christian, this BIBLE verses prove the concept of ONE god?!?

Question

Mark 12

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; 30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’

Matthew 4
Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.’”

John 17
“This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

if you said jesus as son of god because he has no father, then this person must be God too..

Hebrews 7
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace. 3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

Answer 1

What was wrong with the answers you got the last time you asked this "question?"

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuBqZNVY0coAm4zGHHFGuwjty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071110011136AAx1qSF

or the time before that when you asking this exact same question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AucEe8Ic9h7b__u8GSOx7Arty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070925025727AAK8DKv

A curious aspect of so many Muslims, is their complete lack of curiosity -- you know what you know, and you don't care what the facts are.

Study your own religion with the same critical view you study Christianity, and you'd never go back to a mosque again.

Shalom.

Answer 2

There is only one God...there is no "trinity".


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.

John 10:30
I and my Father are one.

The Father and the Son are one - the Holy Spirit binds each to the other and is their power as they share this immortal Spirit being self-existant and creator of all the cosmos...perhaps a difficult concept for our individual intellect to grasp...but they glorify and exhalt one another as God, being equal as the Godhead...

Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the GODHEAD is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and GODHEAD; so that they are without excuse:

Colossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the GODHEAD bodily.

We are to be baptized in His Name (not names) of the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit...Jehovah ~ I AM THAT I AM. Love in Christ, ~J~

Answer 3

I say these 3 verses prove there are 3 if not explain them please

Acts 7:55
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,


Acts 7:56
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.


Romans 8:34
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Answer 4

There is only ONE god
however there are other manifestations,


This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

SEE the little AND before Jesus Christ?

What does the AND mean?

2 persons.

Meg

Answer 5

You are correct. The Trinity is a concept adopted by the church hundreds of years after Jesus... in the 4th century according to the New Catholic Encyclopedia. Trinities have origins going back to the Assyrians, the Egyptians, etc.

Answer 6

Seems to me the verse doesn't say there is no other gods. It says he is the lord, and y ou will serve only him (only him? seems to me they were afraid there was a confusion...meaning other gods to worship from?)

Your second scripture reinforces the jealousy and stinginess behavior of a child god... worship this god and serve him only.

The third scripture, they go as far to say he is the one true god. In this eternal life, they may know you, as the only true god.... what we know, and what we can prove is two different things.

The scriptures don't prove nothing, your beliefs dilute your logical thinking so don't worry about convincing others to believe what you are already taught to believe. We are quite happy without an invisible man holding our hands.

Answer 7

Of COURSE there is only one God. Furthermore, the quote from Mark 12 is really a repeat of a Scripture waaaaayyyy back in the Old Testament a long, LOOOONG time ago.

What you don't understand is the very NATURE of God.

God said that He would make man in His own image, so we can get some small inkling of an idea of what God is like by looking at man, who is a "miniature finite duplicate copy of God."

Just one example of our nature:

We can think, so we know that God thinks "I know the thoughts I think towards you, says the LORD ..."

As to our makeup, we are tri-une beings, body soul and spirit.

That tells me that God, likewise, is tri-une in nature, since we are created in His very image.

Now, do the Scriptures follow through?

Let's start at the very beginning in Genesis. Genesis 1:1 (in Hebrew) states, "B'raishish bara Elohim es ha'sh'mayim v'es ho'oretz" or "In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth."

Note that both "God" (Elohim) and "the heavens" (ha'sh'mayim) are both pleural words. This is the same as added "s" or "es" in English to make a word pleural. For instance, "yeled" translates to "boy", while "yeladim" (sometimes spelled "yeladym", but the same pronunciation) translates to "boys" pleural.

So, right off, we see "God" as a pleural word ("Elohim", rather than "Eloheinu", the singular form of the word).

Next, we see after GOD created, that the SPIRIT of God hovered over the face of the deep, and finally, the VOICE of the Lord, that is God SPOKE, and there was light.

Later on in this same chapter, the beginning of all things, we see Elohim saying "Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness."

This continues right through the Scriptures, but Isaiah, who is VERY bold about all sorts of things concerning God and Messiah, says this:

Isa 48:16-17: "Come near to Me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent Me. (17) So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am Jehovah your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go."

Notice that Jehovah and His Spirit is sending Jehovah. You see the tri-une nature of God clearly revealed long before Jesus came to earth.

Now, does the New Testament also support this? John 1:1 (yes, we start right at the beginning just as we did in the Old Testament) states:

Joh 1:1-5" "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (5) And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it."

Then moving on down a little, we read:

Joh 1:14: "And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth."

There isn't enough space for all the references that demonstrate that Jesus truly is God manifest in the flesh, but one additional passage might help:

Joh 1:18: "No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom (or the heart) of the Father, He has declared Him."

So, yes - there is but one God, and Jesus Christ, who came from the very heart of God is the VOICE of the Lord or the WORD of God, and we refer to Him as the "Son of God" because God is the one who miraculously caused the egg within Mary to start growing without the aid of a man.

But we also refer to Jesus as God manifest in the flesh, because it is the very SPIRIT of God that indwelt His human spirit from the moment the egg started growing and developing.

This doesn't mean that the body which we see as Jesus has existed eternally, nor does it mean that Mary is the mother of God.

What it DOES mean is that Jesus has a unique relationship with God because He originated from the very heart of God, and existed with God and AS God from time eternal.

Answer 8

I will agree with that, but for your reference to really prove there is only one God and no trinity is reading Proverbs 8:20 onward.

Jesus is explaining himself as being created. How interesting that is in harmony with Jesus being called the firstborn, or first created being.

Answer 9

The problem with the bible, is that you will read these verses and conclude that God is singular, where as others will read the same verses and conclude that there is a trinity.

The same applies to Salvation, some read the bible and decided that it is clearly pointing to salvation by grace, where others see that works are necessary for entry into heaven.

One of them is wrong, and God doesn't see fit to clear it up at all.

Answer 10

There is no physical or contemporary historical evidence of any kind that anyone named Jesus or anyone that could have been Jesus, ever lived. There is no description of what Jesus might have looked like from anyone who would have been alive to see him at the time Jesus was supposed to have lived. Similarly, there is not one word he might ever have spoken that was written down by anyone who could have been there.

There is no mention of Jesus, or anyone like him, in the records of Jerusalem or of the personal or official papers of Pontius Pilate (or any other Roman official). Similarly, there is no record of a crucifixion that could have been that of Jesus. The supposed darkness that fell upon the earth at the time he died was not mentioned by anyone anywhere on the planet, including Jerusalem itself.

The is no record of a city, town, or village called Nazareth, even in the detailed list of cities and towns in Galilee compiled by the historian Flavius Josephus in the first century C.E.; nor is such as place ever mentioned in the Old Testament.

No one knows who actually wrote any of Gospels and, whoever they were; even they never claim to have met the earthly Jesus. Moreover, the original manuscripts do not even exist. The earliest is probably Mark (70 C.E.), although no one knows who wrote it, where they wrote it, or exactly when they wrote it. Paul's biblical letters are the oldest surviving Christian texts (60 C.E.), and even he never claims to have met or seen an earthly Jesus. Neither does he give any reference to Jesus' life on earth. The Gospel of John disagrees with events described in Mark, Matthew, and Luke; and it was written in Greek around A.D. 90-100.

How could it be that someone supposedly as widely known as Christians claim Jesus was never be mentioned, at all, by a single person who knew or met him?

The Gospels claim that Jesus was well known and widely recognized not only by his many followers but also Priests, Pontius Pilate, and Herod, knew "of the fame of Jesus" (Matt 14:1)" , and that multitudes of people knew of Jesus the prophet, teacher, healer, and miracle worker (Matt:14:5). Matt (4:25) states that "there followed him [Jesus] great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordon." Luke (12:1) speaks of, "innumerable multitude of people... trod one upon another" and (Luke: 5:15) "fame abroad of him… and great multitudes came together to hear...”

The persecution of Jesus in Jerusalem supposedly was such a big deal that Pontius Pilate and the High Priest Joseph Caiaphas not only knew about it, but were part of it (Matt 21:15-23, 26:3, Luke 19:47, 23:13).

If this is all true, then why is Jesus never mentioned by any of these people? And, why are there no records of Jesus, or anyone, having great multitudes of followers or going around performing miracles at the time Jesus was supposed to have lived?

If Jesus did live, no one at the time seems to have thought that his live was worth mentioning, and if he was crucified in Jerusalem, no one seems to have noticed or cared.