This is where it get's interesting. I have had the same sort of thinking, because for christianity to be monotheism.. the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.. need to be one being. Not seperate.
The problem I get with having the one being God.. expressed in three manifestations/essences.. is when Jesus talks to the Father.. it's just an 'essence talking to an essence', when each in the Trinity have a distinct persona.
So I come back to agreeing with the traditional view of the Father not being Jesus and the Holy Spirit not being Jesus.
The problem then being- how they are still the one being.
I try and solve that by them all having the same essence in themselves. But then God just becomes an 'essence'
So it goes beyond my comprehension.
The key thing being Jesus has all the attributes and status of being fully God. So does the Father, and the Spirit.
“is when Jesus talks to the Father..”
right he had to become fully one of us which includes being subject to God , it’s an example for Gods children
But honestly brother consider
“Hear, O Israel:
The LORD our God is one LORD: and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 KJV
“For there are three that bear record in heaven,
the Father,
the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and
these three are one.”
1 John 5:7 KJV
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
John 1:1, 3-5, 14 KJV
“For
in him dwelleth
all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”
Colossians 2:9 KJV
Christ is the only place you can see the fullness of the one God manifest before your eyes
all the fullness of the godhead is manifest in Jesus the Christ
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, ( word made flesh ) and of
the Holy Ghost:”
Matthew 28:19 KJV
“When they heard this, they were
baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Acts 19:5
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12 KJV
“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith,
one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”
Ephesians 4:4-6 KJV
jesus is God. Not a fellow of God not a relative of God he is the lord the one lord , he is the creator of all things
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 KJV
that’s Jesus who did that we know because the New Testament makes it clear
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
That was
the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and
the world knew him not.”
John 1:1, 3, 9-10
Many still don’t know him even though he came and made himself known
“Who is
the image ( manifestation
) of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:
all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is
the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.”
Colossians 1:15
some just don’t understand what God has done so they seperate his body and his spirit as two individuals but that’s like saying your spirit isn’t part of the one you it is the source of you and your body is like the home for your spirit it makes you a living soul just one soul not two
airs really as simple as acknowledging that God said he was going to come and dwell among us , said he would preach the gospel among us and intercede for mankind’s sin and save them from death if they believed and called upon
his name
and then
He fulfilled what he said he would do when Jesus was born and the time of the gospel occurred
I’m not sure how many Gods anyone else has but I have one who saw me lost in sin , came and introduced himself taught me and died for my sins and then returned to heaven victorious on my behalf he’s never been anything but what he is the one true and only God who’s done it all to save me the father son and Holy Ghost have one name because those three aspects are one God accomplishing salvation
a you may want to go back to believing in a single God that has given his own spirit to believers through faith in his manifestation on earth in the son Jesus Christ
because God isn’t three he’s one and has provided salvation through shedding his blood and giving his spirit birthing children for himself