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There is only one god.
"Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him." Dt.4:35
"The LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else." Dt.4:39
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." Dt.6:4
"See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me." Dt.32:39
"I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me." Is.43:10
"Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any." Is.44:8
"I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me." Is.45:5-6
"I am God, and there is none else: I am God, and there is none like me." Is.46:9
"The Lord our God is one Lord." Mk.12:29
"There is one God; and there is none other but he." Mk.12:32
"That they might know thee the only true God." Jn.17:3
"But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him." 1 Cor.8:6
There are several gods
"And God said, let us make man in our image." Gen.1:26
"And the Lord God said, Behold, then man is become as one of us, to know good and evil." Gen.3:22
"Let us go down, and there confound their language." Gen.11:7
"And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment." Ex.12:12
"Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods?" Ex.15:11
"Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods." Ex.18:11
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Ex.20:3
"He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed." Ex.22:20
"Thou shalt not revile the gods." Ex.22:28
"Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." Ex.23:13
"Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and
quite break down their images." Ex.23:24
"Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods." Ex.23:32
"For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." Ye shall not go after other
gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) Ex.34:14
"Upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments." Dt.6:14-15 Num.33:4
“Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?” Jg.11:24
"Ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods."
1 Sam.6:5
"And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of
the earth.” 1 Sam.28:13
"God standeth in the congregation of the mighty, he judgeth among the gods." Ps.82:1
"I have said, Ye are gods." Ps.82:6
"Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord." Ps.86:8
"For the Lord ... is to be feared above all gods." Ps.96:4
"Worship him, all ye gods." Ps.97:7
"O give thanks unto the God of gods." Ps.136:2
"I will utter my judgments against them ... who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods." Jer.1:16
"The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens."
Jer.10:11
"The Lord will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth." Zeph.2:11
"The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man,
makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" Jn.10:33-34
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." 1 Jn.5:7
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Explanation:
There is only one God who is omniscient and omnipotent, Who created all things. He is one in nature, yet has 3 different
expressions: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. That is a difficult truth for our finite minds to grasp, but that is what the
Bible teaches. 1 John 5:7, which is quoted above, describes this fact perfectly.
In the case of gods(small “g”), these are demons who try to usurp the one God’s throne by having
humans worship them. They are false deities completely different in nature from the true God, and they are limited in power.
That is why the above Psalm 96:4 says that God is above all gods, not all other gods. In the case where
gods and God are being discussed together, the lowercase god is used for both, for purposes of consolidation in speech.
The only exception to this rule is in Psalm 82:6, which says “ye are gods”. This verse should have been translated
as “Gods”.
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