Jesus said that below. So does it really imply that God has a higher position & is more authoritative in a sense?
& yes, I'm clearly aware that Jesus is God too, part of the Trinity.
"You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.'" (John 14:28).
Jesus is God manifest in the flesh,so whenever it refers to God being greater than Him,it is according to His humanity.
Php 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Php 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus did not think because He was in the flesh that He was any less than what He was,and that is God,for He is still God but showing a visible manifestation of Himself,which the Bible says He is God with us.
God's Spirit is omnipresent,and fills all space,and cannot be separated,and God is through all,and in all,so even though Jesus is God manifest in the flesh,which means that God manifest all His attributes to the man Christ Jesus,the Spirit in Christ is still connected to the omnipresent Spirit of God.
God appeared to Abraham twice in human form,once known as the LORD,and once known as Melchizedek,who was without descent,without mother,without father,having no beginning of days,or end of life,but we would still say that is God,but in a visible manifestation,the only way we can see the invisible God.
When we see God in a visible manifestation in heaven,will we say that is not God,for it is still God,the only way we can see Him.
Jesus still considered Himself God,even though He was manifest in flesh,that was not greater than God,but the flesh does not take away anything from Jesus being God.
1Ti 6:14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Ti 6:15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1Ti 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Jesus is God who appeared in flesh to save the world,and we will never see Jesus as Him being God,we can only see Him as a visible manifestation that shows the characteristics of God.
