<p>6:45- see on Mt. 12:18.</p><p><i>It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught by God. Everyone therefore who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me</i>- The drawing of the Father is through hearing and learning from Him, about His Son. &quot;The prophets&quot; who spoke of how all shall be &quot;taught by God&quot; do so in the context of prophesying about the Messianic Kingdom on earth (Is. 54:13; Jer. 31:34; Mic. 4:2). But the Lord applies these clearly future Messianic prophecies to the essential spiritual experience of the believer today; for we are now living the eternal life, the Kingdom life, the kind of life we shall then live.</p><p>The Lord Jesus often stressed that He was the only way to the Father; that only through knowing and seeing / perceiving Him can men come to know God. And yet in Jn. 6:45 He puts it the other way around: &ldquo;Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me&rdquo;. And He says that only the Father can bring men to the Son (Jn. 6:44). Yet it is equally true that only the Son of God can lead men to God the Father. In this we see something exquisitely beautiful about these two persons, if I as a non-Trinitarian may use that word about the Father and Son. The more we know the Son, the more we come to know the Father; and the more we know the Father, the more we know the Son. This is how close they are to each other. And yet they are quite evidently distinctly different persons. But like any father and son, getting to know one leads us to know more of the other, which in turn reveals yet more to us about the other, which leads to more insight again into the other&hellip; and so the wondrous spiral of knowing the Father and Son continues. If Father and Son were one and the same person, the surpassing beauty of this is lost and spoilt and becomes impossible. The experience of any true Christian, one who has come to &lsquo;see&rsquo; and know the Father and Son, will bear out this truth. Which is why correct understanding about their nature and relationship is vital to knowing them. The wonder of it all is that the Son didn&rsquo;t automatically reflect the Father to us, as if He were just a piece of theological machinery; He made a supreme effort to do so, culminating in the cross. He explains that He didn&rsquo;t do <i>His</i> will, but that of the Father; He didn&rsquo;t do the works <i>He </i>wanted to do, but those which the Father wanted. He had many things to say and judge of the Jewish world, He could have given them &lsquo;a piece of His mind&rsquo;, but instead He commented: &ldquo;<i>But&hellip;</i> I speak to the world those things which I have heard of the Father&rdquo; (Jn. 8:26). I submit that this sort of language is impossible to adequately understand within the Trinitarian paradigm. Yet the wonder of it all goes yet further. The Father is spoken of as &lsquo;getting to know&rsquo; note aorist tense the Son, as the Son gets to know the Father; and the same verb form is used about the Good Shepherd &lsquo;getting to know&rsquo; us His sheep. This wonderful, dynamic family relationship is what &ldquo;the fellowship of the Holy Spirit&rdquo;, true walking and living with the Father and Son, is all about. It is into this family and wonderful nexus of relationships that Trinitarians apparently choose not to enter.</p>