Jesus isn't the Sovereign Lord in Acts 4:23-31. He's a servant of the Sovereign Lord. Oops.... there's that hierarchy I was talking about again.
Acts 4 (NIV)
23On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
24When they heard this, they raised their voices together
in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.
27Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against
your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.
30Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of
your holy servant Jesus.”
You ran from the issue
Oh so you believe scripture only when it fits your thinking
Jude 4 (LEB) — 4 For certain men have slipped in stealthily, who were designated long ago for this condemnation, ungodly ones, who change the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
So if you cannot take verses such as this to mean only Jesus is lord why do you accept verses which you believe only the father is God when there are verse which state Christ is God
And Ephesians 4:4-6 the Father is the One Lord OVER ALL. Check mate again on the hierarchy.
All of God is father
There are three senses, it appears, in which "Father" is used in the New Testament in relation to God: (1) A Hebraism, common also in other religions, in which God is spoken of as the "Father" in the sense that he is Creator of all. (2) A parabolic sense of the word, very common in Jesus' teachings, in which "Father" is not intended to denote a distinct person in the Godhead, nor the fact of the creatorship of God, but the relation of God to the world or to individuals as "father" to children. This sense is often confused with the third sense: (3) A sense of the word in which it is clearly designed to refer to a specific individual personality, a technical term distinguishing the Father in the Godhead, in his internal relations, from the Son - E Calvin. Beisner
Ephesians 4 (NIV)
4There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
5one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Not according to Scripture.
John 17 (NIV)
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3Now this is eternal life, that they may know
You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
No they aren't. Jesus is never called the One God in the Bible.
Not the Lord of the Father according to Ephesians 4:4-6. The Father is over all.
Being called the Lord of glory when someone is not YHWH is not a point. See Psalm 110:10, Psalm 2:7, Acts 3:13, Exodus 3:14,15.
Um but Jesus is called YHWH when the New Testament speaks of him as being he who the Old Testament calls YHWH
example
Isaiah 6:1–5 (LEB) — 1 In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe was filling the temple. 2 Seraphs were standing above him. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And the one called to the other and said, “Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh of hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said, “Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am living among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!”
Isaiah 6:6–10 (LEB) — 6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 And he touched my mouth, and he said, “Look! This has touched your lips and has removed your guilt, and your sin is annulled.” 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “I am here! Send me!” 9 And he said, “Go and say to this people, ‘Keep on listening and do not comprehend! And keep on looking and do not understand!’ 10 Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend with its mind and turn back, and it may be healed for him.”
compare to
John 12:37–41 (LEB) — 37 But as many signs as he (Jesus)had performed before them, they did not believe in him, 38 in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39 For this reason they were not able to believe, because again Isaiah said, 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them.” 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw
his (Jesus) glory, and he spoke about him.
Jesus is not the I AM, YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, etc.
Scripture is clear people are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) so that is not a point at all. Furthermore, people can be transformed to the image of the Son which, according to your bad theology, would mean someone is God. That's not the point. You're taking this wayyyy to far.
Scripture disagrees with you again
John 8:58–59 (LEB) — 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!” 59 Then they picked up stones in order to throw them at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple courts.
Why did the Jews try to stone him
And here the angel of the lord appears to Jacob and is termed the God and YHWH
Genesis 31:11–13 (KJV 1900) — 11 And
the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. 13
I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
The angel of the Lord tells Jacob he is the God of bethel where Jacob had made a vow unto him
Genesis 28:18–22 (LEB) — 18 And Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a stone pillar, and poured oil on top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Bethel; however, the name of the city was formerly Luz. 20 And Jacob made a vow saying,
“If God will be with me and protect me on this way that I am going, and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear, 21 and if I return in peace to the house of my father, then Yahweh will become my God. 22 And this stone that I have set up as a pillar shall be the house of God, and of all that you give to me I will certainly give a tenth to you.”
and here God speaks of the God who appeared to Jacob when he fled from Esau.had
Genesis 35:1–3 (KJV 1900) — 1 And
God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto
God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
The Messenger (angel) of Yahweh is called God, the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, Elohim, Yahweh and the I am
Exodus 3:2–15 (LEB) — 2 And the
angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed. 3 And Moses said, “Let me turn aside and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn up?” 4 And
Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, and
God called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, “Moses, Moses.” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 And he said, “You must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground.” 6 And he said, “
I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face because he was afraid of looking at
God. 7
And Yahweh said, “Surely I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings. 8 And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 And now, look, the cry of distress of the Israelites has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the Israelites, out from Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to
God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out from Egypt?” 12 And he said, “Because I am with you, and this will be the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain.” 13 But Moses said to
God, “Look, if I go to the Israelites and I say to them, ‘T
he God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is his name?’ then what shall I say to them?” 14 And
God said to Moses, “
I am that I am.” And he said, “So you must say to the Israelites, ‘
I am sent me to you.’ ” 15 And
God said again to Moses, “So you must say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.’
The angel of the lord is the pre-incarnate Christ who followed the israeliyes in the desert
1 Corinthians 10:4 (LEB) — 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:7–9 (LEB) — 7 and not become idolaters, as some of them did, just as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play,” 8 nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day, 9 nor put Christ to the test, as some of them tested him, and were destroyed by snakes,
Jude 5 (LEB) — 5 Now I want to remind you, although you know everything once and for all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe.
and what will you do with
Zechariah 2:6–9 (LEB) — 6 “Woe! Woe! Flee from the land of the north,”
declares Yahweh, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of the heavens,” declares Yahweh. 7 “Woe, Zion! Escape, you inhabitants of the daughter of Babylon!” 8
For thus said Yahweh of hosts, after glory he sent me against the nations plundering you: Truly, the one touching you is touching the apple of his eye. 9 “Yes, look! I am going to wave my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their servants, and you will know that
Yahweh of hosts has sent me.
Where Yahweh is sent by Yahweh of hosts
Have another ham sandwich for the road and make sure to wear your pager!
