When, after the end of the first century AD, the Jewish rabbis opposed Christian beliefs that the risen Jesus was a second power in heaven along with God, even the church fathers got nervous about this belief. Yet, this is exactly the belief we find in the Book of Revelation. The nervousness about going along with this belief, under growing condemnation from Rabbinical Jews, eventually grew into the Trinity doctrines of churches still prevalent today. To try to address the anxiety about Jesus being seen in Revelation as sharing the throne and topmost authority of God, the church councils developed the idea that Jesus and God are one being. Smoke and mirrors, playing with words and concepts? Maybe, yet, it became the basis of the philosophy of a Trinity God.
Today, when ‘two powers in heaven’ is taught regarding Jesus and God, there are still those who oppose it. The opposition to it has grown into a concept of monotheism which forbids any suggestion of gods existing, aside from God the God of Abraham. This is despite the ample evidence in scriptures that originally Jews, including Jesus and is apostles, accepted the existence of many gods but reserved worship only for the one true God, the God of Abraham, the Father. That is why Jesus was called Lord, to reserve the title God for the Father alone. The original faith given by God to the disciples of Jesus was a faith that was able to embrace the truth of Jesus Christ finally sitting with the Father on the Father’s throne, as we see at the end of the Book of Revelation.
