#154 – Who is God? - God is One

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is one and why it is essential to our faith. 

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is doctrine? What is the doctrine of God?
• Why does the doctrine of God matter?
• What does it mean to say that God is one?
• What drives the polytheistic impulse in the human heart? Why is it better that God is one?
• Is the oneness of God crucial? Why?
• What is different from being unitarian and monotheistic?
• How does oneness relate to the doctrine of divine simplicity?
• What pitfalls do we need to steer clear of here?

Helpful Definitions:

• Doctrine: A belief, a creed, or a commonly held belief by a group of people.
• Doctrine of God: The basic belief about who God is, what He is like, what He is doing and acting in the world, so that we can appropriately know Him.
• Trinitarianism: God eternally exists as one essence and three distinct persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each of which is fully God, yet there is One God.
• Divine Simplicity: God doesn’t have attributes, God is attributes. He is not made up of parts, every attribute he has (love, justice, holiness) is God.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Deuteronomy 6:4-9
• Nicene Creed
• “Delighting in the Trinity” by Michael Reeves

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