Are there more gods than one?
There is but one only, the living and true God.
Proofs
- There is but one only, the living and true God. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Jeremiah 10:10)
Additional Exposition
Section 1
Is God the living God?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: He is the living God, (Daniel 6:26)
Hath he life in himself?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: The Father hath life in himself, (John 5:26)
Doth he give life to others?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: He quickeneth all things, (1 Timothy 6:13)
Should living men therefore seek to the living God?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? (Isaiah 8:19)
Section 2
Is God the true God?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: This is the true God, (1 John 5:20)
Is he the only true God?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God, (John 17:3)
And are all other gods false gods?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: They are vanity and the work of errors, (Jeremiah 10:15)
Section 3
Is that God whom we serve, this only living and true God?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: The Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King, (Jeremiah 10:10)
And is he but one?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, (Deuteronomy 6:4)
Does God assume this prerogative to himself?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no God; I know not any, (Isaiah 44:8)
And have his people always ascribed it to him?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Unto us there is but one God, (1 Corinthians 8:6)
But do not those who assert the deity of Christ destroy the unity of the godhead?
Answer: No.
Proof: For he says, I and my Father are one, (John 10:30)
Section 4
Are there many gods in name?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: There are gods many, and lords many, (1 Corinthians 8:5)
But are these gods by nature?
Answer: No.
Proof: When ye knew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no gods, (Galatians 4:8)
Are they then to be reputed of?
Answer: No.
Proof: We know that an idol is nothing in the world, (1 Corinthians 8:4)
Are those guilty of the greatest absurdity who worship them?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Those that make them are like unto them, and (Psalm 115:8)
Do we well therefore not to imitate them?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Little children, keep yourselves from idols, (1 John 5:21)