The Holy Trinity 3
III. THE UNITY OF GOD AND MONOTHEISM
1) DEUTERONOMY 6:4 Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God {is} one Lord:
2) DEUTERONOMY 32:39 See now that I, {even} I, {am} he, and {there is} no god with me: . . .
3) ISAIAH 37:16,20 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest {between} the Cherubims, thou {art} the God,
{even} thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth . . . (20) Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou {art} the Lord, {even} thou only.
4) ISAIAH 43:10-13 . . . I {am} he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. (11) I, {even} I, {am} the Lord; and beside me {there is} no saviour.
(12) I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when {there was} no strange {god} among you: therefore ye {are} my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I {am} God.
(13) Yea, before the day {was} I {am} he; and {there is} none that can deliver out of my hand: . . .
5) ISAIAH 44:6,8 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I {am} the first, and I {am} the last; and beside me {there is} no God . . . (8) . . . Is there a God beside me? yea, {there is} no God; I know not {any}.
6) ISAIAH 45:5 I {am} the Lord, and {there is} none else, {there is} no God beside me: . . . {cf. Is 45:6,21-22, 46:9, Mal 2:10}
7) MARK 12:29 . . . The first of all the commandments {is}, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
8) 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4,6 . . . we know that an idol {is} nothing in the world, and that {there is} none other God but one . . . (6) But to us {there is but} one God, the Father, of whom {are} all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom {are} all things, and we by him. {cf. Eph 4:4-6, 1 Tim 2:5, Jas 2:19}
9) Polytheism Condemned Furthermore, there is no such thing as a “Big God and a little god” scenario in Scripture, as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and other heretics maintain. Polytheism is condemned as vigorously as Monotheism is proclaimed (see esp. Deut 32:39 above). Satan is called “the god of this world” in 2 Cor 4:4, but this is to be understood as a “god” not in nature or essence, but only in the sense that people idolatrously worship it, him, or her, as in the following passages:
2 KINGS 17:35 . . . the Lord . . . charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
ISAIAH 37:19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they {were} no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
1 CORINTHIANS 8:5-6 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) (6) But to us {there is but} one God, the Father, of whom {are} all things, . . .
GALATIANS 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.{cf. Is 44:10,15,17, 46:6, Acts 14:11, 28:6}