I started thinking about my reply and whether or not I should make this simple or complicated, with a lot of scriputre and explanations.
Past experience has told me and taught me to keep it simple.
Jesus Christ is the son of man, and the Son of God, and we can come up with many scriptures to show this to be true. But this does not seem to be the area of disagreement. Where the area of disagreement lies, is as to whether or not Jesus Christ is God.
The word "God" is a title. Just like the word "Lord" or the word "King"
The Word of God is also very logical, and anything that does not appear logical , should, at the very least be questioned.
But first, lets look at the logical :
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. God created "man" in his own image. Thus, God would not waver from his own image, that he created in man.
It is logical to understand, and believe, that a father gives his seed over to his offspring. That seed impregnates the ovum from his wife. The two become one and a new human is born, in about nine months.
God (title) himself, can not waver from "how" a son is born. If he did waver, then what he has told us within His Word would then become worthless !
From heaven, God (title) himself said, "This is my beloved Son , in whom I am well pleased". God (title) acknowledged his own Son ! Like any father would, especially if you are well pleased with your son.
Sons do not always do the will of their fathers. But Jesus Christ did the will of his Father, and we read in the gospels, that he acknowledged doing the will of his Father, instead of his own will.( Thy will be done ). Jesus Christ always acknowledge that his Father gave him this and gave him that. Just like any ordinary father would do for his son. And a thankful son would explain that what he had , came from his father.
Even after being raised from the dead, Jesus Christ told Mary M. in John 20:17 that she should not touch him yet, because he has not ascended yet to his Father. Then he tells her that she is to go and tell the brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father (title) and your Father (title) and my God (title) and your God (title).
If Jesus Christ has a God and there is only "One" God, then we must agree with the logical understanding here .
Even at 12 years old, Jesus Christ said to his mother , that he was going about to do the will of his Father.
Even after he ascended up into heaven, God (and Father) set his Son on "His" own right hand. Which is the side of power and authority, and blessing. Jesus Christ did not sit "on" the throne, but on the right hand of him that did sit upon the throne.
Because God is logical, then we can feel confident that His Word is logical. Logic will always reign ! Never - ever in the Word of God, is a son , also the Father, nor anywhere in the Word, is the Father also the son. A son does become a father, but a father never becomes a son. The only way a father can be a son, is at birth, he himself is born of a father, then later in life, as he gets older, has himself , a son, or a daughter.
God is logical, in that everthing in His Word is in perfect balance. A son sins, and a Son redeems . If Adam was a God, then a God would have to redeem. Anything that is not in balance with God, is an abomination unto the Lord God Almighty -- Proverbs 11:1
Everything with God , under the Law, in the OT, was an eye for an eye etc. A perfect balance - always !
It was the sin of Adam that all mankind dies, and it is the faithfullness unto death of one Christ Jesus, that all men will be made alive = This "One", is Christ Jesus, who in the spiritual , is the Last Adam, the second man from the Lord - I Corinth. 15:45 - 47. #1 - First man in the literal - First Adam #2 - Second man from the Lord - Last Adam - Spiritual. Perfect balance ! The Word tells us things like the first shall be last and the last first . This is talking about the "first" Adam , and the "Last" Adam = Perfect balance - Last first, first last.
God, who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, raised him from the dead. Salvation is according to this belief - Romans 10:9 & 10.
We who are Christians, who have "Christ IN" them, the hope of glory, have to have the same faith that Christ had , when he was about to die. That God would raise him from the dead. WE also will be raised by the same power that raised his Son from the dead - I Corinth. 6:14
WE can only have confidence with the Logic, that The Word of God gives us. Remember: Let God be true, and every man a liar. God is a God of balance and he is a God of logic. Keep your minds in balance and in logic, then and only then will you have the correct understanding, that Jesus Christ is the son of man, and the Son of God, and "NOT " God !!
Love - IN Christ - Christ IN - Hervey