Is God one God? Responses needed?

Question

I have been studying for awhile whether or not God is one, or three in one.
It is my conclusion that God is one God, not three in one. What is my rationale?

In the OT the FIRST commandment given by God was,
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD. (Deut 6:4)
I then looked at the New Testament, and read when Jesus Re-itereated this statement.
"And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord"
(Mark 12:29)

Moreover, I then looked up the word one in both Hebrew and Greek.

Hebrew: 'echad: one (number)
a) one (number)
b) each, every
c) a certain
d) an (indefinite article)
e) only, once, once for all

The Greek: emphatically,
(a) a single ("one"), to the exclusion of others, e.g., Mat 21:24; Rom 3:10; 1Cr 9:24; 1Ti 2:5 (twice);
(b) "one, alone," e.g., Mar 2:7, RV (AV, "only")

My question then is, why would Jesus say one to the exlusion of others, and not include himself?
لااله الا الله

Answer 1

Dear Brother



Good Question Brother!!!



Let us Logically analyze the poosibility of having two Gods.



Leave alone God, consider President of a country in our own world. Canthere be a Peace and Good administration, if there are more than one Presidents of a country equal in powers?



Leave alone God, what if there are two husbands to a wife, can she live in peace in harmoney? (I apologize to my sisters)



Similarly, Can there be two Administrators in an Organization?



Of course Hindus have hundreds of Gods, but they are all with different powers and assignments, so their Religion is still surviving.



In Islam, the best answer in this regard is the Saying of God Allah Himself in the book Holy Quran says:



2:163. And your Allah is One Allah. There is no God but He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.



21:22. If there were, in the heavens and the earth, other gods besides Allah, there would have been confusion in both! but glory to Allah, the Lord of the Throne: (High is He) above what they attribute to Him!

Answer 2

Hi and good morning....One must understand that each individual has their own way of reasoning on this particular issue. This is how I interpret...God is One..He is the Alpha and the Omega..The First and The Last...He is the Almighty. Jesus is God's son. His only Begotten Son...Then we have the 'Holy Spirit' which some believe is the spirit within us that believe in God some believe in other views about the 'Holy Spirit. Now I'm still confused on the 'Holy Spirit' and I'm still trying to find answers on what exactly is the 'Holy Spirit' and what it pertains too. In the trinity it shows God, His son and the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. Some believe that they signify all as one I look upon them as separate sources. The Father which is God...Jesus which is God's son then the Holy Ghost. Jesus was within God..Which to me means Jesus was like His Father. Realistically speaking Jesus would have been half mortal and half Godlike since His Father was God and his mother was the Virgin Mary who was mortal. This is how I myself interpret these things that were written. I might have different views that what others might believe. Have a blessed day!

Answer 3

Jesus said ," i dont speak my own words but the words of my father who is in heaven" . This shows his oneness with God. And also he says," that when I go, " I will ask The Father to send you another counsellor, One who will lead you into all truth, He is the Holy Spirit". Showing the oneness of the Holy Spirit.

So if Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father and is our high priest, who brings all our requests to God and the Holy Spirit is called the worker of God, then it shows clearly that the three are as one, and each part has his own duty.

Answer 4

Didn't Jesus say if you have seen me, you have seen the Father, there are three, but three are also one. John 15, first couple verses is the best explanation of the trinity, husbandman, vine, branches. Three but one, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Jesus said, I AM the Vine, I AM, the great I AM of old Testament, Vine(Jesus) son of man, came in the flesh, the word became flesh and dwelt among us, Gospel of John, first couple verses. I know this is a lot to take in but send me an email and we will discuss. Jesus was from the beginning, I AM the Vine, when we get to Heaven someday you will only see Jesus, came as son of man, died on a cross for our sins, perfect sacrifice, veil in temple torn into, emptied out Abrahams Paradise, took all believers to third heaven with him. Have you ever been saved or born again, you can be right now, just say this sinners prayer, Dear Jesus, I know and confess that I am sinner in need of salvation. I believe you died on a cross at calvery and arose from the grave to wash away my sins, I ask you right now to come into my heart and save me, I pray this Prayer believing in the name of Jesus Amen. If you prayed this prayer with a sincere heart you are now a child of God, rejoice that your name is written in the Lambs book of Life. If you have any questions just send me an email, God Bless YOU!!

Answer 5

Jesus and the Father are one and when you have seen Jesus you have seen the Father. A carnal minded man cannot preceive the deep things of God. Reason being there is so much confusion. Peple wants to ask one another what God/Jesus means instead of praying and let God tell them personally. That is why a man must know God for himself and he need not any man teach them nothing.

Answer 6

Keep reading...it says that God is the Father,The Son and The Holy Spirit.The Holy Trinity.

It says we will never understand until we meet Him and then it will become clear....I believe it even suggests that to try to explain it is a sin....It has been so long since I read the Bible I can't be sure anymore.

Answer 7

God has created the Universe, God is running the Universe. God will destroy the Universe. God is the Origin of Universe. God is the Destination of Universe. Spirit can neither be created nor be destroyed. It moves from one body to another. Your body dies, not spirit. Your spirit gets new body after death, based upon your actions in this life. Your target is to make your spirit pure, so that it can merge in Super Spirit (God). Remember wherever there is Happiness in Life, there will be Sorrow. To get Happiness, you must master Sorrow.

Answer 8

Why isn't it possible for God to have many names and faces? People who seem to be worshiping a different God than ourselves, may simply be worshiping a side of God we do not see. Also Jesus never claimed to be anything more than the son of man, and one of God's children just as we are. When he taught us to pray, he began with "Our Father", not with anything different. I'm sure he knew exactly what he was saying.

Blessed Be

Answer 9

I believe in "The Godhead" which consists of 3 separate beings: God the father, Jesus the son, and his holy spirit. They are " One" in purpose, but separate beings. The bible talks this way. take Christ's baptism for example. Christ was baptized, His father was watching and approving in heaven, and the spirit descended in the form of a dove. it's kind of hard to be the same person and not the same person at the same time. it doesn't make sense.

Answer 10

God is one but he holds three offices. At the baptism of we see all three God said this is My son, Christ was baptized, and the spirit descended like a dove. It was the same at creation, Let us make man in are image.

Answer 11

Your Hebrew needs work, my deluded friend:



The Hebrew word translated "one" - as you have stated - is "echad." The word by itself literally means "one, single, individual." If however, "echad" is used with what are called "composite modifiers," it can mean "several unified into one." We see one instance of this at Gen. 1:24 where it says: "That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh."



THIS IS SO TRUE – HUSBAND & WIFE ARE TWO PERSONS – BUT THEY ARE "ONE" IN THE EYES OF THE GOD – THAT IS *COMPOSITE UNITY*



Here we see that "echad" is used with the composite modifiers "must become," with reference to the man and the woman.



What about when such composite modifiers are not found in the verse like at Deuteronomy 6:4? What does "echad" then mean?



IT MEANS THE SAME THING AS DOES "ONE" NATION – THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WITHIN "ONE" NATION YET THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE –



SAME APPLIES TO A FAMILY WHICH MAY HAVE A HUSBAND – WIFE & KIDS – THEY ARE AT LEAST 2 OR MANY MORE DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WITHIN THE FAMILY – YET THEY ARE "ONE" FAMILY –



YOU CAN APPLY THE SAME PRINCIPLE TO ANY SPORTING TEAM =



MANY PLAYERS – YET "ONE" TEAM AIMING TO ACHIEVE THE SAME PURPOSE.



JUST AS THE FATHER – SON & SPIRIT OF GOD DO = 3 PERSONS AIMING TO DO THE SAME THING – "ONE" IN PURPOSE -

Answer 12

The trinity does not imply three Gods In one. It is one God the father, one Jesus the son, and one Holy Spirit. So technically you are right, there is just one God. Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not seperate Gods. : D

Answer 13

there is but 1 god...god the father ...god the son...and god the holy ghost. they are all one. think of it this way. you light a candle, the flame is god, then with the flame you light another candle, that flame is the son (jesus), and with the second candle, you light a third , the holy spirit. they can become 3 seperate flames, but all come from one source.

Answer 14

You are right:



One God (the Father)

One Savior (Jesus the Christ)

One Spirit (the Will of God)

Answer 15

in the Hebrew language one is used as plural for one god,meaning father son and holy spirit,just as one family composes more than one individual,they are still one family.

Answer 16

It would appear that, soon after the death of Jesus, some of the followers of Jesus got a bit over-excited and decided that Jesus must have been God. It seems that there is always a danger of over-zealous adherents going too far in any cause .



Jesus does a lot of stuff in the Gospels that indicates that he is not the same as God. One of the main things is that he prays a lot - why would he need to pray to himself? That would be silly. That wouldn't really even be praying, it would just be thinking about stuff.



Also, when Jesus teaches his followers to pray, he teaches them to pray to their "Father" who is in heaven. He doesn't tell them to pray to the "Father" and also pray to himself, (Jesus). He tells them to ask for things in his name, but not to actually pray directly to him.



In Christianity, it appears that the central and most important belief is the divinity of Jesus. Many Christians claim that you cannot get into heaven if you do not believe that Jesus died for your sins.



However, if this is true, why didn't Jesus preach the message that people needed to believe that he was God and worship him? Jesus gave a lot of public sermons, but none of them contained anything about people having to worship him as God. If worshiping Jesus was so extremely important, he probably should have mentioned it more often.



In the Bible, the only times Jesus supposedly said anything like that would have been in small, private conversations. Of course, if you are going to claim Jesus said something that he didn't, you would have to claim he said it in private. If you claimed he said it during his sermons to the multitudes, you would have a multitude of eye-witnesses saying that you are a liar. So, if his over-zealous followers were going to make up statements like this, they would have had to claim that it was supposed to be some sort of "secret".



After Jesus had gone all over the place preaching without ever once mentioning that people should be worshiping him, it seems like telling his apostles to go around preaching that after he was gone would be rather cruel.



It would be sort of like Jesus saying, "Oops, I forgot to tell everyone the most important and unbelievable thing about myself, but I don't have time to go and tell them now, because I have to go get crucified. So, you guys make sure to tell everyone all about my being God after I'm gone, OK?"



If I had been an apostle and Jesus had said something like that, I would have been pretty upset. It would have been really inconsiderate of Jesus to do something like that.

Answer 17

ya God is one and beyond the thought of human being. And GOD IS NOT A MALE!!!!!. Why do most people think that god is a male in gender. If horses can think of their God they will think that god is a horse too.

Answer 18

why is it so hard to be comprehended? God is one, who manifested himself as human & holy spirit,where is the difficulty to be understood?

a fire has heat and light but all are one

Answer 19

Forget the Bible - it puts too much personification on this. Here it is simply: "God" is the divine spark of LIFE that resides in all living things.

Answer 20

From a Catholic point of view, Yes. They're three of a kind. Three personas.

Answer 21

That is true, wonder where they keep getting the idea that he had a son. Must be all the white bread. :) Or was that breed?

Answer 22

Yea, but in Genesis 1, it's Elohim that are doing the creating, and "Elohim" is plural.



"In the beginning, gods created..."

Answer 23

When you believe in God, you are free to make him/her/it any way you want.



Don't worry about it.

Answer 24

god is one, and jesus is one, the holy spirit is the power of god.. it is NOT a god.......

Answer 25

One, three, three hundred gods. Just a question of how delusional you want to be.