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One God by GodsMopol: 8:53am On Sep 27, 2017 |
Christians
worship God exclusively because the Bible
makes it clear it is God who ‘created the
heavens and the earth’. [ Gen 1:1 ]. As a
consequence, if God created all things, then
there can be no other god. Any other god that
people choose to worship is, in reality,
something they have created or dreamt up for
themselves.
You’ll notice that the various gods of Greeks,
Romans and Egyptians usually related to
aspects of creation like the sun, moon, sea etc.
These are all things that God himself created.
So God rightly calls on all people to worship
him, and not the things that he created.
Unfortunately, people choose to ignore God’s
decree on this matter, which will bring about
his judgement upon them [c.f. Romans
1:21-25 ].
In the Old Testament, this idea of exclusive
worship of God was made explicit to Israel in
the 1st & 2nd commandments [ Exodus
20:3-6 ]. Here God entered into a covenant with
his chosen people [Israel], in which they were
obligated to worship him exclusively. We do
the same when we enter into a marriage
covenant, in that we promise to be exclusively
faithful to our wife/husband and not enter into
relationship with anyone else. As such, God
demanded that his people not worship any
other god or idol. The notion of exclusive
worship of God by his people is famously
declared in Deuteronomy 6:4 - "Hear, O Israel:
The LORD our God, the LORD is one". Of
course, the Old Testament revealed that Israel
was constantly guilty of idolatry [ Judges
2:11-15 ] and this eventually brought God’s
judgement as they were exiled to Babylon and
Assyria [ 2 Kings 17:13-23 & Jeremiah 25:1-9 ].
The New Testament continued to affirm that
Christians worship one God. Jesus himself
reaffirms Deut 6:4 that"the Lord is one" in
Mark 12:29 . The Apostle Paul also taught this
[ 1 Corinthians 8:6 ; Galatians 3:20 ]. However
the nature of the oneness of God shifted
radically with the coming of Jesus. As the Son
of God, Jesus taught his disciples that he and
his Father were one [ John 10:30 , 17:11 ]. In
addition, Jesus teaching about himself and the
Holy Spirit [ John 14:26 ; 15:26 ] demonstrated
that God is one God, but three different persons
- Father, Son and Holy Spirit [c.f. Matthew
28:19 ; 2 Corinthians 13:14 ].
This concept of “one God in three persons” or
Trinity was a great difficulty for the early
church. It took them 400 years to finally work it
out!! The problem is that it makes no logical
sense. Yet the bible is explicit about it - There
is one God yet he is three persons. Not three
gods united in one purpose, not three
manifestations of the one God but one God in
three persons. Ultimately our language cannot
fully describe it and we are left with what the
early church concluded in the creed:
We believe in one God
the Father, the Almighty, ...
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father; ...
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
and the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son
is worshiped and glorified, ...
As a result, Christians today are still called to
worship one God, through the Son - Jesus, as
we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. culled from www.christianity.net.au/questions/one-god |
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