GOD THE FATHER AND THE SON OF GOD ARE TWO SEPARATE BEINGS
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. God the Father knows something that his Son Jesus Christ does not know.
2. Christ talked and prayed to God the father who is different and superior than him.
4. According to the revelation of God the Father, he is the God of his Son.
6. The Lord Jesus Christ was exalted at the right hand of God.
8. God the Father sent Christ to this world.
10. There are two who make judgments, the Father and the Son.
11. We have to believe and trust both the Father and the Son.
13. God the Father raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.
16. Jesus Christ received honor and glory from God the Father.
17. Must have fellowship to both the Father and his Son.
19. All those who continue the teachings of God has both the Father and the Son.
Question: What are the proofs that God the Father and the Son of God are two separate beings?
Answer: The following are some of the proofs that God the Father and the Son of God are two separate beings:
1. God the Father knows something that his Son Jesus Christ does not know.
(Matthew 24:36, NIV / Mark 13:32) “No-one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, [Some manuscripts: do not have nor the Son.] but only the Father."
2. Christ talked and prayed to God the father who is different and superior than him.
(Matthew 26:39, NIV) Going a little farther, he {Christ} fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
(Mark 14:35-36, NIV) Going a little farther, he {Christ} fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. (Mark 14:36) “Abba, [Aramaic for Father] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
(Luke 22:41-42, NIV) He {Christ} withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, (Luke 22:42) “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
(Matthew 27:46, NIV / Mark 15:34) "About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, [Some manuscripts: Eli, Eli] lama sabachthani?” — which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”]
(Luke 23:34, NIV) Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
(Luke 23:46, NIV) Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”
(John 14:28, NIV) “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
(John 17:1-26, NIV)
(John 17:1) After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. (John 17:2) For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. (John 17:3) Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (John 17:4) I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. (John 17:5) And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. (John 17:6) “I have revealed you [Greek: your name; also in verse 26] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. (John 17:7) Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. (John 17:8) For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. (John 17:9) I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. (John 17:10) All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. (John 17:11) I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name — the name you gave me — so that they may be one as we are one. (John 17:12) While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. (John 17:13) “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. (John 17:14) I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. (John 17:15) My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. (John 17:16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. (John 17:17) Sanctify [Greek: hagiazo (set apart for sacred use or make holy); also in verse 19] them by the truth; your word is truth. (John 17:18) As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. (John 17:19) For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. (John 17:20) “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, (John 17:21) that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. (John 17:22) I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: (John 17:23) I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (John 17:24) “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. (John 17:25) “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. (John 17:26) I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
Note: Christ talked and prayed to God the Father who is different and superior than him.
(Ephesians 4:6, NIV) one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
3. The head of Christ is God.
(I Corinthians 11:3, NIV) "Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God."
4. According to the revelation of God the Father, he is the God of his Son.
(Psalm 45:7, NIV) You {Christ} love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.
(Hebrews 1:9, NIV) "You {Christ} have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”
5. There was a place where Christ has gone after his resurrection, in the place where his God and Father was before. Accordingly, Christ and God the father were in two different places.
(John 20:17, NIV) "Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, `I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’"
6. The Lord Jesus Christ was exalted at the right hand of God.
6.1 Lord Jesus Christ had told that he will sit at the right hand of God.
(Matthew 26:64, NIV) “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
(Mark 14:62, NIV) “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
(Luke 22:69, NIV) But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God.”
6.2 The apostles of Jesus Christ testified that he was exalted at the right hand of God.
(Mark 16:19, NIV) "After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God."
(Acts 2:32-33, NIV) God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact. (Acts 2:33) Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
(Acts 5:30-31, NIV) The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead — whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. (Acts 5:31) God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Saviour that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
(Acts 7:55, NIV) "But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God."
(Romans 8:34, NIV) Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
(Ephesians 1:20, NIV) which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,
(Colossians 3:1, NIV) Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
(Hebrews 1:3, NIV) The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he {Jesus} sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
(Hebrews 10:12, NIV) But when this priest (Christ) had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.
(Hebrews 12:2, NIV) Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(I Peter 3:22, NIV) who {Christ} has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand — with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
6.3 The Lord God (the Father) commanded his Son to sit at his right hand.
(Psalm 110:1, NIV) The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”
(Matthew 22:44, NIV) “`The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
(Mark 12:36, NIV) David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “`The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
(Luke 20:42-43, NIV) "David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: “`The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand (Luke 20:43) until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’
(Hebrews 1:13, NIV) To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?
Note: The verses that were mentioned above proved that somebody is sitting on the throne, God the Father, and another at his right, the Lord Jesus Christ.
7. When Jesus was baptized, his Father in heaven expressed his love for him, things that he would not have done if the Father is also the Son.
(Matthew 3:16-17, NIV) As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. (Matthew 3:17) And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
(Mark 1:9-11, NIV) At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. (Mark 1:10) As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. (Mark 1:11) And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
(Luke 3:21-22, NIV) When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened (Luke 3:22) and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
8. God the Father sent Christ to this world.
8.1 Christ came down from heaven, not to do his own will but the will of his Father who sent him.
(John 4:34, NIV) “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
(John 6:38, NIV) "For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me."
(Hebrews 10:7, 9, NIV) Then I said, `Here I am — it is written about me in the scroll — I have come to do your will, O God.’“ [Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)]* (Hebrews 10: 9) Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
*Related Verse: Psalm 40:6-8, NIV - …I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
8.2 Christ said that his teachings are not from him but from his Father who sent him.
(John 7:16, NIV) "Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me."
(John 8:28, NIV) "So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me."
(John 12:49, NIV) "For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it."
(John 14:24, NIV) He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
(John 17:8, NIV) "For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.”
8.3 Christ has not come to this world on his own but his Father was the one who sent him.
(John 7:28-29, NIV) Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, (John 7:29) but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.”
(John 8:42, NIV) Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he (God the Father) sent me.
8.4 In many occasions, Christ said that his Father was the one who sent him.
(John 5:23-24, 36, NIV) that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father, who sent him. (John 5:24) “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. (John 5:36) “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me
(John 6:29, 57, NIV) Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:57) Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
(John 7:33, NIV) Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I go to the one who sent me.
(John 8:26, NIV) “I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.
(John 11:42, NIV) I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
(John 12:44, NIV) Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
(John 13:20, NIV) I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”
(John 16:5, NIV) “Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, `Where are you going?’
(John 17:8, 18, 25, NIV) For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. (John 17:18) As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. (John 17:25) “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.
(I John 4:9-10, 14, NIV) This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son [Or his only begotten Son] into the world that we might live through him. (I John 4:10) This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for [Or as the one who would turn aside his wrath, taking away] our sins. (I John 4:14) And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.
9. In the same way that the Father has life in himself, he also granted Christ to have life in himself.
(John 5:26, NIV) "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself."
10. There are two who make judgments, the Father and the Son.
(John 8:16, NIV) "But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.”
11. We have to believe and trust both the Father and the Son.
(John 12:44, NIV) Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
(John 14:1, NIV) “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; [Or You trust in God] trust also in me."
12. To have an eternal life, we have to know the two, the only true God, and the one whom he sent, the Son.
(John 17:3, NIV) "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
13. God the Father raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.
(Acts 2:24, NIV) "But God raised him (Christ) from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him."
(Acts 2:32, NIV) "God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact."
(Acts 3:15, NIV) You killed the author of life, but God raised him (Christ) from the dead. We are witnesses of this.
(Acts 10:40, NIV) but God raised him (Christ) from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.
(Acts 13:30, NIV) But God raised him (Christ) from the dead
(I Corinthians 15:15, NIV) More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised.
(Galatians 1:1, NIV) "Paul, an apostle — sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him (Christ) from the dead,"
(Ephesians 1:20, NIV) "which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,"
Note: The dead cannot raise himself from the dead.
14. Christ will hand over the kingdom to God the Father then the Son himself will be made subject to Him so that God may be all in all.
(I Corinthians 15:24-28, NIV) "Then the end will come, when he (Christ) hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. (I Corinthians 15:25) For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. (I Corinthians 15:26) The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (I Corinthians 15:27) For he “has put everything under his feet”. [Psalms 8:6]* Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.
(I Corinthians 15:28) When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him (God the Father) who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all."
Note: It should be noted that somebody will hand over the kingdom (the Son) and somebody will received the same (the Father). After which, Christ himself will be made subject to the Father who put everything under him so that God may be all in all.
*Related Verse: Psalms 8:6, NIV You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
15. There are great differences between God the Father and the Son of God regarding their divine name, recognition, nature and attributes.
15.1 About God's (the Father) divine name, recognition, nature and attributes:
15.1.1 The divine name 'God the Father' as it connotes, that has never been attributed to the Son of God, can be found in the following verses:
(John 6:27, NIV) Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
(I Corinthians 15:24, NIV) Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.
(Galatians 1:1, NIV) Paul, an apostle — sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead —
(Ephesians 5:20, NIV) always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 6:23, NIV) Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(Philippians 2:11, NIV) and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(I Thessalonians 1:1, NIV) Paul, Silas [Greek: Silvanus, a variant of Silas] and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. [Some early manuscripts you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ]
(II Thessalonians 1:2, NIV) Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(I Timothy 1:2, NIV) To Timothy my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
(II Timothy 1:2, NIV) To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Titus 1:4, NIV) To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
(I Peter 1:2, NIV) who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
(II Peter 1:17, NIV) For he received honour and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” [Matt. 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35]
(II John 3, NIV) Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.
(Jude 1, NIV) Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by [Or for; or in] Jesus Christ:
15.1.2 The recognition of God (the Father) that he is the Lord/God Almighty
(Genesis 17:1, NIV) When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; [Hebrew El-Shaddai] walk before me and be blameless.
(Genesis 28:3, NIV) May God Almighty [Hebrew El-Shaddai] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
(Genesis 35:11, NIV) And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; [Hebrew ElShaddai] be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body.
(Genesis 43:14, NIV) And may God Almighty [Hebrew El-Shaddai] grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
(Genesis 48:3, NIV) Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty [Hebrew El-Shaddai] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me
(Exodus 6:3, NIV) I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
(Ezekiel 10:5, NIV) The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far away as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty [Hebrew ElShaddai] when he speaks.
(Revelation 4:8, NIV) Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.”
(Revelation 11:17, NIV) saying: “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.
(Revelation 15:3, NIV) and sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb: “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages.
(Revelation 16:7, NIV) And I heard the altar respond: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.”
(Revelation 16:14, NIV) They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
(Revelation 19:6, NIV) Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
(Revelation 19:15, NIV) Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron sceptre.” [Psalms 2:9] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
(Revelation 21:22, NIV) I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
15.1.3 The basic nature of God (the Father) as Lord/God from everlasting to everlasting
(I Chronicles 16:36, NIV) Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then all the people said “Amen” and “Praise the LORD.”
(I Chronicles 29:10, NIV) David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
(Nehemiah 9:5, NIV) And the Levites — Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah — said: “Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting.” [Or God for ever and ever] “Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
(Isaiah 40:28, NIV) Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no-one can fathom.
(Psalm 41:13, NIV) Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
(Psalm 90:2, NIV) Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
(Psalm 93:2, NIV) Your throne was established long ago; you are from all eternity.
(Psalm 106:48, NIV) Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the LORD.
15.1.4 The recognition for God (the Father) as God of gods; Lord/God Most High; eternal God/King; with inherent immortality and invisibility to man.
As God of gods
(Deuteronomy 10:17, NIV) For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.
(Psalm 136:2, NIV) Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures for ever.
(Daniel 11:36, NIV) “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place.
As Lord/God Most High
(Genesis 14:18-20, 22, NIV) Then Melchizedek king of Salem [That is, Jerusalem] brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, (Genesis 14:19) and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator [Or Possessor; also in verse 22] of heaven and earth (Genesis 14:20) And blessed be [Or And praise be to] God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything (Genesis 14:22) But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath
(Psalm 7:17, NIV) I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
(Psalm 47:2, NIV) How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!
(Psalm 57:2, NIV) I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills his purpose for me.
(Psalm 78:35, NIV) They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
(Hebrews 7:1, NIV) This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,
As Eternal God/King, immortal and invisible to man
(Genesis 21:33, NIV) Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
(Deuteronomy 33:27, NIV) The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, `Destroy him!’
(Romans 16:26, NIV) but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him —
(Jeremiah 10:10, NIV) But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.
(I Timothy 1:17, NIV) "Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory forever and ever. Amen."
(I Timothy 6:16, NIV) who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no-one has seen or can see. To him be honour and might forever. Amen."
(Romans 1:23, NIV) and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
(John 1:18, NIV) No-one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, [Or the Only Begotten] [Some manuscripts: but the only (or only begotten) Son] who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.
(John 6:46, NIV) No-one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
15.2 About the Son of God's divine name, recognition, nature and attributes
15.2.1 The divine name 'Son of God' as it connotes, that has never been attributed to God the Father, and can be found in the following verses:
(Matthew 14:33, NIV) Then those who were in the boat worshipped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
(Matthew 26:63-64, NIV) But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, [Or Messiah; also in verse 68] the Son of God.” (Matthew 26:64) “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
(Luke 1:35, NIV) The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called [Or So the child to be born will be called holy,] the Son of God.
(Luke 22:70, NIV) They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?” He {Christ} replied, “You are right in saying I am.”
(John 1:34, NIV) I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God.
(John 1:49-50, NIV) Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” (John 1:50) Jesus said, “You believe [Or Do you believe...?] because I told you I saw you under the fig-tree. You shall see greater things than that.”
(John 11:27, NIV) “Yes, Lord,” she {Martha} told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, [Or Messiah] the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
(John 20:31, NIV) But these are written that you may [Some manuscripts: may continue to] believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
(Acts 8:37, NIV) [Some late manuscripts baptized?” 37 Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” The eunuch answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”]
(Acts 9:20, NIV) At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.
(Romans 1:3-4, NIV) regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David, (Romans 1:4) and who through the Spirit [Or who as to his spirit] of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God, [Or was appointed to be the Son of God with power] by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
(II Corinthians 1:19, NIV) For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me and Silas [Greek: Silvanus, a variant of Silas] and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No”, but in him it has always been “Yes.”
(Galatians 2:20, NIV) I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
(Ephesians 4:13, NIV) until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
(Hebrews 4:14, NIV) Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, [Or gone into heaven] Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
(Hebrews 6:6, NIV) if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because [Or repentance while] to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
(I John 4:15, NIV) If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.
(I John 5:5, NIV) Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
15.2.2 The 'Son of God' has beginning, the image of the invisible God, firstborn over all creation, became the Son of God the Father
(John 1:1, NIV) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
(Colossians 1:15, NIV) He {Christ} is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
( I Chronicles 17:13, NIV) I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor.
(Psalm 2:7, NIV) I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father"
(Hebrews 1:5, NIV) For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father”? [Or have begotten you] Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?
(Hebrews 5:5, NIV) So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.” [Or have begotten you] [Psalm 2:7]
15.2.3 The Son of God Became flesh/come in the flesh
(John 1:14, NIV) The Word {the name given to Christ Revelation 19:13}* became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only {Son}, [Or the Only Begotten] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
(I John 4:2, NIV) This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
(II John 7, NIV) Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
*Related Verse: Revelation 19:13, NIV - He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
15.2.4 The Son of God died.
(Matthew 27:50, NIV) "And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit."
(Mark 15:37, NIV) With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
(Luke 23:46, NIV) Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
(John 19:33, NIV) But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
16. Jesus Christ received honor and glory from God the Father.
(Matthew 3:17, NIV) And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
(Matthew 17:5, NIV) While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
(Mark 9:7, NIV) Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”
(Luke 9:35, NIV) A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.”
(II Peter 1:17, NIV) For he {Christ} received honour and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.
17. Must have fellowship to both the Father and his Son.
(I John 1:3, NIV) We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
18. There are two sources of grace, mercy and peace, first from the Father and secondly from his Son. This is according to the greetings of apostle John to the churches.
(Ephesians 6:23, NIV) Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(I Thessalonians 1:1, NIV) Paul, Silas [Greek: Silvanus, a variant of Silas] and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. [Some early manuscripts you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ].
(II Thessalonians 1:2, NIV) Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(I Timothy 1:2, NIV) To Timothy my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
(II Timothy 1:2, NIV) To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Titus 1:4, NIV) To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
(Philemon 3, NIV) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(II John 3, NIV) Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.
19. All those who continue the teachings of God has both the Father and the Son.
(II John 9, NIV) "Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son."
20. All those blessed and holy who have part in the first resurrection will be priest of both God (the Father) and of Christ.
(Revelation 20:6, NIV) "Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years."
21. Christ is the only Mediator between God and men.
(I Timothy 2:5, NIV) For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
(Hebrews 9:15, NIV) For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance — now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
(Hebrews 12:24, NIV) to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
(I John 2:1, NIV) My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense — Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
Note: If the Son of God is also God the Father, then the Son could not have been a Mediator between God and men.
Summary:
God the Father knows something that his Son Jesus Christ does not know. Only the Father knew the day and hour of the next coming of his Son (Matthew 24:36 / Mark 13:32). If God the Father is also the Son, it follows that whatever the Father knew is also known to the Son, but it is not as such.
Christ talked and prayed to his Father who is different and superior than him (Matthew 26:39; Mark 14:35-36; Luke 22:41-42; Matthew 27:46 / Mark 15:34; Luke 23:34, 46; John 17:1-26). If the Father and the Son of God (Christ) are the same, Christ would not have talked and prayed to God, his Father.
According to the letter of apostle Paul, the head of Christ is God (I Corinthians 11:3) who happens to be his God (Psalm 45:7; Hebrews 1:9).
There was a place where Christ has gone after his resurrection, in the place where his God and Father was before. Accordingly, Christ and God the father were in two different places (John 20:17), and was exalted by God the Father at his right hand (Matthew 26:64; Mark 14:62; Luke 22:69; Mark 16:19; Acts 2:32-33; 5:30-31; 7:55; Romans 8:34; Ephesians 1:20; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 1:3; 10:12; 12:2; I Peter 3:22; Psalm 110:1; Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:42-43; Hebrews 1:13).
When Jesus was baptized, his Father in heaven expressed his love for him, things that he would not have done if the Father is also the Son (Matthew 3:16-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22).
Christ came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of his Father who sent him (John 4:34; 6:38; Hebrews 10:7, 9). Likewise, his teaching was not his own but from his Father who sent him (John 7:16; 8:28; 12:49; 14:24; 17:8). Relative thereto, Christ has not come to this world on his own but his Father was the one who sent him (John 7:28-29; 8:42). In many occasions, Christ said that his Father was the one who sent him (John 5:23-24, 36; 6:29, 57; 7:33; 8:26; 11:42; 12:44; 13:20; 16:5; 17:8, 18, 25; I John 4:9-10, 14).
In the same way the Father has life in himself, he granted Christ to have life in himself too (John 5:26). Things that would not have happened if God the Father is also the Son (Christ).
In the same way that there are two who execute judgments (John 8:16), there are two whom we have to believe and trust into, the Father and the Son (John 12:44; 14:1).
To have an eternal life, we have to know the two, the only true God and the one whom he sent, Jesus Christ, the Son of God (John 17:3).
God the Father raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. (Acts 2:24, 32; 3:15; 10:40; 13:30; I Corinthians 15:15; Galatians1:1; Ephesians 1:20). If the Father and the Son of God are the same, no one could have raised Christ from the dead.
When the end of time comes, Christ will hand over the kingdom to God the Father then the Son himself will be made subject to Him so that God may be all in all (I Corinthians 15:24-28). We should note that there is somebody (Christ) who will hand over the kingdom and another (God the Father) who will accept the kingdom.
There are great differences between God the Father and the Son of God regarding their divine name, recognition, nature and attributes. The divine name 'God the Father' as it connotes, that has never been attributed to the Son of God, can be found in the following verses: (John 6:27; I Corinthians 15:24; Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 5:20; 6:23; Philippians 2:11; I Thessalonians 1:1; II Thessalonians 1:2; I Timothy 1:2; II Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4; I Peter 1:2; II Peter 1:17; II John 3; Jude 1).
God (the Father) is recognized as the Lord/God Almighty (Genesis 17:1; 28:3; 35:11; 43:14; 48:3; Exodus 6:3; Ezekiel 10:5; Revelation 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7, 14; 19:6, 15; 21:22) from everlasting to everlasting, from all eternity (I Chronicles 16:36; 29:10; Nehemiah 9:5; Isaiah 40:28; Psalm 41:13; 90:2; 93:2; 106:48).
In addition, God (the Father) is recognized as God of gods (Deuteronomy 10:17; Psalm 136:2; Daniel 11:36), Lord/God Most High (Genesis 14:18-20, 22; Psalm 7:17; 47:2; 57:2; 78:35; Hebrews 7:1), eternal God/King (Genesis 21:33; Deuteronomy 33:27; Romans 16:26; Jeremiah 10:10), immortal and invisible to man (I Timothy 1:17; 6:16; Romans 1:23; John 1:18; 6:46).
In contrast, the divine name 'Son of God' as it connotes, that has never been attributed to God the Father, can be found in the following verses: (Matthew 14:33; 26:63-64; Luke 1:35; 22:70; John 1:34, 49-50; 11:27; 20:31; Acts 8:37; 9:20; Romans 1:3-4; II Corinthians 1:19; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 4:13; Hebrews 4:14; 6:6; I John 4:15; 5:5).
The 'Son of God' has beginning (John 1:1), the image of the invisible God, firstborn over all creation (Colossians 1:15) and became the Son of God the Father (I Chronicles 17:13; Psalm 2:7; Hebrews 1:5; 5:5).
The Son of God was made flesh/come in the flesh (John 1:14; I John 4:2; II John 7), and died (Matthew 27:50; Mark 15:37; Luke 23:46; John 19:33).
Jesus Christ received honor and glory from God the Father (Matthew 3:17; 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35; II Peter 1:17). It should be noticed that somebody gave the honor and glory, the Father, and somebody received it, the Son.
In the same way that we must have fellowship to both the Father and his Son (I John 1:3), there are two sources of grace, mercy and peace, first from the Father and secondly from the Son (Ephesians 6:23; I Thessalonians 1:1; II Thessalonians 1:2; I Timothy 1:2; II Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4; Philemon 3; II John 3).
Similarly, all those who continue the teachings of God has both the Father and the Son (II John 9).
When time comes, all the blessed and holy who have part in the first resurrection will be priest both to God (the Father) and to Christ (Revelation 20:6).
Christ is the only Mediator between man and God the Father (I Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 9:15; 12:24; I John 2:1). Logically, the Mediator, Jesus Christ, is different from God the Father.
The verses mentioned above are just some of the solid bases to prove that God the Father and the Son are two separate beings. We can understand this if we will open our eyes and accept the truth. It is important to know and The True Meaning according to the Holy Scriptures!
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