If Christ only meant one in unity in reference to purpose (not being), then why would the Jews want to stone Him?
What's so wrong about a person claiming to be on in purpose with the Father? How would that necessitate the demand that such a person be stoned to death?
John 10
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30
I and the Father are one.” (Speaking of unity)
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be (God /
elohiym.”)
The Jews were speaking in Hebrew, not Greek. The Jews did not believe Christ was a elohiym from heaven.
A elohiym is a (god-s of "The Living One.""
John 6:38
For
I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
Genesis 2:24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become
one flesh.
Matthew 19:5
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become
one flesh’?
Matthew 19:6
So they are no longer two, but
one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Mark 10:8
and the two will become
one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but
one flesh.
John 17:11
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me,
so that they may be one as we are one.
John 17:21
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:22
I have given them the glory that you gave me,
that they may be one as we are one—
