Monday, February 22, 2010

TCR 6 - there is a God, and He is One

TCR 6
The entire Holy Scripture,
and all the doctrines therefrom of the churches in the Christian world,
teach that there is a God and that He is one.
The entire Holy Scripture teaches that there is a God,
because in its inmosts it is nothing but God,
that is, it is nothing but the Divine that goes forth from God;
for it was dictated by God;
and from God nothing can go forth
except what is God and is called Divine.

. . . every person whose reason is imbued
with any sanctity from the Word knows,
as if from himself, that God is one,
and feels it to be a sort of insanity to say that there are more.
The angels are unable to open their lips to utter the word "gods,"
for the heavenly aura in which they live resists it.
That God is one the Holy Scripture teaches, not only thus universally,
as has been said, but also in many particular passages,
as in the following:

Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.

(Deuteronomy 6:4; also Mark 12:29)

I am Jehovah thy God
and thou shalt acknowledge no god beside Me.

(Hosea 13:4)

Thus saith Jehovah, the king of Israel,
I am the First and the Last,
and beside Me there is no god.

(Isaiah 44:6)

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