In the Bible, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, we read what is called the Shema,

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."

This scripture is a daily prayer for many people who are declaring their faith in the one God, Jehovah, the one true God of the bible, the Most High God, the great Source of all being. This important statement comes right after Deuteronomy 5 and the giving of the Ten Commandments. Jehovah is God's sacred name and it is also the name given to the Son of God by divine inheritance, as the first-born of heaven. The divine Son of God came to our world in His Father's name; the name Je-sus means Jehovah delivers or saves. Remember always that Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith. Without Him we can do nothing. Jesus must abide in us by His omnipresent Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, as the Comforter or Helper [parakletos], if we are to please God and keep His commandments from the heart. God is not looking for mere outward compliance, but rather true heart faith that works by love and purifies the soul.

"And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."

The whole duty of mankind is to fear, respect, and love God and to keep His commandments, commandments that show supreme love to God and His beloved Son and love to our neighbor, all of God's created beings (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14). Fallen man has no ability to keep the holy, just and good commands of God or to love God apart from the powerful divine indwelling Spirit of Christ. Thus, Christ in you is the hope of glory and the central theme of true Christianity. It is Christ's righteousness alone that gives us access to the kingdom of God and eternal life upon the earth made new. See Christ and His Righteousness by E. J. Waggoner and the book Faith and Works by Ellen G. White to better understand this most important truth.

In heaven it is God Himself and God's beloved only begotten Son that are worshipped. The Son was called Michael in heaven and this name means, "He who is like God." It is God and His only begotten Son who created all things together; "The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." John 14:10. When God said in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," it was God, the Supreme divine Being, who was speaking to His fully divine, only begotten Son. God the Father is the Source of creation, life, love and all things wonderful; and the divine Son is the holy Channel by whom and through whom God works and created all things in their beauty and perfection. All things were made by and for the Son of God—God's co-Worker, His divine Associate. It is God and His Son that gave the ten commandment law on Mount Sinai. The Son is called the Logos or the Word. The Son speaks forth and echos His Father's creative thoughts, for He is as the mind of God. He perfectly represents His Father because He is little short of being identical to the Father and the divine omnipresent Spirit of God dwells in Him fully and guides Him continually. The Son of God has all the divine attributes of His Father. He is fully divine, not a lesser god or being as some teach. God has exalted His Son to equality with Himself.

What is true biblical monotheism? Is it that there is only one God/divine being in the universe? Or is it that there is, as Scripture states: "one God, the Father, of whom are all things", which we are shown so clearly in 1 Corinthians 8:6? In 1 Corinthians 8:5 we read that there are "gods many and lords many." Satan is called the god of this world. Angels, judges and magistrates are called god [elohim] in the Bible. Moses was as God [elohim] to Pharaoh. He was God's representative, a mighty one on earth sent to Pharaoh.

Exodus 7:1, "And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god [elohim] to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet."

Thomas said to Jesus, "My Lord and my God." So, is Jesus God? (John 1:1-4; 1 John 1:1-4)

Jesus is truly God in infinity, but not in personality. Jesus is of God and He is never called God the Son in Scripture or the writings of Ellen G. White. His nature is that of God Himself, for He is the only begotten Son of the one true and living God. He was formed of uncreated divine material, a part of God Himself. He is filled with all the fulness of the Godhead (divinity) bodily, thus the Spirit of His Father dwells in Him without measure or limit. He is clothed with God's own light and glory and He was made in the express image of His Father's person. In heaven He bore the form of God. On earth He bore the form of man, of fallen humanity. A divine Spirit dwelt in a temple of flesh. The second or last Adam was made a quickening, life giving, spirit. Ellen G. White states, "It is not safe to catch the spirit from another. We want the Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ." She also states, "Christ is to be known by the blessed name of Comforter."

In Galatians 2:20, it is written, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

Jesus declared in John 14:18, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."

Jesus has a dual nature, thus He is called the Son of God and the Son of Man. He is both fully divine and fully human. Christ was the Son of God in heaven "from the beginning" and when He came to our world He became the Son of God "in a new sense." He was then clothed with the personality of humanity, yet He was still the divine Son of God. Jesus is omnipresent by the spiritual manifestation of His divine Spirit—the Spirit of Christ, the Comforter, the Omnipresent. We have fellowship with God and His Son through the omnipresence of Their divine Spirit. There is one God, one Lord, and one Spirit. In Romans 8:9 we read, "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."

In 1 John 1:3, it is written, "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ."

The key thing to note here is that in personality or personal identity there is one divine Being that is called God by name and that is God the Father. The divine Being we call God is the God and Father of all, for it is He who is above all. God is the God and Father of Jesus Christ; He is the head of Christ. So yes, Jesus is a divine Being as well as a human being, and He can be properly called God, but in identity or personality He is identified in Scripture as the Son of God. He is the first-born of heaven, the true divine Son of the Most High God. The Son is OF GOD and His personality as the divine Son had a beginning, while His divine nature or substance always has been, since it is in reality a part of God Himself. God gave to His Son to have immortal life in Himself, thus He is called the eternal Son, the self-existent Son. See John 5:26.

The presence of the divine Son is as the presence of God the Father because the Son is the express image of the Father, He is the perfect picture or representation of God the Father. Jesus said in John 14:9, "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father" and in John 10:30, "I and My Father are one" and in John 6:57, "I live by the Father." The divine Jesus and God the Father are one in nature, character and purpose. Jesus is filled with the fulness of God and is called the Anointed One because God's Spirit fills Him. Jesus does nothing of Himself alone. He lives to please His Father, by doing always His will, the will of Him whom He loves so fully and completely.

So monotheism, one God, refers to God the Father. It does not refer to the so-called trinity god that is mysteriously made up of three divine persons. When you read Scripture pay close attention to whom it is that is regularly called God. For example ... In Revelation 22:1, it is God and the Lamb that sit upon the throne of the universe. The trinity doctrine actually destroys the individual personality of God and of Christ. It makes them one god being instead of two individual divine Beings.

What of the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, the Omnipresent, the Comforter, etc. It is represented by fire, oil, water, wind, breath, dove, etc. Jesus breathed upon His disciples and said in John 20:22, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." The Holy Spirit is the spiritual life that originates from God the Father and comes to us in Christ's name through the Son of God. It is the Father's life, the life that dwells fully in His Son. Thus by the Spirit  we receive the very life of Christ, divine eternal life. Remember that everything good originates from the Father and comes to us in and through His beloved only begotten Son.

In summary, we worship the one true God, the Source of all being, in the divine Being called God the Father; and we worship and honor God's divine only begotten Son in the man Christ Jesus, who is fully divine and fully human. God Himself has exalted His divine Son to equality with Himself and He commands us to honor the Son as we honor the Father. Thus the presence of the Son is as the presence of the Father. The Father is all the fulness of the Godhead bodily and the Son is all the fulness of the Godhead manifested. The Holy Spirit comes in all the fulness of the Godhead, making manifest the power of divine grace. The Holy Spirit is the very life of God as it is manifested in and through His Son Jesus Christ. The word Christ or Messiah means the Anointed One, and Jesus is fully anointed with the very life of God, the indwelling Spirit of God.

 In John 5:22-23, it is written, "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him."

Romans 8:2, "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

1 Corinthians 15:45, "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [Jesus] was made a quickening [life giving] spirit."