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THE ONENESS OF GOD©

It is strongly considered in theological circles that the trinity or tri-unity of God is a mystery. This is a misconception and for the avid student of the scriptures, it can be made very clear.

THE ONENESS OF GOD

Deuteronomy 6:4, "Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." In order to understand the tri-unity of God and the relationship we have with Him, we must start first by understanding His oneness. For instance, let us look at the scripture I have just quoted to you and the Hebrew word for one. The word in the Hebrew is Echad. This word connotates a collective oneness. In other words, a united oneness rather than a numerical oneness. Through this word we can see that the oneness is not a reference to a numerical but rather a unified oneness.

Let us go on to other scriptures that give us examples of the oneness of God as a harmonious oneness. In Genesis 1:26, God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." We see a plurality in the Godhead, yet a oneness of God. Other examples of this can be found in Genesis 3:22, "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever," and Genesis 11:6-7, "And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." In verse 6, the Lord uses the word one as in a collective oneness and again notice the plurality of the word us in verse 7 when referring to Himself.

In a sense this illustrates the image of our own being as triune, and shows that we are made in the image of God. It is really not that complex a matter to understand. For example, Jesus said concerning marriage, "And they twain shall be one flesh," Matthew 19:5, yet when we see two people who are married, physically, it looks like two people but Jesus called them one. There's a joining together and a collective oneness implied such as one egg containing a yolk, egg white and shell.

Jesus Christ himself spoke of this type of oneness and the unity between the Father and He, and ourselves (his disciples) and He. John 17:11 says, "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are." Verse 21 says, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Verse 22 reads, "And the glory thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" Verse 23 says, "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one." From these verses we can see that Christ is referring to a unified oneness rather than a numerical oneness.

It is obvious that the body of Christ has many members but one body as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12:12, "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." Jesus prayed that we may be one even as He and the Father are one.

If He and the Father are numerically one in the same person, then we can conclude that God wishes to make us numerically one.

Jesus referred to David’s statement, in Psalms 110:1, "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool," a direct reference to the Father and the Son as being separate entities in the Godhead. And Jesus, Himself, gives credence to this statement spoken by the Holy Ghost through King David.