote: ‘This former
Lucifer, who became Satan, has so cleverly DECEIVED all humanity that almost
no one today knows that God is, actually, a
Divine FAMILY. One Family. God IS
a Family. That Family is ONE GOD. Satan has deceived people into almost every
other belief. Perhaps the largest number have been deceived into believing
God is a “trinity” -- God in THREE persons -- LIMITING God to three persons
and misrepresenting the HOLY SPIRIT, which flows from God and from Christ, to
be a single person’ (Herbert W. Armstrong, The Incredible Human Potential, Pasadena, California, 1978, pages
61-62). This family presently consists of two separate individuals, the
Father and His Son Jesus Christ, excluding the Holy Spirit (for the Holy
Spirit is not a Divine Person but a force, according to Armstrong). However,
the day is coming when this God-family will comprise all the ‘resurrected’ or
‘born again’ children of God, for those who are Christ’s at
the ‘resurrection’ will be born again into membership in the God-family:
‘When the Church, by a resurrection or instantaneous change from mortal to immortal (from physical to spirit
composition) becomes the Spirit-composed children of God, Christ will marry
the Church which shall become His wife. So we have Father, Son, wife, and
children of the Father -- all a FAMILY relationship -- the Divine God
Family!’ (Ibid., page 17) |
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Confutation |
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First of
all, it must be said that the Holy Spirit is not a force but a Person, for He
speaks (Acts 8:29), teaches (John 14:26), guides (John 16:13), prays (Romans
8:26-27); furthermore, He can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30), can be lied to
(Acts 5:3), can be resisted (Acts 7:51), and can be tempted (Acts 5:9). |
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Secondly,
the Holy Spirit is God, for He is eternal like the Father (Hebrews |
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Thirdly,
the Godhead consists of three Divine Persons, who are the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit; that is to say, the Godhead is a Trinity (Matthew 3:13-17;
John 14:15-17; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14; ). |
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Will those
who are Christ’s become members of the Godhead when they are raised from the
dead? No, they won’t, for those who are Christ’s will never become God. What
will happen at the resurrection then? At the resurrection all Christians will
receive an immortal, incorruptible, and glorious body like the body of Jesus
Christ, thus they will possess a form like Christ’s own form (Philippians |
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Let no one
of the followers of Herbert Armstrong deceive you with empty words. |