"one God" or not

The One God

In order to understand the Oneness of God, we first need to understand what "One" means in the Hebrew sense and usage throughout the scriptures.

For example: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." or also translated as, "Hear o Israel: the Yahweh our Elohim is one Yahweh." In this verse, most cited by some christian that wish to prove that the Most High God and Christ are the same essence, different missions of the same God. However, if we go to the Hebrew/Syraic roots of this verse we find two important facts - first, Elohim, is used as a plural when referring to Deity (See Gen, 1:26). Second, when used in a singular tense, it is used as a collective noun. For example: Counsel or Assembly of Deity. One team made up of several members (See Job 1:6 and 2:1).

A collective noun is a unit composed of many parts. For example, "A Team effort was given in the project." The word "team" stands for a single team, but the word team indicates that there are several members of the team who work as one to perform the act.

In the above verse, Deuteronomy 6:4, one Lord is a collective noun; the Hebrew word ehad. This word when used always means : "One made up of others", For example: "...and the morning were the were the first day." Genesis 1:5. First = ehad means one of seven. and ehad one of twelve in Geneisi 49:16 "...one of the tribes of Israel." This is repeated throughout the Old and New Testaments. Look-up: Genesis 2:24 (1=2), 3:23 (1=3), Numbers 13:23 (1=Cluster).

In areas of the scripture where one equals one (single), the word Yahid is used, meaning "only." For example: Judges 11:34, "...and she was his only child." And, Proverbs 4:3 "...only beloved in the sight of my mother." Other examples are: Psalms 22:20 (only soul), 1 Timothy 6:16 (Speaking of the Heavenly Father), John 3:16 (Only begotten Son), Hebrews 11:17 (only Begotten Son), and Ephesians 4:5 (One Lord; however in the next verse Christ becomes separate from his father by the use of the same "Yahid". These verses (4 and 5) "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God the father of all things who is above all, through all and in you all."

When Christ said in John 10:30, I and my father are one - it is in the collective sense. I being one and Father being one, two persons in compound unity; separate but in the same in thought and action. In John 17:11 and 17:21-22 Christ is speaking to His Father and asks that we(body of believers) become one as He and the Father are one.n acts we are to pray as one - one accord. All of the foregoing are in the collective.

In Romans 12:5 "We being many are one (ehad)" And in Hebrews 2:11 "For both he that sanctifieth and they (Ehad) who are sanctified are all of one (Ehd): for this cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren."

John 7:16:17 "...My doctrine is not mine, but he who sent me....He shall know on the doctrine, whether it be of God (the Father), or whether of myself." John 8: 16:19:...for I am not alone, but the father that sent me,...the testimony of two men is true. I am he that bear witness on myself, and the Father that sent me bearth witness of me... ."

John 8: 28-29 "...and that I do nothing of myself, but my father who sent me...I do always those things that please Him." John 16:5 "but now I go to my way to Him that sent me... ." John 20:17 " ...Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to My Father... . I ascend unto my Father and your Father; and to your God and to my God." The fifth and six chapter of Hebrews speaks of the separation of the Godhead as well.

So now you know that Our Father in Heaven, His Son, and the Holy Ghost are separate but the same in purpose and unity