I get the analogy that you're attempting to make, I truly do, but I simply don't believe that it properly represents what the Bible has to say about the relationship between Jesus and the Father.
Without going into too much detail now (I really should be sleeping), I'll say that there was a MAJOR CHANGE after Jesus' incarnation.
In other words, prior to his incarnation, he was only 100% God, but after his incarnation he also became 100% man.
In his humanity, God is Jesus' Father.
However, and, sad to say, this is where I'll probably part company with some of you by simply stating what the Bible actually teaches, even in his 100% God state prior to his incarnation, Jesus and the one whom we call "Father" were NOT the same person.
I mean, this is so easily seen in passages of scripture such as John 1:1, but because people have been so indoctrinated otherwise, they simply can't see it.
Again:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)
In the beginning, Jesus was WITH God, and Jesus WAS God.
They are two distinct "persons", for lack of a better word, but they have always been "one" as in "united".
The reason why people don't believe this is because of ridiculous butcherings of scripture on such topics as what it means that Jesus was "begotten".
In other words, people believe things like "Jesus sprang forth from the Father in eternity past...like a ray of light proceeding from the Sun" and other nonsensical garbage like that, but it simply isn't true.
Anyhow, this, in my own observation, is why multitudes of people believe that Jesus and the Father are the same "person", again, for lack of a better term, but they're not.
That said, they are both God, and so is the Holy Ghost/Spirit.
Without going into too much detail now (I really should be sleeping), I'll say that there was a MAJOR CHANGE after Jesus' incarnation.
In other words, prior to his incarnation, he was only 100% God, but after his incarnation he also became 100% man.
In his humanity, God is Jesus' Father.
However, and, sad to say, this is where I'll probably part company with some of you by simply stating what the Bible actually teaches, even in his 100% God state prior to his incarnation, Jesus and the one whom we call "Father" were NOT the same person.
I mean, this is so easily seen in passages of scripture such as John 1:1, but because people have been so indoctrinated otherwise, they simply can't see it.
Again:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)
In the beginning, Jesus was WITH God, and Jesus WAS God.
They are two distinct "persons", for lack of a better word, but they have always been "one" as in "united".
The reason why people don't believe this is because of ridiculous butcherings of scripture on such topics as what it means that Jesus was "begotten".
In other words, people believe things like "Jesus sprang forth from the Father in eternity past...like a ray of light proceeding from the Sun" and other nonsensical garbage like that, but it simply isn't true.
Anyhow, this, in my own observation, is why multitudes of people believe that Jesus and the Father are the same "person", again, for lack of a better term, but they're not.
That said, they are both God, and so is the Holy Ghost/Spirit.
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