Thanks for your kind blessing and the same to you. Now do you believe that the “oneness” is in purpose and perfection/completeness or are they a single being? I don’t find that the single being jives with the Bible. Christ ascended with a physical body to heaven, so heaven must be a place where you can have a body. Plus, we have the testimony of the martyr Saint Stephen, the creation story in Genesis, the expectation of the Resurrection when we get bodies, which we don’t lose, etc. It doesn’t make sense unless God has a body and, if he has a body, do Trintarians think it is Jesus’ body they’re all residing in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Martyr#The_Stoning_of_Stephen
(Isn't that what the forthcoming resurrection of the dead clearly presents?)
...we have the testimony of the martyr Saint Stephen, the creation story in Genesis...
Luke doesn't say in Acts 7 that Stephen saw the glory of Jesus and the glory of the Father. It says Stephen saw Jesus at the right hand of the glory of God.
IoW, God's eminating presence was visible...says NOTHING at all about a "body"...
As for the creation story, yes, God said, "Let us make man in OUR image." a plurality-in-unity: Adam and Eve were indeed a plurality-in-unity who immediately BECAME "ONE FLESH" (Gen. 2:24).
Besides, if Adam was made in God's literal bodily image, are you claiming that ALL of womankind is excluded from being made in God's image?
.. do you believe that the “oneness” is in purpose and perfection/completeness or are they a single being? I don’t find that the single being jives with the Bible.
#1: He is One Essence/Nature -- yet is three Persons
#2: He is so unified 'He' is a 'He' -- vs. a 'Them': "...He, -- while existing alone -- yet existed in plurality." (Hippolytus, 205 AD -- about 175 years after Christ died)
When Jesus said in John 10, that "I and my Father ARE one"...both Hippolytus (205 AD) and Tertullian (213 AD) made a big emphasis that the "are" there is "plural":
* "He did not say, 'I and my Father AM one', but ARE one. For the word 'are' is not said of one person." (Hippolytus)
* "...'I and my Father are one.' ... This is an indication of two Beings -- I and my Father. Furtheremore, there is the plural verb, are,'... (Tertullian)
Clement of Alexandria, in 195 A.D., pointed out how time is one...yet "eternity...presents in an instant the future, the present, and also the past of time." Eternity itself represents a derivative of God's 3-in-1 nature.