John 10:30
Jesus and the Father are One
30 I and the Father are one.
John 14:5-14
Jesus the Way to His Father
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
Atheists acknowledge one less God, than believers...I would agree with that particular statement...Richard Dawkins however says, “We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in…Some of us just go one god further.”…
For me, God is God because He is One and not many...My argument to Mr. Dawkins might be if there were many gods, wouldn't you and me always be looking for the largest and strongest and the most infinite One?...But this argument and these questions would be similar to His statement about being one less God...
Because there is only One God in the world, is that an argument against God?...Dismissing God because there is only One of Him doesn't seem right to me...To have the objection of God not being God or having a God based on numbers of gods is an interesting argument, if that could be called an argument for or against God -and doesn't hold much reason or logic for me...If God is God, wouldn't there just be One of Him...Isn't, for those who believe in God, would He not be the Highest Entity and just be One in number?…If God is God wouldn't He as a matter of course be the One and Only God?...And if He is Divine, then He certainly could do many and all miracles...I say that in the sense that if there is One True Entity that created the world, and is Divine and the Living God would be this Limitless One, and could do an infinite number of things...So, if God is God He can do things like creating a world and universe with no other entity's help...But maybe this is only the way I see God...And in that respect, I believe in a God of Miracles...
When Jesus went around teaching He never talked about there being more than One God...He said He was the Son of God...Jesus taught us that He has One Father, and that One Father is God...In Jesus' discourse to His Disciples the night before His arrest, being in His Father...Jesus had One Father who somehow dwelt in Him...It is the Father, living in Jesus, who was doing His work, while Jesus was on earth...I believed Jesus when He said that He was in the Father and the Father was in Him...And if we did not believe that we could at least believe on the evidence of the miracles that He performed...
And Jesus talks about Him and the Father actually being One, instead of Two...He teaches us that He and His Father are One...Which brings up the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit situation...Jesus, whom I also think is Divine, is the Son of this Trinity...All three seem Divine to me...And Jesus, whom I believe is His Son, and the One He sent to earth is Divine because His teachings are still with us two thousand years later...Wouldn't God's Son always be remembered, if He walked the earth?...Wouldn't He be a controversy among believers and atheists on the subject of faith?...We have two ideas on Him as far as believing in Him -you either believe in Him or you do not...