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Glory · Jesus Christ
No. The Bible never presents Jesus as a second God; it teaches one God who exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus claimed to be the one God of Israel come in the flesh, and the church confessed His deity precisely because the oneness of God is non-negotiable.
https://glorystudy.com/questions/does-jesus-sharing-gods-nature-mean-two-gods · Scripture quoted from the World English Bible
John 10:22-39
As you read: Jesus claims unity with the Father, and the crowd understands it as a claim to be God.
22It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
24The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
30I and the Father are one.”
31Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
33The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
34Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
37If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
John 14:1-11
As you read: Philip asks to see the Father, and Jesus answers that to see Him is to see the Father.
1“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
2In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
4Where I go, you know, and you know the way.”
5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
8Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
As you read: The confession Israel recited daily, and the anchor for everything else about God.
4Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
6These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
9You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
Isaiah 44:6-8
As you read: God's own insistence on His uniqueness, again and again through Isaiah.
6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
7Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.
8Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”
1 Corinthians 8:4-6
As you read: Paul's careful words to a church surrounded by many gods: one Father, one Lord.
4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;
6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
Israel's daily confession was single-minded: 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.' God insists on it through Isaiah: 'I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.' Jesus Himself answered the scribes by quoting the same confession. The oneness of God is not up for revision.
“Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.”Deuteronomy 6:4
“Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:”Mark 12:29
“This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.”Isaiah 44:6
“Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.”Isaiah 45:21
'Before Abraham came into existence, I AM,' He said, taking the name from the burning bush. 'I and the Father are one.' The crowd heard exactly what He meant: 'You, being a man, make yourself God.' Jesus did not announce a new deity; He revealed that the one God had come in the flesh.
“Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.””John 8:58
“I and the Father are one.””John 10:30
“The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.””John 10:33
“But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.””John 10:38
'Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.' Paul, writing in a city full of gods, holds the line: 'there is no other God but one,' and yet in the same breath he names the Lord Jesus Christ through whom all things exist. The New Testament never flinches from calling Jesus God, and never lets go of the one God. Both are true at once.
““You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.”Isaiah 43:10
“Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.”1 Corinthians 8:4
“yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.”1 Corinthians 8:6
“looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;”Titus 2:13
“of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.”Romans 9:5
John 1 says both at once: the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Son prays to the Father, and yet He and the Father are one: Jesus told Philip that whoever has seen Him has seen the Father, and said, 'In him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily.' Jesus is not a second god alongside the Father; He is God the Son, distinct in Person, one in nature with the Father and the Spirit.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.”John 1:1-2
“This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”John 17:3
“I and the Father are one.””John 10:30
“Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’”John 14:9
“For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,”Colossians 2:9
The church did not invent three gods under a new name. Facing the very question you are asking, it confessed one God in three Persons, and it did so because Scripture forces both truths: the Lord is one, and Jesus is Lord. Jesus even commanded baptism into the single name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Trinity is not a compromise with polytheism; it is the shape of the one God's own life.
“Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”Matthew 28:19
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.”2 Corinthians 13:14
“Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”John 17:1-3