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Galatians 1:3-4; 3:3 – The Necessity of God’s Being
What if the necessity of the existence of true theology concerning God’s “plural oneness” is less ivory tower and more kitchen table gospel?
Let’s argue the opposite. What if there is no “Oneness” of God consisting of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
1. What if the “Oneness” is a simplistic numeric existence such as Arianism wherein Jesus is a created demigod as seen even today among the Jehovah’s Witnesses?
2. What if God’s true being is Monism wherein God only plays the roles of Father, and then of the Son, and even switching to the Holy Spirit as seen today among Oneness Pentecostals?
Is “God” just theological semantics without any real soteriological significance? Or does our eternal salvation depend upon God’s “plural oneness”, oft called “the Trinity”? I don’t mean that we must perfectly understand it, but rather our salvation was perfected by the Godhead found within the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
Consider these three basic questions:
1. Have we sinned against God?
2. Has the God we sinned against rescued, redeemed, and saved us?
3. Has the God who rescued us, become us to save us?
Let’s consider the above propositions all together:
1. If there is no “Trinity” and Jesus is a demigod-like-angel, we are not saved by God incarnate, but by a lower being than God, but higher than us. If we are saved by a being lower than God but higher than us, why not worship this semi-divine savior?
2. If there is not plurality to the Oneness of God, then “God” could not have “died” on the cross for our sins. Oneness Pentecostalism teaches that the Divine Spirit named Jesus left the physical man named Jesus before Jesus died. If no “Trinity”, then there is no divine sacrifice. If no divine sacrifice, then our sacrifice is a perfect man. If our “savior” is a perfect, sinless creature, then why not a human sacrifice like many false religions required?
No one will ever rightfully claim a perfect understanding of God’s being, one-in-three and three-in-one. However, if striving to understand causes us to deny what scriptures says in order for it to make sense to us, then there are unintended consequences as seen above.
That is why we must accept what scripture says, without trying to lessen it, or else we cease to have the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit being separate yet the same, in existence as one God. Mess this up and we change what and who saves us – the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God the Father, raised on the third day by the Holy Spirit to rescue us from this present evil world by causing us to begin again anew in Christ by faith (Galatians 1:3-4; 3:3). This is the necessity of God’s being, being who and what God is.
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