Is God A Trinity PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

Is God a Trinity?It was God who created man and put him on theearth. He created marriage and the family relationship asa type of His divine family. (For further information onthis vitally important subject, write for the free booklettitled Why Marriage!)God's Name Is PluralThe Hebrew word for "God" used in Genesis 1:1 and26 is Elohim. Elohim is plural in form. Though this wordtaken by itself does not prove that there are two beings inthe Godhead, it does allow for the plurality that is clearlyindicated in other parts of the Bible.By what we can understand from the rest of the Bible,this word Elohim can act like our English words "family,""group," "church," or "crowd." These words are oftenregarded as singular and take a singular verb form, butthey all contain more than one member.The Apostle Paul exemplifies this for us in I Corinthians12:20. Speaking about the Church he says: "But noware they many members, yet but one body."God is a family. There presently are two members inthat God family, God the Father - the Head of thefamily, the Lawgiver- and Jesus Christ the Son - theSpokesman, the Creator. But the word Elohim is not justdual. There is a dual number in Hebrew, but this wouldhave to be Elohaim. The God family, however, is destinedto be truly plural - to have many members. And this iswhat the word Elohim describes and allows for.Belief in a Trinity clouds the real purpose that Godhas in store for mankind. If we are taught that God is aclosed Trinity of three persons, we lose sight of the factthat God's real purpose is to create many more membersof the God family.Look at the creation account in Genesis 1: God createdfish after the fish kind, birds after the bird kind, andanimals after the animal kind. But in verse 26 God mademan - not after any of the animal kinds, but after theGod kind- in God's image and God's likeness. "And God[Hebrew, Elohim] said, Let us make man in our image,