Why isn't "one with Us" the same as "I and the Father are one"? Who is the Holy Spirit? Another "person" or God Himself who is after all spirit and is holy? You have tried to show from Scripture that Jesus is God by taking Scripture out of context, now show me a Scripture that refers to the Holy Spirit as God. The fact is you cannot. One reason I started this thread: http://www.jesus-christ-forums.com/home/viewtopic.php?t=7727 was to discuss who the Holy Spirit is. In John 17 Jesus is praying about the future but does not mention the Holy Spirit.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6
You have a lot of knowledge concerning a doctrine of men but lack knowledge of God's revealed truth. Paul wrote:
Ephesians 2:19-22
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, 20 having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. NAS
The apostels and the prophets are clear there is but one true God and that the one true God is the Father. It was men who lacked a full knowledge of Christianity's Hebraic roots who came up with the Trinity. Men who used Greek philosophy (including Gnostic philosophy) and their pagan backgrounds who decided that Jesus had to be God in order to perform the miracles that were also performed by the prophets. It was Greek men who decided that the Holy Spirit who procedes from the Father is another "person" when Scipture does not support that the Holy Spirit is a distinct individual seperate from God.
Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
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Or as the KJ translates this verse:
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
KJV
"Hear, O Israel" Yehovah our God (elohiym) is one" is the correct translation since the KJ adds LORD to the end of the sentence. How do you get three persons out of this part of the foundation of Christianity? The answer is by trying to redefine the meaning of the cardinal number 1 and trying to show that "elohiym", which is the plural of "el" indicates God is a plurality. However, in the OT there are many verses that translate "elohiym" as god, not gods and there are many Trinitarian scholars who agree that "elohiym" does not mean God is plural.
The only doctrine that is supported by every word that procedes from the mouth of God (The Bible) is there is one God, the Father who highly exalted the man Jesus who was made both Prince and Savior by God who also appointed the man Jesus His heir and our High Priest.
The Trinity is a doctrine based on the traditions of men.