Christ had not merely come from the presence of God; his eternal place was within the Godhead. He had been there for all eternity (John 17:5). “I came,” he said, “from [out of] God” (John 8:42), and it was to God the Father that he was returning (John 16:28). It is here that the rudiments of the doctrine of the Trinity are becoming clear. This eternal God is one. However, Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), which was an unmistakable assertion that he was this one God. That is what