1580. The Lord Our God Is One Lord

The Lord Our God Is One Lord

One of the chief stumbling-blocks in reaching the Jews is their belief in the unity of God. Christians accept God as one, but believe He was manifested in three persons.

A very peculiar thing is that the chief passage upon which the Jews base their contention (Deu_6:4 : "The Lord our God is one Lord"), uses a plural word (Elohim) for God, the Lord our Elohim, is one Lord.

The Christian gladly acknowledges that there is one God, but he also recognizes that that one God exists in a trinity of persons. To the Christian, there is 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" (1Co_8:6). To the Christian there is "One Spirit, * * one Lord, * * one God, and Father of all" (Eph_4:4-6).

These three are distinct from each other and yet they are inseparably one.

Our Lord Jesus prayed that we might be one, even as He and the Father were one, that we might be made perfect in one (see Joh_17:21-23).

This "oneness" of saints for which Christ prayed, by no means suggests the loss of their distinctive personality. Neither does the "oneness" of the Trinity set aside the fact that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost are three distinct personalities.

God's ideal in the marriage bond is that "they twain shall be one flesh." This duality in unity does not mean that the personality of either the man or the woman is done away.

The purport of this study is to set forth, from a careful survey of the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the Godhead.

As step by step, we discover how the Word of God ascribes to each person of the Godhead the same characteristics, the same operations, we will more and more understand the meaning of the words: "The Lord our God is one Lord."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR