{"id":36230,"date":"2015-09-08T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=36230"},"modified":"2015-09-07T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T19:46:59","slug":"the-one-who-sends-is-greater-than-the-one-who-is-sent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-one-who-sends-is-greater-than-the-one-who-is-sent\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Who Sends Is Greater than the One Who Is Sent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36231\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-and-tree.jpg\" alt=\"moon and tree\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-and-tree.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-and-tree-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-and-tree-420x315.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/moon-and-tree-90x68.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>At his blog our friend Kermit Zarley, aka the Moon Man, has an excellent post on Jesus and God in the gospel according to John. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2015\/09\/the-one-who-sends-is-greater-than-the-one-who-is-sent\/\" target=\"_blank\">The One Who Sends Is Greater than the One Who Is Sent<\/a><\/strong>. In part,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most Christians think the primary message of the Gospel of John is that Jesus is God. I think that is a misunderstanding of this gospel and that it <em>never<\/em> identifies Jesus as being God. Quite the contrary, the primary and most repeated message of the Gospel of John is <strong>that <em>God sent Jesus<\/em> <\/strong>to be the Savior&#8230;the foremost christological motif in the Fourth Gospel is not incarnation Christology but \u2018agent Christology.\u2019 John informs us no less than <strong>forty times<\/strong> that the Father \u2018sent\u2019 Jesus or did \u2018send\u2019 Him as His agent. Some have labeled this concept a \u2018Sending Christology.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;This concept of agency requires that the principle is greater than his or her agent. So, in agency the sender is greater in rank than the one sent. In the case of God and Jesus, the Father is greater than Jesus. Indeed, that is exactly what the Johannine Jesus said\u2013 &#8220;<strong>the Father is greater than I<\/strong>&#8221; (John 14.28).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00a0&#8220;Now we know that you know all things,\u2026 by this we believe that you came from God&#8221; (6:29-30). This is <strong>the great enlightenment<\/strong> that Jesus\u2019 disciples had about him as presented in the Gospel of John. And Jesus being sent by God, and thus coming from God, merely reveals that he is God\u2019s beloved Son&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2015\/09\/the-one-who-sends-is-greater-than-the-one-who-is-sent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out his whole post here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At his blog our friend Kermit Zarley, aka the Moon Man, has an excellent post on Jesus and God in the gospel according to John. The One Who Sends Is Greater than the One Who Is Sent. In part, Most Christians think the primary message of the Gospel of John is that Jesus is God.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/the-one-who-sends-is-greater-than-the-one-who-is-sent\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The One Who Sends Is Greater than the One Who Is Sent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,15,8,7,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-linkage","category-quotes","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36234,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36230\/revisions\/36234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}