God is One

I believe that the saying “God is One” is misunderstood.

HaqIslam

Islam belief:

1. Muslim beliefs in Allah – the one and only almighty God, Lord and Creator. Him we trust and Him alone we fear.
   

Judaism101

Jews belief:

G-d is one and unique

Basic Christian Beliefs

Christians belief:

• There is only one God (Isaiah 43:10; 44:6, 8; John 17:3; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6; Galatians 4:8-9).

Christians throw into their belief system something that seems contradictory and has caused great strife between Christianity and the other religions.

• God is three in one or a Trinity (Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; John 14:16-17; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Acts 2:32-33, John 10:30,17:11, 21; 1 Peter 1:2).
  

I think that this three in one concept has even caused problems with Christians.

All three religions Islam, Judaism, and Christianity believe in One God but in the accounts of Allah / Yahweh / God creating things, including man, (Quran, Torah, Bible) God is in a plural form, more than One (WE, US, OUR). Wouldn't it make more sense to corroborate the singleness of God with the single form (I, ME, MY)? Hence, is why I believe we don't fully understand those words, “God is One.”

Islam:

QURAN   

God says in the Holy Quran:

Indeed: We have created man from a mingled sperm-drop, that We might try him, so We made him hearing, seeing. From this stage his procreation began to be compounded from many elements because his role in the universe was to be many sided which necessitated that he should possess a wide range of qualities.

Does not man remember that We created him before, when he was naught? (19:68) And We made from water every living thing... (21:31)

Did We not create you from an insignificant fluid, and we placed it in a safe place? (77:22)

21 The Prophets ------- al-Anbiya

30. Do the disbelievers not see that the heavens and the earth were one mass, and We tore them apart? And We made from water every living thing. Will they not believe?
31. And We placed on earth stabilizers, lest it sways with them, and We placed therein signposts and passages, that they may be guided.
32. And We made the sky a protected ceiling; yet they turn away from its wonders.
33. It is He who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; each floating in an orbit.
34. We did not grant immortality to any human being before you. Should you die, are they then the immortal?
35. Every soul will taste death. We burden you with adversity and prosperity—a test. And to Us you will be returned.

Judaism:

From the Torah:

A Hebrew - English Bible

According to the Masoretic Text

and the JPS 1917 Edition

Genesis Chapter 1

26 And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'

27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. (God created a male and a female in His image - two.)

Genesis Chapter 3

22 And the LORD God said: 'Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.'

Christianity:
The Old Testament of the Bible: (Same as in the Torah. The Old Testament, for the most part, has been translated from the Torah but the books are arranged differently and of course, names are different from the original Hebrew and Aramaic names.)

Genesis 1:26-27 New American Standard Bible

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 3:22 Common English Bible (CEB)

²² The Lord God said, “The human being^[a] has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” Now, so he doesn’t stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever,

I believe we can better understand the true meaning of “ONE”, “GOD IS ONE” by the words said by Yeshua Jesus.

First, Jesus said that He existed with the Father before the world was created. I believe this explains the plural form of God in creation.

John 17:5 

Common English Bible

5 Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I shared with you before the world was created.

Jesus said that He and the Father are One. John 17:11 Common English Bible  11 I’m no longer in the world, but they are in the world, even as I’m coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them in your name, the name you gave me, that they will be one just as we are one. When we take Jesus into us, like when we eat food and we receive the Holy Spirit, like when we drink water, then we become One with Christ Jesus. Romans 12:4-5  Common English Bible 4 We have many parts in one body, but the parts don’t all have the same function. 5 In the same way, though there are many of us, we are one body in Christ, and individually we belong to each other. Another way to understand “God is One” is to see God like you would see a man and a woman who through marriage become one.