The Only True God – A Study of Biblical Monotheism

Author: Eric H.H. Chang

The faith of the Bible is unyieldingly monotheistic.  God’s message to humankind is, above all, a call to faith in Yahweh, the one and only God of Israel.  Monotheism took root in the Law and the Prophets, and flourished in the life of God’s people.  Jesus expressed his Jewish monotheism when he prayed, “This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” 

But by the second century, the commitment to monotheism was disappearing in the church except in name.  The church had become predominantly Gentile and was receptive to Gentile polytheistic ways of thinking, a development that eventually culminated in the trinitarians formulation of Nicea.  

This book is a detailed study of Biblical monotheism and of trinitarianism’s claims to monotheism.  It pays particular attention to the texts, principally the Johannine Prologue of John 1:1-18, which are often used to underpin trinitarian doctrine.  The book ends on a joyful note when it brings out the glorious blessings for God’s people in the truth that the Word became flesh; in Jesus Christ and dwelled among us.