Question: Does the New Testament promote one God?...or a triune God?
Answer:
Triune God?
No
- There is no text in the New Testament that says God is three.
- There is no text in the New Testament that says God is a triune God.
- There is no text in the New Testament that says God is the Father + the Son + Holy Spirit, three persons in one God.
One God?
Yes
The New Testament states clearly that there is only one God, the Father. Yahushua also confirmed this when he quoted Deut. 6:4 as the first commandment in his reply to one of the scribes:
"And [Yahushua] answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord [Yahuwah] our God is one Lord [Yahuwah]: And thou shalt love the Lord [Yahuwah] thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." (Mark 12:29-39, KJV)
Paul and others also believed clearly in one God, the Father:
"But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord [Yahushua] Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." (1 Corinthians 8:6, KJV)
"Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord [Yahushua] Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord [Yahushua] Christ." (1 Thessalonians 1:1, KJV)
"Jude, the servant of [Yahushua] Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in [Yahushua] Christ, and called." (Jude 1:1, KJV)