20 Reasons Why the Trinity Is Unbiblical (6)
August 26th, 2010 by Guest Author
by Chuck LaMattina of Grace Ministry International.
6. It was God, the Father of Jesus Christ, who was the source of all the good works and miracles that Jesus did.
“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” John 14:10
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know—“ Acts 2:22
“how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” Acts 10:38
Did not Jesus subordinate Himself, of His own volition, according to the will of His Father? Indeed He did (Phil 2:5-11). How did He do this? By making “himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.” Therefore, your attempt at proving a deficient view of the Son needs to be considered in light of His humilation, of which He took for the purposes of redemption and the glory of His Father.
Although He spoke according to that which was the Father’s will, Jesus did a great many things that would be uncharacteristic of anyone other than God.
Consider this:
Job 9:8 who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
Matthew 14:25-27 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” and they cried out in fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”
Jesus’ divinity is made evident by His fulfillment of Job’s prophetic description of YHWH, “who alone … trampled the waves of the sea.”
In Scripture, exercising direct control over the water and the weather is something uniquely divine: Psalm 107:23-25, Jonah 1:14-15, 1 Kings 18:1, Proverbs 8:29.
Luke 8:22-25 One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out, and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
By virtue of Christ’s authority over the weather, His deity is made obvious and undeniable.
The bottom line with your method of argumentation is this: one needs to understand the major Christological themes of the Scriptures to make sense of the incarnate ministry of the Son. His preincarnate existence, volitional humilation/incarnation, and the restoration of divine glory are major concepts that need to be taken into account. Your also begging the question in that you presuppose that in order for Jesus to be divine, the Father could not work through Him.