EXPLORE THE EVIDENCE
The argument is simple. The evidence is weighty.
The bible presents there is exactly one God. Jesus is that God and the Son of that God, because He is both God and Man.
The Argument
The Confession
There is exactly one God.
Biblical faith begins with strict monotheism, not a divine society.
Deut. 6:4, Isa. 43:10-11, Isa. 44:6, 8, Mark 12:29, 1 Cor. 8:4-6, Eph. 4:6, 1 Tim. 2:5, Jude 25
The Revelation
Jesus is that God revealed.
John's Word language belongs in the world of Israel's Scriptures and synagogue translation: God's own self-expression in creation, revelation, and redemption.
Gen. 1:3, John 1:1-3, 14, John 8:58, John 10:30, John 14:9, John 20:28, Col 2:9, Rev. 1:8, 17-18
The Incarnation
Jesus is the Son of that God.
Sonship is the real incarnation: the one God manifested in true humanity, born, sent, obedient, suffering, raised, and exalted.
Luke 1:35, Matt. 1:20-23, Gal. 4:4, Rom. 1:3-4, Heb. 1:1-5, 1 Tim. 3:16, 1 John 5:20, Acts 2:36
Synagogue Bible
The Memra was made flesh.
John 1 is not introducing a second divine being beside the Father. It is saying the Father's own Word, the Memra by which He created, spoke, came near, and made Himself known, was made flesh.
The Targums often use Memra, "the Word," to speak of the Lord's own action in ways that preserve both His transcendence and His nearness. In that light, "the Word became flesh" means the Father immanent, the self-revealing God, entered a genuine human life. He did not merely appear to be a man; He truly became the man Christ Jesus.
Gen. 1:3, John 1:1-3, John 1:14, John 14:9, 1 Tim. 2:5
The Ramification
Father in divinity. Son in humanity. Jesus is both Father and Son.
If there is exactly one God, and Jesus is that God, and Jesus is also the Son of that God, then Jesus must be both Father and Son -- God the Father in His divinity, and Son in His humanity.
This is not saying the flesh is the Father, nor that the humanity is eternal. It is saying the one God who is Father was manifested in the Son: the invisible God made visible, the eternal God entering time, the divine Spirit revealed through a real human life.
Isa. 9:6, John 14:9-10, 2 Cor. 5:19, Col. 1:15, Col 2:9, Heb. 1:3