It is a fruitless conversation but brother UntoHim raised a good question.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
...Jesus was the embodiment of the Father, God in human form.
If Jesus is not the Father, then you must believe in two Gods, or you must believe that Jesus is not God. If we believe that Jesus is God then we must also believe that Jesus is the Father. Jesus cannot be God and not hte Father because if Jesus is God and the Father is God, then logically Jesus is the Father. If you believe there is a "Father God" and a "son God" then you believe in two God's, not one.
In fact, if we unknowingly pray to two or three different Gods by not recognizing the oneness of the Trinity, we are then automatically participating in Mystery Babylon, Jezebel and Baal worship. There is strong evidence that the text “the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” was added to 1 John 5:7.
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Evangelical, we can say that John is a person. But we can't say that a person is John. Anyone who has seen John has seen a man. But not anyone who has seen a man has seen the John. It is just human logic. However, the concept of the Holy Trinity is not based on the rational thinking. It comes from the genuine living knowledge of those who have come to know God in faith.
You say that God the Father is God the Son. But that is a different gospel and a different Christ. The early Church has always believed that "the Son and Word is “in the beginning with God” (John 1:12) as is the Holy Spirit, and that the Three are eternally distinct. The Son is “of God” and the Spirit is “of God.” The Son and the Spirit are not merely aspects of God, without, so to speak, a life and existence of their own. How strange it would be to imagine, for example, that when the Son becomes man and prays to his Father and acts in obedience to Him, it is all an illusion with no reality in fact, a sort of divine presentation played before the world with no reason or truth for it at all."
Nowhere in the Bible, Jesus says that He is the Father. Moreover, He says "the Father is greater than I” (John 14:28). Why didn't Jesus just say that He is the Father?
St. Basil the Great writes, "We should understand in the creation the original cause of the Father as a founding cause, the cause of the Son as a creative, and the cause of the Spirit as an implementing one." Thus the Father is the "Creator of all things", the Son is the one "through whom all things were made", and the Holy Spirit is the one "in whom are all things". Everything that He (God the Creator) had made ... was very good" (Gen. 1:31), because "first He conceived, and His conception was a work carried out by His Word, and perfectly by His Spirit.