[Teófilo]

Blunders. Typos. Mine.

[Teófilo]

PING!

[chesty_puller]

Good post, thank you.

[TBP]

John — the other Gospels are more reflective of Jesus’s actual life, words, and ministry — and they’re highly edited.

[annalex]

Wouldn’t you say that in Jesus we see the immense Divine Love that empties itself for us? It is the unimaginable sacrifice of God willing to die for us that Jesus reveals, and before the Cross it could not be comprehended by the Apostles.

[sasportas]

Oneness Pentecostals would disagree with your explanation of seeing the Father. Per John 4:24, they believe God is Spirit. Heb. 11:27b says He is invisible: Heb. 11:27, "Him who is invisible."

Jesus' Father was that Spirit:

And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke 1:35, KJV

Christ, therefore, was the one God the Spirit in the flesh. Since God is an invisible Spirit, the only way Phillip could see the Father was to see Him in Christ.

Col. 1:15 agrees, it says Christ "Is the image of the invisible God."

Oneness Pentecostals do not believe the Father is an old grey bearded man. Don't know if you believe Him in that fashion, but I've got an old Baltimore Catachism with pictures of Him as just that. Seeing him that way would account for your explanation.