“The object of our worship is the One God” (Tertullian: Apology, xvii).
A characteristic teaching of the Christian faith from the beginning was that there is one God. In this respect, Christian teaching mirrored Jewish belief as opposed to pagan concepts of the time.
All who bore the name of Christ recognized this fact, and even when Trinitarian ideas had taken hold, the basic concept of One God was always declared. The inconsistency between monotheism and the doctrine of the Trinity, obvious to Jews and perhaps to pagans, was not admitted by trinitarians.
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Author: J. Banta
Keywords: Logos, Word made flesh, Jesus is the Word, Trinity, Tri-unity, Pre-existent word, Pre-existence, Pre-existent, Jesus is God, God the Son, Three in one, God in three persons, Deity of Jesus, Deity of Christ, Three gods, Three persons, Three persons in one god, Christ's preexistence, Jesus' preexistence, Jesus preexisted, Jesus existed before he was born, Jesus's preexistence
Bible reference(s): Genesis 1:26, Gen 3:22, Pro 8:22, Isa 9:6, Mat 1:23, Mat 28:19, John 1:1-4, John 3:13, John 5:23, John 6:33, John 6:38, John 6:51, John 6:58, John 6:62, John 8:23, John 8:28, John 8:58, John 10:17-18, John 10:30, John 14:9, John 17:5, John 20:28, Rom 9:5, Philippians 2:6, Col 1:15-16, Eph 4:8-10, Heb 1:2, Heb 1:8, Heb 7:3, 1 John 4:3, 1 John 5:7, 1 John 5:20, Rev 3:14
Source: J. Banta.
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