According to the Bible, there is one God—the eternal Creator of heaven and earth. Scripture calls Him Spirit and love, merciful and patient, and holy. This is Scripture’s own description, not an abstract definition.
What does the Bible say about this?
- Deuteronomy 6:4 affirms that there is one God.
- Scripture opens with the words about God, who created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1); He exists from everlasting to everlasting, before the mountains and the earth (Psalm 90:2).
- Jesus says that God is Spirit (John 4:24), and John writes that God is love (1 John 4:8).
- The Lord reveals His name to Moses: He is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in mercy and faithfulness, forgiving iniquity and sin, yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished (Exodus 34:6–7).
- The seraphim proclaim three times that God is holy, and, they say, the whole earth is full of His glory (Isaiah 6:3).
The brief answer was prepared by the editorial team; the verse texts are from the Father’s Blessing Bible.
Key Scripture Passages
7 Scripture passages · Father’s Blessing Bible
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: the Eternal our God, the Eternal is one;
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
John 4:24
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Exodus 34:6–7
6 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed: The Lord, the Lord, God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping [steadfast love and showing] mercy to thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and fourth generation.
Isaiah 6:3
And they called to one another and said: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts! The whole earth is full of His glory!
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born, and You formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
