By golly you really have your thinking cap on:thumbsup:
So if I understand you’re position; there are three God’s, not just one?
You may want to look at John 14:10 and John 10: 37-38?
Then look up: 1 Tim. 2:5, 1Cor. 8:6 and Eph.4:6.
Love and prayers,
John 14:10 and John 10:37-38 say Jesus is IN the Father and the Father is IN Jesus. Would that make Jesus and the Father only one [in number]? Your next referenced text should provide some answer.
1 Tim. 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
There is one God. And there is Jesus Christ, the mediator between God and men. If Jesus Christ is also God (Heb. 1:8), how many Gods are there? Of course, two – one is Jesus and the other the one called “God,” or God the Father! This duality in God is clearly revealed in John 1:1.
But why did Moses declare, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, is one Lord!”? Is it because God is one in a Trinity?
God’s oneness is made clear in the book of John.
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That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
THAT THEY MAY BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE:
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”(John 17:21-23).
Jesus prayed to the Father, “That they [referring to Christians] may be one” JUST AS He and the Father are one. If we say that Christ’s oneness with the Father makes up a Trinity [when the Holy Spirit is included], can we also say that the oneness of the true Christian community makes up an entity resembling a Trinity – that is, separate individuals physically merging to become a single being?
Jesus said He is IN the Father and the Father is IN Him. But Paul said “we” – meaning God’s people - are also “in him [the Father]” and according to Jesus He is IN His people and His people IN Him. “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and
ye in me, and I in you” (John 14:20).
If we say Jesus and the Father [with the Holy Spirit] is one in a Trinity because the Father is IN Jesus and Jesus is IN the Father, can we also say that Jesus and His people also form some kind of a Trinity because Jesus is IN His people and His people are IN Him?
When we consider ALL scriptures on the subject, we would understand how God can be one yet two distinct individuals not necessarily merged into a “Trinity.” God’s oneness is not a numerical oneness but a unity of mind and purpose. That’s why Jesus said of His mission:
“My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work” and “…I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me” (John 4:34; 5:30).
Describing this relationship, Jesus said, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30).
Now, Eph. 4:6: “One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”
Yes, one God and Father. And one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son. That makes two Gods, not one. That’s why King David said: “The LORD [God the Father] said unto my Lord [Jesus Christ]” – TWO Lords – “Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” In David’s prophetic vision the Father is talking to the Son. Then, about 1,000 years later, the apostle Peter confirms the identity of the two Beings (Acts 2:34-35).
The prophet Daniel also saw two Beings in heaven in a vision: “He [Jesus the Son] came to the Ancient of Days [God the Father], and they brought Him near before Him” (Dan. 7:13).
Two Gods, yet one in mind and purpose. That is how God is one.
God bless.
