That They Be One

[OBW]

I was just reading a verse for unrelated purposes the other day and saw something I did not expect.

John 17:22. "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one."

Does this reveal something about the oneness of God that is not quite like saying they are jointly one person?

Where is the oneness in these verses? Looking at the surrounding verses, it would appear to be something common inside of each of the persons mentioned, not that they are simply the person next to them.

Still doesn't answer all the questions. But I wonder if this puts a hole in any kind of Jesus is now the Holy Spirit talk.

And a couple of years ago or so when we got into a discussion of the oneness of God in terms of Jesus dying on the cross. There was some discussion that God the Father could not actually turn away from the Son. I wonder if that was a correct analysis. The Father did not die on the cross. Neither did the Spirit. It was the Son.

Still doesn't answer all the questions.

But I'm asking.