Is the Son equal with the Father or is he subordinate? Thinking Christians have struggled over the tension between the traditional doctrine of coequality between Father and Son, on the one hand, and the dozens upon dozens of scriptures that either imply our explicitly teach the Father’s supremacy over his Son. Two ways of solving this problem include the idea of the economic Trinity and eternal functional subordination. In what follows I overview the biblical evidence for the Son’s subordination to the Father before critiquing both of these reigning trinitarian solutions to the problem. Last of all, I consider a few texts often pressed into service to teach coequality, but upon closer examination fail to adequately warrant that position. Also, if you’d like to dig deeper into this topic, here is the full paper.
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Sean, I don’t have the words to tell you how much I appreciate the biblical truths, that you bring to us. My spirit is overjoyed. My relationship with the Father and the Son is so wonderful. God bless you, brother.
Mike Anderson