If one truth is made more abundantly clear in the Scriptures than any other, it is the claim of the great Creator to the exclusive use of the title “God” in its primary and only real sense. The language used to express this fact admits of no compromise, and its rightful understanding cannot mean any other than what is intended to be conveyed by the words chosen. Note the following:
In Isaiah 45:19 Jehovah says, “I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.” In the immediate context of this unequivocal pronouncement the same Divine Speaker says, “There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me . . . for I am God, and there is none else.” If such claims as these, backed as they are by special claims to justice and righteousness, are thus rendered the more serious of belief, what then must be the awful consequences of denial, expressed or implied? That is a question which we must leave the individual student to answer, each for himself. Additional examples could be quoted by the score. Space, however, restricts us to a few.
Deuteronomy 4:35—“That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.”
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Author: R. H. Judd
Keywords: God, echad, unity of God, God is One, Shema, shemah, Hear Israel, Lord Our God is One Lord, unity of God
Bible reference(s): Isa. 44:6, Isa. 45:21, Mark 12:32, John 5:44, John 17:3, 1 Cor. 8:4, 1 Timothy 2:5
Source: One God: God of the Ages (Oregon, IL: Restitution Herald, 1949)
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