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ONE GOD - What does that mean?

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Trinitarianism ... the belief that there are three to the essence of God, is a belief accepted by all contemporary Christians. Judaism strongly disagrees. It stands firm in maintaining that God is One - without partners, self-sufficient, and indivisible. ... One is not Three and Three is not One. ... Judaism has serious difficulties with a number of trinitarian major premises:

- God is not human. Man is not God. The Christian doctrine of the Incarnation ... goes against the fundamental Jewish belief that God is incorporeal - that He has no body and cannot be affected by any of the weaknesses of the flesh. To say that God died then died on the cross seems incomprehensible. God cannot die - just as He does not "live" in human form.

- To worship Jesus as God is to violate the commandment that "You shall have no other gods before Me." ... "And the man Moses ..." (Numbers 12:3). God was careful to delineate the difference between Himself and human beings. Jews can't accept that a man or woman could possibly be God.

- Most disturbing of all to the Jewish idea of monotheism in the Trinity is that Judaism recognises no intermediary between God and man. The first of the Ten Commandments, "I am the LORD your God," is written with a Hebrew word that implies a singular "your." God speaks to every person directly
and says, "I am accessible to you without any middle man." For the Jew, this means that he has an open line to God Himself. Praying to the Son to get to the Father goes against one of the major beliefs of Judaism, as later codified by Maimonides: "To Him and to Him alone shall you pray directly."
A Jew belives that no-one else is supposed to talk for him, live for him - and certainly not die for him.

from Rabbi Benjamin Blech "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Understanding Judaism" (Alpha:2003) pp. 9-10

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