You are most welcome. It's amazing to me as I sent this out, and others, to a couple of dozen people, that inevitably, I have one -- maybe two -- who will write back in amazement at the lies the churches teach, as they intentionally water down His Glory! We Worship the Almighty God, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and threw Him alone have access to the One even more powerful than He, God the Father, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, which is His seed, spread forth within True Worshiper, those Born Again by the Holy Spirit.
John 10:23-33
23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30I and my Father are one.
31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Why did they seek to stone Him? He claimed to be equal with God. He claimed to be God. The Lord Jesus Christ was God and claimed equality with the Father, not superiority over Him, for the Father is greater than the Son, but the Son was of the same make up, the same nature, being one with God the Father, a "chip off the old block". If you cut a chip of wood out of the block, the chip is smaller, (but of the same essence (essence means: the permanent as contrasted with an accidental element of being)) as the original block. They said that man cannot make oneself God, which is true. God can make a man God, though, which He did when He made the Lord Jesus Christ who is God man. God had begotten His Only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Begotten means to pass down from the male, the Father's side of the family, attributes genetically of the Father.
Begotten, to procreate as the father : sire, coming from the male ancestor, forefather, author, originator.
monogenh/v / from (3441) and (1096)Transliterated Word / Phonetic Spelling
Monogenes / mon-og-en-ace'
Parts of Speech / TDNT
Adjective / 4:737,606
Begotten: Single of its kind, only, one of a kind, of the male ancestor passing down attributes to the son, used of Christ, denotes the only begotten Son of God. Alone (without a companion), to become, i.e. to come into existence, begin to be, receive being; to become, i.e. to come to pass, happen; to arise, appear in history, come upon the stage; to become, be made.
Psalm 2:6-8
6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Acts 13:32-34
32And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
Even to some of His sheep, they had a hard time seeing that the Lord Jesus Christ was God. The Lord Jesus Christ repeats to Philip the same thing he had said to the Scribes (Doctors of the Law) and the Pharisees. Then has to prove more fully to the Apostle Thomas by showing him physically what He had been explaining spiritually.
John 14:8-11
8Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
John 20:19-29
19Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
20And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.
21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
23Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
24But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
25The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
26And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
29Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Again, the Father is Greater than our Almighty God, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ leaves us with these words:
John 14:27-29
27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
29And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
Matthew 28:17-20
17And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
God the Father had given ALL POWER, THAT IS ALL AUTHORITY AND POWER to the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The Son, the Lord Jesus Christ in the end returns ALL POWER back to the Father, for the Father is Greater, and the Lord Jesus Christ explains why He returns ALL Power . . . that the Father may be all in all! The Lord Jesus Christ tells us when the end has come . . . Then cometh the end . . .
1 Corinthians 15:24-28
24Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Paul (<:')
Jesus first!