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Most Christians interpret the phrase “one God” in the Bible literally. Since the Old Testament times, God has been perceived in a masculine image, and Jesus also called God “Father.”[1] For this reason, many understand it to mean, “There is only one God the Father.”
However, the God testified in the Bible is both God the Father and God the Mother.[2] God the Father and God the Mother are one, and thus the Bible expresses Them together as “one God.”
The One and Only God
Christians have long believed that there is only one God—the Father. There are also Bible verses that appear to support this belief.
- For there is one God. (1 Timothy 2:5).
- God, the blessed and only Ruler. (1 Timothy 6:15)
- “The only Father we have is God himself.” (John 8:41)
- One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (Ephesians 4:6)
When reading these verses, it may seem that only God the Father exists alone. However, the Bible does not always describe God in the singular form. There are also clear passages that refer to God in the plural.
God Who Referred to Himself as “Us”
Male and Female Images of God
In Genesis 1, God created human beings on the sixth day—the final day of the creation of the heavens and the earth. Yet in this passage, God referred to Himself not in the first-person singular “me,” but in the first-person plural “us.” The word “us” in the original Hebrew text is Elohim. If God were only God the Father, He would have said, “Let me make man in my image, in my likeness.”
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.”
The reason God used the plural term “us” to refer to Himself is found in Genesis 1:27.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
The human beings created in the image of God who said “us” were male and female. This shows that God exists not only in the male image, which is commonly known, but also in the female image.
We call the male image of God “God the Father.” Accordingly, the female image of God is “God the Mother.”[3] Together, God the Father and God the Mother have worked for the salvation of humankind. For this reason, whether stopping the construction of the Tower of Babel or sending prophets, God referred to Themselves as “us.”[4][5]
The Sin of Adam and Eve
Adam as the One Representing Both Adam and Eve
The meaning of “one God” can be understood through the creation of Adam and Eve. The man and woman who were created in the image of God were Adam and Eve. Through them, who were made as copies of God, we can understand God, who is the original.
Although Adam and Eve exist as two distinct individuals, the Bible at times refers to them as one.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, . . . Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, . . . For if the many died by the trespass of the one man.
The “trespass of one man” refers to the sin of Adam, meaning that sin entered the world through the disobedience of one man. However, in reality, the first to sin in the Garden of Eden was not Adam, but Eve.[6] Therefore, it might seem more accurate to say “the trespass of one, Eve,” or “the trespass of both Adam and Eve.” Yet the Bible describes it as the trespass of one man, Adam, because Adam and Eve are regarded as one and Adam represents both of them.
The Reason Adam and Eve Are One
Adam and Eve are regarded as one in the Bible because Eve was not created separately from the dust, but was formed from Adam’s rib.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man . . . For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Although Adam and Eve were distinct individuals, they can be described collectively as “the one man Adam,” because Eve was created from Adam himself. In the Bible, when referring to actions they took together, the text often records them as if Adam alone performed them.
Adam and Eve were made in the image of God—God the Father and God the Mother. Just as Adam and Eve are described as “one flesh,” God the Father and God the Mother, though two distinct beings, can be regarded as “one” God. Likewise, the actions carried out by both can be expressed as those of God the Father alone.
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References
- ↑ "Matthew 6:9".
- ↑ World Mission Society Church of God Gains Global Attention: “We Are Happy Because of ‘Mother’”, Monthly JoongAng, July 2012
- ↑ "Galatians 4:26".
- ↑ "Genesis 11:7–9".
- ↑ "Isaiah 6:8".
- ↑ "Genesis 3:6".