Hi Mike,

Thanks for the wonderful teachings. They’re a Godsend. I heard that when you look up the word God, it’s a plural word and a title with Father and Son within the Godhead meaning divine ones and we were redeemed back to our family within the Godhead. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Yours sincerely,
J____

Hi J____,

Thank you for encouraging words of gratitude, and thank you for your question.

You asked:

I heard that when you look up the word ‘God’, it’s a plural word and a title with Father and Son within the Godhead meaning divine ones, and we were redeemed back to our family within the Godhead. Do you have any thoughts on this?

There are times in the original Hebrew and Greek that a plural is used, and there are times in both languages when the singular is used. It certainly is not plural in this verse:

1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and [besides the “one God, the Father” there is also] one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

On the other hand, when we see the word ‘us’ used with the word ‘God’ as in Genesis 1, that Hebrew word is Elohim, and it is a plural form, which is translated with the singular English word ‘God’.

Gen 1:26 And God [Hebrew: Elohim – Christ and the Father] 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.

Since you asked for my comment, I will assure you that our coming to know God and His son is a first time thing and not something we are “redeemed back to” as if we started out as part of the family of God. We are indeed ‘redeemed’, but we are ‘redeemed’ from sin and death, the “marred” state in which we came from “the Potter’s hand”:

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

I will close by encouraging you to read ‘Is God A Trinity’ which can be found here.

Your brother and servant,

Mike