I am confused by the following scriptures;
Isaiah 44:6....Is The Son not the Lord of Lords and king of kings? Would this not make The Son, 'King of Israel'? If so, then where does 'The Father' fit into 'GOD'?
Revelation chpt 4.....It states that He who is sitting on the throne, 'created all things'. Other N/T scripture, states that it was The Son that created everything. We are also told, that no man has ever seen The Father (The Almighty) at any time. Jesus stated, "My Father and I are one." Is it possible, that The Son is in fact 'two' figures, and not one (separating The Son as God, versus the Lamb...resurrected Son of Man...our brother)? Is Revelation not The Son (The Word) reconciling His kingdom before submitting Himself and His kingdom unto The Father (occurring after Revelation)? Rev 1:6 and Ephesians 4:6, may have a different meaning than what Christian ministers believe, and teach.
Is it possible, that only The Son actually bears the title 'God', and The Father (along with The Holy Ghost), are above everything else? We do not know exactly how man has interpreted what God has told them. Man may have used the term 'God', when they should have used the term 'The Father' when referencing The Son's Father. Just a thought.
Thorwald Johansen
Isaiah 44:6 identifies that there is
only one true God, in which God himself says: "This is what
Jehovah has said, the King of Israel and the Repurchaser of him, Jehovah of armies, ‘I am the first and I am the last, and
besides me there is no God." Jesus fully agreed with this, saying in prayer to his Father: "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you,
the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."(John 17:3) Jesus thus shows that he is not God, but only "sent forth" from the "only true God."
Moses told the nation of Israel just before entering the land of Canaan in 1473 B.C.E.: "You—you have been shown, so as to know that
Jehovah is the true God; there is
no other besides him."(Deut 4:35) Over 700 years later, through the prophet Isaiah, God told the nation of Israel: "You are my witnesses,” is the utterance of
Jehovah, “even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that you may know and have faith in me, and that you may understand that I am the same One.
Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none."(Isa 43:10)
And again through the prophet Isaiah, God said: "This is what Jehovah has said, your Repurchaser and the Former of you from the belly: “I,
Jehovah, am doing everything, stretching out the heavens
by myself, laying out the earth.
Who was with me?"(Isa 44:24) Thus, no other "God" equal to Jehovah exists.
At Revelation 4:11, the symbolic "twenty-four elders" fall down before God's throne, saying: "You are worthy,
Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because
you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.” Hence, there is only one true God, Jehovah, no one other God equal to or with him.
Jesus Christ is God's "only-begotten Son" (John 3:16, "only-begotten", Greek
mo·no·ge·nes, meaning "single of its kind, only,” or “the only member of a kin or kind.” Thayer’s
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, 1889, p. 417; Liddell and Scott’s
Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford, 1968, p. 1144 ), the "faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God" (Rev 3:14). He "is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation."(Col 1:15) Thus, Jesus was Jehovah God's first creative handiwork, and then through Jesus (who is Michael the archangel in heaven) life and the universe came in to existence, being called a "master worker".(Col 1:16; Prov 8:30)
The holy spirit is Jehovah God's active force, his applied power that he used to create everything. It is not part of a "Godhead", nor is Jesus Christ. The holy spirit is
likened to water at Isaiah 44:3, in which Jehovah says: "For I shall
pour out water upon the thirsty one, and trickling streams upon the dry place. I shall
pour out my spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon your descendants." Water is not a person but something that is lifeless, but can give life.
To further show that the holy spirit is God's active or applied force, on the day of Pentecost, 33 C.E., 120 assembled in the upper room in Jerusalem whereby Acts 2:4 says that "all became
filled with holy spirit and started to speak with different tongues, just as the spirit was granting them to make utterance." These were not filled with a person.
Even of Jesus, Luke 4:1 says, following his baptism, that "Jesus,
full of holy spirit, turned away from the Jordan, and he was led about by the spirit in the wilderness." Jesus was not filled with a member of the "Godhead", which is distorted rendering of three Greek words by the
King James Bible, (1)
Thei´on at Acts 17:29, meaning "Divine Being",(2)
Thei·o´tes at Romans 1:20, meaning "Godship", and (3)
the·o´te·tos at Colossians 2:9, meaning "divine quality".
At Acts 10:38, of Jesus, it says that "Jesus who was from Naz´a·reth, how
God anointed him with holy spirit and power, and he went through the land doing good and healing all those oppressed by the Devil; because
God was with him." Therefore, Jesus is
not God, but God's "master worker" and "only-begotten Son", nor is the holy spirit, which is God's active force or applied power that used to create the universe and all life.
Only Jehovah is "the only true God."