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The two biggest problems Jesus faced were convincing
the Jewish people that He was sent from God the Father and that God
was triune. Jesus came to do the Father's will and also to bear
witness about the Father. Moses used the word "Elohim," which means
Gods in plural, to describe God in the book of Genesis. So when
Jesus arrived on the scene in the New Testament, the concept of the
godhead was not new, but rabbinical doctrine had not clarified the
matter and the Jewish leadership went ballistic and sought to kill
Jesus when He revealed that He was the Son of God and equal with God
the Father. The same leadership was furious yet again when Jesus
told them that Satan was their father, not God as they had supposed,
because they were unsaved. They were truly blind guides leading the
blind because of their failure to understand Elohim as described in
the Old Testament. Jesus revealed that when we look upon Him, we are
also looking at God the Father, because He could do nothing of
Himself, but only did what He personally saw the Father do. Jesus is
the only one who is able to reveal God the Father because no human
being has seen Him. That is why Jesus said, "I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me." |
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