Jesus' "Father" Is Jews' Elohim (J55)

Among them so long, why was God not known?
Was Jesus abstruse, His meaning concealed?
In the miracles was not God’s pow’r shown?
Who but God could fade at will, unrevealed?
“After this, you know God, and have seen Him.”
Who can read minds and hearts of men but He?
Who could His “Father” be but “Elohim”?
“I am in the Father, and He is in me!”
“He who believes in me will do great things;
Whatever you ask of me, I will do;
Asking in my name by you always brings
Glory to my Father, because of you!”
“Show us the Father, Lord,” Philip had said;
His request to all this evidence led!

Scripture Quoted: John 14:9-14 (NIV)
“Jesus answered, ‘Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”

Commentary on: John 14:5-14 (NIV)
This passage of Scripture is extremely significant to the believer. If you have read earlier quoted Scriptures or the Bible itself, you have discovered that the language is “scriptural”; it is not easily understood as if you are reading a novel or the newspaper. In fact, if you are not yet a believer, you may not comprehend it at all, and you may scoff at my translation of it. It is true, however; every claim and statement in the Bible is inspired by God, and it is all true. This particular passage began when Jesus told His apostles at the Thursday evening Passover meal that they knew who His Father was and had seen Him. Jesus never called Himself or His Father “God”; that three-letter word is our American term for the supreme Being that made the universe. The Jews, part of or the audience in almost every situation for Jesus, didn’t use “God”; in fact the name for God to them was considered too sacred for them to ever use in speech. When written and translated into our language it was “Elohim”, “Yahweh”, or “Jehovah”. Jesus always called Him “Father” when speaking to them. Jesus could have said that He, the Father, and the Holy Spirit are one, because they are. Yet, for this span of time that Jesus was on the earth, God multiplied Himself mysteriously so that He could be both Jesus and the Father at the same time.

Now we come to a mystery that no one can explain. There is only ONE God; Christians and Jews are what is called “monotheistic”. But this one God has revealed Himself as three persons—God the Father; God the Son; and God the Holy Spirit. They are equal; we read of them as three persons in the Bible; but each one is God. When we believers get to heaven after we die on the earth, we will see, talk with, and worship only one person, God. Jesus, the historical man that said these things, was the Son of the Father, but He and the Father were one; Jesus, the only name by which we can be accepted into heaven, clothed in His righteousness, not ours, is God Himself! He is the Jews’ Elohim, and they rejected Him. Don’t you make the same mistake!

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)