Because the original Hebrew form is this: YHWH Elohim, YHWH one.
The "one" is "echad" meaning in Strong's always singular or a numerical one, or first, cardinal, unique and alone as a unit. Only 7 times out of 952 is "echad" meaning a unity of some kind. See the English "one" which has a minority "compound one:"
1one
adjective\ˈwən\
: having the value of 1
—used to refer to a single person or thing
—used before a noun to indicate that someone or something is part of a group of similar people or things
See the alternate defn of "one" in Strongs, echad:
Pretty simple, eh? Theodore Jones et all state your case.
1) you cannot make the "echad" of the Adonai a compound one as Jews for Jesus did.
2) you cannot say a singular one is for the BEING of God since his identity or NAME is one.
3) you cannot get around Jesus' own emphasis of Shema in Mk 12 as the FIRST COMMAND OR the traditional interpretation that all knew, NO OTHER BUT HE, said by the scribe. Why? Why since this would be a good time to give a NEW INTERPRETATION of Shema, and the Christ did not here or anywhere else.
The "one" is "echad" meaning in Strong's always singular or a numerical one, or first, cardinal, unique and alone as a unit. Only 7 times out of 952 is "echad" meaning a unity of some kind. See the English "one" which has a minority "compound one:"
1one
adjective\ˈwən\
: having the value of 1
—used to refer to a single person or thing
—used before a noun to indicate that someone or something is part of a group of similar people or things
See the alternate defn of "one" in Strongs, echad:
- one (number)
- one (number)
- each, every
- a certain
- an (indefinite article)
- only, once, once for all
- one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one
- first
- eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)
- one (number)
Pretty simple, eh? Theodore Jones et all state your case.
1) you cannot make the "echad" of the Adonai a compound one as Jews for Jesus did.
2) you cannot say a singular one is for the BEING of God since his identity or NAME is one.
3) you cannot get around Jesus' own emphasis of Shema in Mk 12 as the FIRST COMMAND OR the traditional interpretation that all knew, NO OTHER BUT HE, said by the scribe. Why? Why since this would be a good time to give a NEW INTERPRETATION of Shema, and the Christ did not here or anywhere else.