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\nDeu 6:4-5\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cHear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.\u00a0You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The LORD our God, the LORD is one<\/b>: This is the essential truth about God. He is a person and not a vague pantheistic force. Being\u00a0one<\/b>, He cannot be represented by contradictory images. Since\u00a0the LORD our God<\/b>\u00a0is\u00a0one<\/b>, He is not Baal, or Ashtoreth \u2013 He is the LORD God, and they are not.<\/p>\n
i. In the mind of many Jewish people, this verse alone disqualified the New Testament teaching that Jesus is God, and the New Testament teaching of the Trinity \u2013 that there is one God, existing in three Persons. At some times and places, as Jewish synagogues said the\u00a0Shema\u00a0together, and when the word\u00a0one<\/b>\u00a0(echad) was said, they loudly and strongly repeated that one word for several minutes, as if it were a rebuke to Christians who believed in the Trinity.<\/p>\n
ii. Christians must come to a renewed understanding of the unity of God. They must appreciate the fact that\u00a0the LORD is one<\/b>, not three, as\u00a01 Corinthians 8:6<\/span><\/a>\u00a0says:\u00a0yet for us there is one God. We worship\u00a0one\u00a0God, existing in\u00a0three\u00a0persons, not three separate gods.<\/p>\n
iii. Yet, the statement\u00a0the LORD is one<\/b>\u00a0certainly does not contradict the truth of the Trinity. In fact, it establishes that truth. The Hebrew word for\u00a0one<\/b>\u00a0is\u00a0echad, which speaks most literally of a compound unity, instead of using the Hebrew word\u00a0yacheed, which speaks of an absolute unity or singularity (Genesis 22:2<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Psalm 25:16<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n
iv. The very first use of\u00a0echad\u00a0in the Bible is in\u00a0Genesis 1:5<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0So the evening and the morning were the\u00a0first\u00a0day. Even here, we see a unity (one day) with the idea of plurality (made up of evening and morning).<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0Genesis 2:24<\/span><\/a>\u00a0uses\u00a0echad\u00a0in saying\u00a0the two shall become\u00a0one\u00a0flesh. Again, the idea of a unity (one flesh), making a plurality (the two).<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0In\u00a0Exodus 26:6<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a011<\/span><\/a>, the fifty gold clasps are used to hold the curtains together, so the tent would be\u00a0one\u00a0(echad) \u2013 a unity (one) made up of a plurality (the many parts of the tabernacle).<\/p>\n
\u00b7\u00a0In\u00a0Ezekiel 37:17<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the LORD tells Ezekiel to join together two sticks (prophetically representing Ephraim and Judah) into\u00a0one\u00a0(echad), speaking again of a unity (one stick) made up of a plurality (the two sticks).<\/p>\n
v. There is no way that\u00a0echad\u00a0has the exclusive idea of an absolute singularity; the idea of One God in Three Persons fits just fine with the term\u00a0echad. \u00a0(Guzik)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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