Jesus Highlighting the Father as the One True God

Jesus Highlighting the Father as the One True God

In John 17:3, Jesus prays, “And this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.”

Right here, Jesus draws a line—He calls the Father the only true God and positions himself as the one sent by Him.

Then in John 14:28, He says, “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.”

Jesus doesn’t mince words—the Father’s greatness surpasses his own.

John 5:30 backs this up: “By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but Him who sent me.”

Jesus relies completely on the Father’s direction, showing who’s really in charge.

In Matthew 26:39, during that intense moment in Gethsemane, He prays, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

Even facing the cross, Jesus surrenders to the Father’s will, not his own.

And in Revelation 3:12, after His resurrection, Jesus says, “The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God.”

Four times he calls the Father “my God”—even in glory, He’s still pointing upward.

Jesus as God’s Chosen Prophet

Acts 3:22 ties Jesus to an Old Testament promise: “For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you.’”

Jesus fulfills this role perfectly—a prophet sent by God.

We see this in action in Matthew 21:10-11: “When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, ‘Who is this?’ The crowds answered, ‘This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.’” 

The people saw Jesus as a prophet, not as God walking among them.

Jesus’ Authority and Place

In Matthew 28:18, Jesus declares, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” 

That’s a massive statement—but notice it’s given to Jesus. The Father is the source, handing down the power.

Jesus on God and Goodness

In Mark 12:28-30, a teacher asks Jesus about the greatest commandment. Jesus replies, “The most important one is this: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” 

Jesus is crystal clear—there’s one God, and all our devotion goes to Him.

Then in Luke 18:18-19, a ruler calls Him “Good teacher” and asks about eternal life. Jesus responds, “Why do you call me good? No one is good—except God alone.” 

Jesus redirects the praise, spotlighting the Father as the true standard of goodness.

Conclusion

These verses paint a picture of Jesus constantly honoring the Father as the one true God, submitting to His will, and serving as His prophet and agent. Even with the incredible authority he is given, Jesus keeps directing attention back to the Father’s supremacy. 

The above was produced by GROK

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Cold Case Confusion – J. Warner Wallace on the Trinity

 In this and the next podcast, Dale Tuggy engages with an episode by Cold Case Christianity apologist J. Warner Wallace called “Why is the Trinity an Essential Doctrine?”

Topics in this first part include:

• The objection that the word “Trinity” isn’t in the Bible, and the much stronger objection that the idea of tripersonal God isn’t there.
• Inference to the best explanation, and how that method of reasoning would be done regarding “the doctrine of the Trinity.”
• In the New Testament do we see Jesus worshiped as God?
• The Jewish background of the New Testament and Jesus’ own Jewish monotheism.
• The Old Testament idea of the creator as being the ultimate source of the cosmos and how this is not compatible with being the instrument through which the one creator acted.
• His argument that the Bible obviously implies that the one God is a Trinity based on Yahweh-only qualities: omnipotence (really: being the creator), omniscience, omnipresence, omnibenevolence, and being referred to with the word “God.”
• Whether the New Testament authors believe the Holy Spirit to be to be a divine person in addition to the Father and the Son.

Listen to part 1 here.

In the second part we hear the rest of the podcast by Cold Case Christianity apologist and former cold case detective J. Warner Wallace.

In this part he tries to define “the doctrine of the Trinity” by quoting a portion of the so-called “Athanasian Creed.” He then argues that this doctrine is necessary for understanding the atonement, and gives his version of the philosophical argument that God could not be a single someone because then he would fail to be perfect in love.

Dale Tuggy critiques these arguments, then Dale Tuggy shares four of the many facts which led him to reconsider his position on the Bible and “the doctrine of the Trinity.” 

Listen to part 2 here.

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