Yahweh Alone is God: There are not many gods. There is simple one God. All others gods are false gods as the Scriptures declare. Moses told Pharaoh in Exodus 8:10 that there was no one like the LORD their God. The capital LORD in the ESV is the divine name of God, Yahweh that He revealed to Moses in Exodus 3:14. Jesus said that He was that same person in John 8:58.
Passage after passage could be cited to show that Yahweh alone is the one true and living God. He is not merely the God that we worship here on earth among myriads of gods (as taught in Mormonism) nor is He a God that we can add to our list of other deities that we worship as taught by Hindus but Yahweh alone is God. He is the only God. There are no other gods. Take for instance God’s command in Exodus 20:3 and Exodus 34:14 to not worship any other gods. One could argue that Yahweh is saying that we are to worship Him above all other gods but then in Deuteronomy 4:35 we read, “You were shown these things so that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other” (NIV). Notice that the text says that there is no other god beside the one true God, Yahweh.
In Deuteronomy 32:39 Yahweh declares that He is the sovereign God and that there is no god beside Him. In 2 Samuel 7:22 David declares that Yahweh is the one true God and there is no one beside Him. In 1 Kings 8:60 Solomon praises Yahweh and declares that He alone is God and there is no other. In Nehemiah 9:6 the Levites bless God and declare that Yahweh alone is God and that He made all things and He alone gives life to all things and all the hosts praise Him.
In Isaiah 44:8 Yahweh Himself says that He knows no other gods besides Himself.
In John 17:3 Jesus Christ says that the Father is the one true God.
In Romans 3:20 Paul says that God is one (ESV) or that there is only one God (NIV).
In 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Ephesians 4:6; and 1 Timothy 2:5, Paul says that there is only one God. Yahweh alone is God.
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Written by The Seeking Disciple 08/15/2011 at 8:12 PM Posted in Doctrine of God