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RE: What is the origin of the Trinity?
First of all back up and see it says God "sent" his son. You can "send" yourself you only send others.
Also notice what Jesus said about being "one" woth God.
"11 “I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name, which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one."
Notice Jesus said his desciples would be one in the same manner that he and God are one. Are we all the same person? Jesus surely wasn't saying we were all part of one organism, but he was saying we would be one in thought, and belief. So him and God are one just as we are one.
No. The doctrine of the Trinity says "God in three persons, not the same person" And yes, in the next life we will be children of God and part of that same oneness.
But Jesus said just as we "are" this is present tense. Why is Jesus one with God before ascending to heaven? Apparently Jesus was one with God while human (one in thought, same goals) and we can be too by thinking inline with his word.
Yes! Jesus was simultaneously fully God and fully man. Google "hypostatic union".
That said, there were certain prerogatives of deity he lay down before his resurrection. One of them was certain knowledge of when he would return, for example. Quite a mystery, I'll admit.