One God One Word

The Bible proclaims plainly and clearly that there is one and only one
God. When the Bible says that God is one, the word one does not refer
to a “God Family,” but to one God (Jesus Christ). Let’s look at a few passages in the Old Testament.
• Deuteronomy 4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
• 1Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
• 2Samuel 7:22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
• 1Kings 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
• Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
• Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
• Isaiah 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; (Jesus Christ) there is none beside me.
• Isaiah 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
•Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
• Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
As you can see, there is no question about the biblical fact that there is
one and only one God (Jesus Christ), not two or more “Gods”. God says: “I am God, and there is no other.” He speaks in the singular, as “I,” saying that he is the only God, and there is no other being that is even like him. That’s why God commands us.

The idea of more than one being in a family or hierarchy of gods is
condemned throughout the Scriptures. That was precisely the concept
that the polytheistic nations surrounding Israel taught. Polytheistic is a
word that refers to a belief in more than one god (poly = many; theos =
god). The Bible teaches that there is only one God, a belief
called monotheism, from mono (one) and theos (God).
A family is made up of more than one being. The pagan hierarchies of
gods were mostly made up of more than one “god being,” and at the
top of the hierarchy were usually a father god, a mother god and one or
more son and daughter gods. The Bible condemns the concept of a
family of gods.
New Testament
The Bible does not allow for the existence of two God Beings. It
categorically denies it. Let’s take a look at some New Testament
passages.
• Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 6:4 when he affirmed that there is one
God. Answering the question about what is the greatest
commandment, he said: “The most important one…is this: `Hear, O
Israel, the Lord our God (Jesus Christ), the Lord is one’”
Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
There is no other being that is worthy of worship.
•Matthew 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Likewise, Paul taught that there is one God. He wrote: Yes, of
Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the
circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
Romans 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

• 1Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
•1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
• James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
As we saw above, Paul points out that the man Jesus Christ is the
mediator between humans and the one God. Even while describing the
role of Jesus Christ, who was God in the flesh, Paul still affirmed that
there is only one God. When the Son became flesh, he did not cease to be God — he was God in the flesh.
John 1:14 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.
But there was not, never has been, never will be, two Gods.
Contradictory truths?
So the Bible gives us two facts that are apparently contradictory. But I
say apparently, because they only appear to be contradictory because
our minds are finite and limited, while God, our Creator, is infinite and
unlimited. The Bible tells us there is one God. The Father is God. The
Son is also God.
John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, in the God being (Jesus Christ). This is part of the false doctrine usually called the doctrine of the Trinity.

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
To say that we should be baptized in the name of the father, son, and Holy Ghost, is limiting my one God Jesus, to only three of his over three hundred other names, titles, or attributes.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you gin the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Salvation in one verse,
Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
2Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (of Jesus Christ), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
There can be only one God (Jesus Christ).

This is not a matter of confusion, as some say. It is a matter of believing
the Bible and realizing that God (Jesus Christ) is greater than our finite imaginations can perceive. It is a matter of faith (Through Grace), because we believe the Bible.

He created time and space. He appears in it when he desires, but he is in no way limited to time and space. He does not need time and space to exist. We can only think in created terms, in terms of time and space. Therefore, God is everything we can conceive of and more! He uses all sorts of concepts in the Bible to reveal himself to us, and he does it in terms we can understand — like King, Redeemer, Shepherd, Defender, Fire, Rock, Shelter. But he is all those and more, and not just like any of them, because they are all part of the created world.
God does not have or need a “mighty arm,” for example. God uses the
human term, “mighty arm,” because it is one we can understand, one
that helps us understand something important about the power of
God. But it is not a literal description of God. It is a metaphor. God also
speaks of his “right hand.” Is that because his “right hand” is stronger or
more skilled than his “left hand”? Of course not. He is conveying the fact
that he is powerful, that he intends to do a particular thing, and that he
is going to do it in a powerful way. Bible-believers should not take such
descriptions literally and think of God as subject to time and space like
ourselves.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
This brings to mind Paul’s statement in Romans 1:22-23: “Although they
claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the
immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and
animals and reptiles.” There are stone images and there are mental
images. Now, none of us would want to make God like a created thing,
but if we think that God has a body (a male body, some will attest), or is
subject to time and space (who can only be in only one place at one
time), and needs to have something in order to create (that he needs a
preexisting “substance”), just like we need physical matter to fashion
things, then we have an advertently reduced God to an “image made to
look like mortal man.”
He is the Creator, not the created. Until God created, there
was nothing. Only God is eternal. Only God is uncreated. There is no
eternal matter or “spiritual substance” that co-existed with God. That
would mean that God did not create everything, and such a God
is not the God of the Bible. Such a God is a limited God, a less-than-
supreme God, a God who needs something beside himself to act as
God.
One other important point. God is personal — and he relates to us in a
personal way. We should never think of God as so transcendent that we
cannot relate to him in a personal way. That, again, is precisely why he
reveals himself to us in the Bible in human terms, in terms we can
understand. That is why the Son of God became human to reconcile us
to God. God wants a close and personal relationship with us. He wants
fellowship with us. That is the reason he made us, and he has made himself (sin for us) through our mediator, the God-man Jesus Christ.