WHY IS THIS WORDED LIKE THIS BY PAUL.. SEEMS TO BE CONFUSING….. WE MUST REMEMBER PAUL PREACHING TO THE GREEKS..HE DID NOT WANT TO CONFUSE THE GREEKS..GIVING THEM THE IMPRESSION THERE ARE TWO GODS.. THE FATHER AND SON.
IF THE FATHER WERE ONLY GOD ALONE..THEN PAUL WOULD NOT BE REFERRING TO THE FATHER AS “GOD THE FATHER” — BUT GOD ONLY …..
PAUL IF HE WANTED TO REFER TO THE FATHER.. PAUL WILL SAY .. “GOD THE FATHER”
BUT IF TO THE ONE GOD.. PAUL WILL SAY… GOD THE FATHER AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST- THIS IS ALWAYS IN ALL HIS EPISTLES…
SIMILARLY … IN 1 JOHN 5:20 .. NOTICE JOHN SAYING.. FOR JESUS IS OUR TRUE GOD.. OUR SAVIOR AND ETERNAL LIFE…
JOHN DID NOT SAY.. FOR JESUS IS OUR “ONLY” TRUE GOD…HE DID NOT BECAUSE THE FATHER WAS NOT MENTIONED IN THE PHRASE…IN 1 JOHN 5:20
WHILE IN John 17:3
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
THE ONLY TRUE GOD AAAAANNNNDDD JESUS WHOM YOU SENT…..
TWO NOUNS…YOU (THE FATHER) AND THE SON…LINKED BY A COORDINATING CONJUNCTION… THE WORD “AND”….. NOUNS LINKED BY THIS ARE CALLED COMPOUND NOUNS.. AND CONSIDERED AS ONE..