So by default you are simply proclaiming the oneness doctrine because in KJE, "LORD", in all caps is the Father YHWH. By default then your "key to understanding" simply replaces the Father with the Son. Yeehaw, (no thanks) . . . :yawn: :chuckle:
Daqq ... You see, I have it figured out.
Simply put ... The one invisible spiritual God created an image for revealing himself tp created beings before the world was. HE then appeared on earth and in heaven with that image (a super-natural sort of image) as the Father LORD.
Yet, HE was also able to manifest the same image again ... but not of some sort of a supernatural essence of LIGHT ... but in the form of flesh and blood. This is why John told us that Jesus was "THAT LIGHT" which is described in the OT by the prophets. Jesus was that same image ... just in flesh this time.
The Christ told people that they rightly called him Lord, but lectured them for calling him Lord but not doing what he told them.
He could rightly be called our Lord Jesus because the Christ bore the same image as the Father. The ONE God gave his ONE image a name ... LORD. Check Genesis for yourself about how God created mankind after the likeness of His Own
ONE image (singular form).
So when you read this phrase: The LORD God ... It means the invisible God has appeared within his creation. Jesus was able to claim the things he did about himself because he was God and Lord.
Isaiah 43:11 says (my nouns inside of ()):
"I
(the ONE God), even I AM, the LORD; besides Me as
(the ONE God with ONE image named LORD) there is no savior.
Jesus the Christ was God appearing as a fleshly LORD. This is why Jesus could say:
John 12:45 He that SEETH ME seeth the ONE who sent me.
John 14:9 He that hath SEEN ME hath SEEN THE FATHER.
John 10:30 - The Father and I are ONE.
Who is the Father? ... He was God seen appearing with His ONE supernatural image, which HE named LORD.
Who is the Son? ... He was God appearing with his image named Lord - but as natural human flesh named Lord as the only Savior of the world.
Who is the Holy Spirit? ... He is the ONE invisible God from whom comes everything created.
They are the ONE God ... the ONE God reveals himself as three personages of the God Head.
Christ, the living WORD of God, who was God and was with God during the creation process, ultimately is the flesh and blood Christ from whom nothing of God's essence was held back!
This was written about Jesus:
John 3:34-36 For he
(the Christ) who God hath sent speaketh the WORDS of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto HIM
(who is our LORD seen in Flesh)The Father loveth the Son, and hath given ALL THINGS into his hand.
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life ...
When it comes to mankind and then the next level of believers ... and our being given the Spirit of God ... Well, we only receive from God the measure of His Spirit that he is willing to give us. We will never be equal to the Christ in our oneness with God ... even though he can join us in oneness by imparting his measure of eternal life unto us so we can dwell with the Father and the Son in the Kingdom that God promises.
1. LORD God
the Father
2. LORD God
the Son our Savior
3. The
invisible Spirit of the ONE God imparted into HIS children by measure.