The Father as God alone is supported throughout the Bible. God is identified as a singular He, Him, His, I, and You but never a They, Them, We, Us, Our, etc.
oh wow. you shared the obvious point about there being one God. Congratulations to reaching the starting point, even though you fall short of the end of the race.
After explicitly saying that God is a singular person, the Bible explicitly says that God created alone, which is in line with being a singular person. Singular persons are alone, persons in a group are not alone. (Isaiah 44:24, Nehemiah 9:6, Job 9:87, Isaiah 45:18)
You misapply "person" to God unless you want to go with the philosophical sense of the Trinitarian doctrine.
You again get a partial truth by noting there are not other gods involved in creation. Again that leaves you at the starting point of discussion rather than getting you into the real discussion. Let's take a tally here.
Isa 44:24 just says God is the maker and no other gods did this.
Neh 9:6 again says the same thing.
Job 9:7 says the same thing
Isaiah 45:18 speaks of "he" but no one is saying that God is typically described in the feminine
You have shown that only one God exists. That does not get you out of the starting gate in any debate.
God is only ever referred to as Father (Isaiah 63:16, Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 3:19, Malachi 1:6) but never Son.
Isaiah 63:16 Indeed the focus is on God as the Father. The Son has not been shared in that light yet.
Isaiah 64:8 is also showing Yahweh as "our Father." So you are sort of in the range of NT points.
Jeremiah 3:19 gets you into close to NT topics too by also having followers refer to the Father as "my Father"
Malachi 1:6 of course is an easy mistake to make when you just try to proof text weak arguments
The point you try to make of course is ridiculous since no one is simply a child of a son. The correct concept is people are born of a Father. So you have basic elementary school teaching figured out -- or maybe just arriving to figuring it out.
Additionally, God referred to Himself as a singular person again, saying "there is no God besides Me" (Isaiah 45:5, Deut. 6:4, 32:29, Isaiah 44:6,8, etc)
Uh. Polytheism is not a doctrine held by any Christians I know. So certainly God usually is mentioned in the singular. As to Deut 32:29, I'm not sure why you put yourself in the position of Israel in discerning its future.
Of course,
Isa 44:5,8 again wisely point to monotheism. You have again put yourself at the starting gate of the debate rather than entering the race.
If that wasn't enough, Jesus explicitly defined God as the Father (John 17:3) so did Paul (1 Corinthians 8:6) and everyone believed Jesus is a man with a God just like everyone else.
Oops. Your horse does not have horse shoes on for the race. You have to go back to the stable. Paul shows Jesus as "
one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him." That is the same quality as of the Father. That means your race horse does not even have a saddle yet. You will have to find one quickly.
So we Unitarians claim victory about who God is, citing overwhelming Scriptural support.
Maybe you will have something to offer once you get your horse to the starting gate. But you have much to do before you reach that point. Maybe you have been playing a game or simulation of the race and have not transitioned to the actual race track.
With all of that being said, of course when Jesus stated that eternal life is that "they may know You, the only true God" it wasn't a reference to a trinity or some concept of god foreign to Scripture. I won't say that trinitarians cannot have eternal life, but I know it will be weird in heaven watching trinitarians practicing idolatry, which will never fly. I hope people are given a chance to repent and change, as a I know most of your kind are just deceived, well-meaning, and would flee to the truth if they found it. The ones that worry me as the more extreme types like yourself that seem unable to believe the testimony of Scripture. I truly believe that there is a spiritual component to your spiritual imprisonment and blindness. I post most of what I do for the benefit of others.
So, you say to have eternal life that we must forget that the scripture points to the deity of Christ. That sounds rather backwards.
If Christians are deceived, you should have come out with a sufficient argument to deny the testimony of scripture about the preexisting One who was with God and was God and now had become incarnate as Christ.
If you want to post stuff for the "benefit" of "others," you will have to get your horse out of the stables. Also, you will have to avoid those passages that speak of the deity of Christ; those are really interrupting your game.
