> When Jesus makes it clear that God is a separate entity than himself, why do we conflate the two? When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. John 17:1‭-‬3 ESV >He never said that HE was their God, but references a separate entity. Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” John 20:17 ESV >And again he references God as a separate entity, otherwise he would be saying ME rather than "my God". The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. Revelation 3:12 ESV >He doesn't conflate himself with God, but rather, explains that he is in the Father and the Father in him, using Psalm 82:6, thus referencing all men (little "g" gods) as "sons of the Most High." Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” John 10:34‭-‬38 ESV >He came in Father's name, not his own. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. John 5:43 ESV >Even Paul references Jesus and God the Father as two separate entities. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:5‭-‬11 ESV >Jesus again puts a distinction between himself and the Father. And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” John 6:65 ESV >Even his cousin and disciple, John, sees this distinction; he is not ever referred to as God, but the Son of God. but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. John 20:31 ESV