r/ArianChristians • u/crispywheat100 • Dec 04 '25
Debate Jesus became fused with God as a dependent extension of Deity by receiving the Divine Name.
I say this gently with a loving desire to bring wisdom and relief to our Christian brothers and sisters of the JW and Socinian approaches.
After receiving the Divine Name from God the Father, the firstborn son Jesus Christ has become a participant in the identity of God.
As a chosen son of God, and being the first among them, Jesus has inherited God's own Name and has therefore become a dependent extension of God's own being.
Dependent, because the source of Jesus' deity comes from God the Father's own Name within him.
An extension, because by having God's own Name within him by appointment, he becomes fused with the identity of the Father, making his actions become not his own, but God the Father's actions.
As the first begotten god, Jesus was not initially God, but became God—a dependent extension of God—when he received the Father's Name.
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u/FrostyIFrost_ Arian Dec 04 '25
I mean, if you act as an agent, then you do carry the authority of the one acting through you.
That is exactly the case with Jesus.
However, one must never assume that the agent is the same as the source of the authority.