This scripture should be very straightforward. It identifies the Father of Jesus as the “one God” of the Christian, and it identifies the Jesus as “one Lord” of the Christian. Thus, it actually shows that Jesus is not “God”, but rather the Father is the “one God.” This agrees with the entire Bible, as we have shown elsewhere.
However, those who are determined to believe that Jesus is his God have found ways to make the scripture appear to be saying just the opposite of what it actually does say.
One way that this is done is by claiming that “one Lord” here is referring to the “one Lord” of Deuteronomy 6:4, which reads according to the World English: “Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one.” However, the King James Version reads: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.” The holy name of God is changed to “LORD”, using the expression “one LORD.” Thus according to this displaced argument, Jesus is the “one Lord” that is spoken of in Deuteronomy 6:4. However, as we have shown elsewhere, the “one Yahweh” of Deuteronomy 6:4 is actually the God and Father of Jesus.
This highly depends on translations that change the holy name in Deuteronomy 8:6 to “the Lord,” or else, assumes that everytime “Lord” appears in the New Testament, that it refers to Yahweh (Jehovah) of the Old Testament.
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one. Deuteronomy 8:6, World English Bible translation.
Other claim that this says that there is one Yahweh, but that this does not mean that Yahweh is not three persons. Notwithstanding, never does the one Yahweh say, We will do…, or we did…, etc. The default reasoning is that the one Yahweh is one person; the default reasoning does not call for us to imagine, assume and add to the scriptures that the one Yahweh is really three persons, all of whom are the one Yahweh. The Bible never says that the one Yahweh is three persons; you cannot find such a thought anywhere in the scriptures. The idea has to imagined, assumed, added to any and every scripture that is presented that is alleged to support the imagination.
There is only one true Might in the universe, and that one true Might is the One that Jesus spoke of his God. Any might possessed by any others is given by the one true source of all might. In the narrow sense, the word “God” takes on the meaning as usually given in English as “the Supreme Being.” However, what many do not realize is that there is a scriptural Hebraic tradition that allows the usage of the words for “God” in a more general sense of might, power, authority, etc. Most translations of the Bible into English as well as other languages recognize this usage. We can use the most popular English translation — the King James Version — to illustrate such usage. This can be demonstrated in such verses where the KJV renders the word for “God” (forms of EL and ELOHIM in the Hebrew) so as to denote strength, power, might, rulership, etc., such as in the following verses: Genesis 23:6 (mighty); Genesis 30:8 (mighty); Genesis 31:29 (power); Deuteronomy 28:32 (might); 1 Samuel 14:15 (great); Nehemiah 5:5 (power); Psalm 8:5 (angels); Psalm 36:6 (great); Psalm 82:1 (mighty); Proverbs 3:27 (power); Psalm 29:1 (mighty); Ezekiel 32:21 (strong); Jonah 3:3 (exceeding). If one were to substitute “false god” in these verses, we would have some absurd statements. This proves that these words are used in a sense other than the only true God [Supreme Being]; nor is such usage in the sense of “false god.”
1 Corinthians 8:5 – Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:5: – For though there are things that are called “gods,” whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords;” — World English Bible translation – quote marks are not part of the Biblical Greek; they are added by the translators.
Paul first refers to the idols to which sacrifices are made, and concerning theses states that there are those that are called ‘gods’. An idol, of course, is nothing; that which is made by the hands of men that is worshiped as “gods” “by nature are not gods.” (Galatians 4:8, ESV) By nature that which is made and formed by the hands men to which men make sacrifices has no “might” of itself to either cause harm are to cause good. (Psalm 115:4-8; 135:15-18; Isaiah 44:9-20) However, Paul, in harmony with the Old Testament, says that those who make offerings to such idol-gods are actually making offerings to demons, and not to the one true God. (Deuteronomy 32;17; Psalm 106:37; 2 Corinthians 10:20) These demons do have power, and are “by nature” mighty, but the man-made idol (gods) have no power, and thus, are not, by nature, mighty, and are certainly not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Paul, in speaking of the idols ‘gods’ says that there are many that are “called” gods, but he adds to that “there are many gods.” Is he simply repeating himself? Evidently not; rather, he is contrasting those that are “called” gods with others that are indeed “gods”. By comparing spiritual revelation with spiritual revelation, we conclude that in the latter usage, Paul speaking of “gods” in the sense of might and power as contrasted with idols, which have no might or power.
That there indeed are many “gods” –mighty ones — is affirmed by Jesus. (John 10:34,35) The “gods” that Jesus referred to are the “sons of God” to whom the Logos came, and who received him. (Psalm 82:1,6,7; John 1:10-12) These are not false gods; but neither are they the one true God, the Might of the universe. They are mighty (gods – el, elohim, theoi) because of the power and authority given to them by the one true Might. Nevertheless, even the demons have been given great might from the only true Might, and they have misused that might. As to the promises of demons, however, they are false gods, but as to their being, by nature, they are true gods, that is, they really do have power and might.
1 Corinthians 8:6 – yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him. — World English
To “us”, that is, we who “who are sanctified in [by means of] Christ Jesus, called to be saints” (1 Corinthians 1:2), there is but one God — One who is the Supreme Being, the Might of the Universe. This one God is the God that is spoken of as the God — The Supreme Being — of Jesus, the one that Jesus speaks of as the only true God, the only true Supreme Being. (These references are to the World English Bible translation: Psalm 45:7; Micah 5:4; Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34; John 17:3; 20:17; Romans 15:6; 2 Corinthians 1:3; 11:31; Ephesians 1:3,17; Hebrews 1:9; Revelation 1:6; 2:7; 3:2,12) Thus, the God and Father of Jesus is the “one God” — the one Supreme Being — that Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 8:6.
That One true Supreme Being is the One who has made Jesus both Christ and Lord. Jesus is the only one who has been made our Lord by our only true God, and thus “we” have that one who is our “one Lord”. — Acts 2:36; Romans 14:9; Ephesians 1:22; 2 Timothy 4:3.
And yet, Paul is speaking relatively concerning ‘one lord’, for he had just stated that there are many lords. We know that the God and Father of Jesus is the Supreme Lord of all, including being the Lord of the one whom he made “lord”. (Genesis 14:22; Deuteronomy 10:17; Psalm 7:17; 92:1; John 10:29; 17:3; Acts 2:36) Jesus is “our Lord” because of he has been made “lord” by the only Most High. (Acts 2:36) And yet, the fact is that there have been many who are truly “lords”, having been given some capacity as such all through the Bible. Do a search on bible.crosswalk.com for the word “lord” to verify this (to use this method effectively, you will need to ignore the the places where “lord” is substituted for the holy name).
All is “of” the only true Supreme Being, “through” Jesus. The only true Supreme Being made the world of mankind “through” the Word (Jesus). (John 1:3,10; 17:3; Acts 17:24) The only true God comes to judge the world through Jesus. (Acts 17:31) The only true God provides his grace by means of the redemption that is in [by means of] Christ Jesus. (Romans 3:24) The only true God provides life through Jesus. (Romans 5:21) The only true Supreme Being provides his free gift of life in [by means of] Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23) The only true God provides his grace to “you” in [by means of] Christ Jesus. (1 Corinthians 1:4) God reconciles the world of mankind and the church to himself in (by means of) Jesus. (2 Corinthians 5:18,19) The only true Most High gives us redemption by means of the blood of Jesus; the only true Supreme Being created all dominions in heaven and earth by means of the firstborn; the only true Supreme Being reconciles all to Himself through Jesus. (Colossians 1:12-20) More scriptures could be provided, but these show that all these things are “of” the only true Supreme Being, “through” the Son of the Most High. — Luke 1:32.
However, there is nothing in any of these scriptures or anyplace else in the entire Bible that means that Jesus is a person of the Supreme Being; the scriptures show that it was the only true Supreme Being who sent Jesus, and with whom Jesus was with before the only true Supreme Being made the world of mankind through Jesus. (John 1:3,10; 17:3, Acts 17:24) God, by means of his holy spirit, reveals through the scriptures that Jesus was sent by Yahweh, speaks for Yahweh, represents Yahweh, and was raised and glorified by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jesus never claimed to be, nor do the scriptures ever present Jesus as, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whom Jesus represents and speaks for. — Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Matthew 22:32; 23:39; Mark 11:9,10; 12:26; Luke 13:35; 20:37; John 3:2,17,32-35; 4:34; 5:19,30,36,43; 6:57; 7:16,28; 8:26,28,38; 10:25; 12:49,50; 14:10; 15:15; 17:8,26; 20:17; Acts 2:22,34-36; 3:13,22; 5:30; Romans 15:6; 2 Corinthians 1:3; 8:6; 11:31; Colossians 1:3,15; 2:9-12; Hebrews 1:1-3; Revelation 1:1.
God, by means of his holy spirit, reveals through the scriptures that Jesus is anointed [made christ, the anointed one] by Yahweh. He is not Yahweh who thus anoints him. — Psalm 2:2; 45:7; Isaiah 61:1; Acts 2:36; 4:27; 10:38.
God, by means of his holy spirit, reveals through the scriptures that Jesus is son of the only Most High, Yahweh. Jesus is never spoken of as the “Most High”; he is not the only Most High Yahweh of whom he is the son. — Genesis 14:22; Psalm 7:17; 83:18; 92:1; Luke 1:32; John 13:16.
Indeed, there is nothing at all in the scriptures that presents Jesus as being the only true Supreme Being, or a “person” of the only true Supreme Being. Can the Supreme Being have another who is his Supreme Being?
Although some present many scriptures to allegedly prove that Jesus is the Supreme Being, in reality what is presented as “proof” is actually the imaginations and assumptions of men that are placed over various scriptures so as to leave the impression that what has been imagined is supported by the scriptures. In other words, what the trinitarian, in effect, does is say: we *know* [actually, "imagine"] that God is three persons, thus, we believe that this scripture or that scripture supports what we “know” [imagine], and thus, because or what we “know” [imagine] to be true, what we “know” [imagine] is supported by this or that scripture. Their default assumption is that God is three persons, and they often fail think beyond that default assumption. Nevertheless, I have shown [on the Restoration Light website] how this kind of circular reasoning has to be used in every scripture [that I have examined so far] the trinitarian presents that is alleged to support the trinitarian dogma.
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