How many Gods are there, one or many?
- One God
- (Deuteronomy 6:4) - "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!"
- (Isaiah 43:10) - ". . . Before Me [YHWH] there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me."
- (Isaiah 44:6) - ". . . there is no God besides Me."
- (Isaiah 44:8) - ". . . And you are My witnesses. Is there any God besides Me, or is there any other Rock? I know of none."
- Many gods
- (Genesis 1:26) - "Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness . . . .'"
- (Genesis 3:22) - "And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil . . ."
- (Genesis 11:7) - "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
- (1 Corinthians 8:5) - "For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords")."
- (1 John 5:8) - "For there are three that bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement."
Note: in the verses in Genesis that have God saying "Let us make..., Let us go down . . . , etc." are clues to the Trinitarian nature of God. God is a Trinity of persons: a Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There are not three Gods, but one. There are those who insist that the Trinity is polytheistic. But it is not. Trinitarians believe in a single being who is God.
"Do men make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!" (Jeremiah 16:20)
"When the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites, he commanded them: “Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them or sacrifice to them. But the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt with mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must worship. To him you shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices. You must always be careful to keep the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods. Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods. Rather, worship the Lord your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.” (2 Kings 17:35-39)