Isaiah 43:11
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
The LORD alone is God and no savior exists beside Him.
This establishes the controlling biblical confession: every later passage about Father, Son, and Holy Ghost must be read without multiplying the one God.
Apostolic teaching begins with the Bible’s own insistence that God is one indivisible divine being, then reads the incarnation as that one God revealed in Christ.
Counting titles, manifestations, or relational language does not overturn the Bible’s explicit statements that God is one and alone.
Start here before discussing difficult relational texts. Establish what Scripture says plainly about how many are God.