The purpose of this article to examine the expression, the only true God, which appears in the scriptures. There is a similar and related expression which appears a second time in the scriptures.
The gospel according to John opens with a message that is often cited and quoted about the Word who became flesh. My own reason for citing this reference, here, is for what John reveals about the mission of the Begotten Son several verses into the first chapter, namely, that the Begotten Son came to explain God. We understand that thoughts, and then explanations, are communicated with words and through words. This is what Jesus states often in his own message. He declared that the words that He spoke were not his own words. They were the words which the Father had given him to speak, to explain God. Additionally, there are the true works that Jesus performed. The works which Jesus did were just as He saw the Father doing the same works. The words and the works is what Jesus cited for Philip and the disciples as proof that the Father dwelt in him.
