Eternal life is to know the Father, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He sent. The Apostle John wrote that Jesus came to reveal the True God to us:
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding so that we may know Him Who is True and we are in Him Who is True, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.1Jesus came to reveal the only true God to us. So what is the identity of the true God? John writes that Jesus came so that we might know his Father in Heaven.
What is the identity of the True God? The Father is the True God, Him who is True, He who has a Son Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus refers to his Father as "the only true God" at John 17:3, John clearly spells out the identity of the One True God. The True God is the Father, "Him Who is True." The True God and Eternal Life has a Son, "His Son" and His Son is Jesus Christ. The True God is the Father of Jesus and Jesus has come to give us knowledge of his God so that we might know the Father, the True God and Eternal Life.And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding so that we may know Him Who is True and we are in Him Who is True, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
Nowhere in the Scriptures do we ever find that Jesus came that we might know about a Triune Being, a three person God. We only find that Jesus reveals his God to us: the Father. The God of the Israelite man Jesus, born under the Law, was his Father alone. He knew no other God nor anyone else as God. His Father was his "only God."2 His God was not a three person God. His God was a one person being: his Father alone. Even though the one God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is the main character of the Bible and is mentioned thousands of times, the Scriptures never once mention a three person God. Not once. But despite these facts, men have went after another God of their own making, a three person being, and they pretend to themselves, and deceive themselves, by eisegetically reading this humanly conceived God back into the Scriptures wherever they have convinced themselves that they can get away with it.
A three person God was not the God of Jesus or his fleshly brothers and sisters or his discples. Jesus was a Jew born of the woman Mary, the betrothed bride of Joseph, a son of David. He was a Jew of the Tribe of Judah; he was a Jew born under the Law. Before he came to the Jordan to be baptized by John and when he was young, Jesus grew in wisdom and knowledge. Being a Jew, he learned the Scriptures and he knew the Shema: "Hear O Israel, the LORD our God the LORD is one."3 For Jesus the Jew, the one Lord of the Shema, YAHWEH, was not a three person being. The one Lord of the Shema was his Father alone. He knew nothing about worshiping and serving a three person God. His God was one person not three. And when he read the Shema, "the LORD is one," he knew these words meant YAHWEH his Lord and God was one identity, one person, because he also read the words "there is no other but HE."4
Jesus reveals the True God to us. And the True God was his God, the Father alone.
___________________________You turned to God from idols to serve a Living and True God and to wait for His Son from heaven. 1 Thessalonians 1:10.
Notes:
1. 1 John 5:20
2. John 5:43-44
3. Deuteronomy 6:4
4. Mark 12:29-34; Deut 4:35,39
