All of the above characteristics listed about God the Father are equally applicable to Jesus. However, the role and activity of Jesus in the biblical history is different than the Father’s.
Jesus is a member of the Trinity who came to earth to reconcile and restore the broken relationship that exists between God and humanity. During his years on earth Jesus was fully human and divine, choosing to displace some of his divine attributes (omnipresence, glory, etc.) in order to be the perfect and needed object of God’s just anger for humanities revolt against God’s will and character. Jesus’ ministry was to be the only acceptable mediator between the Creator and creation. Although there have been many “messiahs” who tried to free the Hebrew people from their oppression, only Jesus was capable of fulfilling the Old Testament prophesies, living in complete submission to the will of God and attaining the forgiveness of sin for all of humanity through his historic life, physical death and bodily resurrection.
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