The second scripture used in an attempt to identify Jesus as being a component of a trinity is John 10:30. This says, "I and my Father are one." Those who believe the trinity claim that this is a direct statement by Jesus that he and Jehovah are the same person. However, this causes a problem of its own, because Jesus also said (in John, 17:20-22), "I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word, so that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are one."

It must be obvious here that Jesus is not asking Jehovah to make his disciples, nor all of his followers, one person. He is asking that they all have the same aims, intentions, motivations, focus, not that they be physically united into a single person. In the same way, since he specified that his followers should be one with him and Jehovah in the same way that he was one with Jehovah, it must indicate very clearly that Jesus’ oneness with Jehovah is not physical, but a union of intent and purpose.

So, unless we want to advocate for a deity composed of hundreds of thousands of separate personalities, John 10:31 does not support a trinity of Jehovah, Jesus and the Holy spirit.

So, what is the relationship? The Message translation expresses it this way, "I and the Father are one heart and mind." In addition, in the same book of John chapter 20:17 Jesus declares, "Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.'" Jesus identified Jehovah as his father, not as himself, and said that Jehovah was his God, not that he was god himself.

Also, in the same book of John 8:28, Jesus says, "After you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing of my own initiative; but just as the Father taught me, I speak these things." So, Jesus was doing what someone else (Jehovah) had taught him to do and not what he had originated himself.

It is surely quite clear that Jesus did not consider himself to be the same person as Jehovah, but rather Jehovah’s son, and that he was among men to do what Jehovah had asked him to do, that is, to bring men back to Jehovah so we can receive everlasting blessings because of the sacrifice he made.

Also, once again, this verse does not mention the Holy Spirit, so it does not in any way support a trinity.

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