Yes. There is one God. There is one mediator between man and God: the man, Christ Jesus. 1 Tim2:5 And that was written after the Ascension.
When a spirit, (created angels included) and the Spirit of God, desires to intermingle with men on Earth, they APPEAR in the fashion AS a man, so Earthly men can SEE Them.
Several scriptures...If you require.
God prepared a BODY, for when He would come into the World.
Heb 10:5
God in Heaven declared He would be "a" Father, to "himself" when He would come into the world.
Heb 1:5
God in Heaven declared He who would come into the world would be "a" Son to "himself".
Heb 1:5
God in Heaven declared He purposed IN HIMSELF the mystery of Himself.
Eph 1:9
Jesus came to Earth, AS A MAN, A SERVANT, As A FAITHFUL Servant....
Phil 2:7. 2:8
Jesus TOOK upon Himself this FORM (body) prepared of God.
Phil 2:7
(Odd how men do not CONCLUDE, there was "something" Beneath that Bodily FORM Jesus took upon Himself.....just saying).
He was SEEN in the Fashion AS A MAN,
Phil 2:8
CALLED a MAN....and talked, walked, mingled, taught men of the Earth.
THAT is how Earthly men were "supposed" to SEE Him, and HOW, they "FIRST" knew Him.
2 Cor 5:16
Little by little, Jesus' REPUTATION was being revealed to men on the EARTH.
What reputation? The reputation He did not come to Earth "with".
What reputation? That He IS THE CHRIST!
"What" IS THEE Christ?
Christ IS THEE POWER of God.
1 Cor 1:24
Every miracle, healing, wonders, Jesus performs is REVEALING His "reputation"...
The POWER, of God.
Men who followed Jesus, heard, learned, saw, believed, KNEW Him first, AS A MAN....
And THEN, no longer KNEW HIM AS A MAN, but KNEW He IS THE CHRIST, THE Power of God, God with Them.
2 Cor 5:16
Men who "BELIEVE" Jesus is thee Christ, simply because Scripture says so.....MISS the BIG PICTURE.
THAT information CAN ONLY TRULY BE "KNOWN" in a mans Heart.....WHEN thee Lord God Almighty Himself "gives" that man His own Understanding.
THAT ^ is the crucial teaching in:
Matt 16:17
Men carry on and on about Jesus the man, and more ridiculously...Jesus the "human" man....When a man WHO has become Converted....should no longer believe in the man....but KNOW they KNOW;
Thee Lord God Almighty.
We are to learn and KNOW and ACKNOWLEDGE we KNOW......The mystery that was Kept Hid IN GOD, then Revealed BY God...
The Mystery OF God, OF the Father, and OF Christ.
Col 2:2.
(A typo, to speak OF all three?). Nah!
A man WHO has GONE TO and THROUGH "Jesus"....has met THEE Lord God Almighty.
An Earthly man WHO goes To and Through Jesus, (the man).....remember....the Earthly man IS a SINNER...estranged from God...The SINNER MAN, is TOO corrupt to HAVE Direct Contact with God....JESUS the man, IS the "buffer"....ADVOCATE...
And ONCE an earthly man CROSSES that threshold....the DOOR...accepts the Conversion.....He is forever IN and WITH the whole of God. Thee Lord God Almighty.
God Bless,
Taken