In this world people can find lots of gods and many people who say they worship God, but when talking about that God, often they do not know His Name or give different titles and suddenly seem to speak about three different characters, namely a God the Father, god the son and God the Holy Spirit, which looks more like three gods, though they claim to be monotheists or worshippers of one god.

Of a monotheist religion one would expect that the people belonging to such a monotheist faith would adhere only one godhead and not a dual or three-headed god.

Looking at the God of Christians

When we want to look at the God of the Christians we can see that there seem to be several sorts of Christians who also worship different gods. There are Christians who have a male and others a female god. Others speak of a dual god, one being the Father and the other the son. Though the majority of those so-called Christians love to see a godhead close to them but still very different. For them there had to be a god who could be seen and he had to be man and god together because otherwise he could not save us.

Looking at the God the Father

Certain aspects of God accepted by all denominations

In the different groups of Christendom which speak of a God the Father we can find that they all say God is eternal or everlasting, omnipotent and omniscient. According to all the Christian denominations He is the Most High Supreme Creating Ruler Being.

Eternal and everlasting God

According to the Scriptures the Divine Creator God was already there when there was only a void. The nature of God according to the Bible is "everlasting", Him having no birth and no death.

“Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” (Ps 90:2 NAS95)

“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, {Jehovah} the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.” (Isa 40:28 NAS95)

Invisible Living God - without flesh, bones or blood

“But {Jehovah} the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.” (Jer 10:10 NAS95)

For the citizens of Christadelphia, the city of Christ, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah God is the Real Thing — the living God, the eternal King. This is totally out of our possibilities. Man is mortal, has a birth and shall die. Also with our mind we are limited. We have to learn everything and by the end of our life we still do not know enough. Immortality belongs only to God, Who also decides over life and death. Jehovah God is the Giver and Taker or Source of life.

“For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.” (Ps 36:9 NAS95)

An other contrast with human beings, who are created in the image of God, is that man is visible and has flesh, whilst God is a Spirit, having no flesh, bones or blood and is invisible.

“Now the Egyptians are men and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So the LORD will stretch out His hand, And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.” (Isa 31:3 NAS95)

“But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!"” (Ex 33:20 NAS95)

“"Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen."” (Ex 33:23 NAS95)

“"You said, ’Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives.” (De 5:24 NAS95)

“ In faith Moses departed Egypt without fearing the king's anger, for he persisted greatly as seeing the Invisible One.” (Heb 11:27 mhm)

“ No one has ever seen God. The only-begotten god, favored by the Father, explains Him.” (Joh 1:18 mhm)

“ The God is Pneuma, and those worshipping Him must of necessity worship spiritually and in harmony with Truth.”” (Joh 4:24 mhm)

“ But, the Supreme Being is the Pneuma, and where the Supreme Being's Pneuma–freedom!” (2Co 3:17 mhm)

“ Now, to the King of all future periods of time–incorruptible, invisible, absolute God –honor and glory throughout all future periods of time! Amen!” (1Ti 1:17 mhm)

“ the only one having immortality who dwells in unapproachable Light, whom no one among humans has seen nor is able to see–to whom be honor and endless power. Amen!” (1Ti 6:16 mhm)

Incorruptible immortal God

It is remarkable that in these descriptions the two most explicit terms about God's nature are expressed as negatives. He is "incorruptible" (not corrupting) and "immortal" (not dying).

God has a "nature" the direct opposite of "human flesh". So He is "eternal", literally "of the ages" (R.V. margin). It is significant that Paul uses this term three times in one verse: "... to the King eternal (of the ages) ... be glory for ever and ever" (unto the ages of the ages -- R.V. margin). How impressed he must have been with the thought of the everlasting nature of God.

Supremacy of the Greatest God

The sheer supremacy of God and the glory which should be ascribed to Him by puny mankind is a constant theme throughout Scripture. It was well expressed by David, King of Israel:

“10 So David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, "Blessed are You, O LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever. 11 "Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.” (1Ch 29:10-11 NAS95)

Several writers of the words of God expressed their awe for God, Whom they considered as the God of Israel, our father from of old and forever Who should be exalted and praised by all. All the world shall have to come to know that it is That God Who is the Greatest and to Whom belong the greatness and the might, the glory, the victory, the majesty, the splendor. That God is head over all.
We do well to read slowly through these terms to appreciate David's profound sense of the majestic supremacy of God.

This deep conviction of God's supreme majesty is shared by all the faithful of Old Testament times. For Christadelphians the Old Testament is not to be neglected. It should be bringing the base for our faith. The New Testament is just making everything clear what was told or prophesied in the Old Books.

Books revealing God and His possession

Those books written long before the birth of Jesus, give us insight into that God, Who was also worshipped by Jesus and his apostles. Jesus also based his teachings on those scrolls all the Jews had to their disposal. In them are revealed the foundations of the character of God, basic truths about Him which are confirmed and expanded in the New Testament. Furthermore it was to Israel that was granted the great revelation of God's supremacy over all the gods of mankind in the stirring events of their Exodus from Egypt. The Israelites saw the effects of the plagues upon the Egyptians and witnessed their own deliverance at the crossing of the Red Sea. Moses put it very strikingly 40 years later:

“32 "Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? 33 "Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? 34 "Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?” (De 4:32-34 NAS95)

Upon this open demonstration of His power and salvation on their behalf, God based His appeal for their service towards Him:

“4 ’You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself. 5 ’Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;” (Ex 19:4-5 NAS95)

With that knowledge that the earth belongs to God, we consider ourselves as tenants of God's domain. Though we are also aware that we live in a time where the world belongs to the adversaries of God. The majority of people having forgotten Who God is and that He is The Only Real or True God.

No other gods besides Jehovah God

“5 "I am {Jehovah} the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; 6 That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other,” (Isa 45:5-6 NAS95)

“"Remember the former things long past, For I {Jehovah} am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,” (Isa 46:9 NAS95)

“Thus says the LORD, "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and will be yours; They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow down to you; They will make supplication to you: ’Surely, God is with you, and there is none else, No other God.’"” (Isa 45:14 NAS95)

“For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else.” (Isa 45:18 NAS95)

“"Declare and set forth your case;Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me.” (Isa 45:21 NAS95)

Name of the God saying "I Am that I Am"

That One God made His Name also known, letting everybody know that He is the Being, without Him there is no being.

“God said to Moshe, "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh," (I am/will be what I am/will be) and added, "Here is what to say to the people of Isra’el: ‘Ehyeh (I Am or I Will Be) has sent me to you.’” (Ex 3:14 CJB)

“I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.” (Isa 42:8 ASV)

Therefor in the places where you shall find Christadelphians you shall not find pictures of God, nor of other gods, idols or saints in their housed of prayer. When they speak about God they always shal have it about Jehovah their only One True God. We also believe that when we call unto Jehovah God, we shall be able to be saved.

“Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” (Ex 20:7 ASV)

“ For, “Everyone who ever calls upon the name of YHWH will be saved.” (Ro 10:13 mhm)

“4 Now, therefore, about the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we realize that an idol is nothing in humanity's social order. We know that there is no God if not One. 5 Additionally, if even there are those said to be gods–whether in heaven or upon earth–even as there are many gods and many lords– 6 but to us there is one God and Father, from whom everything originates and we for Him; and there is one Master Jesus Christ, by whose agency everything originated, and we by means of him.” (1Co 8:4-6 mhm)

Keeping to One God and one master

In the New Testament the Apostle Paul recognises the existence of many cults and pagan gods and warns how followers of Christ should abstain of such false worship. He gives a a resounding declaration of the unity of the various aspects of the Christian faith, all depending on the "one God".

“4 For there is one Body and one Pneuma – even as you were called in one hope of your calling– 5 one Master, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of everyone. The One who is over all, through all, and in all.” (Eph 4:4-6 mhm)

God not telling lies and not changing

The whole Bible is full of Words coming from that One God, Who shall make Himself Great. His Words should be known and should be believed.

“I will set apart my great name to be regarded as holy, since it has been profaned in the nations -- you profaned it among them. The nations will know that I am {Jehovah} ADONAI, ’says ADONAI ELOHIM, ‘when, before their eyes, I am set apart through you to be regarded as holy.” (Eze 36:23 CJB)

““ADONAI, God! You made heaven and earth by your great power and outstretched arm; nothing is too hard for you.” (Jer 32:17 CJB)

““With God are wisdom and power; he has (good) counsel and understanding.” (Job 12:13 CJB)

“ so that by means of two unchangeable things–regarding which it is impossible for God to lie–we who have fled to the refuge–may have strong encouragement to grab hold of the Hope set before us.” (Heb 6:18 mhm)

That God Who never tells lies, which means He always tells the truth, is a God Who does not change. He was, is and always shall be the same.

““But because I, ADONAI, do not change, you sons of Ya‘akov will not be destroyed.” (Mal 3:6 CJB)

““You are my witnesses,” says ADONAI, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you can know and trust me and understand that I am he—no god was produced before me, nor will any be after me.” (Isa 43:10 CJB)

“ Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from Above, descending from the Father of Lights with whom there is not the variation of a shadow's turning.” (Jas 1:17 mhm)

God the Father versus god the son

That God never changes is a very important aspect of his qualities which is often forgotten by many who call themselves Christian. This will becoe clear when we look at how they treat Jesus Christ or how theri saying that Jesus is God does not fit all the most important things that are said about God.

When looking at Jesus

Jesus began a life on earth and ended it with his death

First of all when we come to the figure of Christ, we find lots of prophesies or predictions that there would be a man born in the city of David (Bethlehem) approved of God, coming to the world to save mankind.

When the time came, we are told that a young girl received a message that she found favour by God and would be with child.

“30 Then the angel Gabriel said to Mary: “Do not be frightened, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And, behold, you will conceive in your womb and will give birth to a son, and you will give him the name Jesus. 32 He will become a renowned person and will be called a son of the Most High. YHWH The God will give to him David's throne, 33 and he will reign over Jacob's House throughout the Ages. There will never be an end to his kingdom.” 34 But in response Mary said to the angel Gabriel: “How can this be since I have never known a man?” 35 So the angel answered her: “Holy Pneuma will come over you and the Most High's power will overshadow you. As a result the One to be born will be also called Holy, God's Son.” (Lu 1:30-35 mhm)

From the books of the New Testament we learn that Jesus got born as a baby of flesh, and later on we learn he had also bones and blood, all things God does not have. Though, lots of Christians say that Jesus is God, namely that he would be god the son.

When Jesus is God, they should wonder if God changed Himself to come unto the earth to fake His temptation, because God cannot be tempted, but Christ Jesus was tempted more than once.

Jesus was bullied and even tortured to death, whilst Scripture tells us no man can do God something, nor kill Him. God, as an eternal Spirit Being cannot die, so if Jesus is God he would have faked that death and then you should wonder what all the use it was to let people wait such a lot of time before doing this. Also we then can question why we should still wait so many years after bringing that theatrical act of faking his death and resurrection and saying we are saved, but still going on so many bad things. What would be the value of that theatrical act of God for us, when God lets us still suffer?!

A not all-knowing god the son

We also saw how God knows everything, but when we look at Jesus we hear that he had to be brought up and had to learn everything, like any other child has to learn. When Jesus got older, there were also several things he said he did not know, because (according to him) it is only given to God to know when things would happen or to decide who could be seated next to Jesus, in God's Kingdom.

“ “But, about that day and hour no one knows neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son but only the Father.” (Mt 24:36 mhm)

“ “Now concerning that day or hour no one knows–not the angels of heaven, nor even the Son–but only the Father.” (Mr 13:32 mhm)

If Jesus is God then he would never have changed and would always have known everything. But then, when he would know when it would take place, and told them he could not know, than he did not tell the truth, and as such told a lie. Also, on other occasions when he said he did not know a certain thing he would have lied when he is God.

When God the Father is Greater than the god Jesus

Also when Jesus said God is greater which mean he would be lesser than God, then this would be a lie again when he is that Greatest Instructor God.

“ You apostles heard that I said to you, ‘I am departing and I am returning to you apostles.’ If you loved me you would certainly rejoice, because I am going toward the Father, because the Father is greater than me.” (Joh 14:28 mhm)

Also when Jesus would be God then it would be strange that he says he cannot do anything without God or without seeing God at work.

“ Therefore, Jesus answered them: “I tell you this truth: The Son is unable to do anything from himself unless he sees something the Father is doing. For whatever that One may do, it is possible the Son also may do likewise.” (Joh 5:19 mhm)

Strange also when Jesus is God, that he would be lower to himself, without having being changed. Strange also that he would have to subject to himself. How can a person do that?

We may not forget that the apostle Paul let us know that we are all under God’s rule, without exception. For him and the other disciples of Jesus it was clear that Jesus prayed to the God of Israel (Who is one) and that their master, the son of God will step down, subjecting to God, taking his place with everyone else, showing that God’s rule is absolutely comprehensive — a perfect ending!

“ But, whenever everything will also be subjected to the Son, he himself will subject himself to the One who subjected everything to him, so that The God may be everything to everyone.” (1Co 15:28 mhm)

When we hear that the Father loves the Son extravagantly is this then Jesus who loves himself? When Jesus is God did he turn everything over to himself before being able to give things to the people?

“ The Father continues to love the Son and has given everything into his hand.” (Joh 3:35 mhm)

Jesus going to himself and being his own goal

The apostles heard Jesus telling he was going away, and would be coming back. He further spoke about going to God, but he himself is God according to the trinitarians, so he would go to himself?!

What would be their opinion be if a person tells them they themselves are the most important issue in their life? Jesus tells us that God is the Most High, the Most Important and he would be on his way to the Father because the Father (Who is God and Who would be Jesus according many) would be greater and be the goal and purpose of Jesus his life.

“ You apostles heard that I said to you, ‘I am departing and I am returning to you apostles.’ If you loved me you would certainly rejoice, because I am going toward the Father, because the Father is greater than me.” (Joh 14:28 mhm)

When being in Union with Jesus and with God does this mean we would, also like Christ, be God?

The majority of Christians claim that because Jesus was or is one or in union with his heavenly Father that this meant he is God. They overlook we too should be one with Christ like Jesus is one with God.

Lots of people do forget that real followers of Christ Jesus are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God. We belong to Jesus Christ, who in turn belongs to God. When he would be God this would mean that he belongs to himself and would be his own head. (?!?)

“ But, all of you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.” (1Co 3:23 mhm)

“ You Corinthians look at things according to their face value. If anyone has self-assurance as belonging to Christ, let him consider this himself, that just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also.” (2Co 10:7 mhm)

“ However, I wish all of you to know that the head of every male is the Christ, but the head of a woman is the male, and the Head of the Christ is The God.” (1Co 11:3 mhm)

God declared Jesus to be His son

In case we should believe that God does not tell lies, we should take His word for the truth. Why then do so many, who claim to be Christian, do not accept that Jesus is the son of God, instead being god the son?

We should take God His Words for what He says, and when He says Jesus is His only begotten beloved son, we should believe that Jesus is the son of God and not God having been incarnated to fake His temptation, death and resurrection out of the dead.

God declared Jesus to be His only begotten beloved approved son or servant-boy, and that is what we should believe if we want to call ourselves Christian, it is: follower of Christ. God does not delight in Himself but in His son to whom God shall give him spirit.

“ Look! a Voice out of the Sky, saying, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”” (Mt 3:17 mhm)

“ “Look! My servant-boy whom I chose, My beloved in whom My soul delights! Upon him I will place My Pneuma. He will announce justice to the nations. (Mt 12:18 mhm)

“ John further testified: “I saw the Pneuma–like a dove–descending from the sky and it remained upon him.” (Joh 1:32 mhm)

“ Then a Voice came from the sky, saying: “You are My beloved Son whom I approve.”” (Mr 1:11 mhm)

Not only do we have to listen to God and accept what He says, God also demands us to listen to His beloved son who is the chosen one, confirmed by God.

“ Yet while Peter was talking, look! a shining cloud rested over them, and, look! a Voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son whom I approve–listen to him.”” (Mt 17:5 mhm)

“ and the holy Pneuma descended upon Jesus in the bodily shape of a dove. Then a Voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son! I confirm you!”” (Lu 3:22 mhm)

“ And a Voice came from the cloud, saying: “This is my Son, the Chosen One–listen to him!”” (Lu 9:35 mhm)

Jesus did not receive honour and grace from himself but from the Only One True God Who let us know that Jesus is His son His beloved about who God thinks well.

“ For he had received from God the Father honor and glory when a Voice occurred to him by the Magnificent Glory: “This is My Son, My Beloved, of whom I have thought well.” (2Pe 1:17 mhm)

Jesus who died to show God's righteousness and to redeem those who receive this sacrifice by faith

God can not die but Jesus did. God can not tell lies, but Jesus coudl. Jesus always did the Will of God and by keeping to God's commandments never did wrong and, as such, Jesus was sinless.

Jesus died to show God's righteousness and to redeem those who receive this sacrificial offering by faith, believing that Jesus paid the ransom for our sins. By God accpting that ransom offering we can receive salvation and have hope for a better life.

“ Just as the Son of Humankind came not to be served but to serve and to sacrifice his soul as a ransom in the place of many.”” (Mt 20:28 mhm)

“ The One having given himself a substitutionary ransom on behalf of all–and that Testimony in its own season!” (1Ti 2:6 mhm)

“ Jesus Christ gave himself on our behalf that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and also might cleanse for himself a people as his possession, zealous for good works.” (Tit 2:14 mhm)

“ And just so, also, the Christ–having sacrificed himself once to bear the sins of many–will become visible a second time (apart from sin) to those earnestly awaiting him for their salvation.” (Heb 9:28 mhm)

“ However, after this Person approached with a single sacrifice accomplishing the covering of sins perpetually, he sat down at the right hand of The God.” (Heb 10:12 mhm)

After having been three days in hell (the grave) God raised Jesus from the dead, gave him immortality, granted him all authority in heaven and on earth, and set him as the mediator between God and men.

“19 and what the tremendous strength of His power is through us who believe–by means of the energy of His ruling power, 20 which He exercised in raising up Christ from the dead, seating him at His right hand in the Celestialum, 21 over and above every hierarchy and authority and power and lordship and every name named–not only in this time period but also in the New Age to come– 22 everything God subjected under the feet of Jesus and gave him headship over everything to the Church, 23 which is his Body–the One who completely fulfills everything in everyone.” (Eph 1:19-23 mhm)

“5 For, there is one God! Also one mediator of humans–a human, Christ Jesus. 6 The One having given himself a substitutionary ransom on behalf of all–and that Testimony in its own season!” (1Ti 2:5-6 mhm)

“14 Having, therefore, a great High Priest who has ascended through the heavens–Jesus the Son of The God–we must keep holding firmly onto our confession of him. 15 For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but rather one who was tested in every way just as we have been tested, but without sinning. 16 Therefore, let us approach with confidence toward the Throne of unmerited favor so that we might receive mercy and unmerited favor and find aid at just the right moment.” (Heb 4:14-16 mhm)

“21 But, at present, without the Law, God's righteousness has been revealed just as testified about through the Law and the Prophets. 22 Even God's righteousness by means of belief in Jesus Christ and righteousness unto all those who believe–for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. 23 For they all sinned and fall short of the glory of The God. 24 As a gift given freely, by His unmerited favor, they are pronounced innocent by the atonement in Christ Jesus. 25 It is him whom The God exhibited for a display–as an atonement by believing in the blood of Jesus –while in the past God tolerated the sins which previously occurred, 26 exhibiting His righteousness. So, now at present, God is just in pronouncing innocent the person believing in Jesus.” (Ro 3:21-26 mhm)

Jesus, the son of God who shall return

After Jesus had purchased mankind with his blood and was put in the grave, he was taken out of the dead by his heavenly Father. Jesus was taken into heaven to come to sit next to his heavenly Father (notice not on God's seat but at the right hand of God). In case Jesus would be God he would be sitting not next to himself but on his own, thius God's seat. As son of David Jesus found himself sitting next to God, willing to be the author and perfecter of our faith.

“ You elders keep paying attention yourselves as well as to the entire flock, because the holy Pneuma appointed all of you overseers among the flock. Shepherd the Church of The God, which He reserved for Himself by means of the blood of His Own.” (Ac 20:28 mhm)

“ And He raised us up together. He seated us together in the Celestialum incorporate in Christ Jesus.” (Eph 2:6 mhm)

“ They cried with a great voice, saying: “Salvation belongs to our God! To the One sitting upon the Throne and to the Lamb.”” (Re 7:10 mhm)

“ Jesus said to the priest, “You said it. Yet I tell all of you: In the future all of you will see the Son of Humankind sitting on the right-hand of the Power and returning upon the clouds of the sky.”” (Mt 26:64 mhm)

“ Now Jesus answered: “I am! And all of you will see the Son of Humankind sitting at the right hand of Power and coming in the clouds of heaven.”” (Mr 14:62 mhm)

“ So after the Lord Jesus had spoken to the apostles, he was received up into the sky and then sat down at the right hand of the God.” (Mr 16:19 mhm)

“ For David himself says in the Bible of Psalms, ‘YHWH said to my Master, “Sit down at my right hand (Lu 20:42 mhm)

“ But later the Son of Humankind will be sitting on the right hand of God's power.”” (Lu 22:69 mhm)

“25 For David says of him: ‘I foresaw the Supreme Being always in my sight, for He is on my right side that I may never be shaken.26 And so my heart was cheerful and my tongue rejoiced. Also, my flesh will dwell in hope.27 Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will you allow Your Saint to experience decay.28 You made known to me the ways of Life … You will fill me with joy within Your Presence.’” 29 “Men, brothers, it is proper to speak with conviction to you Jews about the patriarch David, that he died and was also buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 And so, as a prophet and knowing The God swore to him with an oath that the fruit of his loins would sit upon his throne. 31 Having foreseen it he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that, ‘he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.’32 This same Jesus The God raised up and we are all witnesses of it. 33 Then The God exalted him to His right hand –and having received from the Father the promised holy Pneuma–he poured this out which you Jews have seen and heard. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, ‘YHWH said to my Lord, “Sit down at My right hand35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’36 And so, let all the House of Israel know that The God made him both Master and Christ –the person you impaled.”” (Ac 2:25-36 mhm)

“ The God exalted Jesus the Nazarene as a prince and a savior to his right hand in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.” (Ac 5:31 mhm)

“55 However, full of the holy Pneuma, Stephen gazed into the Celestialum, and he saw God's glory and Jesus standing at the right hand of The God. 56 Then, Stephen said: “Behold, I see the Celestialum opened and the Son of Humankind standing at the right hand of The God!”” (Ac 7:55-56 mhm)

“ Who is the one judging against them? Christ Jesus–the one who died–rather, the one who was raised up from those dead–who is at the right hand of The God –who also pleads our case in our behalf.” (Ro 8:34 mhm)

“ which He exercised in raising up Christ from the dead, seating him at His right hand in the Celestialum,” (Eph 1:20 mhm)

“ So, if all of you have been raised up together with the Christ, continue seeking those things above, where the Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.” (Col 3:1 mhm)

“ The Son is the very reflection of His glory and the very imprint of His substance. The Son upholds the Universe by his powerful declaration. After the Son made a cleansing of the sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in exalted places.” (Heb 1:3 mhm)

“ Regarding which one of the angels has The God ever said: “Sit you at my right hand until I place your enemies as your footstool”?” (Heb 1:13 mhm)

“ However, after this Person approached with a single sacrifice accomplishing the covering of sins perpetually, he sat down at the right hand of The God.” (Heb 10:12 mhm)

“ Observe carefully the Arch- Leader and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus–who endured execution because of the Joy that lay before him–disdained the humiliation of the stake. He has sat down on the right hand of the Throne of The God.” (Heb 12:2 mhm)

This son of man and son of God will return to the earth soon. Then he will raise many of the dead, judge them with the living, and give his faithful followers everlasting life in the kingdom of God.

“ These said to the apostles: “Men of Galilee, why do you standing watching toward the sky? This same Jesus, who is departing from you into the sky, will return in the same manner as you watched him ascend into the sky.”” (Ac 1:11 mhm)

“ “Look! I am arriving suddenly. My reward is with me to give back to each one according to his works.”” (Re 22:12 mhm)

“20 “Now when you disciples observe Jerusalem being surrounded by encamped armies,then you will realize that her desolation is near.21 Then those in Judea should flee to the mountains, and those within Jerusalem should get out, while those in the countryside should not enter her.22 Because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all that has been written.23 Woe to the pregnant and those nursing in those days,for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword and they will be led captive into all the non-Jewish lands. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the non-Jews until the times of the non-Jews are fulfilled.”25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars,and upon the earth anguish of the non-Jews in perplexity like the noise of an ocean's surf,26 humans fainting from fear and expectation of the things occurring on the inhabited earth, for the heavenly dynamics will be shaken.27 It is then you will observe the Son of Humankind returning on a cloud with power and great glory.28 And when these things start to occur stand up and raise your eyes upwards because your deliverance draws near.”29 Then he told the disciples a parable: “Look at the fig trees and all the other trees.30 By observing when sprouts appear you already know summer is near.31 Just so you also know the Kingdom of The God is near when you observe these things occurring.32 I tell you this truth: this generation will not pass away until all these things occur. (Lu 21:20-32 mhm)

“28 Do not wonder about this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear the Son's voice29 and those having done good things will come out unto a resurrection of Life. Those who have habitually done corrupt things unto a resurrection of condemnation. (Joh 5:28-29 mhm)

“"Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.” (Da 12:2 NAS95)

“ I charge you, Timothy, in the sight of The God and of Christ Jesus – the One who is to judge the living and the dead – and by his visible appearing and his Kingdom–” (2Ti 4:1 mhm)

“31 “Further, when the glorious Son of Humankind returns with all his angels, at that time he will sit down upon his glorious throne of judgment.32 He will gather together right in front of him all those from the nations and he will separate these persons from each other just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.33 He will make the sheep stand at his right-hand, but the goats at his left-hand.34 “At that time the King will say to those on his right-hand: ‘Approach, those blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the world's foundation. (Mt 25:31-34 mhm)

To believe in Jesus to be the son of God

When we love God we should have faith in God and believe in what He says.

As lovers of God and lovers of Christ we should believe both their words. When God speaks about Jesus He speaks about His son. When Jesus speaks about God he speaks about his heavenly Father and not about himself. Never give their words the impression that those two Biblical characters would be one and the same person.

When Jesus prayed to God, he did not pray to himself. The times Jesus asked God things he did not ask it to himself, like why he would have abounded himself (how can one do that?).

“ About three in the afternoon Jesus screamed in a loud voice, “Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?” (or, “‘My God, my God, why have You abandoned me?’”)” (Mt 27:46 mhm)

A person can not abandon or leave himself, but Jesus was afraid that God did not hear him or had left him.

Jesus beleived in his heavenly Father, the God of Abraham and wanted his followers also to believe in that same God, the God of Israel, Moses, Isaiah and Jacob or the God of the Jews,his God of comfort and God of the universe and Truth, Who is the God of gods.

When we believe in Jesus (God's son) we should also believe in God, the One Who sent him. People should listen carefully to the words of Jesus Christ and should really hear what he is saying and has to align themselves with the Father of Jesus Christ, who has in fact put Jesus in charge.

It is when we believe Jesus his words and believe in his God that we can have the hope in their sayings and can look forward to a everlasting life, no longer accursed or condemned to be an outsider. The believer of the Biblical truth can take a giant step from the world of darkness, the world of man and of the the dead to the world of the living and world of security and peace. It’s urgent that people get to know that there is a reward for the dead and get to know that the time has arrived, when dead men and women will hear the voice of the son of God and, hearing, will come alive.

We must know that just as the Father has life in Himself, He has conferred on the son life in himself. It is not an incarnated God but a son of man, chosen by God, beloved and approved by God, who will be lifted up by God, having received authority, simply because he is the son of man, to decide and carry out matters of Judgment.

“24 I tell you this truth: The person who listens to my word and continues to believe in the One who sent me possesses endless Life. And so that person does not come into condemnation, but has crossed over from the Death unto the Life.25 “I tell you this truth: The hour is coming, and is now present, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of The God, and those who have responded will live.26 For just as the Father has Life within Himself, so also He gave to the Son to have Life within himself.27 Also, the Father has given to the Son to perform judgment because he is the Son of Humankind. (Joh 5:24-27 mhm)

We should know that it’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that He exists and that He cares enough to respond to those who seek Him. Jesus is the way to God and in him we should have faith, in such a way that we shall be able to be saved and to enter the gate to God's Kingdom. By Jesus we can approach God. Jesus being the mediator between God and man.

“ Jesus said to Thomas: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one can approach the Father, if not through me.” (Joh 14:6 mhm)

“ I am the Gate. If ever anyone should enter through me, that person will be saved, and will enter and leave and shall find pasture.” (Joh 10:9 mhm)

“ It is by Jesus also we now enjoy an approach to God through His unmerited favor in which we now stand. Also, we may boast in the hope of God's glory.” (Ro 5:2 mhm)

“ Because by means of him we Jew and non-Jew are being gathered together in one Pneuma to approach the Father.” (Eph 2:18 mhm)

“ For, there is one God! Also one mediator of humans–a human, Christ Jesus.” (1Ti 2:5 mhm)

“ and to Jesus, to a mediator of a New Covenant –and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks in a better way than Abel.” (Heb 12:24 mhm)

“ which he originated in our behalf in a living and fleshly-slaughtered manner by means of the curtain that is, his flesh –” (Heb 10:20 mhm)

“ Indeed, without faith it is impossible to please The God well. For the person who approaches The God must of necessity be convinced that The God exists as well as believing He is the Rewarder of those who seek Him out.” (Heb 11:6 mhm)

We should come to see that it is by God's love that He provided a solution against the curse of death, this being His Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.

“ “For The God loved the world of humankind so much that He gave His only-begotten Son,so that everyone believing in him might not be destroyed but may have endless life.” (Joh 3:16 mhm)

We should listen to the words of the Nazarene rebbe who explained what his Father wants: that anyone who sees the son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. Jesus part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time.

Jesus said all those things about his heavenly Father, his God, with absolute confidence. If we practice what Jesus said so many centuries ago, but which are words for us also today, we’ll never have to look death in the face.

“ For this is the will of my Father, so that everyone who beholds the Son, and continues to believe in him, may have endless Life, and I shall resurrect them on the Last Day.”” (Joh 6:40 mhm)

“ I tell you this truth: Whenever anyone observes my Word, that person will not experience death throughout the New Age.”” (Joh 8:51 mhm)

In Jesus we can find the best hope for a life after death, though it shall not take place directly after death, we may be sure that when the Day of judgment shall arive we shall be transferred from death to life.

“ We know we have stepped over from the Death into the Life because we continue to show compassionate affection to the fellowship; the person who is not showing compassionate affection remains in the death.” (1Jo 3:14 mhm)

Please come to see what Jesus really has done. He put his own will aside to do the Will of God and gave his life in obedience for the redemption of our trangressions or sins.

Make sure you come to believe in the right person, Jesus the son of God and not a god son.

One-, two- or three-une Godhead

In the world of Christendom we can find three different groups looking at the Holy Spirit differently.

The majority of people calling themselves Christian adhere to the Trinity, where they have a ternair god or a three-headed god. Such a three-godhead we would call three gods: 1. God the Father, 2. god the son and 3. God the Holy Ghost. Those worshippers of that three-headed god are called Trinitarian Christians or Trinitarians. Those Trinitarians claim those persons to be three forms of unity.

Next to those Trinitarians we find Binairians, or people who consider God the Father and God the Holy Spirit One and the same unit, namely the Spirit being the Force or Power of God. Next to the Father they look at their god the son who was inspired by his heavenly Father the Spirit God.

For Christadelphians and other non-trinitarians and unitarians there exist only One True God Who is One and not Two or Three-une.

From the above texts and Bible-quotes you probably already came to see that according to the Sacred Scriptures and to God His Own Word, that there is Only One God Who is One, and stands above all other gods and kings.

The Trinitarian concept of the Holy Spirit postdates the New Testament by 250 years. It developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies, itself merely being a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples.

In the 3rd and early 4th centuries, against Sabellianism and Arianism, the Son and Father were defined as distinct yet coequal and coeternal. In the late 4th century, as a revision by the First Council of Constantinople (381) of the creed adopted at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the Cappadocian Fathers took the final step by understanding the Holy Spirit as of the same status. God was then to be spoken of as one ousia (being) in three hypostases (persons), and this has remained the orthodox formulation.

The Athanasian Creed was probably composed, not by Athanasius himself, but by an unknown author(s) in the fifth century. It is a partial statement of doctrine dealing especially with the Trinity and the Incarnation. (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.; 2015)

It would be strange that God being against the idea of incarnation, He himself would be an incarnated being. Belonging to Christadelphia we want the world to know about the Trinity matter, and how it is a false teaching we should put aside.

Trinity not a Biblical but a Human doctrine

In the Bible you shall not find one place where the word Trinity is used. In case it would be so important we may wonder why God did not put that word in the heads of His writers so that they could write it down in the many scrolls that form the Book of books, the Bible.

It is simply not there in the Holy Scriptures, because it is a concept that does not fit the Word of God or Biblical doctrine; The Trinity is a human doctrine.

Spirit - Breath or Ghost

In the Bible we find that the words used for describing breath, wind, spirit and ghost come from one Hebrew word (Ruach), talking about a breeze, wind or breath.

“The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” (Ge 1:2 NAS95)

“Then {Jehovah} the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."” (Ge 6:3 NAS95)

In several other places we read about the "Breath of God" or His Spirit doing this or that, or making something to happen, or bringing over His Word or talking. As such man also came to be a living being because Jehovah God breathed or gave His breath into the nostrils of the first man (Adam).

“Then {Jehovah} the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” (Ge 2:7 NAS95)

“of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.” (Ge 7:22 NAS95)

“For as long as life is in me, And the breath of God is in my nostrils,” (Job 27:3 NAS95)

“"The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” (Job 33:4 NAS95)

“Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,” (Isa 42:5 NAS95)

“nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;” (Ac 17:25 NAS95)

In most cases in the Bible "the Spirit" or "Ruach" is used to indicate a concept rather than a person. The word "Spirit" is used as a way of expressing characteristics or activities of God, or of holiness in those who follow his Son, not a sentient being or literal power.

God is Spirit

For those who say Jesus is God the Father and is also God the Spirit, they should think about the fact that Jesus was seen by many, whilst God the Father can not be seen and a Ghost is also something which can not be seen and which has no flesh, bones or blood.

The New Testament writer John, who had seen Jesus and like the other disciples worshipped the same God as Jesus did, wrote:

“ The God is Pneuma, and those worshipping Him must of necessity worship spiritually and in harmony with Truth.”” (Joh 4:24 mhm)

God being Spirit makes Him invisible and without bones, flesh and blood. In spirit we can perhaps form an idea of spirit or find a representation of a spirit, like a dove or flames, but never in Scripture do we find a person.

“ But, the Supreme Being is the Pneuma, and where the Supreme Being's Pneuma–freedom!” (2Co 3:17 mhm)

“ Now, to the King of all future periods of time–incorruptible, invisible, absolute God –honor and glory throughout all future periods of time! Amen!” (1Ti 1:17 mhm)

“ In faith Moses departed Egypt without fearing the king's anger, for he persisted greatly as seeing the Invisible One.” (Heb 11:27 mhm)

A way of translation

At the outset let us clarify whatever mystery or confusion may lie behind the word “Ghost” in the expression “Holy Ghost” in the King James (Authorized) version of the Bible. In Shakespeare's day “ghost” was a current word for “spirit” and a spiritual adviser was called a “ghostly confessor”. Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit are translations of the same original words. The strange notions which now attach to our word “ghost” are not what the translators intended to convey. Later translations uniformly render the words, “Holy Spirit”.

Several expressions are to be found in the Bible which are descriptive of the Holy Spirit and these include:

• "The Spirit of God" (Genesis 1:2; Matthew 3:16)

• "The Spirit of the Lord" (Isaiah 11:2; Acts 8:39)

• "Thy good spirit" (Nehemiah 9:20)

• "The Spirit of the Lord God" (Isaiah 61:1)

• "His Holy Spirit" (Isaiah 63:10-11)

• "The Spirit of your Father" (Matthew 10:20)

• "The Spirit" (John 1:32)

• "The holy Spirit of God" (Ephesians 4:30)

• "The power of the Lord" (Luke 5:17)

The terms God the Holy Ghost, or God the Holy Spirit, are not to be found in the Bible. Nevertheless, there is clearly a very strong link between God and the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit is said to be “of God”, “of the Lord”, “of the Lord God”, and “of your Father”, in the list of expressions given above. If we make this the starting point of our journey through Scripture we shall find that progress is not difficult.

Look at the following descriptions of creation:

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1,2)

“The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7)

“The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.” (Job 33:4)

“He hath made the earth by his power . . . established the world by his wisdom . . . stretched out the heavens by his discretion.” (Jeremiah 10:12; 51:15)

Clearly from several places in the Old and New Testament we learn that the Spirit of God is all about What comes out of God or What is created by God, or comes in effect by His Power.

God's Power in Creation

These are but a few of the many evidences in the Bible about the work of God in creation. He alone by His Wisdom conceived the wondrous plan, and it was executed by His Divine Almighty Eternal or Absolute Power, His Spirit. God is Spirit (John 4:24) and whatever He does is by His Spirit.

The Bible in all its parts tells us that creation is upheld by God and He is everywhere present throughout and within all that He has made. Without Him nothing could exist or continue to exist:

“24 The God who made the Cosmos and everything in it –existing as the Absolute Sovereign of heaven and earth, does not dwell in human-made divine-habitats. 25 Nor is He attended to by human hands – as though He actually had some need. Rather, He gives to all – life and breath and everything. 26 And He made from one every nation of humankind to dwell upon all the face of the earth – having determined appointed seasons and the very limits of their dwelling – 27 that they should continue to seek The God, if really, in fact, they might grope for Him and actually find him, though, in fact, He exists not a great distance from each one of us. 28 For, it is as even some of your poets have said: ‘In Him we continue living and we continue moving and we continue to exist.’ And also, ‘For we are also of this One's race.’ ”” (Ac 17:24-28 mhm)

We are also told that this Sovereign God that made the world by having His breath or Spirit floating over the universe, would withdraw his breath then all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

“14 "If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, 15 All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.” (Job 34:14-15 NAS95)

We learn that God fills His creation. All of its activity is because of His wise and sustaining Spirit, the divine energy working out His gracious purpose. The Spirit is not a “separate” or “other” person. It is God's own radiant power, ever outflowing from Him, by which His “everywhereness” is achieved.
The Spirit is personal in that it is of God Himself: it is not personal in the sense of being some other person within the Godhead.