Does the Oneness belief and the events of the baptism of Jesus by John reconcilable?
Matthew 3:16-17 16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Here we have the Son in the water, the Father’s voice from heaven, and the Holy Ghost in the bodily shape of a dove. It would appear we have three separate and distinct manifestations. But would you dare call them separate and distinct persons? Was the dove a person? Was the heavenly voice a person? The only divine person present was Jesus Christ. If God is not omnipresent (present in all places at all times, Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary), he is not God. If He is omnipresent, then He is everywhere at the some time and could have spoken from a thousand different places. Jesus asserts His omnipresence in John 3:13, “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven
