Page 78 - Bible Writers Theology Original

62
♦ BibleWriters'Theology Chapter Four
• The apostle Paul declares/ ''Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor, and glory for ever and ever. Amen" (I Timothy 1:17) and, "who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords" (I Timothy 6:15).
• Jude warns in his epistle against ungodly men ..."denying the only Lord Cod, and our Lord Jesus Christ" Qude 4).
• In the Book of Revelation the apostle John testifies that, while he was in the spirit on the day of the Lord on the isle of Patnrios, he heard, "...the voice ofa great multitude...as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying. Alleluia: for the Lord Cod omnipotent reigneth." (Revelation 19:6).
• He also says that he saw the one who was called "Faithful and True" who "... hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KJNCS, AND LORD OF LORDS." (Revelation 19: 11,16).
• TheBookofRevelation,recordstheSongofMosesandoftheLamb: "Great and marvelous are thy works. Lord God Almighty; just and truearethyways, thouKing ofsaints...allnations shall come and wor ship before thee..." (Revelation 15:3-4).
4.7 God is the Only Creator
"niough Trinitarians speak of creation as a cooperative work of several divine persons, the Bible proclaims that there is only one creator: Jehovah (or Elohim). The following passages clearly reveal that one solitary being creat ed the universe and all that is therein without assistance from any one else.
• •
"Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the
spreadeth abroad the earth by myself." (Isaiah
b there a Cod beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not anv" (Isaiah 44:8). ^
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, heformed it to be inhabited. I am the LORD; and there is none else (Isaiah 45:18).
• Have we not all one Father? hath not one God created us...7" (Malachi 2:10).
No stronger language could have been used to establish the creator's absolute numerical oneness (in person and divinity) than the terms such as "alone," "by myself," "none else," and "know not any". Orthodox
Trinitarians deny tritheism, which isthebelief in three gods. However, when asked to explain how there can be three distinct persons in the name of "gods" and yet only one Cod, they ultimately explain as following:
"The unity ofGodmeans that there is but one God and that the divine nature is