Board of Directors of the Universe
And of Heaven and of Hell!
In our world, many companies are run by a board of directors. The board of directors works to oversee a company’s management and provide strategic direction on behalf of stakeholders such as shareholders. Further, much of the board’s detailed work is performed by committees, like an audit or compensation committee, which then present their findings to the full board. A board of directors typically has between 3 and 15 members, usually with an odd number to avoid tie votes. A board of 3 directors is common, often consisting of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), a key investor, and an independent director. Made in God’s image, we tend to do as He does. However, as sinners, in mirroring Him, we are highly deficient. Because His image is engrained in us, inherent and integral to our being, we naturally tend to emulate Him even if we do not acknowledge Him in the very least or trust in Him as Saviour. We have board of directors because God Himself presents as a Board! That Board is the Trinity: three Persons, one Board/one Godhead! He is not three Gods. A board of directors comprised of 5 people is not five boards; it remains one board! He is one God/one Board comprised of three Persons! Exodus 20:3, the very first commandment, states: “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” The true Christ declares: “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (Matthew 24:24). If your God is not the Trinity of the Bible, it is an idol! If your Christ is a false Christ, your god is an idol!
This doctrine, the doctrine of the Trinity, is taught at the very outset in His Word. Genesis 1:26: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Observe the plural pronoun and the repeated plural possessive adjective, respectively. And God, not Gods, said, Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness. God in Genesis begins to reveal who He is. “For there are Three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these Three are One” (1 John 5:7); in this verse we see how many comprise the US and OURs and who they are. The Trinity is the Father, Lord Jehovah, the Word, the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. And to reiterate, these Three are One. In declaring, “I and My Father are One” (John 10:30), the Lord Jesus teaches the Trinity as He highlights and identifies Two of the Three Persons in the Godhead. The Three are one in essence (God “material” / “substance”), equality, all deity attributes, and complete and full unity! Though there is an odd number of three, counteracting tie votes does NOT apply to Him! “Votes” are ALWAYS UNANIMOUS! For further clarity, by way of examples, the essence of my keys is metal, the essence of my desk is wood, the essence of my shoes is leather, etc.
Every religion that does not believe God’s revelation of Himself in the Bible as a Trinity is a false one. One sabbath-fixated cult names another cult, because of its disdain for that cult, which is the Mary-fixated cult, as one reason for rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity. It took over 100 years for the former to now claim that they espouse this truth! They have acquiesced for acceptance! They adopted the Trinitarian position in their 1980 Statement of Fundamental Beliefs. What has become of all their followers, who have since died, that they deceived with lies until 1980? Neither God nor His truth changes! What a red flag when a religious organization changes like the wind as per their leaders’ whim of what their people believe and when to believe it! Perhaps, in 2097 they will adopt that Hell is a place of EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT! Very slow learners indeed! But the irony here is that the Mary-venerating cult in real and practical terms does NOT adhere to the Biblical Trinity. The Lord Jesus is not a piece of bread when that bread is “consecrated” by their clergy! Their people are then told to worship that wafer for it is now the body of Christ. This is nothing short of idolatry, the grossest sin to God! The wafer God is not God! Not only does the name have to be right but the Person also must be right to truly uphold the doctrine of the Trinity. Calling my microwave cooker Christ does not make it Christ, and this even after I “consecrate” it!
There are occurrences in the Bible where the Three interact and communicate with One Another. Matthew 3:16 & 17: “And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him: And lo a voice from Heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” The Holy Spirit lighted upon the Lord Jesus and then Lord Jehovah spoke to His Son, and in truth, the world: This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased! Note this: the son of an alligator is alligator, not cockroach, the son of a tiger is tiger, not pig, and the Son of God, is God, not anything else! The son of a thing is never less than the thing from which it emerges as son! The Lord Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is also God, the Son! The Great Commission also reveals the Three together: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). We are to baptize in the NAME of, not names of, emphasizing again the Trinity, that God is One but Three in Persons. The Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, are listed yet again. The Kingdom Hall cult vehemently denies and rejects the Trinity claiming that their God is Jehovah God. However, it seems that they missed this and countless other verses: “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also” (1 John 2:23). In truth, they neither have Lord Jesus nor Lord Jehovah!
Five deity (God) attributes apply to each of the three Persons of the Trinity. These are omnipresence (present everywhere), omnipotence (all-powerful), omniscience (all-knowing), eternality (without beginning or end), and immutability (unchangeableness). In reference to the latter: “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed” (Malachi 3:6). These deity distinctions are critically important when it comes to something as basic, and yet profound, as prayer. Prayer is in fact an act of worship. It is such because deity attributes are required for the communication to go through to, and be heard by, the Recipient, God. This means that prayers to church canonized “saints” or “Mary” are not heard. People in Heaven do not become God and therefore do NOT have deity attributes! Further, real saints, i.e. believers, are actually in Heaven and are fully and wholeheartedly preoccupied with their Saviour! Moreover, it is idolatry to pray to any other but the Triune (Three in One) as it inappropriately implies and imposes deity attributes upon those who do NOT possess them! And above all, in the entirety of the Bible there is neither exhortation nor example to pray to anyone but God Himself! Psalms 50:15: “And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.” God instructs to call upon Him in the day of trouble! He also states that we will glorify Him as He delivers us! He is it! Neither “saints” nor surrogates are pertinent!
Other cults such as the no-coffee cult support a distortion of the Biblical Trinity. Shouldn’t their prophet be peddling “no cocaine” and “no crystal meth” instead? I surmise from this he was not too much of a prophet, a false one indeed! Because of this folly I will have two cups per day, not just one! Romans 14:17: “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” The kingdom of God is not meat and drink! As they deny God Himself, they demand and command “no coffee”! How silly! They regard the Son as subordinate to the Father. The Bible teaches co-equality! Virtually all major religions reject God’s revelation of Himself in the Bible. Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc., all fervidly reject the Bible and its Holy Trinity and this to their eternal detriment! God the Holy Spirit authored a Book, not a normal book, but a supernatural Book, so that we can come to knowledge of Him who created us and with Whom we have to do! “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21). Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; this was one of His “committee” works. If your religion were referenced in this article in some way, shape or form, it is because we love you! To truly and fully love another is to love their soul! We encourage you to turn to the Board of Directors of the Universe, and of Heaven and of Hell from your idols, for He is the living and true God! “For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God” (1 Thessalonians 1:9).