Hi Duane,
I think you have the right idea. The way I look at it, God the Father is a being, but as Ray has mentioned He is not a man. I really think God the Father is just beyond our comprehension. He designed us in a physical/visible form and made our minds to relate to that.
Jesus Christ was the beginning of God's creation and meant to be the God, creator and substainer of this universe.
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
This whole reason for this universe was to bring human being into existence that would ultimately be brought into His image and into the God family. Jesus Christ was created by the Father to be the closest thing to Himself that there could be, without being Him.
Jesus Christ operates by the same Holy Spirit that the Father possesses and therefore They are totally and perfectly in sync. When Jesus said "He who has seen Me has seen the Father," it meant that He represents the Father perfectly, all His traits manifest thought Jesus; character, disposition, temperament and everything. The Holy Spirit is the unifying factor in Them and was the complete guiding force in Christ, that's why, "through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father" (Eph 2:18).
The whole 5th chapter of John is Christ explaining His relationship with the Father.
John 5:19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
John 5:26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life within Himself,
John 5:30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
John 8:28 Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.
v. 29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
v. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
Col 1:19 For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
John 10:30 I and My Father are one."
I feel it's good to share these thoughts, so that maybe we can help one another with these mysteries.
mercy, peace and love
Kat