Does the Shema (Deut 6:4) Prove There are No Other gods?
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No. The Shma proves God is one.
For there not being any other Gods than
Y-H-W-H we have other texts:
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Deuteronomy 4:35 You were shown these things so that you might know that
Y-H-W-H is God;
besides him there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:39 Acknowledge and take to heart this day that
Y-H-W-H is God in heaven above and on the earth below.
There is no other.
II Samuel 7:22 How great you are, O Sovereign
Y-H-W-H! There is no one like you,
and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
I Kings 8:60 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that
Y-H-W-H is God and that
there is no other.
I Chronicles 17:20 There is no one like you, O
Y-H-W-H, and
there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
II Chronicles 6:14 O
Y-H-W-H, God of Israel,
there is no God like you in heaven or on earth.
Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are
Y-H-W-H.
Isaiah 45:21-23 You are my witnesses," declares
Y-H-W-H, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me."
Isaiah 44:6 This is what
Y-H-W-H says- Israel's King and Redeemer,
Y-H-W-H Almighty: I am the first and I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.
Isaiah 45:5-6 I am
Y-H-W-H ,
and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know
there is none besides me."
Isaiah 45:21-23 Declare what is to be, present it- let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I,
Y-H-W-H?
And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me. Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other.
Joel 2:27 Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am
Y-H-W-H your God, and that
there is no other;
Exodus 20:1-3 And God spoke all these words: "I am
Y-H-W-H your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.
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In the service of
Y-H-W-H,
Eliyahu, light unto the nations
"Hear Israel,
Y-H-W-H is our God,
Y-H-W-H is ONE!"
Deut 6:4
"All the peoples walk each in the name of his god, but as for us; we will walk in the name of
Y-H-W-H our God forever and ever!"
Micah 4:5
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