Yes the WHOLE Bible does, but I see you only quote the OT...could that be because you don't believe Jesus is the Messiah?
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I don't believe he was the messiah because he did NOT fulfil the messianic prophecies.
Also do you NOT believe in the OMNI attributes of God? They are not named in the Bible either.
I have no problem with the Shema, and it ONLY finds it's completeness and full understanding when viewed from the perspective of the NC/NT.
Only when so viewed you start to understand that when it says "God is one" it really means "God is three"?
What is God referring to in Gen 1:26 (NIV) when He says;
“Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness"
Genesis 1:26; "Let us make man" If anybody finds in a text the word "us", would any normal person assume that it refers to one person with a multi-personality disorder? Of course not.
But why then, when Christians see the word "us" in the Bible, do they think that?
Gen 1:26 is used as a 'proof' that there is more than one God, or one God who is not one, eventhough the Bible clearly teaches that there is only one God who is one. and despite the fact that there are several other valid explanations for the plural word "us". One explanation is that it is a majestic plural as used by kings. Another possible explanation is that God was talking to the angels.
Some Christians try to refute the last argument by saying that the angels didn't create. They point to Genesis 1:1; "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." They say: 'God was the creator, and not the angels.' However, it is a given in Jewish law that an emissary is equal to the one who sends him. When a Jewish man marries a woman through an agent, the legal effect is the same as when he marries her personally. A good Biblical example of this is to be found in Genesis 19 where is spoken about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God sent two angels to destroy the cities, the angels said to Lot in verse 13: "For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it." Upon this Lot says to his sons in law: "Up, get out of this place; for the LORD is about to destroy the city." Lot didn't say: "The angels are going to destroy the city" He said: "The LORD (Y-H-W-H in the Hebrew text) is going to destroy the city". And in verse 29 it is written: "So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley...." So the angels were send by God to destroy the cities, but God is considered to be the one who did it, because He was the one who sent them. So why shouldn't the same hold true for the creation?
But one way or the other, no plural created man. Look in Genesis 5:1; "When God created man ..." In Hebrew this is: "bara Elohiem adam" Here the verb "to create", in Hebrew "bara", is in the singular, indicating clearly that Elohiem who created man is one. The same goes for the very first verse of the Bible: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The word created is here written in the singular; it says "bara". If God was a plural, it should have been "baru".
BUT, back to the pronouns,
Y-H-W-H says the following:
Isaiah 44:6 “This is what
Y-H-W-H says- Israel's King and Redeemer,
Y-H-W-H Almighty:
I am the first and
I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.”
It says "
I" am
Y-H-W-H. And, as we all know, "I" is singular, and not plural, and therefore no three persons in
Y-H-W-H. Otherwise He would have said: "WE are
Y-H-W-H."
But no such thing, God says: "
I am
Y-H-W-H".
No trinity.
Another example of a pronoun:
Nehemiah 9:6 “
You alone are
Y-H-W-H.”
As we see, it says that
YOU, in the Hebrew singular, not plural are
Y-H-W-H.
Again, no YOU, plural, are
Y-H-W-H, but YOU singular, are
Y-H-W-H.
So no three persons in God.
Another one:
Isaiah 44:6 “This is what
Y-H-W-H says- Israel's King and Redeemer,
Y-H-W-H Almighty:
I am the first and
I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.”
Clear what? It doesn't say: “This is what
Y-H-W-H says- Israel's King and Redeemer,
Y-H-W-H Almighty:
WE are the first and
WE are the last;
apart from US there is no God.”
No such a thing, it is all
SINGULAR.
Another one:
Joel 2:27 “Then you will know that I am in Israel, that
I am
Y-H-W-H your God, and that
there is no other;”
Again, God says: "
I am
Y-H-W-H", and not "WE are
Y-H-W-H" Such a thing simply doesn't exist.
I can go on and on with this, but these examples suffice. There is NO plurality in God.
And the word "us" when God speaks to the angels, does not imply otherwise.
Our triune God IS one in purpose and identity and power and purpose.
There is no "triune God" to be found in Scripture.
שמע ישראל י-ה-ו-ה אלהנו י-ה-ו-ה אחד
Hear Israel, Y-H-W-H is our God, Y-H-W-H is ONE.
And you shall love
Y-H-W-H your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart;
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deut 6:4-9
The Jews until this day fulfill this commandment. Every morning they put upon their arm and upon their forehead their phylacteries, (prayer belts) that consist of black straps with black leather cubes, that contain parchment upon which is written this Biblical text that says that God is one. Upon the doorposts of the houses of the religious Jews there are small boxes or containers that also contain parchment upon which is written that God is one. During the morning and evening prayers the above text is recited which says that God is one.
Y-H-W-H, the one and only God who is one.
Beside Him there is no God, no Buddha, no Christ, no David Koresh; NOBODY.
Whoever worships anything or anybody else than
Y-H-W-H is an
IDOL WORSHIPER.
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