And you still haven’t addressed the meat of the scripture that says our “oneness” is the same “oneness” that is shared by God and Christ. If you want to slap your hands over your eyes and ears and then flit to the next verse, that’s your problem not mine.
Nah, you have to read the Bible in whole, not just bits and pieces. There is one God.
Daniel,
In the second half of Jesus prayer for believers, He turns
to all future believers (after praying specifically for
the disciples).
He prays especially for their unity with each other. He
prays...
“that they may (future tense)all be one ; even as You,
Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us,
so that the world may believe that You sent Me.”
Jesus’ prayer, specifically, is that the unity of all
believers would reflect the unity of Jesus and the Father.
The result would be that the world would believe in Christ.
Some observations for you and my other friends here...
God answered this prayer positionally on the day of Pentecost
when He united believers with Himself in the body of Christ,
the Universal Church (cf. 1 Cor. 12:13). Every time a new
believer comes to Christ, he is placed into the Body of
Christ. So believers are one in Christ, for the church is one
body. Christians can belong to different fellowships, but
they belong to the same Lord and to each other as one body.
Beyond the positional truth here, Christ is also praying
for unity in their actions to each other. and their spiritual
unity is to be manifest in the way they live. The unity
Christ prays for His church is the same kind of unity that
He has with the Father: “just as You are in Me and I am in
You.”
There is a divine pattern of unity (oneness).
The Father does His works through His Son and the Son always
does what pleases the God the Father. This unity is to be
patterned in the church. Without union with Jesus and the
Father, Christians can do nothing (see John 15:5).
I believe the reason is simple...
The unbelieving world can’t see God, but they can see
Christians. What they see in us is what they believe about
God.
Beyond that prayer, there is nothing there that says we
will be gods. I suspect you are reading the passage, seeing
a word that sounds like it would support a mormonism teaching
of becoming gods, and reading that concept into the passage.
best,
ampu