This one is only OK, not great. It doesn't talk about the father. And he still sets up a distinction: "have you not read what God said *to you*". Not "to us".
I had not even noticed what you are calling a distinction. But if He is making a distinction He is making a distinction even though it might be just His teaching style.
Nevertheless it shows that the God of Jesus is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob even if it does not talk about any father there.
This one is a little better. Thank you. But it's still "your father" not "our father". His father is different.
No, His Father is not different, it is just that the Father is His Father in a different way to the way He is the Father of others.
John 20:17
“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
Sure, I debated with myself whether I should bring this up. Moses wrote about him in Deuteronomy 13. The one who sent him told him "You were written about in scripture by Moses." That's true! And jesus repeats it ( "he only says what the one who sent him tells him to say?" ) Moses wrote about a false prophet, whom would be granted spiritual powers and prophecy as a test to see whom would be loyal to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The people Jesus was speaking to already believed Jesus to be a false prophet and Jesus was saying that they were mistaken because they did not believe Moses, the other things Moses had to say about Him. And there are many prophecies of the Messiah in the Pentateuch.
Well.... he spoke about God, and he spoke about their father, but as far as I know, never once includes himself as one of them, and never once tells us the name of the one who sent him.
The New Testament does not include the name of God, so He does not say the name of God there.
Jesus does call His Father the only true God and He was not speaking of a false God when He was speaking of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He was speaking of the God of the Jews, of which He was one.
John 17:1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
Sure. I don't think Jesus intended to go astray. But he was still promoting another god whom we, the Jews, do not know. He admitted that in John 8. "His father" is not "our father". We do not know "his father". That's a false prophet. Could be a well intended false prophet, but still, he's not the Jewish messiah. He can be your messiah. And maybe it works for you and other non-Jews.
Jesus taught His disciples to pray "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed by your name, etc"
Let me ask you a question. In John 8, Jesus is asked a simple question. Where is your father? Why doesn't he answer this question? It seems like a simple question? Here, I'll ask you. Brian, where is your father? or even Brian, where is The Father? Both are relatively easy questions to answer. Why didn't Jesus answer it? Why did he instead, dodge the question?
It is clear that Jesus is speaking about His God as being the God of the Jews.
It is clear that Jesus is saying that this one true God is His Father and He is the Son of God.
This is a reason that many Jews wanted to kill Jesus, because of what they called a blasphemy.
I imagine that is really why you think Jesus was proclaiming a false God. But really He was revealing more about the Jewish God imo.
But imo in the Hebrew scriptures the Messiah is called the Son of God.
John 10:32 But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?” 33
“ We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.” 34 Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?