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There are many texts that state that Jesus Christ is our Saviour and also that God is our Saviour. Trinitarians infer from this that God and Christ are sub-elements of the one being called God.

Jude makes distinction between the only wise God our Saviour and Jesus Christ our Lord through whom we can be presented to God without blemish (Jude 24-25).

Peter seems to deal with Christ as Saviour in 2Peter 3:2,18.

It is clear that John viewed Christ as being sent by God as the Saviour of the world (1Jn 4:14).

Paul’s view is that God is the Saviour of all men (1Tim 4:10). There can be no Trinitarian implications in Paul as he makes clear distinction between God who is Saviour and Christ. In 2Timothy 1:8-10, Paul asserts the position of Saviour to Christ.

God saved us and called us with a holy calling according to His purpose and the grace, which He gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago. We were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8; 17:8).

Christ came as God’s appointed Saviour and abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. He became a son of God in power through his resurrection from the dead (Rom. 1:4). It was the power of God that enabled Christ to be sent as God’s designated Saviour to the world.

Hosea is emphatic that there is no Saviour besides God (Hosea 13:4). This Saviour had been earmarked from the foundation of the world for the redemption of Israel (Gen. 48:15-16).

God gave the Angel of Yahovah orders to speak through the prophet Isaiah to declare the coming Saviour as Messiah. God orders the establishment of the altar to Yahovah in Egypt. God will send them a Saviour and a Great One and he shall deliver them (Isa. 19:19-25).

This altar was the Temple at Leontopolis in the nome of Heliopolis and closed by order of Vespasian in 71 CE. Established about 160 BCE it remained fully functioning until the dispersion and even after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE. It was set specifically for Messiah to be sent into Egypt and was built as a sign that God would redeem Egypt with Assyria alongside Israel.

This prophecy was to take two thousand years to complete. It spanned the first and second advents of Messiah. Christianity did not see the significance of the advents and the rule of Messiah under the millennial system. Most abandoned Millennialism (or Chiliasm) and thus do not understand this prophecy.

Yahovah was elohim of Israel. He was their Holy One and their Saviour. We are speaking of the process of delegation from the Father to the Messiah as Elohim anointed by the elohim above his partners (Ps. 45:6-7).

Paul understood that the delegation from the Father to the Messiah was for the greater glory of God the Father. There is no Trinitarian or Modalist duality of God but rather a process of delegation of power and authority through obedience. Christ was in the form of God but did not seek to grasp equality with God as Satan had done (Isa. 14:14; Ezek. 28:14-18). See the paper Binitarianism and Trinitarianism (No. 76).

In Isaiah 49 we see that the Messiah is mentioned as the one called from the womb and made with a mouth like a two edged sword (Isa. 49:1-6).

Messiah was given as a light to the Gentiles that the salvation of God might reach to the end of the earth. Messiah is to become Israel and the Church was foretold as the body of Christ and the body of Israel and the only means of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Messiah as Saviour established the Covenant of God for and on behalf of God as Saviour. Isaiah speaks of this as carrying through to the last days and the coming of the Messiah to Zion. At this time justice and truth are fallen to the ground and judgment is turned backward (Isa. 59:1-14). The Lord saw this and that there was no intercessor and so He acted (Isa. 59:15-21).

God sent Christ under direction, at the appointed time. Messiah as appointed agent is thus Saviour under delegation until every rule and authority is placed under him (Acts 13:22-23). There can be no question of the adequacy of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as our Saviour. This relationship of Saviour to those saved is central to the purpose of God (Eph. 5:23).

God is thus part of Christ as He is part of us. We will be sons of God and coheirs with Christ and the heavenly Host (Phil. 3:20).

God is our Saviour and He appointed Christ to die for us as the instrument of our salvation and thus our Saviour by delegation. Both God and Christ live in us through the Holy Spirit and God will become all in all. Thus we could have one God and Father of us all (Eph. 4:6).