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 as well as physically, within limitations. His degree of perfection or imperfection in living the father's life may be and is modiﬁed by his own acquiescence or active interference. But he is never more than a human being, and he is always a being distinct from his father. Jesus as the Son of God became a replica of his Father, and eventually insists that he and the Father are one—identical. "He that hath seen me hath seen the father." (14:9.) No other man could make this claim concerning himself and his father. Jesus could do so because the Divine Essence is indivisible. If he were a son of God, as we are the sons of our human fathers and so became a distinct being, he would be another God, and there would be two Gods, which is impossible.

While Jesus is called the Son of David many times, we realize that it is only through his mother that he is so called. He insists that he is the Son of God. His repudiation of the claim that the Messiah was to inherit his soul from David as a man inherits his soul from his human father is indicated in the following passage:

"While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of