Understanding the perception of the Creator, the Godhead and their relationship!

By

Bernard Cox

In order to begin to understand ‘what’ the creator is, we first have to understand that we are unable to grasp for the perception of a man! We have to decide upon what we are going to utilise as our absolute.

LUKE 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

GALATIANS 1:8 BUT THOUGH WE, OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN, PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT WHICH WE HAVE PREACHED UNTO YOU, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.

GALATIANS 1:9 As we said before, ‘so say I now again’, IF ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT YE HAVE RECEIVED, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.

With just those two statements, there should not be any doubt, as a Christian, in adapting the Word of God, the Bible, (the Authorised King James Version of 1611)

If we are to accept ‘that’ we have to accept the following guidelines...

MATTHEW 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.

And

REVELATION 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, IF ANY MAN SHALL ADD UNTO THESE THINGS, GOD SHALL ADD UNTO HIM THE PLAGUES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK:

REVELATION 22:19 And IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK.

With that in mind, we proceed to the instance just before the creation!

At this point... time didn’t exist... eternity prevailed. Time is a relevant factor dependent, measured as a unit, and reflective of recurring events. At this point in time... there was no concept of God; for the term ‘God’ refers to a ‘Deity’ which demands the presence of subjects which/who worship said deity.

Let’s look at some definitions...

1. God - The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions.

2. Deity - Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force.

I’ve learned to perceive this particular juncture as a nothingness, not even light existed; but that ‘nothingness was in fact a life-form, a vibrant, powerful intelligence; and as a invisible life-form ‘it’ presents itself as a ‘spirit’, a most pure, holy, righteous ‘spirit’ possessing ‘almighty’ power such that it could create from nothing but it’s very thought tangible essence and matter.

This concurs with this following scripture! As we progress into this defining of scripture to introduce exactly what the Bible determines what this creative deity is, the scriptures which I present will continue to compliment the perception of the Creator of all things; and the relationship thereof to the divine Deity we Christians worship and call God.

The first thing we should understand is that God is a Spirit as I shall prove by scripture below. He is a holy, pure, gentle Spirit which is omnipresent, (is everywhere) omnipotent, (all powerful) and omniscient, (all knowing). In addition, the Spirit we call God is ‘eternal’, (no beginning; no end), ‘infinite’, (unlimited) and ‘self-existing’, (not-created – I Am, that I Am; the great I Am). By Jesus’ own Words, we are led to understand that Elohym, (the father) is a Spirit.

JOHN 4:24 God is a ‘SPIRIT’: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

In the context of this ‘SPIRIT’, we cannot perceive ‘It’ as a man! Not a young man, nor a old man but... as was the case with Jesus, He perceived ‘It’ as the Father of all creation and everything that was created was created ‘IN’ ‘It’.

Thus it is that everything, action, deed, sound, including the spoken word and even every thought does not pass without having a consequence; for every ‘incidence’, no matter what it is, pertains to a influence upon this divine, gentle and righteous ‘Spirit’.

COLOSSIANS 1:16 FOR BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED, THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THEY BE THRONES, OR DOMINIONS, OR PRINCIPALITIES, OR POWERS: ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM:

COLOSSIANS 1:17 AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST.

When we read the events of the original creation in the first chapter of John, it becomes very clear that ‘in the beginning there was nothing but this almighty, eternal Spirit, (which possessed almighty power) which is a life creating spiritual essence wherein everything that was ever created was created 'in' that 'Spirit'; which is the creator of all things. Jesus called ‘It’ the 'Father' because that Spirit conceived/created all things including 'the Word' (see John 1) which is the 'soul' the Father created for Himself in the image of a man before anything else was created. In fact, it, like everything else was preconceived in the ‘mind’s eye’ of Elohiym and thereby perfected, unto His perfect will, all things for His ultimate purpose; before He spoke the first creative words... “Let it be according to my will!”

PSALM 148:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.

PSALM 148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

PSALM 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

PSALM 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

PSALM 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: FOR HE COMMANDED, AND THEY WERE CREATED.

Because the soul is a spiritual being, the soul that God first perceived to reflect that which He would one day seek to incarnate into... a fleshly body, He embellished it in a halo of light, which students of the Word term ‘the Logos’.

When that Logos descended from heaven like a light at Jesus' baptism, It indwelled His being and that union became what we term, 'the fullness of the Godhead'. In that light was the Soul the Father ‘created before the foundations of the world’. We call It ‘the Logos’. It is the Creator’s soul wrapped in the Shekinah, (is the English transliteration of a Hebrew noun meaning dwelling or settling, and denotes the dwelling or settling of the Divine Presence of God.) glory of a holy, amber light so we, His creation, will be able to see where It is; when It is in our presence. It was the Holy, (pure, sacred, divine, (almighty)) Spirit, the soul of the Father Who conceived Jesus, first in mind, then in Spirit and then billions of years later, in flesh; and referred to Him as the Word... the Word through Whom all things were created.

It was this Logos that left Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane before He was crucified rendering Him as a mere man, led to the Slaughter as a lamb; explaining why Jesus exclaimed, “Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?” ‘That’ soul dwells in Jesus’ immortal body today in heaven.

JOHN 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

JOHN 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

JOHN 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

JOHN 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

JOHN 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

JOHN 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

JOHN 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

JOHN 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

REGARDING THE HOLY SPIRIT.

JOHN 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

JOHN 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father , even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me :

JOHN 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

JOHN 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

ACTS 1:8 But ye shall receive power, AFTER that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

ACTS 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

ACTS 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

ACTS 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

ACTS 1:8 BUT YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER, AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

ACTS 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

ACTS 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

ACTS 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

ACTS 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

ACTS 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

ACTS 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Before there can be filled with the Holy Spirit, we have to first die to this world... and the things thereof for Satan rules this world and Christians are admonished to serve the only one true God.

ROMANS 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

ROMANS 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, As Those That Are Alive From The Dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

ROMANS 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

ROMANS 6:15 WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID.

ROMANS 6:16 Know ye not, THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY; WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS?

ROMANS 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

ROMANS 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

ROMANS 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

ROMANS 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

ROMANS 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Once the Lord has witnessed a true conversion from life ‘in’ this world to an abhorrence to the sinful ways of this world, and tested one’s love for Him, one’s loyalty to His Word, and faith to sustain the life of a soldier of the Cross unflinching, and always at one’s post of duty, and totally subject to the will of the King, He seals that one’s soul with the seal of God, ‘the baptism of the Holy Spirit’... and ‘power for service is dispensed upon said one setting the soul aside for service unto the Lord. That soul then possesses ‘eternal’ life! Until that point in time, that one Born Again soul was still just a possessor of ‘Everlasting Life’.

JOHN 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

JOHN 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The moment that a soul accepts through believing by faith on the gift of salvation through the sacrifice of the Lamb of God... ‘Jesus’ that soul hath ‘everlasting life’.

JOHN 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Those who Elohiym saw, (in ‘his’ mind’s eye before the foundations of the world) would receive the truth, abide by it, receive the sealing of their soul by the baptism of the eternal Holy Spirit, and overcome unto their day of redemption; these soul’s names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from before the first speck of dust was ever spoken into existence... I. E. before the foundations of the world. By virtue of that event, these souls were ‘with the creator from the beginning’ and therefore, (though in His mind’s eye) are eternal beings. These are the elect Bride of God who are the only souls who will be prepared for the rapture, fully adorned in the Word of God, having come to the required perfection of faith in God’s Word for they could do nothing other than that for the gene-seed of the Word abided within their soul; placed there by predestination before the world began. They came to Earth from God to fulfil their lives, as was seen by God before the foundations of the word, to return to God; as His many-membered Bride when they die, or are raptured as the case may be.

Some may think or suggest that this is unfair. But it isn’t in any way unfair. Every single soul has the same opportunity. Everything depends upon what we do with the Word that is revealed to us. This is dependent upon our sincerity which influences our desire to live for God and to manifest all of His attributes, (His life) in ours; instead of living it up in Satan’s domain. Whatever we choose to do now, with the message of His Word, the very spirit of God, that prevailed before the Creator created anything, is influenced by those choices, be it deed, spoken word, action, thought... whatever it is, we are currently doing it is ‘IN’ God... whom we call, ‘the Father’; and He knows everything from the beginning to the end.

At the end of the day, (so to speak) this all has to do with ‘the ultimate meaning of life’!

Our Christian God is a Spirit, Who created all things within Himself. He isn’t an old fuddy-duddy spirit-man with long white hair and a long white beard who walks around in a shimmering white gown. He is a spirit... much like the near invisible essence of ether as it mingles in the air. The Father is like the wind...

we cannot see it, but we know it is there; and therein abides all creation, the entire universe with all the cosmos; never ending... always extending... ultimately eternal... a eternal Spirit.

The ultimate goal of this creation was for this Spirit to have fellowship with It’s creation! And what better way to do it than to create a species of His choice, in His pre-perceived image, (as a man, first in spirit form, then in corporal form, male and female displaying His diversity) who would fall from grace, and require redemption. The gift is there for the taking. All He asks is that the adherents ‘BELIEVE ALL OF HIS WORD BY FAITH’ AND DISPLAY THAT FAITH BY WORKS.

What I’m saying is this. If one doesn’t understand, Ask! If one does understand, Act upon that Word. He has provided our every need... it is all written. But, He does warn us of wolves in sheep’s clothing... that is why He sends us a measure of His spirit... to lead and guide us to all truth. He is calling sinners to repentance, which means, they feel remorse for the manner in which we are living, (for all have sinned and come into this world speaking lies); and turn from that ‘unbelief’, which allows us to continue to live in that manner.

Sin is unbelief! Jesus was once speaking to the Pharisees who were questioning Him and he replied to them in this manner. Keep in mind that these were priests and scribes who didn’t drink, smoke, gamble and whore around; but were among the most righteous people around such that Jesus once said, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ – Matthew 5:20

JOHN 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die IN YOUR SINS: FOR IF YE BELIEVE NOT that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

In John the twelfth chapter Jesus reiterates the concept of ‘sin’.

JOHN 12:44 Jesus cried and said, HE THAT ‘BELIEVETH’ ON ME, ‘BELIEVETH’ NOT ON ME, BUT ON HIM THAT SENT ME.

JOHN 12:45 And HE THAT SEETH ME SEETH HIM THAT SENT ME.

JOHN 12:46 I am come a light into the world, THAT WHOSOEVER ‘BELIEVETH’ ON ME SHOULD NOT ABIDE IN DARKNESS.

JOHN 12:47 And if any man hear my words, AND BELIEVE NOT, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

JOHN 12:48 HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM: THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY.

JOHN 12:49 FOR I HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF MYSELF; BUT THE FATHER WHICH SENT ME, HE GAVE ME A COMMANDMENT, WHAT I SHOULD SAY, AND WHAT I SHOULD SPEAK.

JOHN 12:50 AND I KNOW THAT HIS COMMANDMENT IS LIFE EVERLASTING: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

And to the Hebrews, Paul admonished them in the same way; them being among the Pharisees...

HEBREWS 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT?

HEBREWS 3:19 SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF .

JOHN 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

JOHN 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

JOHN 16:9 OF SIN, BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE NOT ON ME ;

JOHN 16:10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

JOHN 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

In conclusion, The Lord has prepared the way for the believer to succeed...

MATTHEW 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your UNBELIEF: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

JOHN 10:26 BUT YE BELIEVE NOT, BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP, as I said unto you.

JOHN 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

JOHN 10:28 And I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND.

MATTHEW 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, BELIEVING, ye shall receive.

JAMES 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

JAMES 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

JAMES 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

I JOHN 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

I JOHN 3:19 And hereby we know that we are OF THE TRUTH, and shall assure our hearts before him.

I JOHN 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

I JOHN 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

I JOHN 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, BECAUSE WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS , and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

I JOHN 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should BELIEVE on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

I JOHN 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.