I said, and the point was just that,
both the persons are called God, and it is virtually impossible to discern which One is being referenced in many cases. And again, Paul and the Prophets did know who their Savior was, and
that God was 'our' great Savior. The new Testament writers did not act unaware or seem confused about this, at all. There is no problem or contradiction for them, and there is no problem or contradiction for the Trinitarian.
Why do you deem it necessary, over and over again to show to me scripturally that Jesus is Lord...
You still have two Lords; unless Jesus and the Father are actually One God and One Lord, you will have two Lords, yet:
"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!" (Deuteronomy 6)
'And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one' (Zech.14:9)
'The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one' (Mark 12:29)
'There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all' (Eph 4)
"... yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him" (1Cor 8:5)
“Trust in the LORD forever, for in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock" (Isaiah 26:4)
"But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King" (Jeremiah 10:10)
‘… None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory” (1Cor.2:7-8)
‘Who is the King of glory?
The LORD strong and mighty,
The LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O gates,
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in!
10 Who is this King of glory?
The LORD of hosts,
He is the King of glory’ (Psalm 24:7-10)
“Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God’ (you do remember this is used in reference to Christ in the NT, yet here it is referring to God)… 5 Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together… 10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him. (Is not Jesus God’s own arm, and is not Jesus coming with the reward, yet this is speaking of God in Isaiah)… 11 Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs, and carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes’ (Is Jesus The Shepherd, or a shepherd, I guess you don’t think this speaks of Christ either)… Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him? (the reference by Paul in 1Corinth 2:16)… To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare with Him? 19 As for the idol, a craftsman casts it, a goldsmith plates it with gold… (Again the rhetorical question, no one is like God, and the warning of idols likened unto God)… 26 Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing’ (Again, the affirmation that God is the One who created, and note it is because of Gods greatness
“Not one of them is missing”… 28 “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired” (Isaiah 40)
There are hundreds of Christological passages in the OT: the NT writers refer to the same passages, and all of them are references to God in their context. I don’t believe Jesus or the NT writers were ‘completely’ or ‘slightly’ unaware they were using references, titles and contexts defining God and not know they were ascribing them to Jesus.
You keep quoting John 17:3, but in the same context (the two sentences before 17:3) in 17:1-2 Jesus speaks of himself three times in the third person, and such it is in vs.3. Jesus is referring to God as God, this does not mean Jesus cannot also be speaking of Himself. Jesus affirms His God is the True God, that's all. Jesus says in this same passage He is from this same God/that they understood/that He had Glory with God the Father before (indicating that He did not have that Glory at the moment of the prayer), and Jesus continues to stress that He and God are One (and We know God is One, and they must have understood that better than we do, and Jesus affirms that that He and God are 'actually' One, and he did so without resorting to
one in purpose or something else).
This is also much like when Jesus says:
"Why do you call me good? Only God is good" We know Jesus is good, but it is for us to consider, who then is Jesus, there is an element of the consideration, the examination, contemplation, of the incarnate humility Christs form represented. God has obviously lowered Christ to a humble state to test the heart, not announce 'who he was' with a bullhorn. You do see that the incarnation itself was the 'Son of God', and Creator of the Universe: born in a cattle trough, in poverty, as a carpenter..etc. It is a test, to see if we recognize 'who' this is.