As a Body of Believers, part of our calling is to acknowledge the unity of God. God is One and there is no other God beside Him. That is the second positive commandment as enumerated by Maimonides.
P2 – To unify Him, as Deuteronomy 6:4 states: “God is our Lord, God is one.[1]“
Discovering this law within the Apostolic Writings is among the easiest to find. More than likely, most Believers that are choosing to read this already realize that this law is foremost among all others. Yeshua Himself places this law as the most important law of God’s Word.
Mark 12:28–29 (TLV)
28 One of the Torah scholars came and heard them debating. Seeing that Yeshua had answered them well, he asked Him, “Which commandment is first of all?” 29 Yeshua answered, “The first is, ‘Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
For any believer in the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus), it should be clear this law is completely applicable to us. This concept of God’s unity is so intertwined within the writings of Scripture, that for us to dimmish it or excuse it would unravel the entire faith. There is one God. We are a monotheistic faith and there is a unity in the one God who personifies Himself in three ways – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God regularly tells us, there is no God besides Him.
Isaiah 44:6 (TLV)
6 Thus says Adonai, Israel’s King and his Redeemer, Adonai-Tzva’ot: “I am the first, and the last, and there is no God beside Me.
Jesus Himself frequently focused us on the Father, but there are certainly the mystery verses that get the conversational juices going. In any case, we know there is one God.
John 1:1 (TLV)
1 In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The Apostles maintained the Oneness of God even after His resurrection all while professing the deity within Him. We can see that in Jude for example:
Jude 25 (ESV)
25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
There is only one God. He works through the personification of Yeshua and the Spirit, but He remains echad (one).
P2 was another easy one. What shall we find on P3?