What is Jesus Christ mean when he said "My Father is greater than I"?
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Jesus taught his disciples to pray: “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” Our heavenly Father, whose name is Jehovah, is described in the Bible as being superior to his Son. For example, Jehovah is “from everlasting to everlasting.” But the Bible says that Jesus is “the firstborn of every creature.” That Jehovah is greater than Jesus, Jesus himself taught when he said: “My Father is greater than I.”
The Father’s superiority over the Son, as well as the fact that the Father is a separate person, is highlighted also in the prayers of Jesus, such as the one before his execution: “Father, if you wish, remove this cup [that is, an ignominious death] from me. Nevertheless, let, not my will, but yours take place.” (Luke 22:42) If God and Jesus are “one in essence,” as the Trinity doctrine says, how could Jesus’ will, or wish, seem different from that of his Father?—Hebrews 5:7, 8; 9:24.
Furthermore, if Jehovah and Jesus were the same, how could one of them be aware of things of which the other was not? Jesus, for instance, said regarding the time of the world’s judgment: “Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father.”—Mark 13:32.
It means, his father is greater than he is. I know some say he was talking about his human existence in relation to his heavenly one. But that simply is not the case. Because even when Jesus went back to heaven, he sat at the right hand of God and was GIVEN authority by his father. He is the king of the kingdom but after 1,000 he hands that kingdom back over to his father and then CONTINUES in subjection to his father. The bible shows that God has always been greater than Jesus, and Jesus himself always recognized it, in his own life in heaven and on earth. If there was any doubt, out of his own mouth he even says, the father is greater than I am.
1 cor.15:24-28
Philp 2:9
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