What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus? - Conclusion of God Is One,Not Three

The Christian apostle Paul did not indicate any change in the nature of God either, even after Jesus came to the earth. He wrote:  "God is only one." - GALATIANS 3:20; see also 1 Corinthians 8:4-6. 

Thousands of times throughout the Bible, God is spoken of as one person. When he speaks, it as one undivided individual.  The Bible could not be any clearer on this.  As God states:  "I am Jehovah.  That is my name; and no one else shall I give my glory." (Isaiah 42:8) "I am Yahweh your God . . . You shall have no gods except me."  - EXODUS 20:2, 3, JB.

Why would all the God-inspired Bible writers speak of God as  one person if he were actually three persons?  What purpose would that serve, except to mislead people?  Surely, if God were composed of three persons, he would have had his Bible writers make it abundantly clear so that there would be no doubt about it. At least the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures  who had personal contact with God's own Son would have done so but they did not.

Instead, what the Bible writers did make abundantly clear is that God is one  Person-a unique, unpartitioned Being who has no equal: "I am Jehovah, and there is no one else. With the exception of me there is no God." (Isaiah 45:5) "You whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth." - PSALM 83:18.

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