what is your personal interpretation of it?
2006-06-21 19:32:45 · 15 answers · asked by lori 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The trinity!
let US make man in OUR image!
2006-06-21 19:35:25 · answer #1 · answered by happymrzot 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a personal interpretation of it. Try working the bible and find out. Your phrase should read: Hear O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is one". It is a declaration of monotheism. It is the central teaching of Judaism, and come to us from Jesus via the New Testament.
You will see this declaration developed in the five books of Moses (enlighten teaching). But you will need to read it carefully probably with some study too. For example, Deuteronomy 6:4 and Mark 12:29.
The interlinear Greek translation of Deuteronomy 6:4 is "hear! Israel Yahweh (YHWH) Elohim (ELHM) of us Yahweh one". YHWH is never pronounce in the Jewish traditional since it is the name of God given to Moses: "I am that I am". ELHM means lord.
I have tried to give you a basic understand of your question. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time or space within this answer to give you everything you will need. for thorough study. I hope you have a minister/priest to help you.
2006-06-22 02:56:22 · answer #2 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is pretty clear for Israel who is comming out of Egypt where there are gods for and to everything. More gods then you can count and in a time when people worshiped different idols and called them gods.
The true God of Israel says the Lord our God is one Lord.
2006-06-22 02:37:56 · answer #3 · answered by Dee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hear, O Israel. This was said to call the attention of the to the great importance of the truth about to be proclaimed.
The Lord our God, etc. Literally, "Jehovah, our God, is one Jehovah." The other nations worshipped many gods, but the God of the Jews was one, and one only. Jehovah was undivided; and this great truth it was the design of the separation of the Jewish people from other nations to keep in mind. This was the peculiar truth which was communicated to the Jews, and this they were required to keep and remember for ever.
2006-06-22 02:55:09 · answer #4 · answered by poeticbloodlines 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is one Lord, with three persons
the Father, the Son, The Holy Ghost.
the blessed Trinity!
2006-06-22 02:42:57 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Poetic1♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I interpret it to mean that there is one God, and not many, as that was a common theme at the time.
It does not refer to the Trinity because it comes from Deuteronomy which is pre-Christian. The context is Moses trying to get his people to stop worshipping bulls and idols.
There is an in-depth discussion of it at the first link below, and more about Deuteronomy on the Wikipedia link.
2006-06-22 02:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by linuxfortravelers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When this verse was written the people of the time believed in many gods. The god of the air, the god of the sun, the god of water, etc. This verse tells the readers that there is only ONE true, living God.
2006-06-22 02:42:31 · answer #7 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Trinity.
God the Father - God the Son - God the Holy Spirit.
2006-06-22 02:37:30 · answer #8 · answered by bkanastoplus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Shema Yisrael, Yehu'ah eloheynu, Yehu'ah echad"
Egypt did have their central god, Ra, but they also had many other gods they worshipped.
This statement from Moses was to instruct the children of Israel that their God, the One who brought them out of Egypt, the One who created the heavens and the earth, the God of their forefathers is a single God. He is El Shaddai, God Almighty.
He was explaining to them that their God has a name, Yehu'ah, and He is the only God they are to pray to.
"Hear Israel, Yehu'ah your God, Yehu'ah is one.
You shall love Yehu'ah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as remebrences on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."
There is only One God, and no others.
2006-06-22 04:25:33 · answer #9 · answered by Reuben Shlomo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now here in, Mark, our Saviour prefixes to this command the great doctrinal truth upon which it is built (Mar_12:29); Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord; if we firmly believe this, it will follow, that we shall love him with all our heart. He is Jehovah, who has all amiable perfections in himself; he is our God, to whom we stand related and obliged; and therefore we ought to love him, to set our affections on him, let out own desire toward him, and take a delight in him; and he is one Lord, therefore he must be loved with our whole heart; he has the sole right to us, and therefore ought to have the sole possession of us. If he be one, our hearts must be one with him, and since there is no God besides, no rival must be admitted with him upon the throne.
2006-06-22 02:52:00 · answer #10 · answered by OhWell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
which chapter and verse is that?
I think the bible tries to distinguish God = the Lord of all and
small gods (idols) a.k.a spirits that long ago people put into statutes and worship.
2006-06-22 02:36:24 · answer #11 · answered by VAVAV 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋