WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
God is One, the Father, and the Creator of all. He is All-powerful. God is One, not a Trinity.
We can work out from the wonders of the natural world that there must be a Great Designer.
These things however do not tell us whether He has any interest in us, or any pIans for us.
If He has, we have to depend on Him telling us about them. The Bible claims to do that - to be God's Message to Mankind.
"Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit" (2Peter 1 :21). There are many reasons for believing that this is true, and I hope to look at some of these reasons in a later message (2b).
The Bible says "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis ch 1).
God then created all the millions of living things, and finally He created man and woman.
Because God made us, He has the right to tell us what to do. At the end of the Old Testament the prophet Malachi says "Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us ? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother" (Malachi 2:10).
God, Malachi says, is the 'Father'. The Bible says that He is God in heaven above and in the earth beneath: there is none else (Deuteronomy 4:39).
All other 'gods' are inventions of the human mind (Isaiah 45:5).
He is the One God: He is also One in His own nature- "Hear O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4).
The Old Testament or Torah was written in Hebrew and the Jewish scholars translate this 'The LORD our God, the LORD is One".
The New Testament confirms this - "to us there is one God, the Father; of whom are all things” (1 Corinthians 8:6; also Ephesians 4:6).
Sadly, from ancient times through to the present, most people did not accept this.
Instead of worshipping the One God in truth, they worshipped stars, animals, imaginary gods, and idols that they made for themselves. Also, many nations who worshipped a chief god, believed that he existed in three forms.
We find this belief in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and in India even today. As time passed, even people who wanted to worship the One God were influenced by these ideas.
Two centuries after Jesus was here, many Christians who had studied the Greek philosophers brought their ideas into Christianity. One of these ideas was that the True God is also three-in-one.
This is the doctrine of the Trinity, but Jews and Muslims have always opposed this. They believe - rightly - that God is One.
This belief that God is One is meant to have a big effect on our lives.
We should worship Him only, of course, but also because He is One - undivided in Himself - we should be undivided in our service to Him "Hear 0 Israel, the LORD our God,
the LORD is One, and you must love the LORD your God with all your heart soul and strength". (Deut 6:4-5, also Mark 12:29-30).
'He tells us all that He wants us to know about Himself and His purpose, in the Bible '.
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