The Father Is Greater Than I: Exploring Biblical Subordination

Is the Son equal with the Father or is he subordinate? Thinking Christians have struggled over the tension between the traditional doctrine of coequality between Father and Son, on the one hand, and the dozens upon dozens of scriptures that either imply our explicitly teach the Father’s supremacy over his Son. Two ways of solving this problem include the idea of the economic Trinity and eternal functional subordination. In what follows Pastor Sean Finnegan overviews the biblical evidence for the Son’s subordination to the Father before critiquing both of these reigning trinitarian solutions to the problem. Last of all, he considers a few texts often pressed into service to teach coequality, but upon closer examination fail to adequately warrant that position. Also, if you’d like to dig deeper into this topic, you can read the full paper for this presentation: https://restitutio.org/2021/10/16/the-father-is-greater-than-i-exploring-biblical-subordination/