“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.”
Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. — The confession echoes Jewish Shema but Christologically reconceived: creation comes through Christ, not bypassing him. The double 'through whom' (di' hou) grants Jesus cosmic mediation and ontological significance. Believers live 'for' (eis) the Father and 'through' (dia) the Lord. This establishes Christ not as rival god but as mediator of the one God's rule.
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