The Bible throughout teaches God’s desire for His people to be unified upon His Word. He wanted unity in the first family, but Satan entered, Eve ate the forbidden fruit, and caused Adam to eat also (Gen. 3). Paul referred to the serpent beguiling Eve, fearing lest the minds of Christians “should be corrupted from the simplicity that in Christ” (2Cor. 11:3). God wanted the people in Noah’s day to enter the one ark to be saved from the flood, but unity was refused by those who would not believe God’s Word, and many drowned (Gen. 6). There was once one language and one speech among the sons of men, but they refused unity with God by desiring to build their own tower reaching to Heaven (Gen. 11).

Unity is possible today! It is commanded in the New Testament! The Lord prayed for all to be unified upon the teaching He brought from Heaven, and which the apostles were sent forth to preach (Matt. 28:18-20). Jesus passionately prayed, “Neither pray I for these (the apostles) alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (John 17:20-21). Jesus died in order that the blood, sealed covenant might bring unity to His followers (Acts 20:28; Lk. 24:46-47). It is shameful and eternally condemning to reject His teaching for humanly written creeds (Jn. 12:48-50).

The inspired apostle Paul exhorted, “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of out Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (2 Cor. 1:10). In view of these verses, it is a flagrant sin for men to pray and thank God for division today!