Why dont pentecostals believe in the god head?

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The question would be better worded, "What doPentecostals believe about the Godhead?" It is not really a question of belief "in" the Godhead, but an understanding "about" the Godhead. How does one define the "Godhead?" Many people use the word Godhead and Trinity interchangeably, they define these to refer to the "three persons" of God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Pentecostal is, of course, a reference to those Christians who believe that the experience of the Church on the day of Pentecost is still alive and available today, i.e. speaking in tongues, healing, miracles, prophecy etc. In the area of Pentecostal Christianity there are differences of belief. There are, and these terms are used for lack of a better word, Trinitarian Pentecostals, and Oneness Pentecostals aka Apostolic Pentecostals. One of the main differences between the two is . . . #1 Is the "Godhead" made up of three separate and distinct persons, Father, Son and Holy Ghost (Trinitarian), or does "Godhead" refer to the One God who has manifested Himself as Father, Son and Holy Ghost (Apostolic/Oneness) So, we find in Pentecostalism a difference of opinion concerning the Godhead. One way to think of it is that all Apostolic Oneness Christians are Pentecostal, but not all Pentecostals are Oneness Apostolic. In the broad classification of Pentecostalism there are many who believe in the Godhead in the same manner as Baptist, Methodist, Roman Catholic etc, that there are three separate and distinct persons that comprise the Godhead. With the above in mind, I will address the question, "Why don't Pentecostals believe in the god head?" from the point of view of a Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal Christian. Before we begin, I want to encourage all who read this to pray and ask god to give you a clear mind. If you do not ask for a clear mind and for God to give you understanding, you will not understand. This is not my idea, but God's. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:13-14 Oneness Apostolic Pentecostals do notbelieve that the Godhead is composed of three separate "persons". We are strictly monotheistic. We DO believe in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, but DO NOT believe that they are separate persons. In fact, the Bible never refers to the Father or the Holy Ghost as persons at all. The only thing close is when Paul wrote, Hebrews 1:3. Speaking of Jesus Paul says, "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:" Jesus is the "express image of the 'person' of God." The Greek definition of the words, "express image" is . . . the exact expression (the image) of any person or thing, marked likeness, precise reproduction in every respect. So in other words, Jesus is an exact representation of God. He is Emmanuel, God with us. That is why Jesus could say to see Him was to see the Father, they are the same. The "person" of God is Jesus, The Spirit of God is the Holy Ghost and as John would write in 1 John 5:3 ". . . these three are one. . ." The word Godhead is mentioned only three (3) times in The Bible, and Trinity is never mentioned at all. (KJV anyway) The three times that "Godhead" is used, it is used as a reference to divinity, not persons. Act 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. (Godhead here simply means God.) Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (Divine nature, not persons) Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (Here "the state of BEING GOD" which is what we believe Jesus is the mighty God) Read 1 Tim. 3:16. God was manifested in flesh. In him (Jesus) "dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. . ." I hope this is helpful.