ONE GOD

John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
(RSV)

Jesus died a painful and humiliating death on the cross to give me and you the opportunity to live with him in heaven for eternity. Many people today think the Lord Jesus Christ is God the Father, explaining it as beyond human understanding. A great danger exists in this belief as we overlook the fact that it was "God who so loved the world that He gave his Son". Can you imagine giving up a son or daughter and then being overlooked by the very people you made this sacrifice for. Jesus agreed to die because it was his Fathers will (Matt 26:39) but the Father had to listen to that Prayer...

Matt 26:39
39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."
(RSV)

Most of Pauls letters to churches in the New Testament start with a similar greeting identifying and individualizing God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Cor 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
(RSV)

1Cor 15:23-28 puts things in order, when Lord Jesus returns to earth, He will deliver the kingdom to his Father, God the Father.

1 Cor 15:23-24
23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
24 Then comes the end, when he (Jesus) delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
(RSV)

1 Cor 15:28
28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him (Father God) who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one.
(RSV)

A prayerful read of the first chapter of Pauls letter to the Hebrews helps lay out the plan of the Father for his Son and consequently the difference between them.

Heb 1:1-14
1 In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets;
2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
3 He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has obtained is more excellent than theirs.
5 For to what angel did God ever say, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"?
6 And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."
7 Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire."
8 But of the Son he says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the righteous scepter is the scepter of thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy comrades."
10 And, "Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands;
11 they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old like a garment,
12 like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years will never end."
13 But to what angel has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet"?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?
(RSV)emphisis added.

In verse 2 of Heb 1, Father God appointed Jesus an heir as supported in Romans 8:17

17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. Rom 8:17

Verse 3 of Heb 1, Jesus isn’t the right hand of God the Father but sitting at the right hand as written in Rom 8:34.

33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies;
34 who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us? Rom 8:33-34

Consequently Jesus isn’t here with us the Holy Spirit is.

55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;
56 and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." (RSV) Acts 7:55-56
also see Heb 8:1 and Heb 12:2

Jesus affirmed as Father Gods Son.

5 He was still speaking, when lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him." Matt 17:5(RSV)
also see Matt 3:17

In verse 8 and again verse 9 and below in Ps 45:7 Father God refers to his Son as God. Jesus is God, the Lord God. But to us he is the Lord Jesus Christ.

7 you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows; (RSV) Ps 45:7

In verse 10 of Heb 1, Father God speaking of his son declares that it was his son the Lord God who made the heaven and the earth in the beginning as written and affirmed in Gen 2:4.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, (RSV) Gen 2:4

Lastly in Heb 1:13 God the Father reviels his plan for his son Jesus. He is to wait for his Father to deal with his enemies then Jesus will return to earth and rise to power and glory forever.

PAULS NEW TESTAMENT LETTERS

The letters of Paul all open with similar surety as to the common but individual Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Father God:

Rom 1:7
7 To all God's beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(RSV) 1 Cor 1:3
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(RSV)2 Cor 1:3
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and
(RSV)Gal 1:1
1 Paul an apostle-- not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead--
(RSV)Eph 1:3
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in
(RSV)Phil 1:2
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(RSV)Col 1:1
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
(RSV)1Thes 1:1
1 Paul, Silva'nus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalo'nians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
(RSV)II Th 1:2
2 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(RSV)1 Tim 1:2
2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
(RSV)2 Tim 1:1
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
(RSV)Titus 1:4
4 To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
(RSV)Phile 1:3-4
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
(RSV)James 1:1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the
(RSV)1 Pet 1:3
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(RSV)2 Pet 1:2
2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
(RSV)I Jn 1:3
fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
(RSV)II Jn 1:3
3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.
(RSV)Jude 1:1
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
(RSV)Rev 1:1
1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must
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SUMMARY

“Lord” is a title as is “Father” and “god/God” is an attribute.

Jesus told us in Matt to pray to Our Father who is in Heaven, as he did when on earth.
Paul at the beginning of all his letters, refers to Jesus as the Lord Jesus Christ and to God the Father.
God is not a God of confusion as we are told in 1Cor14:33 who then is trying to confuse Christians as many are and to what end?

ONE GOD THEORY

John 10:30 “I and the Father are one." (RSV)
This verse is the most commonly used to support the confusing and misled theory that God is one. Jesus continues in John 17: 11 “And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one”. (RSV)
How then can all Christians be one? Jesus was meaning of one accord one mind or common union.

OTHER THINGS TO PONDER

John 1:10-11
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.
11 He came to his own home, and his own people received him not.
(RSV) John 1:1-3
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God;
3 all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
(RSV)Gen 1:26
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
(RSV)

Our Lord Jesus Christ was with the Father in the beginning and was the one who formed Adam in Genesis, he was also the plural in Genesis when the Father said let us.

Acts 2:36
36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
(RSV)John 17:3
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
(RSV)John 5:22-23
22 The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
(RSV)Rom 10:9
9 because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
(RSV)John 16:28
28 I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father."
(RSV)John 20:17-18
17 Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."
18 Mary Mag'dalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
(RSV)

Let all Israel know Father God made Jesus their Lord the Lord God of Israel the same Christ they crucified. John 16:28 above states Jesus was going to his Father again!! when did he go to the Father before? After his time on earth from Adam to Mt Sinai.

John 20:17
17 Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."
(RSV)

John 20:17

LORD GOD ON EARTH

The Lord with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Gen 2:7-8
7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
(NIV)
Gen 3:8-10
8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
10 And he said, "I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
(RSV)

The Lord shuts the door of Noahs Arc.

Gen 7:15-16
15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
16 And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
(RSV)

The Lord tells Abraham how he will become a Father.

Gen 18:1-3
1 The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
3 He said, "If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by.
(NIV)

The Lord in the cloud.

Exod 34:5-6
5 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD.
6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
(NIV)

The Lord gives Moses the 10 Commandments.

Exod 24:11-12
11 But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
12 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction."
(NIV)

The Lord wrestled with Jacob.

Gen 32:24-30
24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
26 Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27 The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.
28 Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
29 Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
(NIV)

The Lord Dwelling with the children of Israel.

Ps 68:17-18
17 With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.
18 Thou didst ascend the high mount, leading captives in thy train, and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
(RSV)