I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth alone.
Isaiah 44:24b
It’s not often that I use the “pro-unitarian” flair on this subreddit, because I believe every verse in the Bible is pro-unitarian. However, this verse is very very clearly antithetical to Trinitarian claims, and yet amazingly, they blind themselves to the point where they actually use this to justify their beliefs sometimes. This verse very plainly says that God created alone. By himself. This should tell us that God is a “self,” and he created with no other persons around. So when the Trinitarian claims “they, the three persons of the Trinity created together,” how can they be so blind to miss that the text says: “I created alone?” It is almost difficult to even emphasize with the Trinitarian view of this passage, but, we will try, so that we can explain very clearly the errors in their thinking.
Trinitarian thinking: “God says that no one created anything that isn’t God. ‘I am the Lord, I created alone.’ If someone created, then they must be ‘the LORD.’ But the Bible says that Jesus created. John 1:3 says that ‘all things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made.’ If something was made, or created, it was created by the Word, which we just know is obviously Jesus. 1 Corinthians 8:6 says ‘there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things.’ And finally, Colossians 1:16 says ‘all things were created in him.’ Clearly, Jesus is the creator. So if God only created, then Jesus must be God. We all know the Father created, so they must be the same God. And Genesis 1:2 says that the Spirit was also involved in creation. What we learn from Isaiah 44:24 is that no one but God created, and since the Father, Son, and Spirit all are involved in creation, then they are all one God. The same God. In Isaiah, God is comparing himself to the idols of men, and states that these gods didn’t create when he created, so they are not gods. But the Son and Holy Spirit did create, so they are the one God.”
Their error is pretty obvious. They are constantly equivocating on the word “God.” It can either mean “a person” or “multiple persons” or “the nature.” The text does not say “no one created unless they are God,” it says “I am God and I created alone.” This word “alone” is not in reference to how many other beings are present, but how many other persons are present. This is what destroys the first Trinitarian premise.
To reiterate, as they have great trouble seeing this point, the Trinitarian reads “God created alone” as if it says “the Trinity created alone.” No one but these persons created. They see no problem with this. They think the passage is saying that these multiple persons of God created by themselves. Yet the text says that God created by himself. God in this passage is very obviously just one person, not a collective group of three persons speaking as a team. We don’t find plural pronouns being used to say “let us create all things by ourselves.” Note the inconsistency of Trinitarian logic when Genesis 1:26 is brought to the table. They are excited to see that “they” are creating. Yet in Isaiah 44:24, they read the singular personal pronouns as if they are meant to be plural. If the Trinity were true in Genesis 1:26, why would we not see this plural language here? “We are the LORD, we created by ourselves.”
Trinitarians tell everyone not to “confuse person and being.” Yet, they are the worst offenders, and it is evident in this verse. This verse is about a person who made all things alone. Yet they confuse him with “the being” of God and say “they” created alone. As if this passage means “only someone with a full divine nature could create, and they created alone.” If a man is in a locked room, and he shouts out that he is in the room alone, but upon opening it, you find him with his Son and his pet, you wouldn’t assume he was honest, would you? More persons are there. It seems frightfully dishonest for a tripersonal God to say he created by himself, and yet, other persons were creating with him that he failed to mention. We aren’t saying that the one being of God created, but the One person of God created. By himself. No other persons around. Not a preexistent angelic son. Not “a god” with him. Not with two other persons of his divine nature with him, but he alone created.
We have already covered the confusions of John 1:3 on this subreddit here
and Colossians 1:16 here(follow the links within the link for more info) and 1 Corinthians 8:6 is forthcoming. None of these passages are telling us that Jesus was created back in Genesis, or Isaiah, when God said that only he created. Trinitarians act as if there’s a contradiction between God the Father saying he created alone, and Jesus being called the creator, so they justify their proposed solution of the Trinity to fill in the gap. Yet, their solution fails to solve anything. A tripersonal being creating together does not magically negate or nullify what the Father plainly and clearly said. “I created alone.” The Trinitarian assumes they have some kind of solution so they never think deeply about the matter. The solution is that the Spirit with which God created with is not “someone else.” It’s the Father himself. And the Son who is the creator, is he who is the creator of the new creation. Not the old creation God is speaking of in Isaiah 44:24. Context clues should tell you as much in these passages. 1 Corinthians 8:6 is not even about the act of Genesis creation, nor would it serve the point in context of meat sacrificed to idols.
God the Father created alone with no one else. We should know this passage can only rightly be applied to the Father, if we look at the context.
Isaiah 44:21: Remember these things, Jacob, for you, Israel, are my servant. I have made you, you are my servant;
Israel is his servant. Isaiah 53 is the famous (possibly infamous) suffering servant passage. This is a passage about the sufferings of Israel, who is the servant of God. However, this is dually applied to Jesus himself, as the secondary fulfillment of the suffering servant. If this passage is applied to the Son, a servant of the Father, suffering, then is it not clear that the one Israel is the servant of is the Father, and not the Son?
Isaiah 44:24a: This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb
The one who speaks in the very passage in question is the Father of Israel. The one who forms them in the womb. Is Jesus the Father of Israel? Not hardly. First, in Revelation 12:1-6, while this a rather contentious passage, we find a virgin woman giving birth to a son who “was snatched up to God’s throne” (compare Revelation 3:21). This is Jesus, born of the nation of Israel. Catholic interpretations, for example, generally favour this woman to be Mary. This won’t be the topic of debate here, but I believe the woman here is Israel. If so, this shows Jesus being the son of Israel, not the Father of Israel. Secondly, Matthew 2:15 applies the statement of Hosea 11:1 to Jesus, “out of Egypt I called my son,” which was originally applied to the nation of Israel who was called out of Egypt. Can it be true for Jesus to say “out of Egypt I called my son,” and further, this passage also be applied to himself? I believe it’s rather clear that it is the Father who formed Jesus in the womb, just as he formed Israel in the womb. It is the Father who is the God and Father of Israel (Malachi 2:10).
The facts show that the one speaking is our God and Father. He created alone. Not with a second divine person, a person of the Trinity, a second “god,” or a prehuman Son or a Spirit other than his very own. What about the angels? If God created by himself, were not the angels present? The angel became present after the act of creation began. In order to create anything, there must be an ontological reality to create in. In order to paint a picture, you must have a canvas. When God created realities, when God began to create, he was alone. All is ways were finished before he began. The angels were present when God created, but the stretching out of heaven and earth, they did not do. This is why we see what we see in Genesis 1:26 and 27. The angels are called to the attention of the creation of man, yet in verse 27, God creates alone. “Let us make man in our image… and in his image he created them. Male and female he created them.” They were present in the creation of man, but God created by himself. Alone. He alone is our creator. Not angels, not preexistent sons. For a Trinitarian to say that two other persons were acting in a perichoretic, synergetic relationship with God, would be to totally nullify the meaning of the text.
The Father is the maker of all things. And now, in these last days, he reconciles his creation through his son. All things are being created anew in Christ.