How can Jesus be God and there is still one God

Dear Friend,

Good to hear from you. I do not know where you got the idea that I promote that Jesus is "just a man".

No, God the Father is a God, and when he has a son, that son will be God also. A horse will not give birth to a hedge-hog!

Jesus was the Firstborn Spirit-Child of the Father, long before this world was created. Then Jesus was known as Jehovah, and with the powers of his Father vested in him he created this world.

Under the direction of his Father he was the God of the Old Testament. Therefore, the Father and the Son is one God, and the Holy Spirit who testifies of them is the third personage in that unity of individuals.

Obeying Jesus is obeying the Father! Obeying the voice of the Spirit is obeying the Father! We do not need to discuss the voice of the Father here, since he does not address man directly since the fall of Adam.

It's a little bit like Arsenal Football Club. It has an offensive line, a mid-field and a defensive line. They are all Arsenal, offense, mid-field and defense. But they are still Arsenal collectively!

Now, Jesus is the Father in one very important sense: He is the one who made it possible to be reborn from death, and to be reborn into the presence of the Father. That makes him the Father of our eternal lives. So both the Father and the Son can rightly be titled "Father", but for different reasons.

Man does not deserve to be saved from their sins; therefore it is mercy, or grace that saves them. But when that ladder of salvation is being raised to the burning house (which is the world), the believer who will not work his way over to the ladder of grace will burn down with the non-believers.