According to the Bible, is the one god, or many gods?? I am confused.?

Question

MANY GODS: Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:22, Genesis 18:2,3, 1st John 5:7 ........ ONE GOD: Deut. 6:4

THE BIBLE SEEMS TO HAVE MANY CONTRADICTIONS

Answer 1

! - 3 - 7 . Even we can dare a chance , some-day.

Answer 2

One God in three forms - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though the word Trinity isn't found in the Bible, it's a concept that is interwoven through both the Old and New Testaments.

Here are some of the more well known verses and passages pertaining to this:

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...

The Gospel of Saint John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

The most simple way to explain it is this way. You are one person, yet you are daugther, sister, friend. One person, existing as three.

Answer 3

The plurality of God expressed in Genesis is remarkable as it was written by people to whom the concept of the trinity or 3 personalities in one God was not known.
However, although the authors believed that there was only one God, they were so concerned to remain true to the revelation they had received from God, that they would not change this plural form to the singular, even though they did not understand it.
It was only much later with the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ that the Triune nature of God was revealed.

So the Genesis verses actually bear witness to the Divine nature of Biblical revelation, and the truthfulness and reliability of its authors. And they point to the Divine nature of Jesus, the second person of the Blessed Trinity.

Thanks be to God!

Answer 4

God is one.

One of the things that causes confusion, with most people, not just yourself, is that the word 'one' when used of God does not have the meaning of 'singularity', but of unity. A better translation would be, "God is unified."

The word that is translated 'God' in the Old Testament is 'Elohim' -- it is the plural form of 'El', which means 'strong one. So, God is the strong ONES.

There is a plurality in the Godhead, as you pointed out in the Scripture references. Yet in many, one. Not as the Trinity doctrine teaches though.

Jesus, when presenting proof of his Messiah-ship, he used two witnesses -- himself and God the Father. He gave no other for testimony.
John 8:18 -- "I am One who bears witness of Myself, and the Father who sent Me bears witness of Me."

Also, to show that the oneness of God is unity and not singularity, read John 17 -- where Jesus prays for his disciples that they may be one with God and Jesus in the same way that Jesus is already one with the Father.

The Bible has a more tangible example of the unity of separate individuals that might help you to understand.
Mt 19:5 -- [Jesus] said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
Though a married couple are still two individuals, they are one!

I recommend the following paper to read for more details:
The Nature of God and Christ @
http://www.ucg.org/papers/NatureofGod.pdf

Answer 5

The human family is the closest analogy that mankind will ever come to concretely understanding the Blessed Trinity.

The creeds teach that while there is one God, He exists in three distinct persons. The bible, on the other hand, reveals that man is made in the 'image of God'. From these two truths, therefore, we can acknowledge that the complete image of God is found in the Triune understanding of Him.

This understanding of His Triune nature is reflected by the human family whose personal relationships approach the likeness of the Trinity.
There are multiple demonstrations of this truth.

Consider the unity of the Trinity which is reflected in the unity of the family. Or the "family of persons" which is found in both. The persons of the Trinity share the 'same substance ' while a human family becomes one flesh: wife with husband and parents with children.

There is also another element in the Trinity that lends itself to human likeness. The Nicene Creed professes this about the Trinity: "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life who proceeds from the Father and the Son."

In Catholic theology, the Holy Spirit is said to proceed from the will of both the Father and the Son, or in other words, through the activity which they engage in, otherwise known as "love".

The Holy Spirit is poured forth through the exchange of love between the Father and the Son. This is why perhaps Jesus says to the Apostles: " Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you." (John 16:7)

In the eternal economy of the Trinity, therefore, a person 'proceeds' from the love between two other persons. And so, the Holy Spirit is love 'proceeding' or 'coming from' the first two persons of the Blessed Trinity.

The human family has a rather striking parallel to this dynamic. The ultimate act of intimacy in a marriage mirrors the eternal exchange of love between the first two persons of the Trinity.

And like the eternal or continual procession of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity, the act of love between a man and a woman causes a 'procession' of another human person (i.e. the birth of a child).

The human sexual act either affirms God's image or it distorts it.

Answer 6

The Godhead - The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost. Each of the persons of the Godhead is distinct, yet they are all each, by nature, God.

Answer 7

1 Corinthians 8:5, 6 says "For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 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.
The Bible acknowledges many gods, but only one supreme God.

Answer 8

i believe the old testment uses different names for different aspects of God , just as Muslim have a number of different names for the aspects of Allah the Jewish have many names for aspects God, I think it just another indication of the simalarities in faith between the three group , if the names in the old testment were translated to english they would give a descrtion of an aspect or ideaollogy about God or you could just substitute all those names with God and the passage would not have any different meaning, Obviously because the old testament encompasses the Torah , these names have also been carried over

Answer 9

It depends on which translation you're reading. But the Bible says there is only ONE God... but that God has many different forms and different names. Maybe that's where your confusion is.

Answer 10

Yes God our Father,Jesus the son and the Holy Spirit are one ..

Answer 11

Regardless of translation, God made it pretty clear to Israel how he felt about worshipping 'other gods' before Him.
Ba'al springs to mind.