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Showing posts with label Deuteronomy 4:35. Show all posts
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Monday, 14 September 2026

Quick Facts: Does the Trinity Contradict Deuteronomy 4:35?

 Quick Facts study of Deuteronomy 4:35 asking whether the Trinity contradicts Yahweh's declaration that there is no one else besides Him.

Quick Facts Bible study examining Deuteronomy 4:35 and its declaration that Yahweh is God and there is no one else besides Him, compared with the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.

QUICK FACTS: DOES THE TRINITY CONTRADICT DEUTERONOMY 4:35?

“Yahweh Is God. There Is No One Else Besides Him.”

One of the clearest declarations about God in the Old Testament is found in Deuteronomy 4:35:

“To you it was shown, that you might know that Yahweh, he is God. There is no one else besides him.”

Deuteronomy 4:35 — World English Bible

This statement raises an important question for Christians:

Who is the ONE God whom Moses identifies here?

Does Moses describe God as three coequal Persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

Or does Scripture consistently identify the One God as Yahweh, whom Jesus later identifies as his Father?

Let us examine the evidence.


QUICK FACT 1 — DEUTERONOMY 4:35 USES SINGULAR LANGUAGE

Nine Quick Facts examining Deuteronomy 4:35, Yahweh as the One God, Jesus as the Son of God, and the biblical question this leaves for the Trinity.

Quick Facts infographic examining nine biblical points from Deuteronomy 4:35, Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29–34, John 17:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6 and John 20:31, asking whether Scripture's identification of Yahweh as the One God supports the later doctrine of the Trinity.

Notice carefully what the verse says:

“Yahweh, HE is God.”

And then:

“There is no one else besides HIM.”

The language is strikingly singular.

The verse does not say:

“They are God.”

It does not say:

“There is no one else besides them.”

Instead, Yahweh is spoken of as HE and HIM.

This does not by itself settle every later theological question about the nature of God. Trinitarians also affirm that there is only one God.

But it does establish something extremely important:

The God proclaimed to Israel is presented as one Yahweh, and no other God exists beside Him.

That should be the starting point for any Christian doctrine of God.


QUICK FACT 2 — THIS WAS NOT AN ISOLATED STATEMENT

Only a few verses later Moses declares:

“Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other.”

Deuteronomy 4:39

Again the message is unmistakable:

YAHWEH IS GOD.

THERE IS NO OTHER.

This same truth continues throughout Scripture.

Isaiah records Yahweh saying:

“I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God.”

Isaiah 45:5

And again:

“There is no God besides me.”

Isaiah 44:8

The Old Testament repeatedly presents Yahweh as the one and only God.


QUICK FACT 3 — DEUTERONOMY 6:4 CONTINUES THE SAME TEACHING

Two chapters later we find perhaps the most famous declaration of biblical monotheism:

“Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.”

Deuteronomy 6:4

This became known as the Shema.

Israel was commanded to believe in and worship the ONE God — Yahweh.

This is important because Deuteronomy 4:35 provides the context for understanding Deuteronomy 6:4.

First Moses says:

“Yahweh, HE is God. There is no one else besides HIM.”

Then Moses declares:

“Yahweh our God, Yahweh is ONE.”

These passages belong to the same biblical understanding of God.


QUICK FACT 4 — JESUS REPEATED THIS SAME FAITH

Centuries later a Jewish scribe asked Jesus:

“Which commandment is the most important of all?”

Jesus did not introduce a new definition of God.

He quoted the Shema:

“The foremost is, ‘Hear this O Israel: The Lord our God is One Lord.’”

Mark 12:29

The scribe then replied:

“Right, Teacher. You have spoken according to truth that He is One, and there is not another besides Him.”

Mark 12:32 — Berean Literal Bible

Notice the similarity with Deuteronomy 4:35.

DEUTERONOMY 4:35

“Yahweh, HE is God. There is no one else besides HIM.”

MARK 12:32

“HE is One, and there is not another besides HIM.”

And what did Jesus say about the scribe's answer?

“And Jesus, having seen him that he answered wisely, said to him, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’”

Mark 12:34

Jesus described the man's answer as wise.

That is extremely significant.

Jesus did not correct the scribe by saying that Israel's understanding of the One God now needed to be expanded into three coequal Persons.

Instead, Jesus affirmed the Jewish confession that:

HE IS ONE.

THERE IS NOT ANOTHER BESIDES HIM.


QUICK FACT 5 — JESUS IDENTIFIED HIS FATHER AS “THE ONLY TRUE GOD”

The evidence becomes even more important in John 17.

Jesus lifted his eyes toward heaven and prayed to his Father:

“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

John 17:3

Look carefully at the distinction.

Jesus identifies:

YOU — the only true God

and

JESUS CHRIST — whom YOU have sent.

Jesus is not praying to himself.

Neither does he say:

“That they may know us as the only true God.”

He addresses his Father as:

“THE ONLY TRUE GOD.”

And he distinguishes himself as:

“Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

This fits naturally with the declaration of Moses:

“Yahweh, HE is God. There is no one else besides HIM.”


QUICK FACT 6 — PAUL ALSO IDENTIFIED THE “ONE GOD”

Paul's language follows the same pattern.

He wrote:

“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

Paul does not merely say:

“There is one God.”

He identifies that One God:

“ONE GOD, THE FATHER.”

And alongside the One God, Paul identifies:

“ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST.”

The Father and Jesus are not confused with one another.

God is the Father.

Jesus is God's Son and God's appointed Messiah and Lord.

Paul similarly writes:

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

1 Timothy 2:5

Again we have:

ONE GOD

and

THE MAN CHRIST JESUS — the mediator between God and humanity.

A mediator is distinguished from the one before whom he mediates.


QUICK FACT 7 — WHAT DOES THE TRINITY ACTUALLY CLAIM?

To examine this question fairly, we should represent Trinitarian doctrine accurately.

Classical Christianity does not officially teach that there are three Gods.

The doctrine teaches that:

The Father is God.

The Son is God.

The Holy Spirit is God.

Yet the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons, while together constituting one divine being or essence — one God.

Therefore the real question is not:

“Do Trinitarians openly believe in three Gods?”

They do not.

The real biblical question is:

DOES SCRIPTURE ITSELF DEFINE THE ONE GOD IN THIS WAY?

Where does Moses explain that the One God consists of three coequal and coeternal Persons?

Where does Jesus redefine Israel's confession of One God in this way?

Where does Paul say:

“For us there is one God: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit”?

That is the issue this study asks the reader to investigate.


QUICK FACT 8 — “THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM”

Return now to the original statement:

“Yahweh, he is God. There is no one else besides him.”

Deuteronomy 4:35

The statement is remarkably simple.

YAHWEH IS GOD.

HE IS GOD.

THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.

Then compare Jesus:

“He is One, and there is not another besides Him.”

Mark 12:32

And compare Jesus' prayer:

“You, the only true God.”

John 17:3

And compare Paul:

“One God, the Father.”

1 Corinthians 8:6

These passages form a remarkably consistent pattern.


QUICK FACT 9 — JESUS IS NOT EXCLUDED FROM GOD'S PLAN

Saying that the Father is the One True God does not mean rejecting Jesus.

Quite the opposite.

The New Testament tells us exactly who Jesus is.

John explains why his Gospel was written:

“But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.”

John 20:31

The biblical confession is not that Jesus is unimportant.

Jesus is:

The Christ.

The Son of God.

The one sent by God.

The Lord and Messiah.

The Savior through whom God gives eternal life.

God exalted Jesus and made him Lord and Christ.

Therefore honoring Jesus as God's Son does not diminish him.

It recognizes him according to the identity Scripture gives him.


THE QUESTION DEUTERONOMY 4:35 LEAVES FOR THE TRINITY

The issue is therefore very simple.

Moses declares:

“YAHWEH, HE IS GOD.”

and:

“THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.”

Jesus affirms:

“HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NOT ANOTHER BESIDES HIM.”

Jesus calls his Father:

“THE ONLY TRUE GOD.”

Paul declares:

“THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER.”

And John says that eternal life comes through believing:

“JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.”

So where does Scripture change this definition and tell us that the One God is actually three coequal, coeternal Persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit?

That question cannot simply be answered by quoting later creeds.

It must be answered from Scripture.


CONCLUSION

Deuteronomy 4:35 is one of the clearest declarations about God anywhere in the Bible:

“YAHWEH IS GOD. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.”

The same monotheistic confession continues through Deuteronomy 6:4, the prophets, the teaching of Jesus and the writings of Paul.

Jesus affirmed that God is One.

Jesus called his Father “the only true God.”

Paul identified the “one God” as “the Father.”

And the New Testament identifies Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, whom the Father sent.

Therefore every Christian should ask:

DOES THE LATER DOCTRINE OF ONE GOD IN THREE COEQUAL PERSONS FIT THE WAY MOSES, JESUS AND THE APOSTLES ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED GOD?

Do not accept this article merely because I wrote it.

Do not reject the Trinity merely because someone tells you to.

Open the Bible.

Read the passages in context.

Test the doctrine for yourself.

As Scripture says:

“Test all things. Hold fast that which is good.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21

And never forget the words that began this investigation:

“YAHWEH, HE IS GOD. THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM.”

Deuteronomy 4:35


Research by Simon Brown

wwwrealdiscoveriesorg-simon.blogspot.com

Monday, 15 November 2021

The TRINITY CONTRADICTS Deuteronomy 4:35!

Deuteronomy 4:35

The TRINITY faith believe and teach there are three separate persons who are each GOD, and yet are not three GODS, but ONE GOD.

The Trinity.

Trinitarians say, they believe and teach in what the Holy Bible says and teaches.

The Trinity.

The problem is, when we seek out the truth for ourselves, which I failed to do when I was a deceived Trinitarian for ten deceived years, because I simply believed what I was taught, when instead simply listening to Jesus, saying: seek and we will find Matthew 7:7, we certainly do find there are NO such Scriptures in the whole Bible saying GOD is THREE PERSONS, called the TRINITY.

The Trinity.

Please read on, and see how this shocking truth gets worse.

When seeking we also discover there are NO such teachings saying we MUST believe in the TRINITY for salvation, or that we MUST believe Jesus is GOD to be saved, which makes me often wonder, how could so many Christians be wrong with what most believe.

With that in mind, it's easy to understand how there are no complications in the Bible about salvation, as the Bible is very plain and clear about what true Christians must do and believe for salvation.

However, we see again the accuracy of the Bible, saying how the Devil has deceived the whole world in Revelation 12:9, which is now obvious this includes most so called Christians.

What I believe most fail to understand, is how the deceptions we all face, are often a part of our Spiritual growth, helping us become a true Christian, and encouraging us to seek out the truth with fear and trembling Philippians 2:12, so that we will be overcomer's and defeat the enemies terrible deceptions and black hole's that lead to HELL.

Just as Christians must face all types of fiery trials, test's, and tribulations, to test our faith, as the Bible teaches.

1 Peter 4:12 Berean Literal Bible

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fire among you taking place for a trial to you, as if a strange thing were happening to you.

Which all work together for the good:

Romans 8:28 And we know that God works together all things for good to those loving God, to those being called according to His purpose.

Confessing and admitting to GOD, we were wrong, I believe reveals a humble heart.

By not confessing when we are wrong, when the Biblical facts have been presented, reveals the opposite, that we have a prideful heart.

And we know how GOD rightly so hates PRIDE.

And maybe that's how GOD removes the pride from our hearts, and filters out the prideful people from His perfect world to come, for those who refuse to humble themselves by refusing the Biblical facts and refuse to accept when they are wrong.

John 17:3

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, 

the only true God, 

and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

I again ask myself, If the TRINITY was true and Jesus was GOD, surely there would be teachings throughout the whole Bible saying salvation depends on believing GOD is three called the TRINITY and that we MUST believe GOD is the SON, or the SON is GOD?

In fact this is what the Christians who believe in the TRINITY and that Jesus is GOD say and believe, and is the foundations of their faith, saying we MUST believe what they believe to be saved.

But I keep searching, and all I see and find with the eyes GOD gave me are countless Scriptures teaching the opposite to what most Christians believe, saying GOD is ONE PERSON and GOD ALONE, on His own as seen in just a few of the most important Scriptures like Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29, John 17:3

The truth is, if we are hungry for the truth, and when we pray for the truth, and read the word of GOD, we do not discover the TRINITY, but instead we very easily stumble on countless Trinitarian Bible contradictions against the word of GOD.

The Bible is bursting with Scriptures, SHOCKINGLY teaching the opposite, that Yahweh the One True Father GOD of Israel, is GOD ALONE and Father ALONE, and creator alone.

Please let me prove this to you, by simply looking at just one Scripture in the Bible, by turning to Deuteronomy 4:35

World English Bible

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

Did you see that?



There is no one else besides him.

The Hebrew word is in the Englishman's Concordance, as,

mil·ḇad·dōw — 1 Occurrence

Deuteronomy 4:35

HEB: אֵ֥ין ע֖וֹד מִלְבַדּֽוֹ׃

KJV: [there is] none else beside him.

INT: there other him

Notice what the Trinitarians translators themselves tell us the meaning of the Hebrews word מִלְבַדּֽוֹ׃‪‬

besides Him.

Strong's Concordance

bad: separation, a part

Original Word: בּד

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

Transliteration: bad

Phonetic Spelling: (bad)

Definition: separation, a part

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin

from badad

Definition

separation, a part

NASB Translation

addition* (1), alone (58), alone* (4), apart (2), aside (2), bars (1), besides* (40), disease (1), except (1), except* (1), himself (6), including (1), itself (7), limbs (2), Myself (1), only (11), part of each (1), poles (37), separate (1), themselves (15), unless* (1), without* (1).


Notice also the last word in the Scripture of Deuteronomy 4:35 says besides (Him).

The word HIM is a singular word for ONE PERSON ALONE.

Notice again how we read the Trinitarian translators say the word for (besides), means:  alone, except, himself, itself, Myself, only,  separate, themselves .

So the Trinitarian translators agree, that the words saying (besides Him), mean alone, except, himself, itself, Myself, only,  separate, themselves.

And yet the TRINITY faith contradict Deuteronomy 4:35 by them saying GOD has another TWO separate persons, BESIDES Him, and NEXT to Him and WITH Him, meaning GOD is NOT by Himself, or on His own, or the ONLY ONE, or ALONE, as we clearly read in Deuteronomy 4:35.

In fact, we never, ever read GOD is described as a PLURAL being, meaning more then ONE.

If the TRINITY were true and correct, we should read the PLURAL words for GOD saying: (BEINGS), or (US), or (WE), or (THEM), or (PERSONS).

But instead we only ever read the singular words for The ONE TRUE Father and GOD alone, proving HE is The ONE TRUE GOD on His own and always saying: (I), (ME), (MY HAND), (HE).

Conclusion:

The TRINITY is an outright contradiction with countless Scriptures like Deuteronomy 4:35, and proves without a doubt how Yahweh the One True Father GOD of Israel, is GOD ALONE, and GOD on (HIS) own, and Father ALONE, and the creator alone, just as we are told in Isaiah 44:24: 

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who ALONE stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth BY MYSELF.

GOD is ONE PERSON AND GOD ALONE.


The TRUTH is, there are ONLY countless Scriptures saying and teaching what we MUST believe for salvation.

Here are just a few:

John 20:31.
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, THE SON OF GOD, and that by believing you may have life in his name. 

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living GOD. Matthew 16:16. And that by believing, you may have life, in his name. John 20:31. 

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave the only begotten Son, so that everyone believing in Him should not perish, but should have eternal life.

The obvious fact is, how can we believe Jesus is BOTH, as most Christians believe, believing GOD is His own Begotten SON, and the Begotten SON of GOD is GOD Himself, while also believing Jesus is the SON of His GOD?

Are there such teachings saying we MUST believe Jesus is both?

Well, I have been looking for a long time now, and as we have already seen, unless you use the countless false Trinitarian Bible translations, we will not find any teachings saying we MUST believe Jesus is both GOD and at the same time is the SON of GOD.

1 John 2:2 tells us by not understating the correct relationship between GOD the Father and His SON, which is by believing GOD is His own Begotten SON, and the Begotten SON is GOD, we are then DENYING the Christ, which also DENIES the Father and the SON, which according to 1 John 2:22 makes us a liar.

It is obvious to me at least, by believing Jesus is GOD, and the Holy Spirit is a separate person, who are also WITH GOD as most teach, also DENIES that GOD is the ONLY ONE TRUE GOD ALONE, and that BREAKS the greatest and most important Commandment in Deuteronomy 6:4 says: Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is ONE: (PERSON).

My research is not according to what I say, but according to what the Biblical fact's say and prove.


John 10:36

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The DECEPTION of GOD as a compound unity. Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29.

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