So if I take a verse at face value like John 17:3 that’s a problem and at the same time if I don’t take a verse at face value like in John 6:38 then it’s also a problem.
I agree, Jesus didn’t lie in neither.
I can only know the Father as the only true God through Jesus. He came to make him known, that’s exactly what 1 John 5:20 is saying “And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true”
The word is a personification of the word of God/Yahweh.
Equal share in creation?? No, God created through his word as in he spoke and it was. This is what Psalm 33:9 states “For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm”
Only the our Mediator, the MAN Christ Jesus not the Godman.
I know the Father by what Jesus taught about him.
The Targums consistently replaced God or Yahweh with the word of the Lord so it’s not a separate person. They personified the word yet it was still God himself not another person
The Father is the only true God if The Son Who is YHWH is God in creation. If He isn't, then there is no witness in scriptures but only wishful thinking of Nelson like people.
The Father (transcendent God in light of YHWH becoming Yeshua) doesn't come and speak to creation independently without His WORD.
Read Ezk 43: 1-3
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate,
even the gate that looketh toward the east:
2 And,
behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and
his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
3 And
it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and
the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
Are you familiar with the direction of The EAST?
Mat 1:2
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for
we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Zec 14:4 And
his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the
east and toward the west,
and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
The East direction speaks of Mount of Olives where Yeshua was nailed to the Tree.
The glory of the God of Israel is Jesus Himself.
The East of the garden of Eden was guarded by the flaming sword when Adam was driven out. Driven out where? Outside the camp where Christ died.
Heb 13:
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Adam was to seek His Savior outside the gate - East of the garden.
Mat 24:27 For as the
lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
These scriptures are not given from thin air. YHWH as a Man is the glory of Transcendent God. You won't find God anywhere apart from Yeshua.
First reference given in scriptures about YHWH being a Man is in Gen 3:
Gen 3:
8 And they heard the
voice of יהוה Elohim WALKING about in the garden in the cool of the day, and Aḏam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of יהוה Elohim among the trees of the garden.
YHWH walking?
But then there is Gen 1:2-3, 26 which drives the point.
You got to come out of your traditional teachings to really know your God and not surface reading. You just can't go beyond the surface and that's halting you to know your God.