Paul’s point that all the fullness of divinity dwells in Christ is clearly
paralleled in the Lord’s own statements that all things belonging to the
Father are his and that the Holy Spirit speaks from him, not on its own.
Furthermore, when the Lord rose from the tomb, he took along his
entire human body, including its flesh and bones (Matthew 28 : 1 – 8 ; Mark
16 : 5 , 6 ; Luke 24 : 1 , 2 , 3 ; John 20 : 11 – 15 ). He did this in a way that no other
human being does. He himself gave experiential proof of this to the dis-
ciples when he said,
See my hands and my feet—that it is I myself. Touch me and see. For a
spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. (Luke 24 : 39 )
This statement has the power to convince any open-minded person that
the Lord’s human manifestation is divine, and therefore that in him God
is human and a human is God.171 The Trinity that the modern-day Christian church has embraced and
integrated into its faith is that God the Father bore a Son from eternity,
and the Holy Spirit came forth from them both. Each one is a god all by
himself.
The only way the human mind can grasp this trinity is to view it as a
“triarchy,” like a government of three monarchs in one country, three gen-
erals over one army, or three heads in one household, each of whom has
equal power. What other outcome could such a situation have except
destruction? Any of us who try to picture or sketch that triarchy in our
mind’s eye, with its unity in mind as well, can view it only as a person with
three heads on one body or three bodies with one head. This deformed
image of the Trinity is bound to show up in those who believe in three
divine persons, each of whom is God in his own right—those who con-
nect them into one God while denying that “one God” means one person.
The concept of an eternally begotten Son of God who later comes
down and takes on a human manifestation is like the ancient nonsense
about human souls created at the beginning of the world that enter bod-
ies and become people. It is also like the absurd notion that someone’s
soul can cross over into someone else. Many in the Jewish church used to
believe this. They thought that the soul of Elijah was in the body of John
the Baptist and that David was going to return in his own body or some-
one else’s to reign over Israel and Judah, because it says in Ezekiel, “I will
raise up one shepherd over them, who will feed them—my servant
David. He will be their shepherd. And I, Jehovah, will be their God and