I believe the word of God. I chose "manifestations" (An indication of the existence, reality, or presence of something) as the word because it seems everyone is hung up on lables.
The word of God says (exact phrases):
- Spirit of the Lord - 31 verses (Spirit of God - 26 verses)
- Son of God - 47 verses
- God the Father - 13 verses
Oneness... again, I can only go by what the word of God says:
John 10:30 KJV I and [my] Father are one.
John 17:21 KJV That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
There are 7 verses with the exact phrase "One God". Then there's this verse which keeps the Jews from believing in Jesus:
Deu 6:4 KJV Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
Bear with me and so let me just say this. Since God is, wouldn't it be correct to state that anything from God is God? Can God reside in a house? What about His name? That's what He told Solomon. We think it a figure of speech, but what if it's a reality?
1Ki 8:29 KJV - 29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said,
My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
God spoke everything in to existance and the Word became Flesh. Everything that was made was made by the Word, JOhn 1:1-3. And the Word is all and in all, Col 3:11.
So how can this verse be true if Jesus and the Father are One "Being" (His name in Hebrew literally - "I exist)"?
Mat 27:46 KJV - 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
So this leads back to man. What is it that "I am"? I HAVE a spirit. I HAVE a body (dust). I HAVE a soul.
Ecc 12:7 KJV Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The key is this verse. It speaks of the body (dust) and the spirit (life) returning to their origins, but what of the soul, the entity that is made from the combination of the two, Gen 2:7? Heaven or Hell - it is eternal too.
I am one person, but I have three manifestations. I don't think I could have written a shorter answer.