This is an impossibility with men. Men are sinful and that will always be at cross purposes with God. For God to be known through Jesus, Jesus must be God otherwise you are only getting to know a sinful man.
I see nothing wrong with God sending Yeshua to earth and bestowing his power (holy spirit) on Yeshua in order to aid Yeshua in the task that God gave him to do. This is confirmed by the scriptures.
You reason that in order for God to be known through Yeshua " Yeshua must be God"....This is not confirmed by Yeshua. That's not how Yeshua saw it at all. He does not qualify this assertion at all. On the contrary...every opportunity for him to say he is God and worship me he says the opposite.
As Paul puts it Jesus is the exact representation of God not a diminished representation that you would get through a prophet.
And I should believe Paul because what???, because he's mentioned alongside all of the other scriptures assembled together? Yeshua makes no mention of a 13th apostle. Paul reasons that Yeshua is God, he is a servant, he is the son of God...... he is this, he is that....All of what he says his of his opinion.
Jesus never says anything about purpose when He states He is one with the Father. He does not qualify His oneness in any way.
John 10:25-30
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Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe.
The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness to me;
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26] but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep.
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27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
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28] and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and
no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
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My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
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I and the Father are one."
Nothing but one in purpose. He certainly doesn't show us he is God here. Here's more one in purpose for you.
John 17:22-23
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The glory (which thou hast given me) I have given to them,
that they may be one even as we are one,
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I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one,
so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.
One in purpose but not one in the same. Not only does the above verses tell us they are one in purpose but
we are to become one in purpose with God and Yeshua as well. Then the rest of it shows they are separate because God gave Yeshua glory and love. If he is God then there would be no need for that statement. Additionally Yeshua tells us God loves him. If he is God then that statement would not have been made.
I know of no cases in the old testament........ where God dwelt with believers.
Trinitarians believe that the holy spirit is God as well so let's see....
Isaiah 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?
where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
I believe the above is talking about the Holy Spirit in Moses. (i could be wrong on this one).
Daniel 4:18
This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able;
for the spirit of the holy elohim is in thee.
Luke 1:41
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb;
and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit:
Luke 1:67
And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
Luke 2:25
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was
Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel:
and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
John 20:22
And when he had said this,
he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit:
Can we assume that in John 20:22 when Yeshua gives the holy spirit that those who received it were God? Certainly God would be making himself known through them as well....right????
I doubt that you have fully realized this. I need you to spell things out for me. By now you should realize that making statements without proving their validity doesn't do much for me.
Hey man you said it...I just agreed with you.......
....I'm trying to figure out what statements I made that aren't back by scripture....Y
eshua is not God because he himself said he had a God....Well that statement can be backed up by scripture....
Jesus..in heaven had his own will...Well that can be confirmed by scripture...
Yeshua was taught, sent and commanded as to what he should say.....Well, that also can be conformed by scripture........
Yeshua said..I'm God..worship me...Well, that's nowhere in the scriptures (4 gospels).......