The Twoness of God's Oneness
By John R. Gavazzoni

There a two factor inherent in God's Oneness, both ontologically (according to being) and administratively (pertaining to how He runs things); God owns and God redeems (buys back what is His); God births and rebirths; God begets and God creates; God is a Father to Himself as a Son, and a Son to Himself as a Father; God builds, while knowing what He builds will be destroyed; God arranges for the destruction so He can "build back better;" God reveals His glory in pairs of two: Christ is the glory of God and woman is the glory of man (two sets of two.) God creates a man and makes a second complement of that one.

Christ multiplying Himself in and by many is as His body and His bride; The Holy Spirit is the Spirt of the Son, and the Spirit of the Father; God created the heavens and the earth. The Word is seen and heard; there's Jerusalem which is below, and Jerusalem which is from above; there's the law of God and the grace of God; there's field, and the treasure in the field; God enlightens and He darkens; He makes the sun to shine on the just and the unjust; He arranges for mankind's enmity and reconciles those enemies; though almighty, He chose to be weak; though He is the living God/ the Source of all life, yet He was in Christ, by the full experience of death, reconciling the world unto Himself.

It's very clear to me that without the twoness in God's oneness, God's oneness would be aloneness. God is passionate about not being all alone with Himself. He's too overflowing with all the goodness of His love not to have another to share it all with. God, as love, is the antithesis of love that only embraces itself....that is, narcissistic love. I was present in the meeting when our dear, late brother, J. Preston Eby shared this very relevant gem, and did so almost offhandedly: "God who is all, created another all, that He might be all in all." Get that? There's the all of, and which is God, and the all He brought forth out of Himself so He could be all in that all. In another meeting, as I recall, God drew this complementary gem out of the spirit of our brother: "God projected Himself out of Himself that He might be Himself in another dimension." Try that one on for food for meditation.

If I were to imagine God as a boxer fighting an enemy. I'd say He has the ultimate one-two punch against His enemies. He sets them up with a left jab, and follows with a devastating right hook, and down goes the enemy to the canvas only to rise up as His devoted lover. There's the natural, and then there's the spiritual; there's dishonor and there's glory; there's corruption leading to incorruptibility. There's strength from weakness; there's knowing from not knowing. When Jesus fulfilled His promise to send the Spirit of Truth as "another Comforter," reading the 14th. chapter of John carefully, we find that the promised Spirit of Truth was an Other of Himself, as He went on to say, "I will not leave you orphans/abandoned, I will come to you." After all, He said He was the Truth, so how could the Spirit of Truth be other than Himself disseminated into many. [look up "another" in a good dictionary.]

Listen, dear brethren, we have a tendency to get behind a truth (such as oneness) and push it over a theological cliff. Jesus is Lord and I'm me, and me ain't Lord. He's the Head of the body, and I'm a member. Paul calls Jesus the Head of the body, AND the whole body. Oneness can't mean I'm that. "In Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him." There's the One who is both the fullness of all that God is, and the fullness of mankind, and we (distinctly) are complete in Him (distinctly). While we do, indeed, affirm that truly from God's side, there is no separation, BUT there is distinction. Think on that difference. Separation, NO! Distinction, YES!