Well then you would be strongly disagreeing with God the Father. Good luck with that. Now notice carefully how Paul speaks of "God the Father" and then "God" along with "the Lord Jesus Christ" as "His Son":
ROMANS 1: "GOD" MEANS "GOD THE FATHER" OR "GOD OUR FATHER"
7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Do you not even notice in the above verse which you picked as your example, that Jesus Christ is Lord!! A Lord is someone you serve!! Therefore verse 9 The God who is the witness is the whom he serves with his spirit!! He, the Son is the good news (the gospel) and that without ceasing.
Therefore even the verse you have matches up with the verse I provided:
Jn 1:1 Jn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Yet to come to your conclusion, that there is God the Father and that the Word of God (The Son) is not God, does not match up with either what I provided or what you provided, but you can see it and don't understand it, and that because understanding does not come from leaning on your own understanding and pride! It only comes from hearing Him!!
Prov 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth
come knowledge and understanding.
It kind of comes down to the meaning behind the following verse, but you can understand it without hearing from Him?
Luke 9:48 and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great.”
A few things are important to understand in the above verse. One is His name!! Another is that the child would have been considered the least among them, and so we are talking about the Son. Another thing to understand is the 'whoever receives Me' And you need to get an understanding that in heaven thing are not done in the same way we think they should be done!!! It is written that His thoughts are not our thoughts, but you keep going back to leaning on your thinking, if you don't keep going back to hear from Him!! Therefore you get reproved like those in Luke 9 were being reproved!! You got things backwards, and trying to apply your backwards thinking to how things are done in heaven!! That is because of your pride! Not that all of us people don't have that problem.
So the Bible, both the Old and New Testament is a testimony of the Child or the Son, if you will! That is because the Father wants the Son glorified, but you have trouble understanding this because you want you glorify, like all us people do. But that is not how it is in heaven. In heaven the Father wants His Son glorified!! So the Son is made King of kings and Lord of lords, and the Father gives Him all things!! The all things include the very words of God - so that whenever we hear from God we hear from the Son, because the Son ,Jesus Christ, owns the very words of God!!!!
So if you hear from God you hear from the Son!! If you want an answer from God you then want an answer from Jesus Christ!! So the Father and the Son are One!! You would already know this if you truly knew Jesus Christ, and that comes from hearing Him!! So by writing what you do, you prove you don't know Jesus Chrsit,and that means you don't actually believe in Him!!
And there is another thing you wind up understanding if you know Jesus Christ, and that is that He speaks to your spirit via His Holy Spirit! And the Holy Spirit does not speak on His own initiative either, but He takes the words of God which belong to Jesus Christ as the Word of God, and brings those words to your spirit personally!!! Therefore, the word of God we preach is near us and found in our hearts and our mouths, because that is where what is in your spirit shows up!
So the Word of God (Jesus Christ has not been revealed to you. You just don't have the Revelation of Him in you - and I do mean in you!
Now I went thought the Bible showing you that Jesus Christ is the Word of God, but you did not accept the testimony, New or Old Testaments about Him. You instead are trying to lean on your own understanding, instead of seeking Him. So you don't understand that the Father made Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord or lords, therefore the "greatest", and that the Father gave Jesus the glory of goin to the cross and defeating death, and you don't understand that it was all (including the words of God, and including all the Bible, and including you and i) was given to Him, God the Son, Jesus Christ whose name it called the Word of God because He talks to us via the Holy Spirit.
Yet Jesus, unlike you or me, also does not operate in pride. He does not even consider knowing the depths of God something to be had, so Jesus, The Word of God, only says and does what the Father tells Him. So if you hear from the Son, who has been made the greatest according to the will of the Father, then you don't hear the words of Jesus Christ but the words of the Father that He got from the Father!!
You should understand that, the Father wants the Son glorified, and so the Spirit, and we too should, want the Son glorified (which is not what you are doing because you haven't been hearing the word of God), and so you should be listening to Him the Lord your God! If you did hear from Jesus Christ personally, would would not be hearing what He thinks, but He would be speaking to you the words He got from the Father!!
If you had done that you would understand what both John and Paul were telling you, but you don't and you won't unless you get that revelation of Jesus Christ!!
Jesus said:
Rev 3: 19 - 22 ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and will dine with him, and he with Me. ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
Now if you care to believe it: He came into my life and that because I knew that I needed Him and wanted to listen to Him. There was a day in my life when I was standing in my lawn and loudly telling Him that I was listening and wanted to know what He had to say. I did not hear Him that day but a bit later early one morning a voice spoke to me saying, "Read Your Bible". I did that and to keep this from being longer, let me just say that Him and I have been having conversations daily for over 20 years now! And from those I have come to understand all this.
I spent 40 years of my life not knowing Him, and over 20 years knowing Him, and He does not think like you think! His ways are not your ways!! I know the Father wants Him, Jesus Christ, glorified, but you are seeking your own understanding instead of trying to get people to listen to Him. You don't know Him or you would know the Father has made it about His Son! You would understand, like both John and Paul, that the Son is the Lord our God, because it is through the Son that we get our instructions from the Father. If you don't hear from the Son, you don't hear the words of God which came from the Father. Though it is written down, you don't understand that nobody knows the Father except the Son and anyone the Son shows Him too. You don't know that the Father is all about glorifying the Son, so to even get the words of the Father it means listening to the Son.
If Jesus Christ had been revealed to you, then you would understand all this!! You would have opened up to Jesus Christ as the Word of God, and you two would have talked back and forth! And you would have heard the words of the Father which were given to the Son. And you would have understood that they came to your spirit via the Holy Spirit, and not by you leaning on your understanding of the Bible. You would have understood that the Bible explains all this, but that because of their pride, people don't actually believe what they read in the Bible and also fail to understand it! They are still living by leaning on their own understanding instead of listening to Him because they don't yet have that revelation of Him!
And that seem to apply to most people who write on this forum, because they are writing out of pride instead of because He told them to! But He tells me too, and I get around to doing it, even though I don't like it. So I write and go back to Him saying, "Lord, they simply will not listen to You." But He knows that, yet still He wishes that none should perish, so the Word must go out.