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Eph 4:3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit-- just as you were called to one hope when you were called-- one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
........ so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. [NIV]
When LDS talk about the oneness of God being "one of purposes" that seems to me to not being saying anything particularly special about the unity. "the whole measure of the fullness of Christ" is what we are being prepared for (or should be), it is hard for me to beleive that the persons of God are less united with one another then what we should be.
"whole measure of the fullness" says to me that we should be taking on the nature of Christ, not just the "purposes of Christ". We should be producing the fruit of the spirit (Gal 5:22-23) not just the purposes of the Holy Spirit.
When we know the Son, we should know not just the purposes of Father but the heart of the Father; His nature and character are best revealed through Christ and that is what we should be being transformed into the likeness of.
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