The Father is Saviour, and Jesus is Savoiur is Jesus God?

If Jesus saviour, Jesus Christ is not God then why do we need Him if we have the Father for salvation? If He is just a man, how can a man give salvation?

It is true that God the Father is saviour (Isaiah 45:21-22) and that Jesus Christ is also a saviour(John 4:42;Ephesian 5:23)However to assume that Christ is also God because He is a saviour is to ignore the teachings of the bible on how He became saviour:

“It was Jesus, a descendant of David, whom God made the saviour of the people of Israel, as He promised”(Acts 13:23TEV)

“Him God has exalted to his right hand to be Prince and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins” (Acts 5:31 NKJV)

Clearly, therefore, Christ is saviour because He was exalted and made as such by God. Now, if Christ being made saviour made Him God, then comes the absurd conclusion that Christ became God because He was made as such by another God.

The bible also teaches that Christ Himself needed salvation from God(Heb.5:7) Could this have meant that one God “offer up prayers and supplications” “to another God “ who was able to save Him from deaths? Surely not, as this directly contradicts the doctrine of the bible that “there is one God, the Father of whom are all things”(1Cor.8:6)

To further ask, “why do we need Jesus if we already have the Father for salvation?” and “ How can a man (Jesus) give salvation” is to overlook, to say the least, the biblical pronouncements on the manner through which the Father will grant salvation. The Father will grant salvation through “ the man” He has ordained, Jesus Christ. The bible explains thus;

“ and now all glory to Him who alone is God, who saves us through Jesus Christ our Lord....”(Jude 1:24, Living bible)

“Because He (God) has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the man He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead”(Acts 17:31 NKJV)

As Jesus was ordained or appointed to be “the man” through whom God will judge the world, it is Him (Christ) who will come on the “end of the age”(Matt.24:3,NKJV) to bring judgement on all(Jude 1:14-15, TEV).

Jesus will grant salvation or the right to “inherit the kingdom” to His sheep (Matt. 25:31-34) or the members of His Church (John 10:16; Acts 20:28 Lamsa translation;Eph.5:23) because God gave Him the authority to give eternal life(John 17:2), indeed, Christ became Saviour by virtue of the authority given to Him by the God the Father. With regards to the nature of Christ’s being the bible explicitly declares of Him through whom salvation is to found;

“...... Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through Him......”

Salvation is to be found through Him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us” (Acts 2:22; 4:12 TEV)