{"id":13604,"date":"2023-01-30T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13604"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:52:00","slug":"isaiah-96-everlasting-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13604\/isaiah-96-everlasting-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 9:6 &#8220;Everlasting Father&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In Isaiah 9:6, talking about names of the Son, Why is he called the &#8220;everlasting father&#8221; if his father is the one who&#8217;s really everlasting?\u00a0\u00a0A Trinitarian threw this one at me, trying to convince me that Jesus is the Father, God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I was just about to explain that Jesus is the everlasting father of many children, born again into the kingdom of God, but I wanted to check with you first, before I conclude that conversation on Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Brad<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Hi Brad.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Jesus is our God, our brother, our father, and everything else that we need in order to get out of this\u00a0world alive.\u00a0 In Isaiah 8:18, the Son said this: &#8220;Behold!\u00a0\u00a0I and the children whom Jehovah has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel!&#8221;\u00a0 So we are Jesus&#8217; children as well as his brothers and sisters \u2013\u2013\u00a0<strong>but God the Father made us that, and made Jesus that!<\/strong>\u00a0 It was given to Jesus from the Father to be our God, our King, the Lord of all, and our Savior.\u00a0 Jesus said so: &#8220;All\u00a0things have been given to me by my Father&#8221; (Mt. 11:27).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>No doubt, this truth will not change that devout Trinitarian&#8217;s\u00a0mind, but at least you can, by God&#8217;s grace, be a testimony to him.\u00a0 Keep up the good work.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0013a3\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Isaiah 9:6, talking about names of the Son, Why is he called the &#8220;everlasting father&#8221; if his father is the one who&#8217;s really everlasting?\u00a0\u00a0A Trinitarian threw this one at me, trying to convince me that Jesus is the Father, God.\u00a0 I was just about to explain that Jesus is the everlasting father of many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}