While the unity discussed in the preceding sets God apart from other beings, the perfection now under consideration is expressive of the inner and qualitative unity of the Divine Being. The Papists pray to saints and angels. THE POWER OF UNITY 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. Oh take heed of this! It is Satan that has sown these tares of division. Gen 4:4. Should the absolute perfection of God be regarded as an attribute? The main points of the work are two: 1) God is presented in the Hebrew Scriptures as one Being, but three Persons, and 2) Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah and is a divine Person, variously called Yahweh, the Angel of the Lord, the Branch, the Messiah, the Suffering Servant, and so on. We may not pray to any but whom we may believe in; but we may not believe in any angel, therefore we may not pray to him. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath, there is none else.' II. Click download or read online … A voice came from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' There shall not be found among you any one that consults with familiar spirits.' Amor est complacentia amantis amato [The lover's effort to please the beloved, this is love]. God made man of the dust of the earth, and man makes a god of the dust of the earth. INTRODUCTION:… Just as a beautiful pearl necklace is evidence of a skilled jeweler, the unity of the Bible testifies to the supernatural Author. And Paul writes to the Corinthians, “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we in Him,” I Cor. 020.010.000 Torrey: p18, T:I Topic 10: The Fact of the Unity of God. As a part of that process is the idea of unity. If there be but one God, then we must pray to none but God. "Therefore," Paul writes, "God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father," (Philippians 2:9-11 RSV). 287-318; Hodge, Syst. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do,' viz.' I, pp. From Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof, © 2018 Monergism by CPR Foundation. 020.010.010 Torrey: p18, T:I, P:1 POINT 10: The Lord our God is one Lord, and there is no god besides Him. The Bible is the story of one problem — sin — with one solution, Jesus Christ (Geisler & Nix, 194). I, pp. Whatever we love more than God we make a god. A distinction is made between the unitas singularitatis and the unitas simplicitatis. Whatever you deify beside God will prove a bramble, and fire will come out of it and devour you. The approach is reverent, yet … THE POWER OF UNITY 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. That which a man trusts to he makes his god; but he makes the wedge of gold his hope; he makes money his creator, redeemer, and comforter. II, pp. 6:4, “Hear, O Israel; Jehovah our God … Jer 23:34. my mediatory work. The book furthered greatly my knowledge of the Old Testament and it's numerous preparations to assist followers in better understanding the New Testament. Then in Ephesians 4:13, after talking about the ministry of pastors and teachers who equip the saints for the work of ministry, Paul adds, “… until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” This is the dogma of ordinary Muslims. set in God's place to do justice; but dying gods. In recent works on theology the simplicity of God is seldom mentioned. Unity Through the Laws and Commandments of God The unity between the Old and New Testaments is perhaps most obvious in the fact that the New Testament fully upholds the laws and commandments … Is it possible to harmonize the transcendence and the immanence of God? Judaism rejects the tri-unity and the incarnation of God as completely incompatible with Jewish belief. There is but one God, and they that serve him should be one. So, is it not because you think there is not a God in heaven that you ask counsel of the devil? There is but one Omnipotent Power. Another makes a god of his child, sets his child in God's room, and so provokes God to take it away. of God, pp. It is my belief that the Unity of God was taught by all previous revealed scriptures and that the main aim and desire of God’s Prophets has always been to spread this truth. The first is to utter the words: “There is no God but God” … Can parents baptize a child at home? Many theologians positively deny it, either because it is regarded as a purely metaphysical abstraction, or because, in their estimation, it conflicts with the doctrine of the Trinity. Biblical theology deals with the overall characteristics of God … I. We please God when we comply with his will. I Cor 1:10. Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” This excludes all polytheistic conceptions of God. (2.) Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.' Some worship Mahomet. One in affection. Keil stresses that fact that this passage does not teach the numerical unity of God, but rather that Jehovah is the only God that is entitled to the name Jehovah. How do the incommunicable attributes of God link up with the Absolute? It is easy to commit idolatry with the creature. The Bible teaches us in several passages that there is but one true God. There are many ways to hell; men may go thither which way their fancy leads them; but there is only one direct road to heaven, viz., faith and holiness. As in a kingdom there is but one king, therefore every one seeks to ingratiate himself into his favour, Prov 19: 6, so there is but one true God; therefore our main work is to please him. LITERATURE: Bavinck, Geref. Daniel Fuller's book "The Unity of the Bible" is a keeper. The same idea is beautifully expressed in the rhetorical question of Ex. It is as dangerous to set up a false religion, as to set up a false god. As there is but one God, so there is but one true religion. What Does Paul Mean by ‘All Israel Will Be Saved’ in Romans 11:26? Theol., pp. This book that talks of "God's best for our marriages" is in depth and full of personal and … Translated in 1921 as part of Some Religious and Moral Teachings. Theol. 254-260, 275-279; Pieper, Christl. This is the third or fourth book I have read about biblical theology. Inherent Dangers of the Information Age (MP3). 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Matt 15:53. Col 2:18, I9. THE UNITAS SIMPLICITATIS. I found the book interesting as it tells God's plan for humanity using redemption as the axis upon which all is built. Oh let us labour to make clear the title! Whose god is their belly.' He had this testimony before he died, that he pleased God.' 112-139; Charnock, Existence and Attributes of God. The Unity of God There are four stages in the belief in the unity of God. Kings represent God; their regal sceptre is an emblem of his power and authority. If there be but one God, then there can be but one true religion in the world. There cannot be two infinites. Beg the Holy Spirit. There be that are called gods, but to us there is but one God.' and Polem. There are many titular gods. But if Paul and Silas sing together in prison for Christs sake (Acts 16:25), this is a good unity. When you read the book, it’s evident only God could have written it! There is but one God, and it is a sin to invoke any but God. If there were divers gods, we should be hard put to it to please them all. One Lord, one faith.' We must love him with a love of appreciation; set the highest estimate on him, who is the only fountain of being and bliss. That there is a God has been proved; and those that will not believe the verity of his essence, shall feel the severity of his wrath. The Kingdom of God is "God's sovereign rule, God's sovereign reign and authority over the affairs of man." Isa 44:4. Unity among two or more people gets its virtue entirely from something else. Discovering the Mystery of the Unity of God provides an eye-opening exploration of the triune nature of God from the pages of the Old and New Covenants. We please God when we serve him with love, fervency, and alacrity. Jesus Christ, Resurrection. What comfort can it be to hear that there is a God, and that he is the only God, unless he be our God? Clement of Alexandria writes of a fish that has its heart in its belly; an emblem of epicures, their heart is in their belly, they mind nothing but indulging the sensual appetite; sacrificant lari [They worship home comforts]; their belly is their god, and to this they pour drink-offerings. I think Fuller has handled the subject well and provided a great overview of the subject in a relatively short textbook. Isa 63:16. Other passages do not stress the numerical unity of God as much as they do His uniqueness. Unity … It is the true story of God creating a people for Himself to know Him personally through His Son, Jesus Christ. and so renouncing God and their baptism. Theol., p. Phil 3:19. 6:4, “Hear, O Israel; Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.” The Hebrew word ’echad, translated by “one” may also be rendered “an only,” the equivalent of the German “einig” and the Dutch “eenig.” And this would seem to be a better translation. By faith we are one with Christ, and through Christ we come to have God for our God, and thus all his glorious fulness is made over to us by a deed of gift. The Tri-Unity of God is Jewish by John B. Metzger. Some have feigned that there were two gods; as the Valentinians: others, that there were many gods; as the Polytheists. This attribute stresses both the oneness and the unicity of God, the fact that He is numerically one and that as such He is unique. Romans 15:6 so that with oneness both of heart and voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God.' Similarly he writes to Timothy, “For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” I Tim. In his famous work on the Arabic literature of the Jews Steinschneider describes a Maimonidean treatise entitled Ma amar Hayichud or Treatise on the Unity of God, which is actually a synopsis of the basic philosophical and ethical principles enunciated by Maimonides in the first two books … TITLE: "THE KEY OF UNITY" PREFACE STATEMENTS: 1. One would command one thing, another the contrary; and to please two contrary masters is impossible: but there is only one God. In how far does it exclude changes of action and relations? There is but one God, and they that serve him should be one. There are four stages in the belief in the unity of God. This is the case in the well known words of Deut. Download Discourses On The Unity Of God Ebook, Epub, Textbook, quickly and easily or read online Discourses On The Unity Of God full books anytime and anywhere. As in the heavens, the primum mobile moves all the other orbs, so God gives life and motion to everything that exists. The Spirit works by faith. The apostle exhorts to be all of one mind. The book of Proverbs, however, is like a mountain stream littered with nuggets, just waiting to be picked up. This implies among other things that the three Persons in the Godhead are not so many parts of which the Divine essence is composed, that God’s essence and perfections are not distinct, and that the attributes are not superadded to His essence. 276-405. I think Fuller has handled the subject well and provided a great overview of the subject in a relatively short textbook. Book Description: Jewish Awarness Ministries. Oneness (2 Occurrences) Oneness (2 Occurrences). Thus saith the Lord, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Beelzebub?' Therefore you have but One to please. There can be but one God, because there is but one First Cause. In Ephesians 4:3, Paul says that we are to be “diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”. Matt 22:29. God is a jealous God, and he will not endure that we should have other gods. These are golden services. Psa 48:14. God is the total of these, the total of all good" (Lessons In Truth 18). Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.' Their sorrows shall be multiplied, that hasten after another god; their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.' 15:11, “Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods? Use four: Of exhortation. A: There is but one only, the living and true God. Second, God for grownups has to be more than Santa Claus. Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is, to see brethren live together in unity!' Oh let us be thankful that we are born in such a land, where the light of the gospel has shone. John 17:7I. There is but one God, therefore there is but One whom we have chiefly to please, namely, God. Other examples of wisdom literature in the Bible include the books of Job , Ecclesiastes , and the Song of Solomon in the Old Testament, and James in the New Testament . God has given them up to strong delusions, to believe a lie, that they may be damned.' We must love him with a love of complacency. Use five: Of gratitude. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this … These err, not knowing the Scriptures.' (2.) It is the will of God that we should be holy. (2.) Discovering the Mystery of the Unity of God provides an eye-opening exploration of the triune nature of God from the pages of the Old and New Covenants. A Theological Study on the Plurality and Tri-unity of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. and Polem. The second is to utter the above words and to believe that their meaning is also true. The book of Ephesians is about God’s grace that reveals itself in our salvation. Christians should be one, (1.) They should have one heart. D. D. (eBook), China's Communist leaders fear Christian population may reach 300 million by 2030, How to Pray When the Wicked Prosper: Wisdom from the Psalms, Meet the World’s Fastest-Growing Evangelical Movement. The … Judges are called gods. Be sure to please God, whoever else you displease. This is the case in the well known words of Deut. Since the two are one, the Bible can speak of God as light and life, as righteousness and love, thus identifying Him with His perfections. How Shall Christians Relate to the President? (2.) If the Lord Jehovah be the only true God, it reproves those who renounce the true God, I mean such as seek to familiar spirits, which is too much practised among them that call themselves Christians. Thus men make many gods. It is his creator; if he has money, he thinks he is made: it is his redeemer; if he be in danger, he trusts in his money to redeem him: it is his comforter; if at any time he be sad, the golden harp drives away the evil spirit: so that money is his god. Aquinas. A Popish writer says, when we pray to the saints departed, they being touched with compassion, say the like to God for us as the disciples did to Christ for the Canaanitish woman. Deut 6:6. In the first is set down our duty towards God; in the second our duty towards man. Jesus Christ, Rock I, pp. So if Herod and Pilate are unified by their common scorn for Jesus (Luke 23:12), this is not a good unity. How is the finite God of James, Schiller, Ward, Wells and others, related to the Absolute? Ye shall die like men.' Unity's first premise concerning the nature of God is that God … ... /o/oneness.htm - 7k. This is the third or fourth book I have read about biblical theology. Use two: Of caution. Eph 4:4. If people have lost any of their goods, they send to wizards to know how they may obtain them again. God is that invisible, intangible, but very real something we call life. Dabney believes that there is no composition in the substance of God, but denies that in Him substance and attributes are one and the same. Similarly he writes to Timothy, “For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” I Tim. There is nothing that would render the true religion more lovely, or make more proselytes to it, than to see the professors of it tied together with the heart-strings of love. ... By the time his soul was returned to God ten years ago last month, Christopher Hitchens, who did not of course believe in God — or the soul — had managed … Many Christian scholars downplay the significance of the tri-unity of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. 1. by John B. Metzger. Discovering the Mystery of the Unity of God provides an eye-opening exploration of the triune nature of God from the pages of the Old and New Covenants. 14:9. How common is this! Isa 45:51. 242-284; Steenstra, God as Unity and Trinity, pp. The Persians worshipped the sun; the Egyptians the lion and elephant; the Grecians worshipped Jupiter. The power of unity and why God calls us to be one. (3.) What is Deity without property in him? That we may not pray to angels is clear from Rom 10:14. What cause have we to be thankful, that we have the knowledge of the only true God! To saints. Theol., pp. It is as the sweet dew on Hermon, and the fragrant ointment poured on Aaron's head. Let me just pause here and say that unity is God’s goal for His church. THE UNITY OF GOD . It is … Whom has Christ authorized to baptize? Theol. 2 Tim 3:3. In judgement. 137-171; Kuyper, Dict. Click download or read online button and get unlimited access by create free account. This is what Christ prayed so heartily for. He first divided men from God, and then one man from another. We please God when we dedicate our hearts to give him the best of everything. We can “profess to know God” but “deny him” by our works. Biblical theology deals with the overall characteristics of God and the Bible and the divine plan for creation. (3.) 338-353; Dabney, Syst. Prayer is a part of divine worship, which must be given to God only. Dogm. What different conceptions of the Absolute do we meet with in philosophy? Matt 11:15. It is important to understand that there are two types of unity in the Bible. The creature may have the milk of our love, but we must keep the cream for God. 2:5. "God is not a being or person having life, intelligence, love, power. I Thess 4:4. Asahel Nettleton. They pray to angels. III. It means that God is not composite and is not susceptible of division in any sense of the word. Others make money their god. … Now, when we are bespangled with holiness, our lives are walking Bibles. Some make a god of pleasure. Abraham is ignorant of us.' Solomon pleaded with God to maintain the cause of His people, “that all the peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah, He is God; there is none else,” I Kings 8:60. How sad is it to see religion wearing a coat of divers colours; to see Christians of so many opinions, and going so many different ways! New and unmarked copy. About the Book. Domitian would not have his image carved in wood, or iron, but in gold. We can never be thankful enough to God, that he has hid the knowledge of himself from the wise and prudent of the world, and has revealed it unto us. If there be two Omnipotents, then we must always suppose a contest between these two: that which one would do, the other power, being equal, would oppose, and so all things would be brought into confusion. The approach is reverent, yet encyclopedic, with each of the 19 chapters and 8 appendices being a self-contained look at various facets of the plural unity of God… 2 Kings 1:1. (3.) There is no way to be saved but this. Book Condition: New. The covetous man worships the image of gold, therefore he is called an idolater. The multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of one soul.' "Send her away, for she crieth after us." Some drops of love may run beside to the creature, but the full stream must run towards God. Acts 4:42. 536-543, 547-549; Knudson, The Doct. because you have lost your goods, will you lose your souls too? There is none on earth whom I desire in comparison of thee.' Dogm., Deo I, pp. Use one: Of information, (1.) Better be without the goods ye have lost than have the devil help you to them again. Abel gave God the fat of the offering. Psa 73:35. 2. A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.' What is this but consulting with the devil! By Charles Fillmore. Does the immutability of God exclude all movement in God? How does Bradley distinguish between the two? Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is, to see brethren live together in unity… What! This God is our God.'