Elohim is also used of other entities.  "And the LORD said unto Moses, 'See, I have made thee a god [elohim] to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet' " (Exod.7:1, KJV; cf. Ex.18:11; 21:6; Ps.8:5).  "And he received the gold… and made a molded calf.  Then they said, 'This is your god [elohim], O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!'  So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it" (Exod.32:4-5a, NKJV).

Nowhere in the entire Bible is it written or suggested that "God is a family."  Yet, a number of preachers are currently teaching and stating as fact that God is a family and they are apparentlyhostile to the idea of Yahweh having one, although the physical analogy frequently employed shows that people do indeed have families. Scripture does suggest that God has a family and is building or gathering together his family.  Believers in Christ are even called "children."  Regardless, those who preach that God is a family agree that God is gathering a family but strongly deny that God thereby has a family.  They are teaching a lie and a deceit.  Why and how did all this come about?  It is too knotty to go into here, but make no mistake--what is involved in this issue is no less than the ungodly manipulating of scripture for advantage—for the sake of church tradition, doctrine, and power.

Comparing the two views is like comparing oranges and apples.  On the one hand, God might say, I have a family, come see."  On the other hand, some would have God say, "I am a family, look at me."  If Jimmy J. Jones would say, "I am a family," we would dismiss him as an idiot.  This issue, which should be a non-issue, except for the incredible zeal of some religious folks, points to how far afield a number of people have gone, knowingly or otherwise, from solid biblical exposition in their support of a questionable and peculiar church doctrine.

The "God is a family" idea is the first cousin of the idolatrous "we will become God" idea.  The advocates imply (but do not declare openly) that the "God family" has a last name or surname "God."  But some have openly declared (revealing their agenda) that those born into that "God family" (as firstfruits when Jesus returns) will inherit all the powers of God (the Father), plus the power over life, death, and creation, and they emphatically assert that they will be God as God is God.  This doctrine they are teaching is a deceit in the worst possible way.  The doctrine as usually presented largely uses the word "elohim" for support.  This word is said to be "plural in form" but it is readily admitted that the word "is normally singular in usage."  With little, if any, documentation, they claim that the word "elohim" (God) in Gen.1 is used in the sense of a family or church group-one family with many members.  They have sought to demonstrate that the word in that passage in particular refers "to precisely the same Persons, making up or composing the one God, as we found in John 1:1-the Word and God—and each of those two Persons is God."  This idea devolves to mere humanist opinion, however, in the light of its usage elsewhere and especially in the lack of specific, definitive scriptural support for its purported usage in that place at that time.  Indeed, the word "elohim" is never suggestive of a family or any group of many persons.

Trinitarians regularly transpose the sentence "The Son of God" into "God the Son."  Grammatically and logically, not only is this kind of reconstruction inherently fraudulent, it is dishonest.  The same conclusion can be said about the Church of God binitarian and ultimately polytheistic reconstruction of a similar phrase, "The family of God" into "The God family."  There is no difference between the clever rewording by the Trinitarian camp and the clever rewording by the Poly-Binitarian camp—both fail the test of grammar and proper exegesis or interpretation of scripture.  The phrases, "God is a family" and "The family of God" are not synonymous. God is in the process of creating and bringing together his family—his children.  Having said that, however, it should be noted that the biblical fact of God having a family is in direct contradiction to a popular notion in some quarters that "God is a family." Actually, God owns His family because they were redeemed and bought.  "For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's" (1Cor.6:20; cf. 7:23; Gal.3:13).  This shows possession!

Trinitarians got around the multiple/singular-God problem by lumping all three of their Gods into one being, rather like blending several flavors of ice cream together into one mass, yet with obvious layers—they have a "Neapolitan" God.  Many in the binitarian or ditheist camp have a similar God, except they only have two separate God flavors at this time.  They say God is "one" but in practice, they represent God as two and ultimately many more Gods—an open-ended God.  Trinitarians stop at three in one.  Belief in two or more gods is polytheism.  These numerous gods together are said to form a pantheon, a collective or communal assembly of gods—a FAMILY. (Pantheism says god is in everything, and everything is god.)  Within a pantheon, one god may be supreme, as a "president of the immortals," like Zeus in ancient Greek mythology, who in theory dominates all others.  Binitarian practice presents us with a pecking order pantheon of Gods, the president of the immortals being the Father and resurrected humans as "miniature" (lesser) Gods in descending order.

Evidently, the word "God" is being considered by the poly-binitarian camp as the last name (surname) or the family name of the Father and of Christ, rather like Jimmy J. Jones.  Thus, God the Father and Christ would be "Father God" and "Jesus God" respectively.  But, what about all those people who have the same name, say, Jimmy?  (Continued...)