It seems very strange indeed to many of us in modern times that the Lord Jesus Christ, God Himself, would declare His Father to be “My God.”
Here we read:
John 20:17 Jesus said to her (Mary Magdalene), “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'”
So then, it appears that the mid-eastern theme of honoring our Father is well intact as an eternal doctrine of God. Perfect submission to the Father even as Jesus Himself was the Eternal God in the flesh is the norm.
One thing that always strikes me when I read the Gospels, and John in particular, is the fact that [Read more…]