Trinity DebateTrinity debatewebmaster wrote:THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT GOD IS ONE.
Isaiah 45:22 – “…for I am God and there is none else.”
Isaiah 45:5 – “…there is none else, there is no God beside me…”
Isaiah 44:6 – “…I am the first…beside me there is no God.”
1 Timothy 2:5 – “For there is ONE God…”
1 Corinthians 8:4 – “…a false god is nothing…and there is no other God but one.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is ONE Lord.”
Ephesians 4:5 – “ONE Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is ONE Lord.”
The literal translation of this would be:
4.
|8085| Hear,
|3478| O Israel,
|3068| Yahweh,
|0430| our God,
|3068| {is} Yahweh
|0259| one.
Here the name of God is mentioned three times, and the word translated one (echad) expresses a compound unity
Strong's Number: 259
Transliterated: 'echad
Phonetic: ekh-awd'
Text: a numeral from 258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first: --a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, [dai-]ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
example as in the expressions ''one cluster of grapes,'' ''the congregation was assembled as one man,'' and again, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.''
The Hebrew word one (yacheed), which expresses absolute unity, is never once used to express the unity of the Godhead.
24.
|5921| There-
|3651| fore,
|5800| will leave
|0376| a man
|0853| -
|0001| his father
|0853| and
|0517| his mother
|1692| and will cling
|6106| to his wife.
|1961| And they will become
|1320| into flesh
|0259| one.
"There is one (echad) alone, and there is not a second...Two are better than one (echad) ...for if they fall, the one (echad) will lift up his fellow, but woe unto him that is alone (echad) when he falleth...Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; but how can one (echad) be warm alone?...And if one (echad) prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken" (Ecc. 4:8-12)
Here, in the space of just 5 verses, we have "echad" translated as "one", meaning an ABSOLUTE, SOLITARY, NUMERICAL "one" - the "type" of "one" (one person) which you suppose must be represented by "yachid" instead (in verse 10, we even see echad translated as "alone"!)
If you would have read the over 900 applications of echad listed in Strong's, you never would have posted what you did. Instead, you probably just read some Trinitarian author or some other Trinitarian's use of this (false) argument on a forum and assumed they were correct.
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