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Yes, the Father appointed Moses as God.

Exodus 7.

I didn't twist anything. I only quoted it exactly as the verse says. God appointed Moses as God.

And your friend says God appointed Jesus as God too, if he wants to be consistent.

"And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh ..." (Exodus 7:1 KJV)

The word "God" has many shades of meaning. God - the perfect and all-powerful Being or Spirit who we worship - is always written with a capital letter without "the." In the aforesaid verse, the "god," in lower case, denotes a person and especially a man who's greatly loved or admired.

For your info, God cannot create another God. God by definition is not a created being. If God tried to create another God, the second "god" would be a creature. The "god" would be dependent, derived, and finite. He simply couldn't qualify for the job description of being God.

The man revered by the multitudes is Moses, no less! God called Moses, the greatest of the Old Testament prophets, to lead the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage to freedom as an independent nation. Hebrews 3:5-6 says, "Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house."

While Moses served God, Jesus was declared to be the Son of God with the right to rule over all servants. Jesus said He did not come to abolish the law (Moses's writings; he wrote the first five books of the OT - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy - which are known as the Torah) but to fulfill it (Matt. 5:17).

In Deut 18:15-19, Moses foretold that God would raise up a Jewish prophet with a special message from God. Anyone who didn't believe this would be judged by God. This passage has been interpreted as referring to Messiah. In it Moses points to a prophet (Jesus) who would be greater than himself, saying, "it is to him you shall listen" (Deut 18:15).

"The Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). While Moses set up the moral and social structures that guided the nation, the law could not save anyone from the penalty of their sins, which is death. "By the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin" (Rom 3:20). The revelation that came through Jesus was one in which the sins that the law made known are forgiven, "being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus" (v.24). So, whereas Moses's law brought condemnation, only Christ provided salvation (Rom 8:1-4).