The bible is poetic; so, Ima break it down best I can.
The Bible is the word of God. Christ is the word: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1.
The definition of a word.
A unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their
written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of
meaning.
So we have unit of language that represents a meaning (a message)
2. The Bible
Then you have a collection of words with a central meaning(s). This is called a book. Christians call this book with a central meaning to their faith, Scripture or The Bible.
3. Since Christians believe god inspired men to write the bible (god's message), it became the Word of God (you can't separate the message from the source-hence "The Word was with god and the Word was god".)
4. The message is the
God's Word. The Word (God's Message) is
about Christ his son. Because christ is god's son and he is an "invisible image of an invisible god" he is the Message itself, the Word.
5. Since the God can't be separate from his Message just as he cannot be separated from his son, Christians think Christ is god. It
totally makes sence why you'd think that.
But Christ puts himself in a submissive position to where there is no doubt he is not god but the message of god incarnate. Totally different.
6. Why call me [christ] good, the only good is the father.
Why would he not want to be called good when he is "god"? Odviously, he did not want to take ownership of
God's Word. He just represents/incarnate of it. (People can't separate incarnates from who they are incarnated from. Like telling me that I am my mother because I am her child)
7. My father
and I are one.
Conjunctions (prepositions and articles) show a lot of separation in authority and nature between father and son incarnate.
I am
of the father ....
from the faher I am sent things like that. I go
to my father. I don't go to myself. Reminds me of sci-fi when someone splits in two and then they rejoin to one like a robot or something. Weird. Dont think that' Roman Paganism definitely not Jewish.
word=message
Word=message incarnate
The mesage is god's message
The incarnation/message is a human-Christ
The reason you guys think god is christ is because god speaks of his incarnation in
relationship to himself.
But you can go to christ without going to the words of the bible. You can go to the God's Message Incarnate directly. Why go through middlemen and jump hoops in these denominations and translations when you can go to prayer and speak to god himself and his incarnated message?
Buddhism actually uses The Buddha to represent The Dhamma message. Though we don't mistake The Buddha from The Dhamma. In some sects they are incarnate. Other sects they are not.
But like christ
and his father, they are separate.
You don't need the bible to know this. Just Christ (message) and his father (god)