Three persons, each one being god, with each one being distinct from the other, describe polytheism. I keep it in mind and shudder.
I believe in and worship the One omnipresent God in heaven, on earth, and in our hearts, as described in Isaiah chapter nine and in Deuteronomy. He is my all-in-all, my everything. My Saviour, healer, baptiser, and coming King. Creator of heaven and earth.
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The Apostles wrote different in regard to Father and Son as in two persons of honor.
Setting aside the distinction made between "God" and "Lord" and "from whom all things came" and "through whom all things came" Its two distinct persons united in one Deity. Though there is a absence in this honor in regard to the Spirit given in this declaration.
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
Again two noted by the Lord in this honor and also a absence of a need to know the Holy Spirit.
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
And two persons seen in heaven and the gift of God is noted. Christ in us.
Exalted to the
right hand of God, he has received from the Father
the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
Hebrews 1 is about the Son who was and is not the Father.
God created through the Son.
Setting aside why the need -again two persons noted whose works required shared Deity.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.
And Jesus sat down "with" the Father on the Fathers throne
To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
And Jesus has made us a kingdom of priests to serve His God and Father.
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
And the person of Jesus is the mediator of a new covenant between God and Man.
And honor is given to both in heaven.
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne
and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"
You are correct there is only One Deity and testimony was given in that one Deity lives in Jesus. It was not needed to note that in regard to the Father who is Deity in Himself.
Jesus =>it is the Father "
living in me" and "I
and the Father are one"
Paul =>For
in Christ all the fullness of the Deity
lives in bodily form
Paul in regard to the Jesus who was=>
In Him it did please all the fullness to dwell
It's clear to me the Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Father but both persons are united by one Deity. The Jesus who was and is and is to come does the Fathers works by that one Deity as He could do nothing apart from that Deity. But the creation was made through Him, by Him, and Paul added for Him. Such works requires Deity.
"Jesus" lives and as written God exalted "Jesus" to His right hand.