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Thursday 20 January 2022

God and a god

 One of my main religious and theological aims is to understand why the Father says “I am God”. And of course Jesus never says “I am God”. Of course God does not tell us whether the word is god of God, but in English the absence of ‘a’ or ‘the’ (indefinite or definite article) invariably means ‘God’ rather than ‘god’. Any powerful person to whom people make supplication can say “I am a god”. But the Father says “I am God” so I would love to understand that. Jesus did imply “I am a god” (recorded in John chapter 10). But never “I am God” in the sense the Father says it. I think even Trinitarianism would accept and acknowledge this.