YOUCAT Question n. 30 - Why do we believe in only one God?
(Youcat answer) We believe in only one God because,
according to the testimony of Sacred Scripture, there is only one God and,
according to the laws of logic, there can be only one.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 200) These are the words with which the
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed begins. The confession of God's oneness, which
has its roots in the divine revelation of the Old Covenant, is inseparable from
the profession of God's existence and is equally fundamental. God is unique;
there is only one God: "The Christian faith confesses that God is one in
nature, substance and essence" (Roman
Catechism, I, 2, 2). (CCC 201) To Israel, his chosen, God revealed himself
as the only One: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord
our God is one Lord; and you shall
love the Lord your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might" (Dt 6:45). Through
the prophets, God calls Israel and all nations to turn to him, the one and only
God: "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God,
and there is no other…. To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
'Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and
strength'" (Isa 45:22-24; cf. Phil 2:10-11).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
If there were two gods, then the one god would be a limit on the other; neither
of the two would be infinite, neither one perfect; in these respects neither of
the two would be God. Israel’s fundamental experience of God is: “Hear, O
Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (Deut 6:4). Again and again the prophets
exhort the people to abandon their false gods and to convert to the one God:
“For I am God, and there is no othe” (Is 45:22).
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 228) "Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one
LORD..." (Dt 6:4; Mk 12:29). "The supreme being must be unique,
without equal… If God is not one, he is not God" (Tertullian, Adv. Marc., 1, 3, 5: PL 2, 274).
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