God: One Person
How do we know that God is only one Person? The easy answer is that singular personal pronouns (14 forms) designate one single person. This is true in English and Hebrew and Greek. It is a fact known to all speakers of these languages that I, me, my, myself, mine, thou, thee, thy, thyself, thine, he, him, his, himself describe a single person. In the Bible these singular personal pronouns describe God thousands upon thousands of times!
- God and Jesus are two distinct persons, as are all sons and fathers.
- But only one of the two persons is GOD.
- That one God is the Father of Jesus.
Jesus’ favorite verse, the most important of all commands, is found in Mark 12:29:
“The LORD our GOD is ONE LORD.” Or the LORD our GOD is ONE person.
He is “our God,” the God of all the people of God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and
the God of Jesus.
Jesus said that those who love him must keep his commands. His favorite and first command is that we are to listen to the true God who is “the LORD our GOD” and is a single LORD — certainly not two Lords.
Jesus, as master-teacher, professor, rabbi, went on to quote Psalm 110:1 where the One God, YHVH speaks to another person, the Messiah, who is to sit at the right hand of YHVH. That second lord is not a second LORD GOD. That would make two GODs, which is not monotheism! The second lord is the lord Messiah. In Hebrew this word is adoni (pronounced “adonee”), and it is never a reference to Deity, but always to human (or occasionally angelic) superiors.
This article was taken from
Focus On The Kingdom
