How do you reconcile the Sh'ma ?
Hear Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one.
Sh'ma Ysrael Adonai Elohyinu Adonai echad.
So God is ECHAD... Right? God told the Israelites to quote this every single day that God is ECHAD, because God would be revealing another Person who is the ETERNAL Son of God.
So after we understand God is "echad" let's discover the Hebrew text and define the word.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
They shall become "ECHAD", yeah it's the same Hebrew word.. Remember the Sh'ma ? God is ECHAD, right here we have an example of two PERSONS as ONE (echad) a man and woman who are obviously two distinct persons but yet God says they are ECHAD like HE is ECHAD....
Can we confirm this elsewhere?
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Wow... Let US make man in OUR image, according to OUR likeness.. God who is echad... Creating man n His image or sorry.. The text says "OUR" image, and Genesis 2:24 says a man and woman become echad, they become one.. They are made in the image of God..
Does Jesus confirm this at all? Yes.. Of course..
John 17
9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.
11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
How can Jesus make it anymore clear? Let them be ONE as we are... Jesus is God, the Father is God because God is ECHAD.. They are not two separate God's they are two separate Persons.. Jesus says let them be ONE, as we are.. Obviously the Church - the body of Messiah is ONE, but we are not all the same person we are many members but ONE body.