After Jesus died, the apostle Paul wrote: "Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ" (1Cor.8:6a).  And: "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1Tim.2:5). Paul the apostle, who apparently met Jesus himself (Acts 9:1-5), did not believe Jesus was God, but Lord.  That some passages referring to God are plural leads many to conclude that God is plural.  For instance, regarding the "host of heaven": "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness' " (Gen.1:26a), and, "Come, let us go down and there confuse their language" (Gen.11:7a).  On its face, it might appear that two or three, or many Gods are involved here, but this supposition is not universally held among religious intellectuals.  Scholar George M. Lamsa  disputes this hasty conclusion:

"Emperors, kings, princes, and high ecclesiastical authorities use the plural pronoun, or the pronoun of respect, when referring to themselves: 'we' or 'us,' instead of 'I.'  This is because they are the representatives of the people.  Therefore when God speaks of Himself, the pronouns of respect 'we' and 'us' are used.  The authors of the Bible believed in one God only, the God of heaven and earth, the Creator, and as Jesus stated: the only true God.

"The doctrine of the Trinity, three persons in one, was a new concept-a Greek concept of God.  The Hebrews throughout centuries believed in one God, or one person (Deut.6:4; Mk.12:29).  The Israelites were admonished against having another god besides the Lord their God.  The whole system of the Jewish religion is based on the unity of God--one God.  The Eastern Christians believe in one God with three attributes, instead of three persons."  This usage of "we" in place of "I" is commonly used today, especially in business when a policy is discussed or in religion when a doctrinal position is asserted.  "Our" policy is thus and such, when in fact the policy is of the president of the company or the board of directors.  "We" teach this or that, when in fact it is the pastor, his advisory board, or the Pope who sets doctrine.

Yahweh is called "the Most High God."  "They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever he chooses" (Dan. 5:21b).

George M. Lamsa: "All pagan people in Palestine knew that there was a high God; that is, a greater God than all the local deities they served.  This concept of a Great Spirit was prevalent among all pagan peoples and even among the American Indians.  The Aramaic word merema means 'dwelling in the highest'; that is, the God whose abode is in heaven.  The dwelling place of other gods was on the earth."

If it is true that God is one in number as the Bible testifies, and God tells us that we are to worship him alone as God (Ex.20:1ff), then to worship his Son as an equal "God," making Almighty God to be more than one being or "person," is an affront to Yahweh, the only true God. Worse, to then leapfrog from this position to the notion that man will become God is an unspeakable blasphemy and terrible irreverence. To honor Christ, to bow before him, is one thing (Jn.5:22-23); he is our present king and the son of God, but many make Jesus a "God" when even he testifies there is only one true God!  (Jn.17:3)

Teaching error by publicly stating that God is not an individual person (or being) makes it necessary to take a stand and publicly point out these serious mistakes.  The ungodly and extra-biblical idea that God is a family as in a God of two individuals destined to be many individuals, is a common thread running throughout virtually all the churches and church splits of our experience.

I believe the idea of God specifically being "a family" was invented by a false prophet, Herbert Armstrong, the self-proclaimed "apostle" and "Elijah" of the old and now defunct Worldwide Church of God (sabbatarian). And since no one opposed him on the teaching (to my knowledge), it became doctrinally part of what many call "Armstrongism."

John 1:1. The Greek word logos is commonly expressed in English as "Word" and this "Word" is commonly taken to be a preexistent Jesus (as well as the OT Creator) before His physical birth, who was not called "Jesus" until His birth.  Arguments over this single issue have brought death upon some of those who oppose the orthodox view, i.e., that the "word" was Jesus/God.  Excommunication and persecution came upon others.  It has never been easy or safe to go up against the majority view in religion.

One preacher said in a sermon: "So the logos was God… in all his splendor, in all his power, in all his glory.  He is not just a big God… but he is small enough so that when we need him, he is there.  So the logos is the kind of God that created all things that were created."

In another sermon he says: "First of all, marriage, or the life that marriage brings pictures the reality of God's nature.  He is not a trinity.  He is not a single individual person.  God is a family and marriage pictures that."  According to this self-blinded poly-binitarian preacher, "God" is two individual beings now (and destined to be many more gods in the future).  God is not "one" as the Scriptures attest.  (Continued...)