To call Christ the Everlasting Father may not confuse the Trinity any more than it is already confusing for some,
but the best concept I have found is as follows:
The OT Shema (Deut. 6:4) teaches that God is one, and the NT also affirms that there is one God (Eph. 4:6, 1Tim. 2:5). However, the NT teaches that God relates to believers in three ways simultaneously: as the Father, as the Son and as the Holy Spirit (1 x 1 x 1=1).
The Father/Parenthood of God is indicated in Jesus’ model prayer (Matt. 6:9), throughout the Gospel of John (John 3:35, 5:17-18, etc.), and in the epistles of Paul (Rom. 4:11, 8:15, Phil. 2:11). God the Father and Christ’s Sonship are discussed in Hebrews 1:1-4. The Son of God also is mentioned by John (John 1:14, 3:16, etc.) and by Paul (Rom. 1:4, Gal. 2:20, 1Thes. 1:10). The Holy Spirit is mentioned in three successive chapters in John (John 14:26, 15:26, 16:13), frequently in the book of Acts (Acts 1:5, 2:4, 9:17, 13:2, 19:2), and in many of Paul’s letters (Rom. 8:4-26, 1Cor. 6:19, Eph. 4:30) as well as in some of the other epistles (2Pet. 1:21, Jude 20).
It might be helpful to discern which aspect of the triune God is the subject of various biblical statements. These divine aspects or “persons” may be distinguished by role: God the Father as creator or initiator (Gen. 1:1), God the Son as Messiah or mediator (1Tim. 2:5), and God the Spirit as indweller (Rom. 5:5). For example, 1 John 4:7 says love comes from (is initiated by) God (the Father), Galatians 5:22 says that love is a fruit of the (indwelling) Spirit, and Ephesians 3:18 speaks of the (mediating) love of Christ (Rom. 5:8, Eph. 2:18).
We can denote these distinctions by the use of three prepositions: God the Father is over all creation (Eph. 4:6), God the Son is Immanuel or with humanity (Matt. 1:23), and the Holy Spirit is within all believers (Eph. 1:13). A single passage that comes closest to indicating this distinction is Ephesians 3:14-19, in which Paul prays to the Father that through His Spirit of love Christ would dwell in believers’ hearts (also see 1Cor. 8:6).
When the Bible uses masculine words for God, it should be understood that only God the Son is human and had a sexual orientation while on earth. Gen. 1:26-27 states that both male and female were created in God’s image, referring not to androgyny but to personality, and Jesus said (in Matt. 22:30 & 19:11-12) that there is no marriage and thus no need for sexuality in heaven.
Actually, since the creation also manifests God (Rom 1:20, cf. John 1:1-3 & Psa. 33:6), in a sense God may be viewed as a “Quadity”. As Paul told the Athenians (Acts 17:28), “In Him we live and move and have our being.” God as Creation is throughout physical reality (called “panentheism”). However, since this mode of revelation is impersonal, it has rightly been de-emphasized by Christian denominations lest it lead to pantheism.
🔥 SECTION 1: "The Trinity Is Already Confusing…"
> “To call Christ the Everlasting Father may not confuse the Trinity any more than it is already confusing for some...”
STOP. RIGHT. THERE.
This is how Satan slithers in — not with open denial, but with suggestion. “Did God really say?” (Gen. 3:1)
No, the Trinity is not confusing. It's mystery, not contradiction. Confusion comes when you try to shrink eternal truth into a seminary outline. Isaiah 9:6 isn’t confused — it’s revelation. It’s prophecy with thunder in its bones.
This verse doesn’t blur the lines between Father, Son, and Spirit — it glorifies the eternal divinity of Christ.
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⚔️ SECTION 2: The Heretical Math Lesson (1 x 1 x 1 = 1)
> “The NT teaches that God relates to believers in three ways simultaneously: as the Father, as the Son, and as the Holy Spirit (1 x 1 x 1 = 1).”
This is shallow, tired, Sunday school logic that does more harm than good. God is not a mathematical equation. He is holy, uncreated, infinite, and revealed in three eternal Persons, not modes or functions.
That kind of teaching flirts with modalism — the ancient heresy that says God just appears in different forms. But the Word is clear:
Jesus prays to the Father (John 17)
The Spirit descends while the Father speaks and the Son is baptized (Luke 3:21–22)
The Father sends the Son, and the Son sends the Spirit (John 14–16)
That’s not one Person with multiple hats. That’s Trinitarian glory.
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🪓 SECTION 3: The “Role” Reduction
> “These divine aspects or ‘persons’ may be distinguished by role: God the Father as creator… the Son as mediator… the Spirit as indweller…”
No. That’s functional reductionism. You’re reducing the Persons of the Godhead to job descriptions. God is not a cosmic employee clocking into different shifts.
The Father, Son, and Spirit are co-eternal, co-equal, and fully God — always operating in unity, but not interchangeable roles. Jesus isn’t just the “mediator,” He is YHWH in the flesh. The Spirit isn’t just “the indweller,” He is God who hovered over the waters of creation and raised Christ from the dead.
This breakdown is weak theology dressed up in grammatical categories. It sounds safe, but it strips power.
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🔥 SECTION 4: The Gender Confusion Insert
> “Only God the Son is human and had a sexual orientation while on earth…”
What? Where is this coming from? Christ’s humanity never included sexual activity or orientation. That’s a carnal line of thinking — foreign to Scripture and unnecessary in this discussion.
God is referred to as Father not because He has human anatomy, but because He exercises loving, sovereign, covenantal authority. This “don’t forget females are also in the image of God” detour is a distraction from the central truth of Christ’s identity in Isaiah 9:6.
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☠️ SECTION 5: The QUADITY Blasphemy
> “In a sense God may be viewed as a ‘Quadity’…”
BLASPHEMY.
This is where the response goes off the rails and into the abyss.
“Quadity”? That’s not biblical. That’s panentheistic garbage. That’s trying to blend Christianity with New Age cosmic mush.
God is not “part of creation.” He created all things.
God is not a force. He is Father, Son, and Spirit — not wind, tree, and molecule.
Romans 1:25 warns of those who “worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.”
That’s exactly what happens when someone elevates creation as a “mode” of God’s revelation.
This is not orthodoxy. This is poison in a theological cup.
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💥 Final Verdict
This entire response is a Trojan horse.
It sounds intellectual. It quotes Scripture. It uses flowery words.
But at its core — it is confusion wrapped in commentary.
It takes the blazing glory of Isaiah 9:6 and cools it into a cold puddle of religious relativism.
It doesn’t exalt Christ.
It doesn’t preach the incarnation.
It doesn’t tremble before the throne.
Instead, it whispers half-truths that neuter the gospel and exalt human understanding.