By carlos@thehumanjesus.org
From Genesis to Revelation there are around 100 statements showing God the Father alone, unaccompanied, by Himself as the Creator!
The OT prophets continue this use of singular personal pronouns for the Genesis Creator in scriptures like Isaiah 40:22; 42.5; 44:24. The Pulpit Commentary on Isa 44:24 notes that "God did not delegate the creation of the heaven and the earth to an inferior spirit [demiurge] as the Greeks generally taught. He did not even call in the co-operation of a helper. Singly and solely by his own power he created all things." And the Moody Bible Commentary adds: "God’s proclamation begins with the assertion I, the LORD, am the maker of all things and continues with the declaration identifying God’s activities as including stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all alone. God’s acts of creation were comprehensive, meaning that no other god created anything. God created alone. He needed no help in stretching out the heavens or spreading out the earth. He brought it about by His power alone. No god stood before God, against God, or with God in the formation of the world."
The point here is that no other type of spirit being (angel or another God) was involved in the Genesis Creation. This was the revelation from Moses (Deut 32:6) to the prophets (Mal 2:10), to Jesus (Luke 10.21; Mat 11.25) to Paul (1Cor 8:6).
In the NT, Jesus addresses the Father in prayer as "Lord of heaven and earth," Luke 10.21; Mat 11.25. And Paul verifies this fact by saying that for us Christians there is "one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him." 1Cor 8:6
Paine, in A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism (1900, p. 4) was right to note "There’s no break between the OT and New. The monotheistic tradition is continued. Jesus was a Jew, trained by Jewish parents in the OT scriptures. His teaching was Jewish to the core; a new gospel indeed but not a new theology.”
From Genesis to Revelation there are around 100 statements showing God the Father alone, unaccompanied, by Himself as the Creator!
Surprisingly, some Trinitarian scholars agree that only one Divine Person is the Genesis Creator. Dr. Michael Heiser in his book The Unseen Realm noted that "Genesis 1:27 tells us clearly that only God himself does the creating. In the Hebrew, all the verbs of creation in the passage are singular in form. The other members of the council [i.e., angels] do not participate in the creation of humankind. They watch, just as they did when God laid the foundations of the earth (Job 38:7)."
The OT prophets continue this use of singular personal pronouns for the Genesis Creator in scriptures like Isaiah 40:22; 42.5; 44:24. The Pulpit Commentary on Isa 44:24 notes that "God did not delegate the creation of the heaven and the earth to an inferior spirit [demiurge] as the Greeks generally taught. He did not even call in the co-operation of a helper. Singly and solely by his own power he created all things." And the Moody Bible Commentary adds: "God’s proclamation begins with the assertion I, the LORD, am the maker of all things and continues with the declaration identifying God’s activities as including stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all alone. God’s acts of creation were comprehensive, meaning that no other god created anything. God created alone. He needed no help in stretching out the heavens or spreading out the earth. He brought it about by His power alone. No god stood before God, against God, or with God in the formation of the world."
The point here is that no other type of spirit being (angel or another God) was involved in the Genesis Creation. This was the revelation from Moses (Deut 32:6) to the prophets (Mal 2:10), to Jesus (Luke 10.21; Mat 11.25) to Paul (1Cor 8:6).
In the NT, Jesus addresses the Father in prayer as "Lord of heaven and earth," Luke 10.21; Mat 11.25. And Paul verifies this fact by saying that for us Christians there is "one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him." 1Cor 8:6
Paine, in A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism (1900, p. 4) was right to note "There’s no break between the OT and New. The monotheistic tradition is continued. Jesus was a Jew, trained by Jewish parents in the OT scriptures. His teaching was Jewish to the core; a new gospel indeed but not a new theology.”