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1. Plurality in creation does not force the Trinity. Job 38:4-7 says,

"Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?"

I don't see the "lonely Triune God" here, but verse 7 shows a multiplicity in creation. Jesus Christ is of course intrinsically part, even causally, per the NT revelation, but not necessarily in the sterile and empty theological straitjacket of LSM.

2. The emphasis on "man", suis generis, becomes a back door for one man, aka God's Humble Bondslave, aka the Deputy God, aka God's Oracle, aka Today's Moses, Today's Paul, and the Minister of the Age. You know who I mean, right? The Final Spiritual Giant. Aka "our brother".

Actually, the "man" referred to is Jesus Christ. He alone fulfills the prophecy, not "the new testament believers enjoying grace by imbibing the processed Triune God on the proper church ground" or some other convoluted phraseology.

Jesus, in the LSM oeuvre, becomes a bit player. Useful for the introduction, then superseded in the "high peaks theology". There, the focus is on "us", even "becoming God", whilst the Jesus of the gospels fades from view. If you read the NT, its authors never let him recede from view like this. There, the focus is not Paul nor the "NT believer " but Jesus. The LSM gospel gets you to focus on yourself, which allows the sleight-of-hand to follow.

Never take your eyes off Jesus.