John 10:38
But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
If the Father is truly inside Christ and Christ inside the Father, how did this happen?
Mat 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"
Thayer has the word "in" as...
G1722
ἐν
en
Thayer Definition:
1)
in, by, with etc.
Part of Speech: preposition
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between G1519 and G1537)
Citing in TDNT: 2:537, 233
It makes much more sense in this case to say the Father is "with" or "by" Christ rather than inside Him.
John 10:30
I and the Father are one.”
How would you read this?
Gen 2:22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23 And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."
Gen 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
and they shall become one flesh.
Care to apply the same idea here? You and your spouse Siamese twins? Or does this mean that you are in full agreement and act together?
John 14:9
Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Oh, then if they actually seen the Father visually here, then this is not true and Christ lied...
Joh 5:37 And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time,
nor seen His form.
He was simply telling His disciples that this is what the Father does, this is what the Father says and this is how the Father thinks.