Isaiah and the Incarnation Theme — by ChatGPT

 The book of Isaiah does not explicitly use the phrase "the word of God would become embryonic flesh," but there are themes and prophecies within Isaiah that Christian theologians interpret as pointing to the incarnation of Christ, which aligns with the concept of the Word becoming flesh.

Isaiah 7:14: "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." This verse is often cited in Christian theology as a prophecy of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, suggesting a divine intervention where God takes human form through a virgin birth.

Isaiah 9:6: "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." This verse speaks of a child who holds divine titles, which Christians interpret as a prophecy about Jesus, indicating that a divine being (the Word) would be born as a human child.

Isaiah 11:1-5: This passage describes a future ruler from the line of Jesse (David's father) who will be endowed with the Spirit of the Lord and will rule with righteousness. Christians see this as a reference to Jesus Christ, connecting the human lineage to the divine mission.

Isaiah 53: This chapter describes the suffering servant who bears the sins of many, a key text in Christian understanding of Jesus' sacrificial role. While it doesn't explicitly mention the Word becoming flesh, it describes the human suffering of someone who is ultimately fulfilling a divine purpose.

While Isaiah does not explicitly state that "the word of God would become embryonic flesh," these and other passages are interpreted by Christians as foreshadowing the incarnation of Jesus Christ, where the divine Word (Logos) becomes human, as expressed in the New Testament, particularly in John 1:14: "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us."

— ChatGPT, AI.

Correcting the coequal-Trinity dogma

 In case 1 Cor 15:24-28 is unclear, here is what AI, ChatGPT, says to explain it. 

This passage from 1 Corinthians 15:24-28 can be paraphrased and explained as follows:

The end will come when Christ hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after He has abolished every form of rule, authority, and power. Christ must continue to reign until He has defeated all His enemies. The last enemy to be defeated will be death. God has placed everything under Christ's authority. However, it is clear that God, who gave Christ this authority, is not included in this subjection. Once everything is under Christ's control, Christ Himself will also be subject to God, so that God may be supreme over everything.

Explanation:

Verse 24: The end times are described, where Christ will give the kingdom back to God the Father. This signifies the culmination of Christ's mission and the establishment of God's ultimate authority.

Verse 25: Christ's reign is necessary until He has defeated all His enemies, symbolizing the triumph of good over evil.

Verse 26: The final enemy to be destroyed is death, highlighting the ultimate victory over mortality and sin.

Verse 27: Everything is placed under Christ's authority by God. However, it's understood that God, who granted this authority, is not under Christ's rule.

Verse 28: After everything is subdued, Christ will submit to God the Father, ensuring that God is supreme in all things.

The passage emphasizes the order and purpose in God's plan, where Christ's mission leads to the ultimate recognition of God's supreme authority and the eradication of all forms of evil and death.

The Most High God did not die on the cross but the Son sent by Him died and rose again

 Jesus Christ is divine as the Son of the Father set apart to be judge over all, but he is distinct from God the Father. Therefore, it was Jesus, the Son, who laid down his life as an act of ultimate obedience and love towards God the Father, fulfilling His divine mission. God, in His essence, did not die, but rather, it was Jesus, the human being endowed with a divine mission, the human only begotten Son of the non-human Father, who sacrificed his life.

A Son of the Most High God can be called a god

 Since Jesus had already accepted that, in the context of Psalms 82:6 ("I said, 'You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you'"), he could be called a god, he did not rebuke Thomas when Thomas said "My God" to him. Jesus understood that Thomas did not mean he was the Most High God, but recognized him as the Son of the Most High God, appointed to be judge over all.

Kingdom of God

 Some people are wiling to hold to the genuine authentic meanings of sayings of Jesus by letting themselves be persuaded who Jesus is by the Father Himself. These overcome all cultic alternative positions. People persuaded by the Father to believe who His Son truly is, and thus receiving true knowledge of the true sayings of Jesus and holding to them, these people enter a super-ruling class. You thought there was a hidden ruling group running the world? You thought that was conspiracy theory? You maybe thought globalist groups did it? All those are copies of the real invisible ultra ruling class. The class of those in fellowship with the One True God above all gods and kings, and with His Christ, His Son whom He has sent. Soon, a few decades from now, it will no longer be hidden. 

There had to be a Christ

 We should not underestimate or fail to understand how extremely important it must have been to the Father, in the early days of world, to have a Christ who would succeed in righteously, sinlessly pleasing Him, especially given the fall of others. Think if a king has no heir, how it affects his rule. Think how it affects respect for his authority, especially if some of his kingdom starts to lose that respect for him. God would not allow there to be no certainty of the coming of His Son of righteousness. It is no wonder there was always a Spirit of Christ in heaven. God would have ensured it. The righteousness of angels in heaven and respect by them towards God would have required it. That is the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nature exists by it, persists by it, and functions by it. We must understand this. 

The Holiest Truth

 The Father, the one true God, laid on Jesus His beloved, only-begotten Son, our sins when Jesus was crucified on the cross. It is a hidden truth we know only from testimonies and prophecies. Everything about the Father revealed to those who love Him is fully consistent with it, and the resurrection in which He raised Lord Jesus from the dead confirms it. John the Baptist testified about it, that Jesus is the lamb of God. Christianity is built on this one truth above all others. This is the truth because of which any disciple of Jesus can have hope in following the Lord Jesus Christ. God did not lay our sins upon Himself, He laid them upon His begotten Son. This is the holiest truth. 

The Bible and the True Christian Life

 Oral Tradition: Early Christianity relied heavily on oral traditions. The sayings of Jesus and accounts of his life were initially transmitted orally. This was crucial in the early Christian communities before the New Testament texts were widely circulated and canonized.

Living by Jesus' Teachings: Central to early Christianity was the emphasis on living according to Jesus' teachings. Early Christians sought to embody the principles and values taught by Jesus in their daily lives.

Scriptures and Memorization: While oral tradition was significant, the early Christian communities also valued written texts. The letters of Paul and other apostles, along with the Gospels, began to be written and circulated relatively soon after Jesus' death. Memorizing and reflecting on these texts became important practices.

Role of the Bible: The complete canon of the New Testament was not established until several centuries after Jesus' death. Written scriptures (including the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) were always important. The New Testament writings were used in teaching, worship, and for doctrinal guidance as they became available.

True Christian Life: You do not even need a Bible to be a true Christian. Historically, the Bible (both Old and New Testament) has been a central component of Christian faith and practice since the early days of the church, but the essence of Christianity is about following Jesus' teachings.

(Portions worded by ChatGPT)

To Protestants and Catholics

 Jesus and the Father tend to teach things we were never told in our denominational, perhaps Protestant backgrounds, or equally Catholic teaching would not tell us what God tells us and Jesus teaches. Scriptures we thought were obsolete. Doctrines nobody seems to be preaching. Behaviour which our leaders and elders would scorn. Traditions we never tend to keep, that go against the ways we are raised. But Jesus is real and will rule a thousand years soon. The Father is real and will have everything eventually subject to Him. There is no changing God. It is we who must change. We can be for Him and His teachings, or we can be against Him and His teachings. The goal we should wisely set ourselves should be fellowship with the Father and Son and with those who choose likewise. Or we can merely fit in with others who reject that highest goal. 

This is massive

 This is massive. Like Jesus said, someone today can become greater than anyone before Jesus came. You or I can choose to uphold and obey teachings and commands of Jesus and thereby qualify in love for direct fellowship with both Father and Son and true, real, experiential knowledge of both. Never before was there this simple mode of access to the greatest understanding, and the greatest uplifting of human nature ever, and available to even the lowliest, or least educated, or most mentally challenged individual. It is human highest ever state of existence to know Son and Father. “Jesus has appeared and has given us understanding to know the Holy One.” Even being able to receive direct revelations from the Father as to His true character and love. For Moses he could only hide in a rock and have God declare this love to him. For us we can personally have God demonstrate it to us, directly so we know it in our mind. Sages over millennia longed for this. Zoroaster, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, all would give anything for it. Now anyone can have it. Here we are discussing it, without being sages or top philosophers, but discussing what wisest and holiest men of history longed to know and see and speak of. 

Necessary Condition, portions by ChatGPT

 The saying "nobody has seen God… but the Son has made Him known" can be interpreted as expressing a necessary condition. In this context, the idea would be that seeing or knowing God is predicated on the Son making Him known. Here’s a closer look at how this works logically and theologically:

John 1:18 states: "No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself Divinity and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known."

Interpreting this as a necessary condition:

The first clause, "No one has ever seen God," establishes the premise that direct knowledge or vision of God is unattainable by humans on their own.

The second clause, "but the one and only Son... has made him known," provides the necessary condition for knowing God: it is only through the Son that God can be made known or seen.

Thus, the structure implies:

Seeing or knowing God is impossible unless the Son makes Him known.

So, in logical terms:

If a person sees or knows God, then it must be because the Son has made Him known.

Therefore, the condition here is:

Knowing God is contingent upon the Son making Him known.

So this saying can be interpreted to mean that seeing or knowing God is contingent upon the Son’s revelation of God, establishing the Son as the necessary mediator for this divine knowledge.

This kind of construct Jesus used in his saying ”no man comes to the Father but by me”. It has a similar meaning. It follows that it is possibly incorrect to think that John’s gospel states without qualification that nobody has ever seen God. 

All about the love

 The one human who is the Christ loves the One True God who is spirit, and the One True God loves the Christ, His Son. The One True God gives knowledge and wisdom and all things to the Christ. This giving and this love causes the oneness between them. The real oneness between Father and Son comes from the teachings the Father gives to the Son and the steadfastness with which the Son holds to those teachings and lives by them. This is how the Father is manifested in the Son. It is also how the Son is manifested in his true disciples and how that discipleship is manifested in the love between them. It is all about the love: God’s teachings and the love in keeping them. 

Sons of God

With God, a Son is one whom God can not only command but also teach and correct, avoiding the nuclear option used with other mighty ones. The Christ, as foretold to David, is the primary example of this Son who would build the temple rightly. Solomon was the initial fulfillment, but this established hope for an even greater fulfillment in the true Christ, the only-begotten Son. God is manifestly seen in this Son because He shows His ways through correcting, teaching, and helping this Son in all divine ways as his heavenly Father.

How does this relate to Christianity? A disciple of Christ, believing in Him and holding to His teachings, has the prospect of becoming a child of God, much like Christ is the Son of God. It is not a life of privilege. Christ taught that heavenly bliss is for those who endure terrible things in earthly life. Christ Jesus himself suffered such a degree of abandonment by God that he cried out in utter anguish on the cross. Even before this, his prayers were often anguished cries to the Father. Yet, as with Christ, a child of God receives fine-controlled correction and teaching from the Father. Through this strong interaction, the Father is manifested in them to others. Furthermore, Christ is manifested in them through their obedience to His teachings and their ongoing fellowship with Him and other disciples. This all leads to eternal life, in united fellowship with each other, with Christ, and with the Father, their God.

The test

 If you are a true Christian you live by Christ’s teachings and you find that when you meet with other such disciples of Christ, Christ’s spirit is there. Jesus Christ only has true fellowship with those who adhere to his teachings. 

A calling to be saints

 Looking at Daniel 7, Jesus is the Christ and is head of those saints who will soon take possession of the kingdom of God. Jesus approaches God on behalf of those who are his body of saints, since he is their head. Jesus is not himself this God, this Ancient of Days. Jesus mediates with God for the saints of his body.

Who are these saints? Saints are ordinary people like you and me but with a great calling. In John 8, we see how it works. A woman caught in adultery started off life ordinary and committed adultery when she was older. Then Jesus came into her life at a point when it was on the rocks. She was about to be stoned to death for her adultery. He intervened, interceding, making her accusers back off. Then comes the biggest thing to happen to her: He told her he did not condemn her and to go and sin no more.

Two factors to this calling were, firstly, the removal of condemnation and, secondly, a calling to be saintly, to sin no more. John 8 continues. Jews, Pharisees, trying to condemn Jesus and trip him up were told to believe he is the Christ, the light of the world, the Son, sent by the Father. If they did not believe it, they would die in their sins. If they believed it, they must hold to his teachings to be set free by truth from their sins. Like that adulterous woman, they could end up sinning no more.

Two accounts of calling to be saints: Saints through the teachings of Jesus. His body. To whom the kingdom would be given forever.

Christ dying for you on the cross removes the condemnation.

The power of God can teach you to stop sinning. 

Building upon solid rock

 Our biological lives are flawed. We might end up as criminals, murderers, liars, or deviant in various ways—attributes not suitable for eternal harmonious fellowship with the Father. Thus, we need to start again, differently. This requires a rebuild of our lives, but not like our biological beginning, which fails to achieve righteous saintliness. Instead, we need to build our lives again based on the Son of God, the light of the world, the Christ, Jesus, sent by the Father for this purpose. We need to believe in this light of the world and strive to understand and obey His teachings. We do so with the assurance that, as Jesus taught, we will know the truth, and the truth will set us free. But it takes love. Love toward the Father. Love Him and let that love be about keeping the teachings He gives. He gives them through Jesus, His Son, so it matters that we take serious notice of what Jesus taught and what the Holy Spirit still teaches in Lord Jesus Christ’s name. These teachings ultimately originate in the Father who sent Jesus. Some serious sin is causing trouble right now, in wars and rumours of wars, with the people who are supposed to be God’s people somehow to blame. The teachings of God through His Son might be enough to get rid of this sin, if we double up our resolve to hold to those teachings, and the truth is given us to set us free. We need to double up our efforts to keep those teachings ever before us. Posters. Online postings. Teaching the next generation too. Most of all we need to dig deeper into the teachings, finding out what Jesus and his apostles really meant by them, living by the actual intended meanings. The storms are coming. This is the time to give up building upon sand and build instead our lives and our children’s lives on solid rock. 

Divine Likeness and Spiritual Rebirth

 Today, we see a view of the likeness between the Father and Jesus His Son based on a concept akin to biological genetic inheritance. There is an idea of a sharing of the substance of what the Father is. Trinitarians call this "homoousios."

What is our understanding of being born again? It can typically be seen as redoing what did not work the first time. The first birth we undergo is a natural biological inheritance of a physical body. While it results in good biological substance of the human being, it often leads to a mess. We might end up as criminals, murderers, liars, or deviant in various ways—attributes not suitable for eternal harmonious fellowship with the Father. Thus, we need to do it again, differently. It requires a rebuild of our lives, but not like our first birth, which fails to achieve righteous saintliness. Instead, we need to build our lives again based on the Son of God, the light of the world, the Christ, Jesus, sent by the Father for this purpose.

We need to believe in this light of the world and strive to understand and obey His teachings. We do so with the assurance that, as Jesus taught, we will know the truth, and the truth will set us free. This is called being born again, and it holds the prospect, since the Father raised Jesus from the dead, of leading us toward eternal harmonious fellowship with the Father, as we live by the teachings given to Jesus for us by the Father. It is spiritual because it is based not on biological inheritance, but on teachings from heaven that came through Jesus, the light of the world, sent by the Father.

Now back to the first topic: the likeness between the Father and Jesus His Son. It is not like biological inheritance. It is not about sharing a biological substance of what the Father is. It is not some substance passed to Jesus from the Father during conception. It is a likeness based on the same principle we find in being born again. The Father loves the Son as His only begotten Son and teaches Him everything He can teach, giving Him everything He can give. The Father knew that He would have a person subject to Him as the ultimate king, with whom He would have better options than the hire-and-fire options He has with earthly kings.

Kings like biblical Saul could be anointed, appointed, and commanded, but ultimately could be kept or fired if things went well or badly. God has power over them, but it is coarse-grained. A Son, on the other hand, is one whom God could not only command but also teach and correct, to avoid the nuclear option. The Christ, Jesus, is the main one foretold to David to be this Son who would build the temple rightly. Solomon was the initial fulfillment, but it established hope of even greater fulfillment in a true Christ, the only-begotten Son.

The Father is therefore manifestly seen in this Son because the relationship allows Him to show His own ways through this Son by correcting, teaching, and helping Him in all of the ways of God, His heavenly Father. This likeness of the Father seen in Jesus His Son is not some philosophically presumed substance like a kind of DNA of God. It is the same kind of likeness we can have when we are born again. It is a likeness that comes from a life built on the Father’s teachings given to His Son.

The Only Begotten Son of the Only True God

God knew that He would have a person subject to Him as ultimate king with whom God would have better options than merely hire and fire. Kings like Saul could be anointed, appointed, commanded, but ultimately mainly kept or fired if things went well or badly. God has power but it is coarse grained. A Son is one who God could not only command but also teach and correct, to avoid the nuclear option. The Christ is the main one foretold to David to be this Son who would build the temple rightly. Solomon was initial fulfilment but it established hope of even greater fulfilment in a true Christ. The only-begotten Son. God can therefore be manifestly seen in this Son because the options allow God to show His own ways through this Son by correcting, teaching, helping this Son in all of the ways of God, his heavenly Father. 

Four aspects of the preexistence of the Christ

Four aspects of the preexistence of Christ exist: His name, his spirit, his person, and his form. Addressing each in turn - 

The preexistent name of Christ encompasses much more than just a title; it includes His reputation, character, ministry, victorious success, and purity in righteousness as revealed by God before Jesus Christ’s incarnation. These aspects are woven throughout the Scriptures, both in prophecy and fulfillment, highlighting the comprehensive nature of Christ’s identity and mission as the preexistent and eternal Son of God.

The idea that the preexistent Spirit of Christ was speaking through the prophets in first-person expressions provides a profound theological connection between the Old and New Testaments. It suggests that Christ, through the Holy Spirit, was actively revealing His future incarnation, suffering, and redemptive mission long before He took on human flesh. This understanding enriches the coherence and depth of the scriptural witness to Jesus Christ.

The Book of Enoch is relevant to the preexistence of the person of Christ, the Son of Man. Enoch (some say Noah) is recorded as being taken into heaven in chapter 70, (chapter 69 in the older Laurence translation). “… his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth” Enoch 70:1 (Enoch 69:1 in older translation). This shows the existence of both the Son of Man (Christ spirit) and the Lord of Spirits (Most High God) even in days of Enoch and Noah (‘before Abraham was born’).

There are various passages relating to the preexistent form of the Christ. In the main these distinguish it from a human flesh body. It is a form which appears as human but not as flesh in the prophecies in the Book of Enoch. (Some object that this, like Daniel 7, could all be prophetic foretelling of his later flesh form, but against this view there is the Enoch 70:1 implication that the form existed in heaven with the Most High God even when Enoch was taken up to be with them.) The form is with God, and is of the same form as the form of God. 

So, although it sounds strange to speak of the Christ existing before the Christ came in the flesh, he did have aspects of existence before that baby was named Jesus by his parents. He was in the womb. He was named Jesus by the angel Gabriel before that existence in the womb, and it is likely God gave him that name before it was told to Gabriel. His person seems to have existed even before this, in heaven with God. There was his spirit giving prophecies centuries previously where the prophetic spirit spoke in the first person as the Christ. The name or reputation of the coming Christ was highly regarded and extremely important well before all this, even before the creation of the world. Trees put forth buds and leaves by it, as the Holy Spirit tells us. 

The name of the Son of Man in the beginning

 Outside of the Book of Enoch it is hard to not know much about Christ in his preexistence. The Book of Enoch shows us that it is mainly his name and the spirit of what he would be which existed. From John we find the Word which eventually became flesh preexisted because of the nature of the Father, knowing the end from the beginning and predetermining. It in no sense implies any beginning: Nothing in the Book of Enoch suggests a time before which there was no Word, no spirit of the Christ. I personally know what I know because the Holy Spirit gave me words, a saying, decades ago, through interpretation of tongues, which said the following. “Consider the trees. They put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” I saw similar sayings later when I first saw the Book of Enoch. It then started to all add up. 

Enoch and the Son of Man

 Esdras calls Apocryphal scriptures a set of scriptures for the wise alone. I think Enoch is quarantined as Apocrypha to keep it out of hands of fools who would easily distort and abuse it. The truths it contains have thus been kept fairly pure, kept away from the wiles of Trinitarians and Modalists. Now they are still there for the last days when they become so poignant. Truths found in them are wise truths, secrets of the kingdom, best pondered by those with wise understanding of the gospel or true spiritual insights and gifts from the Holy Spirit. Yet in the writings of Enoch are also messages for everyone such as abstaining from violence in view of the certainty of coming judgement. So I personally would like to see the label ‘Apocrypha’ dropped. It is made a pejorative term by the very kinds of people who would abuse the Enoch scriptures. Perhaps that is why the label needs to stay. The same people would make the whole Book of Enoch pejorative, if it were more widely known. But time is short and the righteous need to know this book. Those who are wise will dig down into Jesus’ teachings and his meaning to learn to rightly obey him, and in so doing they will discover his love of the scripture writings of Enoch. Enoch in turn greatly loves the Son of Man, we now know as Jesus Christ. The Son of Man in the Enoch scriptures is mainly about the name of Jesus Christ being there in times before Abraham and before the world began. The name, manifested in such times as a heavenly spirit, heavenly originally before manifestation in the created flesh. Something special the Book of Enoch contains is the saying of Enoch (some think it was Noah) on ascending, where he speaks of ascending “to that Son of Man”. That is fairly solid evidence of pre-NT preexistence belief. Enoch knew the Son of Man in visions but prided himself on the delight of physically being taken ip to that Son of Man, as one existing, not only a foreknowledge shown in prophetic visions. 

Subjection to the Father

 Those who do not recognize that everything will ultimately be subject to the Father are likely currently under subjection to Satan, similar to those who refuse to submit to the Father. People tend to be subject to one or the other. Disobedience is nearly the opposite of subjection. Rejecting the Father as the one true God and disobeying Him leads a person into subjection to Satan. Therefore, it is necessary for everyone to eventually return to subjection to the Father so that He can be the ultimate and eternal God, the all in all. Jesus will bring this about, in the future when He comes and during His thousand-year reign. Once everyone, great and small, is brought into subjection to Jesus Christ the Lord, He will then hand everything over to the Father and will Himself become fully subject to the Father forever, along with everything under His authority.

Wisdom in the Christ

 The Christ, as prophesied in the Scriptures, will rule over all nations and peoples with unparalleled authority and wisdom. His reign will be marked by justice, peace, and the fulfillment of God's promises to humanity. This wisdom by which the Christ will govern is not a distant, unattainable concept but is available to believers today as a divine light from the Father.

This divine wisdom is embodied in the teachings and life of Jesus Christ, illuminating the path to righteous living. Imparted by the Holy Spirit, it guides believers in their daily lives, promoting moral integrity, compassion, and a heart turned away from sin. By adhering to this heavenly wisdom, individuals experience a transformative cleansing from sin, aligning their lives more closely with God's will.

The light from the Father, as revealed through the Christ, leads believers towards eternal life. It is a guiding beacon that not only promises future resurrection but also enriches present existence with purpose and hope. By following this divine wisdom, believers are assured of their place in the eternal kingdom that the Christ will establish, where His righteous rule will bring everlasting peace and joy, for a thousand years and then, when he hands the kingdom over to the Father, forever. 

Thus, the wisdom of the Christ, available to us now, is both a present help and a promise of future glory, leading us to eternal life and the resurrection through Him.

Coming soon

 Soon, probably within the next four decades, Christ Jesus will visibly come and start to rule in full view of the whole world, ruling globally for the next thousand years. It will be like he is God to us all. But even then his own God will be the Father. When all is subject to him, he will eventually hand it all over to the Father. All things will be under Jesus but forever even Jesus will be under the Father. To quote wording by ChatGPT: ”This order of subjection - firstly, subjection of all things to the Son, and then, subjection of the Son and all things in him to the Father - means that ultimately, all things will forever be subject to the Father, the ultimate one true God.”

God over all forever

 Thomas called Jesus his god. But Jesus called the Father his God. The Father will be God over all forever.

The Father is forever the God of all gods, the king above all gods. Even the Lord over all, Jesus Christ, will forever be subject to the Father, his God. Through Jesus we can belong to the Father and have the Father as our God. The Father is the the one true God, even if we recognise Jesus as our lord and our god, because Jesus regards the Father as his God and will forever be subject to the Father, even after all things are made subject to Jesus.

My Lord and my God

 Thomas exclaimed to Jesus, seeing him alive from the dead and having power unseen before, “My Lord and my God”. The Father is the greatest and is God over all. We can say that Jesus is the Lord because. while having all things increasingly made subject to him by the Father, he will always be subject to the Father. This order of subjection - firstly, subjection of all things to the Son, and then, subjection of the Son and all things in him to the Father - means that ultimately, all things will forever be subject to the Father, the ultimate one true God. So the one true God is forever going to be the Father, but although Jesus will be subject to the Father, everything will be made subject to Jesus. So Thomas could see this immortal Jesus, raised from the dead by the Father, and exclaim that Jesus is his Lord and it was true that Jesus is, second only to the Father, his God too. But nevertheless, the ultimate God of Thomas is the one true God, the Father. 

Jesus loves the Father

 Now Jesus is Lord, and the Father gives him authority over all things, except the Father Himself. There was a time when Jesus took on flesh. Before that time, the Word that became flesh was everything the Father was. By taking on flesh, the Son became forever subject to the Father. We must have such humility too. Jesus is our Lord, and we can never be greater than him. The Lord Jesus Christ will always be subject to the Father. We can never be people who are not subject to anyone. Only the Father is like that. Only the Father is the One True God. Yet originally, Jesus, or rather the Word that became Jesus by taking on flesh, was everything that the Father is. It was an act of humility to become flesh and thus to forever be subject to the Father. This was the will of the Father, fulfilled in love. The Father in love now gives him everything. This unites the Father and Son in one purpose forever.

Ultimate power

 Although Jesus is Lord and we will always be subject to him, the ultimate divine attribute of never needing to be subject to anyone is something only the Father possesses. This is why Jesus refers to the Father as the only true God. We are more like Jesus because, like him, we will always be subject to the Father. We, like Jesus, can command Nature, and if we do not doubt, it will obey us. However, even with this authority, we still have someone above us to whom we must always be subject. The Father is never subject to anyone and never will be. Because all things will be subject to the Son, and the Son will be subject to the Father, everything will always be subject to the Father, who is never subject to anyone. He is the God of gods, the all in all, the one true God, forever.

The Unique Divine Sovereignty of the Father: Jesus’ Acknowledgment of the Only True God

 The ultimate divine attribute of having no need to ever be subject to anyone, forever. That is a kind of divinity only the Father can ever possess. That is why Jesus calls the Father the only true God.