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Originally Posted by djohnson
So the Father didn't send his Son to die on the cross? He sent Himself? So all that talk by Jesus about being sent by the Father and doing the Father's will is really moot? It's just meaningless talk? Instead it should be: "I am God and I came down here for 33 years and I will die on the cross and resurrect myself and go back to heaven and send myself again at Pentecost." When I read the NT I see distinctions being made in the language of the writers and I have to think they were made for a meaningful reason.
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I remember how Witness Lee discussed the preposition "with" which in Greek is "para" and actually means "from with" (I remember checking Greek dictionary to confirm this). Therefore, when Christ came from the Father, He came "from with" the Father. When the Father sent the Son, He Himself came with the Son. And as I mentioned earlier, from perichoresis of hypostases accepted in orthodox theology it follows that the Son could do nothing without the Father as they always dwell in one another and cannot be separated.