So much to unpack.
You're right that there is only "one true God".
Too bad Mormons don't believe this.
Or are you unaware of the Mormon phrase, "plural gods".
Who said this? Jesus Christ, right? Who was he praying to? Himself?
You demonstrate your ignorance of the Trinity.
Christians do NOT believe that Jesus is the Father.
If YOU think that Jesus is praying "to himself", then YOU are the one who believes that Jesus is the Father. Please don't project YOUR false doctrines onto us, okay?
It is far more reasonable to accuse Mormons of modalism (that Jesus is the Father) than it is to falsely accuse Trinitarians of it:
Alma 11:44 Now, this restoration shall come to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked and the righteous; and even there shall not so much as a hair of their heads be lost; but every thing shall be restored to its perfect frame, as it is now, or in the body, and shall be brought and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son, and God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God, to be judged according to their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil.
Thus, we worship the Father in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ.
So you seem to be saying that Jesus is saying that the Father is "the one true God", to the exclusion of Jesus Himself. Is that what you're saying?
So are you denying the deity of Jesus (thereby contradicting Mormonism)?
Or are you claiming that Jesus is a "FALSE" God, since you believe He is not the "true" God?
1 Cor 8:
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
So you're claiming that Jesus is not God?
Wow, a Christian actually has to teach a Mormon what Mormonism teaches:
Isa. 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [...] 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 10:28 Thomas answered [Jesus], “My Lord and my God!”
Rom. 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Phil. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Tit. 2:13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Heb. 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
2Pet. 1:1 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
And I remember that Mormons LOOOOOOOOOOVE to quote the ECF's:
1Clem. 16:2 The scepter of the majesty of
God, even our Lord Jesus Christ, came not in the pomp of arrogance or of pride, though He might have done so, but in lowliness of mind, according as the Holy Spirit spake concerning Him.
(Clement of Rome)
Eph. 1:0 I ... predestined, before time was, to be—to her abiding and unchanging glory—forever united and chosen, through real suffering, by the will of the Father and
Jesus Christ our God.
(Ignatius)
Eph. 18:2 The fact is,
our God Jesus Christ was conceived by Mary according to God’s dispensation of the seed of David, it is true, but also of the Holy Spirit.
(Ignatius)
Rom. 1:0 ... the church by the will of Him who willed all things that exist, beloved and illuminated
through the faith and love of Jesus Christ our God; ...
(Ignatius)
Rom. 3:3
Our God Jesus Christ certainly is the more clearly seen now that He is in the Father. (
Ignatius)
Phili. 12:2 ... and may He grant unto you a lot and portion among His saints, and to us with you, and to all that are under heaven, who shall believe on
our Lord and God Jesus Christ and on His Father that raised him from the dead.
(Polycarp)
“And I said, ‘As you wish, Trypho, I shall come to these proofs which you seek in the fitting place; but now you will permit me first to recount the prophecies,
which I wish to do in order to prove that Christ is called both God and Lord of hosts, and Jacob, in parable by the Holy Spirit; ” (
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 36)
“He that hung up the earth in space was Himself hanged up; He that fixed the heavens was fixed with nails; He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree; the Lord of all was subjected to ignominy in a naked body—
God put to death! the King of Israel slain with Israel’s right hand! Alas for the new wickedness of the new murder! The Lord was exposed with naked body: He was not deemed worthy even of covering; and, in order that He might not be seen, the luminaries turned away, and the day became darkened because
they slew God, who hung naked on the tree. ” (
Melito of Sardis, Part V)
“... and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His [future] manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father ‘to gather all things in one,’ and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race,
in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Saviour, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father, “every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, ...” (
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1.10.1)
“
This Word, then, the Christ, the cause of both our being at first (for He was in God) and of our well-being, this very Word has now appeared as man,
He alone being both, both God and man—the Author of all blessings to us; by whom we, being taught to live well, are sent on our way to life eternal. ” (
Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen, 1)
“
Thus Christ is Spirit of Spirit, and God of God, as light of light is kindled.” (
Tertullian, Apology, 21)
“The Logos alone of this God is from God himself;
wherefore also the Logos is God, being the substance of God.” (
Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, 10.29)
