There is one mediator between man and God

(1 Timothy 2:5-7 – There is one mediator between man and God)

Amongst pagan and Eastern religions we often see that there are many gods and demigods in their forms of worship. In fact in the Hindu belief system there are literally thousands of so-called gods and deities, along with countless gurus.

But in Christianity we have just one God and there is one mediator between man and God: Jesus Christ. This is made abundantly clear in this particular verse that Paul wrote to Timothy.

We worship one God, not many but only one. And there is one mediator between man and God for a very good reason, which I will cover in the next sections.

One mediator between man and God

These are the words of Paul as he wrote to Timothy.

5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne at the proper time. 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (1 Timothy 2:5-7)

You might wonder why this is important, but when you think about it, especially in the light of multi-God religions, it becomes quite simple.

Confusion.

Confusion is the essence of multi-God religions because each of the so-called gods offer or require different things. Under those religions the messages are confused and can never lead to the truth.

But in Christianity where there is one God and one mediator between man and God, there is no confusion. The message is consistent and truthful since God is the God of truth. There is no clouding of the truth as there is just one God and one mediator between man and God.

Sadly, some Christian groups have sought to confuse the matter of religion by introducing additional mediators between man and God. They have elevated people as saints to whom people pray, seeking their intervention with God for specific purposes.

How is this different from paganism where people had different gods for different things?

Consider the pagan gods of Scandinavia. Thor was god of thunder. Freyr was god of rain, sunshine, and the fruits of the earth. Tyr was the god called upon to win victories in war. Bragi was god of wisdom, eloquence and flowing speech. Ullr is the god that men would invoke in single combat. Forseti is the god who reconciles arguments and disputes. Eir is goddess of medicine and medical care. Sjafne is the goddess of love. Var is the goddess who hears oaths and troths between men and women and wreaks vengeance upon those who are oath-breakers. And there are many others to whom people could go if they have specific issues. (Source: Wikipedia – Norse Gods)

You can see similar things in the Roman and Greek gods where certain so-called gods perform certain functions.

Such practices have entered the Christian church over the last two millennia, but the gods have been replaced by patron saints. And all of these have a common source. They all derive from the pagan worship of Babylon.

Pagan religions from Babylon

Many of the religions that exist today are based on the forms of worship that came from Babylon.

And sadly, many of the teachings of Babylon have entered the Christian church, becoming so entrenched that to speak against them is considered heresy.

There were several hallmarks of the religion of Babylon. It introduced the worship of the mother and child. It introduced the pagan feasts and articles of worship that are seen in many churches today.

For example, you may be unaware that the mitered headgear of the bishops and archbishops of a number of the major denominational Christian groups is actually the same as was worn by the priests of the pagan god, Dagon.

And we see more things of pagan and Babylonish origin that have entered the church and still exist today.

Perhaps the most common and often revered in Christianity are the holidays of Christmas and Easter. Both of these have pagan origins. Both have deep references to the religions of Babylon. And both have no basis in the Bible.

And there are many other issues where pagan religion has infiltrated the minds and form of worship of Christianity so deeply that many consider it heresy to oppose it. The next section is one in particular that today’s scripture impacts directly upon. It opposes the understanding that there is one God and one mediator between man and God.

Trinity doctrine

The doctrine of trinity is of pagan origin, and even some of the descriptions of trinity are derived directly from pagan sources.

Trinities existed in almost all of the pagan religions, and they had their origins in Babylon. The very first trinity that existed was from Babylon and it was the so-called gods: Nimrod, Simeramus, and Tammuz.

Trinities existed in Egypt with the so-called gods Isis, Horus, and Seb. The ancient pagan Romans had the trinity of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. The Greeks had the trinity of Zeus, Athena, and Apollo. There was a viking trinity in Norse mythology that comprised Odin, Thor, and Frey. And even the Hindus in the earliest forms of their worship also originally worshipped a triune god in the forms of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

So we see that the worship of a triune god, or a trinity of gods was common in virtually all of the pre-Christian pagan belief systems.

But as the scripture we are considering today states, there is one God and one mediator between man and God, who is Jesus Christ.

So why is there a trinity of “gods” in the Christian church when clearly that was not the case from the beginning? Where did the concept come from?

The idea first began in the third or fourth centuries after the death of Christ and all of those who lived in His time. It was brought in by the Emperor Constantine, who supposedly converted to Christianity from pagan beliefs. But he brought many of the pagan beliefs into the early church, and these were agreed and became part of the church in various of the early church conferences.

In particular, the trinity became accepted doctrine of the church during the Council of Constantinople in 360AD, although it had been first written about over a century or so earlier.

But if we consider the people of Israel and Judaism, it was a defining mark of Judaism that they were worshipers of a single deity. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was a single deity and Judaism was a mono-theistic religion.

Jesus was a Jew and He worshiped God as a Jew when He walked the earth. Jesus worshiped a monotheistic God whom He knew of and referred to as “The Father.”

So, as the founder of the religion that was to supersede Judaism, that is Christianity, that was based upon and followed the teachings of Judaism, is it realistic to think that somehow the One true God somehow metamorphosed into a triune, multi-theistic, three headed God?

No. The God we worship is the same God worshiped by Jesus, the apostles, and the great men of God in the Old and New Testaments.

And as this scripture today tells us, there is one God and there is one mediator between man and God: Jesus Christ. Trinity is a false pagan doctrine brought into the church to defile the church and turn people away from the truth of the one true God.

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