GOD IS ONE

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!” (Deuteronomy‬ ‭6:4‬)

“Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me,” (Isaiah‬ ‭46:9‬)

We are monotheists.   We do not believe in three gods. The Bible teaches there is one God.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 is known as the Shema (the Hebrew word “hear”).  This truth was to become a conviction and to be taught in conversation:

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” (v.6-9‬)

It was to be a matter of the heart as well as the head, and result in love for God with every fiber of ones being.

 So, how can we believe that God is One and believe in the Trinity?

Look at Isaiah 46:9. Consider carefully the words the Holy Spirit chose to put in the Scripture. God testifies that there is none like Him. The problem we have with the Trinity is that we fail to recognize that God is not like anyone or anything—so it shouldn’t surprise us that He would be other than anything we might try to wrap our minds around.

I want to remind you that the Hebrew word for “one” in Deut.6:4-5 does not mean “single” (one apart) but “unity” (one together).  As noted in a previous study, it is the same word for when Adam and Eve became “one flesh” in Gen.2:24.

The unity of the One God is a Tri-unity—a Trinity.  What a awe-inspiring doctrine that should lead to a life-altering decision to love our glorious God with all our being!