Room 6 of 20
Isaiah 43:10
No God formed after
Verse
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Why they use it
They say no God can exist besides the Father, so the Son is not God and we cannot become like Him.
Why they are wrong
Isaiah is banning idols, not banning the Father and the Son Paul still counts.
Translation note
Hebrew: yatsar (יָצַר)
shaped / fashioned — the verb for a craftsman’s idol
FAIR: read 43–44 together. “Who has formed a god or poured an image?” The target is graven gods, not the biblical claim that the Father and the Son are both divine.
The room (aka the context)
- Who wrote it
- Isaiah.
- Who is in the room
- Israel flirting with nations’ idols.
- Who is speaking
- Jehovah.
- What is going on
- Chapters 40–48 are a lawsuit against wood and metal gods. Isaiah 44 will mock the carpenter who burns half the log and bows to the rest. “Formed” is what you do with an idol, not a later council’s ontology.
- What they already believe
- Jehovah is Israel’s God. Baal is not. The room is not debating exaltation.
- How they would hear these words
- No rival god gets manufactured. If the line forbids the Father *and* the Son, Paul is in trouble in 1 Corinthians 8:6.
Clarifying verse
1 Corinthians 8:6
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Paul can count. One God, the Father. One Lord, Jesus Christ. Isaiah’s lawsuit against idols does not make Paul a polytheist — and it does not make us one either. FAIR’s nature-of-God page walks the Hebrew.
Gal1:8 topic →Mark it
Tap when you can say the verse out loud.