If you haven't already encountered this, recognize that when The Son came to earth He set aside His co-equal status and placed himself in the position of being subservient to The Father, as a Son should be. But when He finished His earthly tasks as a servant of the Father and returned to Heaven, He resumed His former prerogatives as co-equal status. The Three are always in agreement, but some of their distinguishing functions and manifestations are different, indicating their Personality.
The scriptures recording His earthly ministry of fulfilling the Law Covenant refer to this period in which His subservience was a necessary feature. Don't confuse them with other passages in which He is not subservient, but rather co-equal with separate functional aspects.
I hope this viewpoint helps smooth out your perplexity.
It’s helpful. Still confusing that the one is three especially when one sits on the right hand of the other (Hebrews/Acts). The scriptures give us descriptions to ‘help’ us, but can instead confuse sometimes. To me sitting at the right hand means two separate entities.
I Try to look at it this way. There is one GOD with 3 methods of manifesting - not 3 entities, but ONE manifesting in different ways.
Only the Father manifestation has the ability to look outside of time - which is why the Son says only the Father knows the time in Matthew.
The Son manifests within time in a human physical form currently in Heaven, but also on Earth.
The Holy Spirit manifests on Earth within time.
When the Son was on Earth he was purposely limited to fulfill part of the requirements to make him an appropriate sacrifice for our sins at least until he was baptized with the Holy Spirit and completed the Transfiguration.
Now how the ONE can also be the 3...well that’s beyond my paygrade and where Faith comes in. But with GOD all things are possible....Who knows there may be even more manifestations that we aren’t privy to because HE decided it wasn’t necessary to tell us and we couldn’t begin to comprehend anyway.
Which manifestation actually wrestled with Israel to give him his new name?