re: Is the Christian God the same God of Judaism?

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Mt. 3:16 Jesus was just baptized, the holy spirit descended in the form of a dove & then a voice in heaven said this is my Son, the beloved, whom I approved. They are separate.

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Matthew and Luke plagiarized this from Mark. Most scholars believe this reading is not the original - that it has been edited. Scholars believe it is supposed to be like Psalm 2 “you are my son, today I have begotten you”.

Psalm 2

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I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.

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In Acts 13:13 the composer of Luke wrote:

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this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’

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Hebrews 1:5

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For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?

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Hebrews 5:5

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So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”

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It would be no problem for early Christians to believe in the supreme god Theos/El Elyon and his unique son and angel named Yahweh who became flesh so that he could be sacrificed. It was no problem that El Elyon begat (made/created) Jesus. It is later Christians who tried to adopt the Torah (same Torah that Paul rejected) who tried to adopt the idea of a single god. They have 3 gods, but there’s only one god. How did they resolve it 400 years later? Say there’s 3 persons in one god! It doesn’t need to make sense, because it is a “mystery”. Those later Christians scholars believe edited Mark, Matthew, and Luke to try to hide the fact that Jesus was separate and created, but they forgot about Acts 13:13 and the references in Hebrews.

Uhhhh, nope...."Let us make....in our image..."