TL

Holly,

Don’t fret. 🙂

The problem with thinking that the Son of God has/had less authority than the God the Father and the Holy Spirit, means that they are not one in essence, will and authority. Eloheim, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are miraculously of the same Will, the same Authority and of the same essence. The fact that God somehow sent His Son into the world through the virgin birth to take on human flesh does not change who God is in essence. Jesus’s humanity had to learn suffering and thus discipline to do God’s will. But Jesus as God in the flesh had all the same authority so that He was able to say that essentially “you see me, you see the Father”. And amazing statement.

It’s complicated. But I would not say that God the father has more authority than God the Son. Read Hebrews 1.