Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe,
Arizona with another Trinity moment proving that the Trinity is biblical and that oneness or
modalism is a lie. Today I want to talk about Colossians 2-9. For in him dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. Now this is a proof text that the oneness crowd will use to
teach their false doctrine and their interpretation of this is based on wrongly understanding what the
word Godhead means and I think a lot of people have a misunderstanding about what this word
Godhead means. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Here's simply
what it means. Godhood. That is just an archaic form of the word Godhood. Now if you study the
ending hood on words you'll understand that it comes from a previous ending in Middle English
in the 1400 and 1500s. Head. The way I first found this was I was reading a book written
in the 1800s and it used the word maidenhead and that word maidenhead is even in modern dictionaries
and it means maidenhood. It means the state of being a virgin or virginity. So when I saw that
word maidenhead and I realized that it was just an older form of the word maidenhood then it got me
thinking and then I realized oh Godhead is the old form of Godhood. That's why even if you look
up the word Godhead in the dictionary it'll list as one of the definitions Godhood because it's
just an archaic form of that word. Not only that but if you look this up in other languages you
know I love foreign languages so I read the Bible in a lot of other languages you know if you look
it up in Spanish basically all the three verses where it says Godhead in the King James Bible
it'll say in Spanish divinidad or divinity. One place that says deity. That's in the traditional
Spanish Reina Valera Bible. Also if you look it up in German in the Martin Luther Bible
Gotheit which is like Godness or Godhood or the state of being God and there are a lot of words
in English that have that hood ending like fatherhood motherhood. What does that mean?
Childhood. Parenthood. It means the state of being a father.
Brotherhood. Neighborhood. I mean we have a lot of words that have that ending and that's all this is
is just an older form of that word so when it says Godhead it's talking about the state of being God
Godness or Godhood or divinity or deity. Other languages you could look it up Greek for example
Theotitos is what it says. Theotes in Romans. Theotitos in Colossians. So if you know other
foreign languages you could look it up in other traditional Bibles in those languages and you'll
see this is simply what the word means. Not only that but if we go to the context of the Bible
itself we'll see that that's what the word means because for example in Romans chapter 1 verse 20
it says for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being
understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without
excuse. So notice the things of the created world show us his power and his Godhood. They show us
his deity his divinity his Godness his Godhood. That makes perfect sense. Now the wrong definition
that most people have of this word Godhead they think that it means basically the Trinity as in
the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost like that that word Godhead is referring to all three
Father Son and Holy Ghost in one so what these oneness people are trying to twist Colossians
into saying is that in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily they're trying
to say oh well he's like the Father Son and the Holy Ghost bodily he's all three Father Son Holy
Ghost bodily Godhead bodily but that's just a complete misunderstanding of what the word Godhead
means because if we were to apply that definition to Romans you know let's compare scripture with
scripture here even his eternal power and Godhead if you take the definition that I'm teaching here
which is supported by you know all the evidence all other foreign languages looking it up in the
dictionary going to the history and the etymology of the English word Godhead and seeing that it's
an old form of Godhood if you take that definition this verse makes sense his eternal power and
Godhood that makes sense okay but if we took the other definition even his eternal power and
Father Son and Holy Ghost all collectively Trinity that wouldn't make any sense would it because how
could you say his Father Son and Holy Ghost or his Trinity that wouldn't make sense but his
divinity makes sense his deity makes sense his Godhood actually makes sense in Romans chapter 1
verse 20 so when the Bible says in Colossians chapter 2 in him dwelleth all the fullness of
the Godhead bodily what that verse is teaching is simply that he is fully God every aspect of
divinity or deity dwells in Jesus Christ he's not partially God he is 100% God in him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily okay but what it's not saying is that he is the Father Son
and Holy Ghost bodily you know that he is the Father bodily because remember oneness is teaching
that Jesus is God the Father that God the Father came and died on the cross for us okay that's what
oneness is teaching but what the Trinity teaches is that God is made up of three persons the Father
the Son and the Holy Ghost and that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world
but in the Son in Jesus Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily
meaning that he is fully divine he's fully God which is exactly what the traditional view of
the Trinity teaches that Jesus is fully God and that he's co-equal with the Father in the sense
that they are both equally God we can call Jesus Christ God he is God almighty he is not a lesser
God an inferior God no all the fullness of the Godhead what does the Godhead mean
the Godhead means everything that it means to be God okay when we say motherhood what do we mean
everything that goes into being a mother when we say fatherhood everything that goes into being a
father you know if we said manhood that's another good example manhood means the state of being a
man or everything that goes into being a man the qualities of being a man well when the Bible says
in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily it's saying everything it means to be
God all the qualities and attributes that God has he has all of them all the fullness of the
Godhead not part of what it means to be God or part of Godhood or divinity or deity but all of
it resides in Jesus Christ because he is fully God that's the correct interpretation of Colossians 2 9
based on a correct understanding of the word Godhead it's not head like this part of my body
here that's what a lot of people are misunderstanding you know then you'd expect to look this up in other
languages and see you know Spanish something with cabeza right head or cough in German or whatever
but that's not what we see okay because it's not head as in this thing on the top of my body here
it's head as in a suffix that later morphed into hood but in the 1600s was still around
as head which is a carryover from Middle English