Agency in the Bible. The human person Jesus Represented the Father and Virtually was the Father. To listen to this podcast, YouTube or any other podcast platform, like Spotify . In the Bible, God is often represented by the messengers he sends. Even beyond just representing God, God’s very presence was in and with the messenger. When God gave words to his messengers to speak, it was God speaking. When God gave authority and power to his messengers to perform miraculous deeds, it was God performing those miraculous deeds. When the messenger was at the scene, it was to be understood that God was at the scene. These realities are known as the principle of agency. In certain ways the messenger “is” the sender since the person’s agent is to be regarded as the sender himself. Many Christians seem to be unfamiliar with the reality that “the one who is sent is to be regarded as the personal presence of the one who sent him.” God’s messenger is to be re...