“CF” to BAN:
Let’s just use Scripture now.
List the scriptures you see as proof texts
as you mention for the issues of God,
he alone is God, our Savior and redeemer.
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Hi “CF,”
As you have requested, here are some of the proof texts declaring GOD alone is GOD, our Saviour and Redeemer:
Deuteronomy 4:35
To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
Deuteronomy 32:39
Now see that “I, even I, am He. And there is no God besides Me.”
2 Samuel 7:22
Therefore You are great, O Lord God. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
1 Kings 8:60
. . . so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God, there is no other.
Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are the Lord;You have made heaven,
The heaven of heavens, with all their host,
The earth and everything on it,
The seas and all that is in them,
And you preserve them all,
The host of heaven worships You.
Psalm 86:10
For You are great, and do wondrous things;
You alone are God.
Isaiah 37:16
O Lord of host, God of Israel,
the One who dwells between the cherubim,
You are God,
You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth,
You have made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 37:20
“Now therefore, O Lord our God,
save us from his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that You are the Lord,
You alone.”
Isaiah 43:10
“To whom then will you liken Me,
that I will be equal? says the Holy One.”
Isaiah 44:6
…before Me no God was formed,
neither shall any be after Me.
Isaiah 44:24
...I am the First and I am the Last,
and besides Me there is no God.
Isaiah 45:18
...I am the Lord, Who makes all things,
Who stretched forth the heavens alone;
Who spread abroad the earth by Myself.
Isaiah 45:21
...And there is no other God besides Me.
A just God and a SAVIOUR;
There is none, besides Me.
Hosea 13:4
Yet, I am the Lord your God;
Ever since the land of Egypt,
And you shall know no God but Me;
For there is no SAVIOUR besides Me.
Zechariah 14:9
And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be
The Lord is one. And His name one.
These are some of the verses in the Old Testament, testifying to the Oneness of God. There are many more to be found, but for the meantime, these will suffice.
Do let me know, what you think of them. I am eager to be enlightened. All for now and take care.
I have been following this series of back-and-forth email exchanges since the first post and this is my 2-cents worth. A Sinaite and a Christian will never have a meeting of minds, because the Sinaite’s scriptural basis is the TNK, while the Christian’s is the whole Christian Bible composed of OT and NT, with the OT reconfigured to fit NT theology.
Think of it this way, it’s like the debate on the biblical diet. If Jews and Sinaites who follow the Leviticus 11 definition of “food,” (i.e. vegetarian + meat of clean animals only), then when they hear the word “food” their minds (and appetites) are already programmed to limit their preference/food choice to how they define that word. If Christians go by the mindset that Jesus himself clarified the issue and “declared all foods clean” (Mark 7:19), then when a Christian thinks “food” it includes everything the whole world eats: pork, shrimp, lobster, crab, what Leviticus declares as “unclean.”
Back to the discourse—when the Sinaite thinks “God” it’s YHWH she has in mind; when the Christian thinks “God” its the Trinity and specifically Jesus. Sinaite sees ONE GOD, Christian sees THREE-IN-ONE GOD, but predominantly Jesus. Sinaite believes in TNK only as authoritative, Christian believes NT only as authoritative.
So Rudyard Kipling’s famous quip is right, “east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.” Still, it’s good to witness 2 good friends work out their theology in a mutually respectful debate; readers with the same mindset as one or the other know whom they side with. If readers begin changing their mind toward one or the other, then this exchange has been useful for them, and fruitful for the Sinaite and Christian involved.