I have.
Yet you fail to explain how Jesus declaring unity with God makes him God.
Any group of people declaring themselves to be one is a declaration of unity NOT of being identical with each other.
Even in marriage, the “one flesh” is not literal but representative of the unity in that bond.
If my earthly father and I are of such one accord that we hold all the same values and opinions, then I can easily say that we are one.
And if I am VP of the family business I can make decisions on behalf of my father, the president, up to the limits of my authority.
And if you come to visit and wish to speak to the president, you will have to come to me first. And since I fully and totally represent my father, I can assure you that if you have visited me you have indeed visited the president as well. If you see me, you’ve seen the president because we are one in purpose, not because we are the same thing!
I may look like my father, I may sound like my father, and I may act like my father but I am not my father.
Jesus knew that God was his father and God knew that Jesus was his son.
Why is it that you can’t tell the difference between God and Jesus?
There is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.
The man Christ Jesus....not the god Christ Jesus...the MAN Christ Jesus.
Hey, I didn’t write the book!
You contradict yourself and give the answer in the same sentence, well done.
"... Jesus declaring unity with God makes him God."
"Any group of people declaring themselves to be one is a declaration of unity NOT of being identical with each other."
Exactly so. Alabama is not New York, but we are the U.S.A.
"Why is it that you can’t tell the difference between God and Jesus?"
John 10:30 may have something to do with it.
"not the god Christ Jesus"
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM."
(This is the part where you pick up the stone, blasphemous Pharisee.)
John 8:59
What faith are you it seems you are not of the Trinity trend!:)