There is only one person revealed in scripture who says “I am God” and it is the one who Jesus called his Father, to whom he taught his followers to pray. “Our Father in heaven…” This is the one to whom that prayer of Jesus said “The kingdom and power and glory are Yours forever”. This is the one who through the psalm said to warring nations “Be still and know that I am God”. Even after centuries of teachings from various Churches of Christendom, teaching various versions of what is always called truth, despite the differences in what is boldly asserted to be that truth, God, the Father, still says, without any qualification or room for doubt, “I am God”. Jesus too boldly asserted that the Father is the one true God, and that Jesus himself is the Christ sent by this one true God: “One true God” because the Father is most high and the very source of all divinity, even for Jesus. So it is confusing when the Church in one part of the world or another has historically asserted differently. Let the true believers in whatever church or religion where God is proclaimed, clarify their true faith, planted in them by God, that it is the Father who alone is the one true God over all, and that Jesus is His Son. The confusion usually stems from the multiplicity of heavenly beings called gods and sons of God, and earthly rulers given divine power to rule like gods and as sons of God. Jesus is Lord over them, and will have all mighty ones put under his feet eventually by the one true God. He can therefore more than any of them be called a god, and more than any of them be seen as the Son of God. God, the one most high God, the Father, has exalted Jesus as Lord when He raised Jesus from the dead and placed him in authority over all in heaven and earth, until that day when Jesus, under the anointing he has received from the Father, has all put under his feet, even including his enemies and powers opposed to him. The true position of Jesus is therefore the one appointed by the Father and anointed by Him, to so reign over all in heaven and earth: The Christ, and Lord. Yet it is all from the Father. It is therefore the Father only who is the one who alone can say assuredly “I am God”.
