The Old Testament
In the Old Testament, one finds the strongest statements emphasising the Unity of God. The confession of faith, still recited faithfully by Jewish people today (called the Shema) is central; "Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is One Lord." (Deut. 6 v 4). In spite of this it is surprising to find that God is referred to by a plural term, a plural noun which, nevertheless, is used with a singular verb. " In the beginning God…" (Gen. 1 v 1) The Hebrew word for God is Elohim which is plural. Further, one finds God speaking, not in the first person singular but plural; "Let us make man in our image after our likeness." (Genesis 1 v 26). Then, in Isaiah 6 v 8, the deliberation of God is similar: "Whom shall I send, who will go for us?" The three-fold ascription of worship a few verses previously, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts" cannot be without significance. (see also Isaiah 46 v 5)

Why did the Jews not alter these records or refuse to accept them as Scriptures, if plurality of Persons in the Godhead is a denial of the Oneness of God. Surely it must be because such plurality is fundamental to the idea of God. A God of singular personality would not be complete. He could not be Love, for love requires an object. The Son is the eternal object of the Father's love and the revelation of His will and purpose. A God of singular personality could neither love nor reveal Himself in creation.

David, in Psalm 110 v 1, said, "The Lord said unto my Lord…" In Hebrew, two different words are used, so that it reads, "Jehovah said unto my Adon (Lord)…" Using this Scripture, Jesus asked a question about the Messiah, "What think you of Christ? Whose Son is He? They say unto Him David's. He says unto them, How then does David in Spirit call Him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord… If David then call Him Lord, how is He His Son?" (Matt 22 vv 41 - 46). Do you see the truth Jesus was revealing in that very question? Yet that false sect, the so-called Jehovah's Witnesses, pose the same question today to reject the very Truth of the Deity of Christ and the teaching of the Trinity, they being wilfully ignorant of the fact that it is only the teaching of the Trinity that satisfactorily answers the issue.

Finally, in the 'Wisdom' portions of the book of Proverbs one can find the eternal, pre-Incarnation Son, Christ the Wisdom of God (see I Cor. 1 v 24), the One who would, as the Word of God, be made flesh. Of that Wisdom, Who in Proverbs is spoken of as a Person, it is said, "The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His way before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was… Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him : and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him." (Proverbs 8 vv 22 - 30).