Dear Readers,
There's no question or argument with regards to the plurality of God... collective one (echad) that is. The fact of the matter is, the poster above could not even respond directly to most of my posts but have the audacity to claim victory to his flawed religious view. Here's some of the posts that he continue to ignore.... and could not refute.... Others to follow.
How do you understand “collective one”? No doubt about it, Moses was correct in his usage of ECHAD by applying it to TWO BEINGS becoming one. But our poster above is introducing a new usage of the term "echad" by applying it to only ONE BEING.
“Collective one” is not applied to the distinctions WITHIN one entity. You may draw ONE circle with three distinct colors WITHIN but that can hardly be called “collective one” because the entity (ie., circle) remains one. You can only apply “collective one” to two or more separate and distinct entities.
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			There's no question or argument with regards to the plurality of God... collective one (echad) that is. The fact of the matter is, the poster above could not even respond directly to most of my posts but have the audacity to claim victory to his flawed religious view. Here's some of the posts that he continue to ignore.... and could not refute.... Others to follow.
So the bottom-line..... the apologizers here believe that God is one in Number. It’s a belief that even the Jews, Oneness people and the Unitarians could relate to. Whereas, I believe God is one in Unity. The Elohim (The plural of Eloah, God), who is one (Echad) in Unity.
Deuteronomy 6:4 attests to this fact: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD (YHVH or Jehovah) our God (Elohim, plural referring to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, who were all individually called God), is ONE (united) LORD.
For example...
ONE IN UNITY is used in the case of Gen. 2:24, when the husband and wife were called ONE by God. How can the two in number, be One?
This is possible only in the sense of UNITY. We can understand John 10:30 in this sense, “I and my Father are one.” One in Unity not in number. It is also in this sense that the thousands can be one like the builders of the tower of Babel in Gen 11:6. Even the millions of Christians can be one in this sense according to John 17:21.
The use of “ECHAD” of Genesis 2:24 best explains the “ECHAD” of Deuteronomy 6:4. Therefore, when Moses said that the husband and wife (TWO BEINGS) would become “ECHAD” (one), that is a “collective one” of two beings.” If that is “collective one” of TWO BEINGS, why would you assume that Moses’ usage of “ECHAD” in Deut. 6:4 is a “collective one” of ONE BEING?
When Moses applied “collective one” to God in Deut. 6:4 it was applied to MORE THAN ONE ENTITY. Otherwise, it was an erroneous usage for Moses since “collective one” can only be applied to more than one entity.
I don’t have any problem with the three Persons and in ONE God (Collective ONE, that is). But the issue is this:
Did the Bible say that the BEING of the Son is the SAME BEING of the Father and of the Holy Spirit since the traditional view says God exist as three distinct persons but not separate persons?
I don't think so.
How do you understand “collective one”? No doubt about it, Moses was correct in his usage of ECHAD by applying it to TWO BEINGS becoming one. But our poster above is introducing a new usage of the term "echad" by applying it to only ONE BEING.
“Collective one” is not applied to the distinctions WITHIN one entity. You may draw ONE circle with three distinct colors WITHIN but that can hardly be called “collective one” because the entity (ie., circle) remains one. You can only apply “collective one” to two or more separate and distinct entities.
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