Post by ResLight on Sept 14, 2013 19:16:43 GMT -5
Eternal life is of the only true God, through His son. -- 1 Corinthians 8:6.
I have no reason to conclude that the Father and the Son are both the true God. It was the only true God who sent Jesus to die for our sins, by which sacrifice he becomes life to us. (Luke 4:18; John 17:3; 5:30; 6:51; 10:10,11; Romans 3:25,26; Hebrews 10:10; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18; 1 John 4:9,10; 5:11) Jesus, by saying the only true God had sent him, excludes himself from being the only true God. (John 17:3) Jesus has nothing that his God did not give to him, including life. -- Matthew 11:27; 28:18; John 5:19,22,26,30; 6:57; Romans 6:10,11; 2 Corinthians 13:4.
I have never used the antecedent argument; I don't know why you are posting it. The antecedent argument is only for those people who believed that the Son is the true God here in 1st John 5:20 and not the Father. I believed that the true God here in 1st John 5:20 is the Father and the Son; just like I believed that the only true God in John 17:3 is also the Father and the Son, since these two verses are identical twin.
Since Jesus, by his words recorded in John 17:3, most definitely was denying that he himself was the only true God who sent him, it is therefore obvious that John was not including Jesus as being the only true God in the words recorded in John 5:20.
See my study:
Is Jesus the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?
I have to reason to imagine that John was stating that "him who is true" and the son of "him who is true" are both the "true God". Such a conclusion has to be reached based on the preconceived assumption that Jesus and his Father are both Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and is actually contrary to the clear words of Jesus as recorded in John 17:3.
See my studies:
John 17:3 – Did Jesus Really Say That the Father is the only true God?
Jesus is Not Yahweh (Jehovah)
1 John 5:20 – This is the True God