The Only True God

Many of us who love God's word would like to think we know exactly who God is. I hope we can agree that he desires to reveal himself; it follows therefore that we should expect to find a clear answer. I challenge you to read through the scriptures below, leaving your presuppositions behind, and let the Word teach you.

Who is "The True God"?

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

John 17:3

This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Yeshua Messiah, whom you have sent.

1 John 5:20

He is the true God and eternal life.

Jeremiah 10:10

But YHWH is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

2 Chronicles 15:3

"For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law, but when in their distress they turned to YHVH, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them."

Who is "The Only God?"

Deut 4:35,39 “To you it was shown, that you might know that YHWH is God; there is no other besides him… know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that YHWH is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.”

Acts 7:2 "And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,"

1 Timothy 1:17 "To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen."

1 Timothy 6:13-16 " I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see."

John 5:44 "How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?"

John 17:3 "And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."

Romans 16:27 "to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen."

Matthew 4:10 "Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”" [Luke 4:8]

Jude 1:25

to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Who is "The One God?"

Exodus 8:10 Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like YHWH our God.

Deuteronomy 6:4

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one."

Joshua 22:22 "The Mighty One, God, YHWH! The Mighty One, God, YHWH! He knows; and let Israel itself know!"

2 Chronicles 28:6 "…because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers."

Isaiah 43:10 "Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me."

Isaiah 45:5 "I am YHWH, and there is no other, besides me there is no God;"

1 Corinthians 8:6 "But for us, there is one God, the Father, from whom and for whom are all things…"

1 Timothy 2:5  "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"

Ephesians 4:6 "one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all."

God the Father (x100+)

John 6:27 "Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."

John 8:54 "Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’"

1 Corinthians 15:24 "Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power."

1 John 3:1 "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are."

Paul's Greetings x11

1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians "Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."

Colossians: "Grace to you and peace from God our Father."

1 Peter: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!"
2 Peter: "May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord."

Who is "The God of our Fathers?" [200x in the bible]

Genesis 26:24

And YHWH appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father…"

Exodus 3:15

God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘YHWH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

Acts 3:13

The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

Acts 7:32 "‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look."

Acts 13:17 "The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it."

Acts 22:14 "And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;"

Acts 24:14 "But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,"

Acts 26:6 "And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,"

God is the Father

John 4:23-24 “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

1 Corinthians 8:6 "for us there is but one God, the Father"

1 Corinthians 15:24 "then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power."

1 Peter 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!"

Conclusion:

I believe it was clear enough, based on God's word, that the Only God, the True God, is The Father. And our Messiah is the Son of God, but not "the one God." This is true for every biblical author that has anything to say about it. No trinity was mentioned. No plural unity was mentioned. Every time "The True God", "The One God", "The only true God", or "The God of our Fathers"  is mentioned, it is clearly the Father, YHWH.

Yes, Jesus/Yeshua is called "god" a small number of times, but so are Moses, David, Solomon, the Angels, the Judges, and "all to whom the word of God came." More on this later!

The One God is the Father alone.