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There is little to argue in this treatise. The few things I find that I don't completely agree are hardly worth mentioning but there is one thing that bothered me. Please don't be offended by anything I say, I found what you wrote to be very interesting and a great compilation of the scriptural facts on the subjects you treated. I enjoyed your mentioning your own experiences but, yes I have a few thoughts to add. I have not had the benefit of seminary and therefore I will not see all things the same way as someone who has had learned professors explaining the facts of the Bible that are likely beyond my ability. I do not see things the same way as someone who has had to prepare countless sermons on the Life of Jesus Christ. I do however seek the guidance of the Holy Ghost as I read the scriptures and have thoughts that might be worth adding to yours.

First, yes Jesus could speak about His father from experience but that is not the same thing as having the authority to do so. There were many that were disciples of Jesus Christ but only 12 were called and ordained by Him during His earthly life to be special witnesses, they had authority. This authority thing is a big deal to me. Jesus was not just some wilderness preacher He was the Son of God. Though He was the Son of God and needed no more authority than that we are given His genealogy to make sure we understood that He was the legitimate heir to the throne of David, that He, Jesus Christ was rightfully the King of Israel. We are also told that He was a priest, indeed a High Priest after the order of Melchisedec according to Paul. Because Jesus was a rightful Priest He could offer sacrifice for the people. He did indeed do that.

To me these two things, Him being heir to the throne of Israel and His holding the priesthood makes Him more than a prophet. The Son of God is more than a prophet.

When a man is the son of the king we don't call him the son of the king we call him a prince. Likewise when The Son of God philosophizes about some topic we don't call Him a prophet, we call Him The Son of God.

Islam says that Jesus was a prophet. He philosophizes for sure but He was not a Prophet, He was the Son of God. To me calling Him any less than this is getting awfully close to the abyss you referred to from your teacher.

Jesus Christ taught us because He loves us. He suffered, bled and died because He loves us. He authorizes His priests to preach to us on earth today because He loves us.

He sounded like He preached as one having authority because He did have that authority. He taught perfectly so that all could understand because He was God and His mind could understand much more than ours therefore knew what to say to make us understand. When He died on the cross nobody took His life He gave it. Even in dying He was in control. He told His Father when it was done and He gave up the Ghost. What a most remarkable personage the Son of God is, what a great and loving God He is.

While I may not hold the authority we speak about when we speak of Him I can say, even without authority, that I know Him to be the very Son of God, the Redeemer of the world, the Great I Am.