Part1: Evidences
Muslims accuse Christians of worshipping more than the one God. However, to Christians, Jehovah is the one and only God. Jehovah is known in several ways: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. These often seem to act as separate individuals, but they are different aspects of the same being.
At the beginning of the Bible during the story of the creation we find wording that strongly indicates that Jehovah did not act alone. The Spirit of God also worked to help form the world in the beginning:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Genesis, Chapter 1, Verse 1 and 2.
Later, as God created man we find the terms “us” and “our” which also indicates that God was not alone:
"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." Genesis, Chapter 1, Verse 26
These words, “us and our” are confirmed by ancient texts that predate the Christian era. Christians, thus, did not alter the scriptures to indicate more than one God as accused by Muslims. The New Testament writers wrote clearly that there is only one God. Speaking of Jesus, the Apostle John in the New Testament, John, Chapter 1, Verses 1 through 4, tells us that:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Thus Jesus, the Word, was with God in the beginning. He is God and he made all things.
The three verses (above) define the “us” in Genesis showing that Jesus is both with God and was God. Jesus was the creator. Working together, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit created the world.
The Apostle, John, continues these thoughts writing:
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John (John the baptizer) testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, `He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' " From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only who is at the Father's side, has made him known. John, Chapter 1, Verses 14 through 18.
This reading is difficult for it describes a being who is one, but who is at the same time more than one. In this particular verse He is the Father and the Son. This is a being that men find hard to understand. Some have said that this relationship can be shown by the structure of an orange. An orange consists of a rind, the fruit and the seed. All are orange, but their purposes are different. But this assumes that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit form one God as a single being. But we are not necessarily confined to this concept. To clarify this, let us review Jesus’ prayer in the Garden the night before His crucifixion:
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. John, Chapter 17, Verses 20 through 23.
Here is a “oneness” that humans can understand. In this case it is a powerful, singular, united purpose, a spiritual oneness. The thoughts, ways and goals of each are the same. They could be separate individuals absolutely united in purpose. They could also be a single entity working in different roles.
Unity of purpose is illustrated in Titus, Chapter 3, Verses 4 through 7:
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
Titus shows us how the unified actions of God, the Holy Spirit and Christ our Savior work in harmony to accomplish our salvation.
Thus we can see that God is a complex being unlike anything in man’s experience. Clearly it is wrong to say that Christians worship several gods. The scriptures and Christian thought and worship consider only one god. His name is Jehovah.