Yes you have a great mystery that 2000 years of scholarship have failed to address
Steve I do not much care if you call me names.
Your blasphmy above speaks volumns of the condition of your soul.
If the Shema had intended to express absolute oneness, it would have used the Hebrew word yachid instead of echad. However, the word yachid is never used in reference to God (Elohim)!
The Hebrew word translated "God" is the word El or Elohim. Elohim is the plural form of El. The plural form is used 2607 of the 2845 times the word "God" is used in the Old Testament. An example of how the Hebrew word Elohim is used in the plural is that it is translated "gods" (referring to idols) 235 times in the Old Testament. It is exactly the same word that is translated "God," referring to the Almighty. An example is given below:
· "I am the LORD your God [Elohim], who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. "You shall have no other gods [Elohim] before Me. (Exodus 20:2-3)
Not only is word for God usually used in the plural form, but also several verses refer to God as "Us":
* Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." (Genesis 1:26) *
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"-- (Genesis 3:22) *
"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (Genesis 11:7) *
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. And the Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. (Isaiah 11:1-2) *
"Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. (Isaiah 42:1) *
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives, And freedom to prisoners; (Isaiah 61:1) *
In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them; And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled And grieved His Holy Spirit; Therefore, He turned Himself to become their enemy, He fought against them. (Isaiah 63:9-10)
Some of the verses above include all members of the Triunity (Isaiah 42:1, Isaiah 48:16, and Isaiah 61:1). Therefore, the Old Testament does reveal the Christian concept of the Godhead, with God being one God, consisting of three persons. How can God simultaneously exist as both singular and plural? It is a logical impossibility if God were restricted to the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time of our physical universe. My thinking is like this as a human being our life and thinking are all finite. And we cannot under stand any ting infinite. Mathematics just says infinite is some thing we cannot understand and don’t try to fathom it. Any thing in our intelligence is space (height, length, and breadth. These are called three dimensions. Any thing in more than 3 dimensions is difficult for ordinary human to understand.
From Rom 9:5 it is clearly said that Jesus is God in “ Christ appeared in the flesh who is God over all“.
In John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and Word was God”. But we know that Word was Jesus. And we are also told in John 1;14 “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us”. In John 6:27 “ work for the food … that endures for eternal life which Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father God has set his seal.”
In Colo 2:9 we are told that “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” ( yes Godhead in fullness reside in Jesus)
1 John 5;20 “And we are in the one who is true, his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life”
Hebrew 1:8,9 “therefore God, your God, anointed you with oil of gladness above your companions”
http://www.stignatious.com/articles/trinity.htm