One Name, One Father
A Riddle for the Logical Mind
Three verses. One logical answer. Can you find it?
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Psalm 83:18 (KJV) That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH [Yahuah], art the most high over all the earth.
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Isaiah 63:16 (KJV) Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD [Yahuah], art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
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Isaiah 45:5 (KJV) I am the LORD [Yahuah], and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Read all three. Lay them side by side. What must be true?
Paul answered it in one sentence.
1 Corinthians 8:6 (KJV) But to us there is but one God [Elohim], the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord [Master] Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
- His name is Yahuah. — Psalm 83:18
- Yahuah is the Father. — Isaiah 63:16
- Beside Yahuah there is no other God. — Isaiah 45:5
Yahuah the Father is the only true God.
One name. One Father. One God. No room for a second or third person.
Why It Matters
The Trinity asks the reader to accept one name shared by three persons. The three verses will not allow it. Psalm 83:18 gives the name to one: "whose name alone is Yahuah." Alone means not shared. Isaiah 63:16 says who wears that name: "thou, O Yahuah, art our father." Isaiah 45:5 shuts the door: "there is none else, there is no God beside me." One name, worn by one person, and that person is the Father.
The prophets and apostles never taught the doctrine. Church councils settled it. Nicaea (325) declared the Son "of one substance" with the Father. Constantinople (381) added the Spirit as a third co-equal person. The working words, ousia (substance) and hypostasis (person), came out of Greek philosophy. Not one verse used to defend the doctrine contains them.
The shared-name claim leans on Matthew 28:19, "in the name" singular. Yet every baptism recorded in Acts is done in the name of Yahushua (Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:48; 19:5). Eusebius of Caesarea, writing before Nicaea, repeatedly quotes the verse in a shorter form. Even as printed, the one name is the Father's, and the Son carries it. Yahushua means "Yahuah saves," and He came "in my Father's name" (John 5:43). A son who carries his father's name does not become his father.
Yahushua prayed to "the only true God" and set Himself beside Him, not inside Him: "and Yahushua Messiah, whom thou hast sent" (John 17:3). He tied eternal life to knowing who that only true God is. Blend the Father into a three-person Godhead and that knowledge is lost. Worship drifts toward a concept no one in Scripture ever prayed to. Messiah said the true worshippers "shall worship the Father" (John 4:23).
Revelation keeps the line to the end. The 144,000 stand with the Lamb, "having his Father's name written in their foreheads" (Revelation 14:1). One name, one Father, and the Lamb standing beside Him.