A couple weeks ago a child asked a challenging question as she left the Sunday morning service. Here question was this, “Since many people worship many different gods, how do we know the God of the Bible is the only true God?” She is not alone. Many people struggling to understand the claims of the Bible ask the same question.

Some may be surprised to learn the Bible never attempts to prove the existence of God. Scripture assumes God exists and declares that only the foolish or willfully rebellious deny the existence of God. Though the Bible never offers proofs that God exists, it repeatedly argues that God is the only God and all other deities are fraudulent products of man’s wicked imagination.

The creation of the universe is the supreme proof given in the Old Testament that God alone is God. This author does not possess an exhaustive knowledge of all the gods worshiped in the history of the world, but after extensive research and study of many different religious traditions he is aware of only one other god who claims to have created everything out of nothing. Aside from Allah, no other god claims to have created everything. The great gods of Canaan- Baal, Molech or Dagon- were local deities who ruled over crops or regions. They were never seen as creators. The gods of Egypt were not credited with creating everything out of nothing. The great gods of western mythology- Zeus, Jupiter and Odin-never claimed to be creators. Only in the Old Testament do we find a Deity who claims to have made everything.

God’s uniqueness as Creator is used in passages like Jeremiah 10 to show the folly of worshiping the pagan gods. After a lengthy description of how the gods of the nations are carved by men out of wood, covered in gold, fastened down so they do not fall over and are incapable of seeing, hearing or doing anything at all, God is presented as the maker of all things. He is the only One who rules over all spiritual beings. He alone is uncreated and Creator of All. “Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.” (Isaiah 43:21) All other gods are the creation of human imagination.

God’s claim to be the Creator was verified by His displays of power over creation. When God sent the plagues upon Egypt it was so the entire world would know He is God. (Exodus 9:16) When God drove the Canaanites before Israel it was prove He alone is God. (Joshua 3:10) God’s glory was present in the temple of Jerusalem as a testimony to the entire world He is God. (1 Kings 8:41-43)

Jesus is the greatest evidence that God is the only God. Jesus claimed to be God the Son and the God of the Old Testament. (John 8:58) The miracles of Jesus verified the truth of His claims (Acts 2:22). Finally, the resurrection declares Jesus is God the Son. (Romans 1:4) Since His mighty miracles and His resurrection from the dead verify the claims of Jesus, then all the claims of the God of the Old Testament must be true. Jesus is proof there is no other God.