Perhaps the primary example of scripture in support of the one substanced god without body, parts, and passions is John 10:30.
“I and my Father are one.”
At the cost of critical thinking, which is to say, never to question the accepted incomprehensible dogma of centuries, this scripture seems to overlook the potential connection to the word purpose. Is it possible Christ meant one in purpose?
- John 17:20-21
- That they may all be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee…
- Are we to assume that Jesus wants the Quorum of the Twelve to absorb into one entity with the Father and the Holy Ghost and become 15?
- That they may all be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee…
Also ignored, over looked, pushed aside, avoided, or selectively forgotten are the hundreds of passages that explain and denote three separate personages:
- Acts 7:54-57
- But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
- If the Father is without body and parts, then how does Stephan discern right or left?
- If they are of one substance, how does Stephen discern two personages?
- But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
- John 5:30
- I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge…because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
- Jesus allows His will to be swallowed up in the will of the Father, Who is a distinct and separate Being.
- How/why does Jesus send Himself here and then pray to Himself and then proffer His will to His Fathers? Or is it to Himself?
- I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge…because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
- Matthew 3:16-17
- The baptism of Jesus illustrates the absurdity of the subject. How does Jesus get immersed, and while dripping wet, all present hear a voice from heaven clarifying “This is my beloved Son…” while at the same time, the sign of the dove descends and lights upon the Savior. Is it not within the realm of possibility that the three personages here illustrate their separateness by design as a testimony of their unity?
The simplicity of Genesis 1 that God created man and woman in His image is found in the writings of Moses when he warned that in the last days the Jews will be scattered among the nations who “…shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell” (Deuteronomy 4:27-28).
