If Jesus were praying to Himself in Gethsemane, we have a Godhead that is impossible to comprehend. If Jesus was praying to the One whom He always obeyed, to His Father in Heaven, we have a Godhead we can comprehend. We can comprehend a Father, a Son, and a Spirit who are One in Being, Substance, and Nature but who are three Persons.

The reason we can comprehend this is that we are being created an eternal part of the same Oneness. This is what the marriage of the Lamb is. It is nothing less than the bringing of us into union with Christ as He dwells in eternal union with the Father.

We become one with Him in Being, Substance, and Nature. Yet, He remains distinct from us and greater than us. He loses His individuality in favor of becoming one with us, and we lose our individuality in favor of becoming one with Him. Christ is Christ, and we remain ourselves.

Paul said, "I am not living, nevertheless I am living. Yet it is not I who am living but Christ who is living in me." The Lord Jesus spoke the same thing concerning Himself and the Father: "The words I am speaking, the deeds I am performing, are not proceeding from Me but from the Father who is dwelling in Me."

It is relatively easy to understand the Godhead, and our being made One with Christ in the Godhead, if we believe and hold to what the Scriptures teach. If we delve into theological statements we will become hopelessly confused.

Theology often is the attempt of the mind and soul of man to comprehend Divinity. Only confusion and failure can result. Divinity is experienced by our re-created spiritual nature. The Life of Jesus is the Light that illumines the Godhead to our new spiritual nature. The mind of the soul is at enmity with God and cannot comprehend the things of God.

In addition, the Scriptures came as holy men of God were moved by the Holy Spirit. The Scriptures cannot be interpreted correctly by people, no matter how scholarly, if they are not holy and moved by the Holy Spirit of God. The modern translations have a few misleading passages because the translators do not have the Spirit of revelation in the things of God.

The marriage of the Lamb is stated with clarity (to the spiritual man):

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:21-23)

These three verses mean what they state. We are being made one in the Son and the Father just as the Son and the Father are One. We are being created as an integral, eternal part of God. This is marriage to Christ, the Son of God. This is what the Scriptures declare. This is what is true. It is wonderful beyond belief but understandable. Let us accept the statement as it stands.

To be continued.