Question: Did Jacob believe in one God?…or a triune God?
Answer:
Triune God? No
- There is not a single text in the entire Bible that supports the idea that Jacob believed in a triune God.
One God? Yes
Jacob and his household believed in one God, Yahuwah Elohim:
- And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD [Yahuwah] stood above it, and said, I am the LORD [Yahuwah] God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. (Gen 28:12-13)
- And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD [Yahuwah] is in this place; and I knew it not. (Gen 28:16)
- So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD [Yahuwah] be my God. (Gen 28:21)
- And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD [Yahuwah] which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee. (Genesis 32:9)
LORD = Yahuwah (H3068); Yahuwah = the proper name of the one true God
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H3068&t=KJV
Conclusion:
Jacob and his household believed in one God, Yahuwah Elohim, the God of Abraham and Isaac, his fathers.
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