Many times in the HT it is written: "the word of the Lord came to me"; why not "The Lord said to me"?
Also many times it is written "the spirit of the Lord came upon" ; why not "the Lord came upon..."?

The One God, in His doing/acting, is called : 'the Spirit of the Lord' and 'the Word of the Lord'. Why is that?

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Chaim
....Jews universally believed in God as one (absolutely and ontologically). Nothing has changed from 2000 years ago.
A trinity in that time, just as today, would have been a god our fathers (from Moses' time) never knew. And God instructs us very clearly to reject gods our fathers never knew.


God as One, I agree. Nothing has changed from 2000 years ago? The 'problem' is that I believe that there was a Christ and he was able to reveal more about the nature of God: the same God, but more knowledge of who He is. Based only on the HT the Trinitarian Nature of God cannot be fully known, if ever (at the most some speculation).

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Chaim
Doesn't the NT teach that the son actually sits next to the father, at His right hand?


The right hand is the Place of Power; it is the place of the heir of Everything. There is of course metaphor here, because: where is the throne of the Father, for whom the heavens are to small?

Aad