The Bible makes references to the existence of other gods...
Josh. 22: 22
22 The Lord
God of gods, the Lord
God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if
it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day,)
Ps. 135: 5
5 For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
We know there are at least two gods, God the Father and God the Son, who is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
Deuteronomy 4
To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself
is God;
there is none other besides Him. 36 Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, 38 driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land
as an inheritance, as
it is this day. 39 Therefore know this day, and consider
it in your heart, that the LORD Himself
is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath;
there is no other. 40 You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong
your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”
over and over God says there are no other God's besides me
here is the distiction in the first verse the LORD says there is no other God(capital G) besides me.
Only the true God anywhere in scripture has capital G to make the distiction against false gods (lower case g)
example look at verse 20 they pray to a god that can not save
Isaiah 45
5 I
am the LORD, and
there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That
there is none besides Me.
I
am the LORD, and
there is no other;
7 I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the LORD, do all these
things.’
8 “ Rain down, you heavens, from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together.
I, the LORD, have created it.
9 “ Woe to him who strives with his Maker!
Let the potsherd
strive with the potsherds of the earth!
Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
Or shall your handiwork
say, ‘He has no hands’?
10 Woe to him who says to
his father, ‘What are you begetting?’
Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
11 Thus says the LORD,
The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
“ Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons;
And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.
12 I have made the earth,
And created man on it.
I—My hands—stretched out the heavens,
And all their host I have commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness,
And I will direct all his ways;
He shall build My city
And let My exiles go free,
Not for price nor reward,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
The LORD, the Only Savior
14 Thus says the LORD:
“ The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
They shall walk behind you,
They shall come over in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you,
saying, ‘Surely God
is in you,
And
there is no other;
There isno other God.’”
15 Truly You
are God, who hide Yourself,
O God of Israel, the Savior!
16 They shall be ashamed
And also disgraced, all of them;
They shall go in confusion together,
Who are makers of idols.
17
But Israel shall be saved by the LORD
With an everlasting salvation;
You shall not be ashamed or disgraced
Forever and ever.
18 For thus says the LORD,
Who created the heavens,
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
Who did not create it in vain,
Who formed it to be inhabited:
“ I
am the LORD, and
there is no other.
19 I have not spoken in secret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
‘ Seek Me in vain’;
I, the LORD, speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.
20 “ Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You
who have escaped from the nations.
They have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god
that cannot save.
21 Tell and bring forth
your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the LORD?
And
there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.
22 “ Look to Me, and be saved,
All you ends of the earth!
For I
am God, and
there is no other.
