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What is the Oneness of God?
It is Israel's confession, carried into the church: God is one — not one of several, not a committee of persons, but one God, indivisibly. The confession stands at the head of the Law:
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD."
— Deuteronomy 6:4 (KJV)
"I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God."
— Isaiah 44:6 (KJV)
The History page's opening section, "One God in a World of Thousands," shows why that confession was a rarity: the ancient world produced supreme gods without number, but almost never a people's confession that their God was the only God. Oneness teaching holds that this one God was manifested in Jesus Christ — that Jesus is not a second person alongside God, but God Himself come in flesh — and the Doctrine page works the teaching out text by text.