“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and
with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:4
The Hebrew word “echad” gives the sense of unity from multiple
parts. It is this word that is used when
God tells us that a man and his wife are to become one (echad) flesh. The Bible is consistent, there is but one
God, yet God consists of three persons have distinction from each other, yet
are co-equal, co-eternal, infinite in unity and all sharing the same
essence. While this certainly is more
than our minds can handle that is a good thing.
It is the fact that God, in His very nature is not fully comprehensible
to us is further evidence that God created man…not the other way around. When a man invents a god, he invents a god he
can fully understand and manipulate. The
God who created man designed us to know Him, and respond to His love. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit dwell in eternal unity, order, and perfect fellowship. The character of God is known to us through
that unity.
