But if “intimacy” and “identical authority” were all that Jesus wanted to indicate by calling himself Son and calling God his Father, he could have spoken of “my friend in heaven” or “my brother in heaven” or even “my twin in heaven.” Those images were ready at hand. But he did not. He spoke of “my Father in heaven.” Emphasizing likeness in deity only, while failing to specify any distinction between the persons of the Trinity, is a failure to affirm any distinction between the three persons, which