Keep It Simple! There is One G-d [Yahuwah], the Creator and Father.

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Number 1: “To us Christians there is one G-d, the Father” (1 Cor. 8:6).

Are you prepared to believe this? This is exactly: “Do we not all have one Father? Has not one G-d created us?” (Mal. 2:10).

The majority of churches rejected this monotheism and said, “We believe in one G-d: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” No Bible text, except the one obvious, blatant corruption in 1 John 5:7 (omitted from modern translations), says that the one G-d is Father, Son (“Word”) and Holy Spirit.

J-sus [Yahushua] said in John 17:3 that “the Father is the only one who is true G-d.” Augustine, hailed (wrongly, we think) as a Christian superstar theologian, had to forge that text, altering the order of the words, changing the meaning, to make it say that the Father and the Son are the only true G-d.

The word “G-d” means the Father in the NT about 1300 times. The word “G-d” in the Bible never once means Father, Son and Spirit. The One G-d is defined as a singular divine Person, thousands of times, by singular personal pronouns: I, Me, My, Myself, Mine, Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine, Thyself, He, Him, His, Himself.

Leading Trinitarians have conceded the extreme illogicality of their doctrine. Cardinal J.H. Newman said that the closest we can come to articulating the Trinity is “to say that one thing is two things” ( Select Treatises of Athanasius in Controversy with the Arians, 1895, p. 515).

Dr. Hey, lecturing at Cambridge on the Trinity said, “It might tend to promote moderation, and, in the end, agreement, if we were industriously on all occasions to represent our own Doctrine [of the Trinity] as wholly unintelligible” (Lectures in Divinity, Vol. 2, p. 253).

Dr. Martin Werner of Bern, Switzerland, rightly pronounced the Trinity to be contradictory: “The Church found itself in a dilemma as soon as it tried to harmonize the doctrine of the Deity of J-sus [Yahushua] and the Deity of the Father with monotheism. For according to the NT witnesses, in the teaching of J-sus [Yahushua] relative to the monotheism of the OT and Judaism, there had been no element of change whatsoever. Mk 12:29ff. recorded the confirmation by J-sus [Yahushua] himself, without any reservation, of the supreme monotheistic confession of faith of Israelite religion in its complete form…The means by which the Church sought to demonstrate the agreement of its dogma of the Deity of both Father and Son with monotheism, remained seriously uncertain and contradictory” (Formation of Christian Dogma, 1957, p. 241).

Trinitarians failed to believe the verse at the top, which defines the one G-d as the Father (1 Cor. 8:6). To support their confusion they then boldly said that J-sus [Yahushua] is the “one Lord,” and so he must also be G-d! The breakdown of logic was simply the fact that J-sus [Yahushua] is the one lord Christ/Messiah who is not the one Lord G-d [Yahuwah Elohim] (Ps. 110:1; Luke 2:11).

The Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels stated the simple fact: “To the men of the NT, G-d was the G-d of the OT, the Living G-d, a Person, loving, energizing, seeking the accomplishment of an everlasting purpose of mercy, the satisfaction of his own loving nature…The monotheism of the OT was never abstract, because the G-d of the OT was never a conception, or a substance [essence], but always a Person” (Vol. 1, p. 807).

Murray Harris, a Trinitarian, says: “It does not seem illegitimate to pose a question such as this: To whom was the author of Hebrews referring when he said (1:1), ‘At many times and in various ways G-d spoke in the past to our forefathers through the prophets’? That it was not the Holy Spirit in any ultimate sense is evident from the fact that neither in the OT nor in the NT is the Spirit called ‘G-d’ explicitly. And, in spite of the fact that the LXX [Septuagint] equivalent of YHVH — kurios [Lord] — is regularly applied to J-sus [Yahushua] in the NT so that it becomes less a title than a proper name, it is not possible that o theos [G-d] in Heb. 1:1 denotes J-sus [Yahushua] Christ, for the same sentence (in Greek) contains ‘(the G-d who spoke…) in these last days has spoken to us in a Son.’ Since the author is emphasizing the continuity of the two phases of divine speech (‘G-d having spoken…later spoke’), this reference to a Son shows that o theos [G-d] was understood to be ‘G-d the Father.’ [No one ever said ‘G-d the Son’!]

“Similarly, the differentiation made between o theos [G-d] as the one who speaks in both eras [OT and NT] and ‘Son’ as his final means of speaking shows that in the author’s mind it was not the Triune G-d of Christian theology who spoke to the forefathers by the prophets. That is to say, for the author of Hebrews (as for all NT writers, one may suggest) ‘the G-d of our fathers,’ Yahweh, was no other than ‘the G-d and Father of our Lord J-sus [Yahushua] Christ’ (compare Acts 2:30 and 2:33; 3:13 and 3:18; 3:25 and 3:26; note also 5:30).

“Such a conclusion is entirely consistent with the regular NT usage of o theos [G-d]. It would be inappropriate for Elohim or YHVH ever to refer to the Trinity in the OT, when in the NT theos [G-d] regularly refers to the Father alone and apparently never to the Trinity.”¹

This is quite a concession! “G-d” in Scripture never means the Triune G-d!

The Church later, after Bible times, finally lost its mind by threatening with loss of salvation anyone who did not subscribe to the Triune definition of G-d. Lecturing on the Trinity at Oxford, Dr. Leonard Hodgson, the Regius professor, added some humor to a tragic situation. He wrote: “The Athanasian Creed is a very instructive document, for it shows that, when an attempt was made to state the Christian faith in terms of the metaphysic [philosophy] of the time, all that could be done was to set down a series of contradictions and say that you would be damned if you didn’t believe them [!]...The first impression produced on the mind by hearing this Christian doctrine of the Trinity is that it is quite incredible.”²

“The truth is that these creeds violate the Shema. For J-sus [Yahushua], the Shema was the core principle…How is it that if one does subscribe to J-sus [Yahushua]’ creed, one can be considered a heretic by the established church? How is it that we have neglected/overruled/cancelled the greatest commandment of all? ‘The Lord our G-d is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29).

“Professor Les Hardin said: ‘Those of us in the Christian faith have traditionally read this as a Trinitarian statement; we believe that G-d is three-fold — Father, Son and Spirit — and this verse keeps us from believing that there are three G-ds…In context, though, that doesn’t make very much sense, and this is the theological controversy over which barrels of printer ink have been spilt.’ (The wasted ink seems to pale by comparison to the blood of the many whose lives have been taken because they stood for G-d being one and only one, the Father.)

“Hardin is correct in questioning what sense is to be found in saying that G-d is three-fold. Brave souls through the centuries have had the courage to question this logic. Some lived to write about it…Are we saying that the Master Logician, the One from whom all intelligence emanates, actually validates an unintelligible theory about who He is? Really?”³

None of this confusion, including murder and mayhem and excommunication, would have been necessary if no. 1 above had been believed! “To us there is one G-d, the Father” (1 Cor. 8:6).

And none of this would have been necessary if churchgoers had listened to J-sus [Yahushua] who declared that “the Lord our G-d is one Lord” (Mark 12:29). One Lord means one Person. G-d is one Person as no.1 above states. It should have been sufficient to settle all questions about who the one G-d is: “To us there is one G-d, the Father.”

Why not give your earnest attention to what J-sus [Yahushua], whom you claim to follow, defined as “the greatest of all the commands”? J-sus [Yahushua] said, at the close of his teaching ministry: “The Lord our G-d is one Lord” (Mark 12:29).

This is exactly as quoted in the Greek translation (LXX) of the Old Testament and in the New Testament. “One Lord” means one Person, not more! (Ask your two-year-old!) To say that G-d is really “three Persons” violates the Scripture. The friendly Jewish scribe understood and endorsed the very words of J-sus [Yahushua]: “You are right, teacher, that there is no one else besides Him” (= one Person, Mark 12:32). The Jewish scribe backed up his own definition of G-d, completely agreeing with J-sus [Yahushua], by adding Deuteronomy 4:35, 39: “No one except Him. There is no one else.”

The issue is this: Do you agree with J-sus [Yahushua], or is your loyalty to J-sus [Yahushua] and your definition of G-d not clear to G-d and man? Christians must sound like J-sus [Yahushua] and have the same mind as he (1 Cor 2:16). We all agree with the “Lord’s prayer.” But do we proclaim with equal conviction “the Lord’s creed,” his definition of G-d and our “pledge of allegiance” to G-d and His Messiah?

The statement of Paul that “for us [Christians] there is one G-d, the Father” (1 Cor. 8:6) simply repeats what is stated by J-sus [Yahushua] and Scripture thousands of times, that G-d is a single “He, Him,” one single, gracious Father. J-sus [Yahushua] of course is the “one lord Messiah/Christ” hundreds of times; start with Luke 2:11. J-sus [Yahushua] is “the man Messiah” of 1 Timothy 2:5, another of Paul’s creedal statements.

Psalm 110:1 is the most quoted verse from the Old Testament in the New Testament. No wonder that J-sus [Yahushua], the master rabbi and teacher (John 13:13), went on immediately to ask his famous last question about the two lords in that Psalm 110:1. YHVH, the Lord G-d [Yahuwah Elohim], is of course in that Psalm the one and only Lord G-d [Yahuwah Elohim] , addressing an oracle to the second lord, the Messiah, who is explicitly not G-d, but “my [human] lord,” not “my Lord.” (The capital letter on the second lord of Psalm 110:1 is misleading; see RSV, NET, NIV for the correction).

¹ Murray Harris, Jesus as God, p. 47, footnote 112.
² Christian Faith and Practice, p. 78, 80.
³ Barbara Buzzard, “Praying Like Jesus: The Shema,” Focus on the Kingdom, August 2020.