Answer # 14

Jesus was revealing that there is one Godhead, or one God Family, who are of one mind and purpose. But that Family is now composed of two individuals, God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. This is clearly stated in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The "Word" or "Spokesman" was the One who later became Jesus Christ (see verse 14).

Hebrews 1 also shows conclusively that Christ was and is now God: "God ... Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high" (Heb. 1:1-3). God says of Christ, "Let all the angels of God worship him" (verse 6). Only a member of the God Family is worthy of worship.

But the God Family is not limited to God the Father and Jesus Christ: "As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God" (John 1:12). Hebrews 2:7-8 shows that man, like Christ, was made for a while "a little lower than the angels," but that he is to be crowned "with glory and honor."

Everything is to be put "in subjection under his feet," but "now we see not yet all things put under him" because the resurrection to immortality hasn't occurred yet.

So the Family of God will eventually be expanded to include all of mankind who choose to follow God's way. Christians "now are... the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (I John 3:2). I Corinthians 15:53 adds, "For this... mortal must put on immortality."

Here the Bible says plainly that resurrected Christians are to be immortal like Christ. When we are changed, our mortal bodies will become spirit bodies like His (Phil. 3:20-21).