The scriptures that I shared are not hard to comprehend to me. They tell me clearly that Jesus had a God and derives all that He is and Has from His Father who is the Supreme God. Jesus came to reveal this God to us and for all that Jesus did, for all that the Father made Him and gave Him, He has my worship, adoration, and service. He is my Lord and Savior and has the right to be called God because the Father gave Him this right and authority. But I realize that the Supreme God, the Father, is the One and Only True God who is the source and originator of all.
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Subjection is the highest, the ultimate glory of the Son of God. During the last two eons He will exercise power and authority, so that myriads will be subordinate to Him. He will be the Sovereign of the universe. He will subject all of God's creatures to Him. In doing this He acts like God, He uses the power and prerogatives of God. While He does it He is called God. But when He has accomplished it, He does not return to a state of absolute Deity, as the trinitarian theory must insist, but He resigns the very functions which pertain to Deity. He voluntarily abdicates His throne. He relinquishes His authority over creation, and takes a place subordinate.
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A.E. Knoch
Philippians 2
5 Have this attitude [e]in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be [f]grasped, 7 but [g]emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death [h]on a cross. 9
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father"
God bless.
"for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of My own accord,
but He sent Me." [ John 8:42]
"To sit at My right hand and at My left is not Mine to grant, but it is for
those for whom it has been prepared by my Father" [Matthew 20:23]
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in
heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." [Mr 13:32]
"So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not Mine, but His who
sent Me" [John 7:16]
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the
kingdom of heaven, but He who does the will of My Father in heaven." [Mt 7:21]
"And the Father Himself, which hath sent Me, hath borne witness of
Me. Ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape. [John 5:37]
"And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good
but God alone." [Mr 10:18]
"And I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks and judges." [John 8:50]
John 8:54-56 Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God';
John 17:3: Now this is *eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
*eternal=aionios
John 5:26: For as the Father has life in himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
The Father granted or gave life to the Son.
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"Jesus said to her, I am ascending to My Father and Your Father, to MY God and your God.'" - John 20:17 (RSV)
"He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word
which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me." [John 14:24]
"For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who
sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak." [John 12:49]
"Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent
Me, and to accomplish His work." [John 4:34]
"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but
the will of Him who sent Me." [John 6:38]
"saying, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me;
nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done." [Luke 22:42]
" I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment
is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the
Father who sent Me." [John 5:30]
"I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master,
nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him." [John 13:16]
John 6. 55 For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.