Johnathan,
I did read what you had to say and the scriptures.
My scriptual response (if you bothered to read it) is here...
I find the concept of the Trinity unworkable. How could God have miraculously and mysteriously walked the earth as Christ? Those that believe that way, they are required to do so without questioning the validity of the "mystery."
When the Bible says that they are one it means they are one in unity not trinity, otherwise this is robbing Christ of the true glory due to him because he did not have to do what he did for us! It was a decision Jesus made with his own free will that he lowered himself for a time and came to earth as Jesus Christ and later voluntarily die for our sins.
Jesus is the mediator, as pointed out at 1 Timothy 2:5-6: "For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, a man, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself—a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time." Also Jesus can not be greater than himself if he is God.
John 14:28: "You have heard Me tell you, 'I am going away and I am coming to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I." Is he going to ascend to himself? In heaven Jesus is still subject to his Father: Matthew 20:23 "He told them, "You will indeed drink My cup. But to sit at my right and left is not mine to give; instead, it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by My Father."
John 13:16 " I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him." Jesus was saying he is not greater than his Father. John 8:42 "Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn't come on My own, but He sent Me." Jesus did not come on his own - His Father sent him. If Jesus was God, he would have come on his own, because he could not send himself. John 10:30 "The Father and I are one."
And at John 17:20-22 he further explained: "I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in Me through their message. May they all be one, as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You. May they also be one in Us, so the world may believe You sent Me. I have given them the glory You have given Me. May they be one as We are one."
According to Trinitarians, this would mean we are also God, because Christ said at John 17:20-22: "May they all be one, as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You. May they also be one in us...I have given them the glory You have given Me." Being a sharer in that given glory does not make us Christ, anymore than the Trinitarians can make Christ equal to God.
As the Word, Christ had a beginning as pointed out in Proverbs as being the master craftsman. Yet, God had no beginning. He has always existed. On the other hand, the Word was the beginning of God's creation. Consider 1 Peter 3:22 "Now that He has gone into heaven, He is at God's right hand, with angels, authorities, and powers subjected to Him." Note that Jesus is not sitting at his father's throne, he is as his "right hand". Philippians 2:9 "For this reason God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name," If he was God, he would already have been exalted, and he would not need a name that was above every name but Yahweh's.
John 20:17 "Don't cling to Me," Jesus told her, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God." He said "My Father and your Father—to My God " If he is GOD, why say that he had a God, if he was indeed God Almighty himself? And, why would he have to ascend to himself? It is ridiculous for anyone to even try to argue that Yahweh and Christ are the same spirit.
Mark 15:34 "And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, " Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni?" which is translated, " My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" I guess those who believe in the Trinity think Jesus must have forsaken himself.
1 Corinthians 8:6 "yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ through whom are all things, and we through Him."
The Bible does not say that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are equal, coeternal or one single God. Matthew 28:19: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." This simply shows they are in unity with each other, not that they are all one in the same.