Throughout the Bible there are many passages which make it evident that this popular opinion was an error. What it really designates is the Eternal Reality, without making any effort to define what it really designates. The immensity of that ONE defies all human endeavors to define it. No human intellect can comprehend it. No creed ever devised by human intellect can tell us what God is.
Man can only come nearer to that Reality in feeling and in understanding.
We find a great number of notions about God in various parts of the Bible which contains a record of human endeavors to understand God, ranging all the way from the thoughts of savage nomads to the profound insight of St. Paul. Yet all conflicting notions rest upon the basis which is given us in the true meaning of the Tetragrammaton.