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John 17 (KJV)
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
This is one person (individual) speaking to another person (individual) reciprocating glory / glorification. This is not two phases of the same individual (person). To glorify one another means there has to be another (more than one). This is not spiritual Marco Polo.
Two individuals do not mean they are both God.
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2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
Here Jesus speaks in the third person but still refers to the Father as a distinct individual other than the third party he is speaking in. This is not a "let us create in our image and our likeness" statement. He maintains the Father's distinctiveness... if he Jesus were the Father he would have stepped into the role of the Father in speech at this point.
You are correct, Jesus never speaks as IF he is the Father OR the same person as the Father. This is obvious when you find out he is NOT GOD.
The proof text of the OP's mainly center here on Jn 10 "I and my Father are one." As you will prove later, the same HEN of unity is in Jn 17 WITH BELIEVERS.
Which makes their 'one' not a 'one' of inherent nature or divinity at all. Except in the sense of the Holy Spirit relationship.
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3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Jesus here is not undeifying himself. He is further establishing the distinction between himself and the Father; especially in nature since Jesus has two natures (physical and spiritual). His Spirit is divine (Colossians 2:9). He is saying that there is more to Jesus than simply being God the Word (John 1:1, John 1:14, Philippians 2:6 in Greek: morphe theos huparchon never ceasing to be God he became a man...)
You started out here by quoting the most unitarian of ALL verses...that they may know YOU the ONLY TRUE GOD means just that....the Father is the Only True God period. This leaves out ME, (Jesus) as the Only True God, dude. I ***ume you are a dude, since you name is John excuse if wrong.
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4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
He did not say I glorified myself or myself in another form
And in fact all glory COMES from the Father of Lights.
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He did not say I have finished my work or my work in another form
He did say that it was given him to do... by another individual than himself
He did say by the Father of Spirits the Only True God.
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5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
He did not call upon a past form of himself to make the present form of himself like the past form of himself who was with that past form of himself somehow... Clearly Oneness theology makes not sense and conflicts with scripture.
This is in reference to the promise of YHWH to 'give him glory' or the Holy Spirit WHEREWITHAL to withstand his greatest upcoming test. See the Cross ain't come yet, so 'the work' accomplished is his ministry on earth...and he asks now for the STRENGTH from God for him a man to end his race.
Takes a little re-routing of old paradigm here, but I don't make the Truth, it just is.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
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The name YHVH... YHVH Shua (Salvation of YHVH) which is Jesus' name. But Jesus name is YHVH Saves.
Here is 'Jesus name' oddball theory, and it don't stand up. By some accounts "Jesus" was like the 5th most common name among men, and they ALL cannot be God Saving, eh?
JESUS too was never called 'Emmanuel' so that sense of LITERALNESS is too oddball. Get this through your head. Jesus is not YHWH and never said he was.
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7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
Everything about this prayer is distinction between two individuals of deity (one of which is also human).
...one of which is also human my patooty. Never said, only inferred by your errant fathers in the faith.
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8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
Only says Jesus is ABSOLUTELY subordinate to God.
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9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
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Here is the biblical example and definition of plurality in the Godhead because we individuals in then Church are more than one person...
God is not PLURAL, PERIOD. Gosh may I remind you of the GREAT COMMAND which says so?
I am losing patience, sorry. You ACT as if you know all, and you don't know the FIRST THING about your religion, son. Again, what is Shema for Jesus and the Jew, and the Jew converted?
SHEMA. Mk 12.