One can debunk God (Father) and Jesus (Son) being one entity in Matthew 24:36 speaking of who knows when the 'End of Days' will begin:
“But about that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."
If they are literally one existence for one part of an entity to not know what the other knows would be impossible. Also 'Father why have thou forsaken me' (Matthew 27:46) would make zero sense. Who exactly would he be crying out to in pain..
Jesus had two natures. One fully man (in which case he didn’t know some things and grew in stature and knowledge), the other fully God. The God Man. The hypostatic union.
Must remember his two natures when considering passages like this.
It's impossible in my head they are the same being. Raised in and now 30+ years of Church hearing of 2 separate beings / personalities. If 'Father' and 'Son' were one why the distinction. Why did Jesus tell Joseph he was 'At the house of MY FATHER' when he was missing as a youth in Jerusalem (Luke 2:49). Verse 50 even states Joseph didn't understand what young Jesus did. Guess agree to disagree based on Christian Sectarian differences..
To create a baby, the mother contributes a full set of chromosomes.The father contributes another full set. To form one cell for life to begin, it takes 2 sets. Mary contributed the human chromosomes, but God contributed the divine chromosomes (man was created in His image and likeness so this wasn't cross speciation). The complete cell therefore was both human and divine. The human is the "child born to us." The divine is the "Son given to us in Isaiah 9:6." The Son is the Word who was in the beginning, was with God and was God (Jn. 1:1). That's why He is called "Mighty God." He is called "eternal Father" because you can't have a son without a father. God is the eternally begetting Father who is distinct but not separate from the eternally begotten Son. By the time Jesus was 12, He knew who He was, but as a human who began as a baby, He was not omniscient. He was limited in time and space until after His resurrection.He learned who He was through what His mother told Him, and what He learned from Scripture through the shepherding of His Father.
One in purpose.
John 5:30 "...I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."
John 6:38 "...not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me."
Leviticus 1:17
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall become one flesh.
Unity of purpose.
One can debunk God (Father) and Jesus (Son) being one entity in Matthew 24:36 speaking of who knows when the 'End of Days' will begin:
“But about that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."
If they are literally one existence for one part of an entity to not know what the other knows would be impossible. Also 'Father why have thou forsaken me' (Matthew 27:46) would make zero sense. Who exactly would he be crying out to in pain..
Jesus had two natures. One fully man (in which case he didn’t know some things and grew in stature and knowledge), the other fully God. The God Man. The hypostatic union.
Must remember his two natures when considering passages like this.
It's impossible in my head they are the same being. Raised in and now 30+ years of Church hearing of 2 separate beings / personalities. If 'Father' and 'Son' were one why the distinction. Why did Jesus tell Joseph he was 'At the house of MY FATHER' when he was missing as a youth in Jerusalem (Luke 2:49). Verse 50 even states Joseph didn't understand what young Jesus did. Guess agree to disagree based on Christian Sectarian differences..
To create a baby, the mother contributes a full set of chromosomes.The father contributes another full set. To form one cell for life to begin, it takes 2 sets. Mary contributed the human chromosomes, but God contributed the divine chromosomes (man was created in His image and likeness so this wasn't cross speciation). The complete cell therefore was both human and divine. The human is the "child born to us." The divine is the "Son given to us in Isaiah 9:6." The Son is the Word who was in the beginning, was with God and was God (Jn. 1:1). That's why He is called "Mighty God." He is called "eternal Father" because you can't have a son without a father. God is the eternally begetting Father who is distinct but not separate from the eternally begotten Son. By the time Jesus was 12, He knew who He was, but as a human who began as a baby, He was not omniscient. He was limited in time and space until after His resurrection.He learned who He was through what His mother told Him, and what He learned from Scripture through the shepherding of His Father.