The Son ever subordinate to the Father....................
The Son ever subordinate to the Father....................
Greetings my non-trin friends...
I have always been fascinated by the resurrection. So the question becomes, who raised Jesus from the dead? Well, just so happens Luke tells us in the Book of Acts 3:14,15.
But it gets better. The Apostle Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 1:9,10
So we here have identified God the Father as the one who raised Jesus. I would hope we all can agree with this scripture. We wouldn't want it any clearer than that.
Now that is where our agreement ends. Hopefully after this discussion we can agree on much more than this.
Because from here on out, is where our study begins. Who raised Jesus from the Dead? An Important Question.
So, we have discovered God the Father raised Jesus from the dead.
But the scriptures do not stop there at answering the question. If you go back to John 2:19-21, Jesus Christ says:
So here we find Jesus says He will raise Himself from the dead. Is this not correct? I am reading this right, right?
And if this is true, we find that God the Father raised Jesus from the dead (Acts 3:15), Jesus raising Himself from the dead (John 2:19-21 and now this if as we needed anymore proof at who raised Jesus. Paul in Romans 8:11 tells us:
Now the Sprit raised Jesus from the Dead. Interesting. What's up with that?
So according to the scripture I provided you fine folks, who raised Jesus from the Dead?
Perhaps, all three? The Trinity.....
One can 'assume' a Trinitarian context for all this, but the fact still remains relationally speaking that God the Father by his infinite Spirit raised up Jesus, even though John's gospel has Jesus himself saying he raised himself,
because Jesus still claims the Father gave him the power to raise himself up, so its all due to God's Spirit-power anyways, for all comes from God the Father who is the source and progenitor of all things and beings. The
Son ever remains subordinate to the Father, as well as all
sons of God. The Universal Father has primacy over all other sentient beings, whether in the divine hierarchy or lower orders of mortal man, because the Father is before all, being the originator of all. This must be so as long as we employ the familial language of 'father' and 'son', since our language defines and
qualifies our knowledge of
relation(s). God's infinite Spirit-power, holy breath, divine energy....is the source of Jesus power (ours as well), it is God's Spirit-anointing upon and within Jesus that gives him his messianic 'authority', in the divine hierarchy, the processional order. Furthermore, the gospel message of Paul still retains the pertinent language of
relational hierarchy, of the Son's
subordinance to the Father, and this
subordination is eternal. - just like all other beings are subordinate to the higher power(s) that be.
So no, the verses above together compounded do not
necessarily have to infer or refer within a Trinitarian context, although one can contextualize it so. What remains by way of direct reference, is that God raised up Jesus from the dead (this remains at the heart of the gospel message), and
there is no other power but 'God' that could do so, that is....'God' the invisible infinite Spirit-power, the divine life-energy of the Father-GOD. - it is only this living universal omnipresent incorporeal Spirit-energy and Living Consciousness that is 'God'....that gives life and breath to all, that raises from the dead, that brings all cycles of life, death, rebirth into being. - it in this context that we understand that the Living Father is the sole power behind all creation, all generations, all resurrections.
