I did not understand this passage but through trying to explain Jesus having a God on a debate form with Muslims I wrote what will be below, only to get and understanding to the passage in the title.
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Picture the story in the Bible. Abraham has a sister Sara, but the hidden part was- that Sara is also His half sister.
So here we see an interesting dynamic His sister is also His wife.
So with that said Jesus does not have an earthly biological father, yet He has a earthly mother. So because He took on fleshly nature God through Mary(of the flesh) is His God. For He came through man. He is Man fully Man and God fully God.
As Man He has A God
*As with Sara and Abraham they have the same biological cousins because they share the same Father. *
Jesus has divine nature and human nature
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So with that said… I can see why they said to us there is one God the Father and one Lord Jesus Christ.
The perspective is taken from Jesus who alway proclaimed it was His father doing the work.
It’s the perspective from man on earth, understanding that Jesus was the son of God.
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
There are people who stay away from man made doctrines. Meaning trying to make God fit in a box, to get Him down pat.
And what happens is when we are trying to understand a passage, we instead of reading context, see through the lens of man made doctines.
So when I read this scripture I did not understand. Because it seemed like it was saying Jesus wasn’t God.
But after writing in the debate form something popped in my mind about how I view the passage. I was looking at it strait on without taking on how the people saw Jesus from an earthly stand point of view.
Jesus came in the form of man and had no earthly father. He came in the scene as God in the flesh.
Hence because they experienced Him as such they
could write the passage in light of their experience.
Hence, they saw it from an eathly angle , but at the same time the context is about the way to the only true God. By saying that ( the passage), that does not make Jesus not God but showing the process or way in which the true God relates to man. Another words Jesus is the source of salvation; The way to the Father.
I think I get it. That passage is 1 Cor 8:6. It doesn’t read to me that Jesus isn’t God. I don’t see that. Paul is the one who’s writing this book to the Corinthians and in reading all else that Paul wrote, we know that he believes Jesus is God. The larger context is eating food offered to idols and Paul is explaining key points on doing that. That’s really what the passage is about. I’m glad you also came to that conclusion.
John 1 3
John 1 14 18
John 1 17
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God meaning
John 11 25 26
In the beginning was the Word meaning
John 10 30
John 11
Colossians 1 16
You will learn a lot from ol’ Sam Shamoun.
Yeshua.
God (theos), though he does apply that word to him [Jesus Christ] in Rom_9:5; Tit_2:13; Col_2:9; Act_20:28.
When someone presents a passage..I have to know what I believe…based on more than a phrase lifted from surrounding context. So I guess its good to read and meditate before we comment.
What I’m hearing in this thread is a shared concern about reading Scripture carefully, without importing assumptions that don’t belong to the text.
The question raised about 1 Cor 8:6 makes sense, especially if the verse is read in isolation. But when it’s placed back into Paul’s larger argument about idols and allegiance, it doesn’t sound like he’s denying Jesus’ divinity. Instead, he’s contrasting the one true God and Lord with the many so-called gods of the surrounding culture.
I also appreciate the reminder about perspective. The New Testament writers often describe Jesus as He was experienced in history—fully human, present, relational—without that canceling who He is. Paul seems comfortable holding distinction in role and relationship alongside unity in essence.
So I don’t read this passage as a technical theological statement, and I don’t hear it saying “Jesus isn’t God.” It feels more like Paul grounding practical Christian life in a clear confession of who truly deserves worship in a world full of competing claims.
