Cheryl Schatz

Frank, that was quite a tome! You are welcome to write more, especially on 1 Cor. 11. Once we have gone through the video clips that I put up, Mark is going to give him reasoning for why kephale cannot mean source, what its true meaning is, and I have also asked him to defend his view point from the context. I will then post his article so that we can all discuss. If you want to wait until that post shows up or if you prefer to post it on this one, it doesn’t really matter to me.

And in this Trinity, none is before, or after, another. None is greater, or less, than another.

The main issue seems to come from whether the Father can have a superiority that the Son does not have in the Trinity. I have not yet seen any passage in the Scripture that shows a superiority of either essence or works defined as belong to the Father alone. To add a superiority to the Father that isn’t explicit seems ill-advised but to add a superiority when this is strictly rejected by the Scripture and the creeds is shocking to me. Perhaps I have missed something. I don’t think so. After teaching former JW’s for 16 years how to understand God, I would think that if the Father is described as superior to the eternal Word of God, then I would have come across it in my study. I have not and it doesn’t seem to fit in the creeds either. So why is the superiority of the Father held on to so strongly? I would like to pick their brains to find out why this is so important to them that these men risk falling outside of orthodoxy in order to create an “office” that is God-like as the Father’s rights, privileges and His office alone belong to the Father alone. I tremble when I think of what this is doing to the Godhead and God’s unity.