When it comes to God and Jesus Christ, there is a reason why the Bible calls one the Father and the other the Son, and that is because it is exactly what their relationship is, a father to a son. 

A father and a son are two distinctly different individuals. A father does not have to share life; he chooses to share life. A father gives life to his son; a son does not give life to the father. A father does not need a son to live. A son owes his life to the father. A father teaches his son; a son does not teach his father. Therefore, a father is greater than a son in every way. A father possesses the ultimate power to choose whether to share life or not to share life. 

God the Father had no beginning, the Son, who was called the Word and became Jesus Christ, is the firstborn of creation and had a beginning. The Word lives because his Father decided to share life and he was God's first creation. 

Don't take my word for it, listen to the words of Jesus Christ, God the Father's Son, "my Father is greater than I." (John 14:28) Additionally, after God resurrected Jesus, His son, Jesus said to Mary, "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (John 20:17) Jesus's Father is his God, just as much as the Father is Mary's God.

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