Who was the Father of Jesus? The oneness proponents have been labeled as "Jesus only" and accused of believing that Jesus is His own Father. However, the scriptural account makes it plain. I Timothy 2:5 states "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." The key word is man. The flesh was the Son, the Spirit was the Father. John 10:30, Jesus said, "I and my father are one." John 13:9, "Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" Matthew 1:18, "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they cam together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." When Joseph determined to put Mary away, an angel appeared unto him in a dream and said, (v. 20) "fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost." John 3:16, "for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son," thus showing that God was the Father of Jesus. The infallible word could not possibly present such a glaring discrepancy as to have two persons the father of Jesus. The Holy Ghost is called the Comforter and the spirit of truth in John 14:16-17. That is exactly who He is: the Spirit of God, but not a separate person. In Carl Brumback's book, God in Three Persons, on page 79, he gives his Trinitarian explanation of the Holy Ghost overshadowing Mary. " The humanity of Jesus Christ did originate at Nazareth. This humanity, in order to be genuine humanity, must have had its beginning through the mingling together of human seed, both male and female. The one who is always called the Father of Jesus, both in eternity and in time, God the Father. By a sovereign act, God the Father crated the male seed, and the Holy Spirit deposited that seed in the womb of Mary. As the doctor or veterinarian who presides in instances of artificial insemination today is an agent but not the actual father of the child who is thus conceived, so the Holy Spirit was the immediate Agent of the Godhead who presided at the conception of the humanity of Jesus; but, as the entire New Testament bears witness, this ministry of the Holy Spirit did not make Him the Father of Jesus Christ. Brumback boldly states in Chapter 1, page 15, that the intention of his book was to deal the "death blow to this error that has ensnared many honest and sincere hearts." I hardly think that the specious explanation that Jesus was born as the result of artificial insemination performed by the Holy Ghost, the third person in the Godhead, will intelligently refute the doctrine of the oneness. In fairness to our Trinitarian friends, I think I should quote from Dr. W. A. Criswell, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention. In his book, Expository Sermons on Revelation, he wrote, "In the providence of God, in the fullness of time, the Lord God descended from heaven, wrapped Himself in human flesh in the womb of a virgin girl, offered Himself as the sacrifice for our sins in the body God prepared for Him, in whose blood and atonement our iniquities and transgressions are washed away. He goes on to say, "Who is the exalted person high and lifted up? John the Apostle says Isaiah saw the glory of the Lord Jesus and spake of Him. This is confirmed in the words of Jesus Himself, who said, 'I and my Father are one.' The Father and the Son are one in the mystery of the Trinity. There are not two or three immutable, eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent Gods. When we arrive in glory and mingle with the saints on those golden streets, we shall not see three Gods. That would be basic paganism and idolatry. When we get to heaven and walk the streets of that celestial city, we shall see the one Lord God, Jesus, Jehovah Christ. The only God there is the Lord God our Father. The only God we shall ever see is the Lord God Christ our Savior. The only God we shall ever feel is the Lord God the Holy Spirit, who lives in our heats and in whose power we shall be raised from among the dead." "But we continue. There are no attributes; there are no perfections of the Lord God Jehovah but that they are also the attributes and perfections of the lord Christ Himself. Let us speak of His immutability. The immutability, the unchangingness of the Lord God is also ascribed to our Lord Christ. We read in Hebrews 1:10-12: 'Thou, Lord (Christ), in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens art the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and they years shall not fail."