@Keiw1
I am going to try and explain this to you in simple terms for understanding. I just spent about an hour and 25 minutes replying to
@Peterlag about something and so I shall take my time here. And looking at the clock it has been 1 hour and 23 min so grab some coffee as this will take you a while.
Starting with your "And tell us then why Jesus' God and Father had to give him authority?"
Time and again you have had it mentioned to you (as have others) about Jesus emptying himself. I do not think you know what that was, or why it was needed, or what it meant to him
So I am starting by mentioning that when Jesus was on earth, after the Word became human in Mary and Jesus was born
he had to give us, for a period, certain thing and rely on his Heavenly Father that when he was in heaven with Him that was not needed.
Philippians 2 says: “Although He existed in the form of God, He did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant…”
That is called Kenosis =“emptied Himself .” It does not mean Jesus stopped being God.
It means He
voluntarily laid aside the privileges, status, and visible glory of deity in order to live a genuinely human life under the Law.
Consider this Important distinction:
Nature = what He
is
Role/Function = how He
acts
Jesus emptied Himself
functionally, not
ontologically.
Here are some scriptures on what Jesus
is called
God ~John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 20:28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
Hebrews 1:8 But of the Son He says, “YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER, AND THE RIGHTEOUS SCEPTER IS THE SCEPTER OF HIS KINGDOM.
Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,
YHWH texts applied to Him
Isaiah 40:3 ("Prepare the way for YHWH")... Mark 1:3; Matthew 3:3; Luke 3:4... .John the Baptist prepares the way for Jesus, identifying him as the coming YHWH.
Joel 2:32 ("Whoever calls on the name of YHWH will be saved")..... Romans 10:13; Acts 2:21....
Paul and Peter apply this to calling on Jesus for salvation. Romans 10:9 links "Jesus is Lord" directly to this quote.
Isaiah 45:23 ("To me [YHWH] every knee will bow, every tongue swear") Philippians 2:10-11 Every knee bows and tongue confesses that "Jesus Christ is Lord" (kyrios, equivalent to YHWH in Greek Septuagint).
Psalm 102:25-27 (Prayer to YHWH as creator, eternal) Hebrews 1:10-12 Directly addressed to the Son (Jesus) as the unchanging creator.
Isaiah 6:1-10 (Isaiah sees YHWH's glory) John 12:41
John states Isaiah saw Jesus' glory.
Isaiah 8:13-14 (Sanctify YHWH as Lord; he is a stone of stumbling) 1 Peter 3:14-15; 2:8 also see Romans 9:33
Peter applies sanctifying "Christ as Lord" and the stumbling stone to Jesus.
“Almighty” (
pantokratōr) is usually used of
God as ruler,
not as a test of deity.
The New Testament instead emphasizes
shared divine identity, not shared titles.
No verse says , “Only the Father is Almighty because only the Father is God.”
Everyone in the Trinity has a specific or distinctive role.
Look at Matt 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."
This refers to
Jesus as the incarnate Son, not the eternal Word.
As God: He
has authority inherently
John 1:3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
Col 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— all things have been created through Him and for Him.
As incarnate Messiah: He receives authority as
the Second Adam, the representative human king
Daniel 7:13-14 “I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. 14 “I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him.
A little trivia...
The figure is described as "one like a son of man" (Aramaic: bar enash), emphasizing humanity ("son of man" = human being) in contrast to the beast-like empires.
This human-like figure approaches the Ancient of Days (God the Father) and receives universal, everlasting authority, dominion, glory, and a kingdom.
Christian theology (echoed in the New Testament) sees this as Jesus' exaltation/ascension, where He, as the incarnate God-man, receives all authority in His humanity (Matthew 28:18; Philippians 2:9–11; Acts 2:33–36).
It restores the dominion Adam lost: Humanity was created to rule creation as God's image (Genesis 1:26–28; Psalm 8:4–8), but sin forfeited it. Jesus, the
"last Adam" or
Second Adam, perfectly obeys, dies, rises, and is exalted to reclaim and exceed that representative human kingship on behalf of redeemed humanity.
And your good to know moment is...Jesus repeatedly applied this "Son of Man" title to Himself (over 80 times in the Gospels), linking His authority, suffering, resurrection, and future reign directly to Daniel 7 (e.g., Mark 14:62; Matthew 26:64).
So now we know that (John 5:22)“For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,
And why would this be?
Because He is the Son of Man” (John 5:27) and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
Judgment is entrusted to Him
as the qualified human mediator, not because He lacks deity. If judgment requires being God, this verse actually
supports Jesus’ deity — not denies it.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND TGHIS?
The “name” is not “Jesus” He already had that. That was assigned to Him before His conception,
Paul is quoting Isaiah 45:23, where YHWH says:
“To Me every knee shall bow…”
Paul applies that passage directly to Jesus.
So the Father “gives” Jesus:
the public exaltation and the universal acknowledgment of the divine name and honor
That’s not demotion , that IS vindication.
“God made Him both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36)
Again ,
as Messiah, not as eternal Logos. Messiahship is an office, not a nature.
Jesus reigns.......
eternally as God and historically as the risen human king
Both are true at the same time.
Assumption says “If someone receives authority, they cannot be God.”
But Scripture
never teaches that.
Instead, Scripture teaches:
The Father sends, The Son obeys, The Spirit empowers
This is
relational order, not inequality of being.
IOW
Jesus receives authority
because He became man
Jesus submits
because He took the servant role
Jesus is exalted
because He humbled Himself
None of that means He is not God.
It means God entered His own creation without ceasing to be God.
