>>11039215Still him.
I can explain it, but it requires me to dismantle the Trinity, and heaven forbid I should ever question that utter dumpster fire of uninspired and confused dogma. But I'm going to anyway.
The Intercessory Prayer made by Jesus in John 17 explains this better than I ever could.
Keep in mind that when Christ speaks of the others, he is speaking of his Apostles, the leaders he appointed to carry his Gospel to the world.
>5. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.>6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.>7. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.>8. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.>9. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.>10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.>11. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.In verse 11, Christ prays that his Apostles may be one, as he and the Father are one. If we go by mainstream Trinitarian "logic", that would imply that at some point the apostles merge into some strange globular single-bodied hivemind. That makes no sense. To me it is clear that Christ's relationship of oneness of the father is unity - perfect alignment of will. They work in perfect unity together without the slightest deviation in motive, agenda or methodology. And Christ is asking his Father to help his Apostles to achieve that same level of unity.
The trinity makes infinitely more sense if you make that slight adjustment.
