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18 - There is but ONE God

There is but ONE God, by whom and out of whom all things have been created, and in whose immensity-filling Spirit all things subsist; that He who is thus the Father of all dwells in unapproachable light, styled in the Scriptures, "heaven, His dwelling place." He and the Spirit are one, but only in the sense in which the sun in the heavens and the light of the day are one. Jesus is His manifestation by the Spirit (this proposition strikes at the root of the popular doctrine of the trinity,1 which confuses the revealed relations of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit).

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: (Deuteronomy 6:4).

I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me(Isaiah 45:5).

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is One Lord: (Mark 12:29).

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17:3).

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. (1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6)

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5).

The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto (1 Timothy 6:16).

Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place (1 Kings 8:30).

Our Father which art in heaven (Matthew 6:9).

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. (Psalm 123:1).

1 The only passage in the Bible that "affirms" the doctrine of the trinity is the following: For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (1 John 5:7). This text is well known to be spurious and is omitted in the Revised Version of 1881 without note or comment.

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