The kind of faith we live is, I firmly believe, influenced dramatically by our belief in the Elohim-head/Godhead and how we view it. Every perversion of it has led to murderous religious institutions, whether of the hand or of the spirit. A familial structure, but its very nature, is constantly expanding, and its driving force is improvement and betterment of each generation, where fathers want their sons, and mothers their daughters, to exceed them. This love-imperative is what I have called the "multiplication principle" for love propagates and multiplies. YHWH's Great Heart wants love to multiply and expand throughout the Cosmos and for His children, released to free agency, to find its way home. He is in every sense of the word "Family".

In strictly monotarian systems everything reduces to the Father who stands alone and becomes progressively more brutal. In polythesistic systems there is always competition among the "gods" and what results is a giant battle of egos. Then there's all the strange stuff inbetween. All-male Trinitarianism with Mary thrown in as a fourth Elohim to add some femininity (Catholicism) and a Heavenly Mother thrown in for the same (Mormonism). In reality, though, the 'Mary' of Catholicism is a rival pagan deity and is Matriarchal (what could be higher than the 'Mother of God'?). The Mormon Heavenly Mother is just a breeding machine. All the while the Ruach is some sort of "second father" principle: and what do you get when there are two fathers and no mother? What kind of a 'son' is raised by such?

Finally, you have the harshness of Islam's and Judaism's monotarian 'God' and all-male totalitarianism. We have seen the fruits. We are seeing them today.

The Elohim or Powers of Heaven are a love-multiplying family to which we are grafted in as little elohim along with the faithful malakim/angels. Family is glorious!

Amein, well said brother.

Sometimes, I've even heard Roman Catholics (who don't know their doctrine all that well) make the claim that Mary is the Holy Spirit.

The early fundamentalist Mormons under Brigham Young taught that their founder, Joseph Smith, was the Holy Ghost, and that this suppsedly accounted for his inspiration and prophethood while he was in the flesh (ignoring his many blunders). It seems there is no end of RhQ claimants. The time has come to set the record straight and I am glad to see that you have entered the fray with your excellent book that accords little manoeverability for those who insist on continuing to misidentify the Third Person of the Elohimhead/Godhead. I hope your book gets a wide circulation in the Messianic movement and that you will consider writing an 'evangelical' version too that perhaps uses a popular Bible version used by them (like NKJV or NIV). I believe that once we have the Elohimhead correct it drastically reduces the possibility for theological error in other areas too.

Yaacov said:

Amein, well said brother.
Sometimes, I've even heard Roman Catholics (who don't know their doctrine all that well) make the claim that Mary is the Holy Spirit.

yes, as soon as the final chapter (13) is completed, (YHWH willing), I'll be making a more digestible version for the general public/Christians, probably with the NKJV. Not yet sure if I should just substitute the Name in place of "Lord", Elohim in place of "God", etc. or use brackets with the correction next to them:
LORD [YHWH]
God [Elohim]
God [Eloah]?

I would use brackets as you did at the end of your post. It's accurate whilst showing respect.

Yaacov said:

yes, as soon as the final chapter (13) is completed, (YHWH willing), I'll be making a more digestible version for the general public/Christians, probably with the NKJV. Not yet sure if I should just substitute the Name in place of "Lord", Elohim in place of "God", etc. or use brackets with the correction next to them:
LORD [YHWH]
God [Elohim]
God [Eloah]?