<p>22:37&nbsp;<em>And he said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind</em>- Mk. 12:29 adds: &ldquo;The Lord our God is one&rdquo;. That God is one is a command, an imperative to action. It underlies the whole law and prophets (Mt. 22:40)- it's that fundamental. If there were two Gods, Yahweh would only demand half our energies. Nothing can be given to anything else; for there is nothing else to give to. There's only one God. There can be no idolatry in our lives, because there is only one God (2 Kings 19:18,19). Because &quot;there is none else, thou shalt keep&nbsp;<em>therefore</em>&nbsp;his statutes&quot; (Dt. 4:39,40). The Hebrew text of Dt. 6:4 suggests: &quot;The Lord is our God, the Lord is one&quot;, thereby linking Yahweh's unity with His being our God, the sole Lord and unrivalled Master of His people. It also links the first principle of the unity of God with that of the covenant to Abraham; for &ldquo;I will be their God&quot; was one of the features of the covenant. The one God has only one people; not all religious systems can lead to the one Hope of Israel.</p>